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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2012 10:35:56 GMT 1
I'm inspired by 4stix's reference to Islam, but not for the same sicko reasons - 4stix, I continue to worry about you, a lot.... When i was working in the Middle East I came across this: 'Let the labourer be paid before the sweat on his brow has dried' It's taken from the Koran. Over there they don't like owing people money. It's literally against their religion. Compare that with over here where businesses will delay payment of an invoice for 60, 90, 120 days or more, when the contract says 30.... I was struck by the words - ok, I like pretty sentences - and smitten by the meaning. Now, whenever I ask people to help me in my work, casually for a few days at a time, I always pay them, in banknotes, at the end of each day. I'm known locally for it. I never have a problem getting help. No-one stitches me up. It's a bit of religion that works for me. I still have to whistle for my money from the client, though ....
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Jul 18, 2012 12:29:53 GMT 1
Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2012 12:29:53 GMT 1
When I was in Court the other day the Prosecution presented their case against me and I thought I was doomed. The judge said to me: 'You are a scourge on Society and a burden on the public purse' Quick as a flash I replied: 'You're absolutely right, Your Honour, and thank you for bringing that to my attention!' And he let me off! God sent me the words I needed, just when I needed them!
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Jul 18, 2012 12:51:54 GMT 1
Post by 4STIX on Jul 18, 2012 12:51:54 GMT 1
I'm inspired by 4stix's reference to Islam, but not for the same sicko reasons - 4stix, I continue to worry about you, a lot.... Dont you go worrying about me Anon, my mum does enough of that for me.
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Jul 19, 2012 8:14:33 GMT 1
Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2012 8:14:33 GMT 1
And another thing.... My neighbour had a right old ding-dong with someone the other day for parking across his drive. You may not have that sort of problem in Brittany but here, even in rural Hampshire, it's a way of life.... My neighbour wasn't trying to get out cos his wife had the car and she was at work all day. So it was a point of principle.
Yesterday, the same bloke parked across my drive. I wasn't intending to get out either. I was stroking the dog and having a stupid conversation with him, the way dog-owners do, and I asked him what should we do about the bloke parking across my drive?
'Stay put and keep stroking me! Turn the other cheek!''
So I did. I fink my neighbour should get a dog....
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Jul 19, 2012 8:48:11 GMT 1
Post by lib on Jul 19, 2012 8:48:11 GMT 1
Has anyone done something wrong, my Mum always said when something went wrong or someone parked across her drive; "Thats God punishing us".
Never understood it then and still don't.
Shows how much more sensible Dogs are.
The Motor Car is an invention of the Devil.
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Jul 19, 2012 13:59:12 GMT 1
Post by tinkerbell on Jul 19, 2012 13:59:12 GMT 1
but one you wouldn't want to be without,Lib
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Jul 19, 2012 14:28:34 GMT 1
Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2012 14:28:34 GMT 1
Yes, tinkerbell, but at least lib knows (disingenuously?) where the Devil lurks! It's a start.... Some people say drink is the work of the Devil. I say b*gger off! So I'm not as godly as lib . Anyway, we're all 'miserable sinners', etc, etc, blah de blah, ti-dum, ti-dum, ti-dum...... ps lib: I think your mum was wonderful. Reminds me of mine. Happy days! Where did they go?
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Jul 19, 2012 17:10:30 GMT 1
Post by lib on Jul 19, 2012 17:10:30 GMT 1
Yes, annon, my mum was wonderful. She predated Hyacinth Bucket by years. Our drive was sacrosanct, although as we lived in a terraced house on a street that in those days were bereft of cars, or even drives, I always marvelled at her attempts to ensure the drive was free to have a vehicle parked there if we so wished. The milkmans horse and cart did not count as Trigger (the horse) only stopped for his daily crust and sometimes a carrot. By the way the milkman's nickname was Yank, 'cos I suspect of the horses name.
When my Uncle Bert, nickname The Fuhrer, got a old Reliant van, (cyclops model with girder forks) to help him in his rag and bone work. Huge was the attempts to ensure it was never parked were it could be associated with ourselves.
I often, when coming home from school, iI wondered if I would see our drive delimited by use of her donkey stone on the kerbstones to show ownership. Alas the stone was only used on the bottom step, setting off the mansion polish on the top step.
Truly to Her the car was the devils spawn.
She was in later life a Spiritualist, not sure who her god was then.
ps it's all true.
pps when she had trouble walking she would deign to use a taxi to get to the hairderessers.
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Jul 19, 2012 17:25:18 GMT 1
Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2012 17:25:18 GMT 1
I'm ready to be taken in, true or false, with your tale of ordinary folk and simple values, lib. I know that there's no future in nostalgia, but when you put it the way you do it makes me feel that I still want to be part of it...
Thanks
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Jul 19, 2012 23:32:59 GMT 1
Post by 4STIX on Jul 19, 2012 23:32:59 GMT 1
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