Comments on: Twits

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:26:39 +0000

i know the water is a huge problem in my city it sucks. i hate it. it doesnt work!!!!!!!!!!!=(

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:25:20 +0000

shut up lan B ur stupid and proboly ugly too!!

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:24:34 +0000

Over here in Northern Ireland where it’s still nationalised, the big problem with water meters is going to be that the water charges will be introduced whilst the bit of our rates that supposedly pays for water supply will mysteriously not vanish.

By: Captain Fatty

Captain Fatty — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:46:07 +0000

The water companies could fix their leaking pipes first.

By: ChrisM

ChrisM — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:07:35 +0000

His wife is actually quite presentable (Kate Garraway? from some morning tv show that my missus watches).
I don’t know what it is with that TV show though. They also had the dreadful labour loving Fiona Phillips presenting for years.

By: Serf

Serf — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:39:48 +0000

ChrisM

Dolly is new to TV, he’ll wise up soon. They say his wife is a TV star so maybe she’ll say something to him.

By: JuliaM

JuliaM — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:35:23 +0000

Marksany has it. It’s all about bringing everyone down to the lowest common denominator in the intersts of ‘fairness’.

And then lobbying for extra allocations for special interest groups, of course…

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:32:36 +0000

Is water metering (something that would save me some money, I guess) actually similar to the costs incurred by the water company? I mean in a lot of businesses the charges are not made by unit, e.g. telecoms. So if I use twice as much water, do I cost the water company twice as much? If not, it doesn’t necessarily mean that such a charging system is wrong, but I’d be interested in how it works.

By: Mark Wadsworth

Mark Wadsworth — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:06:28 +0000

Altho’ my heart’s not really in it, water meters does seem the way to go, provided it doesn’t just result in more monopoly profits for water companies.

The Portuguese idea is too gimmicky. People’s ‘basic needs’ (whatever they are) are far better dealt with via welfare system, in this case, a modest tax on water used by everybody and a per capita credit to the water bill, which achieves much the same thing with less hassle.

By: marksany

marksany — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:45:30 +0000

Rationing doesn’t work on the rich – they’ll still have power showers. And that’s not fair.

So we have to ban them so that it’s fair.

Obvious. Tim, why don’t you get it?

By: ChrisM

ChrisM — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:07:04 +0000

” For them washing is a relatively newly discovered idea, and they only do it because they have to appear on TV.”

I take it you haven’t see the clip of Derek Draper?

By: CIngram

CIngram — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:21:07 +0000

@ Ian B:

The modern world summed up in one short sentence

By: Ian B

Ian B — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:57:05 +0000

We’re going to have to kill these people, aren’t we?

By: Serf

Serf — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:26:42 +0000

One mustn’t forget that the well groomed lefties that rule us were once unwashed, long haired, bearded revolutionaries. For them washing is a relatively newly discovered idea, and they only do it because they have to appear on TV. As we proles don’t face that problem, they don’t understand our need to wash.

As an aside, when I mentioned to foriegners that the inhabitants of the wettest country known to man worry about saving water, their reactions are a picture.

Water is the ultimate renewable resource. Behaving as if it were about to be used up is plain stupid.