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CIA Airlines launches in UK

The irrepressible contrarian Ken Frost sent this to me today. I couldn't resist. Well worth printing out.

Oh - and as an aside, Ken tells us how the government has wasted 40K of your money on studying the effects of hangovers. It's good to know I'm not as thunk as drinkle peep I am.

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A picture is worth...err...

They say a picture is worth a 1000 words.

So what about 2?

See comments at Flickr. And a hat tip to Neville for creating the incriminating evidence.
 

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The lighter side of life

Sometimes I think I am at serious risk of believing the world has suddenly gone flat and that Robert Scoble is God. Then I stumble across this interesting interpretation of the Irish smoking ban from Never Trust A Hippy:

" I'm told that the British Communist Party in the 1970s provided men with beards and beerguts the chance to leap on some perfectly presentable young women who would have been out of their league normally.

 

Also, being a smoker in Ireland is a good way of getting your bike parked. ..."

You have to read the rest. But before that I also read this piece called Navel Gazing:

" Yet, whenever I talk to someone else who runs a blog, I get a puzzling cynicism. Comrade Rubbish says:

“….7 percent of online adults have blogs and 27 percent read them... mostly their own.”

So why do we bother? "

But then Comrade Rubbish, home of A General Theory of Rubbish certainly lives up to its name.

 

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Yoga to the rescue

If you ever decide you've had enough of the profession, you could do worse than take a tip from former CPA practitioner Bruce Van Horn and become a yoga cum flamenco dancing teacher to nursing home inpatients and alzheimer's sufferers.

 

Acording to the Forbes article:

"Van Horn   spent 16 years as an accountant wrestling with what he calls a "dysfunctional"   tax code. Fed up, he sold his firm in December 2000 and launched Yoga For   Business."

I'm sure there's a few folk out there that know exactly what he means.

 

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Dilbert rides into a storm...and shows us the way

Anyone who reads Dilbert - and you all do - really must see Scott Adams latest pontifications on science. He's caused a real storm among the scientific community. It has attracted 274 comments (at the last count - hint - see comment 274-5).

 

Which made me laugh because it should be obvious to anyone with half a brain, that Adams is first and foremost a satirist. Garnering passionate reactions is what he aspires to. And succeeds at.

 

But the articles made me think about how, as professionals, we're prone to taking the 'accepted status quo' as the immutable norm that when challenged gets vigorously defended. Like the idea of the ICAEW qualification as a form of industry supremacy that cannot be sullied by CIPFA types? OK - batter me over the head for that one.  

 

But then who for instance would like to bet against me that in 10 years' time, it will be the norm to have routine tax return work and online financial analysis for clients conducted out of centres in Shanghai or Kowloon where you buy in their services on a pay-as-you-go basis? The big boys are already doing it.

 

Why not consider that NOW, as a possible alternative that drives down cost while allowing you to commoditise services that have already been commoditised in the eyes of your clients?

 

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Just for fun

I've got to hand it to Ken Frost. When he dreams up a good 'un, his mind goes into overdrive. Corny though this may look, there is a serious purpose behind the campaign.

That got me thinking. I hadn't been over to  extreme-accounting  for a while yet spies had told there was something going on. Go here and you'll see Coda's CEO Jeremy Roche flying on top of a bloody bi-plane, operating a laptop. My spies tell me there was some issue over personal insurance cover!

What would your specialist advice have been for this client?