Sat 22 Apr 2006
Thu 20 Apr 2006
((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/10))
In the calculation, five factors have to be assessed: urgency (U), complexity (C), importance (I), skill (S) and frequency (F) and each given a score between one and nine. A sixth, aggravation (A), was set at 0.7 by the experts after their poll.
“And do you know what we do? We sneer. We lampoon and ridicule the snivelling little oaf before his peers, we degrade and humiliate him utterly and rend him into bloodied slivers with our implacable and caustic wit. We imply that even to have voiced such a question places him irretrievably in the same intellectual category as the common pencil-sharpener. Then, when we’ve wrung every last sadistic laugh out of this pitiful little blot, we have the bailiffs take him outside and work him over. No, I know it isn’t nice. But all the same, it’s something that we have to do.”