BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[AuroraSaab]

 

[briantrumpet]

I've worked it out: the Telegraph has done a deal with retailers to shift the remaining stock of inefficient 'traditional' tumble dryers. Clever!!

 

[secretsqirrel]

I've worked it out: the Telegraph has done a deal with retailers to shift the remaining stock of inefficient 'traditional' tumble dryers. Clever!!

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Our dear telecrap mothers are buying them whether they need a new one or not? This is just terrible.

 

[Ian H]

Our dear telecrap mothers are buying them whether they need a new one or not? This is just terrible.

Expect a spate of house fires.

 

[briantrumpet]

Expect a spate of house fires.

At least the clothes will be dry.

 

[briantrumpet]

I wonder if there's a heat pump design that's more efficient. (And yes, this is a genuine Telegraph Headline.)

 

[Pross]

I wonder if there's a heat pump design that's more efficient. (And yes, this is a genuine Telegraph Headline.)

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Surely the readers didn’t vote leave to get journalists with De Bretton in their name?

 

[Dorset Boy]

Crapita still failing to pay pensions to retired public sector workers, 6 months on. 24,000 pension quotes awaited, 8,000 claims still not processed.
Simple solution - ban all remuneration for directors and senior managers at Crapita until the situation is resolved.
Then fine Crapita £500 million and terminate their contract.
Then ban the directors from holding such office again.

 

[briantrumpet]

Crapita still failing to pay pensions to retired public sector workers, 6 months on. 24,000 pension quotes awaited, 8,000 claims still not processed.
Simple solution - ban all remuneration for directors and senior managers at Crapita until the situation is resolved.
Then fine Crapita £500 million and terminate their contract.
Then ban the directors from holding such office again.

Is there *anything* they do well? I genuinely can't think of one of their projects that hasn't been a shitstorm in one way or another.

 

[Dorset Boy]

Is there *anything* they do well? I genuinely can't think of one of their projects that hasn't been a shitstorm in one way or another.

Absolutely, a disgrace of a company, and clearly those in 'governmet' who keep appointing them are either utterly incompetent, or totally corrupt and getting back handers.
They should have been banned from government contracts 10 to 15 years ago - back handers is the only logical explanation

 

[briantrumpet]

Police are investigating whether a crash on the Clyde Tunnel slip road was caused by the driver mistaking a graffiti mural 'tunnel' for the real thing.

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news...-crash-driver-mistake-graffiti-eyes-entrance/

Police have released a photofit of the suspect graffiti artist.

 

[Psamathe]

Is there *anything* they do well? I genuinely can't think of one of their projects that hasn't been a shitstorm in one way or another.

Submit successful bids to Government for public contracts. Government seems to keep ignoring their track record.

 

[icowden]

Is there *anything* they do well?

Well Adolpho Hernandez has a salary package of between £1.61million and £2.76 million a year, and many of their senior execs earn very good salaries plus they made £113.5m in profit in 2025, up from £84.6m - so there is something that they do well...

 

[briantrumpet]

Gosh. People who are blind from birth apparently never develop schizophrenia.

https://theconversation.com/people-...lls-us-about-the-psychiatric-condition-281369

The most rigorous evidence comes from a 2018 whole-population study tracking nearly half a million children born in Western Australia between 1980 and 2001. Of those, 1,870 developed schizophrenia, but not one of the 66 children with cortical blindness did.

That sample of blind children is small, but the pattern holds across more than 70 years of evidence: not a single congenitally blind person with schizophrenia has ever been reported. The protection seems to be specific to cortical blindness, which is caused by damage to the brain’s visual cortex.

People who lose their sight later in life, or whose blindness is caused by damage to the eyes rather than the brain, can still develop the condition. This makes it clear that blindness itself isn’t the deciding factor. Something specific about the visual brain is.

 

[briantrumpet]

Phew, I'm glad there's somewhere.