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I'ver nothing of interest to say, as per usual.
However that thread is deceased.

Sooooooo........

An extra 160000 jobs would have been available for British workers over five years if no migrants from outside the EU had come to the UK, the government's immigration advisers have said.

It's official: they come over here and steal our jobs. I fucking TOLD you.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 16:57, 82 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
I heard the alternative today...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/immigration-does-not-cause-unemployment-6287404.html
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 16:58, Reply)
yeah, this
BBC News website too
The NIESR said: "The results show a very small negative and generally insignificant correlation between the migrant inflow rate and the change in the claimant count rate.

"For all practical purposes, these results suggest that migration has essentially no impact on claimant count unemployment."

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 16:59, Reply)
i think you've completely misunderstood a relatively simple article there

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 16:59, Reply)
I didn't even read it.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:00, Reply)
lay off the happy pills and stop forcing your 1 year old boy to farm your illegal heroin
then you'll have more time to read
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:02, Reply)
I can't do it to him.
It's the only time he gets to go outside.

That and when I send him to pick up my 'script'.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:03, Reply)
i don't know street slang, or are you a thesp?

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:04, Reply)
No but my mum is.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:05, Reply)
so your son picks up your script for your mum
are you a screenwriter?
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:13, Reply)
Yes.
I mean, no.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:14, Reply)
playwrite?

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:15, Reply)
No, I went of my own accord.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:22, Reply)
But you can't drive...

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:26, Reply)
The point that they made was there was a correllation and they did not assign a causal link.
The papers went "duhhhhh forrins??? BAD"
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:00, Reply)
Fing is they mostly do the jobs that the indigenous turn their noses up at, in the main those posts will remain unfilled.
Most kids with two gcse's aint interested in cleaning the bogs at waitrose, cos they is gonna be rapper anyway innit
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:02, Reply)
Or they're pregnant.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:02, Reply)

"I don't believe I'm taking someone else's job" - Agata Wasziewicz-Schmidt Dos Santos, 29, interpreter, Newquay

I think all those Cornish kids with their Polish GSCEs wouldn't agree!!!
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:04, Reply)
You breeding people have brought up a generation of layabouts and useless thugs.
No wonder we need forrins to do our menial jobs.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:06, Reply)
I wonder what the reverse figures are like?

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:04, Reply)
that'll be 000,061 then.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:07, Reply)
Pfft.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:07, Reply)
Oh Bartleby.
Having read that I'm afraid I'm now on the side of your bosses. You should be made redundant.

Soz.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:09, Reply)
I'm afraid that's rather the opposite of the truth, old boy
as AA has pointed out up there.

Although given the lack of an underscore, is this pretend Monty?
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:06, Reply)
Nope, real Monty

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:06, Reply)
wait, but the underscore one was talking about daughtermas the other day
I'm very confused.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:07, Reply)
Maybe the other Monty has deleted the account so he got his old name back?

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:09, Reply)
Not yet.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:11, Reply)
I'd be fucking happy if people stopped nicking names
it's basically the behaviour of a slightly retarded toddler.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:11, Reply)
This is why I never change mine.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:13, Reply)
We're talking about usernames, not underpants, Dav.
Do keep up, there's a dear.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:21, Reply)
So was I you colossal mong.
How're tricks?
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:25, Reply)
is there two of them? and ones a troll?
oh man i'm stupider than i thought
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:14, Reply)
He (I am assuming it's a he)
pops up occasionally with a lolarious parody. They're not that bad as it goes. You can only tell us apart by the underscore I am forced to use.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:20, Reply)
And the fact you have an icon

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:21, Reply)
And a visible erection.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:24, Reply)
That's some powerful magnifying glass you got there.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:29, Reply)
Nope, real Monty, taking the real piss.
I do have an underscore and will do until the comedy genius who nabbed my original login gives up.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:10, Reply)
ah, right
it must only show up as an underscore on my mac then. Might explain it.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:11, Reply)
Oh yeah, so you do.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:12, Reply)
Our jobs?

They’ve not taken my job, and anyway, I like having foreigners doing menial tasks for me, it feels like the good old days.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:06, Reply)
I, too, yearn for the glorious Raj.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:11, Reply)

They never realised how good they had it.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:29, Reply)
Yeah but your job of molesting children in care for free is somewhat niche

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:15, Reply)
And if anyone who was born here would do as good/hard/shit a job for the same money
they'd not have jobs to come here for.

Seriously, I've had first-hand experience of the work of English builders and Polish builders and Australian builders. The only one's who did a shit job were the English ones, the others finished on time, or early, within budget, worked like motherfuckers and did excellent jobs.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:16, Reply)
How about Irish builders?

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:24, Reply)
Nah, you're alright thanks.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:24, Reply)
He asked me to politely tell you to fuck off, there is no you and him anymore

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:25, Reply)
Which left leaning hippie will i wind up now...

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:27, Reply)
Never used them.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:30, Reply)
whatever
now pay attention to me, everyone. There are TEN days until I have a house!
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:24, Reply)
You fucking homeless gyppo.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:25, Reply)
it's cold out here and there are wolves

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:25, Reply)
The discarded first line of the closing theme to Red Dwarf.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:27, Reply)
If only they'd disregarded the first line of the script as the pile of fetid monkey shit it was
then Craig Charles would have smoked crack until he died mid prozzie rape
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:28, Reply)
I hate completely agreeing with you.
It feels so wrong.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:30, Reply)
I used to like it.
Watching old episodes back now, however, it seems incredibly laboured.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:30, Reply)
Terminally unfunny.
Unless you find the use of 'smeg' as a substitute swearword OVER AND OVER AND OVER A-FUCKING-GAIN, FOR YEARS amusing, in which case fill yer boots.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:38, Reply)
I have to agree, really.
The only excuse I can offer is that tastes change. I watched the revival when it was repeated last year and it was cringeworthy.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:46, Reply)
Tastes do indeed change.
My brother were utterly convinced that The Young Ones was good which, apart from the book, it really, really wasn't.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:49, Reply)
I still think the Bambi episode is brilliant.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:55, Reply)
wrong
red dwarf is great (except the last 2 series')
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:31, Reply)

wolves sheep
Well, that's Wales for you.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:28, Reply)
I think you'll find, Mr Boyce, that my housing situation is rather more stable than yours.
There are many things on which you might safely take a cheap shot, but this has rather a whiff of glass houses and stones about it, don't you think?
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:27, Reply)
are you also capt cavy?1

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:27, Reply)
No.
The very thought.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:28, Reply)
*existential angst*

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:31, Reply)
Ahh, it would seem howwever I am unable to tell who people are replying to
/spastic
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:29, Reply)
I wasn't talking to you, you weirdo.
Go and have a fag and calm down.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:28, Reply)
I'm blaming you when I die of lung cancer

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:30, Reply)
Hahahha, are you implying that finance and wealth is a generally accepted reward for success...
... and therefore, given the fact that Mr Boyce has faced bancrupsy so much, it is fair to assume that he has no wealth and therefore has been, at life, the oppersite of success? Otherwise known as Failure.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:30, Reply)
well anyway
he can pretend it applies to me, too. I am totally buying a house, did I say that?
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:34, Reply)
Gawd, that's _soooo_ 2011. ,)
Tell me about your place Cavy? I'll read it on the tube home on my iPad when I get to the overground bit !
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:27, Reply)
haha
it's got a lounge and a dining room and a kitchen and a downstairs loo and 3 bedrooms (or and artroom/darkroom a bedroom and a spare room/library) and a bathroom and some stairs and a garden and a MOTHERFUCKING SHED!

and a sign outside saying 'humps 300 yards' lol
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:33, Reply)
I haz a dungeon.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 18:02, Reply)
a sexy dungeon I presume?
how do you stop it getting damp?
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 18:06, Reply)
Dehumidifier.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 18:25, Reply)
OMG I LOVE this !
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SKVcQnyEIT8

the whole time I worked in a bookshop I wanted to arrange the books in colour order
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:30, Reply)
Speaking of employment
I've just checked and the DWP have officially advertised for 100 adviser staff in the north east (4000 jobs nationally, I'm told).

*sighs resignedly*

*opens up application form*
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:57, Reply)
It will be a good stop gap till something better crops up.
*shrugs*
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:59, Reply)
My thinking exactly.
I could no more spend the rest of my career there than I could cut off my cock with a rusty gardening implement. Still, if it puts food on the table, etc, etc.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 18:00, Reply)
I wonder how many loser EDL/BFP types who are chronicly benefit ridden are going to claim that they could get and do that £100kpa job if it wasn't for the immigration.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 18:29, Reply)
Ahh Monty
Every time I see your name online, I think of a cat that I used to own called Monty.

He moved out to live with a family with two small girls. I once walked part their front garden and he was sat in their toy pushchair looking smug.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 21:17, Reply)

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