Archive for July, 2006
The Young Mariner
A sailor has sent in the following question
I’m on a ship in the middle of the Davis Strait, just north of the Arctic Circle and am surrounded by ice and fog. How should I proceed?
Note from the CSC - we are generally not able to respond to questions as quickly as some individuals would like. Should this young seamen have perished on the rocks in the interim, we would have to blame him for not using common sense and calling our express 0898 service (calls cost no less than £1 per min and may be monitored for quality purposes and our entertainment)
2 lacklustre pieces of inspiration on “The Young Mariner”
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Wasteful lives
another consumer asks
having recently returned a product which was only slightly faulty, I have been returned an item that is completely faulty. Not only that the original one has been binned and so is this one to be. These are £300 items and the failure in the original one is a clip and the latest one is a software issue.
2 lacklustre pieces of inspiration on “Wasteful lives”
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Consultant G Says:
July 27th, 2006 at 2:58 pmWasteful - yes. Better quality control in the factory should sort this one out. Of course, it is you, the customer, who pays for these faulty products in the purchase price.
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July 28th, 2006 at 2:54 pmjust to add to the issue, the man who came to deliver the 3 system (which does work very well thankyou) refused to take away the broken one.
Should I tell the company to come and get it or wait a bit and try and get it working?
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A moose on the lose ?
This from a service user
I could not help wonder what is going on in the image of
consultant K. It looks like he / she is doing something to a
moose.
One pearl of wisdom on “A moose on the lose ?”
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July 27th, 2006 at 11:54 amno comment
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Free Advertising
A motorist asks
Why do so few people remove the sticker from the back of their car that states where the car was bought? It reduces the view out the back and also gives them a free advert. Surely this is common sense?
One pearl of wisdom on “Free Advertising”
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July 24th, 2006 at 2:24 pmIndeed, removing the sticker is common sense - well done, but I’m afraid you don’t get a prize. I used to do it with my cars, but have not got around to doing so with my most recent (it is a small, neat sticker).
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When is a drug a drug?
A good question has come in which asks
I drink a lot of coffee and some folk class this as a drug. Smokers are addicted to nicotine and it is a drug. Hash is smoked by many and it is also addictive and is also a drug. Then there are drugs such as cocaine and similar. What should the deciding factor be on classing legal and illegal drugs?
One pearl of wisdom on “When is a drug a drug?”
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July 18th, 2006 at 5:02 pmThis is not just one question this is many. What is addictive? What is damaging? and What does society see as acceptable? These should be the deciding factors!
Sadly more often than not the deciding factor is more to do with legacy than informed knowledge. It also has to be considered on a personal level too. Alcohol is the classic case where it is very destructive, addictive and also causes many issues with regards society, yet most folk would not be with their current partner were it not for a wee bit of the stuff and also most folk treat it with the respect it is due. Banning it would cause many issues as was shown in the US in the early 20th Cent.
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Global Warmin
With the recent hot spell continuing, we have been asked
Is all this hot weather the result of global warming?
2 lacklustre pieces of inspiration on “Global Warmin”
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July 18th, 2006 at 5:12 pmNO!
Firstly, global warming should actually be called global climate change as it is likely that many parts of the world will chill while other do warm. From a UK perspective it is likely that it will be our winters that will warm more than summers while from a continental european perspective it is likely they will see warmer summers.
Secondly this is still just a theory. Having said that so is evolution and unless you are from the US then we accept that as fact. If global climate change is going on, it is something that we will probably only prove completely when it is too late. We are looking at a very small sample compared to the number of years the planet has been about.
Finally. Extremes are natural.
Though it is likely that we cannot prove climate change is going on, the cost of not acting is far greater than the cost of acting now. Think where the majority of our refineries, nuclear power stations, effluent works and houses are. A 1m rise in sea levels would consume most of these and the cost of moving these is almost incalcuable. Take the precausionary principle on this one!
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July 25th, 2006 at 1:14 pmThe uncertainty in the potential changes in the climate is so great that predicting what will happen where is not possible with a great degree of certainty. However, what is generally agreed on is that there will be more energy in the worlds weather, causing more extreme weather events, such as an increase in the number of tropical storms. It is not possible to predicte that there will be longer, hoitter, drier summers across Europe.
However, as Consultant K said, it is better to be cautious, and take action now to reduce the potential effects of global climate change.
For more information, visit the Tyndall web site: http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/
It is not very user freindly, but an excellent source of rational, unbiased, honest information
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New CSC domain
Common sense dictates that a service should have an internet domain that reflects its name. Whilst http://nativewit.blogspot.com is a perfectly fine address, we have moved The Common Sense Consultancy site to http://www.commonsenseconsultancy.co.uk
RSS feeds should be redirected to http://www.commonsenseconsultancy.co.uk/rss.xml
July 31st, 2006 at 6:56 pm
With Caution!
July 31st, 2006 at 10:52 pm
Throw caution to the wind. Close your eyes and speed up.