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Ahhhh. Thank you oh wise one.

Damn you GM I couldn't make it work. What am I donig wrong? [media] [media]

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Signed. AP rules. haha signed! Just to show what a farce the 1m clarkson one is!

The comparison has also been made by a certain member in this thread Darn right. I reckon they were separated at birth.... More wrinkles than a 200 year old tortoise, bad clothes, faces that could turn milk sour, comedy hair.... I much preferred your unedited version below: "Darn right. - hit peak popularity when wrinkly as a tortoise and despite being beaten with the ugly stick - inexplicably popular despite absence of talent - comedy hair - wormed their way in with the political elite of the day - featured in terrible TV programmes..... The list is potentially endless....." Far more opinionated, lovely though to be able to freely voice your thoughts without fear of a witch hunt for your scalp The comparison has also been made by a certain member in this thread Darn right. I reckon they were separated at birth.... More wrinkles than a 200 year old tortoise, bad clothes, faces that could turn milk sour, comedy hair.... I much preferred your unedited version below: "Darn right. - hit peak popularity when wrinkly as a tortoise and despite being beaten with the ugly stick - inexplicably popular despite absence of talent - comedy hair - wormed their way in with the political elite of the day - featured in terrible TV programmes..... The list is potentially endless....." Far more opinionated, lovely though to be able to freely voice your thoughts without fear of a witch hunt for your scalp Ha that'll teach me to do my edits faster

Same here. Total no-show.

The comparison has also been made by a certain member in this thread Darn right. I reckon they were separated at birth.... More wrinkles than a 200 year old tortoise, bad clothes, faces that could turn milk sour, comedy hair....

Solution = Ethel sounds awesome. Give her to me. She can come and live in Twickenham with our four rescue bunnies and two adopted fat lazy cats (who are too obese, cowardly and spoilt to think of taking on a feisty chicken.). Problem solved.

Those supermarket delivery drivers are a nightmare.

I was told that the materials used inside Cobra HFCs mean that MOT fails should not be an issue....got another couple of years til I find out. Fingers crossed.

Seem to recall we're not allowed to post links to US Z forums but if you Google "350Z ruined" there's an epic body shop horror story from some years ago.

Sounds good.

Ok. Watched it. Poor car. Gonna need a good bodyshop.

If you have a Sky box I believe the episodes are available on catch up. Will have a watch later.

Cool

That is so cool. I want to live your life

I like how the dog with the Orangutang looks so proud.

Jetpilot, have you not 'got' that the only way for managers who were not physically present to establish whether punches were thrown is an investigation? They sit them down. The producer says "he punched me". JC says "no I didn't". What then? I've got an idea. It's the weekend. We have a limited amount of time to spend with our loved ones and doing the things we like to do. We're never going to agree. We're miles apart. Let's just agree to disagree. I need to get stuff done before the town is overrun by rugby fans!

You're contadicting yourself Jetpilot. First you declare that it was a shouting match and they should move on. Then you say that IF punches were thrown there should be an investigation. The whole point of an investigation is to establish what happened. And that is exactly the point of having the kind of process which you have been so quick to dismiss. I'd hardly say that an example of an older male boss bullying a younger female qualifies as a hypothetical situation. It happens. But I'll happily use a real example for you. Jimmy Saville got away with abusing people for decades because nobody at the BBC (and elsewhere) had the guts to do anything about him. He was a big powerful figure, a popular celebrity, untouchable (sound familiar?). Imagine how different things might have been if the BBC then had a culture of respect and people were prepared to properly confront and investigate allegations of improper behaviour. Imagine how many lives might have been saved from permanent ruin. There's no evidence that JC is a child abuser of course but the principle is exactly the same.

We always get rescue animals too. Sorry for your loss. I'm sure you gave him a very happy life in his final years.

Darn you Ekona, you beat me to it. PS I am in the SAS and can do a million press ups on one finger. And I like beer. Grrrrr.

How you are allowed to get away with making up these stories is completely beyond me. In some respects, I admire your sheer nerve but if 50% of your posts had a grain of truth to them you'd have lived the most eventful life of any human being on the planet! Lying or not, If you believe life is sorted out in disciplinary hearings you have lived a very sheltered life, the stories i could tell you about work incidents would have you shaking in a corner. Always got sorted and no one got fired, got to be a bonus surely Interesting that you took such exception to my thicko remark but you dont think it might be offensive to imply that you could reduce someone you don't know to shaking in a corner with one of your 'stories'. If I end up shaking in a corner it would be with laughter at the fact that you've just tried to turn this entire thread into a competition about who the most manly man is. Just as it was wrong of me to characterise everyone who likes JC as thick, it's just too simplistic and naive to imply that anyone ŵho understands that not everything at work can be sorted out in a blokey way is a wimp. What does the inexperienced 18 year old girl whose just started work in an office and finds that she's being bullied and sexually harassed by her older more experienced male manager do? Offer him a fight around the back of the building? Get her Dad down to beat him up? Shut up and put up with it because if she complains and someone investigates, she's just a PC moaner right?

How you are allowed to get away with making up these stories is completely beyond me. In some respects, I admire your sheer nerve but if 50% of your posts had a grain of truth to them you'd have lived the most eventful life of any human being on the planet!

Here's a thought - I'd suggest that generally you don't need to choose between the workplace bully and profit/productivity etc. Why? Because in most circumstances people who behave like that are not the most productive, capable people. They're the people who are using aggression, bravado etc to hide the fact that they're actally not very good. Really good people don't need to act up - their performance and ability speaks for itself.