Posted on 05/07/2008 11:22:47 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
An architect's wickedly sarcastic replies to pointless questions on a planning form have made him an unwitting champion for all those exasperated by bureaucracy. John Jessop earned a cult following among his colleagues after his withering comments were leaked in an e-mail which has been sent all round the country.
After being asked to fill in a design access statement for a storage shed on a small farm, he wrote: The density is like on a farm, the social context is a farm in the country, the economic context is farming in the United Kingdom in 2008 (which is not very economic), the opportunities are to store equipment inside rather than the outside, the constraint is the planning system.
And under a section headed Context Analysis, he said: The use is compatible with a farm because it is a farm building."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
"You filled out the wrong form. You need to fill out the combined Environmental Impact Statement and Diversity/Inclusion Statement - it's blue."
The real news here is that in GB you have to get permission from some planning bureaucracy to put a storage shed on your own property.
“Ha, this guy doesn’t know how petty bureaucrats feel about someone under their preview not taking their questions seriously...”
Amen! I’ve run in to the same thing with government and corporate bureaucrats. Some of them think you’re making light of them personally as they can’t seem to separate their lives from that of the organization which employs them.
Purview?, he asked meekly...
You beat me to it.
You’d think The Telegraph would be series about spell-checking.
Maybe they use the Free Republic add-on spell-checker with their softwear.
(yeah, that last word was intended)
I try to avoid sacasm as to not hurt other people's feelings. /S>
Of course, I have had over 8 cups of coffee today and my teeth are actually chattering.
I am typing at over 130 words per minute now, I tend to miss what my spell checker doesn't catch....
...or an r-q-tek
More more more more ... but then I repeat myself ...LOL
State your reason for having a colonoscopy:________________
Answer: I LOVE having these!
BUMP
Sorry, that’s all I’ve got. That list has been floating around Teh Interwebs for ages.
Idiots.
Not that old (b.1985) didn’t get into aviation until 2000, but thanks .....
When I’m asked those silly a/s/l things I always answer the s with , not lately
I never knew if my sarcastic answers to petty bureaucratic questions gave me an edge success-wise, or if it was blood minded stubbornness that got the results, but the sarcasm sure makes ME feel better.
> “Ha, this guy doesn’t know how petty bureaucrats feel about someone under their preview not taking their questions seriously...”
I thought about that when I saw that the application had not been acted on, yet. I think he would have been better to keep his mouth shut until AFTER it had been approved.
Low-level municipal royalty are not permitted to think. Their mission is solely to obstruct.
Dangerous! Had you lost consiousness, who knows what might have happened.
Gosh, I hope he does, since he is a petty bureaucrat. Though there ARE a lot of the pompous toad types. Those are the ones you are polite to, which gets you nowhere fast, and who's heads you therefore go over...to the people who don't care as long as you don't cuss and do answer all the questions. Some of them are actually capable of a little humor.
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