Teachers' strike (comment made on the radio)

Aldi is my second favourite shop. It's a very close call - I think Lidl beat Aldi hands down on fresh produce, but Aldi has a branch on my way home from work!

Yup, mostly just good plain ingredients - cheese, coffee, wine, fruit, veg, eggs, milk. That's about it in my basket.

 

Go to Aldi and you`ll get your daily spending down to £2 :D:D

 

Owners
Brother and sister fallen out, When one opens a shop the other opens close by

Personally I find the produce excellent, Lots of people not well travelled say urgh its German Roast pork, or Italian ham, Polish sausage, etc
If they had travelled or were to buy they would realise it is far superiour quality to UK COOKED MEATS
As for the veg well I have posted before, I live in FIFE,
Fife is the veg garden most supermarket crops in season are grown here
Kingskettle is the village and the farm, one neighbour is Polish and a manager there, two near neighbours are Polish field/production workers there

Funny bit, they start the long night shift conveyor belts of veg, the first hour the washed veg is packed and labelled Marks and Sparks, then at the end of the hour the label printer is changed to Asder, then later to Tesgoe, and so on until after Morrisoons, the veg is not washed and the label changed to Aldie or Liddle

All the veg was in the same field eight hours earlier, dug up and all mixed together in big open trailers pulled by a tractor, that I have to drive behind on my way to work

Scrungee would be in his element here, every corner they go around the piled high veg falls off, so the roadside bank has loads of fresh carrots, turnips, cabbage, potatoes. lying there but in everyones rush no one stops to pick it up

Well I do know one guy, who specialises in roadkill and veg soup, as a hobby
Lots of pheasant, rabbit, and roe deer roadkill up here,
Sorry Ziggy he does not pick up the badgers ( lots of each morning :-( )
He comes into the pub and either tries to flog it in one gallon containers or gives it away

Most baulk at it in a one gallon detergent buckets, but I will eat anything, just make sure it has had a good boil up first :-) Gallon of game and veg soup for the price of a pint

Jack McH

 

Blimey, John. I thought for a moment there you'd joined *dim* on one of his conspiracy sites and were now convinced that the former leader of Al Qaeda was alive, well, and working in a German supermarket.

 

I despair.

Trouble is, if you withdraw or reduce benefits from people who you might feel are not pulling their weight for the community, then (at least) two things will happen:

1.Petty crime will go up.

2.The young children of those people receiving benefits will suffer even though the situation is not of their making.

What will not happen is that the recipients of benefit will turn overnight into hardworking, trustworthy and reliable employees, so the problem as the rest of society sees it will not be solved. In fact social problems will become worse as a result of benefit restrictions.

In this specific example, though, it's hard to understand why the payouts are not on a par with waged teenagers or conditional in some way - maybe dependent on some kind of paid work being undertaken.

 

Wish Lidl'd hurry up and build one on my route home then!

 

I know. If you were to see some of these individuals (well, all of them, to be honest) you'd know immediately that expecting them to do anything remotely useful is a bit like asking pigs to fly. I think most people who see the problem first hand are resigned to the fact that there isn't much alternative to coughing up. What upsets the neighbours is that these recipients of state largesse don't even feel that they have to behave decently in return for their keep. They take the pee because they know that there ain't nothing we can do about it. So as a first step, I'd try to impress on them the need to treat the working population with respect and I'd cut their benefits if they didn't behave with at least minimal decency. Money is the only weapon we have and I think it has to be used sometimes. (A matron who lived in my road and who worked long hours on an emergency ward was driven to distraction by her drug addled neighbours. When she complained about the noise, they threatened to 'cut' her.)