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the immigrants apprentice
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argie!
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^^^ too much world cup (nap)
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i messi'd it up
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lol.
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most politicians and benefit families actually have a lot in common. both are so used to having everything handed to them on a plate, theyre stuck in their own comfortable little bubble. neither really live in the real world. obviously at completely different ends of the economic scale.
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15 Jul 14 22:00 missed a trick here. should have put the english team against the immigrants team in challenges. I worked in a well known brewery distribution centre that tried that. Picking loads, goods in, goods out, loading drays and stock checks. Everybody had to work in every aspect. 3 shifts of Englishmen versus 1 shift of almost all africans. It was a disaster. Whoever followed the african shift had to finish their work before starting their own work, it may have only been half an hour on some nights, but with 18 on a shift, that still equated to over a days work the following shift had to do before they started their own shift. On busy nights it couldn't be done, so overtime had to be paid. As you'd expect, they got the piss taken out of them. The 'experiment' only lasted 2 weeks, then instead of being sacked for being too slow, the whole shift rota started from scratch, with an equal mumber of africans on each shift. You wouldn't believe how thick SOME of them are. Try this exercise:  Loading 12 pallets of lager onto a lorry for 3 deliveries: Delivery 1 was for 2 pallets delivery 2 was for 6 pallets delivery 3 was for 4 pallets. The fork lift truck has 4 forks, and picks up two pallets at a time. The driver does the straps and the curtains. 6 lifts, and you're done. Assuming you can drive a 'double handler' fork truck, how long do you think it would take you? |
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Sideshowbob thinks he isn`t working class, my god no wonder this country is in a mess
when you have idiots like him looking down on other idiots. |
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why am i an idiot?
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Not only are you an idiot, you do not even know why you are an idiot!...
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serious question. i mean, what does it take to not be an idiot?
i have a degree. i was a computer programmer in my teensi have a high iq. ive worked for myself nearly all my adult life. i have 150k in the bank. so what would qualify me as being "not an idiot"? and what would qualify me as not being working class? |
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its easy to say thing. i can say youre a tomato. does that make you a tomato?
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just tell me what would make me not an idiot. if you want, i'll challenge you to an independant iq test for both of us. and i'll bet you 10k i'll win. are you up for it? tell you what, i'll bet 10k to your 1k. should be an easy payday for you, seeing as im an idiot.
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Of course we are all idiots in our own way, but some of us recognise this and are in recovery.
Perhaps there could be such a thing as idiots anonymous.. Hello my name bob and i am an idiot. |
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you still havent answered the question.
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My IQ is very low.
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or told me why im working class...
not that i ever said that i wasnt, in the first place... |
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I guessed.
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not that question, the question what would it would take for me to not be an idiot? i mean im not likely to turn into stephen hawking anytime soon, but apart from that...
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ok try and understand that possibly someone in a very good job, with lots of money
might be a complete fool. lets say for ex, Boris Johnson. Now i know people like to assume that Boris plays the fool...but this is just a ploy, he is even more stupid than he appears! And yet he is sooo successful. |
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Then again you may have someone living onthe streets, an ex teacher or busisnesman
who is very clever and talented...this is life. |
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im not sure if youre being sarcastic or not. i have no idea how intelligent or otherwise he is. it is quite hard to avoid being "succesful" if youre born into the right family though.
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i was born into nothing. never been given anything in my entire life. i was the loser kid at school in the 10 year out of date badly fitting clothes. everything ive achieved, which isnt much in the great scheme of things, has been done through my own determination not to be a victim of my circumstances. it would have been easy to be a criminal or a drug addict. it was what everybody expected from me anyway, even my own family.
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Yes the working classes who do well are always the worst
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when i said "working class idiots" i didnt really mean it in an intelligence way. i was lucky in that i had brains, but they arent essential. loads of working class kids do well for themselves through hard work. its the ones who havent got that in them that is the problem, and im not even blaming them really. more their parents and the benefit culture of the 80s/90s.
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There is no difference between those who do well and those who don`t, circumstances
and luck...everyone will work hard if they have a decent and fairly secure job where they can plan for the future... this is not really possible for nay thousands of people. |
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i was born into nothing. it would have been easy to be a criminal or a drug addict. it was what everybody expected from me anyway, even my own family. Nice family you have. I've got £150k and 5p in the bank, btw. |
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hmm. i cant agree with that. i see loads of teenagers who are agressive, angry, lazy ****s. a lot of shopworkers are rude and disinterested. ok, if i worked in the co op, id be rude and disinterested too. but then i wouldnt do it. if you choose to do that job, even if its only a means to an end whilst youre at uni or whatever, would it hurt to at least try to not be rude to customers or look like youd rather be dead than working there??
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I don`t blame teenagers for being aggressive, they are the first generation that is going to do worse than their parents, and it will be much worse.
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i also see a lot who are polite and cheerful. if you can be polite and cheerful in a sh1t job like that, id say youre more likely to do well in everything you do. id be terrible at anything like that, which is why i knuckled down at what i have done. cos i knew i would be fecked if i had to work for somebody else, havent got the right attitude for it.
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No kidding.
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well i dont blame them, im aggressive myself. but channelling it towards customers when youre paid to serve them isnt gonna get you very far. be nice, get through the day, then put some heavy metal on and take it out on a punchbag or summat. were all angry at plenty of things, but we dont all go around being horrible to people we dont even know.
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YOU do!
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You wouldn't believe how thick SOME of them are.
Try this exercise: Loading 12 pallets of lager onto a lorry for 3 deliveries: Delivery 1 was for 2 pallets delivery 2 was for 6 pallets delivery 3 was for 4 pallets. The fork lift truck has 4 forks, and picks up two pallets at a time. The driver does the straps and the curtains. 6 lifts, and you're done. Assuming you can drive a 'double handler' fork truck, how long do you think it would take you? No fork lift truck drivers on here then? |
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10 mins taxi
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Lend us a tenner bob
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10 minutes tops, Shane, yes.
All the lager was the same brand, all the pallets were the same aize, so the loading order was irrelevant. But the african was trying to work out that he had to reverse the loading order so that the first drop was on the back. It was over 15 minutes before the first two pallets were on the dray. You should have seen these people perform with a 15 drop dray of mixed goods, it was pathetic. |