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Inspired by this article in the Graun. You go to pay at a parking meter and it gives you £3 too much change. What do you do?

Poll #1761 Moral Dilemma
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 13

What would you do?

Keep the three quid
10 (76.9%)

Hand it in to someone in charge of the car park or something similar
3 (23.1%)

Leave it in the machine for the next person to have a dilemma over
0 (0.0%)

Something else which I shall explain in the comments
0 (0.0%)

My own answer is the second one, and if that's not possible, the third. I would view it as theft to take the money. Yes, a small theft, with very little chance of any consequence for myself, but theft none the less. Mat says he would take the money, citing the harm principle. I can understand his argument, but it would feel wrong to me to take the money.

What do you lot think?

In other news, because I bitched at Sensei Puddin' on Friday about how my legs were killing me after Thursday's karate session, we did lots more leggy stuff tonight. Or perhaps I am investing myself with too much importance. Either way, my legs are killing me again.

Still, it's doing me good, and I am feeling the benefit when I'm NOT completely knackered. Healthiness is a good thing.

Climbing tomorrow! Yay!

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I am feeling: curious

Holly is doing excellently in all subjects, but she's not working to her full potential was the basic report at school. She's in the top set for everything except Maths (in which she would be in the top set if she worked faster), and is one of the best readers in the school, apparently. And she has an amazing imagination and is very creative. It's just that sometimes she drifts off into a little world of her own and won't work. But she's such a little individual, and has such forthright views...

It's eerie, really. They could just photocopy my school reports. Or my dad's.

Karate, though... Karate was AWESOME. I know it was only my third lesson, but we got paired up for punch and block practise, and Sensei Puddin' DID tell us to go as hard and fast as we could... I got paired up with a brown belt guy, similar height and reach to me and... well, put it this way, I got an impressed eyebrow raise out of him a couple of times for being bang on target and fast enough to get past his block. And I have a couple of bruises on my forearms because he was a bit more diligent with the blocking after that LOL.

Why have I not done martial arts before now? It was FUN!

But now I must go for a bath before Question Time because I am as sweaty as a vicar in a brothel...

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I am located at: on the bed
I am feeling: giddy
What? I can't hear you over: bath running

I had my first karate lesson tonight, and I really enjoyed it (even though I was rubbish) and I've come back home to watch QT. I feel somewhat guilty for thinking that Humphries is better than Dimbldore, given that the poor man is injured. But I am really enjoying seeing Woodward eviscerated. That said, my brain and body are tired, so in lieu of proper content, have some:

Fresh Squeezings From the veins of the Internet

innerbrat has a brilliant post about the usefulness of the medical and social models of disability as applied to various scenarios. And she absolutely does not write a politicl blog; oh no.

Factcheck doesn't like Mr Cameron's assertions about poverty. They are lukewarm about his assertions on inequality, too.

Sara Bedford is typically on point about Sally Bercow being a member of a different political party to her husband.

Stuart Sharpe has a very depressing post. Seriously, if you don't find electoral reform interesting that's fine. But for those of us who do? Do you HAVE to condemn us so utterly?

ginasketch has a new website showcasing some of her art.

And today's meme is, given that Dimbledore is injured and Humphries is being his stand-in tonight:

Who is your dream Question Time presenter?

I reckon Martha Kearney would do a good job.

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