What Winds You Up?
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suburbanreuben
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The new, Argos adverts. Harmogenised Americana :evil:
The new Christmas Curry's PC world advert, (We will help you get Christmas right this year), Thus insinuating that you have got Christmas wrong all these years, and that spending a huge amount of money will make things right. :twisted:
Smart phone adverts, selling the same things that all the phones do but saying ours is better. :evil:
Car drivers on mobiles, speeding, parking on pavements, revving loudly, and just being generally pig ignorant. :twisted:
The new, Argos adverts. Harmogenised Americana :evil:
The new Christmas Curry's PC world advert, (We will help you get Christmas right this year), Thus insinuating that you have got Christmas wrong all these years, and that spending a huge amount of money will make things right. :twisted:
Smart phone adverts, selling the same things that all the phones do but saying ours is better. :evil:
Car drivers on mobiles, speeding, parking on pavements, revving loudly, and just being generally pig ignorant. :twisted:
Pragmatism and the "make-do" culture. Just doing a "good-enough" job, rather than a decent one.
Mostly people bought into the expedience and economy of no longer doing something very decently, so long as it was good enough. I saw it at the tail-end of their careers for a couple of relatives who prided themselves on being good at what they did for a living, and became increasingly frustrated and disillusioned as that was being discouraged in favour of just doing something that was just about OK.
What people didn't get, in their myopia, grounded in the rhetoric of voodoo economics, was the detrimental impact that would have, and it became, pretty much, a manifesto for the feckless and mediocre.
Mostly people bought into the expedience and economy of no longer doing something very decently, so long as it was good enough. I saw it at the tail-end of their careers for a couple of relatives who prided themselves on being good at what they did for a living, and became increasingly frustrated and disillusioned as that was being discouraged in favour of just doing something that was just about OK.
What people didn't get, in their myopia, grounded in the rhetoric of voodoo economics, was the detrimental impact that would have, and it became, pretty much, a manifesto for the feckless and mediocre.
highlandsflyer
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Got to agree. I phoned to complain about a worker we had sent to us today and was told by their agency they were one of their most experienced workers, having been there nine years.
My reply was along the lines of, "Thirty years at a job poorly, if you can get away with it, can just mean thirty years of getting away with it. "
My reply was along the lines of, "Thirty years at a job poorly, if you can get away with it, can just mean thirty years of getting away with it. "
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50K cars are penis extensions IMHO.
Me? I drive a 12 year old Golf 1.4. Never had any complaints from the fairer sex :facepalm:
See what you've started here HF? Not so much a can of worms, more like a barrel :facepalm:
50K cars are penis extensions IMHO.
Me? I drive a 12 year old Golf 1.4. Never had any complaints from the fairer sex :facepalm:
See what you've started here HF? Not so much a can of worms, more like a barrel :facepalm:
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