Cheap iPads on offer, HURRY!

Don’t have an iPad? Feel that life is passing you by? Envious of shakers and movers who flaunt them on trains and buses?

Then despair no more, help is at hand. A well known East End sporting personality has obtained a job lot of iPads from various sources within the Greater London Transport Network and is able to offer them at rock bottom prices. This offer is only available for a limited time until more stock reaches the lock up in Hoxton.

All iPads come with a lifetime warranty which is limited to the life of the iPad, when it croaks the lifetime warranty croaks with it. No refunds will be entertained and all purchases are subject to  Bethnal Green law, It’s like Shariah law but more violent and personal.

To take advantage of this once in a lifetime offer be at the ‘Blind Beggar’ public house in the Commercial Road, EC1, today between 12 noon and until stocks run out or the rozzers turn up.

Cash only, no cheques or credit cards, 15% handling charge for cash. Be part of the new genaration of technocrats, get switched on and get fitted up today, well and truly fitted up.

Please note that the management are not responsible for any content that may be found on the iPad you are sold today. This has come about because of the rigerous ‘pre owned testing procedure’ that has been carried out by the public tester who gave your iPad a ‘test drive’ before you got it.

The aformentioned warranty supplied does not compromise your human rights but in the event of a consumer dispute a visit fromt two of our consumer relations consultants may compromise your health.

Another Quiz – Answer

Without googling, when was the first automatic sprinkler system installed in a commercial building in the UK?

Learned this today when I was sourcing equipment over the net 🙂

Sipu was closest with a neat bit of reasoning.

It was 1723. Ambrose Godfrey’s patented exploding flasks were installed in warehouses along the South Bank – large jars filled with a mix of alcohol and water. If a fire occurred, the alcohol boiled, shattering the glass and dumping water on the blazing bales below. Interestingly, the alcohol/water mix is still used in some stand-alone sprinklers.

A Suggestion

An interesting item on The Today programme this morning reminded me of a suggestion I made some years ago, when Blair was giving free rein to his obsession with university for everyone. James Naughtie toured some manufacturing workshops in Birmingham and interviewed their executives. They claimed that there are two big problems faced by small manufacturers of quality goods, access to finance and a lack of trainees to learn the necessary skills.

It is the second problem that I address. Why do we not allow children to leave school at fifteen if they obtain an apprenticeship at such a company? In my view, insisting that all children remain in school later than that age is a facet of the intellectual snobbery of those decision makers who have never worked with their hands. Many children simply do not wish to continue schooling after that age and some, through boredom, become disruptive and interfere with the education of more studious classmates.

As well as ensuring the continuance of crafts and relieving teachers of the uninterested, the system would produce income in families that really need it.