Brendan

People Useless buggers.

Fire-fighters 'ey Those bastards

Soccer ball kickers knobjockeys

Web designers Aresholes

Posties Popper c*nts.

Bankers Right w@nkers

When working with the fire brigade one of the things that struck me was, contrary to every other place I have worked in, the generally selfless approach to what they were doing , particularly amongst uniformed staff. There was a definite sort of duty bound culture, granted not by all but it was certainly endemic enough to be noticed. It is one of the reasons I look back fondly at my time there. It is very rarely that you get to work in such an environment. I think that is something that is difficult or perhaps impossible to understand for someone with the ideological point of view that Dave has.

Apologies for not reading this thread first before commenting as it is all a bit too long* but I would like to share my thoughts having worked for the Fire Brigade during the industrial action in 2002. I have never worked with a bunch of people more genuinely dedicated to what they do. They spend hours constantly training and updating themselves and do a dangerous job without the pay or career opportunities that the police get or the support networks, housing, vocational training ect that the military get. None of them were happy about or comfortable with the idea of going on strike in 2002. In fact I watched as a watch left their picket line and suited up to put out a fire that had started in a neighbouring building as they could and would not let a fire spread while they could do something about it, strike or no strike. They had put it out and were back on their picket by the time the army arrived. *No doubt there are the predictable comments from those who have an ideological objection to any workforce having a voice (unless it is theirs obviously) and would probably rather see a return to fire plaques on houses and bugger those who can?t pay for the insurance, their babies can burn to death. And no that?s not reactionary rhetoric they are the basic facts of the consequences of services provided to the highest bidder, I?ve seen it in practice in my own country.

It is a bit like a market I suppose.

I wake up before I?m rested ever morning and drag myself through a piss soaked public transport system to a monochrome cubical in a stuffy office with no natural light to slowly murder my creativity with the enforced drudgery of getting idiots to work for the benefit of a thankless and fuckwitted public all the while causing irreversible musculoskeletal degeneration and damage to my eyesight. Why, what the fuck would you do?

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As a philosophical point you really can?t compare science to religion.

wankspanner. Call me when you plan on being uncivil and disobediant[sic*]. *Dude.

Binnin your girlfriend? 'aven't guv. Promise.

Oh yeah, like Zimbabwe.

If Simon Cowell was gay he would have found a way to cash in on it by now.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You know what the fellow said ? in Italy, for > thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, > terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced > Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the > Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly > love, they had five hundred years of democracy and > peace ? and what did that produce? The cuckoo > clock. And who would you rather trust with your pension Quids?

Unfortunately there are some cases that no amount of facial hair can help. EDIT. Hair. Facial hair!

It is. OOF is indeed magnificently whiskered. Members of the better sex have an instinctive appreciation for such things and chaps willing to put in the effort reap the justifiable reward of their attentions.

It's a sad society we have built if a woman has to work until she's well into her 30s to achieve the security needed to have a family.

Also, chicks dig beards.

It is completely hereditary. I say this based on the fact that me old dad is one of those many lettered, much published, variously pee haich deed and professorred sorts. Applying this logic I have never seen the point in extending my qualifications unnecessarily instead I add his to my name on the grounds of genetics. On the subject of hair though, the extending of the hairs on the head and the face is of course linked in various ways to increasing the individual?s powers physically, mentally and spiritually. It is for instance a well known fact, to those who know it well, that the more days growth beard you have the better you are at wizplanking.

So far I?ve made a roaring success of being me. The rest is just admin. I get other people to do it.

Where the fuckis essex?

louisiana Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In any case, HSBC > has had a substantial presence in HK for many > years.d. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation? Never. Anyway I'm with McMockney on this. Poppycock. Complete poppycock. And even if a few self important wankspaners do decamp to make some sort of point this country easily has the capacity to replace them 3 times overs.