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  Should We Send Our Firefighters To Iraq?

  by Englishman in

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  just wondering.

  tomorrow is the day that the firemen strike again, having still not resolved a pay and productivity agreement.

  once again, the army boys are manning the fire appliances, so's the firemen can strike without there being too much risk to the public.. in view of the fact that the uk is sending one-quarter of it's armed forces in the direction of iraq, can we assume therefore that the firemen will be returning the favour by manning the hundreds of tanks and guns that are also to be deployed out there?.

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  expatbrit
  yes firemen do call in fake fires to get more money. the people doing this are exclusively PARTIMERS since it makes no financial sense to do if you are paid as a full time afirefighter THEY ARE SALARIED!. remember the partime firemen are the ones so applauded by the current government.

  your idea of letting the market decide wages is certainly revolutionary! why not go the whole hog and revert to dickens days. Im certain we could find some orophan kids to do it on the cheap. Or why not privatise it, great! but why not just fund it properly and not try to make it look bad by not giving it the cash it needs.

  the shift system ensures the my dad does an average of 42 hours a week all year, and he has to works 27 weekends without overtime. so who gives a damm if he can fit a job around those crazy hours

  the 40 percent was obviously a negotiating position. the employers and the union agreed to much less but were vetoad by the government! Andy gilcrist isnt a nice guy, but if your dealing with our current parasites in office, id rather have the devil doing my deals.

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  Should We Send Our Firefighters To Iraq?

  by Englishman in

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  just wondering.

  tomorrow is the day that the firemen strike again, having still not resolved a pay and productivity agreement.

  once again, the army boys are manning the fire appliances, so's the firemen can strike without there being too much risk to the public.. in view of the fact that the uk is sending one-quarter of it's armed forces in the direction of iraq, can we assume therefore that the firemen will be returning the favour by manning the hundreds of tanks and guns that are also to be deployed out there?.

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  to expatbrit

  my father is a firefighter.

  "for every place in the service their are forty applicants"

  by this logic then we shouldnt pay our polititians at all since they are massively outnumbered by potential applicants. Or why pay doctors ? since med schools around britian have massive compatition to get in leaving many out .

  Firemen risk their lives, contribute 10 percent of their wages to their pensions to help improve them, and then get accused of having too large pensions.

  the government paid a firm to decide on the level of pay they were entitled to. When the fire service paid THE SAME FIRM it was ridiculed.

  The fire service is given NO goverment funding to attend road accidents. they simply use their fire budget and dont moan. They have NO extra funding to deal with terrorist actions, despite the fact that they will be some of the first people dealing with them.

  Perhaps when you have helped the victims of the omagh bombings and countless other disasters survive, and cried yourself to sleep because people have died in your arms, you will be able to complain about their pay.

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  anyone playing chess?

  by Realist in

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  in case anyone likes to play chess.... here is the best online chess program i know.... http://www.blitzin.com/download.

  and its completely free if you don't register a name!

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  thank you for the link.

  i play chess a lot, and have an ELO rating of around 1800. the best site i know is www.instantchess.com its super, Some of the best players in the world regularly play there, and the first 50 games are free. After that you only need pay about 35.00 dollars a year.

  I recommend it to anyone.

  Regards

  Josephus
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  What song sums up your JW experience?

  by sleepy in

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  its got to be rage against the machine, "killing in the name of" .

  just had the bassline to this song rumbling through my head, havent heard it for ages though .

  you need to know the chorus.

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  Linken Park

  "In The End"

  i havent got the lyrics but its perfect i swear.

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  Wanna know when your gonna die?

  by gumby in

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  check this out!.

  i guess i'm off to the wild blue yonder in 2028,march 11th kinda creepy.

  http://www.deathclock.com/

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  ummmmmmm,,, yes,, thanks for this post ill sleep well tonight.

  Sunday August 16 2048

  aged 73 years! right in the middle of my chess playing, beer drinking, big pants wearing, hairy nosed, slightly senile golden years!!

  :( josephus
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  My Daughter's Letter to Elders!

  by reubenfine in

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  well, my daughter decided to write they letter.

  the foundation for this letter can be found in my previous thread a couple of days ago which can be found at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=44457&site=3.. she wrote her heart and gave them some good counsel.

  she was generous and kind in her comments, yet concise and to the point.

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  simply wonderfull.

  please send on my congratulations, and admiration.

  regards

  josephus
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  Did you have a Superiority Complex?

  by JH in

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  when you were an active witness, you were led to believe that you were saved, and the rest of the world was doomed to die at armageddon, did this make you feel superior to non witnesses?

  from that point, did you develop a superiority complex over them?

  now that you are out, do the witnesses give you the look as if you are only bird feed?

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  hello

  i certainly felt better than "other" cristians. As we would drive home from the Sunday meeting we would smile at the "once a weekers" (as we called the other churchgoers) leaving church.

  I can only feel a sense of personal shame about my attitudes back then to those people. To be honest i never felt superior to anyone other than those people, i just fely sad for them that they were gonna die "real soon".

  Of course a true Cristian would only feel love for anyone calling himself a brother till he knew the person wasnt one, but that never stops jw.

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  Bathroom breaks

  by freedom96 in

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  i remember watching people so well back when i was growing up and going to the meetings.

  one thing as i look back on was the ban on the bathroom.. you just did not leave your seat to use the bathroom.

  you went before the meeting started, or after.

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  hi guys

  in my old hall, i used to go out of the hall, down the road and to the sweet shop. These sweety breaks eventually changed the song break into "the sweety break" till a lousy local needs ruined it!.

  i still did it though, and its even better to go to the pub afterwards!.

  cheers

  josephus
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  Hey Gang I am getting my brain scanned tomorrow

  by wildfire in

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  yup thats right iam going to have an mri on my brain...... i have severe numbness on my left side of my face and no feeing in my hands and arm......i have been hurt in 3 car accidents and have two herniated disks in my neck ( oh i pray that they don't have to do surgery......pray for me )))))) i thought i had ms.... a while back because of the numbness but they said no...... well now i get another scan andgo to see a neurologist ,,,, i hope they find out what the problem is so i wont be on

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  i hope it goes for the best.

  ill say a prayer.

  sincerly

  josephus
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  "COC"=any effect?

  by mackey in

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  i posted about a week ago on another forum about a very close friend of mine whom i am trying to get out of the org.

  she was baptized when she was 15 and she's now 24. i want to marry her,but i have to get her out first, which i know all to well is extremely difficult.

  through extensive research it seems to me my only chance is to get her to read "coc" and "isocf", which she has agreed to do.

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  Hi

  ray franz is a good man i owe him a big debt. Give it a go, and pray that she sees. My thoughts are with you.

  josephus