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Originally Posted by TSR2  Just a few thoughts on things !! I was thinking about the current economic crises, it really is cyclical, I have looked at the history, thats how it is, however a few observations , We /you in Europe have loaded up the stakes against you, the cost of buisness is ridiculous. all the red tape and the cost of liability, Why I am thinking this way is that I went to a local Thai shop to buy my pork for my Bacon Curing and other pork recipes, The lady Thai said can you wait a few minutes , my husband is just "dispatching " the pig!! Out comes the meat ,still warm, few flies about, so what, I have purchased meat from here for months without any problems,
Years ago one of the Twins at Inskip Ted and Dick said about the health in modern (then 1962) kids was down to over protection, "them" Avenham Lane kids in Preston living in poor conditions ,picking up dropped toffees of the street floor gave them bugs which he reckoned helped them, he was way ahead of todays boffins, (I am one of those Avenham Lane Kids)
Dick at 87 is still mending cars at Inskip,
so I reckon we will never compete, yes I know all about safety, etc, but the cost of all this Red Tape/cost of buisness is crippling,
If I rented the factory that I owned the rent would be 100,000 GBP per year
the rates would be 45,000 GBP payable
the insurance would be 25,000 GBP
thats over 3 grand a week before you open the front door,
How the F""k can you compete with costs like that, the answer is you can,t as many are going to find out soon,
ie if I rented the factory |
I can see where you're coming from TSR2, but we don't really want to return to picking sweets up off the floor and giving them to the kids.
Things change so much, consequently costings, expenses and of course remunerations are all reciprocal in time.
A hundred years ago for instance the average age for a man in the UK was perhaps 50 years. Now it's about 80.
If we start picking gob stoppers up off the floor though and giving them to the kids, it would no doubt reflect in a few untimely deaths.
They could choke on them!
That in turn would have an effect on the average life expectancy of man.
It's an over the garden wall topic of conversation regarding illness's suffered or not suffered by kids due to clinical conditions as they put it.
We used to scale walls and fences to pinch apples, they don't do it nowadays.
Consequently the apples rot on the ground or if the tree owner knows somebody with a pony for instance, he might bag a few and give them away.
Nothing at all is quite what it appears to be or is how it seems.
President Clinton said, "I did not have a sexual relationship with that woman."
He had a bit of fun with one of those big Cuban aluminium cigar tubes with Monica lay across the desk in The White House in a state of undress whilst he merrily amused himself resulting in an uncontrolled ejaculation across her dress.
That's all it was though, it wasn't sex in the true sense of the word, or in the eyes of The Roman Catholic Church for that matter.
The Church very clearly defines sex.
It was no more important in President Clinton's eyes than shaking hands with her, or rubbing noses, which is considered a form of sexual foreplay of all things in some parts of the world.