Posted: 02 Jan 2008, 18:45
Threads don't grow here, they mutate.ThousandAndrews wrote:No! Why? It´s just funny to see how the thread is growing..
Threads don't grow here, they mutate.ThousandAndrews wrote:No! Why? It´s just funny to see how the thread is growing..
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:
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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...
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...
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...
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.
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
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
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!
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!
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.
yeah...but obviously that's just something that comes with spending moneySINsister wrote:...but are you employed, sir?
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.
count on me too...for the little possibilities i havePista wrote:Time for a HL appeal then?
I'll chuck in $200.
Anyone else?
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'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!