How thick are some people?

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About a quarter of a mile from my home there is a McDs which is closed a few days ago for a refurbishment til around 8th August (I think). It’s off a major roundabout. Drive on the roundabout a few times a week.

Despite the whole area fenced off, most of the external walls have gone, signs with reopening date with another McDs postcode (there’s one nearer), car park taken up by portacabins and old ventilation bits etc - people are still trying to enter McDs! This is even from the side of the roundabout where you can see the building is just a shell.

How people are going to cope with McDs closed for 7.5 weeks with the schools breaking up on the second week of July.

They have built and opened three in the year in the county.

What they are doing now is to number each car park bay so if ordered on app, you can park in any bay and on collection you put in the bay no. Instead of fighting over 3-5 bays.

Plus food couriers have their own entrance and counter to collect from.

Looked at council’s planning website and the submission for the refurbishment was submitted 13-14 months ago. As need PP to erect certain size luminated signs and other things.

I've been involved in a couple of news-worthy things that were reported in the local paper. In both cases, the newspaper report was so inaccurate that I would not have recognised the incident, if my name hadn't been mentioned.

And I still read the paper, online these days, and assume the reporting is accurate. Apparently there is a name for this: "Gell-Mann amnesia effect".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect

A few years ago the then GMTV devoted a whole programme to investigating why 50% of NHS hospitals are below average.

😂

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I seem to recall that the US education secretary under President Trump stated that it was unacceptable that 50% of students were below average. Something like that.

The education secretary?

Michael Gove as Education Secretary said that ‘all pupils should be above average’.

"Erection of single storey extension adjacent to drive thru, two single storey infill extensions below eaves together with elevational alterations"

Can't see that making a huge amount of difference, the infills aren't that big. Reads like the signs are moving to be more central with the infill extensions.

In the UK 7.1 million adults read and write at or below the level of a nine-year-old. They are 'functionally illiterate'.

4 in 10 adults can't understand written health information.
This goes up to 6 in 10 if the information contains numbers.

Not all these people will be 'thick' but literacy is directly correlated with IQ.