Nick – Member

I get 49 out of a Mondeo estate, so 39 from a fiesta sounds poor…

Please tell me what I’m doing wrong, my Mondeo 1.8 petrol does about 48mpg if I take it very easy on the motorway and 28mpg aroung town which seems to be about what Ford reckon:

http://www.whatmpg.co.uk/Ford%20MPG%20information.html

So wanting to cut up your fruit when you have a picnic is not a valid reason?

Seems just as valid as needing one when in the outdoors.

I know its the Mail but was widely reported in most other media at the time.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1266170/Disabled-caravanner-prosecuted-keeping-penknife-car-use-picnics.html

Not really sure ‘Perfectly respectable fella on a £3k dandy horse carrying a multitool in the bottom of a camelbak,’ would get away with it if he ran into this police officer or judge.

Met Junkyard, Mr and Mrs nbt, herbivore and a few others on a recentish Rivi ride – great folks all.

Sanity Assassin, Tee2sugars, Cynical, druidh, jojo, thebikechain, Speystout, Bikepawl, TJ, LukeB, hairyscarey, treemagnet, houns, vosh, steve austin (plus loads I’ve forgotton at this point). Ridden with that lot quite a few times over the years, and still do.

Have met Elf once but he don’t know me.

Even my missus posts on here but no-one else knows who she is.

Cept you’ll likely end up with your own set of similar ****.

Wherever you put it, it’s gonna be worth less next year than this – except that Nigerian bank, they have great returns.

Well don’t go believing them.

That goes for that fat **** Santa as well. I don’t reckon he does it all on his own, y’know.

TJ

Because the population is just a resource like any other – they don’t think it’s fair, they don’t know it’s fair, they don’t care if it’s fair.

Oh and be careful, some bloke is likely to pop up soon to berate you for spelling probably wrong.

And that there are probbly quite a few on here who are riding around on stuff they know is bent, too.

Certainly true of mine, tyre is nearly rubbing the wheel

How Obsbourne, Cameron and Clegg can agree that a 15% reduction in wages /spending power for pubic servants is fair.

It’s not about fair TJ, they are managing a resource just the same as a farmer deciding on amounts of foodstuff for his sheep.

Often wondered myself about a few folk who pop up on here every few months with lots of items. They seem to sell all/most of it, bugger off for 2-3 months then reappear with enough bits to build a dozen bikes again.
Or, bloke at a local car boot, seems knowledgeable and a keen biker so I’ve been told – always has loads of cheap spares.

Not convinced either are ethically sourced to Co-Op standards.

I doubt very much that there is any orchestrated class war. The reality is that the very rich and powerful just dont give a toss about the rest of us except as possessions to increase their wealth/power.

This is nothing new and has gone on in all societies for thousands of years.

The trick they pull again and again is to convince vast numbers of people that they are a ‘them’ not an ‘us’. As such, people are then prepared to sacrifice anything from a bit of tax right up to fighting and dying.

I’m a nurse so have one of the gold plated super duper ones.

The stuff the NHS send me says I’ll get £9127 pa if I live long enough to get it, although around £1500 of that will be taxable I believe, as will any other income.

Gonna be living the high life, me.

I know it’s not bad but I am a full time nurse at the top of my banding: nursing assistants, clerical and ancillary staff will get a lot less.

They certainly wont be going loco down in Acapulco whatever the Govt tell you.

I’m a nurse so have one of the gold plated super duper ones.

The stuff the NHS send me says I’ll get £9127 pa if I live long enough to get it, although around £1500 of that will be taxable I believe, as will any other income.

Gonna be living the high life, me.

Time rich and money poor.

I am really considering this becoming my aim in life.

The official figure touted for FTSE bosses in 2010 and 2011 were 55% and, IIRC, 49%.

Which suggests to me that we (down here, whether private or public sector) are all in it together.

Which is why I can’t understand falling for divide and rule.

Personally, if the Govt were making the changes to our pay and pensions with the intention of pension redistribution to private sector workers I would find it much more paletable.

However, I suspect we (at the bottom end) will all be sat here with naff all in a few years whilst the ‘real them’ are laughing and sunning it up elsewhere.

I suppose some of it is about your intent of career. For example many friends went into financial services or IT at a relatively low level in order to progress within a career with the intention of moving up the career ladder.

This has also been the case for many colleagues within health and allied professions that I know. They wanted to be high fliers and being a bog standard Band 5 for a year or two was the door in.

Others, such as myself, want to be the best Nurse possible for my patients and provide that one to one hands on care. Progression in most directions would mean losing those opportunities and that skillset. Hence my choice of career progression and development is very specific and leaves me less employable outside of my profession – I have specialised myself out of wider opportunities.

My wife is moving in the other direction and will have a much wider range of transferable skills than most.

It is, however, my firm belief that both types of nurse are needed within health care for it to function effectively. Too much one way or the other and the system will fail.

Caveat – I appreciate that this is true in many other professions but I can only speak from what i know.

They are the official figures, apparently, hence my belief that private sector workers will be getting screwed even more in the near future.

Nothing like a bit of orchestrated ‘us’ vs ‘them’ tension to cover up the fact that we’re all being shafted at the end of the day…

This really.

Pay rises in the private sector are averaging 3% at the moment. Won’t be long now before companies start saying to employees ‘well the private sector are having a 15% reduction in real terms over 5 years, what makes you think you’re a special case?’.

I think what is actually ‘best’ is to make sure you can type ‘probably’ without it causing you undue pain or fatigue before you bring more semi-literate children to throw on top of the already growing pile!

You missed that I’d used ‘owt’ as well.

And some of my sentence structure is appalling.

Perhaps if I was as perfect as you my children would not be semi literate ( I believe it’s an Americanism to use a hyphen).

Ho hum.

Edit – I also found it interesting when having a quick look at your forum history that you had only started 2 threads. One to complain about spelling and grammer and the second asking if you were being ‘too optomistic‘

Good night

Not trying to get back at anyone or owt, just want to save as much as possible as things get tighter.

Think the potentially illegal stuff will be avoided.

Already use the market cos it’s cheaper for fruit and veg but bulk buys at the supermarkets save a lot.

One car which I have to have as it’s in my contract.

Kids like their gadgets/games – second hand route prolly best.

Suppose I’m just going to have to be much less consumer oriented and only buy the necessities. Think this will be true of many more of us in the near future.

Involved in making simulators for drilling holes

Love this job description. Got visions of some bloke making power drill noises as he moves his arms slowly towards a wall.

brooess – Member

People who know me by my job title think I’m the son of Satan and all the Western world’s problems are the fault of me and my colleagues..

you work in the public sector?

druidh – Member

dangerousbeans – Member
Private tends to pay worse in general, especially in my line.

You need to pop that up in a few of the other threads….

Aye we’re desperate for crap nurses looking after the sick and dying so long as they do it as cheaply as possible.

tails –

Private tends to pay worse in general,especially in my line. Qualified recruitment tends to go that those who can’t secure an NHS contract do bank work and finally get low-paid offers from private sector providers.

Most trusts are on recruitment freezes so not much scope.

Not much call for LD nurses at present on the rigs either.

Reckon the missus might be up for it though. 😀

You’re probably right about just being a partial downer. Wish i could go back in time though and not become a nurse.

big lols at richpenny

But most folk seem to get the dodgy stuff while I’m still goody two shoes – often folk with a lot more disposable income than me.

scaredypants has me intrigued.

I used to hurt people for a living but that was in a previous life.

I’m a scrounger as well – Learning Disabilities Nurse. Not a good time for heading this way.

I know Bunnyhop but tbh I feel a bit like no one gives a toss about me, so why should I care about others.

I’ll probably wake up tomorrow and buy another pair of tie-died undies from the hippy round the corner anyway.

I work on a community team so the extra bits of work are usually to tie up a bit of patient care or add a bit of extra value to a patients (or their familys) quality of life.

But really I shouldn’t be doing it.

colournoise – I do still want to ‘stick it to the man’

ioum – I know but should I do myself out of stuff so someone else gets the benefit rather than me.

Not skint but feeling the need to cut the cloth accordingly.

These measures semm to have the least impact on our family.

but then youll be branded a CONSERVATIVE

Mebbe so, perhaps I’ve been misguided for all these years.

Agreed project but if no-one gives a **** about me shouldn’t I pass the sentiment on.

you are playing into their hands. These are part of the overall problem.

I know Mark but there is an over riding need to look after your own.

Sometimes you have to dance with the devil whether you like it or not.

And we do have to save a big chunk of cash.

Nuke the care worker from space, its the only way to be sure.

Personally i would still gather further information from your uncle to ensure you have the facts before acting. I am not saying this person is innocent or that you should not act, just confirm the facts before acting.
We process a significant number of safeguardings every day and initially damning evidence does not always add up when heavily scrutinised.

IF the worker has given the son’s address to your uncle then yes, there are serious grounds for investigation and dismissal.

IF some other sequence of events has occurred (could be anything, I’m not psychic so don’t know) then the outcome may be very different.

Just as an example that has occurred in my area of practice recently seemed to have no innocent explanation but, in fact, had.

Leading on from this are you sure that your uncle has not got the address details from someone else – you need to ascertain the facts from him before doing anything else.

I’m not but many of my colleagues are (different unions).

My union will likely ballot in January.