Threads don't grow here, they mutate.ThousandAndrews wrote:No! Why? It´s just funny to see how the thread is growing..
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I don't necessarily agree with everything I think.
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Make me an offer I can't refuse and I'll tell you what you want to hear.ThousandAndrews wrote:tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me...Syberberg wrote:
(* Delete as applicable).
(Why do I have a feeling I'm going to regret saying that? Oh well, too late now...)
I don't necessarily agree with everything I think.
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Aye, there is that small matter, of course... *Sigh*Syberberg wrote:Living on the wrong side of The Pond might have something to do with it...SINsister wrote:Hmpf! I have yet to reap the benefits, ho-hum.Syberberg wrote:As you have found out, it's more than just a forum for Sisters fans, it's also a dating agency.
I guess that being second in command here at the asylum has its disadvantages, sometimes...
I left my heart in Ballycastle...
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Well, I've got a very bad feeling about how things are going to turn go in the US once PO hits fully and I get very...concerned...about the future safety of my friends in the US.SINsister wrote:Aye, there is that small matter, of course... *Sigh*Syberberg wrote:Living on the wrong side of The Pond might have something to do with it...SINsister wrote: Hmpf! I have yet to reap the benefits, ho-hum.
I guess that being second in command here at the asylum has its disadvantages, sometimes...
I don't necessarily agree with everything I think.
and you haven't meet everyone who posts on HeartlandSINsister wrote:Aye, there is that small matter, of course... *Sigh*Syberberg wrote:Living on the wrong side of The Pond might have something to do with it...SINsister wrote: Hmpf! I have yet to reap the benefits, ho-hum.
I guess that being second in command here at the asylum has its disadvantages, sometimes...
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
& I just wasted 24 hours stood in the corner
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Along those lines, I did (surprisingly) receive a response from the Home Office just the other day (I'd sent a couple of complaint letters back in September), which was (unsurprisingly) incredibly unhelpful. The correspondence detailed the impossibility of my applying for citizenship via adoption as a minor child (uhhhh - ya think?!), and went on to state that in order to establish citizenship in the UK, I'd need to live there for x number of years - a requirement that I'm not currently fulfilling, as I'm not currently living in the UK. Why, thank you, Captain Obvious! And the letter's author's *paid* to dish out this drivel?!Syberberg wrote:Well, I've got a very bad feeling about how things are going to turn go in the US once PO hits fully and I get very...concerned...about the future safety of my friends in the US.
My brother thinks that I should take your government to court. I think that's a little...erm...unwise. Plus, I can't afford a lawyer, of course.
I left my heart in Ballycastle...
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True, dat. Though I *do* know that most of them aren't living here in the U.S. of A., so that still doesn't help.Andie wrote:and you haven't meet everyone who posts on Heartland
I left my heart in Ballycastle...
you could still find that elusive creature known as Man when you attend the next p*ss up!SINsister wrote:True, dat. Though I *do* know that most of them aren't living here in the U.S. of A., so that still doesn't help.Andie wrote:and you haven't meet everyone who posts on Heartland
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
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That's if I attend. At this point, with my finances in the dreadful state that they are, it doesn't look very promising.Andie wrote:you could still find that elusive creature known as Man when you attend the next p*ss up!
I left my heart in Ballycastle...
What does a plane ticket cost?
Just out of interest.
Just out of interest.
where there's a will...there's a way...and anyways I would like to meet ya on English soil before i manage to find a way into the USofASINsister wrote:That's if I attend. At this point, with my finances in the dreadful state that they are, it doesn't look very promising.Andie wrote:you could still find that elusive creature known as Man when you attend the next p*ss up!
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
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Last August's cost me just over $700 (taxes, airport fees, fuel fees, "security" fees, etc., inclusive) - and it was booked 2+ months in advance, if I recall correctly...Pista wrote:What does a plane ticket cost?
Just out of interest.
I left my heart in Ballycastle...
Time for a HL appeal then?
I'll chuck in $200.
Anyone else?
I'll chuck in $200.
Anyone else?
Oh. Okay then....incoming
'ang on a minute...let me get this straight...$700 buckaroos is around £350 Quids...which is less than i have spent on ma car over the New Year period
why i'm telling you this i don't know...i just felt i had to share the serious amount of money tyres cost, road tax costs and a new battery costs
why i'm telling you this i don't know...i just felt i had to share the serious amount of money tyres cost, road tax costs and a new battery costs
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
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Since when were bureaucrats paid to think? They're just glorified photocopiers.SINsister wrote: Along those lines, I did (surprisingly) receive a response from the Home Office just the other day (I'd sent a couple of complaint letters back in September), which was (unsurprisingly) incredibly unhelpful. The correspondence detailed the impossibility of my applying for citizenship via adoption as a minor child (uhhhh - ya think?!), and went on to state that in order to establish citizenship in the UK, I'd need to live there for x number of years - a requirement that I'm not currently fulfilling, as I'm not currently living in the UK. Why, thank you, Captain Obvious! And the letter's author's *paid* to dish out this drivel?!
My brother thinks that I should take your government to court. I think that's a little...erm...unwise. Plus, I can't afford a lawyer, of course.
Best one I had this year was a demand from the TV Licensing people asking if I had a TV License (which I don't) and, if there was already a license for the premises I was to inform them (which there is, in someone else's name). It would seem that they don't bother to check their own records. All I did was buy a new TV (a CRT, not having any truck with the piles of s**t that are plasma or LCD TV's. They use too much energy for a start off and the picture quality is crap).
How about if we loaned you the money for a plane ticket?
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count on me too...for the little possibilities i havePista wrote:Time for a HL appeal then?
I'll chuck in $200.
Anyone else?
....money aren't important in front of a good friendship
@ sinnie
keep a date for me when you'll be in the old europe
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thanks...my Lord...i'm unbeliver
tear up your pants for psicho...and jump on him
tear up your pants for psicho...and jump on him
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I believe there are a great many of good and diligent workers in Local Gov, but I (for one) have been battered into submission by "middle management", performance indicators, interference from "Central Government", dwindling staff, money for resources and "Performance Related Bonuses" for higher management. The last one I take a very dim view of, it's like MPs being able to vote themselves pay increases - Oh! that's right, they can and do. ALL OF THEM!
Council workers did exploit their situation back in the 70s, but Thatcher put paid (no pun) to that. Successive Labour administrations have undermined and ultimately, whittled away the Public Services infrastructure.
Private companies are just as riddled with "backhanders" and incompetence as Local Gov was, fact is some of us are still in there and as tax payers ourselves trying to do a good job and deliver.
Yes! I'm very pished off but I'm in there and I see what a pile of s**t Local Gov has descended into. Do not think we are all bad apples, the majority want to do a good job, our hands are tied.
sorry, it jist happens tae be FACT!
Council workers did exploit their situation back in the 70s, but Thatcher put paid (no pun) to that. Successive Labour administrations have undermined and ultimately, whittled away the Public Services infrastructure.
Private companies are just as riddled with "backhanders" and incompetence as Local Gov was, fact is some of us are still in there and as tax payers ourselves trying to do a good job and deliver.
Yes! I'm very pished off but I'm in there and I see what a pile of s**t Local Gov has descended into. Do not think we are all bad apples, the majority want to do a good job, our hands are tied.
sorry, it jist happens tae be FACT!
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Nope - I wouldn't be able to pay it back. But thanks! You lot are truly wonderful humans, you know that?Syberberg wrote:How about if we loaned you the money for a plane ticket?
I left my heart in Ballycastle...
I'll second that, but from the "central" perspective - for every one person who's content to scratch their bee-hind throughout the day, there's at least 3 or 4 who are genuinely concerned with providing as good a service as possible, but who find their hands regularly tied by stupid poxy regulations that make no sense, don't apply to the given situation, but nonetheless have to be followed.James Blast wrote:I believe there are a great many of good and diligent workers in Local Gov, but I (for one) have been battered into submission by "middle management", performance indicators, interference from "Central Government", dwindling staff, money for resources and "Performance Related Bonuses" for higher management. The last one I take a very dim view of, it's like MPs being able to vote themselves pay increases - Oh! that's right, they can and do. ALL OF THEM!
Council workers did exploit their situation back in the 70s, but Thatcher put paid (no pun) to that. Successive Labour administrations have undermined and ultimately, whittled away the Public Services infrastructure.
Private companies are just as riddled with "backhanders" and incompetence as Local Gov was, fact is some of us are still in there and as tax payers ourselves trying to do a good job and deliver.
Yes! I'm very pished off but I'm in there and I see what a pile of s**t Local Gov has descended into. Do not think we are all bad apples, the majority want to do a good job, our hands are tied.
sorry, it jist happens tae be FACT!
For my sins, I am middle management, but at least I try to keep the stuff that Thae Michty James is referring to in the background, and just let my staff get on with doing (and enjoying) the job. Gotta start somewhere!
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well I seriously hope so Michael because I am so fed up with "box tickers" it is not true,
and I speak as a statistic - disabled etc......
and I speak as a statistic - disabled etc......
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