Lindsayt wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 10:50 am
It's easy to knock and to criticise. It's easy to be negative.
Does anyone here have a good solution to the Brexit Deal - including the Northern Ireland issues?
Bearing in mind that there's a vested interest amongst EU politicians to make it look like the UK is suffering as a result of Brexit in order to deter other nations from leaving.
I'm not going to criticise anyone when I don't have a better way of doing things.
<just a bit of fun>
If I take my car to the garage for a service and they render it undrivable, and then tell me I need to pay for the privilege, I'm going to criticize, even though I couldn't have fixed it myself. My car was in the hands of professionals, who promised that my car would show a huge leap in performance, and cost far less to run. Furthermore, I wouldn't have to pay anymore instalments on the HP arrangement. I believed them, because they promised me that they had covered every angle, and they had an oven-ready deal to cover all of that.
My car is now a heap of loosely connected pieces of glass, plastic, wire, and metal, which they have kindly towed back and dumped in my drive.
The only better way of doing things would have been not to trust this garage, despite all of their vivid visuals and clever catchphrases.
My only solution now is to never use that garage again, but, unfortunately, it's too late for my car, and my bank balance.
Here's the thing, I did choose not to use that garage, from the outset, but my car got dragged there anyway.
"If you don't like it , fix it yourself," is the cry from the people who dragged my car to the garage, against my express wishes. The problem with that is that it's not just a service I require any more. I've now got to learn how to fix a car that's been all-but demolished.
The garage owner is still making money and pretending nothing went wrong, or it's all somebody else's fault. I've got no transport, I'm broke, and people are still telling me to fix it myself without taking into consideration all of the irreversible damage done to my car when all it actually needed was an oil-change, the wheels balancing, and the marble the last garage put in the glove compartment taking out, to cure that "funny knocking sound," I was getting.
No, I do not need to know how to fix something before I criticise the dickheads who have broken it. My better way of doing things was not to take my car to that particular garage, but I was outvoted by people who thought they knew better, and looking at the state of my poor old Ford Cortina, I still don't accept that they were.
And they all lived in poverty, homelessness, joblessness, and acrimony ever after.
The moral of this story is that just because somebody says they're a professional, it still pays to look behind the curtain before you give them anything you value, because there's an even chance that they're lying, especially if they've been sacked multiple time for... errr... lying.
</just a bit of fun>
N.B. Yes, I know that ANY analogy, let alone this one is pretty easy to poke holes in.