Why?

[AustrianAndyGull]

Welcome to the WHY? thread. A thread devised for us Gulls to post posers on life's big issues and, with a bit of luck get a meaningful response!

My why? is this.....

WHY is every single vehicle you see in a disabled parking spot at the supermarket, brand new and costs wellover £15,000?

[AustrianAndyGull]

oh and you are forbidden to reply with the question....why is this thread so pointless. That's not on!

[AustrianAndyGull]

Why the hell did i start this thread because on reflection it is pretty sh*te. I'd delete it if i knew how.

[EmetEdadsBeard]

I'm in Andy.

On that very subject, WHY do 3/4 of the people who climb out of the cars with disabled blue badges appear quite clearly to have nothing physically wrong with them?

And with so many 'disabled' people (approx 11,000,000 according to statistics) WHY didn't we piss the disabled olympics?

[AustrianAndyGull]

I did consider writing that Emet but didn't wish to offend anyone but you're right between me and you. I am always commenting to my other half about 'disabled' folk who park up and get out quicker than me!! I fully understand that being in possession of a disability badge doesn't necessarily mean their disability affects their legs but for the purposes of allocating a special parking space for these people it f*cking should! It's like people who use mother and baby spaces just because they've got a visible child seat in the back. No kid in it, it's at nursery but they'll effin park in there anyway!

[AustrianAndyGull]

Why is a 2 litre bottle of CO OP carbonated water 55p in my mums local co op in Donny ( next to the Mallard emet, you know the one ) but MY local CO OP in Chesterfield charges 63p for the same item?

[AustrianAndyGull]

Plus, back on the disabled thingy why should they get a new car on motability just because they are disabled? I have sympathy and all that but it's discrimination against people who aren't disabled. There are deserving folk who could do with a new car who aren't disabled but do they get a look in and a car parking space reserved for them? No.

[EmetEdadsBeard]

When the cars were the blue 3 wheelers ('spastic chariots' we called them in less enlightened times) they were few and far between.
When the 'disabled' (and don't forget I work with disabled kids so i do have a bit of insight on this subject) were given an allowance towards an ordinary car BOOM an explosion in the number of claimants!
I hate the feckin' Tories with a passion, but if they tackle the problem of bogus claimants for Incapacity Benefit etc then at least they'll have done something right.
And its started already as a close relative of mine who has been claiming it for 20 years on the grounds of having stress and a bad back while owning and digging an allotment has just been told to get a job.

[EmetEdadsBeard]

WHY are there traffic lights everywhere? When I was a kid growin up in Goldthorpe the highlight of the week was watching the set at the top of High Street change (9 O'Clock on Monday, don't be late or you'll miss it....... 8/ ).
Now the bloody things are on EVERY junction, roundabouts AND EVEN THE SLIP ROADS ON THE MOTORWAYS!

[ferrarilover]

Why... shouldn't disabled people have new cars?

The answer, I suspect, to your slightly silly question, Andy, is Motorbility. At least one of the users on this forum has a Motorbility car and, while some elements of it baffle me, the basic idea behind it is reasonable.

To add to the thread, why... must everyone else drive so **** ing slowly? Why is it that the average speed these days is about 25mph. It never used to be this frustrating. I don't ask that everyone do 1000mph through town, but is it really asking too much that the million year old man with ears the size of Saturn's very largest rings and a nose which could house a family of Somalian refugees in comfort actually make some effort to accelerate his small, mid range hatchback up to a speed becoming of the conditions and situation?

Matt.

[ferrarilover]

Why, why oh why oh why the hell is it going to cost TWO F**KING GRAND?!?!?!?!?!?! It's just not though, is it? It's going to cost about £30, absolute maximum. By that costing, it's going to cost me about half a million to redecorate my house, and it simply isn't!

Tell you what, this is my offer to Milton Keynes Council (or whoever), I'll do it for half what you've been quoted. Give me a bag of sand in cash and I'll do it for you tomorrow.

No fecking wonder the world is broke!

Matt.

Oh, by the way, I'm referring to this >>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-be ... s-19940942

[ferrarilover]

Done some Googling, it seems that 10L (which MUST be more than enough) of Dulux masonry paint in black will set me back just over £90, and that's as a retail customer. So if I can do the rest of the job (get there, paint the cows, get home) in less than £910, I can make a profit. Since I'll get there and back on an £80 tank of diesel, I'm going to be quids in. Looks like it's my round in the bar at Rovers then...

Matt.

[ferrarilover]

Lost my temper, sent this...

Sir,

I read with absolute horror and utter amazement here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-be ... s-19940942 that your charity seems to be willing to pay two thousand pounds to repaint some concerete cows.

While I appreciate that it may be difficult, in these austere times, to attract top level graduates to work for your company, I cannot believe that all of the staff concerned with this project are so detached from reality that they believe this to be anywhere near a realistic estimate for the cost of the work.

Having spent all of five minutes with Google, I have managed to find that 10L of perfectly appropriate black masonry paint is available to be purchased, from stock and by the average Joe in the street, for a shade over £90. Now, I am good friends with an eye surgeon, he performs some of the most complex operations known to man, using lasers and fibre optics to perform the intricate tasks associated with his profession. He earns around half a million pounds a year (nice work if you can get it). For this money, he works, typically, 30 hours a week for around 42 weeks a year. This gives him an hourly rate of just light of £400. Given that we seem to have £1910 remaining from our £2000 quote, we can only presume that the remainder is labour. It cannot, with the best will in the world, take more than an hour per cow to clean, prime and repaint them, it just can't, unless the workmen are somehow physically disabled, in which case, hiring them seems an odd choice.
So, we'll allow four hours for the work to take place. This is £477.50 per hour, which is some 19.5% more than my aforementioned eye surgeon friend. While I am sympathetic to the current economic climate and to the relative skill involved in painting concrete cows and the need for the men doing the job to feed their families, I find this excessive and I'm sure you'll agree.

I live in South Devon, I have absolutely no experience of painting (but how hard can it be, the last painter and decorator I met appeared to have parents who were close blood relatives and he did an adequate job), but I am willing to come all the way up to your place, supply my own paint, brushes and sarcasm and do the whole job, on any Monday or Thursday of your choosing for the meagre sum of £1500. Given that it seems someone in your office believes £2000 to be excellent value, I am expecting some sort of hero's reception, and possibly the commissioning of a bronze bust in my honour.

I look forward to hearing from you and receiving 50% of my fee up front as a goodwill gesture.

Best,

M James Parkman.

[AustrianAndyGull]

F*cking hell Matt! You're the NEW Emet!!

[AustrianAndyGull]

WHY are there traffic lights everywhere? When I was a kid growin up in Goldthorpe the highlight of the week was watching the set at the top of High Street change (9 O'Clock on Monday, don't be late or you'll miss it....... 8/ ).
Now the bloody things are on EVERY junction, roundabouts AND EVEN THE SLIP ROADS ON THE MOTORWAYS!

Christ Emet, it's a miracle you're still alive to tell the tale!