tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031889641831063061.post8345095470982141685..comments2023-09-27T18:00:59.400+01:00Comments on It's a Shit Business: your call is very important to usstevedominohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598042606017502408noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031889641831063061.post-14543144970684718622014-02-02T20:02:40.853+00:002014-02-02T20:02:40.853+00:00yeah, my bad - over-sensitive to a fault, that'...yeah, my bad - over-sensitive to a fault, that's me!<br /><br />i think you hit the nail on the head with this:<br /><br /><i>"They try to deliver parcels to everyone during the day too, even though most of us are at work. I think it's a statement about how brainless most of these organisations are generally, rather than a reflection on anything else."</i><br /><br />apologies for venting, it's probably because the Slint box-set i linked to is SO BEAUTIFUL, and it's <b>so very expensive!</b><br /><br />i swear that statistic is true - they talked about it a lot during MS Awareness Week last year - and the MS Society is redoing the Working Yet Worried toolkit and that stat is part of the proposal - see <a href="http://www.mssociety.org.uk/ms-research/projects/services#8" rel="nofollow">http://www.mssociety.org.uk/ms-research/projects/services#8</a>stevedominohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08598042606017502408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031889641831063061.post-15369241636260085872014-02-02T18:47:53.065+00:002014-02-02T18:47:53.065+00:00“It is estimated that between 23 and 32 per cent o...“It is estimated that between 23 and 32 per cent of people with MS are in employment”??<br /><br />Fuck. That's a depressing statistic... but I'm calling bullshit. I know that lots of people are terribly affected by MS - of course I do - but I find that number very hard to believe. So there's something like 100,000 people in the UK with MS, right? And we reckon that only 25,000 of them are in work? MS is such a nuanced condition that is both cumulative and different in everyone. How can they be so confident of that stat? I think it does more harm than good to toss numbers like that around<br />FWIW, I think you're being a little over-sensitive too. They try to deliver parcels to everyone during the day too, even though most of us are at work. I think it's a statement about how brainless most of these organisations are generally, rather than a reflection on anything else.<br /><br />As for boxsets....I'm hungrily eyeing up the Blur boxset and notice that Suede are re-releasing their albums on vinyl this month too.<br /><br />STswisslethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16708248700851998044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031889641831063061.post-31797855666916958632014-02-01T00:14:25.875+00:002014-02-01T00:14:25.875+00:00How many people who work for 'disability '...How many people who work for 'disability 'or 'illness' charities actually have the eponymous 'disability' or 'illness'?<br /><br />Once listened to the radio programme 'In Touch' for visually impaired people and was stupefied to learn that (at that time-before I'm sued) there were no, you know, visually impaired people working at the RNIB. <br /><br />Maybe the same goes for the MS Society or perhaps the perfectly lovely caller had a fixed number of calls she had to get a result from. <br /><br />Hurrah for shift.ms.honeysucklenoreply@blogger.com