What annoyed you today?

[picsfor]

or it could be what happened to me yesterday mid fashion shoot. 

Lug on focus screen broke allowing focusing screen to drop out and jam mirror. Sadly, as it was working itself into a breaking point, it clearly impacted which focus points were actually used as opposed to what points were selected.    £30 later i'm good to go again, with a spare at the ready in case - but lost pictures can never be recovered...

I feel for you, really

[spinner]

Geeks on Tech sites. English is my mother tongue. I took Report writing courses at University. I spent over 35 yrs. writing reports amoung other things, for my local gov't. I like to think I'm reasonably articulate. However I seem to run into this issue on an all too regular basis. I go to a tech site, I ask a question about, say, apples. I then get several replies on how to fix oranges. I explain I'm asking about apples, but the Geeks keep answering oranges. It might be funny if it wasn't so infuriating.  And time wasting and in cases like today, just out and out wrong!

[Oldboy]

Has the world gone mad?

A man who once weighed 70 stone is suing the NHS for not stopping him from eating his way into the record books as the world's fattest human being.
Taxpayers currently spend around £100,000 per year caring for Paul Mason. But he feels that is not enough and he deserves compensation for the health service not preventing him from putting on the weight. 

[ABERS]

Not annoyed but a trifle sad. Especially for the two hotel owners who acting on their own firmly held beliefs are ordered to pay £3,600 damages after being cunningly set up to test those beliefs. I think it admirable that they didn't crumble under the threats that they were subjected to.

Mean and vindictive. If I was ever to book into a hotel that had restrictions that I didn't agree with, I would make my feelings known and tell 'em to stuff it, not pursue them through the courts, even if I did have the help of a taxpayer funded organisation to pay my costs. There are plenty of other hotels in the world for me to book into.

[Jonathan]

Not annoyed but a trifle sad. Especially for the two hotel owners who acting on their own firmly held beliefs are ordered to pay £3,600 damages after being cunningly set up to test those beliefs. I think it admirable that they didn't crumble under the threats that they were subjected to.

Mean and vindictive. If I was ever to book into a hotel that had restrictions that I didn't agree with, I would make my feelings known and tell 'em to stuff it, not pursue them through the courts, even if I did have the help of a taxpayer funded organisation to pay my costs. There are plenty of other hotels in the world for me to book into.

"You can't turn away people from a hotel because they're black or Jewish and in 2011 you shouldn't be able to demean them by turning them away because they're gay either," Stonewall chief executive Ben Summerskill said.

If you're running a business you don't get to choose which laws you agree with and which you can break with impunity.  You don't like it then either lobby for change, accept it or get out of that business.  (There's an interesting parallel with the Catholic Adoption Society case - they are indeed getting out of the business because the law says they can't be bigoted in that way).

BTW, read the BBC report and didn't see any hint of a set up - where's the information on that?

[ABERS]

No one was turned away, they were offered separate rooms since the hotel operated a system of refusing unmarried couples, of whatever sexual persuasion a shared double bed. I wonder how many unmarried heterosexual pairs will sue now.

At the time of the alledged offence a civil partnership was not recognised as having the same force in law as a marriage, so they were not breaking the law with impunity. That has now been changed by the the precedent the judge has set in his summing up of this case.

To me it seems strangely suspicious that of all the hotels in the area this one was chosen by the couple in question. The coincidence stretches the imagination somewhat.

[Jonathan]

Ah cool - as often, there's more to this than gets reported.

I can understand the argument that they could have gone elsewhere for an easier life. We tend to forget it was Rosa Parks who was breaking the law not the bus driver.

[jinky]

Don`t see them quite as Rosa Parks somehow but must admit if I was part of a perceived minority that was aware of a business or organisation breaking the law and affecting my access to services I would be tempted to test it out and take action accordingly. That`s how you get people to accept change sometime. I suppose the B&B people were at least true to their beliefs and did not just say "no room at the inn" but then I had heard elsewhere that it was a set up and the gay couple had established there was an available double room anyway by seemingly booking it as single use and turning up with partner.

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Has the world gone mad?

A man who once weighed 70 stone is suing the NHS for not stopping him from eating his way into the record books as the world's fattest human being.
Taxpayers currently spend around £100,000 per year caring for Paul Mason. But he feels that is not enough and he deserves compensation for the health service not preventing him from putting on the weight. 

I say, pay him compensation! On the condition he allow them to sow his mouth shut.

[anglefire]

I want to know why we are looking after him, apart from his standard benefits - if he can't work.
If he can't afford to eat, then he doesn't. Tough.

If he dies. Tough.

Sorry, but people seem to think they have a right to live, what ever the cost. Half the problem with the world, is that people aren't being killed off by illness.

[ABERS]

Half the problem with the world, is that people aren't being killed off by illness.

And the other half live in the third world.

[anglefire]

Abers, I was being selfish and thinking of the so called industrial nations. Ie. the likes of Europe and US.

But the growth in world population needs to be addressed. That or ship a load off to a different planet to cock that one up too.

[krennon]

Logans Run anybody 

Yep agree though, half the world live in abject poverty where child mortality rates are frightening while the other half live in comparitive wealth and moan about the fact they're eating themselves to death but it's someone elses fault...the blame culture is all to rife and needs to be addressed in this country and others....

[picsfor]

Logans Run anybody  
the blame culture is all to rife and needs to be addressed in this country and others....

Well it's not my fault!

Cream cake any one?

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Logans Run anybody  
the blame culture is all to rife and needs to be addressed in this country and others....

Well it's not my fault!

Cream cake any one?

Is too!!

At the risk of offending someone/everyone? I blame, Americans/Globalization/The internet.  I have a really long theory that i won't bother posting here. Short version, on this side of the pond  Litigation like this obese person's didn't exist in Canadian legal circles 30 yrs. ago but are popping up more and more. The legal people say it's because we've watched it going on in the U.S. for years.