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    Just got stopped

    Just got stopped by a union picket on the way into work. He was holding a placard saying 'stop the cuts' and he says to me 'Do you work for the DWP ?'

    'Good morning' says, I pushing past him.

    Never been in a union in my life

    (\__/)
    (>'.'<)
    ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

    #2
    Originally posted by EternalOptimist
    Just got stopped by a union picket on the way into work. He was holding a placard saying 'stop the cuts' and he says to me 'Do you work for the DWP ?'

    'Good morning' says, I pushing past him.

    Never been in a union in my life

    You might have had the courtesy to answer his question.

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      #3
      When I were a lad I was seconded to an apprenticship on t'railway. And when I were a lad t'railway were always goin on strike.

      So I have memories of my time on the railway are of wandering through crowds of really quite angry plate layers and them asking me what union I was in. "The Army", I would reply.

      That stumped them.
      Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
      threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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        #4
        Threaded: do you have a personal story for every occasion? Have you already done everything there is to be done on this Earth?

        If yes, would you like to coach Chico?
        Chico, what time is it?

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          #5
          Yeps, beccy, I do have an enormous T-Shirt collection.
          Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
          threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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            #6
            I thought EO was very courteous with his "Good morning". Now if he'd said "feck off" - that would be been a tad brusque...
            "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
            - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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              #7
              Originally posted by cojak
              I thought EO was very courteous with his "Good morning". Now if he'd said "feck off" - that would be been a tad brusque...
              No, that would have been rude. Not answering the question at all, and by "pushing past him" was a little short of courteous I'd say. There's no need for that even if you think you would not be in agreement with the other person's politics.

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                #8
                sorry expat but the guy stepped in front of me, blocking my way. I didnt want to get in a conversation with him.

                (\__/)
                (>'.'<)
                ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by EternalOptimist
                  Just got stopped by a union picket on the way into work. He was holding a placard saying 'stop the cuts' and he says to me 'Do you work for the DWP ?'

                  Should have told him its none of his fecking business, and to get back to work the idle sponger! Far too many timewasting and expensive paper-shufflers polluting the place these days, a cull is long overdue.
                  “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by shaunbhoy
                    Should have told him its none of his fecking business, and to get back to work the idle sponger! Far too many timewasting and expensive paper-shufflers polluting the place these days, a cull is long overdue.
                    Aye SB

                    By the way how did Celtic fare against Clyde in the cup , I think it was Roy Keanes debut match recently ?

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