Arthur's Mutterings

So, back to visit good ole aunt mabel again for more pearls of wisdom.

When it comes to preparing a bath for baby the following was divulged:

"Now i know some people get confused by numbers and things so i wont tell you what temperature, just test it with your elbow."

So this is the equivalent of giving directions to a group of people and saying something like "i know not all of you can drive, so i wont give you the address, just catch the number 23 bus, and get off at the 3rd stop" so what if i am not clueless with numbers and have a thermometer to hand, i havent been given the option now have i. And even in the dumbed down instructions no mention was ever made on what i was supposed to feel with my elbow, was it supposed to feel hot, cold, tepid, what?. sigh. I really wish people would be more precise.

It reminds me of that farce that is now the bbc weather news, a while back they decided that "the public" whoever they are, were confused by isobars and little cloud/rain/snow symbols, so they dumbed it down just about as far as they possibly could. you now get a motion sickness inducing virtual ride around a map of the county where bright bits are sunny, dull bits are cloudy and rain is wet.

Why couldnt they have put the isobars or perhaps just the weather fronts on there as well, theres a lot of people out there that DO know what they mean, and it tells you a damn sight more about what the weather is likely to be later, and why, than just a brown and soggy picture does. bah.