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"Sky TV dishes are crap"

"Sky TV is crap"

Hahahaha,

I wholeheartedly agree with this blog. I'm watching Neighbours right now, in the UK, and the sheer cartful of Apples on show prompted me to do a quick Google (or should I say 'Poodle') for "how much money does neighbours get from apple product placement" - which led me to this very article.

I'd assume the show gets a hefty contribution from Apple.

:D

It's not just Tesco with rude staff it's all over the country and in lot's of shops and bussinesses. More and more people are under great pressure and stress at work/home, and this I believe is due to the financial state of the country.Some people have run up vast debts,(including the last govenment) and are now suffering for their folly. There is still more pain to come for lots of families who stretched themselves too far. Untill people really understand that the UK is in terrible public debt and the cuts are needed to bring our finances back into order I fear there is to be further anger and aggression.

P4tEH0 I read online (computer problems) positive feedback about your resource. Didnt even believe it, and now saw myself. It turned out that I was not fooled!....

P4tEH0 I read online (computer problems) positive feedback about your resource. Didnt even believe it, and now saw myself. It turned out that I was not fooled!....

"They .....can bearly speak English."
"500,000 eastern europeans a year."
Spot the errors!

In my experience, most educated East/Central Europeans speak and write better English than some of you Brits.

That aside, many employers favour decent hard-working immigrants, who have to try a little harder, over lazy disinterested locals with piercings, tattoos, bad skin, rotten teeth and scruffy clothes

You are talking rubbish, the country is letting in 500,000 eastern europeans a year. Corrupt businesses are using them instead of Brits because they can treat them so badly. This country cannot sustain the amount of immigrants coming in. They are unskilled and can bearly speak English. The UK should do what Australia and other countries do and only allow skilled required workers in, who have sponsorship and will not be joining the dole queue and living on benefits!!!

I may also add that we fought two world wars and yet find ourselves being ruled by Germany anyway.

Employers are looking to employ workers from overseas for many reasons. Workers from overseas are willing to come here to work because they do not receive benefits in their respective countries, so they come here to earn money. Many are prepared to work at minimum wages (initially) but they are also willing to put the effort into their work because they have ambition. The writing was on the wall in the earlier 70s when the unions demanded that trainees should qualify for a skilled mans wage after 3 years training. That was madness. It spelled the end of apprenticeship schemes. (I served a 6 years indentured apprenticeship before I went on to a basic skilled mans wage). When the government of the day (who allowed themselves to be bullied by unions) started to pay out benefits willy nilly, that took away the incentive for the young to want to work. Teachers (left wing loonies) played their part in destroying childrens work ethic by decrying anyone who mentioned factory work(factory fodder is the description used)....but I can guarantee that most teachers would be unemployable in the private sector due to their lack of skills and education). As time went on, more and more people became unemployed and their children were not put under pressure to look for work if it was there. Now we have a situation where our government(s) are being dictated to by the treacherous dogs in the EU, who forbid us to invest into new industries and we have to allow contracts for trains, trams, ships, etc to be offered to other countries. (having said that, the French make sure that major contracts are kept at home), but not us, we play by the rules. I ramble on. Its too late now, this country is overcrowded and we have 10 million unemployed (yes, 10 million) and the future is looking bleaker by the minute for anyone who wants to work......but too many are quite content to live off others. To all those who want to work, try anything, anything at all, show that you're willing, have pride in yourselves and do not give up. If someone is prepared to travel thousands of miles to this country to find work, then surely you can move around this tiny island of ours to get a job. I've done my 50 years as Factory Fodder and I am now living quite comfortably with my private pension. Go for it!!!!

British firms are importing this rubbish from China then selling it on, they are the rogues.

As long as we can get the cheap clothing, TVs and other toys no-one is bothered.
Nothing will happen until there is mass unemployment and services start collapsing.
Greed has taken over in all aspects of life, unions, bankers, politicitions, benefits,
Joe Bloggs etc.
One of the latest is the proposed benefits cap of £26,000, every left wing loony in the country is screaming their head off; just another form of greed.
The cake has only 12 slices but there is always someone who wants the lot.
Film: Wall Street, GREED IS GOOD

You have only yourself to blame by voting for the spineless lot in the houses of parliament.
Sack the lot of them, Labour, Conservative, Liberal
Bit of a ramble!

Whilst I have a general loathing for the parasites employed in the Public Sector, there are many that do give a satisfactory return for what they are paid. Police come to mind. I would not have their job for any amount of money. Fire service.....what a lazy bunch of *******, the majority of them hardly ever attend a fire or incident in the whole of their working life.....they sleep most of the time when they are on their watch. NHS workers....many do give a good service, but too many do not....dirty nursing staff, sleep while on night duty, could'nt care less if a patient dies. Refuse collectors and Sewage workers, whatever time some may waste, they are more essential than any of the parasitic, corrupt idlers that are employed in local council offices. Teachers.....majority are so full of it that they are only concerned with their own image. The majority are incapable of simple mental arithmatic let alone teaching maths. They have and are letting our youngsters down very badly with their lack of enthusiasm and skills. Show me a public sector worker and I will show you a shirking parasite. Just to let you know, I worked for 50 years in the manufacturing industry which is where most of this countrys wealth was created. The bloated public in Greece has played a great part in their financial meltdown and they are going to pay dearly for it, so will we. It has been said, that we could cut the UK public sector by half and we would be no worse off for services. (Labour created almost a million Public Sector none jobs...Guaranteeing votes?) Labour virtually doubled GPs pay and cut their working hours...work that one out? Labour poured tens of billions of pounds extra into the NHS, but most of it went on creating more jobs...not on Patient Care. Well, I've had my gripe on this one. Have a nice day.

Stop buying from China?? We are now buying from China because everyone wants something on the cheap. I wonder how many in this country would be prepared to pay for goods manufactured in the UK at a higher cost? I am, and always have been a firm believer in buying UK made goods but our manufacturing industry was destroyed by power hungry Union leaders and the sheep that followed them. Strike after strike in the 60s & 70s did irrepairable damage to our shipbuilding, car manufacturing & their suppliers, so now we are reaping what was sown by the irresponsible and the greedy of those times. Blame the Bankers for their avarice, but at least they do bring a great deal of wealth into the UK. Blame the treacherous, corrupt & cowardly Politicians for allowing mass immigration into our country which has created an irreversable dilution to the British patriotic way of life. Thankfully I am in my twilight years so I am unlikely to see the final destruction of this once proud nation. Armageddon is on the horizon. The Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse are racing towards us. (Famine, War, Pestilence & Death). I wish you all well.

Fuchoff Statement, Seeing as you are such an complexed person, is this what you are trying to say,
"Tempus venit" Walrusmet ait, "dicere multa CERA calceos et naves et holus et reges"

Hi there just read your story, similar thing has happened to me, and from speaking to other people, it seems they have had the same experience after have work done to their homes, please can you contact me on 0208 575 3530, would really appreciate it, Anne

Tell 'em to
For Uncles Cabbages and Kings Or French Flowers

to go away and get considerably lost.

I am seriously upset with some of these comments on here. No one knows peoples circumstances and why decisions are made. Yes, people need to pay for their children when they are non resident. I am unfortunately one of these people as well. I for 6 years had shared custody of my children under a informal agreement. I supported my to be ex husband in his "political" career for many years and was very unhappy. I left. Not my children but him. I got another home for them. Oh, I signed the house over to him and took on some of the debt we had between us. Any other arrangements made for money were not fulfilled on his behalf. I was working part time earning £750 / month when we separated. On no account did I go to the CSA to ask him for money... not once.. it did cross my mind on many occassions. I put my career one hold for years bringing up our children and this is how he repays me. I had to move away recently as I could not get a job locally. I signed over the child benefit (which he continually asked for over the years!) which I will acknowledge that he is entiltled to. He is now threatening me with the CSA. I do pay for what I can under an informal agreement but it isn't enough. He earns nearly £100K if not more for his political expenses. I earn a fraction of this!! When is what they are earning enough???? When will the CSA look at the whole picture rather than just the non parents earnings and/or what they contributed before and the standard of living of the resident parent.

I agree strongly with you...I respected the police until similar things have been happening to my family..my son as a result of the police harassing him and being accessed of something he did not do, proceeding into the kitchen and grab a knife and cut his wrist in front of them, they then tried to get him for another crime that turned out he was in hospital at the time we still had to go to court though, they consistently cone to our house for stupid things, they arrested him for sending a text, the police officer tried to get in the house I put my arm out and he crabbed it and started assaulting me I ended up with bruising I also made a complaint which was dropped by police lawyers as they said he was will within his right to do that, this was over a text sent. I havre now installed fencing around property and security doors plus have 3to dogs not to stop burglars but the police...

I just won an item on Ebay taking into account the free P&P listed when I made my bid. I then got an email from the seller telling me it was a mistake, it should have said £3.95 postage and can I send that by Paypal to her. After reading these posts I think it's a scam by the seller and look forward to Ebay sorting it out.

So it's winter at last. And don't we know!! Apparently the taxpayer funded Met Office think that advertising "amber warnings" are going to make sure everyone knows it's a bit bloody nippy outside. And seeing as there is nothing to talk about in the news, it's making front pages!

I remember when you just got up and got on with it. Snow, rain, ice minus ten, you got a coat on, turned up the heating, and that was that. Winter was here.

Now I cannot even turn on the radio without some report of a near crisis because we've got some winter weather. The country needs to get a grip!!

Sky TV dishes are crap. We have had about 5mm of snow tonight and there is no signal being received. Just indicates what rubbish Sky supply. These dishes should be able to cope with that amount of snow, or as they are powered from the box,then there should be an element of heat to keep the dish frost and snow free. As the dish is on the chimney there is no way we can free it ourselves. Contacting Skys equaly as crap customer services was about as useful as ringing up the Vatican for TV advise. If this weather continues we are going to be paying for a service that we are not getting.

This means that every time we get a little snow we get no TV, which is not good enouth. I appreciate that Sky is not responsible for the weather but they are for their TV equpment.
Oh well the answer is easy, we will just have to go back to Virgin.