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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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So. Now the Fire Brigade are threatening to strike on Bonfire Night
over proposed shift changes. They are three times busier on this night than on any other in the year.

How many more times is this country going to be held to ransom by outmoded and archaic public sector workers boo-hooing about being dragged kicking and screaming into the modern age? The strike would endanger the lives of thousands of people (admittedly mainly proles): how can anyone justify doing this? It's fucking blackmail and it's immoral.

Under my 'benign dictatorship' I would have none of this shit.

EDIT this reads EXACTLY like a Dail Mail letter. Oh dear.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:20, 248 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
SIEG HEIL!

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:27, Reply)
I think strikes are retarded tbh
However, I believe that Corporal Punishment should be reestablished on certain nights of the year, Bonfire Night being one of them. The amount of stories I've read about kids trying to set cars on fire, the Fire Brigade coming out, and either getting bricked, or being unable to get out of their engine because it's not safe.

The little shits deserve the shit kicking out of them, and I'd happily see that take place. Far as I'm concerned, anyone who throws a brick with intent at someone should be done for assault with a deadly weapon.

I fucking hate chavs at this time of year.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:28, Reply)
The poor should be shot. All bar those employed in menial public service jobs.
These should merely be flogged.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:29, Reply)
Anyone with an IQ under 84 should be put to death
based on:

Q Range ("Deviation IQ") Intelligence Classification
164 and over Genius or near genius
148 - 164 Very superior intelligence
132 - 148 Superior intelligence
113 - 132 Above average intelligence
84 - 113 Normal or average intelligence
68 - 84 Dullness
52 - 68 Borderline deficiency
Below 52 Definite feeble-mindedness

(stolen from Wiki)
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:42, Reply)
Superior Intelligence for me! (135, I think)
My brothers is 178, bastard.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:51, Reply)
IQ tests are fairly meaningless.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:54, Reply)
Good enough for judging who should be put to death

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:56, Reply)
Applebite and I were discussing this
she was given a hypothetical situation in which she had to choose who to give vaccines to in the case of a pandemic. I said everyone with the lowest IQ should be refused.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:00, Reply)
You're talking my kind of eugenics here.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:01, Reply)
We should keep a few mongs for menial tasks and general comedic purposes. 2.5% should be enough.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:01, Reply)
I would say "anyone I don't like will be refused"

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:02, Reply)
You look nice today.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:10, Reply)
Here, have AA's vaccine too

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:19, Reply)
haha

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:20, Reply)
Well, I'm fucked

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:11, Reply)
at Tar Barrels last year
which is a fairly dangerous event as it is, some scrote lobbed an aerosol can into one of the big flaming barrels of tar being carried at full speed through an epic crowd. I was about 20-30 metres away and saw the resulting fireball. Would have shat my pants had I been right up close.

If the person who had done it had been caught I strongly suspect they would have been beaten to within at least an inch of their life, if not less.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:31, Reply)
Fuck, if I'd caught them, I'd happily have done that myself
I'm not going to lie, I've pissed about with fire before. But it was a bonfire in my back garden, and it was always under control. One time, we had loads of wood to get rid of, and my Dad was away, so my brother burned it. This meant that a few of us were messing round, throwing in empty aerosols, then legging it back behind a wall. Not safe, but nowhere near as bad as what one lad did.

Inside our house, he found a can of furniture polish, and decided to chuck that in. When asked how full it was, he said 'Pretty full, huh huh'. We legged it, just got back around the wall in time to hear a small pop, then a whoosh. We found the can halfway up the street, if it had hit anyone from close, it would have done some very serious damage.

The lad was booted out about a minute later.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:48, Reply)
he would have been lynched, no doubt about it
the denizens of that town are not the sharpest tools, particularly on that night.

That is pretty stupid. I've had similar experiences, as have most people I suspect.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:50, Reply)
We were young, and stupid
I wouldn't do it now, but at the time it was a laugh, and we were intelligent enough to leg it. My friend works in a hospital, the amount of people she sees with eye injuries over this period from getting too close to the flames, rockets, etc.

Anyone remember the episode of 999 focused on Bonfire Night? Frightened the shit out of me that did!
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:54, Reply)
There was a group of teenagers
camping next to us when we went to Reading in 2005. They had half a steel drum and were merrily burning stuff in it, which made us a bit twitchy, but when we asked them to be careful, they were fine about it. Until we came back on the last night and one lad had a massive bandage all down one side of his face - we asked him what happened and he just shrugged and told us he'd chucked his deodorant in for a laugh, it had exploded and he had 2nd and 3rd degree burns down his face.

Yeah. Scarred for life - big laugh that got I'm sure.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:58, Reply)
Sounds like that lad who got his bollocks cut off by shrapnel at Leeds a few years back
Difference is he was just walking past the fire when the gas bottle exploded...
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:05, Reply)
Why only this time of year?
Chavs should be hated at every time of year
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:41, Reply)
I've been given too much shit in my time to judge before meeting anyone, can't help that
On Mizzy(mischief) and Bonfire night, I think they should be shot on sight.

Few years back, in my 'mosher' stage, I was at a youth club with a few mates, when we started getting egged. Group of chav shits were chucking them from a short distance away. The head of the youth group(a Church Leader, no less) comes out, sees them, and disappears, before returning with 48 odd eggs for us.

10 chavs vs 30+ 'moshers'. Fucking hilarious watching them sprint off.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:57, Reply)
It is fucking outrageous.
Especially in times like this when a lot of people are out of work or are fearing for their jobs.

I have a little more sympathy for firefighters than for say those BA cunts who are always striking, but they should still be grateful they have a job at all.

Motherfuckers.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:28, Reply)
I agree most fully
Which is partly why I got annoyed at whoever it was that appeared here with their 'woe is me, I need to choose between these 2 jobs, how will I ever cope?'
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:30, Reply)
oi!
I'm pretty sure you could get a job in Tesco if you so chose, so you can't have a go at people who raise a dilemma and ask for advice just because you don't like it. When people say they've come into money on here and ask what they should do with it I don't kick off because I'm skint.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:44, Reply)
I was a bit over-reactive that day
Partly as it had been a bad day. It may also have been that he'd asked pretty much the same thing twice.

Also, strangely, the Tesco in our town seems to be pretty much the only one ever that isn't recruiting. I checked. Doesn't matter now, got work until the end of the year.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:00, Reply)
Fair enough
now you can join us in complaining about how much you hate work :D
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:02, Reply)
That I can
Although I may possibly get something iPad-esque on expenses. That would probably keep me happy for a bit before I start complaining.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:05, Reply)
aww man I want an iPad
I just want to do the piano playing thing.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:11, Reply)
I have been kind of against them for months
But I would have a use for it with this work, so think I'm mostly likely going to end up with one. It's my descent into being an awful person continuing.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:13, Reply)
This is what Wiggy said
he bought me an iPod so I'm not allowed any more Apple products until I've fought off the douchebag infection.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:21, Reply)
I fight off the douchebag-ness
By not being a douche about it. Most people don't have a comprehension of how to use a simple computer properly anyway, so it doesn't matter all that much what they use.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:25, Reply)
I can't work macs
stupid fat fingers.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:38, Reply)
I'm unsure why fat fingers stop you using Macs

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:39, Reply)
I just end up mashing the keyboard in frustration
I don't get the one button thing either.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:47, Reply)
I presume you mean the mouse button?
It means you can hit it anywhere and still left click, which is more commonly used. The new mice right click at the right hand side, and laptops do it easily too. Matter of preference and all that, innit?
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:51, Reply)
It depends how they strike dunnit?
Nurses strikes don't mean they all suddenly turn off the life support machines.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:29, Reply)
It would free up some beds if they did
just sayin'....
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:31, Reply)
I'm guessing 'by refusing to work'?

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:32, Reply)
Refusing to work overtime is often one.
So they have the managment hire in temps, won't affect the service but will cost a lot.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:40, Reply)
There's little continuity with the temps, who are invariably bodies on a ward and little else.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:44, Reply)
When the Fire Brigade strike
they usually have to bring in the Army, don't they?

Refusing to work overtime is 'working to rule' not striking, isn't it? I freely admit to knowing sod all about all this.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:02, Reply)
I want this to happen.
Army uniform trumps fireman uniform.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:02, Reply)
My sister said her and the others at her work were considering claiming there was a fire, just to get them out

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:06, Reply)
There was a fire in the building next to my pole class a while ago
I don't know who was more pleased, the pole dancers or the firemen.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:12, Reply)
There's a sliding down their poles joke here, I'm just not able to think of it...

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:13, Reply)
They were pretty nifty on the pole y'know

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:22, Reply)
No, that's agency staff

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:21, Reply)
I wholeheartedly support strikes in the public services
In fact, the coppers and nurses (though I'm sure they can't) should have a synchronised strike. Let the country descend into anarchy for a night or two, maybe that'll kick people up the arse enough to initiate change, rather than bitching about stuff while standing in line at Starbucks.

*Can say this as I live in a nice sheltered area*
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:32, Reply)
I'll send all the blinded children round yours on the 6th, then.
Actually, fuck that - they've just been blinded, the last thing they'll want is sex.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:32, Reply)
YES!
I'd get them to sing "3 Blind Mice" through their tears while I chuck bouncy balls all around them.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:34, Reply)
And the little girl from the early 80's public information advert
the one who picks up a used sparkler and SCREAMS into the camera because it was still hot.

Shat me right up that did.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:35, Reply)
80's public information ads didn't fuck around
But back then they could send a council worker into primary schools to chuck blooded pig carcasses at infants while shouting "disobey your teachers and parents and you will DIE!!!".
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:37, Reply)
Nowadays I have to do that stuff to my daughter myself.
Bloody credit crunch.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:39, Reply)
My brother has a DVD packed full of public information ads
they're all there, the kids who kick a football into the electricity transformer station, "NO BILLY!", the kids who touch overhead pylons with their fishing rods, "NO BILLY!"....Learn to Swim "NO BILLY!"

Happy days.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:43, Reply)
Billy got in to a lot of trouble by the sound of this.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:44, Reply)
Don't do what 'Donny Don't' does

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:47, Reply)
Fucking hell
Try saying that 5 times while pissed.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:07, Reply)
I would apply to do this job.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:40, Reply)
I remember that, he used to come round the day after "nitty nora the head explorer" had been

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:40, Reply)
I genuinely read that as 'kitty nom'

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:42, Reply)
B3ta is slowly wiping our brains and replacing it with nonsense.
I say embrace the nonsense (but not the Nonce Sense)
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:46, Reply)
You're becoming obsessed.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:46, Reply)
My plan is working

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:51, Reply)
I hate people who strike
it's just an mass adult tantrum. Especially teachers who do it just before exams and things.

However, I've never worked in the public sector so in my experience it's always been 'if you don't like your job find another one or shut the fuck up'.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:42, Reply)
Striking is an important part of democracy.
You want to go back to the Victorian times do you?
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:45, Reply)
yes
I want my chimney swept by a small child.

that sounds very wrong.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:46, Reply)
A small, naked child.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:08, Reply)
Yes.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:49, Reply)
Oh I love what they used to wear
plus I'd be the daughter of a rich family so I'd be ok.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:51, Reply)
You'll be a syphillis ridden whore and you know it.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:58, Reply)

ll be re
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:59, Reply)
To be honest I think I would have died as a child
I had asthma and stuff when I was a baby, so I probably would have caught TB pretty quickly.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:03, Reply)
Known as Consumption in those days

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:07, Reply)
It was very conspicuous in those days.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:08, Reply)
Or Galloping Consumption = Lung Cancer.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 11:26, Reply)

daughter servant
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:59, Reply)
which is how it should be

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:46, Reply)
You people are all retarded.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:47, Reply)
strikes for safer working conditions
and reasonable things like that are fine, but people striking because of things like pay can fuck off.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:49, Reply)
Our union wanted 8% this year
and threatened to strike if they didn't get it. I would have not only crossed the picket line to come in to work, I would have given everyone striking a slap. I agree that striking for some things is acceptable, but for others it really isn't.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:52, Reply)
Run down the line of strikers, slap them all in one go!

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:00, Reply)
yeah this
it's the pay that seems to be the one they strike about most, and it really fucked me off when the BA strikers ruined Christmas for all those families by cancelling their flights.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:52, Reply)
striking
mostly affects the poor bastards who have no choice but to pay for the service and rely on it, like commuters or patients or, in this case, burning children. personally i would never ever dream of striking because i have far too much pride in and care for my clients' affairs and that takes precedence over my own concerns. so basically, if they could all be just like me, it would be great.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:52, Reply)
That and if all the lawyers went on strike no-one would care. At all.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:31, Reply)
sorry monty
but my girly uselessness has overwhelmed even my anti-strike sentiments this morning. and as literally everyone here is more practical than me, i am going to nick your thread to ask for help:

so for my birthday, my lovely father (aka guilt-ridden beast for taking my two brothers to madrid for the older one's birthday and leaving me behind) has offered to buy me a new washing machine and dishwasher and new light fittings throughout the flat. i know i am getting old because i am chuffed with this instead of spending the cash on the red coat i have clocked in harrods. but...

how do i go about getting integrated appliances replaced? how do i measure them?? and is there a company that sells and fits integrated appliances, or do i order them from john lewis and then find what, a plumber?

secondly. these light fittings. where is good to buy light fittings?? i've had a look on line, there's bloody thousands of them, help. i just want clean, modern spots that will be easy to change and where the government won't make the bulbs illegal, which is what killed the current (admittedly v old) fittings. and what happens next, do i get the electrician to quote, then buy my light fittings, and also line up a plasterer and decorator?

i know this is pathetic, but i am hopelessly impractical, and i know some of you lot have just done houses up (mr vipros!). or...... should i struggle on in the dark with an ugly dishwasher and just buy the beautiful beautiful designer coat instead?
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:50, Reply)
the integrated appliances will probably be standard sizes
john lewis probably do installation as well.

with the light fittings somewhere like john lewis will probably do a decent range of those too, although they might be a bit pricey.

assuming you don't want to do any of the work yourself your plan to get an electrician to quote then buy the fittings and line up the people to make good is probably the way to go.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:52, Reply)
you think they'll all be the same size?
this is interesting news. i was nearly in tears trying to make the tape measure reach the back of the sodding dishwasher this morning!

erm, do the work myself? can you IMAGINE how that would turn out?

it's taken me about an hour to choose between a pink and a silver retro smeg dishwasher (to match my fridge), that is the limit of my capability!
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:54, Reply)
I would've thought so
unless your old ones were particularly expensive and fancy and part of a properly bespoke kitchen.

I didn't think you would want to do it yourself ;-)
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:55, Reply)
definitely not
they're just fairly old manky miele things. and i have to open the washing machine with a screwdriver at the moment because i snapped the handle off trying to open the door whilst it was still locked, so a new washing machine is particularly urgent!
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:57, Reply)
You need a house husband.
(to call in professionals for you)
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:13, Reply)
this is a good idea
where might i trap one of these unwary beasts?
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:17, Reply)
I've heard they can be found 'on the internet'.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:20, Reply)
so i should put an ad somewhere, is that what you're saying?
first draft...

wanted: house-husband for high-maintenance, impractical female. must be able to kill spiders, change lightbulbs, look great in a pinny and nothing else, not fuck the cleaner or try on my underwear, drive my sportscar without looking like a tool, and put out a minimum of three nights a week with bonus editions at the weekend.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:23, Reply)
When can I start?
I can't drive but everything else sounds fine.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:29, Reply)
Driving is piss-easy Monty, You'll be fine - especially if the car is an automatic.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:30, Reply)

an automatic a girly, open-top Merc.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:34, Reply)
it is a hard-top convertible thank you very much
and it is not girly. it is black and sleek and dangerous.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:36, Reply)
Dangerous because it has a woman driving it?
OOOOoooooooo
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:38, Reply)
*Pulls up a chair, this should be an entertaining exchange*

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:39, Reply)
so much bitter frustration
once you've touched a real woman it will all just melt away, i promise.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:45, Reply)
Strangely, the Ignore link under your name is purple for some reason
It must be telling me something subconciously.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:48, Reply)
yes
it is telling you that you can't keep away, however hard you try.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:53, Reply)
You're right Swipe
But there're just too many differences between us. Besides, you have Monty moving in to look after your hovel.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:56, Reply)
tonight?!

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:36, Reply)
*hands in notice immediately*

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:44, Reply)
that sounds like an ideal job
where do we send applications?
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:33, Reply)
you can't apply
you already have a wedding ring or will do!
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:35, Reply)
damn it
just have to wait for Mrs V to earn enough so I don't have to work.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:38, Reply)
Standard domestics will be the same size for dishwashers and washings machines, integrated fridge-freezers can vary.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:58, Reply)
I'll come round and measure
everything, and might even fit them for you.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:57, Reply)
interesting
would you leave your bike outside though, bikes are not welcome in kensington...
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:01, Reply)
I'd have to come on the bus
with my toolkit.

"I'll just get my wrench out..."
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:04, Reply)
*sultry music plays*

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:09, Reply)
He lives!
Hello.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:14, Reply)
I do!
Mucho busy day yesterday and Rome Thurs-Sun.

How are you chum?
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:22, Reply)
Lucky chap. Rome superb, I assume?
I'm good. You missed an excellent bash.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:28, Reply)
Rome was stunning, as always.
Seriously tempted to move there, but I'm not sure if I could cope with the lack of order day to day. Great place to visit for a few days, but any longer and I'd get annoyed that no-one gets up early.

So I heard! I hope you didn't berate anyone too much. Were Kitty/Apple/Nomfucks/Vampito well behaved?

I feel an interesting dining experience is on the cards soon; care to join?
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:31, Reply)
I've considered a move to Rome myself. Full of fucking foreigners, though.
Everyone behaved, sadly.

Dining = yes.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:33, Reply)
Thinking of Ethiopian
or Sengalese if I can remember the bloody name of the place.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:36, Reply)
'Darkie' you mean.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:43, Reply)
Amberl is Nomfucks?!
I'm telling.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:39, Reply)
Fucking right she is.
PHWOOOARRR
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:43, Reply)
She took her top off at Lampito's and I fucking missed it!

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:48, Reply)
Pics or it's not true

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:58, Reply)
You all get mixed up
You are nomfucks right?
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:44, Reply)
Mixing up members of LAAK?
This is how the whole thing got started, tut tut.

I am KittyNoms. There is no fuck.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:48, Reply)
This is the problem
You're all girls, all strippers, and all self effacing.

I don't mix up Lampers, 'cause I know her IRL.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 11:01, Reply)
get the coat
and some paper plates.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:53, Reply)
i did this last year
dad offered to re-carpet the flat and i ended up with...

a gucci watch.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:55, Reply)
There's a whole load of info here
tinyurl.com/2wcjujj
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:53, Reply)
totally not clicking that
at work anyway!
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:54, Reply)
It is totally safe for work. Promise.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:57, Reply)
nope
antichrist has scarred me with his clowns and bunnies
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:58, Reply)
Come on, I'm not that bad!
OK, I will stop with all the evil stuff now, I've had my fun.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:08, Reply)
you are the second person i have been tempted to IGNORE

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:16, Reply)
and....ignore

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:17, Reply)
sorry kitty, did you hear anything?
i didn't...
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:21, Reply)
nope
ghosts.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:23, Reply)
yeah
rabbit shafting, clown loving ghosts.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:24, Reply)
oh man a ghost clown would be the fucking scariest thing on the planet

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:40, Reply)
i've probably shagged scarier

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:52, Reply)
Two things
1) This reads nothing like a Daily Fail letter, there are several words involving more than one syllable, the argument is perfectly reasonable and at no point have you used the phrases "it's political correctness gone mad" or "won't someone think of the children"

2) Oh for fucks sakes. Anyone who takes on the considerable responsibility of working for the emergency services should be aware of the consequences of their actions or lack thereof, and to propose a strike with such timing is reprehensible.

I think we can blame the French for this
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:18, Reply)
Lily-livered Vichy collaborateurs, to an 'homme'.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:19, Reply)
I can't believe there were riots just because they want to retire at 60 instead of 62
How lazy are they, as a nation?

Sorry, that was a very stupid question. Imagine if their government had acquiesced to their demands - they'd be afraid to ever pass a law again
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:21, Reply)
They as lazy as they are smelly and cowardly. A LOT.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:24, Reply)
To devil's advocate here
If no one protested, but rather sat around grumbling about it, they'd have no chance of overturning it. By protesting there's at least an incredibly slim chance (especially if those protests are attended by a large percentage of the population).
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:27, Reply)
'Sat round grumbling about it'
what, you mean like we do over here and the government passes anything they damn well please?
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:37, Reply)
Precisement

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:44, Reply)
Agreed
Strikes are one thing, riots are another. It's difficult to imagine the thought process which equates a higher retirement age with making violence and destruction of public property acceptable.

Unless you lived in Derby, in which case destruction of as much public property as possible is your civic duty
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:38, Reply)
Have you seen how much annual leave the French get as well?
The work-shy French are hardly ever in work anyway, add a few strikes to the mix and all they are complaining about is having to pretend to be in work for another 2 years.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:27, Reply)
When I worked for Coca-Cola our french colleagues used to get 8 weeks paid leave a year, but were paid approx 20% less than us for the same job.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:30, Reply)
They don't have it bad at all the French.
Their minimum wage is €1,343.77 per month.

In Spain the minimum wage is just €738.85
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:32, Reply)
Not to mention the hordes of them
who are PAID to produce wine so awful it is poured away.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:34, Reply)
You worked for Coca-Cola?
Ooooooooh, you're EVIL
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:37, Reply)
For five years. Left in 2007.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:38, Reply)
I calculate that the taint of evil should have left you by about 2022
So you'll have to do something else to fit in around here
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:39, Reply)
I will always have a taint of evil. My lifestyle means it is unlikely I will make it to 2022

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:41, Reply)
Nonsense
Cut back on the lion-taming in your spare time and you'll be fine
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:43, Reply)
It's more the 80+ units of booze a week & 30 cigs a day.
Mind you, I haven't had a line for 3 years which is probably helping me survive a bit longer.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:45, Reply)
I'm almost impressed by your self-destructive capabilities
I wouldn't worry too much, you're the same age as Monty and I'm pretty sure he's going to live forever, just to say "I told you so"
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:49, Reply)
Bunch of sheep-burning cunts.
Good cooks though.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:31, Reply)
I will begrudgingly acknowledge their contributions to food and drink.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:32, Reply)
but not brie though
shudder.

it is the only cheese i can't stand.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:37, Reply)
goat's cheese is fucking rank
tastes like the smell of goat
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:37, Reply)
It really doesn't.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:38, Reply)
Try goats cheese and wild mushroom risotto with loin of pork. Delicious.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:40, Reply)
I used to feel this way when I was younger.
I no longer do. You just need to be careful about ODing.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:42, Reply)
have you been to vivat bacchus
with the walk-in cheese room, it's one of my favourite winebars in london. absolutely brilliant.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:44, Reply)
Where is this place? I need to visit and compare it to Gordon's Wine Bar.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:46, Reply)
there's two.
i much prefer the farringdon one. you can also get platters of all sorts of meats (they do it by nationality) or proper hot specials, but it's the cheese room that wins. you go in, taste them all, and then choose some. they turn it into the most beautiful platter.

it's much better cheese and wine than gordons and much more comfortable. BUT it doesn't have the historic factor!
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:52, Reply)
When are you taking me?

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:47, Reply)
i promised gonz i'd take him too
we can all go.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:52, Reply)
*invites self*

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:53, Reply)
ha of course
but in the meantime if you are looking for somewhere brilliant with REAL LIFE friends, try it... amazing.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:55, Reply)
He has to acquire some real life friends first.
This could prove tricky.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:58, Reply)
It looks awesome
but expensive...
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:48, Reply)
it is brilliant
back in the day they did a thousand pound a head dinner, but that is long gone!
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:50, Reply)
Roast Springbok with shallots and girolles
Sounds wonderful.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 11:09, Reply)
i LOVE goats cheese
but it has to be hot and melty, not cold.

and the white rind has to get lost. i spend my life picking the white rind off pizzas.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:43, Reply)
Brie = posh Dairylea

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:38, Reply)
Brie de Mellon is delicious.
Brie de Meaux is very good.
'street Brie' is rather pointless but inoffensive, I find.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:40, Reply)
Pfft, 'street brie'
I found somewhere that does that Colston Bassett stilton on your recommendation, by the way - it was excellent.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:43, Reply)
It really is great, isn't it?

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:47, Reply)
and also:
Painting (Renoir, Cezanne, Gauguin, Monet)
Philosophy (Descartes,Voltaire, Rousseau, Camus, Sartre)
Literature (Dumas, Verne, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust)
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:38, Reply)
Balzac lost all credibility
when he was namechecked by Blur
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:40, Reply)
Balzac lost all credibility
when people realised his name sounded like 'ballsack'.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:41, Reply)
I've heard you like Balzac, especially on your chin.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:42, Reply)
Does this count as mindpiss?
Both points are very well delivered so I'm prepared to waive it if so
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:43, Reply)
It's 'semi piss' which, as we all know, is very difficult to do.
Right chaps?
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:46, Reply)
I'll high-five you after you've washed your hands.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:47, Reply)
And the walls.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:57, Reply)
Extremely difficult and often painful.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:47, Reply)
and inaccurate

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:59, Reply)
I don't like their 'letters' though.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:40, Reply)
Or their toast

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:41, Reply)
their method of kissing is quite pleasurable though
not that I have ever frenched a frenchwoman, they might be rubbish at it
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:45, Reply)
They just consider it kissing

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:46, Reply)
like the nuts in brazil?

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:51, Reply)
*finger pistols*

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:55, Reply)
I remember the students
rioted because they their studying was to be increased by half an hour a week.

From the mininum of 3 hours to 3 and a half hours.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:34, Reply)
They were probably just trying to fill the remaining hours

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:41, Reply)
I can't believe many of you are against striking.
They are usually a last resort. I think it's good to live in a country with unionisation and the right to strike.

I don't like the government's attempts to even out the distribution of wealth, however. I'm not a fucking communist.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:33, Reply)
Last resort when they don't get the annual raise they've demanded, you mean?

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:35, Reply)
I went on strike for a better pay deal and I'd do it again if the pay was shit again.
I wouldn't do it in a time when £4.9 billion was being cut from my sector though. That would be futile.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:48, Reply)

'Tolpuddle Martyrs, Bristol chapter'.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:35, Reply)
CHCB: Striking for better conditions for midget fathers since 2010

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:37, Reply)
the fact that it is possible is a good thing
the reasons for doing it these days are rarely good.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:37, Reply)
I support some strikes but not others
Strikes because of safety concerns = good.
Strikes because they're demanding more money than I think they're worth = bad.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:39, Reply)
I enjoyed meeting you on Friday
you're waaaaaay not as scary as I thought you were going to be. You were quite lovely. And Captain V whiteknighted me so I love him too.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:41, Reply)
Captain V groped my arse constantly
I had to take the Morning After pill.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:43, Reply)
If only I'd done that.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:44, Reply)
Groped my arse?
I wish!
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:45, Reply)
Next time, Lab, next time.
It might be a tad inappropriate to grope someone other than my spouse on my wedding day but I imagine catface will be doing the same.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:49, Reply)
can I infer from this that Lab is coming to your bash on the 12th of December?

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:50, Reply)
You can indeed

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:51, Reply)
good lad

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:51, Reply)
He'll be groping me, I promise you

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:50, Reply)
I did stand next to him for a few minutes
and then Psychochomp told me I was probably pregnant.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:45, Reply)
That Cap'n V
And his highly evolved, extra potent man juice.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:49, Reply)
I'm desperately seeking some form of kryptonite.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:51, Reply)
if you were to stand on a small box
I suspect you might be safe
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:52, Reply)
Or just never bend down to pick anything up

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:53, Reply)
Fist -> Balls
Repeatedly.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:53, Reply)
so basically...
he was calling you fat.

nice.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:54, Reply)
I told you so

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:43, Reply)
"Whiteknighted"?
I assume that's a new Bukkake term
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:44, Reply)
eww!
No. That was later.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:45, Reply)
I was a happy camper on Friday night.
The sense of freedom made me buoyantly cheerful.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:45, Reply)
You are Jimmy Boyle AICMFP.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:52, Reply)
Morning fuckers what's happening.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:47, Reply)

This.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:49, Reply)
nice

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:49, Reply)
I've read that already. My lecturer is hot this morning.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:54, Reply)
Is he?

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:56, Reply)
ha ha .

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:58, Reply)
Ha. She. ERly 40's Red head skinny . Yummy.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:59, Reply)
All lecturers are hot. FACT.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:57, Reply)
Do you lecture with a stetson and a whip?

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 11:00, Reply)
I can do, for the right money.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 11:01, Reply)
Is it graded pay?
Grade 1: Normal
Grade 2: Normal + stetson and whip
Grade 3: Just stetson and whip

I felt kind of bad writing that.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 11:04, Reply)
that is the most incorrect 'fact' I have ever read

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 11:02, Reply)
I was basing it on a sample of two.

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 11:06, Reply)
I'm sure I could disavow you of that assertion pretty quickly

(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 11:06, Reply)
Morning mate
The (reasonably fit) girl who sits opposite me said this morning that she thought I was 23, so I'm in a phenomenally good mood. Good enough to overcome seeing Eat Pray Love last night.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 11:04, Reply)
Good work old man. That film looks awful. I'm off out with teenagers tonight
Wahey
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 11:17, Reply)
I don't know if its the same everywhere
But when they strike round here they stand outside waving their banners but as soon as a call comes in they run inside and get in the truck because their not total cunts and they wouldn't let someone die. That said I think its fucking retarded that we remember the life of a super awesome freedom fighter by blowing shit up and setting stuff on fire. Most people call it fireworks night and even the BBC called it bonfire night, its fucking Guy Fawkes Night you bunch of cunts. People are setting off their shitty shop bough rockets with no idea why they are doing it!
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 11:27, Reply)

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