A bit council (Vol 3)
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I was wondering the same thing.alorotom said:
Blackfeather said:
Rawwr said:
captain_cynic said:
Clearly not the same drugs you are on... How long ago was this post?
You clearly didn't read my post, I didn't say all holidays in the UK were council, just most. But yes, mountain biking as any kind of holiday is council. You may not think it is, but everyone else does, especially the people you're holding up.
Also yet to find a breakfast buffet that isn't council. Given that you think mountain biking is a good holiday you've really shot yourself in the foot here.
Further more, if I'm travelling for business (which I've had to do quite a bit in the past) then someone else is paying for it... So you're damn well right I'm going to a nice sit down restaurant to have a table service meal billed to the client. If the client will not meet such basic requirements, then good luck finding someone with my level of skill who'll do the same job.
In fact all my previous jobs have stipulated I'm not permitted to work more than 8 hours when working away from home as the "reasonable overtime" in most professional contracts clause goes right out the window and some hideously expensive overtime comes into it. I also got paid for flight time, regardless of if it was in or out of business hours, once again, see the part about the client above.
If you find you're pressed for time when working away... it's either poor planning or you need a better career.
You sound fun. You clearly didn't read my post, I didn't say all holidays in the UK were council, just most. But yes, mountain biking as any kind of holiday is council. You may not think it is, but everyone else does, especially the people you're holding up.
Also yet to find a breakfast buffet that isn't council. Given that you think mountain biking is a good holiday you've really shot yourself in the foot here.
Further more, if I'm travelling for business (which I've had to do quite a bit in the past) then someone else is paying for it... So you're damn well right I'm going to a nice sit down restaurant to have a table service meal billed to the client. If the client will not meet such basic requirements, then good luck finding someone with my level of skill who'll do the same job.
In fact all my previous jobs have stipulated I'm not permitted to work more than 8 hours when working away from home as the "reasonable overtime" in most professional contracts clause goes right out the window and some hideously expensive overtime comes into it. I also got paid for flight time, regardless of if it was in or out of business hours, once again, see the part about the client above.
If you find you're pressed for time when working away... it's either poor planning or you need a better career.
But in a special universe where 'fun' is synonymous with 'like a prick'.
Swampy1982 said:
captain_cynic said:
Clearly not the same drugs you are on... How long ago was this post?
You clearly didn't read my post, I didn't say all holidays in the UK were council, just most. But yes, mountain biking as any kind of holiday is council. You may not think it is, but everyone else does, especially the people you're holding up.
Also yet to find a breakfast buffet that isn't council. Given that you think mountain biking is a good holiday you've really shot yourself in the foot here.
Further more, if I'm travelling for business (which I've had to do quite a bit in the past) then someone else is paying for it... So you're damn well right I'm going to a nice sit down restaurant to have a table service meal billed to the client. If the client will not meet such basic requirements, then good luck finding someone with my level of skill who'll do the same job.
In fact all my previous jobs have stipulated I'm not permitted to work more than 8 hours when working away from home as the "reasonable overtime" in most professional contracts clause goes right out the window and some hideously expensive overtime comes into it. I also got paid for flight time, regardless of if it was in or out of business hours, once again, see the part about the client above.
If you find you're pressed for time when working away... it's either poor planning or you need a better career.
First things first, I can't work out if this post is serious or an attempt at satire.You clearly didn't read my post, I didn't say all holidays in the UK were council, just most. But yes, mountain biking as any kind of holiday is council. You may not think it is, but everyone else does, especially the people you're holding up.
Also yet to find a breakfast buffet that isn't council. Given that you think mountain biking is a good holiday you've really shot yourself in the foot here.
Further more, if I'm travelling for business (which I've had to do quite a bit in the past) then someone else is paying for it... So you're damn well right I'm going to a nice sit down restaurant to have a table service meal billed to the client. If the client will not meet such basic requirements, then good luck finding someone with my level of skill who'll do the same job.
In fact all my previous jobs have stipulated I'm not permitted to work more than 8 hours when working away from home as the "reasonable overtime" in most professional contracts clause goes right out the window and some hideously expensive overtime comes into it. I also got paid for flight time, regardless of if it was in or out of business hours, once again, see the part about the client above.
If you find you're pressed for time when working away... it's either poor planning or you need a better career.
If serious, it's one of the most self indulgent, narcissistic, and generally appalling posts I've ever read.
If satire, it's brilliant.
Jim the Sunderer said:
At the hospital today for some baby thing;
Patients hanging at the doors with a drips attached puffing away on a fag.
The silly old bint.
I give you Dewsbury hospital maternity unit. Chavs stood outside on drips, very heavily pregnant, smoking and sipping from a vodka bottle with a shared takeout...Patients hanging at the doors with a drips attached puffing away on a fag.
The silly old bint.
Vaud said:
Jim the Sunderer said:
At the hospital today for some baby thing;
Patients hanging at the doors with a drips attached puffing away on a fag.
The silly old bint.
I give you Dewsbury hospital maternity unit. Chavs stood outside on drips, very heavily pregnant, smoking and sipping from a vodka bottle with a shared takeout...Patients hanging at the doors with a drips attached puffing away on a fag.
The silly old bint.
Couple I saw the other day,letting their 5 year old take their 1 year old into the kiddies play area, letting him climb up ramps,and then leaving him there to go back to mum & dad who were too engrossed in their phones to bother checking on their kid! All this with older kids running about,as you would expect. Miracle the poor thing wasnt trampled
DoctorX said:
Whats all that about?! DoctorX said:
Yes, let the dog eat the little sh|tsDoctorX said:
I'm not blessed with children myself (mops tears on £20 notes) but have fond memories of the mass 'fights' as a kid myself, and that video is just depressing.Rubber bands and tightly-wrapped paper bullets in the face ot GTFO.
PositronicRay said:
Nanook said:
PositronicRay said:
Eggs (unless cold hard boiled) need to be fresh. Cold meats, cheeses, croissants and pastries all delicious.
I was at a hotel in Carrrickfergus last month, and eggs were the only thing being cooked to order.Poached, soft boiled, fried, scrambled, whatever you wanted, everything else was cooked in view, and brought out to the buffet.
Making me hungry, this protein 'yogurt' I'm eating (which is actually raspberry flavoured soft cheese) is not cutting it.
Nanook said:
Ah. You edited your post. He asked who didn't like a breakfast buffet, and you spoke on behalf of all us skinny f
kers with high metabolisms that eat like fk!
Granted I edited the post I made at 16.54, immediately after I posted it, but the one I posted at 16.42 was in reply to someone who certainly DID say, “Who doesn’t like a breakfast buffet?”, but who went on to say, of a 5 star hotel in Spain, “Who doesn’t like having 7 breakfasts and 12 coffees.”kers with high metabolisms that eat like fk!I did say that I recognised that he probably meant “Who doesn’t like having the CHOICE of 7 breakfasts.”
kowalski655 said:
Couple I saw the other day,letting their 5 year old take their 1 year old into the kiddies play area, letting him climb up ramps,and then leaving him there to go back to mum & dad who were too engrossed in their phones to bother checking on their kid! All this with older kids running about,as you would expect. Miracle the poor thing wasnt trampled
Definitely council in my opinion, too involved with Farcebook than looking after your kids! Poor show. Secondly, why not embrace the opportunity to be a big kid and take your little ones on the soft play.
Alex_225 said:
kowalski655 said:
Couple I saw the other day,letting their 5 year old take their 1 year old into the kiddies play area, letting him climb up ramps,and then leaving him there to go back to mum & dad who were too engrossed in their phones to bother checking on their kid! All this with older kids running about,as you would expect. Miracle the poor thing wasnt trampled
Definitely council in my opinion, too involved with Farcebook than looking after your kids! Poor show. Secondly, why not embrace the opportunity to be a big kid and take your little ones on the soft play.
Person in a Zafira leaves young kids in car in car park and disappears. People hear kid screaming in the car, so try to find out what is going on. By the time the mum appears, there are a few people around who are quite concerned.
Mum's response? Swearing and shouting at the people and asking what their problem is. Apparently, this isn't the first time this has happened and she has form for it.
It gets better though. There is a follow up on Facebook later that day as someone posts on the local 'spotted' page with the incident. Cue the mum and her mates then kicking off on Facebook at people.
Her mates gather round the mum with supportive messages such as 'well done Chelsea Leigh, tell them to f**k off and mind their business'. Spelt wrong, of course. HTP99 said:
DoctorX said:
Whats all that about?! The school prides itself on having 35 different languages spoken by it's pupils. It is also right in the middle of Page Hall which has a long history of community racial tensions. It's not the first time the area has made national news.
The last time I visited a breakfast buffet was last winter in a hotel close to Aberdeen airport. The family at a table close to us were endeavouring to cram as much food as possible into the gullet of their son. He already looked like the fat boy from Pickwick Papers, but even he couldn't manage the amount of stuff they had scavenged for him. There were four or five sausages for a start, let alone all the other fried goods. When they got up and left, the amount of food they had taken from the buffet and then discarded all over their table would have served half the guests in the hotel.
I don't know about you, but when I see this kind of thing going on something kicks off inside of me that makes me want to take less and less from the buffet. I enjoyed a very controlled 'one of everything' type breakfast with plenty of white china still showing, while Mrs Roofless had her usual porridge and fruit thing.
I don't know about you, but when I see this kind of thing going on something kicks off inside of me that makes me want to take less and less from the buffet. I enjoyed a very controlled 'one of everything' type breakfast with plenty of white china still showing, while Mrs Roofless had her usual porridge and fruit thing.
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