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Post by Weyland on Feb 13, 2011 13:11:16 GMT
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Post by sesley on Feb 13, 2011 14:16:19 GMT
so true its that how many people needed to change lightbulbs . all of them to make sure that elf and safety and costs in hiring someone and filling in paper works and someone qualifed to hold the ladder,and the insurence forms are up to date etc.
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Post by Weyland on Feb 13, 2011 15:59:07 GMT
so true its that how many people needed to change lightbulbs . all of them to make sure that elf and safety and costs in hiring someone and filling in paper works and someone qualifed to hold the ladder,and the insurence forms are up to date etc. Q: How does Weyland Yutani screw a light-bulb in? A: He holds the bulb and the world turns around him. Ichiban. Historical Note: Joseph Swan invented the incandescent light-bulb in Newcastle ten months before Edison claimed the credit* and made it into a marketable product. [Swan came from . . . <choke> . . . S . . . Sund . . . <chaarch> . . . Sunderland. I'll have to go and lie down now.]_______________ * As he did with the phonograph and various other stuff he nicked from various people.
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Post by aubrey on Feb 13, 2011 16:21:05 GMT
Weyland - have you ever seen a book called Alice in Sunderland? (I may have asked you this before.) It is based on the idea that Carroll wrote Alice after a time spent in Sunderland, and was inspired by what he learned there. It is quite persuasive.
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Post by Weyland on Feb 13, 2011 16:37:48 GMT
Weyland - have you ever seen a book called Alice in Sunderland? ... (I may have asked you this before.) It is based on the idea that Carroll wrote Alice after a time spent in Sunderland, and was inspired by what he learned there. It is quite persuasive. Don't think you've asked me before, Aub, but I'm no authority. I have heard of it — thought it was just a bad joke. Hadn't realised it was meant seriously. Interesting. Is that where the hallucinogenic theme originated? Any mention of tattoo parlours?
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Post by Patrick on Feb 13, 2011 17:13:27 GMT
If Cameron scrapped "The Minimum Wage" there'd be uproar - though the last lot (of Tories) scrapped the Wages Council (much the same thing) without too much fuss so who can guess. Nevertheless, The Big Society is just his way of undermining it, rendering it pointless. So soon enough we will be soldering together Apple iPads and sewing together jeans and shirts for Department Stores in India and China and driving round in Chinese and Indian Cars!
Anyone for an MG 550 or Land Rover?
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Post by ladylinda on Feb 14, 2011 23:27:31 GMT
The Big Society, like so many of the ideas politicians put forward, is a bit of good stuff and a bit of bad.
Yes, the state is too powerful, too dominant in our lives and all that,.
Yes, we do need to have more self-reliance instead of just looking up to nanny state.
Yes, we do need to try and rebuild community spirit.
The trouble is that they've been smashed beyond repair by supermarkets, budget airlines and stuff like that.
We can't go back to the caves and it's naive or dishonest to think we can.
Cameron is probably a phoney but some of the people supporting his ideas are not.
They've been taken in by his spin.
The only way things will change is if we introduce policies SO radical that no government that brought them in would get re-elected for years!
You won't get that from Dodgy Dave!
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Post by aubrey on Feb 15, 2011 10:31:38 GMT
You don't need to scrap the minimum wage. Just leave it, like they did in the US. Very sneaky, but effective.
Weyland, Alice in Sunderland is a joke, but a serious one.
It has lots of stuff in it, like the original man who nailed his colours to the mast (died in poverty, mainly because he refused to make any money from his actions: lots of other people did, though). There's a lot more as well - actually, I'm going to get it out of the library again today.
(It is a big comic, by the way. Adult, but only in that kids might find it boring, as there is not really that much action.)
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