Being "Fit for purpose" C/D

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check out the by-the-year breakdown for these stats:

http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?search=%22fit+for+purpose%22

obviously many of them will be quoting john reid's comment on the home office, but this phrase, it seems to me, has taken on a new lease of life and is all over the place right now.

or have i just gone mad/run out of things to say on ilx?

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

i prefer 'shipshape'.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

.. and bristol fashion.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hunky dory

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

Always used in the negative isn't it? You never hear people say something *is* FFP.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

I was in the opticians the other day and a man was complaining that his glasses weren't fit for purpose. It's quite the thing.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

I cannae see mah haun in front o' mah face, these Gregory's are fuckin' shite, by the way = not fit for purpose

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, it was John Reid taking his glasses back?

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

it's a systems analysis term - we use it quite a bit in my area of work. always have, you bandwagon jumpers you. (lovely stripey jumpers they are)

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

perhaps dj martian could corroborate.

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was a legal term.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,,1857608,00.html?gusrc=ticker-103704

there's another, important example, in this terrifying load of fascist neo-capitalist bollocks.

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/steve_bell/2006/09/04/steve.jpg

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

I am not fit for purpose.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was a legal term.

I think it originated with quality assurance and total quality management speak.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

"Fitness for a Particular Purpose" is one of the implied warranties of sold goods under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

― J (Jay), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

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