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8th August 2018, 03:21 PM
#21
Re: Lunacy needed
Shouldn't criticise the unions so much. It was the National Union of Tattie Slicers ( NUTS ) who got you the apprentice scarecrow job.
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9th August 2018, 06:28 AM
#22
Re: Lunacy needed

Originally Posted by
John Arton
Here in the U.K. the latest lunacy, stirred up by the press, not the public, along with the P.C. brigade, is the furore raised by the term " letter box" used by Boris Johnson when referring to those who dress in black from head to foot. Yet not a peep from any of them, including all the europhiles, about the banning of wearing said item of clothing in public in countries such as Denmark, Germany, France and Austria.
If you were to poll the country you would get a huge majority in favour of banning the wearing of said item in public along with those heavily tinted motorcycle helmets which make it impossible to recognise the face of the wearer and are favoured by the scooter and motorcycle riding criminals.
Rgds
J,A.
We refer to them here in Oz as black letter boxes.
We are very happy that the real letter boxes are Red as if any other color we may never get our mail.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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9th August 2018, 09:39 AM
#23
Re: Lunacy needed

Originally Posted by
cappy
###cant understand it .....how they get these jobs .....suppose its like the unions ....the members vote them in ...and even pay weekly subscriptions ....in some cases even if they are abroad most of the time to keep them in power.......and even pay them mega pensions even after the union is bust....and yet the people who vote them in time after time get no representation and even more sadly no pensions from the monies they have paid in .....the baaring of the lambs time after time comes to mind ....of course the lesson many never seem to learn is ..the only person to look after you and your family is yourself .....but then that is just my view...interested of course louis to see your answer on the question you pose......cappy
Cappy they are {ALL POLITICIANS } Costing the tax payer a small fortune and for what...................... The brains of a rocking horse the bloody lot of them.
{terry scouse}
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9th August 2018, 09:45 AM
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Re: Lunacy needed

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red lead ted
Cappy they are {ALL POLITICIANS } Costing the tax payer a small fortune and for what...................... The brains of a rocking horse the bloody lot of them.
##yes ted but who lets it happen and more importantly why.......it appears that we just sit on the sidelines and boo or cheer and nothing changes.....so who has the brains of the rocking horse in all reality
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9th August 2018, 10:06 AM
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Re: Lunacy needed
#20... Keith it’s when you start texting your self messages that the trouble starts, when you start answering them it is well into the second stage, and by the time you start arguing with yourself you find yourself in the full house stage of Cappy s shipmate who got the black spot. Cheers JWS
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9th August 2018, 10:23 AM
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Re: Lunacy needed

Originally Posted by
happy daze john in oz
We refer to them here in Oz as black letter boxes.
We are very happy that the real letter boxes are Red as if any other color we may never get our mail.
John on Oz,
You haughty boy, you know you cannot use such terms as" black letter boxes" as apart from insulting persons wearing such garments you are also insulting coulered people and even possibly the LGBT brigade.
Now go and stand in the corner of the classroom with the dunce's cap on and repeat to yourself" I must not use such terms", 1000 times over. LOL
Rgds
J.A. ( P.C., Retd)
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9th August 2018, 10:39 AM
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##guess a few on here have posted into a black letter box down the west coast or other places here and there ....lol
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9th August 2018, 11:07 AM
#28
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Your talking about parcel post now Cappy. JWS
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10th August 2018, 06:22 AM
#29
Re: Lunacy needed

Originally Posted by
John Arton
John on Oz,
You haughty boy, you know you cannot use such terms as" black letter boxes" as apart from insulting persons wearing such garments you are also insulting coulered people and even possibly the LGBT brigade.
Now go and stand in the corner of the classroom with the dunce's cap on and repeat to yourself" I must not use such terms", 1000 times over. LOL
Rgds
J.A. ( P.C., Retd)
Yes sir, tugging at fore lock, but I was called a white honkey by one and at that time I had a very heavy sun tan and was offended.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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