The one serious conviction a man should have is that nothing should be taken too seriously. Samuel Butler.
A sad day as it’s noted by his daughter that Grandad over at Head Rambles has passed away. My sincere condolences to his good lady and all his family.
As it’s Victory in
Europe day/week and as the World, rather than learning anything from past military follies, descends daily into ever more chaos, let’s have a deeply meaningful pair of old songs to sing along with;
Quote; Peter Kay.
"All castles had one major weakness. The enemy used to get in through the gift shop."
Still here and may I humbly pass along my sincere best wishes to Head Rambles. Take care as best you can my friend.
Anyhoo, I’m sure I’m not alone that, when some scam comes to light, thinking the folk that fall for them are stupid for falling for such obvious{?} scams. Guess wot,
I now have sympathy for old folk wot fall for iffy E-mails.
Recently, we’ve been waiting for delivery of a small package from a land far, far, far away when I received an E-mail, purportedly from Royal Mail, alerting me to the fact
that a package delivery had been attempted but failed owing to the package been incorrectly addressed. The mail asked me to click on the web address supplied, enter our correct name and address and pay two pounds via bank
card for redelivery. As we were expecting a package my finger was sweeping towards clicking the link when a bright light flashed in ma old foggy heed and instead I hit delete.
Later, after a bit o’ Giggling - not much required - it was indeed found to be a scam but given our situation, waiting for a package, it was a close call thus my change
from calling the elderly wot fall for such scams utter nutters to offering sympathy as, dependent on folks circumstances at the time, how easy it is to do a quick clicky thingy in the hope of a resolution to ones present ‘problem’.
Addendumadodad; Package received next day.
Quote; Terry Pratchett.
“It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.”
According to the ‘news’ and as mentioned by A K Haart, many barbers, nail bars an’ such have been raided on suspicion of doing naughty stuff. This reminded
me of something I spotted a little bit after a goodly while ago. Possibly a comment on Going Postal - where else?
This fellow went along to a local place he’d been using for a couple of years and found it closed and shuttered. He bobbed into the shop next door and enquired as to wot
had happened. The shop owner replies, “You mean the Turkish barbers? He’s been arrested on suspicion of money laundering and selling contraband alcohol and tobacco and also selling drugs.”
The fellow
stood back in surprise, “Damn. Just goes to show you’ve really no idea wot goes on in the background of some of these places, eh? I’ve been using that place pretty regularly for about two years now and, until
you mentioned it, had absolutely no idea he was a barber...”
Quote; Mackenzie Phillips
“You never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. You only know what you see or what you think you see.”
