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PostPosted: 2006-09-03 00:58:09
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On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 00:48:31 +0100, steve@italiancar.co.uk (SteveH)
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>Colin Irvine wrote:
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>> >They might, but, theyd have to buy coffee from us, given that we own a
>> >large number of coffee plantations. We also buy a lot of our own brand
>> >non-foods from far eastern factories, cos its where we get the best
>> >prices at the moment.
>>
>> I think what I find most offensive about this is that you dont seem
>> to be in the slightest bit apologetic about it.
>
>Why should I be?
>
>As a consumer, I buy from the far east because its where I get the best
>value for my money, why shouldnt my employers do the same?

I understand your decision to join an organisation whose ethics mirror
your own. So I guess what I really find most offensive is that you
dont seem to be in the slightest bit apologetic about either.

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PostPosted: 2006-09-03 12:30:25
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On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:19:28 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon
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>We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
>drugs began to take hold. I remember Paul Corfield
> saying something like:
>
>
>
>>almost complete lack of a social
>>security and state health system was most telling.
>
>Now that surprises me. I thought the whole point about the Chicom state
>was provision of things like that for all.

Indeed but the opposite was true. Health care is private and they have
lovely shiny hospitals which will happily take a massive slice of annual
earnings from people for check ups, medicine and operations.

On the programme there was an example of a family where the elderly
grandfather required treatment and the son had to take him to hospital
and cough up about 30% of annual earnings for his treatment. There was
no state support at all for the grandfather or sibling.

The same pretty much applies to things like pensions and education. Its
the antithesis of communism from what I can see. It also makes Gordon
Brown look like the keeper of the communist faith.
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PostPosted: 2006-09-03 12:41:02
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> >No doubt criticism and pressure from the west over ethics will have an
> >affect in improving this situation, but essentially it is going to come
> >from within, as it did here.
>
> If companies refuse to buy from factories until they change working
> practises itll change. So, no, youre wrong. Ive had first hand
> examples reported to me of factories fixing certain things.

Well, its either that or theyll close the factory, putting all the
workers out of a job and move to somewhere else with cheaper overall
labour costs. Exactly how would that benefit the workforce?
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PostPosted: 2006-09-03 15:54:54
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember SD
saying something like:

>I wonder if it was my Nimrod. Any idea of the airframe number?

Havent got a clue.
It raises the question of old airframes and extended working hours. Some
MoD johnny was saying every bit of the aircraft had been replaced; I
dont think so, for that would amount to a new plane.
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PostPosted: 2006-09-03 16:44:25
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SD wrote:

>I wonder if it was my Nimrod. Any idea of the airframe number?

Itll be on planecrashinfo, wont it?


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PostPosted: 2006-09-04 02:52:42
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Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember SD
> saying something like:
>
> >I wonder if it was my Nimrod. Any idea of the airframe number?
>
> Havent got a clue.
> It raises the question of old airframes and extended working hours. Some
> MoD johnny was saying every bit of the aircraft had been replaced; I
> dont think so, for that would amount to a new plane.

Triggers broom springs to mind.

Ive ad this same Nimrod fer forty years. Its ad new wings,
new engines, new fuselage and landing gear mind...
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PostPosted: 2006-09-04 12:58:11
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CT wrote
>Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
>> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
>> drugs began to take hold. I remember SD
>> saying something like:
>>
>> >I wonder if it was my Nimrod. Any idea of the airframe number?
>>
>> Havent got a clue.
>> It raises the question of old airframes and extended working hours. Some
>> MoD johnny was saying every bit of the aircraft had been replaced; I
>> dont think so, for that would amount to a new plane.
>
>Triggers broom springs to mind.

Its a Yorkshire broom not some fucking catch phrase from a 2nd rate
TV light entertainment show.



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PostPosted: 2006-09-04 12:27:30
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steve auvache wrote:

> CT wrote
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> > Triggers broom springs to mind.
>
> Its a Yorkshire broom not some fucking catch phrase from a 2nd rate
> TV light entertainment show.
>

Second rate? SECOND BLOODY RATE?

Bloody pensioners...

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