This morning, a gas man is coming to visit a friend. I have volunteered to be there so that the necessary instructions can be given, and the consequence is that blogging this morning is going to be decidedly disrupted. Such as life. I just hope things go better than they did for Flanders and Swan:
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Back in about 1990 I was at my brothers waiting for the Gas Person and British Gas sent a young woman with purple hair who fixed his boiler. Now forever lodged in my memory as the Gas Punk.
You might be surprised
Twas on a Tuesday Morning and the Gas Woman came to call………..
Of course its outfits like British Gas, Local Authority Building Departments etc that are more likley to be able to attract, train and retain ‘non white males’ into trade roles but sadly they either no longer exist or are nowhere as big as they were.
Brilliant.
I’m sure Stephanie Flanders would appreciate you posting that, as do I.
(I believe she’s sympathetic to MMT)
Really? I had not noticed
Very funny.
But unfortunately my effort to post a comment to your blog on neo fascism did go smoothly. As yesterday, I got to the end with 20 words to spare, according to the on page count. But when I hit submit it tells me I’m way over the count – 30 odds words. And then, when I cut them out and try to resubmit the submit button doesn’t work.
So I copied and pasted the same text into a comment on this blog. Hit submit – over the word limit. Just to test things out I delete and full stop and go back to the submit button and now it doesn’t work at all.
So, could I ask that you lift the 400 word limit for me so that I don’t have this problem but I’ll still aim to keep my comments to no more than 400 words.
Thanks.
Ivan
I will mail you
Richard
Good old Flanders and Swan. Their gentle riff on human nature, still as relevant sixty years on
“…and I think I agree with the old lady who said, ” if God had intended us to fly, He would NEVER have given us the railways.”
I do wonder what gems they would have come up with on the subject of AI… ?
🙂
One of my favourite lines of theirs is:
“The garden’s full of furniture and the house is full of plants.”
Sadly he died recently but imagine a song by Tom Lehrer explaining MMT sung in the style of Flanders and Swan?