chartpolski
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I'm talking well over 40 years ago, and I know for a fact it happened. My brother is known as "Red Pete" as he worked for the council all his working life, and was a shop steward and a union convener, ( I must have neglected his education as I worked abroad most of my life !?! ), how it came in front of a jury, I don't know, but my brother was appalled that such a trivial case could come so far ! But I DO know it happened ?
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You may not believe what I've said, that's fair enough, but I can guarantee it's true. ? Cheers.
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My brother did jury duty years ago, a very old man was charged with shoplifting, he had walked out of a supermarket with a packet of bacon. As the jury deliberated , my brother said he would never find the old boy guilty. He said the old chap may have just forgot he had the bacon, or he may have been desperate for something to eat, and either way, why should 12 people take days off work for the price of a packet of bacon ? Common sense prevailed, the old chap was found not guilty......what a waste of time and money. Cheers.
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You're absolutely right mate ! Shes just come out of her first season, and like other first cross deer/greys I've had, she lost weight and condition. The weather and time of year has meant she's just ticked along, she did a few nights at the end of last season, which lead me to believe she may make the grade, time will tell, and she will get every chance ? Cheers.
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You're better off being funny than being.......well, I'll just leave it at that ? Cheers.
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You're not the soprano you think you are , paisan ! ?? Cheers.
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The young deer x bitch lying about in the man cave ; She'd better make the most of it, there's some hard graft coming her way in a week or two ! Cheers.
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Perhaps it the old iPad Im using, it won't accept any updates. Time to upgrade my devices I think ! ? Cheers.
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It's not an eye opener for me, I can't open it ! Do you have to be a Twitter user to access it ? Cheers.
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That's not how I read it, Francie. The government stopped issuing franchises, but the ones all still active run up until 2030; Passenger rail franchising in Great Britain - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG Cheers.
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I may be completely wrong, but I thought the government owned the infrastructure, the lines, signalling, stations, etc, and the private companies owned the rolling stock and bid for the franchise to use the infrastructure ? Cheers.
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I love metaphors, and that was one of the best ? I hope you don't mind if I plagiarise it and use it in the future ? ?? Cheers.
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I wasn't going to contribute to this thread, as I don't have a dog in this particular fight. But I've literally just listened to the Labour Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, being interviewed. He blames the government 100%, as you would expect, and he said the strikers should get everything they demand.......he then said the outrageously high fares should be dramatically reduced ! Now, it doesn't take a degree in economics to see the complete folly in raising overheads while reducing income, but that's Labours position ! Im in complete support of the right to withhold your
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I've allways been of the mindset that they need my skills.....I don't need their job. Ive been retired 18 years, but it must have worked ? Cheers.
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I have a wealth of tales, mainly due to my age, but all true nonetheless. When I was about 18, I came home from work and my mother was crying, "what's wrong ? " I asked. She said my 14 year old brother had come home from school with a black eye, he said a teacher had hit him. My dad and older brother, both "hard men", had gone over to the school to give the teacher a hiding ! I rushed over to the school, and the secretary ushered me into the headmasters office. "Ah, another member of the family" the headmaster greeted me. There was my dad and brother looking sheep
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Thing is, I would put up with shit, which seemed to make the arseholes think they could get away with more......then comes the crunch ! Most bullies back down when confronted. I remember my son coming home from school in Saudi crying. I asked what was the matter, he said a big black kid was bullying him, I said next time he does it just nut him on the nose as hard as you can or kick him in the bollocks. I said he may get up and give you a hiding but he will never bully you again. Of course he followed my advice and me and the missus were called into the school for a meeting. I
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I worked for an engineering company for less than a year, the place was rife with snides! The storeman, an aggressive and surly jock went out of his way to piss me off, until one day I went to the stores window, he said something like" what the f**k do you want ", I said I want to see you in the carpark, he said "what for", I said because I'm going to beat the f**k out of you and leave you crying on the floor in a pool of your own blood, piss and shite ! He went running to the boss who said he could sack me for my behaviour. I said don't bother, put my gear in my motor, drove off and
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Many years ago I used to drink in a pub called The Boathouse in Newburn. There was a gypsy camp next to it and there were loads of dog and horse lads in the area, especially Lemington. Anyway, on a week end the place would be full of ne'er do wells, and lots of challenges would be thrown out. The pub would put on bowls of tripe and pickles, and my mate was bet he wouldn't drink the leftover vinegar in the bowls....he did ! Then one of the pikeys challenged anyone to swim across the river and back. My mate took up the challenge and won ! Then a p***y challenged anyone to fasten a
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Is that the true raccoon or the raccoon dog ? Racoon dogs were introduced to Europe for the fur trade and are now considered an invasive species in a lot of European countries. Cheers.
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My daughter came home one day and said Amin's son had invited her to dinner at their villa and to meet his parents. I said, no, you may just BE the dinner, and explained about Idi's supposed cannibalism, the heads in the 'fridge and all that. She went anyway, and when she came home, told me she had asked Amin about the accusations and he roared with laughter and said " tell your dad it wasn't true" ! I changed my route to work after that, and looked over my shoulder regularly ! ?? Cheers.
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I met him, my daughter went to school with, and was friends with his kids. A giant of a man, very jovial and interesting to talk to, if you could forget he was also a homicidal egotistical maniac ! He professed to love Britain and the Queen though ! ? Cheers.
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They don't like it up 'em, Captain Mainwaring ! Cheers.
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A few lads I know from Yorkshire went to the states on a hunting holiday, I was suppposed to go with them, but I was on a hunting holiday of my own in Australia at the time. They did everything from badger digging with terriers to treeing black bear and bobcat with hounds. I saw the photographs and listened to the tales......I was well jealous! ?? ! Cheers.
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I'm certainly no economist and I haven't got a clue how they measure national debt, but a friend tried explaining to me how around a third of it is money we've borrowed from ourselves and mainly due to the Bank of England's " quantative easing", (what used to be called "printing money"), and will never be paid back. So, £2 trillion or £3 trillion are just numbers, albeit HUGE numbers ! ? Cheers.
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Probably not.......China and India have bigger economies than us, perhaps they should be giving us aid instead of us giving it to them ? Cheers.
