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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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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)
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)
These should merely be flogged.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:29, Reply)
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)
My brothers is 178, bastard.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:51, Reply)
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.
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Difference is he was just walking past the fire when the gas bottle exploded...
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:05, Reply)
Chavs should be hated at every time of year
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:41, Reply)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
now you can join us in complaining about how much you hate work :D
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:02, Reply)
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)
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)
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)
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 don't get the one button thing either.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:47, Reply)
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)
Nurses strikes don't mean they all suddenly turn off the life support machines.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:29, Reply)
So they have the managment hire in temps, won't affect the service but will cost a lot.
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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.
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I don't know who was more pleased, the pole dancers or the firemen.
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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)
Actually, fuck that - they've just been blinded, the last thing they'll want is sex.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:32, Reply)
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)
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)
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)
Bloody credit crunch.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:39, Reply)
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.
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I say embrace the nonsense (but not the Nonce Sense)
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:46, Reply)
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)
You want to go back to the Victorian times do you?
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:45, Reply)
I want my chimney swept by a small child.
that sounds very wrong.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:46, Reply)
plus I'd be the daughter of a rich family so I'd be ok.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:51, Reply)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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.
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
where might i trap one of these unwary beasts?
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:17, Reply)
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.
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and it is not girly. it is black and sleek and dangerous.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:36, Reply)
once you've touched a real woman it will all just melt away, i promise.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:45, Reply)
It must be telling me something subconciously.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:48, Reply)
it is telling you that you can't keep away, however hard you try.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:53, Reply)
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)
just have to wait for Mrs V to earn enough so I don't have to work.
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everything, and might even fit them for you.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:57, Reply)
would you leave your bike outside though, bikes are not welcome in kensington...
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:01, Reply)
with my toolkit.
"I'll just get my wrench out..."
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:04, Reply)
Mucho busy day yesterday and Rome Thurs-Sun.
How are you chum?
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:22, Reply)
I'm good. You missed an excellent bash.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:28, Reply)
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)
Everyone behaved, sadly.
Dining = yes.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:33, Reply)
or Sengalese if I can remember the bloody name of the place.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:36, Reply)
This is how the whole thing got started, tut tut.
I am KittyNoms. There is no fuck.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:48, Reply)
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)
dad offered to re-carpet the flat and i ended up with...
a gucci watch.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:55, Reply)
OK, I will stop with all the evil stuff now, I've had my fun.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:08, Reply)
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:40, Reply)
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)
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)
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)
what, you mean like we do over here and the government passes anything they damn well please?
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:37, Reply)
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)
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.
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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)
who are PAID to produce wine so awful it is poured away.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:34, Reply)
So you'll have to do something else to fit in around here
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Cut back on the lion-taming in your spare time and you'll be fine
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:43, Reply)
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 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"
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I no longer do. You just need to be careful about ODing.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:42, Reply)
with the walk-in cheese room, it's one of my favourite winebars in london. absolutely brilliant.
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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)
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)
This could prove tricky.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:58, Reply)
back in the day they did a thousand pound a head dinner, but that is long gone!
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:50, Reply)
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 de Meaux is very good.
'street Brie' is rather pointless but inoffensive, I find.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:40, Reply)
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)
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)
when people realised his name sounded like 'ballsack'.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:41, Reply)
Both points are very well delivered so I'm prepared to waive it if so
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:43, Reply)
Right chaps?
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:46, Reply)
not that I have ever frenched a frenchwoman, they might be rubbish at it
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:45, Reply)
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 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.
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I wouldn't do it in a time when £4.9 billion was being cut from my sector though. That would be futile.
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the reasons for doing it these days are rarely good.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:37, Reply)
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)
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)
I had to take the Morning After pill.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:43, Reply)
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.
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and then Psychochomp told me I was probably pregnant.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:45, Reply)
The sense of freedom made me buoyantly cheerful.
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:45, Reply)
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)
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)
Wahey
(, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 11:17, Reply)
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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