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[Bairnardo]

7 minutes ago, MixuFruit said:

Someone who posts with a straight face that a person on 80% of their salary is taking home more than they usually earn for f**k all is NAP for saying immigrants get given the best cooncil hooses.

The sort that have a hardon for how big folks telly is or how they have the latest iPhone.....

 

Diny get me started on foreign holidays either!!!

[Bert Raccoon]

I quite fancy telling my boss there's no work for me to do and be sent home without any checks being done at all. Fair play to Red23 on taking on another person's workload without  grassing.

[BFTD]

14 minutes ago, NotThePars said:

I'm not old enough to know if it gained traction during Thatcher but this country fucking hates the idea of anyone possibly freeloading off any public good. Weird, spiteful little country of curtain twitchers.

It's worse than that. There's a weird strain of spiteful hoors who see somebody with privileges or rights that they don't enjoy at their own work, and will spit venom about how they should have them removed. It tends to come up when public sector workers are discussed, or employees in unionised industry. They would actually prefer to see somebody brought down to their level of misery, rather than entertain the idea that their own employer is ripping the pish out of them.

Having such a low opinion of your own worth has to count as a form of mental illness, surely.

[NotThePars]

6 minutes ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

It's worse than that. There's a weird strain of spiteful hoors who see somebody with privileges or rights that they don't enjoy at their own work, and will spit venom about how they should have them removed. It tends to come up when public sector workers are discussed, or employees in unionised industry. They would actually prefer to see somebody brought down to their level of misery, rather than entertain the idea that their own employer is ripping the pish out of them.

Having such a low opinion of your own worth has to count as a form of mental illness, surely.

Look at the venom people have for RMT workers because they have good salaries and decent perks.

[Gaz FFC]

34 minutes ago, MixuFruit said:

Someone who posts with a straight face that a person on 80% of their salary is taking home more than they usually earn for f**k all is NAP for saying immigrants get given the best cooncil hooses.

Don't forget the endless wealth we give them and the pick of the burds

[BFTD]

2 minutes ago, NotThePars said:

Look at the venom people have for RMT workers because they have good salaries and decent perks.

So many you could list. There were folk absolutely delighted when the Royal Mail was being privatised and the union was having to negotiate new contracts. Happier than if they'd been getting a pay raise themselves.

[Eddie Hitler]

7 minutes ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

It's worse than that. There's a weird strain of spiteful hoors who see somebody with privileges or rights that they don't enjoy at their own work, and will spit venom about how they should have them removed. It tends to come up when public sector workers are discussed, or employees in unionised industry. They would actually prefer to see somebody brought down to their level of misery, rather than entertain the idea that their own employer is ripping the pish out of them.

Having such a low opinion of your own worth has to count as a form of mental illness, surely.

Exactly right and this line of thought works with others some people don't think should be raised up for whatever reason. I was having a conversation with someone at my work a while back about McDonald's workers demanding $15 an hour in America. The other guy was up in arms that I thought "they should be paid more than me" (which allowing for exchange rates etc I doubt they would be but that's besides the point). He simply could not be made to understand that folk who thought the likes of McDonald's workers should be paid a fair wage were not thinking of the McDonald's workers in isolation and felt that *everyone* should be paid a fair wage and that this might result in him being paid more. It was all "they shouldn't get as much as me" along with a total acceptance of the idea that it simply wasn't possible that fair wages could be paid despite societies like Denmark making a decent fist of it.

[Eddie Hitler]

7 minutes ago, NotThePars said:

Look at the venom people have for RMT workers because they have good salaries and decent perks.

Yup, and then shouting that they can't get a train when staff protest for better wages and conditions without realising that their need for a train only emphasises how valuable the staff are because the service is needed for things to function. Screaming about how "selfish" the staff are, little realising the irony in demanding the staff dance to their tune and go back to work.

[Dan Steele]

1 hour ago, oaksoft said:

Apart from anything else, the press and the general public have the attention spans of gnats.

Unless you've missed the media coverage of tens of thousands of people emailing their MPs about the Cummings debacle, when you've been out in the sun celebrating your latest lump sum payout.

[Gordon EF]

1 hour ago, MixuFruit said:

Someone who posts with a straight face that a person on 80% of their salary is taking home more than they usually earn for f**k all is NAP for saying immigrants get given the best cooncil hooses.

And you just know he's mentioned folk on benefits all having "wide-screen TVs" about a billion times in his life.

[welshbairn]

37 minutes ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

It's worse than that. There's a weird strain of spiteful hoors who see somebody with privileges or rights that they don't enjoy at their own work, and will spit venom about how they should have them removed. It tends to come up when public sector workers are discussed, or employees in unionised industry. They would actually prefer to see somebody brought down to their level of misery, rather than entertain the idea that their own employer is ripping the pish out of them.

Having such a low opinion of your own worth has to count as a form of mental illness, surely.

Seen that so often, even trying to sabotage a deal I was negotiating because better paid workers would have their differentials marginalised. Nothing about them maybe trying for a better deal. Brought the union in for back up but turned out they were on the their side so told them to f**k off. Got a decent deal, management probably loved it.

[D.A.F.C]

My theory of what happened with that attitude of 'you sink to my level, I don't rise to your level' is after Thatcher broke unions in the 80s, Murdoch bought The Times and all the Sensible People said we could never go back to the bad old ways of the unions. Panicking about what a big unemployed workforce would do, Thatcher made sure easy credit went everywhere and the narrative became Labour and their Trade Union Puppeteers will take your nice car off you because socialism, and that's basically stuck with us ever since.

Exactly people are brainwashed into buying and spending and its left a nation of debt ridden workers who will do anything for their employer because they're desperate and living on a knife edge.

[Futureboy]

30 minutes ago, The Skelpit Lug said:

Unless you've missed the media coverage of tens of thousands of people emailing their MPs about the Cummings debacle, when you've been out in the sun celebrating your latest lump sum payout.

I emailed my Tory boy MP (no response), but I'm glad to hear he has had over one thousand. He got in on less a thousand votes. I'm hoping folk remember this. 

Edited May 29, 2020 by Futureboy

[MONKMAN]

18 minutes ago, virginton said:

Did you grass them in like your fellow curtain twitching old timer philpy?

I certainly did not, nobody likes a grass. 

[Gordon EF]

The comments section on the BBC news article about the furlough scheme..... ooft.

Spoiler

 

[throbber]

1 hour ago, MixuFruit said:

Someone who posts with a straight face that a person on 80% of their salary is taking home more than they usually earn for f**k all is NAP for saying immigrants get given the best cooncil hooses.

The same type of folk who believe people who are queueing at food banks are after a free meal because they clearly aren’t poor due to their designer trainers.

 

[welshbairn]

1 minute ago, throbber said:

The same type of folk who believe people who are queueing at food banks are after a free meal because they clearly aren’t poor due to their designer trainers.

 

As if you'd be wearing designer trainers below your jobby catchers.

[red23]

2 hours ago, Bert Raccoon said:

I quite fancy telling my boss there's no work for me to do and be sent home without any checks being done at all. Fair play to Red23 on taking on another person's workload without  grassing.

I know exactly what he did, he was stupid enough to say as much but yes i wasn't going to say anything as he'd lose his job entirely.

The fact the customer was baffled as to why he was furloughed when an active job was in place is another thing.

Edited May 29, 2020 by red23

[throbber]

3 hours ago, MONKMAN said:

Loads of groups of youths bevying in the park today, social distancing was non existent.

My neighbours on Sunday night clearly had at least 2 people round at theirs having a full scale piss up into the small hours and then today appeared to have numerous guests coming and going at various intervals throughout the day with blatant disregard for social distancing and clearly entering and exiting the household at will. Nothing about it surprised me and I’m pretty sure every single get together in a private garden this weekend will involve blatant disregard for guidelines.

[Gaz FFC]

25 minutes ago, throbber said:

The same type of folk who believe people who are queueing at food banks are after a free meal because they clearly aren’t poor due to their designer trainers.

 

I heard they smoked and drank all their cash