We Grumpies met for our fortnightly Friday lunch at St George’s Centre to chat and to consider contemporary issues.
Topics for discussion included:
- Water firm Fat cats get pay rises despite ban on bonuses.
- £100 million farce of electricity metres that were fitted the wrong way round.
- The Top nostalgic sound of summer? - It is the music from an ice cream van.
- Cleaner unearths 35-year-old Mars bar hidden in hoarder's house- which looked gigantic compared to modern bar.
- A stolen Parrot is returned home after nine years lost.
- Senior Police officer used bot to write evidence logs.
- Banksy's artworks cost public £150,000 for clean up and security.
- Thatcher's plan to bomb Peruvian cocaine fields with British moths.
- Pension firm in veterans’ scandal has history of errors.
- Drought helps golfer hit record hole in one.
- Met Police tows away £8M worth of supercars during weekend crackdown.
- One in five cars are late for MOT tests.
- Jellyfish cause chaos at French nuclear power plants in Dunkirk.
- MasterCard lawsuit costs £41 million in legal fees.
- AI bot booked a gym class by booting out someone else.
- Cold call telephone ban gets poor reception in France.
- Will solar panels you can buy at Lidl make the sun, shine on your bills?
- Putting the wrong things in the fridge and leaving out things that should be chilled.
As always, the conversation was genial, informative, varied, and amusing.
David Colyer