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Useless jobs still being recruited for in the civil service

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  • Jonbvn
    Jonbvn Posts: 5,562 Forumite
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    edited 19 September 2010 at 10:45AM
    bendix wrote: »
    I was born on a council estate, and spent my first fifteen sixteen years there, before leaving home and living rough for the next couple of years.

    What about the 72 hour shifts, licked road for breakfast and "we were lucky"!;)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
    In case you hadn't already worked it out - the entire global financial system is predicated on the assumption that you're an idiot:cool:
  • olly300
    olly300 Posts: 14,738 Forumite
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    Afraid I have to agree with Ninky. Trying to argue who is the most working class and had the most deprived background is pointless.

    Equality who provides the most useful service is a pointless argument as different businesses have different needs.
    I'm not cynical I'm realistic :p

    (If a link I give opens pop ups I won't know I don't use windows)
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    ninky wrote: »
    i can't believe what this has generated into.....a competition for who had the most deprived background (any advance on no new bike until the age of 14?) and who's job makes them a more worthwhile person. in the red corner IT...in the blue corner marketing, hmm.

    :rotfl:


    Yes, if it weren't so sad, it might be quite amusing.
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    marklv wrote: »
    The naughty chap from Austria did not declare war on us, it was viceversa. He could have been ignored as long as he looked eastwards. Poland could never be defended from the west of Germany; it was just a pretext to go to war.

    You're quite mad.
  • marklv
    marklv Posts: 1,768 Forumite
    carolt wrote: »
    You're quite mad.

    Madness is close to genius, is it not? Mad or not, I'm quite right. WW2 was utterly unnecessary.
  • olly300
    olly300 Posts: 14,738 Forumite
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    marklv wrote: »
    Madness is close to genius, is it not?
    Nope. They are just parts of the human character.
    marklv wrote: »
    Mad or not, I'm quite right. WW2 was utterly unnecessary.
    Keep taking the drugs.
    I'm not cynical I'm realistic :p

    (If a link I give opens pop ups I won't know I don't use windows)
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    ninky wrote: »
    i can't believe what this has generated into.....a competition for who had the most deprived background (any advance on no new bike until the age of 14?) and who's job makes them a more worthwhile person. in the red corner IT...in the blue corner marketing, hmm.

    :rotfl:


    i can never understand peoples' desperation to demonstate how working class they are. i'd far rather have had the relatively privileged middle class upbringing that i had, than being brought up on a council estate.
  • bendix
    bendix Posts: 5,499 Forumite
    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    i can never understand peoples' desperation to demonstate how working class they are. i'd far rather have had the relatively privileged middle class upbringing that i had, than being brought up on a council estate.


    It came about - if you read back - because marklv was berating the so-called libertarians (ie, me) for not knowing what we're talking about as we had never set foot on a council estate.

    And yet . . and yet.

    How ironic.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    ninky wrote: »
    fairy nuff but what do you call this then?

    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23431858-bbc-more-hideously-white-than-ever-as-number-of-black-executives-drops-to-all-time-low.do

    From the article, it looks dodgy. But I don't know enough about it.
    ...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'.
  • ninky_2
    ninky_2 Posts: 5,872 Forumite
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    From the article, it looks dodgy. But I don't know enough about it.

    there also used to be a requirement for workplaces with more than 20 people to employ a quota of 3 percent disabled workers. this was removed in 1995.
    Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron
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