What Do You Think Today?

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Yeah, but sometimes I get the error even on a single, manually typed line of text. No diacritics to remove.

Then I use the method mentioned above.

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[Kizza]

Well, A safe and merry Christmas to all.
I have been a busy boy, as instructed by the wife, cleaning up the yard and planting a couple of garden beds.
Anyway I went to the dump with a ute load of green waste (about 1500kgs). To paint the picture for you, the entrance gate of the "waste recycle center" to the office where you nominate what youve got and pay for it to be dumped, is about 100m.
As I slowed down at the in gate, a car behind me bipped its horn. It was a mosquito pitched horn you get out of asuzuki swift. I looked around to see what the issue was and is was a couple towing a small trailer and they overtook me..... to get to the office before me.
Now usually I dont mind waiting, and I was in no particular rush on the day....... and I still didnt say anything even after I dumped my load beside theirs. After all I had twice the load that they did, and I still finished unloading before they did.
But when I got back to the front of the ute to get in and drive off I looked over and saw that they were still there picking around the little trailer, I couldn't help it, "You couldn't have been in that much of a hurry!" I snarled.
When he started to respond behind the point of his upright index finger, I actually laughed and said "Not the dreaded finger!", and jumped in the car and drove off. I felt much better quickly!

[peter]

Damien Green has been sacked from Theresa May's government for lying about (something to do with) porn on his computer (historically). Note - it s the lie that undid him, not the porn. I would have thought that under this precedent the entire 'Leave' campaign team, plus three quarters of all other serving MP's should also pack their bags!

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Cheers Kizza. Same to you and all.

Peter...if lying was a disqualifying offence in politics they'd never get around to doing anything for all the elections they'd have to hold to replace people...

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[peter]

Might be to everyone's advantage Av!

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Haha, not disputing that.

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[Skyweir]

Kizza quote would appear here if the board was ok with it lol

Hahahahahahaha

Good for you
Peace and good will to all men be damned

If only I could use punctuation youd see exclamations everywhere

One of my pet hates is arrogant impatient assholes who do dangerous unnecessary stuff just like that All to get ahead or in front of you

And then once theyre ahead they slow the fuck down WTF

Its incredibly satisfying to see them eat your shorts Or your dust or just flailing about where they shouldve been the whole time if theyd exercised a modicum of patience and respect

Jerks



Hope you had a very merry Xmas and 2018 is jerk free lol unlikely but its the thought that counts

[Skyweir]

Hahahaha Pete youre right that would result in a very limited governing body

Maybe no government at all

But imagine a world where lies were not tolerated

And a world where professionalism meant something to all

A world where everyone had interest in the greater good than the greatest good for themselves alone

[Avatar]

Pretty unlikely Sky.

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[Skyweir]

Yeah sadly it is

[Avatar]

I think it's quiet.

Too quiet...

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[Skyweir]

Get busy Av

Do a jig, hoot a little, shake things up

Umm did you mean at your work or here

[peter]

A UK politician yesterday stated (in the House I think) that farmers in the UK will require subsidised support post Brexit. Absolutely not! The rural community and farmers in general were amongst the chief perpetrators of the anti-EU agitation that resulted in Brexit, while all the while being the main beneficiaries of its largesse in the form of beef, milk and crop subsidies. They grew fat on the land and then bit the hand that fed them; now they must sink or swim according to their own abilities in the post-Brexit world they have brought about. And if they can't survive in genuine competition with the foreign imports that will come in from the world over as we re-establish new trading links - then so be it.

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Yeah, but do you think that they will see it that way?

Umm did you mean at your work or here

Here. It can never be too quiet at work.

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[I'm Murrin]

The problem with that, Peter, is that you'd be punishing the entire country and not just the farmers, since they're a significant part of our economy. They need the help, even if it's something that could have been avoided.

[peter]

But the economy is damaged already isn't it, and in the post Brexit world we won't have the money to throw around supporting lame duck industries that cannot compete on the global stage. In addition, farming left to its own devices was always remarkably resilient, being sometimes up, sometimes down but never out. One of its key strengths was it's flexibility in rapidly responding to the demands of the market. Intervention never really chimed with this flexibility although grants, it does provide the incentive to remain in markets that would otherwise be abandoned - but this is false economy at best.

[Skyweir]

mmm interesting times. I agree businesses need to be independently viable, but subsidies are a nice to have.

Its going to an interesting period.

But yes its naive to think that losses wont be passed on to consumers.

[peter]

The key point behind subsidised farming is food security; although over half a century ago the closeness with which the UK came to actually running out of food during ww2 really frightened us and still looms large in our thinking re supporting our own capacity to produce it.

[Skyweir]

Mmm.. I get that

[peter]

Reading the front pages of all the main papers every day soon provides you with an insight into how they work (and the shadowy forces behind them) in manipulating the public will, creating the moral panic upon which government can enact the things it wants to do anyway and generally serving ends other than the public interest upon which their raison d'etre hangs. Working in a convenience store allows you to hear the public en masse churning out the bollocks they are fed by this mendacity fuelled 'free press' system as they are led by the nose hither and thither by masters they comprehend not.