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Mick Dempsey

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  1. What do they say about it?
  2. How old are you?
  3. The poor today are infinitely better off than the poor in the 70s
  4. 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.
  5. Operators of what?
  6. Good point!
  7. Maybe so, maybe no. If they don’t move at all it can deceive you.
  8. Spray wd40 on the window, sometimes they get stuck.
  9. 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.
  10. So, one has to pitch why one wants the prize in the short conversation?
  11. So, to be clear, is the winner picked at random, or do you decide who is worthy?
  12. 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.
  13. I put it down to gravity.
  14. I was trying to keep it clean.
  15. 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.
  16. Bit harsh Joe, let him come back tomorrow.
  17. Extraordinary. 2 years old but nevertheless. @AA Teccie (Paul) care to explain?
  18. This bloke gets it.
  19. 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?
  20. 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.
  21. I thought you lived in Scotland, do you live in Norway then?
  22. 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.
  23. Thought it was the Diddy Men that did that.

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