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&quotAscension Ox&quot wrote:How come all these apparently, big brained individuals have so much time to indulge themselves on this forum?

I work for myself. What's your excuse?

&quotIn this matter, as in so many others, I use my self-employed status to aggressively advance a double standard.&quot

I have an arts degree from an old-style elite university (History, Oxford) for which I received a full grant and a vocational degree from an ex-Poly (Information and Library Management, UNN) for which I shelled out a lot of money. I've also worked for both an ex-Poly (Brookes, lovely job) and an eli...

&quotAscension Ox&quot wrote: I don't see many public sector lay offs at present.

Well, hopefully that will end soon so that we can increase the unemployment figures still further...or maybe the functions that the public sector carries out will continue to be considered fundamental by the public at large.

&quotGodalmingYellow&quot wrote:Many in the private sector would willingly swap the marginally higher private sector pay for the security and benefits of the public sector, at the drop of a hat.

Then why don't they? Is the private sector really full of people frantically applying for public sector jobs?

You'll have to do more than grunt if you expect anyone to understand you. You may have to make a more coherent point if you wish it to be understood. What we have now is a society riddled with debt of the Governments own making. That may be true, but is debt in the UK, in fact, relatively high comp...

there are a lot of angry people around. And believe me, not all of them are stupid. Or thoughtless. Well, anger does tend in both of these directions, rather than those of rational thought. (Like the rational question which asks, &quothow come all these people who are so angry about the suppose...

&quotAscension Ox&quot wrote:It is causing a lot of resentment already.

Yes, among the stupid and thoughtless and the people looking for somebody to kick.

&quotAscension Ox&quot wrote:Lucky her. Her pension will be different 'class' then.

Ah, another one jumping on the blame-the-public-sector-workers-and-their-cushy-pensions bandwagon. Boy, we're going to be hearing a lot of this crap.

I was watching the second half from Anfield on Saturday and was surprised to see Windass come on. He looked like Frankenstein's monster. It wouldn’t surprise me if Wayne Rooney turned out to be Dean’s lovechild. It wasn't Windass' face that gave me that impression - unlovely though it is - but his ...

It occurs to me nobody's put John Sitton's name forward yet. Is it too late to add him to the shortlist?

My old home town 1 (o.g) My old home town 1 (o.g.) 4444 666 The PA announces the team line-ups as normal...but then remarks that the club have fallen so far, it must be some kind of curse. Kelvin takes the microphone and promises that, as chairman, he will save the club. But his brother-in-law, retu...

There's a few sitting-it-out candidates, as far as I can see...