Can we keep affording all this crap?
Can we keep affording all this crap?
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granville

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18,764 posts

290 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4151246.stm

By the time the equality regimes have finished with every aspect of British life, since the first molecules of primordial swamp matter brutally oppressed errant strands of scarcely developed plankton ameoba, right through to the defence of the inalienable rights of recently imported Zambian Satanists to practice infant sacrifice during school breaks, what on earth will be left?

Both psychologically & financially?

:shout: [big][b][i]F@ck orf you BASTARDS!!![/i][/b][/big] :shoot::furious::banghead::mad::rage:

shadytree

8,291 posts

278 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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Touched a nerve there by any chance DeR ?

lazyitus

19,931 posts

295 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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Bad day, Der ?

rich1231

17,340 posts

289 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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If you do a job for a salary that you have agreed to then tough sh1t.

paolow

3,261 posts

287 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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derestrictor said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4151246.stm



F@ck orf you BASTARDS!!!



do you wanna come down off that fence and say what you really feel?

parrot of doom

23,075 posts

263 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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I'm not sure what your problem is. Its illegal to discriminate based on sex. The councils did so. They're being sued.

Whats wrong with that?

ulakye

163 posts

257 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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Fight unfair sex discrimination at every opportunity!

What is there to criticise?

andy mac

73,668 posts

284 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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... Could someone tell the courts the same thing? A good friend of mine, who has a good job, and a house that is paid for, has lost his 2 kids to his ex, who has a rented flat, and has a part time job, and has government financial help.
he is not a wife beater, or a bad father, etc, so why does the court seem to thing that women should automatically get dibs of kids?

turbobloke

117,186 posts

289 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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Don't worry DeR, soon our council geniuses will fine men for not having t1t5 while handing out compensation payments for not having a w1lly, i.e. we'll get squat while they get paid to squat. Actually, as some men do have t1t5 and the bobbiting habit continues there could be a problem but hey, the equal opps industry won't worry over mere niceties like common sense and biology. In Bliar's Britian wimmin can do no wrong while men are to blame for global something and the price of everything. As we're all rapists and violent criminals and child molesters who speed daily and don't think of the childwen we deserve it really, those council paper clip rearrangers are right, so I think we should all go and disembowel ourselves with a papier maché miniature of Germaine Greer

cyberface

12,214 posts

286 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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Much as I love my gadgets, I'm now seriously regretting my youthful fascination with technology and subsequent easy career.

If only I had become a lawyer. Seriously. It's brutally clear that theirs is the only profession that will continue to profit as the country is relentlessly thrown to the dogs.

After all, it's not as if the UK does revolutions, really, is it?

cotty

42,234 posts

313 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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parrot of doom said:
I'm not sure what your problem is. Its illegal to discriminate based on sex. The councils did so. They're being sued.

Whats wrong with that?

rich1231 said:
If you do a job for a salary that you have agreed to then tough sh1t.




Why did they not find out what the job paid before signing on the dotted line rather than complaining about it later.

If I joined a company then found women were paid more I could ask for a rise but at the end of the day its there company and they can pay their workers what they like ie one guy getting paid more than another, perhaps one had better negotiations skills at the interview stage.

I know of a situation where two guys were earning the same money, one got a new job but was offered more money to stay so he took the money and stayed, should the other guy also get a raise????

_VTEC_

2,459 posts

274 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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cotty said:

parrot of doom said:
I'm not sure what your problem is. Its illegal to discriminate based on sex. The councils did so. They're being sued.

Whats wrong with that?



rich1231 said:
If you do a job for a salary that you have agreed to then tough sh1t.





Why did they not find out what the job paid before signing on the dotted line rather than complaining about it later.

If I joined a company then found women were paid more I could ask for a rise but at the end of the day its there company and they can pay their workers what they like ie one guy getting paid more than another, perhaps one had better negotiations skills at the interview stage.

I know of a situation where two guys were earning the same money, one got a new job but was offered more money to stay so he took the money and stayed, should the other guy also get a raise????


Some interesting points there cotty.

I was talking to my cousin the other day about how things are in the U.S. and he said that the white male is last to get anything.

968

12,439 posts

277 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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_VTEC_ said:

I was talking to my cousin the other day about how things are in the U.S. and he said that the white male is last to get anything.



Apart from the country they stole from the Indians.....

turbobloke

117,186 posts

289 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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968 said:

_VTEC_ said:

I was talking to my cousin the other day about how things are in the U.S. and he said that the white male is last to get anything.

Apart from the country they stole from the Indians.....
Yeah dammit, we lost that one

jimbeaux

33,791 posts

260 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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_VTEC_ said:

cotty said:


parrot of doom said:
I'm not sure what your problem is. Its illegal to discriminate based on sex. The councils did so. They're being sued.

Whats wrong with that?





rich1231 said:
If you do a job for a salary that you have agreed to then tough sh1t.






Why did they not find out what the job paid before signing on the dotted line rather than complaining about it later.

If I joined a company then found women were paid more I could ask for a rise but at the end of the day its there company and they can pay their workers what they like ie one guy getting paid more than another, perhaps one had better negotiations skills at the interview stage.

I know of a situation where two guys were earning the same money, one got a new job but was offered more money to stay so he took the money and stayed, should the other guy also get a raise????



Some interesting points there cotty.

I was talking to my cousin the other day about how things are in the U.S. and he said that the white male is last to get anything.


true. Ponder this: We issue an employment test, no race is listed on the applicants, the best score gets the position...sounds good? Forget about that. We DO have to list the race, because the black guy gets to have his score "adjusted". Therefore, a lower score, and he still gets in. Reversed discrimination. How about doing it like my first example....truly colorblind?????

turbobloke

117,186 posts

289 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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That's the main heading in the bible of political correctness - if reality or the truth is wrong, adjust it

andy mac

73,668 posts

284 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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There are many jobs I cannot do because I am colourblind. Can I sue for discrimination? I'd be good too, becasue I woudn't take 9 months off when I got a bit careless with my pills!

cotty

42,234 posts

313 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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jimbeaux said:
Ponder this: We issue an employment test, no race is listed on the applicants, the best score gets the position...sounds good? Forget about that. We DO have to list the race, because the black guy gets to have his score "adjusted". Therefore, a lower score, and he still gets in. Reversed discrimination. How about doing it like my first example....truly colorblind?????


But isnt that racist against other races.

ie you get a black person (you words) a Chinese person an Indian person and french person all going for the same job, who gets an adjustment or are there levels

cotty

42,234 posts

313 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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andy mac said:
There are many jobs I cannot do because I am colourblind. Can I sue for discrimination?


It wouldnt surprise me these days if some one would take your case

turbobloke

117,186 posts

289 months

Tuesday 16th August 2005
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cotty said:
andy mac said:
There are many jobs I cannot do because I am colourblind. Can I sue for discrimination?
It wouldnt surprise me these days if some one would take your case
Humam rights issue?

calling Cherie Booth