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Irresponsible Borrowers
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MegaMiniMouse wrote: »Yeah rite - ok - rite - so the sweetie shops make money? Lose money? I don't understand...
Oh dear - either you're at the wind up or that little bit simple (maybe you need some big person to hold your hand and prevent you from making a wrong decision...)
Fat kids like sweeties
Sweetie shops have lots of them
Too many sweeties make fat kid sick
Joe blogs sees chav/chavette celeb living fancy lifestyle but needs money to live that livestyle
Bank has lots of money
Too much money on credit make joe blogs up !!!!!! creek in debt and he loses the lot because they didn't take any personal responsibility and borrowed too much!0 -
jamespmg44 wrote: »Fat kids like sweeties
Sweetie shops have lots of them
Too many sweeties make fat kid sick
No worries then, there's a bailout just around the corner..0 -
jamespmg44 wrote: »Yes, but apparantly if they left them open and they got robbed when the criminals go to court it would be entirely the shops faults for tempting them...
Yes it would, I think negligence should cover it.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Yes it would, I think negligence should cover it.
It is still theft to me. Where has the honesty gone?
My mum worked as a cashier in a bank in the 70s. One evening everyone left to go home. A cleaner came running out to her at the bus stop to let her know the vault had been left open. It took a couple of hours to get it all sorted out with the manager back in the bank - but the cleaners had been honest.
There has been a run of nice nice stories with cabbies returning people's items of major value they've accidentally left in the cab. And a hotel manager recently.
ALSO... thinking about it, what about this sewer worker guy?· In the 1800s a sewer worker tunnelled into the vaults of the Bank of England by mistake. Instead of taking a bar and making a hasty exit, he informed the appropriate authorities and was given an £800 reward - the equivalent of about £36,000 in today's money.· Britain's gold reserves are stored in vaults 45ft below the Bank in Threadneedle Street. Because the bank is built on a clay soil, no more than 80 bars - equivalent to one tonne in weight - can be stacked on top each other, otherwise they might sink.0 -
It is still theft to me. Where has the honesty gone?
My mum worked as a cashier in a bank in the 70s. One evening everyone left to go home. A cleaner came running out to her at the bus stop to let her know the vault had been left open. It took a couple of hours to get it all sorted out with the manager back in the bank - but the cleaners had been honest.
There has been a run of nice nice stories with cabbies returning people's items of major value they've accidentally left in the cab. And a hotel manager recently.
ALSO... thinking about it, what about this sewer worker guy?
I agree, but if I was running a business I wouldn't be depending upon it
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
It's not the fault of the sweet shop that people became obese. In fact, I bet the sweetie shops widened their doors so they could still waddle in.... that doesn't make it their fault. It's the fatties' faults.MegaMiniMouse wrote: »Yeah rite - ok - rite - so the sweetie shops make money? Lose money? I don't understand...0 -
MegaMiniMouse wrote: »No worries then, there's a bailout just around the corner..
The big bad banks forced chav and chavette to borrow money, i'm sure they did.
No one denies the banks made a complete @rse of the situation however they are not soley culpable.
You sound like the kind of person who takes no responsibility for their actions. Nothing's ever your fault is it...0 -
It is still theft to me. Where has the honesty gone?
ALSO... thinking about it, what about this sewer worker guy?
Here is a good one.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-10904263'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »It's not the fault of the sweet shop that people became obese. In fact, I bet the sweetie shops widened their doors so they could still waddle in.... that doesn't make it their fault. It's the fatties' faults.
Eventually, the nanny state will impose a maximum doors width - xxx0 -
Yes it would, I think negligence should cover it.
The owner's negligence is no defence to a charge of theft....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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