What really gets your goat?
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Awarding City status to a sleepy on-sea town without a cathedral!
Or does our PM consider the Kursaal amusement park to qualify as such?
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Or does our PM consider the Kursaal amusement park to qualify as such?
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BenBhoy
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Yeah, literally....Or "like"
Jura
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Yep totally agree: -
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Yapping dogs....... especially the stupid wee handbag type dogs that get left at home to yap all day now their owners have finally have had to go back to work..... Oh yeah....and the usual idiots who go out and empty their dogs all over the place, but look away and pretend it isn't their mess to clean up
..... Oh yeah....and the usual idiots who go out and empty their dogs all over the place, but look away and pretend it isn't their mess to clean upYep, the Trade Centre uk radio advert…..
The blokes voice makes me go from calm to angry/agitated is a nano-second.
I literally cannot stand his shouty voice trying to make me buy a car from them.
His voice has the completely opposite effect on me as I will never buy a car from them, based purely upon how annoying his voice is
Bavarianbrit
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The supply of goats is drying up I hear.
308rws
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Businesses, economists, financial advisers, politicians, shareholders etc. etc.who say "pass on costs to the customer".
In principle, if the cost of raw material, manufacturing and logistics goes up I don't mind "sharing" the costs with companies. However, use of the term is an insight into just how dog-eat-dog modern civil society has become.
"... here's the dirty secret. There was a time in which the economics profession worked in the public interest, but in the neoliberal era, today, they work only for big corporations and billionaires. We could choose to enact economic policies that raise taxes on the rich, regulate powerful corporations or raise wages for workers. But neoliberal economists would warn that all of these policies would be a terrible mistake, because raising taxes always kills economic growth, and any form of government regulation is inefficient, and raising wages always kills jobs.
Well, as a consequence of that thinking, over the last 30 years, in the USA alone, the top one percent has grown 21 trillion dollars richer while the bottom 50 percent have grown 900 billion dollars poorer, a pattern of widening inequality that has largely repeated itself across the world. And yet, as middle class families struggle to get by on wages that have not budged in about 40 years, neoliberal economists continue to warn that the only reasonable response to the painful dislocations of austerity and globalization is even more austerity and globalization." Nick Hanauer
In principle, if the cost of raw material, manufacturing and logistics goes up I don't mind "sharing" the costs with companies. However, use of the term is an insight into just how dog-eat-dog modern civil society has become.
"... here's the dirty secret. There was a time in which the economics profession worked in the public interest, but in the neoliberal era, today, they work only for big corporations and billionaires. We could choose to enact economic policies that raise taxes on the rich, regulate powerful corporations or raise wages for workers. But neoliberal economists would warn that all of these policies would be a terrible mistake, because raising taxes always kills economic growth, and any form of government regulation is inefficient, and raising wages always kills jobs.
Well, as a consequence of that thinking, over the last 30 years, in the USA alone, the top one percent has grown 21 trillion dollars richer while the bottom 50 percent have grown 900 billion dollars poorer, a pattern of widening inequality that has largely repeated itself across the world. And yet, as middle class families struggle to get by on wages that have not budged in about 40 years, neoliberal economists continue to warn that the only reasonable response to the painful dislocations of austerity and globalization is even more austerity and globalization." Nick Hanauer
Royal Mail,
Not the postie but the inability of the organisation stick to its' T+Cs
ie Why did it take a first class letter franked 4/10 until 12/10 to travel 10 miles across a town?,
Why does it take 8 working days for a class two letter to be delivered
And just how do parcels get "Lost"
Not the postie but the inability of the organisation stick to its' T+Cs
ie Why did it take a first class letter franked 4/10 until 12/10 to travel 10 miles across a town?,
Why does it take 8 working days for a class two letter to be delivered
And just how do parcels get "Lost"
John Gryphon
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The lack of deer hunting reports.
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