Tony F Dordogne
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Have just the person you need but in St Cyprien (24). Is that too far for you?
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The Perigueux Freecycle site has been moribund for years, shame because there's always people round here looking to pass things on.
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Boring? Isn't that what people used to have books and record players for before the advent of permanant tv programmes, surely never getting bored whilst you have the internet to play with?
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[quote user="just john "] (and unless you've handed in your passport you are his subject!) [/quote]
Sorry John, I'm not his subject, I'm NOBODY's subject, I am a free thinking individual who is not subjected to anybody's rule, I wholly and totally reject the concept of monarchy, of Parliament being the monarch's Parliament (except in any historical sense), that the monarch has to sign off on legislation passed by Parliament and even that the monarch's head has to appear on postage stamps. I've started to think about the language that the lackies and flunkies use too, what does 'Royal Highness' mean, it's a silly expression, are there other Highnesses that are not royals, if so, who are they and does that mean that people at the bottom of the social scale are 'lowness/esses'?
And as for the national anthem, it's beyond the pale that in 2010 it's about a PERSON (even though the argument is that the monarch is the embodyment of the nation - no he/she isn't, the PEOPLE are the embodyment of the nation) and not about the NATION, "send her/him victorious, happy and glorious, long to reign over us", not even on a good day, I never sing the British national anthem in the same way that I never say prayers nor, if I can help it, do I even enter a Church because for me to do so would be hypocritical.
I belong to a research society in the UK and after the lectures they 'dine'. They have a loyal toast and say prayers, I don't take part and it has been both noted and mentioned to me and I'm told it's a reason that I would never be President of the Society!
And before anybody accuses me of anything, I've done the Queen and Country thing, sworn allegience to the Crown and the whole bit and realised very quickly that it didn't actually mean anything, I did the work I did because it helped people and because I enjoyed it, not because of some old concept of being RULED by and having allegience to somebody!
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What Bugsy said !!!
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[quote user="woolybanana"]Do not blame your Prince, but those incompetent Europeans. Doubtless we shall have to cross the Channel and save them yet again. BEF anyone?[/quote]
Leaving via Dunkirk?
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[quote user="sweet 17"]Yes but, so far, it's done b u g g e r all for the pound![:'(][/quote]
Back to Mandelson again?
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[quote user="woolybanana"] Tony, you offspring of Norman, you, .... I pray that your Prince will forgive you.[/quote]
And as for praying for me, as a committed atheist, I am touched by your kind offer of trying to save my soul, I'll take my chances thanks, many have tried to do that previously and have failed miserably. My prince ............ not in a million lifetimes!
Long live the Republic and the Revolution !! Norman is the new Che !!
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Tut tut Wooly, she's been promoted, she's no longer a Kate, she now has to be referred to as Katherine cos the people wot know about these things say so.
Doesn't matter whether current royal abdicates or dies, the UK media of every type will be full of it, every pundit, idiot with a vested interest and royal correspondent will crawl out of the woodwork. So far on BBC tele news this evening they have had 4 royal correspondents, for a family of how many? Please don't abdicate and then die, that means two helpings of wall to wall royal stories and opinion.
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[quote user="woolybanana"] Or not. If we care, or not.[/quote]
Put me down as a 'not'. I don't live in the UK, I'm not a 'subject' of anybody in the UK and that suits me fine. The wall to wall reporting on the 'event' is nausiating and that lickspittle Nicolas Witchell should get himself a job putting the toothpaste of Prince Charles' toothbrush, he has the mentality for it - whoops he can't, Charles and sons thought he's 'an odious little man'.
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Just picked this up from a Canadian Facebook chum:
"A Veteran is someone, who at one point in their life, wrote a blank cheque payable to Canada for an amount up to, and including, their life.That is beyond honour, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer remember that fact"
And not only Canada if Braco is anything to go by.
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Braco, I really don't see how you can equate a poppy with a swastika. I'm not going to say why I might wear a poppy or not - I'm not against people, like Quakers, wearing white poppies either because they are anti-war - but your views are deeply offensive to many many people and the reaction here, from people that I know personally and hold in high regard, for their intellectual integrity and ability to think for themselves, speaks volumes.
Sometimes people should go with dear Oscar's observation that keeping your mouth shut and letting people think you're a fool rather than opening it and proving that you are.
Pitiful.
And btw Braco it's 'toe' the party line, not 'tow', if you're full of indignant and inflammatory comment, at least spell it correctly
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[quote user="ericd"]It's all ok for you guys, you might have a degree and you most probably did not pay for it. We have two daughters at Uni (eldest doing a Masters at LSE) and fees are already crippling. Imagine the future when all student will be called Ruppert and Miranda darling.[/quote]
Eric, your daughter has impecable taste, I did one of my first degrees and a Masters at LSE back in the 80s (mature student) and my partner worked there in academic departments for 25 years. LSE has changed so much, we were back there a few weeks ago for a reunion and there's nothing of the old School left, only the buldings and the whole ethos has changed. The proportion of high fee paying students is crazy, mainly from abroad but that's what keeps the LSE afloat, post-grad students on all the programmes, who are mainly funded by their governments, not by their parents or by themselves.
Interestingly, I've just been looking at the fees for doing another Masters here in France at a specialist research centre in Pau. The costs are horrendous (I jest of course), for people on benefit or continuing from a first degree, it's €272 (two hundred and seventy two) per year and for those paying full fees, €392 per year.
OK, I know that's it's comparing apples and oranges but to me it's the mind set that matters.
On BBC tele this morning I saw Danny Finkelstein telling people that rich parents and yoof that could afford to pay should pay - yep, the same Danny F with rich parents who, with Steve Pound the Labour MP who advocated bringing in fees as an unofficial ordinary bloke spokesman for the previous government, were at LSE as the same time as me and were members of the Labour/Social Democrat Clubs and who got their educations for free. Like me, Steve was a mature student at a time when mature students were treated very well by the grants and benefits system, just before the Joseph reforms were introduced so for him to advocate changes really smacked of political opportunism if not outright hypocracy.
The LSE academics and admin people that we had the reunion with a few weeks ago told me that the days of the groups of mature 'home' students working at the College were long gone because THEY cannot afford to go there, something that really undermines the life of the school as they brought a life experience and a motivation that the 18/19 year old wannabees no longer have.
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Whilst I don't agree with or condone the violence, it's nice to see that at least ONE sector of the UK population that are going to be effected by HMG are actually doing something visual and obvious to protest what is happening, shame that some of the other people involved aren't so vocal.
Obviously they've been reading the threads on here and have decided that what Frenchie (and some others) said was right!
Edit: And it looks as though they're going to try to hang the Met out to dry on this, must have SOMEBODY to BLAME, what is that all about, it seems to be a Uk media obsession.
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[quote user="tj"]who cares anyway !, this s**t happens everyday, ,,,[/quote]
Comments like that say more about you than anything else. So next time you ask a question or post anything, we can all say who gives a s**t about what you say.
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Crikey Clair, just had a look at the web site and it's perfect. The name of the guy that owns it crops up in J's family tree and the fact they specifically do Armenian food (although it's the same as a good number of other folk's food) so it's likely he's an Armenian in origin. Little rascals creep in everywhere I'm pleased to say.
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Excellent, thank you Clair.
Bit far John but thanks anyway.
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Could also try the death index on the UK National Archives site, should be the most up to date records because all the other search engines take their information from that one.
This link may help.
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Does anybody know any shop in 24 that sells it please? Tried the Chinese supermarket and Grande Frais and they didn't have any, nor the small Chinese food shop in Perigueux. Can get it from the Uk but would rather source locally.
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Sorry, should have quoted him and not taken it from you!
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[quote user="Russethouse"]Give them training, education, skills so that when things do pick up they can get and hold down a job. More carrot and less stick but that isn't the Tory way. [/quote]
How many graduates are currently unemployed, some horrendous number according to HMG? My grandson was unemployed after he graduated for a year, applied for over 250 jobs, finally got a job on a government funded project and one of the first things the new UK government did was ........
stop the funding to this job creation scheme, even tho it was seen to be working.
Luckily they are honouring the contracts in place so not only will he see out his 6 months on the project, the County Council he is working for has offered him a full-time contract now.
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[quote user="Hoddy"] I cannot find anyone to do it at any price.[/quote]
Hoddy, will give you the number of our tree guy when you come back next year - assuming the tree hasn't fallen over by that time of course, in which case, know a couple of guys with chain saws who can cut it up for you ;)
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[quote user="Braco"]Smoke and mirrors. Almost every government has promised similar actions without delivering.[/quote]
Although it pains me to say so, the Thatcher Government had a good go at this. I was a manager for an Agency that managed a previous project of this type (MSC as was based) to get people off unemplyment benefit and into work. Two problems, getting them to even come to work and then finding them a job afterwards.
Although there were a good number of 'positive outcomes' for the people on the projects when many became paid work projects in themselves, the problem was the administration. There was a huge bureaucracy involved, the agencies got paid by the number of people they took on for the various charities involved (the agencies organised the projects and managed them for charities, which were in the main too small to do that for themselves) and then to keep the people involved, effectively on their books. There was a huge financial incentive to be a management agency, massive monitoring systems in place and the bottom line was that for every person you took on and kep on the books, you got paid.
My biggest problem was actually getting people to come to work. A good number were very motivated and did some great work. Many (this was based in Hackney in East London and covered the whole of London, 200 people worked for me) however, had never worked and trying to motivate a person of 23 who had never had a job was a nightmare, no work ethos or discipline and all sorts of disruptions to the working day. Ended up within a few weeks of people being told be in by 8.30 or don't come in and when that happened they were docked a day's benefit.
But the real incentive was not to get rid of people because the project funding per se was so poor that the per capita the agency earned was hit for every vacancy so if we sacked somebody or had a vacancy, the projects themselves had no money to function with and therefore the participants wouldn't have any work to do - vicious circle.
But, these projects worked and we managed to place a good number - from memory, 40% of the participants, into full-time work when they finished their 6 months on the project.
Current government says 1 month - no chance of working, you need at least that time to get the long-term unemployed people's heads where they need to be, a generalisation I know, but true, even the better outcomes still needed a period of adjustment. And I'd like to see the cost benefit on this brainwave, how will people be monitored, outcomes measured etc and with the current HMG conceding that there are 5 applicants for every job on the governmen work agency's books, how do they expect people with little or no work ethic to achieve what's needed in just a month.
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[quote user="woolybanana"]Yes, definitely, Tony, plus a whole host of other trades, often paid for by the State in some form or other.[/quote]
I find it really bizarre that the discussion about the strike has generated so much heat among British people, a good number of whom are likely to be living in France because they got good deals and early retirement from a government or employers that clearly, according to UK television and newpapers, are in an equally difficult situation with all the talk of the black holes in UK pension systems, the need for bale-outs and pension schemes running huge defecits.
So who's under statutory retirement age and drawing down their pensions from their previous employers and are willing to give up their gold-plated early retirement deals (or any of the other descriptions used to describe what the French get) to help out their government which is also in dire straits or their pension schemes?
This is, of course, a rhetorical question .............
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I'm looking for a program that automatically translates to French when you type in English. I know that you can get them from Arabic and Indian dialects to English but now need something English/French.
I've got a French person lined up to check on the outcome after the initial input.