Thursday, 22 March 2007

A few things to ponder upon

I was listening to a radio broadcast on the flight over here, and they mentioned a few things that I thought were worth bringing to your attention.....

A recent study in the United Kingdom of Great Britain stated that we need to start doing something, right now, about the global warming problem.

Firstly, I feel to address this, we need to address the concern that not everybody agrees that there is even a global warming problem.

A leading member of the scientific community, when interviewed at his London vineyard, was quoted as saying "there's really nothing changing, things are the same now, as when I was a child. We really should avoid blowing this out of proportion. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go prune my coconut tree"

Ok, let's boils this down to brass tacs.

80% of the scientific community support the theory that global warming is happening, and if that statistic is good enough for cats to choose which food to choose, it's good enough for me.

So the study goes into quite some detail about what we can do to lower drains on energy demands, and thus fossil fuel combustion. One area targeted by the great scientific minds of parliament, is TVs. The number of people who leave their TV on standby, is growing, and this is a continuous drain on the countries energy supplies.

Now it's not like turning your TV off will solve the problem, but let's be honest. Who needs their TV to be at that level of readiness? Our countries defenses are stated at being ready within roughly 14 minutes, with a full fleet mobilized within 60 minutes.
But our TV's, we must have them ready to go at moments notice?

Germany jumped on the bandwagon reporting a decision to consider imposing a speed limit on the Autobahn. German's are needless to say, upset. But let's be honest, speed limits are in reality designed to tease people in the UK.

Anyone who's seen someone driving a Fiat Punto, Metro or Vauxhall Corsa; will know that speeding is rarely an option. 70 mph.....go on, try it! HaHaHa...never take that to Germany, you'll get chewed up.

And finally, a contact center recently acquired by a popular publisher based in the US, was rumored to have been forced to make changes to their automated payment line. It can now be heard -

Thank you for settling your account

Next time, for your convenience, why not pay by direct debit
or online at our website
or by phone, or through your interactive TV
or SMS text message
Why not pay it in your car?
Why not pay in from a bar?
You can pay it from a train
You can pay in in the rain
You can pay it in the park
You can pay it in the dark
I do not like green eggs and ham
I do not like them Sam I am
Thank you for calling

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