Unsolicited Life Advice: Being taken seriously as a large organisation

[jack]

If you want to be taken seriously as a film:

* Do not call any chemical element "unobtainium" even if you think you have a good in-universe justification

If you want to be taken seriously as a long, cross-country highway:

* Have at least two lanes all the way along. Having a roundabout where two lanes have to squish into one at a roundabout, and two lanes in two different directions have to cross each other on a roundabout or slip road, with traffic lights does NOT count for "two lanes all the way along".

If you want to be taken seriously as a country:

* Do not do things that are evil AND don't work. To be honest, you're pushing it with EITHER of those, if you're doing things that are both, you're really fucking up.

Comments

[pseudomonas]

The last of those has echoes of Yes Minister about the rule of the City: If you're incompetent you have to be honest, and if you're crooked you have to be clever.

[andrewducker]

If I ever get to name an element it's being called either unobtanium or adamantium.

[simont]

Given the likely properties of any element still in need of naming, unobtainium will probably be quite a good name.

[cjwatson]

Somewhere on the M6/M56/M60 sequence around Manchester, there's a roundabout which is still under motorway rules. This is unusual enough in itself. To rub it in, there are traffic lights on the roundabout, and a sign RIGHT NEXT to them saying "No Stopping".