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#6826 |
Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
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FIFA is in a shambolic state of corruption and incompetance, and Blatter has been in charge for over a decade (I think). Buck stops with him.
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 25,964
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Great word that: bell-end.
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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
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While the AC repair guy was on his way ($600 bad fan motor), the dryer gave out (no heat likely bad element $400 replacement)
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#6829 |
Coronation Incarnate
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Pacific Northwest
Posts: 87
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3% pay cut coming in July. Grrrr
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
Posts: 18,449
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Considering the adages "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us" and "We work just hard enough to keep from being fired and they pay us just enough to keep us from quitting"
How much less pretending does 3% come out to and how much easier will your day be? Sorry to hear that. I don't think you could make 3% up in pens, pads, and paper clips.
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#6831 |
Coronation Incarnate
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Pacific Northwest
Posts: 87
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Days will be no easier. Our case loads have gone dramatically up in the past year, with less time to finish the work due to mandatory furlough days (one per month). Now we will work our 40 hours and get paid less. I'm thinking of pretending my lunch hour is actually two.
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#6832 |
To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
Posts: 18,449
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That's the spirit!
"Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you!"
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#6833 |
changed his status to single
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Right behind you. No, the other side.
Posts: 10,308
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FIFA is a corrupt organization and should be disbanded along with international football. full stop.
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#6834 |
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 24,185
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Against the wall when the revolution comes:
FIFA Bankers (not all, just some, especially those with houses I like) MPs (as above, but two houses) The FA Oh, and Miquita Oliver. I just don't like her. Even if she has a cool Mum. Actually, no. Her Mum can come round and cook for me and I'll let her daughter off. The Marquis de Sade got his hated parents-in-law saved from the guillotine. I can also show mercy. Well, not Sepp Blatter. But he's not related to me. And he never tried to get me out of prison, unlike La Présidente (de Sade's mother-in-law).
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 25,964
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de sade's mother-in-law got you out of prison??!
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 25,964
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Ok, levity over, time for seriousnessesses..
I've mentioned before that my best friend J is in a relationship with one of my other best mates, Jan. He's the same age as me, and she's 10 years older than us. They split up briefly last year, but then got back together, but this time aren't living together as they effectively were before. J's back living in his house and Jan has her house. Seems to be working well, they've both seemed much happier the past few months, like it's all just starting to come together properly. Both have had minor triumphs in their work, and have been really getting on with having a lovely life. Jan's health problems which have been severe seemed to be at an end. She has a kidney problem, but it's being managed. She had to have an op last year to remove ovarian cysts or something, and that all went well. After two years of constant health scares and problems (themselves coming on the back of a cancer scare, where she thought the cancer that she survived ten years ago had returned) the time seemed have come for blue skies and a little fun. The last few times I've seen Jan the difference has been profound. It's like my mate is back. The energetic, optimistic, creative and funny mate who'd just got so bogged down in a health nightmare. was only commenting to J a few days ago how much better and more like her old self she is. Jan's been feeling weird for the last two days. Pains in her head and neck, strange sensations of pressure. Yesterday she went to her doctors, and they sent her to the hospital suspecting she may have had a minor stroke. Initial CT scans showed nothing on the brain, but the lumbar puncture they did last night showed blood in her spine, so apparently she has had a minor stroke. They've moved her now to Leeds hospital where there is neurosurgery department. They don't know if she has a further bleed, but she had another funny turn today and they seem quite worried. Obviously J is worried sick. He's on his way home now from Leeds and is going to call at mine en route. Gonna roll a few smokes and down a couple of beers. Get his mind of it. I'm really worried about this. Obviously I'm worried for Jan. And i feel a profound sense of the unfairness of life that she is having to go through yet another nightmare of hospitals and tests, fear and uncertainty. But I'm also worried for J. Worried on so many levels. Worried about what he may have to cope with in the near future.
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#6837 |
LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 7,661
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I hope every thing works out for yer friend dana
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Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Mar 2011
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#6839 |
Slattern of the Swail
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 15,654
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yikes, Dana. I hope your pal gets some good news from the health front.
good vibes to you and her and J.
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 25,964
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Thanks peeps. J's back over at the hospital with her now. They're meant to be doing some kind of scan or test this morning, so hoping for some news soon.
Her kids must be going through it right now. Youngest is 14 I think.
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