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'.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:42, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Striking is an important part of democracy.
You want to go back to the Victorian times do you?
(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:45, Reply)

yes
I want my chimney swept by a small child.

that sounds very wrong.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:46, Reply)

A small, naked child.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:08, Reply)

Yes.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, 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.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:51, Reply)

You'll be a syphillis ridden whore and you know it.

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

ll be re
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, 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.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:03, Reply)

Known as Consumption in those days

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:07, Reply)

It was very conspicuous in those days.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:08, Reply)

Or Galloping Consumption = Lung Cancer.

(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 26 Oct 2010, 11:26, Reply)

daughter servant
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:59, Reply)

which is how it should be

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:46, Reply)

You people are all retarded.

(PsychoChomp, 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.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, 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.
(berk, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:52, Reply)

Run down the line of strikers, slap them all in one go!

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, 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.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, 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.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 9:52, Reply)

That and if all the lawyers went on strike no-one would care. At all.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 10:31, Reply)