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24th November 2022, 11:05 AM
#51
Re: The 4 day week ?
hi john sabourn #51
good morning, As the binmen only work a four hour day at the moment, i cannot see the necessity of having to work from home, Also why dont you see binwomen in this enlightened age we live in, And as lonnie donegan was a glaswegian his old man may well have been born in donegal.
tom
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24th November 2022, 11:12 AM
#52
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Maybe he was 17 then ? Before the hole in the top of his head sealed up ? JS.
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24th November 2022, 11:30 AM
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hi john sabourn #53
good morning, the age of seventeen may have seen the hole on top of his head sealed off, But that would never have improved on his life skills, This is why a left leaning cabal of ideologists of any beliefs, want to give the vote to the teenagers, i believe the greens have just won the case to do so in new zealand . and just like the old saying ( like a hole in the head )
tom
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24th November 2022, 03:17 PM
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If a refuse operator goes on strike does he become a refuse operator
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24th November 2022, 04:10 PM
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hi ivan cloherty,#55
good afternoon, on going on the assumtion that they would be left wing, and therefore they would become refuse-nics
tom
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24th November 2022, 10:05 PM
#56
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#56 Does is that mean Thomas they would have to hand back their hat and Cor-blimey trousers and give up the tenancy of their council flat ? JS.
PS at what age did you become a fan of Karl Marx ? Before or after the hole in his head had closed up ? Cheers
JS
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25th November 2022, 05:57 AM
#57
Re: The 4 day week ?
I went to the local shop today and it was closed.
Next day when it was open I said to the owner the sign says open seven days.
Yes he said, but not all at once.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
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25th November 2022, 12:03 PM
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hi john sabourn #57
good morning, Your question aroused deep rooted and moral seaching for the answers, for the answer on would binmen keep their bowler hat and baggy trousers. of course they would, after all these are signs of their long association in their trade and with the very borough councils they worked for and any binman worth his salt could not loose his trade mark identity. The question of his council house tenancy, is another matter as we have to put ourselves out for the new dinghy arrivals whom deserve a place to live and our respect for them as having come through arduous times and tribulations, and therefore they must come first in todays society.
As for my favouritism towards marxism well i can only say that it was shaped and strengthened by my constant dealings over the years with the liverpool housing department when derek hatton and his marxist cabal where in full power and i had to use my full knowledge of my street up-bringing in getting what i was entitled to
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25th November 2022, 12:29 PM
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I really worry about those poor mistaken rubber boatmen Thomas . I imagine them sitting on a beach in France , discussing their sailing plan , only to discover that the foot pump that should be .part of the boats equipment is missing .The crook who sold them the boat has only the one pump and he sells it with every boat he sells and retrieves it when nobody is looking.. So there they all are taking turns blowing up by mouth. No wonder they are puffed when they finally reach the golden sidewalks of England . Have you no pity for these poor maligned people ?
It’s enough to turn anyone to drink, i don’t as just get the shakes again . Cheers JS
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25th November 2022, 01:01 PM
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hi john sabourn #60
good morning, like you i feel i have a deep moral obligation towards those less fortunate just like those very people getting into a dinghy motoring out a couple of hundred yards to be then escorted by the french navy out to the mid channel and handed over to our charitable lifeboats or our privatised passenger carriers whom are ultimately payed for by the british tax payer,
i can only dream that one day i may be of some help in loading these same poor needy illegals back into the dinghies they arrived in and pushing them off the beach into a running sea with wind over tide ssw force 7to 8 conditions.
after that i think i would definitely have a drink even though im coming up to five years on the wagon this year,
tom
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