Read This & Then Pinch Yourself

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Vito replied

31 May 2007, 20:39
Its a disgrace...these three guys make a mockery of us buying them comfortable chairs...there are people starving in Africa you know...I mean, its not as if we are talking about hero's here that risk their lives to save ours for sh!t money is it...sack them I say
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OwlHoot replied

31 May 2007, 19:56
Originally posted by zathras

Wait a minute, it is a chair and it requires a four page manual?*!!£$*&!

Maybe if you sit in it the wrong way, or without checking a couple of levers, it'll snap shut and you'll end up looking like a novelty birthday card.
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zathras replied

31 May 2007, 16:35
Originally posted by zeitghost

It's 'Ealf & Safety, gov, you can't be too careful.

More like jobsworth & Co.

Why are they not doing anything about beds. It is clear from the number of people who die in them that these are extremly dangerous devices!
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zathras replied

31 May 2007, 13:40
Originally posted by BBC News

firefighters were not allowed to sit or lie on the devices before reading a four-page health and safety manual.

Wait a minute, it is a chair and it requires a four page manual?*!!£$*&!
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angusglover replied

31 May 2007, 13:02
I was complimenting it...
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SallyAnne replied

31 May 2007, 13:00
Originally posted by angusglover

Oh Dear!!!!!

Dont steal my joke!!!
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angusglover replied

31 May 2007, 12:58
Originally posted by SallyAnne

I am nearly always the clear "brain box" on site.

Oh Dear!!!!!
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SallyAnne replied

31 May 2007, 12:57
Originally posted by Bluebird

I'd hardly call the civil service a waste of resources - most of the workers are unemployable in any Private Sector business - so really it's just a way of keeping them off the streets and keeping the dole figures down...

I have to agree - I mostly work on Civil servant projects, and I am nearly always the clear "brain box" on site (which just about says it all!)

Most departments are like special needs nurseries.
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Bluebird replied

31 May 2007, 12:53
Originally posted by timh

Hello! That's the whole point of the civil service!

I'd hardly call the civil service a waste of resources - most of the workers are unemployable in any Private Sector business - so really it's just a way of keeping them off the streets and keeping the dole figures down...
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timh replied

31 May 2007, 12:49
Originally posted by angusglover

FFS, a waste of resources...

Hello! That's the whole point of the civil service!
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angusglover replied

31 May 2007, 12:44
Health & Safety is the biggest joke the government ever dreamt up,.....FFS, a waste of resources...
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young veteran replied

31 May 2007, 12:20
an we pay taxes for what???
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SallyAnne replied

31 May 2007, 12:16
ffs <shakes head>
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angusglover replied

31 May 2007, 12:09
What has the country sunk to...this is a whole new depth of stoopidity...
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Kyajae started a topic Read This & Then Pinch Yourself

31 May 2007, 12:07
Read This & Then Pinch Yourself

Fire crew 'slept in wrong place'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...er/6707509.stm

<pissing myself uncontrolably>
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