Know Your Stuff

Certain things make you think someone knows what they are talking about, don’t they? You look at the smiley London-based plastic surgeon and you think he knows something about the British association of cosmetic doctors, I bet. You look at the sharp suit and you think that the businessman knows all about finance. You look at the firemen at the blazing inferno and think “I bet he’s seen this a million times before, he’ll have those poor people out in a minute!”

But alas this is not always the case. For every businessman who knows everything there is to know about finance, there are a few who (and this appears to be fact) haven’t got the faintest idea. And for every fireman hero I am willing to bet there are a few new ones who haven’t seen a blazing inferno before, and are as clueless as anyone would be.

MPs are obviously no exception to the rule. Want to read about what MPs don’t know about all things technical? Then hit the link and find out: http://boingboing.net/

There are two arguments, of course. Number 1 is that the MPs can’t possibly know about everything they talk about and Number 2 is..well...that they should make it their business to research things they know nothing about–especially as they are apparently making whopping great decisions about it that affect all our lives.

Personally I am going with Number 2, because it can’t be so hard, can it? No. You can either get someone to advise you on things, or you can sneak in to a nearby electrical goods store wearing a hoody and listen in on the conversations of the young and digitally knowledgeable. Easy.