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    The benefits of a private education

    Tesco are 'discriminating against state school children by making them queue outside' | Daily Mail Online

    University professor says Tesco are discriminating against state school children by making them queue outside a Metro branch while private school pupils can walk straight in
    Prof Neil Pollock claimed state school pupils are forced to queue outside
    Meanwhile, private school children are allowed to go in as they please
    Tesco says the ruling is due to the private school bringing 'lesser' footfall
    But many people believe there should be one rule for all or no rule at all
    oh dear
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

    #2
    I think Tesco are doing a public service training the proletariat to queue.
    Particularly post-Brexit, they'll have to get used to dole queues and food bank queues.
    So thank you Tesco for the public service.
    Hard Brexit now!
    #prayfornodeal

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      #3
      Originally posted by sasguru View Post
      I think Tesco are doing a public service training the proletariat to queue.
      Particularly post-Brexit, they'll have to get used to dole queues and food bank queues.
      So thank you Tesco for the public service.
      What on earth are private school children doing in Tesco? Surely its Waitrose or nothing (The posher Booths, Whole Foods are suitable in other parts of the country).

      Edit to add - when I was at school there was a 5 pupil rule* in the local newsagent - set by the school for admin purposes.

      * The rule was modified rapidly to exclude me on the basis that while most other people came via the bus it was my local newsagent and I wasn't going to queue up to go into it when I knew the staff and often turned a hand when it was busy...
      Last edited by eek; 22 November 2016, 16:30.
      merely at clientco for the entertainment

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        #4
        Originally posted by eek View Post
        What on earth are private school children doing in Tesco? Surely its Waitrose or nothing (The posher Booths, Whole Foods are suitable in other parts of the country).
        Now see what you did, I had to click on the Daily Fail link to see hwy. Turns out it's Edinburgh, obviously no posh supermarkets in that vicinity
        Hard Brexit now!
        #prayfornodeal

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          #5
          Quite bloody right. I went to a comp (as some of you might have noticed) and the black market in shoplifted goods was rife, even back in the 80s. You could go in on a Monday morning and trade almost anything for anything. We were trading in porno mags, gold chains, bottles of spirits, fags, you name it. I specialised in fags, I knew where my local newsagent dumped his unsaleable ciggies, and liberated a few each week.
          Nobody even bothered with lessons. I learnt more about trade and the free market in break times than i did in 2 years of A level Economics. They are (as we were) all thieving little chimps, get over it.
          His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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            #6
            Originally posted by Mordac View Post
            Quite bloody right. I went to a comp (as some of you might have noticed) and the black market in shoplifted goods was rife, even back in the 80s. You could go in on a Monday morning and trade almost anything for anything. We were trading in porno mags, gold chains, bottles of spirits, fags, you name it. I specialised in fags, I knew where my local newsagent dumped his unsaleable ciggies, and liberated a few each week.
            Nobody even bothered with lessons. I learnt more about trade and the free market in break times than i did in 2 years of A level Economics. They are (as we were) all thieving little chimps, get over it.
            But apparently not about agents' margins
            Hard Brexit now!
            #prayfornodeal

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              #7
              Originally posted by sasguru View Post
              Now see what you did, I had to click on the Daily Fail link to see hwy. Turns out it's Edinburgh, obviously no posh supermarkets in that vicinity
              To a point I can see the issue there. Due to the local secondary schools being rubbish, more children go to private schools in Edinburgh than anywhere else in the country...
              merely at clientco for the entertainment

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                #8
                Originally posted by sasguru View Post
                I think Tesco are doing a public service training the proletariat to queue.
                Particularly post-Brexit, they'll have to get used to dole queues and food bank queues.
                So thank you Tesco for the public service.
                Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by sasguru View Post
                  But apparently not about agents' margins
                  Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by eek View Post
                    What on earth are private school children doing in Tesco? Surely its Waitrose or nothing (The posher Booths, Whole Foods are suitable in other parts of the country).

                    Edit to add - when I was at school there was a 5 pupil rule* in the local newsagent - set by the school for admin purposes.

                    * The rule was modified rapidly to exclude me on the basis that while most other people came via the bus it was my local newsagent and I wasn't going to queue up to go into it when I knew the staff and often turned a hand when it was busy...
                    probably minor public school children
                    Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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