tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post860932627725349887..comments2024-01-10T11:42:28.848+00:00Comments on RantinRab: I know it's your home, but...RantinRabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10557178651491442917noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-64279489646006863002010-03-14T21:48:57.883+00:002010-03-14T21:48:57.883+00:00I realise this is nearly a year on, but it's s...I realise this is nearly a year on, but it's still an issue that comes up for many people. I'm disabled and quite often have carers in my home from organisations funded in large part by the council. I have heard several of them saying 'it's in the regulations' that you shouldn't smoke during their visit or an hour before but they simply have no right to demand this. The Smoking etc. Act in Scotland prohibits smoking in certain PUBLIC places and specifically exempts domestic premises. <br /><br />SCHEDULE 1 Regulation 3(1)<br /><br />12. Offices, factories and other<br /> premises that are <b>non-domestic premises</b> in which one or<br /> more persons work.<br /><br />Pretty clear cut. <br /><br />They will say 'the law is there to protect people in the workplace' but it's not a Health and Safety at work Act, it's a public health Act. Health and safety is a reserved matter.Duncan McAlisterhttp://twitter.com/weedunksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-70827697447093667762009-07-04T14:16:35.190+01:002009-07-04T14:16:35.190+01:00Its OK Council workers are allowed to inhale pipe ...Its OK Council workers are allowed to inhale pipe smoke exhaled from cats!!!<br /><br />Smear some mustard on their chins when they come.....and tell them you like mustard as you creep close to smell it on their chins. Then stand perfectly still and don't blink, talk or move anything every 36 seconds for 10 seconds periods then piss in your slippers.<br /><br />That's what I do.<br /><br />Has only failed once.Lester Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09907410767580447212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-15862917618681865922009-07-04T13:47:22.511+01:002009-07-04T13:47:22.511+01:00I notice en passant that the good doctors and hosp...I notice en passant that the good doctors and hospital administrators of Bolton have declared in their wisdom that they are, in effect, going to force the sick people of the borough onto the pavements outside the hospital grounds for a tab/bifter/coffin nail/ whatever.<br /><br />That's how they treat their chief funders.<br />How do you spell 'Hippocratic Oath' again?<br /><br />Good luck with the council boys; being one myself.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />NNW.<br /><br />PS., apologies about the awful 'Scottish' accents...North Northwesterhttp://theyrejokingarentthey.blogspot.com/2009/07/doctor-finlays-facebook.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-70769869365968689972009-07-04T00:06:19.522+01:002009-07-04T00:06:19.522+01:00Yep, definitely get the right words.
By the mirac...Yep, definitely get the right words.<br /><br />By the miracle of wiki, there are people out there who know the names of all the bits, and write them down on a handy diagram.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_jambwoman on a raftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-86755309923179440052009-07-04T00:00:42.782+01:002009-07-04T00:00:42.782+01:00I'll chuck in 'transom' into the conve...I'll chuck in 'transom' into the conversation and they'll probably offer me a job!<br /><br />The kitchen they put in last year is a joke. Not one bit of it hanging the right way. Still, better than what we had previous.RantinRabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557178651491442917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-91243261229948141932009-07-03T22:15:33.421+01:002009-07-03T22:15:33.421+01:00'jamb'? Woman on a raft sounds like she kn...'jamb'? Woman on a raft sounds like she knows what she's on about. Bring 'jamb' into the conversation and there's no way they'll fuck you aboutEmilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04427468876045104252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-60232960611850025062009-07-03T22:11:23.134+01:002009-07-03T22:11:23.134+01:00Above all, check the job before they go.
Does th...Above all, check the job before they go. <br /><br />Does the door(s) open, shut, lock and fit the hole? Handle attached securely, door opening on the correct side?<br /><br />My friend had a bloke turn up and install a door which was 3 inches too short for the jamb. It was a front door and he seriously seemed to thing that the best thing to do was to hang it to the top and fill up the bottom gap with her fluffy python draught excluder.woman on a raftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-22260806001422417382009-07-03T18:27:10.677+01:002009-07-03T18:27:10.677+01:00Rab,
Further to the above, may I suggest you don&...Rab,<br /><br />Further to the above, may I suggest you don't cook meat in case they're vegetarians and the smell offends them?<br /><br />If you offer them a cup of tea/coffee, warn them that it may contain nuts.<br /><br />If they ask for nuts, warn them that they may contain nuts.<br /><br />Ask to see their Health and Safety Cerificate which shows that they have undergone 'safely instaling doors' training, which your taxes should have paid for.<br /><br />Build a minature Stone Henge in your garden, lest they be warlocks and need to slaughter a lamb at noon to appease the Gods of Door Installers.<br /><br />Other than that, tell them to leave the doors and fuck off, and tell your missus you'll get round to putting them in yourself when you're good and ready, but never do it because it's too difficult, which is what I do.<br /><br />Whilst having a fag.Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04427468876045104252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-35950280144852084742009-07-03T18:01:35.583+01:002009-07-03T18:01:35.583+01:00This is typical of the sort of bollocks that the h...This is typical of the sort of bollocks that the hated (by me) smoking ban has caused.<br /><br />I doubt if these door fitters are that precious that they will complain about the hint of tobacco smoke lingering in the air. But, just to be on the safe side, smoke all over the house, close windows, and smoke Camels (they stink).<br /><br />As somebody else said, these lads will probably be smokers anyway.The End (Bye Bye!)https://www.blogger.com/profile/12278417877314639532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-16644312072952859482009-07-03T14:17:44.634+01:002009-07-03T14:17:44.634+01:00Have a lot of the H&S rules been introduced by...Have a lot of the H&S rules been introduced by public bodies as a result of the compensation culture. Their legal advisors presumably recommend, that in order to avoid being sued by anyone,they have to show that all precautions and "Duty of care" were observed.Just a poor solicitornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-35199732837778083452009-07-03T14:14:00.998+01:002009-07-03T14:14:00.998+01:00Rab C, keep up the good work, the big question is,...Rab C, keep up the good work, the big question is, will the miserable fuckers turn up, see your cat with his pipe and just march off again.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-85822105462882830712009-07-03T13:33:38.346+01:002009-07-03T13:33:38.346+01:00Thing is, I only smoke in the kitchen, with the do...Thing is, I only smoke in the kitchen, with the door open (weather permitting).RantinRabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557178651491442917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-2996801291471450292009-07-03T13:23:37.771+01:002009-07-03T13:23:37.771+01:00I remember when this bollox first came out. If you...I remember when this bollox first came out. If you want a visit from the district nurse, social services, any coucil employee you MUST NOT smoke 1 hour prior to the visit or they will leave nor can you smoke when they are present. Applies to any house, one you own or rent. It is bollox because there is no causal relationship found between passive smoke and disease. this study was a big one and published in the British Medical journal. Of course science doesn't count when councils are all being oh so politically correct. <br /><br />These door fitters will bugger off if you smoke.Dr Evilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00176521760477086914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-755831147229020002009-07-03T07:04:31.738+01:002009-07-03T07:04:31.738+01:00It's easy to scoff and say 'It's my ho...It's easy to scoff and say 'It's my home and I'll smoke in it when I want' but if you get a lazy *expletive* from the council who decides he doesn't fancy doing the work he'd probably be backed to the hilt by the cooncil if he walked out and refused to do the work due to you standing at the back door having a puff. <br /><br />Then the cooncil will hit you with a letter saying how they advised you about the rules, etc. and now you need to pay a couple of hundred quid to cover the cost of sending out the workers again or forgo the improvement.<br /><br />I admit the chances of someone having the brass neck to walk out of the job because of you smoking is infinitesimal but who knows!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-15598916252294452272009-07-03T04:19:06.449+01:002009-07-03T04:19:06.449+01:00The door fitters are probably smokers themselves s...The door fitters are probably smokers themselves so why not just swap a few ciggies and enjoy ( though no doubt you will all be reported by some concerned passer-by ).bannedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406037760273820029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-17364266339955941302009-07-03T01:44:32.619+01:002009-07-03T01:44:32.619+01:00Shite
I feel for yaShite<br /><br />I feel for yaShibbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10168900046661243861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-89740935592260191312009-07-03T01:25:21.408+01:002009-07-03T01:25:21.408+01:00Dear mr call me ishmael,
I hear what you are sayi...Dear mr call me ishmael,<br /><br />I hear what you are saying sir.<br /><br />And on that note, a sweaty session in bed beckons. Sadly temperature related, not relations of a sexual nature related as Mrs Nesbitt is asleep and I cannot risk trying my luck for fear of another black eye and picture no sound in the morning.<br /><br />I bid you all goodnight.RantinRabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557178651491442917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-43774888709933857292009-07-03T01:15:47.029+01:002009-07-03T01:15:47.029+01:00Dear Mr RAB
Look in the under-funded care homes; ...Dear Mr RAB<br /><br />Look in the under-funded care homes; it's not Salmond who's providing the free care, it's the seven pounds an hour arse-wipers, busting their backs, denied pensions, denied training, denied funding while cunts like Lord Wallace throw three quarters of a million of my pounds at that McKie police woman for -and you know I'm not joking- her hurt feelings, and in the hope that she would shut the fuck up and go away, which she didn't. Penisons so meagre that women in their sixties can't retire whilst former first minister, Henry McThief, instead of going to jail, retires on almost a grand a week after thirteen months in the job. Public sector middle managers, woefully underpaid in comparison with, just for instance, Old Bill, have seen their workforces slashed and their targets doubled, single status arrangements forced through by government have eroded the pay, conditions, status and confidence of specialists in health and care right across the country, only directorates being exempt. I know a fabulous specialist nurse who has paid for training out of her own pocket which has saved people's limbs and lives, as part of streamlining she, and many like her, has just been downgraded.<br /><br />There are tossers, of course, often working at the tip but there are many, conscientious, committed, decent and genuine people, having their faces shat in by our masters.<br /><br />I know just what you mean about the insolence of office but I suggest that it is wrong to mean it too much, so to speak.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-10864410883337566922009-07-03T00:57:38.571+01:002009-07-03T00:57:38.571+01:00Talking of recycling people: I often go down to th...Talking of recycling people: I often go down to the local tip (my parents insist on this malarkey) and I get the impression that the recycling guys there think it's a joke and they're getting paid to pay the lip-service. Spreading the seed of doubt ain't easy but it's manageable in peacemeal proportions.<br /><br />I'm just waiting for some old cunt to come up to me after I've been on the sauce to tell me I was right.<br /><br />Do yer best Rab.Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-35772482600002028102009-07-03T00:56:47.591+01:002009-07-03T00:56:47.591+01:00Rab ya bam.
I can just imagine you doing your Ale...Rab ya bam. <br />I can just imagine you doing your Alex Higgins impersonation.<br /><br />Don’t let the feckers run ya down bro.The Big Dollophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06075390518478908818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-28151882851553196322009-07-03T00:49:17.714+01:002009-07-03T00:49:17.714+01:00Paul, last year the contractors who put in our ki...Paul, last year the contractors who put in our kitchen thought nothing of having a blaring radio on and swearing constantly whilst working. In my home.<br />I never said anything because my wife and I had enough on our plates at the time.RantinRabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557178651491442917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-34506656982483027922009-07-03T00:47:19.639+01:002009-07-03T00:47:19.639+01:00I laughed at the thought of your cat busy with his...I laughed at the thought of your cat busy with his/her pipe but you make a very valid point. I'm just surprised that they don't deny you the right to smoke in your home at any time - it's the sort of things councils do.<br />When recycling first came out, I really couldn't be a**** - why should I do the Council's job without a decrease in Council Tax? Anyway, some months later I came home from work to find a card from the Under-Admin Officer's Assistant in the recycling debt telling me that they had called round to speak to me about recycling but had missed me (mercy me, not being available when a Council official comes to call - I will go to Hell for that) & asking me to call them to set up another appointment. Working full time I would have had to take time off work to meet him/her (sod that for a game of sojers)so I did the only thing possible, ripped the card in half & chucked it in the non-recycling bin, on the very top ready for bin pickup. Our bin men always open the bins & look in before they wheel them over to the lorry so I thought they'd like to know what I thought of Mr/Ms Recycling Champion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-17759621195551746532009-07-03T00:46:36.931+01:002009-07-03T00:46:36.931+01:00Subrosa, I always appreciate your support! Just g...Subrosa, I always appreciate your support! Just going out the back door for a ciggie in a minute!RantinRabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557178651491442917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-54256952976859898952009-07-03T00:44:41.688+01:002009-07-03T00:44:41.688+01:00Dear mr call me ishmael,
You sir, talk complete ...Dear mr call me ishmael, <br /><br />You sir, talk complete sense, however I have yet to see an overworked council employee. Perhaps I need to look harder!RantinRabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557178651491442917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6091725511821029654.post-10207975838037397222009-07-03T00:40:36.844+01:002009-07-03T00:40:36.844+01:00I wouldn't be at all surprised if the people t...I wouldn't be at all surprised if the people they bring in would fancy a smoke themselves and look envious at you.<br /><br />And this is coming from a libertarian non-smoker.Paulnoreply@blogger.com