At last! This will be of interest to nobody except other Tootingese, but Kinetika have at last published the swimming timetable for Tooting Leisure Centre online [update on Feb 18th 2010: this link has been dead for a long time: please see later post here]
Having a corporate website that doesn’t provide information that the public might want to access is, well, typical of the dumb way that people use computers and the net. I guess I could now take down my Tooting Swimming Times page now after so many years, except that it’s still more useful as a quick guide to when the pool’s open to the public than the official one. It’s too much to ask that Kinetika publish updates so that the public know if there’s a gala on and the pool’s closed. It would take them 5 minutes to update the site, whereas the number of hours wasted by members of the public turning up to a pool that’s closed runs into hundreds.
One day I’m also going to challenge them on their policy of having a ‘ladies’ swimming’ on a Saturday afternoon, but no equivalent for men. Surely we men should get a discount, or do we have to accept that this is just a kind of Feminist Tax? What have I ever done to women that I have subsidise their leisure activities? I’ve slightly changed my view on this now: I still think it’s wrong, but I now think it’s wrong because of the gender-assumptions underlying it: what about the many groups of people who may also wish to swim alone, for reasons other than their biological sex?
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