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It's really not. I'm saying what I think, as much as I don't want to, in this instance. Can you clarify to me that you don't think it should be mandatory for shop keepers to use accurate scales and quote the cost of bananas in a standard unit? If you agree they should have to do this, do you think those should be metric or imperial units, or both? Or can they do what they like without state interference, and it's a case of buyer beware? No, I don't think it should be mandatory, I think any business man with good business sense would accept standards set by some sort of union/group with a seal of approval which a customer would look for. I would also differentiate between the small local grocer - a human being, and a large corporation - a legal entity in its own right which has far too much power over a community which is not vigilant enough as it feels it's being looked after. I'm sorry if that idea is so absurd as to be laughable to some, maybe I need to work on breaking things down better, but I will continue to believe that those people need to widen their viewpoint and level of understanding. Edit: Just to clarify if someone is using a rigged scales, yes, that's a crime. OK, then I disagree. I would just add that it would require almost no effort for any trader, even small ones, to comply with existing laws by using a metric-compatible set of scales, so in my opinion there are no excuses. As usual, the law is on my side. In response to your edit, if you are going to the effort of having trading officers checking rigged scales, they may as well also make sure the person is charging an umabiguous price for his bananas as well. It would cost nothing to implement this. "Non-rigged scales.........check! Unambiguity of banana pricing.......check!" Whilst I think spongebob and Dotbum are arguing about something a bit more fundamental, I genuinely believe that Renton's chief concern is bananas.

It's really not. I'm saying what I think, as much as I don't want to, in this instance. Can you clarify to me that you don't think it should be mandatory for shop keepers to use accurate scales and quote the cost of bananas in a standard unit? If you agree they should have to do this, do you think those should be metric or imperial units, or both? Or can they do what they like without state interference, and it's a case of buyer beware? Are you genuinely having an argument about weighing bananas? Anybody can see that whilst on the surface we are talking about bananas it is obviously a metaphor A who's got the biggest banana thing? Renton likes to work in centimetres as the smaller units make his seem larger. Dotbum is confident enough to stick with the larger imperial units despite them being a higher divisor.

It's really not. I'm saying what I think, as much as I don't want to, in this instance. Can you clarify to me that you don't think it should be mandatory for shop keepers to use accurate scales and quote the cost of bananas in a standard unit? If you agree they should have to do this, do you think those should be metric or imperial units, or both? Or can they do what they like without state interference, and it's a case of buyer beware? Are you genuinely having an argument about weighing bananas?

Your company dictates to you how old your car can be?! WTF?

Heightened tension in this thread like.

Yes. I want that divided by 7. In your head. And the answer back in pounds and ounces please. *puts hand in air, supported by other hand to push it higher* ME! ASK ME SIR! SIR PLEASE SIR!

Conversion is easy, try dividing 2 stone, 4 pounds, and 3 ounces by 7 and see what I mean. Trying to calculate your weight loss goal?

Renton is one of those that needs protection. I can just imagine him at the deli counter like Tim Nice-But-Dim going "Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Sooooooo. Ah, how many pound things is that then?" in a T N-B-D voice as the lass behind the counter weighs out his enormous pork pie order.

Company cars are cack when you've only got a limited choice. At PwC the choice was basically anything you wanted. They even had American cars on the list that they would import if you wanted to wait 6 months for one. At my current place you can get pretty much any car you want, but the leasing cost plus the tax implication puts it at about £200 per month more than I'm paying for the finance + insurance on my car, so balls to that.

I thought it was a fucked up of version of the classic "Are you talking to me or chewing a brick........cos either way you're spitting blood" line. Jesus how shit is that.

Is spitting bricks an expression then? I've never heard it before and it bothers me every time I read the thread title. As does the capitalised AM. I AM spitting bricks. Never said you weren't missus!

How do you know what flowers taste like? I assume somebody stole your wallet one Christmas and you had to survive on flowers and ditchwater for a year. I got some petals individually wrapped for Christmas one year. I ate them.

Turkish Delight is minging! It tastes of flowers. Although if there's chocolate on it, I'll still put it away.

Yeah, yeah, very good wankers! I did have to look on wikipedia for Cratchit's first name though. Confirmed my heterosexuality tbh.

See that alex? Literary reference.

Individually wrapped biscuits? Sorry I thought she had a bit of misfortune, I missed the bit where she said she'd been trapped in a Dickens novel. Aye, I was imagining Bob Cratchit looking through the window at Tiny Tim tucking into his chocolate Bourbon.

Agreed. Sorry to hear your bad news Gina Why not buy a few boxes of Marks and Spencers 'nice' biscuits, ( on offer at present) split the boxes up, wrap the biccies into individual parcels and tie up with ribbon for small gifts. Its the thought that counts after all. It is the thought that counts, but if anyone gives me a biscuit for Christmas, there'll be trouble. not even a ginger one? I dont mind receiving a box of those really moreish M&S luxury biccies though. No, not even a ginger one. I'll go through three tins of the cadburys biscuit selections over the festive period though. I watched more about this whole thing on the news this morning and it's awful. Old grannies losing £6k and stuff. Pretty shocking.

Besides (assuming everyone else's UK passport is the same as the one I was issued by the consulate in Düsseldorf a few years back), it only has the words "European Union" in fairly small letters at the top, then "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" in bigger letters underneath and a massive royal coat of arms taking up the rest of the front page. It's not as if we're being asked to roll up to passport control and hand over our biometric data imprinted into a Belgian waffle or something. I'd have mine on a Croque Monsieur. Oo la laaaa!

Agreed. Sorry to hear your bad news Gina Why not buy a few boxes of Marks and Spencers 'nice' biscuits, ( on offer at present) split the boxes up, wrap the biccies into individual parcels and tie up with ribbon for small gifts. Its the thought that counts after all. It is the thought that counts, but if anyone gives me a biscuit for Christmas, there'll be trouble.

Htf do you get a brand new company car when you don't even have to travel much anyway? Because I'm MANAGEMENT, Renty baby. Bet you'd prefer the hard cash! I have the option. At PwC I took the company car because I was just back from America and didn't have one. At my current place, I've taken the cash instead.

Htf do you get a brand new company car when you don't even have to travel much anyway? Because I'm MANAGEMENT, Renty baby.

The only time I've ever had a new car is when I had a company car. It got delivered to work in an Audi truck. I was mortified. Reception rang my desk and I had to go outside to be greeted by this lorry. He opened the back door and reversed the car out with next to no miles on it. Nice to get a new car, but I didn't half feel like a dickhead the way it turned up.

Renton's in a one-per, Renton's in a two-per......

I can't stand Alan Green. He just sticks up for his mates. "Listen. Listen. I know Peter Reid/Graeme Souness/Alan Curbishley/whichever-manager-is-struggling personally, and I can assure you that what you are saying is not the case." etc. Prick! Having said that, he's not as bad as Spoony. Listening to 606 on the way home the other day after the Cech/Cudicini incidents, and a caller brought up the subject of Bert Trautman. Spoony responds dismissively with "Before my time, mate." Now I know he wasn't born then, but neither was I but I know about the incident because I'm a football fan, and not some prick DJ who's been given a job that's beyond him. A few seconds later he says to the bloke "For those of us not aware of the story, can you fill us in please?". So basically can he tell YOU the story Spoony, because I bet the majority of people listening know exactly what he's talking about you clueless know-nowt no-mark. Honestly, unless it's about a Premiership game in the last few seasons involving teams in the top 10, he hasn't got a fucking clue what he's on about.

At first him and Wacky were a bit of a Grarnt and Fiw combo like. With Smooth Operator later exposed as the Ross Kemp that we all saw on Extras.