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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    There’s a mindset where getting richer and more comfortable every year is seen as a human right. We will have to get used to a bit more more snakes and ladders in our living standards as the global population booms and resources diminish.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    Operators of what?
  3. Mick Dempsey
    Climbing Hydrangea.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Good point!
  5. Mick Dempsey
    Maybe so, maybe no. If they don’t move at all it can deceive you.
  6. Mick Dempsey
    Spray wd40 on the window, sometimes they get stuck.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    1: I have found derision and insulting behavior as a default setting works best, an occasional ‘you surprised me there by not bollocking that up!’ Can really send spirits soaring. 2: Be Professional. Not taking drugs and taking a crap BEFORE you come to work is a start. 3: Good luck with that. 4: No one wants to survey trees for utilities. 5: Going down the pub on a Friday after work with a pocketful of fifties, smelling like a bin dipping raccoon, having the good grace to chop up a couple of lines in the bogs for the impoverished youngsters is all that’s needed to convince the yoof you’re a man of substance and inspire the next generation to follow your lead.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    So, one has to pitch why one wants the prize in the short conversation?
  9. Mick Dempsey
    So, to be clear, is the winner picked at random, or do you decide who is worthy?
  10. Mick Dempsey
    1.5 tonne digger struggles with a bamboo ‘carpet’ need a 2.5 tonne ideally. I’ve long since turned down all bamboo work. Walk away.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    I put it down to gravity.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    I was trying to keep it clean.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    Reading it again doesn’t make it any better. The bit I ‘enjoyed’ most was where he only did two months as a freelance climber because he got all the difficult/dangerous jobs, couldn’t hack that so got a ‘proper’ job with an arb approved contractor. Long live unregulated tree work, out of the grasp of twits like this.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Bit harsh Joe, let him come back tomorrow.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Extraordinary. 2 years old but nevertheless. @AA Teccie (Paul) care to explain?
  16. Mick Dempsey
    This bloke gets it.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    They’d have a armed police unit round there in 20 minutes these days. They’d confiscate the money. Over here you cannot legally pay more than €1000 in cash for anything. Anything like that in the UK?
  18. Mick Dempsey
    My nephew worked for a while as a car salesman selling Hondas in Crawley. He had to quickly work out if the client was a waste of time or not, his commission depended on him moving units and finance deals, not yakking with dreamers. The worst were South Asians, they’d spend Sundays just making stupid offers on cars, pulling out at the last minute on deals etc. If he saw one strolling into the showroom he’d disappear into the back hoping another salesman would get lumbered.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    I thought you lived in Scotland, do you live in Norway then?
  20. Mick Dempsey
    So the bloke who spends an awful lot of time on here telling us how much he earns, how clever he is and how dumb we all are, doesn’t like how much tax he pays? It’s Friday night, so I’m treating myself with a gif.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Thought it was the Diddy Men that did that.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    Unlikely.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    Anyway, my point (before the wine kicks in) is it’s not just paying in the pot to take out as you put it. Its paying in the pot knowing you’ll never take it out. Some people who have no children will pay for other people children’s health care and education, other peoples elderly parents to have care and their arses wiped even though their own parents may have died inexpensively much younger. In society, you’re either in or you’re out, you can’t pick and choose, you enjoy earning good money and a safe and healthy environment to raise your kids, then you render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Ok, understood. The state paid for your childrens education from 5 to 18 though right?
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Andy, I understand you (and Dave) are lucky enough to have quite a few children, good for you both. Did you pay for their births (all the doctors, midwives etc) privately? Have they all been educated in private schools from infancy? Any time they are ill do you pay privately every penny for health care? Not trying to catch you out, you know where I’m going with this.

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