Sunday 5 July 2009

Sunday Funnies...

Just to even the balance between 'dumb public services' and 'canny private companies', here's a few that weren't quite so canny....

3 comments:

  1. I saw that the other day. Felt a little twinge of patriotic outrage that the Hoover free flights balls up in the early 90s hadn't become well known enough in the US for Cracked to put it on the list.

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  2. The important thing is that public "services" don't disappear when they fail their customers. That's why over time you get producer captured wastes of your extorted money.

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  3. "Felt a little twinge of patriotic outrage that the Hoover free flights balls up in the early 90s hadn't become well known enough in the US for Cracked to put it on the list."

    Oh, yes! That was a classic..

    "The important thing is that public "services" don't disappear when they fail their customers."

    They have to 'learn lessons', though. Just not for long.

    About five minutes seems to be the standard...

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