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Just had a stressful encounter at Poundland. I brought a few DVD's from there, one of which was The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. When the chap behind the till saw it he joked, "Did you know that thanks to political correctness they had to change the name of this film to The Good, The Bad and the...is it not-ugly? No, that's not right, it's something else! Only I've forgotten! Garrr! Aaaargh! I've ruined the joke!"

Then, as I was leaving with a rictus grin on my face, he called after me, "You can use that joke!"

I don't get it.

Ellie is really f**king annoyed at the selfish tube drivers striking when people are losing their jobs all over the place and not receiving pay rises anywhere else. I don't even use the tubes, but the roads were so chocker this morning cycling was a pain in the arse.

Quote: EllieJP @ September 7 2010, 9:47 AM BST

Ellie is really f**king annoyed at the selfish tube drivers striking when people are losing their jobs all over the place and not receiving pay rises anywhere else. I don't even use the tubes, but the roads were so chocker this morning cycling was a pain in the arse.

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Same old moaning Ellie!

Quote: EllieJP @ September 7 2010, 9:47 AM BST

Ellie is really f**king annoyed at the selfish tube drivers striking when people are losing their jobs all over the place and not receiving pay rises anywhere else. I don't even use the tubes, but the roads were so chocker this morning cycling was a pain in the arse.

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Me, me, me

We don't have tubes where I am.

The only underground traffic is the worms (and the ladies I have down in the cellar on another futile escape attempt!!).

Quote: chipolata @ September 7 2010, 10:02 AM BST

Same old moaning Ellie!

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Same old Chip... just old.

Quote: Will Cam @ September 7 2010, 10:19 AM BST

The only underground traffic is the worms

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I like the thought of worm traffic.

Quote: EllieJP @ September 7 2010, 9:47 AM BST

Ellie is really f**king annoyed at the selfish tube drivers striking when people are losing their jobs all over the place and not receiving pay rises anywhere else. I don't even use the tubes, but the roads were so chocker this morning cycling was a pain in the arse.

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Bunch of f**king c**ts. How dare they want more money. I would do anything to be a tube driver & risk the wrath of terrorism, fires, police shooting wrong people & suicidals throwing their wretched arseholes at my vehicle.

Ps I am looking for a new driver for my fallopian tubes.

I see your point Charley, but they're going the wrong way about it.

I'm on Ellie's side on this one. I understand that the workers feel like they're entitled to more money, but in this environment so many people are unemployed or facing redundancy that it's just wildly inappropriate. There is simply no more money for the public sector under the current government. I'm putting up with no pay rises and doing a job for nearly £8k less than I should be. I'm just grateful to be employed.

Plus doing something that causes as much disruption as a mass strike just makes the problem worse- if 1/2 of London 9-5ers are 30 minutes late because of the strike, that's a hell of a big financial hit for the city.

Pft.

If money is that tight why aren't higher ups wages frozen or bonuses stopped? It's a convenient excuse for keeping wages as low as possible and profits as high as possible.

Quote: Charley @ September 7 2010, 11:13 AM BST

Bunch of f**king c**ts. How dare they want more money. I would do anything to be a tube driver & risk the wrath of terrorism, fires, police shooting wrong people & suicidals throwing their wretched arseholes at my vehicle.

Ps I am looking for a new driver for my fallopian tubes.

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1 London Transport drivers £50,000 station staff £30,000
That's a lot of money.

2 The strike is because Boris Johnson wants to stop paying for ticket staff who jobs have become redundant. If you bear in mind this happened because of the Oyster system (which cost a billion odd pounds), it's more than reasonable.

3 London Transport needs to simulataneously save 25% of it's budget and spend billions on investment. It's using computers on some lines from the 60s to work signals from the 30s. Ticket prices are already the highest in europe.

4 The RMT should f**king grow up. Coal, car building are all industries that went tits up because unions had ridiculous principles that simply made no economic sense.

Except if the RMT manage to hurt London Trnasport with a series of strikes. Then the ripple effect will spread and really hurt the economy.

Quote: Gavin @ September 7 2010, 11:36 AM BST

Pft.

If money is that tight why aren't higher ups wages frozen or bonuses stopped? It's a convenient excuse for keeping wages as low as possible and profits as high as possible.

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London Transport is completely in the red. There are very few "higher ups" on big wages. The "lower downs" are frankly well rewarded.

And in a massively complex metropolitan transport system. I'm quite happy knowing there's a few hugely well paid people who are the best at their jobs.

I can understand to an extent why some people strike.

But every single time they do, I find out that they're earning loads of money already! So that does rather ruin any sympathy I might have had.

Every time London Underground strike I get a day off work. Good luck to 'em I say!

Are there anygoodies you don't get?

Glamour models with their boobies dipped in cocaine at tea break?

Speaking of boobies. There was a small Thai looking lady staring at mine for about 10 minutes on the tube this morning. I felt violated, and not in the good way.