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Remember a nice early start always makes a good impression. If I was you I'd be out there at 6am tomorrow morning. Just make sure the client knows you're there early by knocking on the door as soon as you get there with a couple of mugs in your hand.
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Farmers take milk off shelves at large supermarkets Re price of milk
matelot replied to mendiplogs's topic in The Lounge
It seems strange to me that farmers think it a good idea to blockade one of Morrison's distribution centres. If I was a boss at Morrison's I wouldn't take kindly to being blackmailed... Anyway, I'm off to padlock myself to my bosses car so he will give me a pay rise. -
Do you have plenty extension cables for the garden shredder? You'd feel a bit of a clown if you set your shredder up and the cable never reached the customers house.
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Farmers take milk off shelves at large supermarkets Re price of milk
matelot replied to mendiplogs's topic in The Lounge
whenever I read your posts I imagine someone that's permanently drunk! (no disrespect intended - you seem a good guy) -
Farmers take milk off shelves at large supermarkets Re price of milk
matelot replied to mendiplogs's topic in The Lounge
I can only assume that someone is forcing dairy farmers to keep producing milk despite years of the milk price being below production costs.. You would think that an industry like milk would be profitable in the UK due to there being little foreign competition ie short life span and low value/high bulk product. -
Farmers take milk off shelves at large supermarkets Re price of milk
matelot replied to mendiplogs's topic in The Lounge
Who would have thought that producing more of a commodity would lower it's price? 14 billion litres of milk produced in .... that's about 200 litres of milk for each man/ woman/ child in the UK... "UK milk production hits a 20-year high as quotas end UK dairy farmers produced 14.394bn litres in the final year of milk quota – the highest annual production since at least 1994-95. According to provisional data from the RPA, milk production totalled 1.262bn litres in March – 5m litres above last year and also the highest since for the month in 20 years." UK milk production hits a 20-year high as quotas end - Farmers Weekly -
Farmers take milk off shelves at large supermarkets Re price of milk
matelot replied to mendiplogs's topic in The Lounge
Other industries like deep cast coal mining/ textiles/ consumer electronic production/ ship building etc have left Britain because they were uneconomic. I know this will sound heartless, but I don't really see what the big deal is if some milk farmers cease production. When the shipyards closed down the sites were empty for decades, at least with the farming industry it's likely that dairy farms could be turned into beef farms etc within a few days... -
Farmers take milk off shelves at large supermarkets Re price of milk
matelot replied to mendiplogs's topic in The Lounge
For as long as I remember farmers have been complaining about how hard done to they are. They do get fairly generous subsidies and don't have to pay business rates etc. I really don't know what more they want... -
I wish my plants would grow quickly enough to be a problem! I was finding that when I first bought them they do well for a couple of months then they slowly "melted" and died. I think the secret is to add carbon. The LEDs cost me about £140 for my tank, to be fair you sometimes get second hand ones on ebay that are a lot cheaper. I can never remember what my fish are; but I do have a red tailed shark, scissortails, catfish and some female fighting fish. Whitespot killed a lot of my fish a few months back... I've found "filter aid" to be good at clearing a cloudy tank.
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I've got a 110 litre tank and I really love it A good tip is to put carbon in to help the plants. I've been putting liquid carbon in and that's really helped my plants, it also completely eradicated an algae problem I was having. I literally ordered a fire extinguisher pressurised CO2 system yesterday. If you're feeling flush you should look at LED lighting from TMC. They are expensive but the quality of the light is so good.
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The first thing I would be doing is contacting the housing association. If they are "neighbours from hell" they might hopefully be getting evicted soon.
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You'd need the wisdom of Solomon to deal with this one. It would p1ss me off no end if someone cut my tree. However is it really worth spending hundreds/ thousands on legal fees? Does your neighbour own the house or is he a tenant?
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Do you really think society would have advanced without someone "whingeing"? Would King John have signed the Magna Carta if it wasn't for those "whingeing" Barons? Or do you think women would have got the vote without those "whingeing" suffragettes?
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That's obviously untrue though. Or do you really think a fat ugly girl has a chance of becoming a model or someone in a wheelchair can become a professional footballer? I just resent the "winner takes all" economics of some industries like books. The big authors will make untold riches and the nearly as good authors will make relatively little. Is this really fair? How many tree surgeons are in the country? say 10,000? I bet they all have a fairly similar salary. How would you feel if the top tree surgeon was making £20million a year and the 100th best tree surgeon was making say £50k a year and the 1000th best tree surgeon was making £5,000 a year? Copyright for books lasts for 70 years after the authors death. Sorry, but it doesn't seem right that the JK family will be collecting royalties for these books for the next 100 years...
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I share your concerns about paying tax for the workshy... For me I understand the arguments why JK should be so rich, but emotionally I just think it's wrong that someone should have so much for writing children's books.. Other people have made a bigger contribution to mankind and not made as much.
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Do I really write like a ten year old?
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Come on, when so many people in the UK are struggling financially it's hard not to make a moral judgement on someone with so much money that they would struggle to spend the money in a hundred lifetimes...
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hmrc?
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The films are brilliant. But it seems she is getting a mighty big slice of cake while other people are getting tiny slivers.
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She is, but do you really think there aren't better ways to spend the money to benefit society? If I gave you a million quid and told you 'spend this money to help society' would you really buy a house to knock down?
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Why don't we look at other hard jobs? Bin man, Royal Marine, social worker, fireman, sewage worker. Is it typical for any of those professionals to make a billion over a Lifetime?
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She "earned" it because we live in a society that has a rule of law and respects copyright laws. IMO someone that becomes a billionaire for writing some books is getting too much money.. Should she not be paying a bit more tax so she doesn't have so much money to fritter away? Perhaps give a bit more back to the society that made her so rich?
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Yeah, she wrote those books while on benefits. She then collects massive royalties for film rights etc. How can she "earn every bit of it" when she is now only effectively going to her bank every month with a royalty cheque for a couple of million? Is that hard work demanding millions?
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Don't get me wrong, I see your argument. But at the same time it doesn't seem right that someone spends the same amount of money that most people earn in a lifetime to buy a house to knock down.
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If I had a million quid in the bank I could think of better things to do than knock a house down..... What would you do with a million? Maybe buy some ferraris and burn them?
