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Shouldn't have married a burd from frozen scandi-land, then! ;-P

Igloo in the yard?

 

The Doctor insists in getting into a car in winter swaddled in woolly
pullover, overcoat, the works. I point out the car has a heater and will
be toasty in minutes. Then the finds she can't get all the clobber off
while strapped in and turns the heater down so I start to shiver.

 

You're boasting again, aint'cha?

 

They're all like that. I think it's caused by the lack of a gene carried
on the Y chromosome.

 

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ISTR someone mentioning £5:25 an hour, it might have been the bloke
with the 40th birthday.

The stoneyard owner was over the moon about the quality of the foreign
labour. He said he'd have to close down if he had to pay higher wages
(to Brits).

But he isn't covering the costs - bursting schools, over-run
surgeries, expensive phone-based translators and all the rest. If he
had to supply them at cost, he'd go broke faster than emplying Brits
at higher wages. He only makes a profit because of the unseen
subsidies.

Then there's the imbalance in wages. It has been shown that a Polish
worker can send home say £2k or £3k to Poland, where that is alleged
to be a good professional salary. Where could an unskilled Brit go to
earn six times as much for cleaning bogs, and send home the equivalent
of a professional's salary?

While there's huge incentive for Polish workers to work for what seem
to us to be low wages, that doesn't exist for indigenous Brits. At
£300 a week, what would he lose in benefits, and have to pay in terms
of e.g Council Tax? What makes good sense for the Polish workers to do
as they do, also makes good sense for the chap that was interviewed to
do as he did.

I did read that if a foreign worker goes home before 12 months are up,
his income tax and Ni contributions are refunded. He then reappears in
the next tax year to do it all again....

It isn't a level playing field, so the choices aren't the same.

 

I submitted a comment on that[1], funnily enough they've not published
it.


[1] I just cut and pasted her quote and name and added the word
"priceless", but presumably even that's probably considered racist by
the beeb.

 

in my day, if you refused to take a job that you were qualified to do
and offered, they'd stop your dole - isn't this the case any more?

 

You won't be too far off. The brief stints I did picking daffs and
spring onions showed that the people that had been doing it a while
could easily manage 500 a week (this is around 1990 prices). This easily
compensates for the times when there's no work, if you're prepared to
freeze your arse off picking sprouts in the depths of winter that is. I
wasn't and got a job maintaining the ropey fleet of buses used to
shuttle the mob around. That didn't last long as the boss borrowed from
the farmers against future work and f*cked off having had his stash of
pot stolen from the lockup, he also left a f*cking big boat in Grimsby
harbour[1], which then sank.


[1] Behind Kwik-Fit for them wot knows the area


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what's he done now?

 

Oh, nothing new that I know of, but I've just discovered his attack on
Duchamp's Fountain and then read about some of his earlier exploits. The
bloke sounds like a top nutter.

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20060212191356996

 

Oh, OK

her certainly is - and doing an armed robbery and only asking for 10
francs is the work on an inspired idiot too.

 

"I intended to ask for one franc, but there was terrible inflation at
the time so I decided to ask for 10"

 

After a few months, he doesn't. He gets put on New Deal.

 

this is my favourite from that site:

"He did, in fact, once appear as Santa Claus outside the Nice branch
of the Galeries Lafayettes department store. He emptied a sack of toys
on the pavement and smashed them to protest against the
commercialisation of Christmas. Children burst into tears. Their
parents pursued him down the street."

 

"This was his second assault. In 1993, while Duchamp's "masterpiece"
was exhibited in Nîmes, Pinoncelli peed into it and then struck it with
a somewhat larger hammer. This makes him, one could argue, a
piss-artist"

heh.

 

There are compensations.

Shit in the carbs?


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Hah, I wish



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Isn't that some kind of man substitute/fucking machine?



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Yeah, until they feel they've done enough, then they just grind to a fucking
halt. I've seen some REALLY enthusiastic lads who (on the surface) seem to
be reasonably intelligent and clued up, but they've all fallen at the first
hurdle. [1]

We've had a few of those too.


[1] When any thinking has to be done.



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