As I'm stuck in this country

Wholley · Post by **Wholley** » Sun 18 Oct, 2009 5:16 pm

http://www.bedsonsunday.com/bedsonsunda ... ?ID=457034
What next?VAT on Poppies?

Tab · Post by **Tab** » Sun 18 Oct, 2009 10:28 pm

Thats not the half it Paul we now have to do risk assessments, have so many medical people there with the cadets and so many ambulances on stand by, along with the police and every one else that think that they know best and there is now insurance cover for these events, my the list goes on and on.

tom163 · Post by **tom163** » Sun 18 Oct, 2009 10:30 pm

I have nothing else to say about the downdfall of this now pathetic country

utterly disgraceful

Wholley · Post by **Wholley** » Mon 19 Oct, 2009 12:13 pm

Just really as an aside,my partner is a lead teacher in a upper school in Bedfordshire.She is currently thinking of early retirement as the BS she has to deal with is making it almost impossible to actually teach.
Most comes from'Ofsted'whatever that is and the rest from the government.I saw a'Directive'she had been sent and could not understand a word of it.All bureaucratic double speak with absolutely no meaning to anyone apart from the author(No doubt a highly paid civil servant)I cannot vote in the UK as I'm an ex-pat,but it seems to me the government is top heavy and with too little to do apart from interfere in citizens lives.Barack Obama is a little left of center and I didn't vote for him but Gordon Brown can just about get away with anything provided he doesn't piss of the Scottish.
Best,

Jefferson Davis.

Tab · Post by **Tab** » Mon 19 Oct, 2009 4:19 pm

I think that seven out of every ten people now work for the Government in some form or other, so is it any wonder it appears top heavy

Wholley · Post by **Wholley** » Mon 19 Oct, 2009 4:34 pm

seventy%ruling the remainder?
Gis a job,I can do some ruling or do the remainder work for the EU?
Great Britain seems not to comprehend just who her real allies are.
The French?The Germans?I don't think so.Just get a sea-going Tug and tow westward.No need to sling a hook at Ireland as most of them live in New York already

Pilgrim Norway · Post by **Pilgrim Norway** » Mon 19 Oct, 2009 8:43 pm

Yers - enjoyable this thread ....

We've just read that the government last year gave 12,000 new jobs
in - yes - the government body - more bureaucrats -

Once upon a time it was cutting each others hair and selling each other
hamburgers - now everyone is working fo the government - strains of
1984 come to mind.

Also read about the Italians paying off the Taliban so that they could
just amble around on walkabout - a bit like 'Allo 'Allo I suppose........

He with the feathers and medals -

A bit like England selling a bit of land to the Vikings in order to pacify them
- still called Danelaw to this very day .....

Wholley · Post by **Wholley** » Mon 19 Oct, 2009 9:09 pm

Everyone keeps calling me Paul!!!!
My name is now Achmed.That way I blend in better with the natives

Pilgrim Norway · Post by **Pilgrim Norway** » Mon 19 Oct, 2009 9:33 pm

Oh ! -you're in London then ?

Handy the street signs in Urdu it will be for you then ....

Wholley · Post by **Wholley** » Mon 19 Oct, 2009 11:09 pm

Na,Bedford.
But as soon as I get home to the USA I'll change my name back to Pedro Martinez,or Martinez Pedro or maybe Alonzo Alonzo then I can go to my old job in formula one.At least I wouldn't have a stupid name like 'Jensen'
I had the sense to name my children with good Anglo-Saxon names although my son never really forgave me for naming him'Vlet The Slayer'
My daughter didn't appreciate'Solvig The Slut'either.
That's the problem with kid's today,no sense of humor

Wholley · Post by **Wholley** » Tue 20 Oct, 2009 10:34 am

Just so you know my real identity,yer tiz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA_ABcohuZ8
I know it's a little old but it still cracks me up.
As does this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wskT6YfVB6E&NR=1

Wholley · Post by **Wholley** » Wed 28 Oct, 2009 9:24 pm

Just had to send this on.
Childish sense of humor I guess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kXOg23pGeA&NR=1

GOS44 · Post by **GOS44** » Mon 02 Nov, 2009 9:31 pm

tom163 wrote:I have nothing else to say about the downdfall of this now pathetic country utterly disgraceful

The beer is still good though.

London Boy · Post by **London Boy** » Tue 03 Nov, 2009 8:57 am

Wholley wrote: currently thinking of early retirement as the BS she has to deal with is making it almost impossible to actually teach.

The BS was why I left the police in 96 and migrated to Sweden, before it got really bad.

Speaking to London coppers that I know that are still there, they say to me "James you wouldn't recognise it, the fun we had & the satisfaction we got from the job in the early 90s...forget it mate that's long gone, and you're better off out of it"

Soldier_Girl · Post by **Soldier_Girl** » Tue 03 Nov, 2009 11:34 am

London Boy wrote:
Wholley wrote: currently thinking of early retirement as the BS she has to deal with is making it almost impossible to actually teach.
The BS was why I left the police in 96 and migrated to Sweden, before it got really bad.

Speaking to London coppers that I know that are still there, they say to me "James you wouldn't recognise it, the fun we had & the satisfaction we got from the job in the early 90s...forget it mate that's long gone, and you're better off out of it"

That's pretty sad for me to hear! I want to apply to be an SFO and the hopefully CO19, in a few years ... and to be honest, a lot of the copper mates I have, are pretty despondent about the job now as well .... too much paperwork, too much red tape and bureaucracy! It's sad.
I'll still go for it though

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