26 Jul
For the last few months the service I’ve been getting on my Orange mobile phone has been getting progressively worse. A few months ago I couldn’t make phone calls at all for about half a day and nor could I receive any. #1 son’s phone was the same, so was Mrs Sane’s and so was [...]
Posted in Customer Services, Technology by: wonkotsane
5 Comments
14 Jul
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has produced an 11-page Ramadan guide for schools which advises them to cancel swimming lessons and sex education for all pupils during the month. The council suggests swimming lessons should be cancelled in case muslim children accidentally swallow water when they’re supposed to be fasting rather than the more reasonable suggestion that [...]
Posted in Come the revolution, Religion, WTF? by: wonkotsane
11 Comments
07 Jul
The cost of the Pope’s visit to England and Scotland is going up to £12m, not including the as-yet unspecified cost of policing. Some of the cost is being paid by the Catholic church but the rest is being stumped up by the British government out of English taxes. The country is broke, England is [...]
Posted in Come the revolution by: wonkotsane
5 Comments