Swimmers staged an angry stand-off with police after being shut out of the Serpentine's outdoor pool during a weekend of record high temperatures.What? Why? Surely not ‘elf & safety?
Tempers flared when managers of the lido in Hyde Park ruled it would not be re-opened to the public yesterday. Its season ended on September 12.
Ah.
And – with a few notable rare exceptions – we see the difference between private enterprise and public ‘services’. The former would be only too happy to open to make money outside of normal operating hours, while the public service has rules and procedures, and there’d be hell to pay if they were asked to break them!
Besides, the operating money comes from the government, doesn’t it? So who needs to have a few extra earning days? What, do they think this is a public service, or something?
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Ah, yes. Selfishness, sloth, rudeness, arrogance and uselessness - the most prominent symptoms of an epidemic spreading across all public services.
The former would be only too happy to open to make money outside of normal operating hours
Not necessarily. Perhaps only to families with children.
Come to mention such public pursed services, Julia, is a regular immersion in Gadget's tide of abuse to your liking?
When my children were small I used to punish them when naughty by confiscating their favourite toy.They used to cry and scream.A bit like you Melvin not being allowed to post on Gadget anymore.You are getting a bit obessed old chap.
Jaded-not banned from most police blogs.
Screaming until I am sick, Jaded.
(Teddy assumes parabolic trajectory in perfect launch from pram.)
"Come to mention such public pursed services, Julia, is a regular immersion in Gadget's tide of abuse to your liking?"
*shrug* No one said they'd like hearing the truth...
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