tv games harking back to depression games in 1920s

I see a rather worrying and also on a selfish level similarities to games used in the depression. So you had people dancing for 24 hours without sleeping etc etc, for the chance to win some money when life was tough. What do we have now ,these races round the world and traitors and something with Rob Brydon, which in themselves are not really bad.

However when we all know the need to do things to help the planet and environment, the sight of well heeled people going off on a jaunt of some kind, where they are basically out to get the most for themselves beat others and often accept help from anyone they can who might be a great deal poorer than they are , with no thought of what they are asking. Not to mention all the needless use of fuel etc.

If they want to have competitions for entertainment, then I would much prefer to see things like how much litter you can pick up in a time, or assist people with difficult forms etc
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What I would be grateful for ,personally ,and is very much needed, is for people to take an equal length of path or road and make a miracle of a path that has no hazards and is not uneven , that I can use on my disability buggy without making my back pains much worse, or being liable to trip up as I try to go into a shop from my buggy!! Now it would be wonderful if they spread this everywhere with the idea of having a town or city that you could actually walk around safely and be able to look round!!

Now that gives them a challenge, but at the end everyone benefits, no money is wasted, putting the spotlight onto the way uneven paths cause accidents and much pain to those of us who get jolted by them. Who knows we might have a sign as you come into a town stating Xtown the place of safe and even paths!!! Well I am heartily sick of the roads and pavements where I live , made much worse by the wretched Zoom people who are just greedy for profits, dont take care when digging up the path, make it impossible to pass them for days in a buggy, and chuck the paving stones back down any old way and never come back to see if they have settled well, and often cut through tree roots too.

I feel that when town councils give them permission to put lines in, that the council should inspect them to make sure that they have been finished to a high standard and the eveness of the pavements are important enough that they should hold an amount of money and not return it to Zoom until the job has been done in a satisfactory manner.
Councils seem to just look and think in the short term. If you know the roads and paths will be rough, with obstacles in your way, you simply dont visit them and go elsewhere. How much business is lost and they do not think about the long term effect.? If you go somewhere else and get what you want you may never return to your old haunts. So my next campaign which I am beginning this week, is to contact the local paper, the council and anyone else I can grab hold of and show them the appalling situation with the pavements with photos etc. Unfortunately for them , once I get the bit between my teeth, I will not stop until something is done if it takes a year!!! Join me GN's in the campaign and look round your local area and see how things are. When the council tell you they have no money to pay for this , ask them if they have a lump sum that they will have to pay when they are sued by someone whose life is spoilt by having a broken hip etc. I have thought carefully about how to live an independent life and done my best to put myself in the position to do so, but these appalling pavements and roads are not under my control, and it gives me a lot of pain every time I go out in my buggy. So I set out in a reasonable frame of mind and return in pain and furious and frustrated that each road I go down seems to get worse and worse, and even if I was prepared to go a long way round there is NO one journey I can take without dealing with this. It really depresses me and gets me down. I pay my taxes along with everyone else. Why should the car be king and be given better surfaces than those for pedestrians.? Having told the councils where the worst places are, the fact that they do nothing will mean that should someone have an accident they will have pay more as they were aware of the hazard and did nothing.

So rant of the day over and I am about to sally out with phone camera at the ready to begin my drip drip drip at the council providing them with address and picture of the offending area. Tough luck on them. When I make up my mind to deal with something I DONT give up. You may be reading about this at Christmas!!! Fight the good fight for all of us.