| Quality of Life improvements 15:40 - May 29 with 3623 views | Zx1988 |
If you were PM for a day - what small change would you make to improve the quality of life of the nation?
I'd standardise clothing sizes. I know it's particularly bad for women, but even for us blokes it can be a pain in the arse.
I want to know that if I order an XL, it'll fit exactly the same as all my other XL clothes, regardless of brand or manufacturer.
Sizes are benchmarked as a British Standard, and all clothing must meet said standard to be sold in the UK. |  |
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| Quality of Life improvements on 08:39 - May 30 with 702 views | Churchman |
| Quality of Life improvements on 08:18 - May 30 by FrimleyBlue |
Id ban self serve checkouts everywhere. In supermarkets this would bring back thousands of jobs for many people who have disabilities who once flourished with being able to sit at a checkout and serve people.
I would also make it illegal for holiday costs to be Increased during school holidays. What that holiday cost a week before should be the cost the week after none of this supply and demand bullsht of holidays becoming twice or three times more expensive just because its a school holiday.
Work..
Office jobs... monday to thursday only
Shops. Monday to saturday only. Sundays high street shops closed |
Re-introduce and subsidise Remploy. Great post-war idea. I actually have a bureau made by Remploy that is really nicely made and reminds me of 60s school furniture - they used to supply a lot of that too.
Agree re self-serve checkouts. The idea that you can go through life without speaking to another person is I believe unhealthy and wrong.
Holiday costs? I disagree. I’d make all schools operate the same holiday dates and force people with children to take their hols in those periods and double the cost. That way I’d get a better, child free choice at a lower price subsidised by them with kids. Less chance of some ghastly child kicking the back of the seat or screaming on the aeroplane too!
Only joking!!! Mrs C is an ex-teacher so I know all about having to take holibobs in restricted weeks and being price gouged accordingly. Grrr |  | | |
| Quality of Life improvements on 08:41 - May 30 with 702 views | Dubtractor |
A more serious suggestion from me, and I'd also need a time machine, is that id go back to a time before the Internet was just a tool to relentlessly advertise at people, and put restrictions in place to prevent it happening.
The Internet could have been amazing, but it's just marketing at all turns now. |  |
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| Quality of Life improvements on 08:42 - May 30 with 695 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Quality of Life improvements on 15:59 - May 29 by redrickstuhaart |
A statutory obligation for contractors to complete roadworks in the most efficient and swift manner reasonably possible with substantial fines for breaches and for failures to, for instance, monitor and adjust temporary lights, or to remove them during periods where no actual work is happening. |
Thought that already existed. |  |
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| Quality of Life improvements on 09:26 - May 30 with 619 views | OldFart71 |
Fire up British Manufacturing so that there are jobs for the masses. At one time I changed jobs like I changed my socks.
Admittedly technology would mean many jobs would be done by robots rather than someone with a spanner, a screwdriver or able to spray.
But that's the only way to get people into work.
The need for people to be less fussy with what they do is even more important now.
I have done everything from mucking out chickens to buying engineering items.
From fitting blinds to being a waiter.
Somehow the government needs to get Britain working. That is the only way to making Britain prosperous again. | | | |
| Quality of Life improvements on 09:26 - May 30 with 619 views | hoppy |
| Quality of Life improvements on 08:37 - May 30 by Leaky |
Nice idea in practice, however in reality increasing wages will also put prices up. You end up in a price/wage rise cycle. |
There we go… it’s always the cyclists, isn’t it?! |  |
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| Quality of Life improvements on 09:33 - May 30 with 610 views | naa |
| Quality of Life improvements on 07:34 - May 30 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Is this that 'anger comedy', like what Stewart Lee does? |
I couldn't see how it could be funny unless they were mocking someone's opinion. But that didn't appear to be the case from the thread so it was therefore possibly hyperbole, but based on an actual opinion, which is what I assumed.
But apparently I was wrong. So it wasn't satire, nor hyperbole, apparently it was just something that the poster didn't believe.
This is why I got confused. I really love the Internet sometimes. | | | |
| Quality of Life improvements on 09:42 - May 30 with 595 views | naa |
| Quality of Life improvements on 22:00 - May 29 by Churchman |
The bikes are made of materials using power and transported across the world using energy.
Asking cyclists to pay for something they use. Is that a hardship? Parasites getting in the way of hard working people that do pay for them. So what you are saying is that cyclists are entitled to a free lunch.
NHS savings. Really? Do you have any supporting evidence or is that the lycra mob making an assumption?
Yep, tax them twice. If you have two cars you don’t have one for free.
How on earth could an economy work where everyone has to walk or cycle? How could carers for example, delivery drivers, taxi drivers or just about anything else operate on Chopper bikes?
Actually, I’d ban cyclists all together. A&E would be freer of idiots with Road rash and worse and I could get to where I need to be without interference and annoyance from the oh so entitled look at me I’m green in my stinky lycra pedalling away.
Sorted.
Only joking - there seems to be a bit of a sense of humour gap on here. [Post edited 29 May 22:30]
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I know you said the matter is closed but you did ask for supporting evidence and I thought it polite to provide as requested.
https://road.cc/news/everyone-
That figure is with the current numbers, imagine how much would be saved if more people did it.
I also apologise for not saying please before asking you to read my words and establish what I actually said rather than infer something completely incorrect. You are right that a bit of politeness goes a long way. So does reading comprehension. [Post edited 30 May 9:51]
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| Quality of Life improvements on 10:00 - May 30 with 581 views | MattinLondon |
A completely sensible one.
Ban flavoured vapes. |  | | |
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| Quality of Life improvements on 10:05 - May 30 with 578 views | WeWereZombies |
| Quality of Life improvements on 07:34 - May 30 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Is this that 'anger comedy', like what Stewart Lee does? |
I spoke to Stewart Lee briefly last Sunday (after a showing of his 'King Rocker' film), he was wearing an incredibly baggy Black Sabbath 'Master of Reality' lettering T-shirt - could have been Benters... [Post edited 30 May 10:08]
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| Quality of Life improvements on 10:10 - May 30 with 571 views | shady |
If I were PM for the day.
I’d obviously do the needful and ban all vehicles, thus:
Saving the planet from pollution
Promoting exercise and reducing sloth
Cuts the pothole problem at source.
Improves the balance of payments, as most vehicles and their fuel are foreign sourced.
Furthermore any vehicle found to have harmed or murdered a pedestrian to be taken to the nearest football stadium and squished before adoring crowds.
To clarify: bicycles are fine as long as somebody walks in front waving a red flag.
Let’s return to a world where moles and other small creatures are free to roam without being annihilated. |  | | |
| Quality of Life improvements on 10:11 - May 30 with 569 views | Mark |
| Quality of Life improvements on 08:18 - May 30 by FrimleyBlue |
Id ban self serve checkouts everywhere. In supermarkets this would bring back thousands of jobs for many people who have disabilities who once flourished with being able to sit at a checkout and serve people.
I would also make it illegal for holiday costs to be Increased during school holidays. What that holiday cost a week before should be the cost the week after none of this supply and demand bullsht of holidays becoming twice or three times more expensive just because its a school holiday.
Work..
Office jobs... monday to thursday only
Shops. Monday to saturday only. Sundays high street shops closed |
We could start by requiring shops to have at least one normal staffed checkout open. In Sainsbury's they often close them all, requiring customers to go to self-checkouts tills. It annoys me that I have to scroll through screens trying to find an onion, then mess about with my Nectar app to 'activate' offers to get reasonable prices. I usually leave feeling annoyed.
All credit to Aldi for always having checkouts open and for not having a 'loyalty' card/app, just cheaper prices for everyone. |  | | |
| Quality of Life improvements on 10:11 - May 30 with 565 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
People that use their mobile phone on speaker and walk with the phone out in front of them so that everyone can hear both sides of the conversation to have both hands amputated and being forced to watch as their hands and mobile phone are fed to the ravens at the Tower of London. |  |
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| Quality of Life improvements on 10:46 - May 30 with 527 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Quality of Life improvements on 09:33 - May 30 by naa |
I couldn't see how it could be funny unless they were mocking someone's opinion. But that didn't appear to be the case from the thread so it was therefore possibly hyperbole, but based on an actual opinion, which is what I assumed.
But apparently I was wrong. So it wasn't satire, nor hyperbole, apparently it was just something that the poster didn't believe.
This is why I got confused. I really love the Internet sometimes. |
I suspect you were spot on, he hates cyclists and added it's only humour as a get-out clause.*
*This is also me only joking.
Or is it?*
**Yes it is.
*Is it though? |  |
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| Quality of Life improvements on 10:56 - May 30 with 509 views | naa |
| Quality of Life improvements on 10:46 - May 30 by The_Flashing_Smile |
I suspect you were spot on, he hates cyclists and added it's only humour as a get-out clause.*
*This is also me only joking.
Or is it?*
**Yes it is.
*Is it though? |
Exactly.
It makes the entire post pointless. It didn't mean anything nor had any basis in humour. Why bother, and why not just call me out on my foolishness for not getting it when I replied rather than argue the case while still claiming they didn't mean any of it? Tedious. | | | |
| Quality of Life improvements on 11:26 - May 30 with 475 views | Leaky |
| Quality of Life improvements on 19:38 - May 29 by Churchman |
Tax cyclists £120 a year. There are over 6 million in the U.K. £720m into Rachel’s coffers. They use the roads and block the traffic. They should pay their share.
Green? Hardly. The bikes are made of stuff, clothes made in some sweat shop the other side of the world and transported. The traffic is held up thus polluting the atmosphere. Cycle lanes? Great. But the pedal mob should pay for them.
Sorted 😀 |
Make all bicycles have square wheels |  | | |
| Quality of Life improvements on 12:31 - May 30 with 434 views | Churchman |
| Quality of Life improvements on 10:46 - May 30 by The_Flashing_Smile |
I suspect you were spot on, he hates cyclists and added it's only humour as a get-out clause.*
*This is also me only joking.
Or is it?*
**Yes it is.
*Is it though? |
Bit early for the Ghost Ship isn’t it Flash? That sounded a bit ‘Two Ronnies’. Funny though. | | | |
| Quality of Life improvements on 12:38 - May 30 with 417 views | Churchman |
| Quality of Life improvements on 11:26 - May 30 by Leaky |
Make all bicycles have square wheels |
Or unicycles. That would save the planet by cutting down bike wheel production 50%! Tremendous comedy value too. Especially if the one wheel was square. | | | |
| Quality of Life improvements on 17:09 - May 30 with 317 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Quality of Life improvements on 10:11 - May 30 by Mark |
We could start by requiring shops to have at least one normal staffed checkout open. In Sainsbury's they often close them all, requiring customers to go to self-checkouts tills. It annoys me that I have to scroll through screens trying to find an onion, then mess about with my Nectar app to 'activate' offers to get reasonable prices. I usually leave feeling annoyed.
All credit to Aldi for always having checkouts open and for not having a 'loyalty' card/app, just cheaper prices for everyone. |
It just really annoys me. There has been between 75000 to 100,000 jobs lost through the closure of tills. Roughly 25% of these would have been 16 to 21 year olds and. Around 16k of the job holders would be classed as having a disability |  |
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| Quality of Life improvements on 17:31 - May 30 with 302 views | J2BLUE |
| Quality of Life improvements on 17:09 - May 30 by FrimleyBlue |
It just really annoys me. There has been between 75000 to 100,000 jobs lost through the closure of tills. Roughly 25% of these would have been 16 to 21 year olds and. Around 16k of the job holders would be classed as having a disability |
I've said many times that any job replaced with a robot/AI should face some sort of extra tax. Even a small amount would be a massive boost to the treasury and help fund a national wealth fund. As savings increase the tax could steadily rise until it could fund some form of UBI.
Let's say £2000 per year for each self service checkout for a start. There are about 5000 Sainsburys, Tesco and Asda stores combined. Let's say they have 5 self service tills on average as it includes convenience stores, that's £50m. Not a massive amount for them to find between them.
Then add in the Co-ops, Boots, B&Qs, SuperDrugs, Morrisons etc etc.
It would be a start and could be invested into things in the national interest. Defence, green energy, food security, water security. |  | | |
| Quality of Life improvements on 19:43 - May 30 with 234 views | Bluesky |
| Quality of Life improvements on 15:42 - May 29 by StokieBlue |
If you want something that will help everyone's quality of life over the longer term I would make critical thinking an central part of the school curriculum.
I suspect you're looking for shorter term changes though.
SB |
That is an excellent suggestion! |  | | |
| Quality of Life improvements on 22:25 - May 30 with 182 views | WeWereZombies |
| Quality of Life improvements on 10:11 - May 30 by Cheltenham_Blue |
People that use their mobile phone on speaker and walk with the phone out in front of them so that everyone can hear both sides of the conversation to have both hands amputated and being forced to watch as their hands and mobile phone are fed to the ravens at the Tower of London. |
Make it illegal to walk around using a mobile phone but allow it if going around by space hopper... | |
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| Quality of Life improvements on 22:29 - May 30 with 180 views | Mark |
| Quality of Life improvements on 17:09 - May 30 by FrimleyBlue |
It just really annoys me. There has been between 75000 to 100,000 jobs lost through the closure of tills. Roughly 25% of these would have been 16 to 21 year olds and. Around 16k of the job holders would be classed as having a disability |
I remember a time when supermarkets were competing for customer service, and cashiers used to offer to pack customers bags for them. Compare that to now when customers have to check out all the items themselves, and cannot put anything in bags until everything is scanned through and weighed so the whole process takes longer, especially when errors occur.
Many Nectar discounts are a joke too, with items clearly doubled in price so they can then be offer 'half price'. Whoever would pay £7 for a tube of Colgate Total toothpaste?!
We do not work for the supermarkets so should push back. Ask them to open a proper till or leave the shopping and go to another shop who actually employ enough people and serve their customers. | | | |
| Quality of Life improvements on 22:52 - May 30 with 166 views | yorkshireblue |
All motorists vehicles on the road to be fitted with a heat seeking missile. They are allowed to get ‘lock’ and fire on any driver who is using the middle/right lane of a dual carriage way or motorway for anything other than overtaking.
The third time a middle lane hogger is ‘locked on’ by a third different vehicle the missile actually fires. |  | | |
| Quality of Life improvements on 04:14 - May 31 with 124 views | hoppy |
| Quality of Life improvements on 22:25 - May 30 by WeWereZombies |
Make it illegal to walk around using a mobile phone but allow it if going around by space hopper... |
I’m sorry, but Space hoppers give hoppy things a bad name. | |
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| Quality of Life improvements on 08:52 - May 31 with 74 views | WeWereZombies |
| Quality of Life improvements on 04:14 - May 31 by hoppy |
I’m sorry, but Space hoppers give hoppy things a bad name. |
True, in fact I saw a Trip Advisor review of them - two stars. But people will review anything on Trip Advisor, even the Grand Canyon didn't get five stars.
And the Solar System, only one star... | |
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