Making the news today....

[Stubby]

My Gran used to sing to me 10 little n--ger boys sitting on a fence when she was washing my hands for dinner . I was about 4 or 5 at the time .

[Mick Dempsey]

Even Prince Phillip knows it's a no-no.

 

 

It's pointless saying "years ago it was ok" so was the Black and White minstrel show, and Love Thy Neighbour.

 

I'm no SJW by a long chalk, but anyone in public life who uses it is on very very thin ice, as much for their judgement as their views.

[matelot]

Using the "n" word isn't advisable. However this will be another occasion where the media and SJWs get on their high horses and hound someone out of a job while ignoring far worse injustices....

 

I just wish the media would report on white farmers getting killed in South Africa or things like Rotherham.

[openspaceman]

Well its what I was told as a boy, made sense to me, maybe I've been mislead??

 

It was a phrase from my childhood along with golly wogs and badges from robertsons jam. I guess it will die out with my generation along with eyties, spicks and dagos.

 

Black things were often named such

 

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[skyhuck]

It was a phrase from my childhood along with golly wogs and badges from robertsons jam. I guess it will die out with my generation along with eyties, spicks and dagos.

 

Black things were often named such

 

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Yes I had a golly wog and a full set of badges.

 

I also recall my mother having some fabric dye that was labelled "nigger brown" different times.

[Graham]

Rightly or wrongly I use all the names for all different nationalities whether it's Taffies, Wops etc. I'm no racist at all and mean nothing by it but I suppose many people would take it the wrong way.

[openspaceman]

Rightly or wrongly I use all the names for all different nationalities whether it's Taffies, Wops etc. I'm no racist at all and mean nothing by it but I suppose many people would take it the wrong way.

 

I think the point is the lady used the phrase in a non pejorative way to give a sense to the hidden surprises that await us if a deal cannot be struck.

 

Someone has used it as an excuse to withdraw the whip. Some politician get away with murder...

[Mesterh]

UK should end cash in hand economy

 

I wonder how much money they will spend trying to implement and control something like this rather than tell google, Starbucks, amazon etc to pay up or get out?

[Haironyourchest]

UK should end cash in hand economy

 

I wonder how much money they will spend trying to implement and control something like this rather than tell google, Starbucks, amazon etc to pay up or get out?

 

Not going to happen

 

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[trigger_andy]

Perhaps we do need oil a little longer Andy but it wont be coming from the North sea all the time OPEC countries drive the price of crude through the floor. A friend that works for a Chinese exploration company with interests in North sea oil are taking a huge hit running into hundreds of millions, the only reason they are still there is because the number crunchers have done the sums and this is the most economical way out of a bigger financial disaster. He reckons Aberdeen is now a ghost town in comparison to its hayday, its competitive world prices that dictate viability and the middle east know it. Way too many oil fields worldwide ATM that make more financial sense than the costly and hostile environment of the North sea.

 

 

 

Bob

 

 

I've worked on a few Chinese rigs, COSL RIGS here, off of Norway and Australia. Not as bad as I thought they would be but I'm 100% sure they had cats handing up in the Chinese Galley for the Junior Mess.

 

OPEC have tried and failed to kill off shale oil in the US by turning on the Taps and flooding the market. In the US the Shale Oil Operators broke even at $70 pre-downturn and with tech coming on this cost was coming down and becoming more feasible and would mean the US would be less dependant on OPEC than before. Hence why they tried to kill it off. Ultimately it failed as US Operators ruthlessly cut costs and utilised tech that service companies where now practically giving away to stay afloat. This has resulted in Shale Oil making a slow resurgence and OPEC with a huge hole in their budgets. They've had to slowly open them again as there military has no funds.

 

This is one of three serious downturns that I've worked through and by far the worst but that's all it is. It's just a correction and Aberdeen will knuckle down and get through it. Stavanger is just as badly hit but is back on the up. My house over there is back on the market as the correction is over and stabilised. New fields are just coming on-line and the company I work for is one of a few helping to keep rthe costs at around $20 a barrel all in.

 

The last bust has rid us of a lot of dead wood (no pun intended) tightened belts and like any war has seriously advanced tech at cheaper prices so we're just waiting on the next boom.

 

 

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