we used to have a lot of actuaries as tenants when i was a letting agent
we always thought they were "boring but rich".

i see no reason to reassess this early opinion.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:50, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

This is an interesting point
As I am immensely boring but not possessed of much money.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:52, Reply)

Sorry what was that? I wasn't listening to you.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:54, Reply)

haha
afternoon darling
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:56, Reply)

You've been a letting agent and now you're a solicitor?
and you abuse traffic wardens? bloody hell. Mr Pot? I've got a Miss Kettle on the line, wanting to discuss the Black account...
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:52, Reply)

i've also been a bank clerk, a telephonist
a barmaid and a fluffy children's entertainer (the last one is quite tenuous). i've lived a colourful life, if the colours are mostly shades of grey.

your point, please?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:56, Reply)

the point is that you abuse one profession
while having been in two equally bad ones.
it is called hypocrisy.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:02, Reply)

firstly, i have no problem with hypocrisy
did you not see the part where he (i think?) called me a solicitor?

secondly, i seriously dispute the fact that anything is as bad as a traffic warden. ANYTHING.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:04, Reply)

What about 'benders'?
They're worse.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:05, Reply)

I believe it's possible for a traffic warden to be a bender in their spare time...

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:06, Reply)

oh no
they don't cost me anything.

traffic wardens, on the other hand...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:14, Reply)

well his point was your hypocrisy,
and a lawyer is definitely worse than a traffic warden,
i mean i'm just trying to explain here, i hold no opinion about you personally.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:06, Reply)

"definitely worse"
in what way????

i bet i contribute more to the uk economy in tax in a month than those buggers do in a year!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:14, Reply)

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

( Kroney, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:20, Reply)

i'm not entirely sure that amount of money created
is in any way related to the sort of "worse" we are talking about here.
although your arrogance in relation to how much you get paid here is certainly indicative of something.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:52, Reply)

it means that i am more of a net contributor
to society and they are scum.

or something.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:13, Reply)

I can pretty much guarantee that a traffic warden
has never charged me the wrong side of £8K for doing something I was perfectly capable of doing on my own but simply wasn't permitted to do. So, I'm going to have to disagree with your disagree.

Of course, that's one tiny example that I'm sure is utterly unrepresentative of a whole profession. Much like the odd incorrect parking ticket, for example.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:08, Reply)

if you are willing to spend hours
checking the statutes and case law and obiter dicta to ensure you have complied, and have a comprehensive insurance policy in case you get it wrong, sure, nobody needs lawyers. otherwise...

but traffic wardens only do one thing. solicitors do hundreds of different things! i don't do ambulance-chasing, for example. i do very high-end difficult property disputes to stop one party abusing another or breaching something it has promised to do.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:16, Reply)

I'm not sure what at all that has to do with it?
are you saying that what traffic wardens do is unnecessary or somehow that your high-end property disputes are more important?

I never implied nobody needed lawyers. just that lawyers are equally as capable of being cunts/making errors as traffic wardens, it's hardly necessarily indicative of the whole profession.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:23, Reply)

yes i think traffic wardens are wholly unnecessary
it's just revenue making for the council. if anyone is genuinely that obstructively parked, the police can shift it.

now they are on commission, it's all about self-interest and there is no reasonableness about it - the number of times you see them loitering around cars where tickets are due to expire just so they can slap a ticket on it... no no no.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:28, Reply)

Do you not think that the police have a lot better stuff to do?
and in any case, no, they can't just shift cars.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:38, Reply)

well if they do, they don't do it
or not where i live anyway. so they might as well be shifting cars.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:47, Reply)

they can't.
obstructive parking isn't necessarily against the law. It's still cunty.

and I don't believe you really actually think the police don't have better things to do, you're too intelligent for that.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:49, Reply)

correct, i am being tongue in cheek
i just really really hate traffic wardens, is all.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:56, Reply)

and somehow you can't see how traffic wardens
are not worse, as human beings, than lawyers?
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:57, Reply)

if you ever wanted to buy a house or flat
you'd be glad of lawyers, could save you getting a proper pasting. if you had a car accident, or any other kind of accident, you'd need a lawyer. if your employer shafted you, if you wanted to go self-employed and had tax issues, if you wanted to make a will to ensure everything went to the right place, if someone squatted in your home when you were on holiday, if someone accused you of a crime you hadn't committed (or that you had), if someone said defamatory things about you, if you wanted to go into partnership with someone, if you wanted to get divorced... you'd be glad of lawyers.

traffic wardens... you'd only be glad if you needed to find someone less popular than yourself or needed a halloween costume.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:01, Reply)

right okay, i see i am dealing with a moron.
never mind.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:03, Reply)

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( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:06, Reply)

outrageous
if i slagged off chefs, you'd probably leap in there and say-

well actually, probably "i don't give a fuck, shut up woman."

so what's for dinner then?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:07, Reply)

haha, i'd say generally they are a bunch of coke fiend wankers
but also generally that i don't give a fuck.
i made a leek and potato soup, early dinner, feeling a bit ill like.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:10, Reply)

i like leek and potato soup
see, we agreed on something. it wasn't that hard, was it?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:11, Reply)

it isnt as fun though is it,
let's be honest
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:13, Reply)

well no
but it does mean that you can't call me a moron without also calling yourself a moron
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:14, Reply)

:(

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:27, Reply)

So you don't like traffic wardens
because you feel you should be able to park wherever you like.
( Kroney, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:41, Reply)

well you are wrong aren't you
since traffic wardens, here at least, keep people off cycle lanes and from blocking disabled entrances. you can't just park anywhere, and there is usually a reason for that.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:54, Reply)

omg omg omg
cycle lanes are even worse. they are built for cyclists, scumsuckers of the worst sort. block them all, i say, preferably with the cyclists trapped inside them with no food or water or toilets. then hopefully they might all eat each other and give the rest of us some peace from their wingmirror bashing, red light sailing, pedestrian endangering, driver endangering, traffic slowing ways!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:58, Reply)

there is something deeply unpleasant about you,
as a person.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:00, Reply)

i have never been endangered, as a pedestrian, by a cyclist,
but cars, well.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:01, Reply)

try walking around london, it happens every minute!
i saw one twat nearly nail a baby in a pushchair the other night because apparently red lights don't apply to cyclists and they can zoom straight over pedestrian crossings without looking. the mother was in tears of shock and the cyclist had the nerve to yell at her!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:03, Reply)

i would like to see a chart comparing bicycle fatalities with motor vehicle fatalities.

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:03, Reply)

christ, i wouldn't
but cyclists make me have to watch my back as a pedestrian and to drive more slowly as a driver.

outside london they don't bother me at all. inside london the city is full of tools with no idea how to adhere to the highway code giving the good cyclists a bad name.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:09, Reply)

they should destroy london.
it is the only answer.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:10, Reply)

well they are doing their best
the cyclists and the traffic wardens, they really are
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:14, Reply)

But you annoy
Greggs the bakers.

And they make cakes.

How is that good?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:24, Reply)

well............... i change names/products around on here for obvious reasons!!!

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:27, Reply)

Have you annoyed ANY bakers?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:28, Reply)

my friend's surname is baker?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:47, Reply)

Have you taken them to the cleaners with your legal mumbo-jumbo at any point?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:50, Reply)

not my friend no
although i did wind someone up earlier to the point that he was speechless with rage and then he said "your... your.... your clever WORDSMANSHIP won't work here."

er, i think it just did.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:57, Reply)

Do you enjoy winding people up?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:00, Reply)

who doesn't?

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:06, Reply)

not unnecessarily
but this guy is a douche who thinks he can pocket £200k of my client's money for no reason. he didn't like my legal arguments. they weren't even that clever, they were just RIGHT.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:09, Reply)

letting agents, solicitors and traffic wardens
are all pretty close on the scale of "being generally disliked while carrying out their jobs"

I was using your mild hypocrisy for slight comic effect.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:04, Reply)

excuse me
but my clients love me!

so ner.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:13, Reply)

I've got a thing for traffic warden rollplay.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:55, Reply)