Maybe it was because he’d had a late night, but Dr Evan Harris has just had a massive hissy fit in the House of Commons library. And all over the use of a library computer. Apparently he thought that I had “stolen” his machine whilst he was taking a mobile phone call. “When you go to the toilet, I’m going to steal it back” he whelped. Then he picked up a polythene bag stuffed with papers and stormed into the next room whilst muttering to himself. He wouldn’t get away with behaving like that in a library in West Bromwich I thought, though it would be amusing to see him try. Funny old place Westminster.
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I saw a bit of the piece on newsnight, I agreed with him in the main. He must have made a mistake and he’ll be embarrassed about it now. On the other hand, he should be able to sort out the situation better than that.
Who would not be annoyed to find that – when you left the room to take a short phone call – that your active files and web pages had been closed down, and you had been logged off a computer you had been working on for an hour, and your papers moved. Especially when there were a dozen other computers all free. But poor Tom’s only palintive plea was “sorry, it is the only computer in the library I can get to work”. Amusingly the library staff member there told Tom all he had to do all along was ask him how the computer accounts worked and he would have opened his profile on all those other nasty horrid other computers which would not let poor Tom log on! Library bully looked suitably abashed.
I presume “palintive” is the adjective which describes someone acting in the manner of Michael Palin. So “sorry, it is the only computer in the library I can get to work†should be spoken by someone wearing gum boots, lower jaw extended, in a gormless accent.
So you are the library bully, are you? I shan’t hang about this blog in case you nick my library card or stamp on my bookmark
Oh my word, DOCTOR Harris. Would you like to buy yourself a pram with your expenses (declared of course) and chuck your toys out. Have you never been in a university library? Rules are quite simple, you move off it, you lose it.
The pair of them came across like complete wild eyed barnpost didn’t they? Evan was no doubt correct but there was little to choose between them if you had to hand out scores for sanity and relaxed presentation.
Barnpots … oops
I’ve just stumbled on this as I’ve been reading the blogs on the abortion bill.
I realise that negative comments are generally edited out of politicians blogs (so I am probably speaking only to your webmonkey) but my god, what a spectacularly horrible and petty post. Westminster really is like a little public school for boys.
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