The end of society as we know it?
As a middle-aged person (ahem) I am fully aware that society moves on and what was considered OK 40 years ago is not acceptable nowadays.
But the seemingly ever growing PC brigade worries me sometimes.
Why are there so many snowflakes out there who seem to want to jump on free speech, comedy, whatever, at every opportunity.
The reason for my rant is the following: “I keep randomly shouting out broccoli and cauliflower. Think I might have florets.”
That was Olaf Falafel’s “Best Joke” winner at the Edinburgh Festival - and very funny it is, too.
But it upset the Tourette syndrome charity, which criticised it and the teller.
There’s no place for many ‘isms today but the minute we lose the right to offend, society is dead.

Left dazed and confused by a bank - again

I am confused. Nothing new there, my family and friend would say. The reason for this latest setback is Barclays. It, along with other high street banks, has spent years persuading its customers to ditch paper statements through the post and switch to electronic, online monthly missives.

I was quite happy about this – until last month when we had to send a bank statement as a form of verification.

I printed off a statement from online and sent it off with the other requested paperwork. In response Barclays said it was not acceptable and we needed an “original” statement.

Our main bank was happy to supply this on request but it did leave me wondering about some forms of “modern” technology and how it is implemented.