BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!

Subject: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: Flash Company
Date: 27 May 05 - 10:26 AM

On the day of our beloved leader's homily on 'restoring respect to our society', my severely disabled sister-in-law was told that all the care facilities provided by our Local Council were being withdrawn, and she would be given a list of Private Enterprise care providers to select someone to carry out the shopping and cleaning services they had provided. She asked if she had any right of appeal in the matter, and was told in no uncertain terms that she hadn't.
It was now, apparently, Government policy that anyone who was capable of getting up in a morning on their own did not qualify for any Social Services assistance for anything else!
The next day she was told by the Social Worker that someone from a Private company would be contacting her. When she queried what had happened to the list to choose from, she was told,'Oh, I have chosen one for you.'
At this point, to quote her (long dead) mother, 'she got her Irish mad up', and contacted a local councillor.
Suddenly, Social Worker's Supervisor came calling to say 'Really nothing we can do'. However, on a threat to contact her MP, suddenly they discovered mitigating circumstances, and normal service will be continued!
It is not as if she was not paying for the service provided, as a Bank pensioner, she pays the full rate, but the way in which the whole thing was handled sucks. Respect, don't make me laugh!

FC

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 27 May 05 - 11:48 AM

Which country?

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: DougR
Date: 27 May 05 - 02:27 PM

Thank you, BPL, I was about to pose the same question.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: Once Famous
Date: 27 May 05 - 02:29 PM

I'm sure they are talking about Mesopotamia.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 27 May 05 - 03:27 PM

Isn't that MESS O'Potamia?

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: Once Famous
Date: 27 May 05 - 03:31 PM

Potamia has been known to be quite messy.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 May 05 - 05:44 PM

Well, since in the US we tend not to have a reason to say: Local Council, councillor, Bank pensioner, MP, or restoring respect to our society, I would assume it is not in the USA.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: DougR
Date: 27 May 05 - 07:37 PM

Ebbie: I get to say this so seldom, it warms my old heart: I think you are right.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 27 May 05 - 07:41 PM

Sounds like the UK to me and quite in line with the way things are going over there.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: Morticia
Date: 28 May 05 - 05:54 AM

It's the UK

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: Flash Company
Date: 28 May 05 - 10:11 AM

Yes, it is the UK, sorry I didn't make that clear.

FC

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: gnomad
Date: 28 May 05 - 02:37 PM

I got UK from the "beloved leader" bit, I think we're the only place outside N Korea with one of those, wonder whether they are related?

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 28 May 05 - 04:17 PM

Only through Noah.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: Once Famous
Date: 28 May 05 - 05:16 PM

I still say it's Mesopotamia. Or possibly Constantinople.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 28 May 05 - 08:27 PM

Martin, that's dumb even for you. Check an atlas, and you'll find out that Constantinople is a CITY in Turkey.

DUH!

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: Ron Davies
Date: 28 May 05 - 09:52 PM

Don--

Hey now, let's have no criticism of our resident intellectual giant. After all, he spelled both places correctly.
Requiring sense, also, is just not reasonable.




Flash Company--

It's too bad that often the only way you can get a bureaucracy to do anything is to be a squeaky wheel------but it's good that your sister-in-law was as willing to do so.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 28 May 05 - 10:25 PM

The squeaky wheel gets the grease; but if it squeaks too much it gets replaced... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: Ron Davies
Date: 28 May 05 - 10:41 PM

But if the wheel gets no grease the whole machine may stop dead.

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: Bobert
Date: 28 May 05 - 10:56 PM

Yeah, I figgured out which country it was...

... it's Babalonia....

Be it on US soil or UK soil or......

It's Babalon....

Sho nuff is...

Hey...................





























Pivatize this....

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Welcome to the realm of Respect!
From: Flash Company
Date: 29 May 05 - 09:59 AM

The lady in question still has a great deal of determination, but not much else going for her, healthwise. She has some kind of arthritic condition in her spine and is gradually losing feeling in her hands. she can just about hold a pen to write a few words, but thread a needle? Noway!
A specialist told her that he could operate, but the odds on success were about 50/50. If you lose you are paralysed.
Sheila & I were only told of this fiasco after the event, and she treats it as a great joke. I don't think S & I do, we think they'll be back!

FC