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May 18th, 2009, 07:12 PM | #131 | |
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From personal experience the main task of the JobCentre PLUS (sic) appears to be to press the buttons to authorise the jobseekers allowance payments as I found and applied for 20+ jobs myself, whereas only 3 came via the jobcentre and 1 of those had requirements that I could not meet that were not shown on their computer system. |
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May 18th, 2009, 07:20 PM | #132 | |
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If you have caller display on your phone there's a few useful sites on the web like http://whocallsme.com/ where people register calls from nuisance companies. If the number is withheld they can stick it along with their suppositories. Mind you every now and then it is therapeutic to tell some cold caller what you think and remember they pay for the call so every minute you keep them on the line you are costing them money so tell them very slowly. If you have registered with the telephone preference service you can apparently report the offender to them, if they are based in the UK. Although whether they will do anything is open to debate. |
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May 18th, 2009, 07:30 PM | #133 | |
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May 18th, 2009, 10:25 PM | #134 | |
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If a cold caller tries to sell you something, try selling THEM something! "No, I'm not interested in a new kitchen. Could I interest you in a 1983 Ford Escort Mark III 1.6L?" Then waffle on about the condition of the bodywork, the strange rattle when you're in third gear, the previous owners ... blah, blah. Just keep bringing the conversation back to what YOU want to sell. It's a hoot! Ask them for their home phone number. "No? Why's that? Could it be that you don't want someone calling you up trying to sell you something you don't want?" Interrupt with "Do you have Jesus in your life? Let me tell you how He can help you ..." Try interrupting with "John! It's you isn't it? Stop taking the piss! I'd recognise your voice anywhere." Whatever they say, insist you know you're speaking to John. If all else fails ... "My Mum's just died and you want to know if I'm interested in a NEW F**KIN' KITCHEN?" Last edited by Farowt; May 18th, 2009 at 11:34 PM.. |
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May 19th, 2009, 10:55 AM | #135 |
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If your in Britain, that little sh*t who appears at the end of, I think, 'Go compare.com',(Which in itself is cringing) Trying to rap over a web-cam, sounds like he's hocking up a lugie and then ends with what looks like a vicious epeleptic fit.
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May 19th, 2009, 07:33 PM | #136 |
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A couple weeks ago a little old lady had her bag snatched outside our local Tesco. All witnesses said it was the Eastern Europeans (women) who were begging in the front street.
A relation of mine is a local police Inspector. They know who did it but they are unable to do much about it as They move around alot?? No fixed abode. Our local Police Authority advised the Council that this was a problem. You will never guess what our Council have decided to do to solve this!!! Yes put these people at the head of the council housing queue. No doubt so the Police can easily find them?/? That makes my blood boil when there are so many young people in this area without a hope of housing unless there is a baby on tap. |
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May 20th, 2009, 05:55 PM | #137 |
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What happened to our libraries?
Financial circumstances being not the best just now, I needed fresh reading matter and thought it might make sense to borrow a library book. Hmm.
My local authority have just finished refurbishing their flagship central library at considerable financial outlay, no doubt with central government support. Building extended; lots of brand new computers (how long will they last?); Star Trek automatic doors (couldn't manage without these obviously); complete re-decoration (OK, that made sense). When I went in from the street market outside the background noise levels went up, not down . The place was full of idiots nattering to each other or on their mobile phones in six different languages, none of them English. Either there is no silence rule or the staff have taken the cowards way out and stopped enforcing it. I still believe that people go to libraries to borrow books, read books, do work and research. The whole of the rest of the world is out there for people who want to gossip. Then I had a look at the books. All of them have a decidedly veteran air: all that money on the building must mean there wasn't any left to replenish the book supply. On closer examination they were all of the Clive Cussler airport novel type or pseudo-intellectual drivel (Salman Rushdie: such a maelstrom of controversy over a man who can't write a worthwhile book). No classic authors and no 20th century authors worth a damn. At least I got some exercise walking there and back again. |
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May 20th, 2009, 08:05 PM | #138 |
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I have to agree with scoundrel, our local library has lots of the same books I took out over 20 years ago. It's got computers, does art exhibits, talks for children etc. and tries to be all things to all people but they appear to have forgotten that the word library comes from the Latin word for book.
In fact the only parts of the library that seems up to date are the crime fiction and graphic novels sections. I often struggle trying to find something really interesting to read and end up picking up an old history book that I read many years ago. Also you used to be able to order any book now it appears you can only order it IF it is available locally, thankfully many are available via other sources including Amazon's marketplace options. |
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Our public library here in my home town has the latest historical romance, the hundredth TV chef cookbook and the five hundredth conspiracy thriller. But ...
At my last visit I wanted to read some great classical literature in German translation again. I enjoyed reading those books when I regularly visited the university library in the town I lived before: William Butler Yeats, Thomas Stearns Eliot, James Joyce. The library in my new home town isn't that big - but the biggest one in our district. They have internet access, interlibrary loan, the newest PC games, Pop CDs and movie DVDs - but there is no Yeats, Eliot and Joyce! Has it come to that? You can lend the latest bullshit of some rapping idiots in our German public libraries but no classical English and Irish literature? What the .... ? |
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