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And lo on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:09:02 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> did
spake, saying:
> Doctor John wrote:
>
>> Is it just me, but doesn't it seem odd that Andrew's mother emails him
>> about the price of cheese? He lives with her for $DEITY's sake!
>> ...or are they not talking?
>> ;-)
>
> Nah, my mum is stressed as hell because she's about to get a £5k pay
> cut, and in a few months she'll be unemployed. Her bank balance hasn't
> been higher than £-1k in decades, and that's *with* an income. And let's
> face it, who the hell is going to hire an old fat women who's nearly
> retirement age?
Nursery schools? Supermarkets too seem to be getting older and older staff.
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>> And
>> let's face it, who the hell is going to hire an old fat women who's
>> nearly retirement age?
>
> Nursery schools?
My God... Think of the children! o_O
> Supermarkets too seem to be getting older and older staff.
Heh. Or just Polish...
(Not that I wish to imply that there is anything *wrong* with being
Polish - some of my favourite lists are - it just seems a little odd,
that's all.)
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And lo on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:29:48 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
spake, saying:
>>> And let's face it, who the hell is going to hire an old fat women
>>> who's nearly retirement age?
>> Nursery schools?
>
> My God... Think of the children! o_O
I thought you'd appreciate that.
>> Supermarkets too seem to be getting older and older staff.
>
> Heh. Or just Polish...
>
> (Not that I wish to imply that there is anything *wrong* with being
> Polish - some of my favourite lists are - it just seems a little odd,
> that's all.)
Minimal skilled work that requires little communication or experience. A
quick launch point to earn some money while gaining cultural and
linguistic knowledge.
As a pure observation I'm hearing a lot more Polish being spoken locally,
then again we are home to the Honoury Polish Consul for the West Midlands
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> As a pure observation I'm hearing a lot more Polish being spoken locally,
When I landed at Stansted the other week, I was greeted by most signs being
in Polish - I thought I'd landed in the wrong country!
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Invisible wrote:
> My mum has just sent me an email saying that the price of cheese (my
> favourite food) has gone up by 10% in the last week.
>
>
> 1 tonne of cheese.
>
> the stuff, and I'm sure it doesn't include refrigerating it in the shop
> or any other overheads, but basically the price you pay is about 10x the
> price the shop pays. That's an impressive price difference...
Mark-ups of one hundred to two hundred percent are quite common in
retail sales.
> Also, I was under the impression that *all* food prices have gone up. So
> my mum's comment that "you'd better start eating something else" seems a
> bit daft to me.
>
> No doubt at some point somebody will blame all this on the credit
> crunch.
It's more likely caused by one of the suppliers in the market
consistently pricing their product or service above market rates.
Everyone has to pass on this increased cost. At the moment the two
players in the market who are most insulated from market forces are the
petroleum exporters and the government.
Regulation is also constantly increasing, and affects just about
everybody in the chain from cow to cheese counter at the store.
> If you think about it for a moment, it's quite amazing the power mankind
> how has to screw itself just by thinking about it. It only takes one
> news reporter to say "but don't panic-buy, there's plenty of fuel" and
> within hours every filling station in the land has been denuded of fuel.
> How powerful reverse psychology is! A crysis exists because somebody
> says so.
>
> I think Mr Adams said it right, when he wrote "In summary, people are a
> problem."
>
> In a more or less unrelated thread... Which is healthier? A cheese
> sandwich, or a packet of crisps?
The cheese sandwich is far healthier. It has more protein.
Regards,
John
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And lo on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:10:53 +0100, scott <sco### [at] scottcom> did
spake, saying:
>> As a pure observation I'm hearing a lot more Polish being spoken
>> locally,
>
> When I landed at Stansted the other week, I was greeted by most signs
> being in Polish - I thought I'd landed in the wrong country!
Fancy doing some trolling on the Express/Mail/Sun websites? :-P
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>>> Nursery schools?
>>
>> My God... Think of the children! o_O
>
> I thought you'd appreciate that.
Actually, my mum really likes children. (The hair gets in your teeth
though...)
In seriousness... before the two devorces and the near bankrupcy and the
mental breakdown, my mum actually used to be a childminder. Go figure.
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On 16-Sep-08 10:29, Invisible wrote:
>>> And let's face it, who the hell is going to hire an old fat women
>>> who's nearly retirement age?
>>
>> Nursery schools?
>
> My God... Think of the children! o_O
>
>> Supermarkets too seem to be getting older and older staff.
>
> Heh. Or just Polish...
>
> (Not that I wish to imply that there is anything *wrong* with being
> Polish - some of my favourite lists are
reversed, I assume.
> - it just seems a little odd,
> that's all.)
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andrel wrote:
>> (Not that I wish to imply that there is anything *wrong* with being
>> Polish - some of my favourite lists are
> reversed, I assume.
...my humour is *not* completely lost here! :-D
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:13:04 +0100, Doctor John <joh### [at] homecom> wrote:
>Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> ....all of which leaves me wondering: How come Gilles knows so much
>> about farming? ;-)
>>
>You've surely heard of the archetypical English farmer, Farmer Gil(l)es :-)
>
Groan!
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