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    #21
    I do find they seem to feel they're entitled to steal.
    Having just had my bathroom and boiler redone, they just drive up and grab any leftover copper piping temporarily stored outside with absolutely no shame. And I work from home, so they can see me in the front room. My builder says it happens to him at every single job.

    When we lived in Milton Keynes they broke into our shed and stole a couple of bikes. Luckily they're keener on scrap metal than fancy bikes, so they only took the older, heavier mountain bikes and left the much more pricey road bikes behind. Idiots.

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      #22
      Originally posted by formant View Post
      I do find they seem to feel they're entitled to steal.
      Having just had my bathroom and boiler redone, they just drive up and grab any leftover copper piping temporarily stored outside with absolutely no shame. And I work from home, so they can see me in the front room. My builder says it happens to him at every single job.
      ...and yet he still leaves copper piping lying around outside?
      And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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        #23
        Originally posted by zeitghost
        I feel a disturbance in the force.

        It's Godwin's Law approaching.

        NAZI!
        And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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          #24
          Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
          ...and yet he still leaves copper piping lying around outside?
          Oh, he anticipates it now. Doesn't leave anything worthwhile for him to sell off. (but yeah, that was my first thought, too...)

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            #25
            Originally posted by zeitghost
            Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Zeity!
            Ein Wig, Ein Lizard, Ein polystyrene boulder!

            Sorry zeity, that just popped into my head.

            What was this thread about again?

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              #26
              Originally posted by zeitghost
              Dunno.

              Bald Headed War Criminals I think.
              No, people of Hibernian descent who have made a positive life choice to reside in (semi-) mobile accomodation and find gainful intermittent employ through a creative and liberated interpretation of the tyrannical imperialist concept of personal property.

              Is that PC enough?
              And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                #27
                Originally posted by vetran View Post
                pretty much normal


                Sorry to say don't have much time for Pikeys.


                And no now you can't call them that anymore its racist
                There have been successful prosecutions over the use of that epithet.
                Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                  #28
                  I was watching one of those gypo wedding shows and there was some idiot in one scene saying how the police would not give him a break and were always accusing him of stealing stuff. Then in the next breath he was bragging about all the stuff he nicked. I guess when he says wanting a bit of slack etc he actually wants a bigger head start.

                  It pisses me off that they claim that they have this lifestyle which we don't understand and they are discrimminated against, yet they are happy to pick up the benefits our society offers. That they need to this mobile lifestyle which only seems to be mobile once the courts have finally got their @rse into gear, when they have robbed the locals of everything that's not nailed down and after they have wrecked the place where they had been staying.

                  A complete bunch of hypocritical There was a few of them at Picadilly yesterday. All the girls looked like really, really cheap slags while the lads looked somebody had shaved an ape and forced it into various bits of sportsware and decorated it with the cheapest gold Argos could supply.
                  Rule Number 1 - Assuming that you have a valid contract in place always try to get your poo onto your timesheet, provided that the timesheet is valid for your current contract and covers the period of time that you are billing for.

                  I preferred version 1!

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by zeitghost
                    Sounds good to me.

                    Are any of them related to Bald Headed War Criminals by any mischance?
                    Captain Pike might be a descendant.

                    But I might be putting 2 and 2 together there to make 5.

                    And if I recall he wasn't bald.

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                      #30
                      Now just imagine if they were from Romania or Bulgaria
                      Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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