Posts by Rich Lock
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Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Gio is a pussy-cat.
He can haz dignity of labour naow?
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Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to Sacha,
bet you're really good at spotting the best ones in a vege shop now.
I didn't eat one for three years after that.
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Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to BenWilson,
Of course. I brought an intimate knowledge of the works of Bertrand Russell to every customer buying gas.
I was thinking more of your paper round, where you yourself say
making accurate estimations of how many papers I could carry, and what the optimal paths for delivery were
If I squint a little, I can almost turn that into a time and motion logistics study. If Ben can carry X number of papers and cycle at speed Y, or Z number of papers and cycle at speed A, with a total number of papers B, what is the shortest time he can complete his round in? Show working (ahaha).
I suspect the most valuable thing I learnt from my various stints of manual labour was how much I hated it, and how deeply shitty it is to be treated like a subhuman piece of filth, just because you're on the bottom rung. I had, even before I started, the expectation of a way out. Some people don't. Being able to empathise, at least to a degree is, I think, useful.
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Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to giovanni tiso,
So what?
I didn't think they were good examples. I agree with you: what exactly do you learn from cleaning other peoples shit off porcelain, except that some people really are utter filthpigs?
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Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to BenWilson,
It could probably be argued that you learnt something or brought something to all of those jobs you listed.
So I take issue with those as examples. I spent six months picking capsicums in Queensland, and I can think of absolutely nothing about it that wasn't mindless. It didn't even have the bonus of learning how to manage short-tempered underpaid staff armed with sharp instruments.
All I learnt was how deeply I am able to hate Queensland farmers. The racist, money-grubbing quasi-fascist little shitbags that they are.
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Up Front: Something For Your Snow Day, in reply to Sacha,
that's the spirit
PAS rules relating to weights and measures:
Scotch: doubles
Coffee: doubles
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Up Front: Something For Your Snow Day, in reply to Megan Wegan,
Not the winkie, from the sounds of things.
I gather she has special winkie measuring equipment.
I'm going to risk horribly mangling today's threads, and ask: Imperial or metric?
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Up Front: Something For Your Snow Day, in reply to Tom Beard,
The story is blocked at work for "Adult/mature content", which surprises me. Sure, I expect it to be filthy, but mature?
Hart's Law states that any post by Emma will, at some point in time following the initial post, be blocked by the work firewall.
Collary number 1 to Hart's Law states that this may occur concurrently with the initial posting.
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Suck on that, you bleating panty-waisted liberals.
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but in London, Manchester/Salford, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Nottingham—the cities that erupted on Monday 8th August—the rich live, by and large, next to the poor: £1,000,000 Georgian terraces next to estates with some of the deepest poverty in the EU.
I’m not quite clear on what his point is
I suppose to point out that the have and have-nots in London live, almost literally, as next-door neighbours.
The Paris riots in 2005 were largely confined to the Banlieus. Those rioters would have had to have travelled a considerable distance to get to a gentrified/shopping area. In England, it was a short stroll down the road.
One of the news items last week pointed out that Boris Johnson and Theresa May were heavily heckled in the slightly downmarket Clapham Junction, but were then able to beat a hasty retreat up the road (on foot) to upmarket Clapham itself, for a photo op with the far more pliant broom army.
Much harder to police that sort of disorder. Smash, grab, melt away into your own home sidestreets.
Much easier to resent what is right under your nose that you'll never have, too. Brixton has been slowly gentrify-ing over the last 10-15 years as middle-class professionals get priced out of the other, 'nicer' suburbs around them. Not difficult to imagine that that has led to quite a bit of friction between newcomers and those who are slowly being squeezed out of their own area.