Skiing in sunglasses? Yes. I am judging you. No. It’s not going well for you.

Erm I use prescription Maui Jims to ski, optics are pretty much better than ANY ski goggle on the market, same sunnies have done over 50mph on road bike with no isues of wind interference to eye, why would I wear goggles?

And to the OP’s question there are a few brands where the optics are significantly better than cheaper sunnies, are they worth it? to some people yes, to some no….depends on how well you treat them and how important the increases are to you. None will change your world, its abit like bike parts there is a base price and for each small improvement there is a cost LX,XT,XTR….

Not frivolous as £39.50 at tesco, and makes better drinks/more controllable than the very expensive tassimo we have in work……

Sad to say but the TKD has gone the same way as alot of other martial arts in higher championship matches, alot of the ‘finesse’ has become redundant with max points minimal effort the norm.

I tbh would much rather watch two very good club fighters of a martial art spar than whatch the ‘pinnacle’ of the sport as you will tend to see a much larger range of skills employed when its not all about THE point.

Are we all forgetting the British Diver Mr Laugher……..apparently its pronounced law…….

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Cougar with respect look at his name and title

Drac – Moderator

As said there’s no obligation for them to give 2 weeks of or the weeks you want, check her contract though for a clause and look for other staff who have had 2 werks off but that’s easy for employers to get around.

Don’t let her go sick you’ve just told told them you’re going on holiday. Don’t spit the dummy just because you can’t take your holidays when you want, they’re paying you to provide a service you can’t just please yourself.

This one?

The one that says no obligation to give her 2 weeks which directly contravenes the working time directive as long as she has given 4 weeks notice and there are no stipulations in her contract ( which we have not been informed of either way!!)

Drac you may be an admin, but get out of your arse, you know no more facts than us, with the informatin given everything the OP’s girlfriend has done has been more than ‘reasonable and flexible’!! Joust because YOU[/u] are making assumptions about needs of the business doesn’t make you right, just someone spoiling for an argument. Not a great position for an admin.

So as it stands without further info the employers are being an arse end of….

…with further info that it might affect unduly the running of the business then they may have a valid argument.

But the employer have not given any operational difficulties as reason for refusal, this woulsd then mean they are being unreasonable.

Flexibility is needed by both, saying I’m taking my holidays then and you can lump isn’t being flexible.

1. they are asking for hols NEXT[/u] year

2

Under the Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR), individuals should normally only be required to give a notice period of twice as long as the leave that they intend to take (e.g. to ask to take a week’s holiday two weeks in advance). However, it is not unusual for holiday entitlements to be subject to the operational requirements of the organisation. Such restrictions might only allow you to take annual leave at certain times of the year, for example at company shutdown times. The organisation may also limit the number of days that may be taken at any one time.

pretty much covers the reasonable and flexible bit

I’m not sure what would hustler lives in.

MY MANAGER WILL NOT AGREE TO ANY OF THE ANNUAL LEAVE DATES THAT I HAVE SUBMITTED. HOW CAN I RESOLVE THIS?
Consult your contract and staff handbook which should set out your annual leave entitlement. Your contract may also identify any restrictions concerning when annual leave may be taken.

Under the Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR), individuals should normally only be required to give a notice period of twice as long as the leave that they intend to take (e.g. to ask to take a week’s holiday two weeks in advance). However, it is not unusual for holiday entitlements to be subject to the operational requirements of the organisation. Such restrictions might only allow you to take annual leave at certain times of the year, for example at company shutdown times. The organisation may also limit the number of days that may be taken at any one time.

Speak to your manager to see whether you can negotiate a period to take your annual leave which suits both you and the organisation. If annual leave periods are flexible and your manager is refusing any dates you suggest, check whether the dates you suggest coincide with busy periods of work. Talk to work colleagues and find out when they have requested their annual leave for, how much notice they gave and whether your dates clash with theirs, or whether they have suffered similar responses from the manager.

If work colleagues have been granted their requests for leave, and your dates do not coincide with busy periods, then take the matter up with senior management. Speak to your union representative if you are a member of a union. If these informal methods of enquiry fail, you may have to pursue your case through your organisation’s formal grievance procedure.

If, despite raising a formal grievance, your manager refuses you all or part of your leave entitlement (i.e. you are prevented from taking your full quota), consider whether to bring a tribunal claim. Before contacting the employment tribunal, you need to contact ACAS by submitting an Acas Early Conciliation Notification Form under the Early Conciliation rules. It is no longer possible to make a claim in the employment tribunal until you have first taken this step.

There are short deadlines involved in bringing any tribunal claim. See our section on Enforcing your Rights for more information on bringing a tribunal claim.

From the TUC website……..pretty much a longer explanation of what I said above

OK, in the real world…….unless there are clauses in her contract specifically stating two weeks hols is forbidden then the only reason the employer can refuse the two weeks is if the business is unable to function without them, if its been done on a whim and without president its actually very good grounds towards constructive dismissal, get your partner to ask the company for there reasons of refusal in writing.

Ole Einar Bjørndalen would have to come close for me, a true phenomenon of his sport

Yeah but if you really knew your comics superman had no powers in the fight, which would kida turn things in Ali’s favour

This is Bentley our rescue nightmare……….love him to bits though

And this is Millie, Bentley made us realise what a brilliant dog she is….

You all think you’ve got problems, my daughter is 15 and built in the Sam fox model………I wish she’s hate boys too………

Erm,,,,,link shows a class 10 card which is fine for vid

One thing for sure its not a howdens ‘built’ carcass as they are 18mm,

Needed to make sure it would be this weeks winner.

Hmm its not there today, bought, hidden, or something more sinister?

Can tell you the forks were white though

It was green, not sure on the forks as i was just passing, I can take a closer look tomorrow

Spread Eagle at Gailey Island Penkridge was also a rock/motorbike pub back then, even the Barley Mow at milford was a biker haven, but no music or stage there

In my early 20’s I had a 32″ waist an 48″ chest, I trained 6 days a week at my chosen sport, also ran every day and snuck in some weights sessions too, I was 15 stone and 6’4″ apparently this is 1.5 stone over wight according to bmi……….yeah right………its a guide nothing more

Hora would either of you remember an old friend of mine )Graham Ola) who worked as a DJ there back in the day?

And you think you will get better from an online spectacle shop? who is going to do the measuring/fitting of the new glasses? Oh the irony……….

They may be worried about a couple of things 1 intellectual propriety if you are going to a competitor, or 2 not working within X distance of them if its in the same field, the first is understandable and they may put you on gardening leave, the second has been challenged in law and shown to be bollox as its a restriction of trade. Either way your new contract has sod all to do with your current employers

We have this one ontop of our 8KW stove, advised by our installer (but not sold by him) apparently the 4 blades moves the air more efficiently

http://www.amazon.com/Coleman-Conquest2-CX16WP-LCD-Camcorder/dp/B00MNGIQP0/ref=pd_sim_sbs_421_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=51%2BaQLPTn4L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=0Q4WBA2NS3FHHB1H8T7B

I have one of these coming for xmas actually got it in France where it is called he qilive, paid less than the eqivalent gopro without remote

If you are using Howdens, get one of their designers to do all the planning and design for you together with pictoral reresentations of the finished design. If they are decent they will give you a detailed plan of what goes where even down to worktop joints and fillers and what they are to be made from, They wont discuss any costs with your client unless you say thay can so leaves you to do your own pricing.

As to cost it really comes to where you live (local market rates etc).

I used to work for Howdens, and cant/dont really have a bad word to say about them which IMHO says alot about a company

Saxonrider as stated above,could be any of those things or a couple of others. Firstly DO NOT PPUT ANY MORE CONTACT LENSES IN UNTIL IT HAS BEEN CHECKED OUT!!!.

Secondly depending where you are in the country it could be a trip to an eye hospitals A&E or a trip to an oticians via the PEARS scheme (where most acute referral work is done at the opticians, its a free service and the opticians probably has better equiptment than the hospital anyway).

What part of the country are you from? if shropshire i can provide you with a few names and numbers of practices registerred on the pears scheme.

I in the past have had a pretty good sony wireles 5.1 system, I currently use this

samsung sound bar

I dont miss the 5.1 TBH

At 12 going on 13 she should be allowed to do the sports she wants to, IMHO a child ‘black belt’ is not a real black belt, for me attaining dan grade was the start of learning a martial art, up until dan you are taught how to do do a technique or a pattern of techniques, after dan the real enjoyment/ science of the art is adapting those patterns/ techniques to your own style, this is the ‘mastery’ of the art not just learning a few words and coriagraphed movements.

Nit sure if its been mentioned above but the box set ‘justified’ with Timothy Olyphant (from deadwood etc) is superb

Staples can put anything they want in T&C your statutory right over ride this, your contract is with staples, theirs is with HP your liability stops at returning to the store, to sent to HP is theirs end of……

Both, end of

Anyone else wondering how the meeting went?

Depends on the type of card and clearing house and negotiated rate, anywhere from 0.5% to 3.5% of the transaction, the higher end tends to be on cards that alot of retailers just wont accept such as American express