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Architect's wicked wit cuts through red tape
The Telegraph ^ | 5/6/08 | Gordon Rayner

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 ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; Political Humor/Cartoons; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bureaucracy; forms; johnjessop; redtape
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To: Dawnsblood

"You filled out the wrong form. You need to fill out the combined Environmental Impact Statement and Diversity/Inclusion Statement - it's blue."

21 posted on 05/07/2008 11:49:35 AM PDT by xjcsa (Has anyone seen my cornballer?)
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To: Dawnsblood

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.


22 posted on 05/07/2008 11:50:25 AM PDT by Argus (Obama: All turban and no goats.)
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To: Abathar

“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.


23 posted on 05/07/2008 11:50:56 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: Abathar

Purview?, he asked meekly...


24 posted on 05/07/2008 11:51:36 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

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)


25 posted on 05/07/2008 11:52:07 AM PDT by VOA
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To: pepsionice
Sarcasm[A] is stating the opposite of an intended meaning especially in order to sneeringly, slyly, jest or mock a person, situation or thing. It is strongly associated with irony, with some definitions classifying it as a type of verbal irony intended to insult or wound. Sarcasm can also be used in a humorous or jesting way depending on the intent of the person speaking.

I try to avoid sacasm as to not hurt other people's feelings. /S>

26 posted on 05/07/2008 11:53:28 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona....)
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To: Old Professer
"Purview?, he asked meekly..."

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....

27 posted on 05/07/2008 11:53:33 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Andonius_99
You would if you were an MEP engineer...

...or an r-q-tek

28 posted on 05/07/2008 11:54:44 AM PDT by r-q-tek86 (If you're not taking flak, you're not over the target.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

More more more more ... but then I repeat myself ...LOL


29 posted on 05/07/2008 11:58:30 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("I Believe In The Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
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To: Dawnsblood
A friend had to fill out a form at a Gastroenteroligist's office:

State your reason for having a colonoscopy:________________

Answer: I LOVE having these!

30 posted on 05/07/2008 12:00:53 PM PDT by Gorzaloon
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To: steel_resolve

BUMP


31 posted on 05/07/2008 12:01:09 PM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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To: SkyDancer

Sorry, that’s all I’ve got. That list has been floating around Teh Interwebs for ages.


32 posted on 05/07/2008 12:06:58 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Code Pink should guard against creating stereotypes in the Mincing Community." --Titan Magroyne)
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To: Dawnsblood

Idiots.


33 posted on 05/07/2008 12:17:06 PM PDT by YHAOS
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To: Slings and Arrows

Not that old (b.1985) didn’t get into aviation until 2000, but thanks .....


34 posted on 05/07/2008 12:22:01 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("I Believe In The Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
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To: Gorzaloon

When I’m asked those silly a/s/l things I always answer the s with , not lately


35 posted on 05/07/2008 12:26:46 PM PDT by South Texas Lady
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To: pepsionice

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.


36 posted on 05/07/2008 12:27:33 PM PDT by cake_crumb (Obama's bus needs a lift kit just to clear all the bodies!)
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To: Abathar

> “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.


37 posted on 05/07/2008 12:30:03 PM PDT by jim_trent
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To: pepsionice
" A sarcastic return forces them to think for a moment."

Low-level municipal royalty are not permitted to think. Their mission is solely to obstruct.

38 posted on 05/07/2008 12:34:46 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
“No, I want them all pulled so I can seriously gum an undercooked slice of bacon at the nearest waffle house”..

Dangerous! Had you lost consiousness, who knows what might have happened.

39 posted on 05/07/2008 12:37:03 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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To: Abathar
"Ha, this guy doesn't know how petty bureaucrats feel about someone under their preview not taking their questions seriously..."

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.

40 posted on 05/07/2008 12:37:53 PM PDT by cake_crumb (Obama's bus needs a lift kit just to clear all the bodies!)
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