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JohnVaux said:
Well? You can't leave us waiting. What was behind the two doors labeled WC ? :icon_razz:
JohnVaux said:I was asked why 2 adjacent doors were labeled WC
Bechet45 said:The guys felt they had been abandoned and could mount a damned good argument to demonstrate the point. The then undiagnosed dyslexics, slow learners, learning difficulties, un-encouraged, problem families. At what point do we start blaming children for having failed the system rather than the system having failed them? (I noted someone doing just this earlier.)
soapalchemist said:Of course Pigcat, you know that the really shocking thing is that you're not making that bread sauce from scratch.
pugh-the-special-one said:I'm now going to give you a heads up of how to get some deserving and satisfying cash back from Tesco's, here goes now I love my fruit and especially New Zealand Jazz apples very expensive, so whenever I see them loose I pick myself half a dozen make my way over to the self serve then plonk them on the scanner thingy which will ask you to tell them what fruit and what apples they are, so obviously you will tell them they are the cheapest apples in the store so you scan you pay and away you go with a large finger up yours Tesco's.
Bechet45 said:No, Rob, you don't. Just like the first train going last, they study for an NVQ1 and then get a job - or try to - subject to passing the exam. Or so I was told, I've never worked that far down the food chain - but I do remember that the first step to achieving Chartered Engineer status was passing my 'O'-Levels because my Cadetship depended on me having them. I studied for my 'O'-Levels before I was offered a Cadetship. I went to Grammar School but my scholarship place there was subject to passing exams, for which I studied before I was old enough to go to Grammar School. And so on and so forth ad nauseum. And all this is entirely beside the point - the guys felt they had been abandoned and could mount a damned good argument to demonstrate the point. The then undiagnosed dyslexics, slow learners, learning difficulties, un-encouraged, problem families. At what point do we start blaming children for having failed the system rather than the system having failed them? (I noted someone doing just this earlier.)
Tanguero said:Casual shoplifting is despicable.
Tanguero said:pugh-the-special-one said:I'm now going to give you a heads up of how to get some deserving and satisfying cash back from Tesco's, here goes now I love my fruit and especially New Zealand Jazz apples very expensive, so whenever I see them loose I pick myself half a dozen make my way over to the self serve then plonk them on the scanner thingy which will ask you to tell them what fruit and what apples they are, so obviously you will tell them they are the cheapest apples in the store so you scan you pay and away you go with a large finger up yours Tesco's.
That is theft by deception. It is amazing how fast ones opinion can change of people. Casual shoplifting is despicable.
pugh-the-special-one said:Tanguero said:pugh-the-special-one said:I'm now going to give you a heads up of how to get some deserving and satisfying cash back from Tesco's, here goes now I love my fruit and especially New Zealand Jazz apples very expensive, so whenever I see them loose I pick myself half a dozen make my way over to the self serve then plonk them on the scanner thingy which will ask you to tell them what fruit and what apples they are, so obviously you will tell them they are the cheapest apples in the store so you scan you pay and away you go with a large finger up yours Tesco's.
That is theft by deception. It is amazing how fast ones opinion can change of people. Casual shoplifting is despicable.
Coming from a company that fed you me and a few million British people Horse meat for god knows how many years and they barely got away with a slap on the wrist and I see it as a poor form of compensation they've taken a lot more money off me through the years than I will ever take off them FUCK THEM! I'm the type of person that will go the extra mile to help the right people never made a insurance compensation claim in my life home or car, never claimed benefit even when I was entitled to it, I confront trouble makers in my community my neighbours call around regular I class myself as a honest person but when I deal with multi national corporations I have a different mindset after all we are talking about the biggest criminals on the planet, maybe I should have charged you more than the miserly £10 for honing your Kamisori and actually given Tesco rates which would have been more fitting.
Tanguero said:Defending someone who steals from a shop on the basis that it is "casual pilfering" or justifying it by the prices charged by the shop is the real "Sad but true" here.
Nice bloke or not - stealing is stealing, a thief is a thief. The fact that it seems to be accepted here to the point that not only will someone admit to it in a public forum, but suggest that others do likewise then have these views supported by other members of the forum, I find totally baffling. Clearly my standards of honesty are at odds with the accepted standards of behaviour here. Sad, but true indeed.
pugh-the-special-one said:Tanguero said:pugh-the-special-one said:I'm now going to give you a heads up of how to get some deserving and satisfying cash back from Tesco's, here goes now I love my fruit and especially New Zealand Jazz apples very expensive, so whenever I see them loose I pick myself half a dozen make my way over to the self serve then plonk them on the scanner thingy which will ask you to tell them what fruit and what apples they are, so obviously you will tell them they are the cheapest apples in the store so you scan you pay and away you go with a large finger up yours Tesco's.
That is theft by deception. It is amazing how fast ones opinion can change of people. Casual shoplifting is despicable.
Coming from a company that fed you me and a few million British people Horse meat for god knows how many years and they barely got away with a slap on the wrist and I see it as a poor form of compensation they've taken a lot more money off me through the years than I will ever take off them FUCK THEM! I'm the type of person that will go the extra mile to help the right people never made a insurance compensation claim in my life home or car, never claimed benefit even when I was entitled to it, I confront trouble makers in my community my neighbours call around regular I class myself as a honest person but when I deal with multi national corporations I have a different mindset after all we are talking about the biggest criminals on the planet, maybe I should have charged you more than the miserly £10 for honing your Kamisori and actually given Tesco rates which would have been more fitting.
Stealing is stealing is stealing no matter how you justify it to yourself. Our definitions of an "honest person" are clearly very different.
I fervently wish I had seen that post of yours before I ended up sending my razor to a self confessed thief.
It would seem that my version of honesty puts me in a minority here so I will trouble you no further.
shakespeare said:Gentlemen, I teach three days a week in an Academy (basically, what used to be called a Secondary Modern and - by the time I got to "big school"- a Comprehensive). Now, I know that at nearly 55, I can be considered an 'old fart' but I sometimes truly, truly and deeply despair the lack of general knowledge, basic levels of literacy and basic levels of numeracy that plague our educational system. I'm not going to go into a long rant here - I could, but I don't want to bore you all to tears! Just know, that the next time a politician (of any political flavour) stands at a podium and announces:
"...during our term of office, GCSE/A level passes at A-C grades rose from X% to XX%"
... that, by and large, it's all boll*@&s!
'Nuff said!
soapalchemist said:It's not really young people I'm bemoaning (though I could if you get me on to their lack of ability to do mental arithmetic); it's the disconnect between real food and the crap that fills a lot of people's trolleys. I often see people checking out, obviously for a family given the amount of stuff, and there isn't one item that you could recognise as actual food.
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