Today I'm angry about.....

[Prufrock]

I don't agree with the right to go to uni thing, someone on question time said that last night as well - that we're a welfare society and so folk should go for free. That doesn't convince me, sorry.

Why not? Graduates on average earn £150k per year more than folk who haven't gone to university.

that doesn't sound quite right!

Pfft I never said that! Check for yourselves.

It's a conspiracy.

ahh - that's me done like a kipper by a cheeky puskas!

Yer, that's it, what I'd like to stress is it DEFINITELY wasn't me going back editing a daft mistake. Coz I don't make daft mistakes. Evre.

[thebish]

Why not? Graduates on average earn £150k per year more than folk who haven't gone to university.

that doesn't sound quite right!

Pfft I never said that! Check for yourselves.

It's a conspiracy.

ahh - that's me done like a kipper by a cheeky puskas!

Yer, that's it, what I'd like to stress is it DEFINITELY wasn't me going back editing a daft mistake. Coz I don't make daft mistakes. Evre.

of course not - the thought never crossed my mind! (nor did I notice the smallprint which - had I noticed it - would no doubt say something like "Last edited by Prufrock on Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:39 pm; edited 1 time in total"

[TANGODANCER]

Blame.

The current spate of adverts from lawyers urging pople to sue for every little accident that happens. One, a ladder slips and a guy falls and tells how he got seven and a half grand because "They gave me the wrong ladder". No mention of the fact that he was supposed to make sure the ladder wasn't at a daft angle and not secure at the bottom, or that he was working above his head height with an electric drill. Are brains and common sense not fashionable any more?

[Lord Kangana]

I s'pose Tango, that if so many employers didn't take the P*ss so regularly, we'd probably find the right balance.

[William the White]

Feckin university bureaucracy demanding the completion of three paper forms and one online to give students marks! For each student!

Stupidity is what happens when you give a committee of clever people a simple task to do...

[hisroyalgingerness]

I reckon the government can save a shedload of money with stuff like that. How many people must they pay to do data entry when the majority of professionals now would be capable of putting the data in online

[TANGODANCER]

I s'pose Tango, that if so many employers didn't take the P*ss so regularly, we'd probably find the right balance.

Aye. Brains and common sense are supposed to be more predominant in those clever enough to be employers; until cost-and corner cutting rear their heads of course. A right balance in an ideal world. Unlikely, I know....but....one day...

[General Mannerheim]

using the last of the milk on my weetabix, to then add a generous sprinkle of salt instead of sugar!

[Hoboh]

using the last of the milk on my weetabix, to then add a generous sprinkle of salt instead of sugar!

Stop using the footie as an excuse to booze evey night then

[Hoboh]

water board, hosepipe ban??? it snowed and pissed it down that much I didn't get much riding done this winter

[TANGODANCER]

water board, hosepipe ban??? it snowed and pissed it down that much I didn't get much riding done this winter

If the reservoirs are down it's usually from over-use rather than rainfall. We take water so much for granted and probably most of use waste a lot just because of it. Washes, shaves, baths, toilet flushes, washing machines, garden watering, car-washing and just drinking it. I saw a bloke near me concrete the cracks in his garden path. For three day after he was power-washing it. A bucket and a stiff brush would have done the job. You only miss and start to appreciate most things when you don't have them. Why complain?

[Hoboh]

water board, hosepipe ban??? it snowed and pissed it down that much I didn't get much riding done this winter

If the reservoirs are down it's usually from over-use rather than rainfall. We take water so much for granted and probably most of use waste a lot just because of it. Washes, shaves, baths, toilet flushes, washing machines, garden watering, car-washing and just drinking it. I saw a bloke near me concrete the cracks in his garden path. For three day after he was power-washing it. A bucket and a stiff brush would have done the job. You only miss and start to appreciate most things when you don't have them. Why complain?

Because they charge us for something natural to cover up their leaky shitty pies and pay dividends to frogs in france

[thebish]

water board, hosepipe ban??? it snowed and pissed it down that much I didn't get much riding done this winter

If the reservoirs are down it's usually from over-use rather than rainfall. We take water so much for granted and probably most of use waste a lot just because of it. Washes, shaves, baths, toilet flushes, washing machines, garden watering, car-washing and just drinking it. I saw a bloke near me concrete the cracks in his garden path. For three day after he was power-washing it. A bucket and a stiff brush would have done the job. You only miss and start to appreciate most things when you don't have them. Why complain?

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err... because it is the angry thread?

[Dujon]

Easy, thebish. Some of us in this little, tiny, world of ours understand the value of water. Whatever the reason for Hobinho's rant I do, on this occasion, applaud TANGO's response.

To you, Hobinho, I would suggest that you stop being so selfish. Have you ever heard of a catchment area? Have you bothered to look at your dam/reservoir levels and then wondered as to why they are reducing?

[Hoboh]

Easy, thebish. Some of us in this little, tiny, world of ours understand the value of water. Whatever the reason for Hobinho's rant I do, on this occasion, applaud TANGO's response.

To you, Hobinho, I would suggest that you stop being so selfish. Have you ever heard of a catchment area? Have you bothered to look at your dam/reservoir levels and then wondered as to why they are reducing?

Yeah seeing we are hardly in the middle of a heat wave making usage go up that much I did wonder why the levels of water were dropping! Then I got round to thinking about all the work they have been caarying out on dam walls and various things this summer which they needed to keep levels in the pond down to carry out, then I thought of this huge multi million pound East/West pipe line they are building to ship water around the North West region, water apperently we have not got. Then silly me I thought most of our water came from the wetest place on the planet outside a rain forrest, the lake district.

I'd cry if it wasn't so funny oh i'll bet all the barbies and sun you get down there you'd rather not have then? we know you aussies bathe in beer anyway or are the brewerys tight on water?

[TANGODANCER]

Since tramps are usually not too familiar with water, old Hobinho is behaving oddly out of chatacter here.

Rather interestingly, The Sun, (of all sources) carries a quite appropriate article, this morning, about things we take for granted today. It's taken from: At Home: A short history of private life, by Bill Bryson. It's quite a fascinating read. If you're interested, it's here:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fe ... ruths.html

[Worthy4England]

Birthdays.

They keep coming round too quickly.

[TANGODANCER]

Birthdays.

They keep coming round too quickly.

Aye, and Fathers days just to remind you further you're a year older. If it's your Worthy, many happy returns anyway.

[Worthy4England]

Birthdays.

They keep coming round too quickly.

Aye, and Fathers days just to remind you further you're a year older. If it's your Worthy, many happy returns anyway.

I'm commiserating no longer being able to cling to the fact that I'm nearer 40 than 50.

[TANGODANCER]

Birthdays.

They keep coming round too quickly.

Aye, and Fathers days just to remind you further you're a year older. If it's your Worthy, many happy returns anyway.

I'm commiserating no longer being able to cling to the fact that I'm nearer 40 than 50.

If it's any consolation (it won't be, I know), I've got a son older, and a daughter your age. Cheer up junior.