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Shame Warne

Here is a great story from Aquila Online

Hot Metal

American Idol

I crave American Idol. I want her to win. Y’know the Mac girlie. Can’t remember her name. Or maybe the gray haired dude. He is good. But I like Elliot too. He has the unusual voice that catches my attention.

Paula Abdul does as well.

Bloggle & Web 1.0

How Pathetic Will UK Society become?

The Times today reports that a prisoner who tried to commit suicide and self-harmed himself has been awarded £2m compensation because he will require longterm medical attention.

Well I want to meet the idiot who stopped him and landed me and 50 million other Britains with a tax levy to support this waste of space and his longterm medical bills.

According to the Times, prisoners have been awarded $4million in compensation claims against a Prison Service legal bill of £20million per year. Now how does the Prison Service pay for defending these ‘human rights’ claims from murderers, rapists, robbers, burglars and paedophiles? That is right - me and my fellow tax payers pay the sodding bill and I for one do not want to. No more.

This is justice (errr if that term still applies) gone down the sewer. Maybe the Lord Chancellor and his new wallpaper (we funded it) should go down the frigging sewers too. Take Gordon Brown and Mr Blur with you you git! Something stinks and I smell paethitic limp & feable indecisive minded liberal politicians in Brussels and Westminster who support this type of stuff.
Do murders, rapists and paedophiles stop to consider how the ‘human rights’ of their victims will be impinged upon? I don’t think so.

So why not offset the value of their compensation claims against the price paid by their victims? I know it won’t bring back the victims of murder nor help the people who have been raped or children who were abused. Something must be done to stop criminals taking the piss out of our legal system and being rewarded for their crime. And screw Brussels too.

Of course I will take into account the lifelong mental damage caused by whatever horror these surviving victims have to endure because of what the criminal bastards inflicted on their victims and add in the effect the crime has had on the families and children of the victims too.

Why didn’t any dingbat in the British Judiciary think of this and impliment it?

bmi drop a bollock

bmi has dissapointed me. It had to happen sometime. For years along with Virgin, they have been the anti-christ to BA’s dominance, arrogance and narcissism. But alas, no more. Now they are relegated to BA’s level. Yup, in my book, they have dropped a bollock big time.

Because why?

1. If you are going to run an airline and boast big style in all your marketing and develop a brand that has reliability as a feature, bmi need to get their basics right. Before trying to distract the audience, or in this case, those who fork out a large wedge to fly a few miles to Dublin, you might think that laying on a free cup of PG Tips for each of the 195 prepaid customers (assuming this number excludes crew and is capacity for passengers only),would not break the bank. Or would it?

2. If I went to Tesco,(a supermarket chain in UK) and purchased a big box of PG pyramid tea bags costing £3.99 containing 240 bags which equates to .0204615p per tea bag or an extra .0204615p over and above the price of my ticket that cost gross £204.00. Add on the cost of a few litres of hot water and labour (trolley dolly/koffie moffie labour) and if it tops out at .50p per passenger it equates to £97.50 for a planeload of passengers

The total fees paid for 195 passengers could be say £200 each . This amounts to £39,000.00 . Mmmmm a nice sum.

To summarise:

bm1 has a fleet of 42 planes. If at any given time, the entire fleet was airborne with full capacity, bmi would have 5,366 passengers relying on them to bring them safely to their destinations. A free cuppa for all 5,366 would cost bmi the grand total of £109.80 for the tea bags (1 x PG Pyramid tea bag per passenger).

to accomodate each passenger with a free cuppa tea, someone would have to nip down to the nearest Tesco to Heathrow and buy 23 x boxes of PG tea bags (240 per box) at £3.99 per box = a massive, whopping, huge bank account breaking £91.77 (23 x £3.99) or .0171021p per passenger.

Now, I hope bmi have a few capex forms awaiting approval by their board of directors because this outlay will dent the bottomline bigtime. This is what the sums look like for all 42 planes full to capacity on a one way trip could be based on only £200 per return ticket:

Total amount paid by 5,366 passengers = £1, 073,200.00

Total amount paid for 5,366 cups of PG Tips = £91.77 (0.0171021 x 5,366 passengers)

bmi charge €1.20/£1.02 for a cup of tea inflight. It could be more - like €1.50 but I’ll stick with £1.02 per cup of tea.

This amounts to £5,473.32 if all 5,366 passengers buy a cup of tea. Not on. Not fair. Yes I understand that not all passengers buy any tea, coffee, alcohol or food so they might need to hike the prices. But at the prices they charge for the tickets then insult us with huge prices for what other airline give away for free, its too much. No wondeer that passengers do not buy bmi’s inflight drinks and food. IT IS A RIP OFF!