dune
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There's a job for BTF on the raleigh shopper pacing bike.
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It's just sad and pathetic if you ask me, as is facebook and all those who use it.
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BT. Negotiate a better price and keep the best provider. I get phone, broadband 40 kb (or whatever) download limit which is ample, fee evening and weekend calls, line rental, bt vision (the full works including sky sports 1,2 and espn), free latest home hub etc - the full works, and the last monthly bill was 62 quid.
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Pendleton destroys the hun to go through to final.
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I can't say it did. If you're on JSA for more than 12 months, then they place you with a training company automatically. I was with A4e on a 6 month program, but it was about a month before it became clear what the situation was (working for pittance while they creamed the rest off the top). I complained to the Training Manager at A4e but was basically told that JSA would be stopped if I didn't attend the placement or leave Focus to go to another placement (same situation with wages and work though). Complained to JCP about it, they said that was the procedure and A4e was right, JSA would be stopped.
I thought about it and decided to leave as it was pointless me being stuck working for £1.13 an hour without a job at the end of it, when my time would have been better spent improving my CV, writing a better cover letter and getting applications filled (which is what I thought A4e would do...naiive me). I wasn't a dole dosser, I wasn't on JSA to claim £90 a fortnight to sit around drinking cider on the park with my mates, I was on it because I was made redundant and needed the money to stay with my head above water over my commitments. A lot of people automatically assume that if you're claiming, you're a waste of space with no hope of finding work, and crucially, they assume you WANT to claim. Trust me, that was not the case for me. It was humiliating and I didn't want to be there every fortnight, I wanted to be at work, earning fair money for a fair days work.
At the time, when signing on, the process went like this:
ME: I'd like to sign on please
JCP: Sure, have you applied for any jobs in the last 2 weeks?
ME: Yes (they didn't check if you had or not though)
JCP: OK, sign here.
Occasionally you'd get someone who would talk you through the process of applying, ways to improve your portfolio, but they tended to be temp staff at the JCP office.
In the end I found work off my own back and left the whole scheme, I felt like the JCP didn't do enough to help the clients (just meeting bare minimum set out in their guidelines), and I felt like A4e was designed to make money off the government by acting like brokers, finding cheap labour for businesses, making them money as well as A4e money too.
You say all that, but if you had wanted work you could have got work just like that by working for an agency. I applaud the current system of sending slobs out to work for a pittance, if they don't like it then get a f/cking job.
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I've been involved in training Pony Club level show ponies, so I do know little about it, and there's a great deal of patience, frustration, and swearing behind the scenes.
I always imagined you mixing in Pony Club circles.
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I just love the dressage - amazing stuff!
It's not really my thing (I wouldn't watch it if it wasn't the olympics) but you can't help but marvel at what they get out of a horse.
I'm off to Jerez at the end of the month staying in a hotel right next to the Andalucian riding school, but don't think i'll bother going (more interested in visiting the bodega's or a day trip to Cadiz etc).
And it's another gold for team GB.
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Really amazing performances in the dressage. On a knife edge between us and the Krauts.
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How does Olympic triatholon rate in comparison to Iron Man events. In Oz, we get Iron Man all the time and I haven't heard of these Yorkie Brownlees.
Triathlon is harder to win with tougher competitors it is the professional event. Hence why we won it and the Aussies were nowhere to be seen.
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Anyone got a link for where I can buy an official (and not ott) team GB polo shirt for my holiday preferably for a discount price?
Edit, quite like this one, but would obviously like to pay less...
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Amazing performance from the brothers
Rule Britannia
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The brownlee brothers are incredible.
Sadly, one has to serve a 15 second penalty... So he is running out a huge lead in order to save his medal chances
I reckon gold and bronze, but you never know he could catch the spaniard
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Uk armed forces have the best equipment available
HAHAHAHAHA
As someone who has been on the front line, please don't make me laugh
tut tut tut, you should know better than to contradict a middle class socialist housewife.
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Triathlon looking good for the Brownlee's with the pack dithering on who is gonna close the gap.
ffs, thats only the first lap of 7, i'm knackered just watching, time for a toke on my electric fag.
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ouch, that hurt.
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Socialist types in moaning when they've got to do some work shocker.
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triathlon starting now. Brownlee brothers are favourites for gold/silver for gbr.
f/ck doing what they are doing, they must be super fit.
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Its shocking on an ipad, why do the club keep dropping clangers like the new kit designs. Idiots.
That's what you get when you put a banker in to run a football club.
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I hardly visited the old official site and i'll visit this latest one even less.
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"British Secret Service had deployed a special team to the Rock to arrest the men if they came to Gibraltar."
http://www.gbc.gi/news/192/was-gibraltar-the-intended-target-for-suspected-al-qaeda-cell?
So despite assurances from the RGP I think it'd be naive to believe them. Obviously they wouldn't want to cause public panic.
http://www.gbc.gi/television/tv-player.php?programme=475&episode=4830
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It seems that all three had had paragliding lesson and the terrorist based in La Linea sought aerial photographs of a Gibraltar shopping centre. The obvious conclusion is that they planned to paraglide off the rock, and detonate some atrocious device on landing.
"The judge made no reference as to the content of those videos but some media reports yesterday suggested they showed Mr Yalcin flying a large radio controlled plane.
The implication, attributed to unnamed security sources and impossible to verify independently, was that he was rehearsing for an airborne attack during the Olympics."
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Can everyone please stop disagreeing with Frank. There's only so much riveting conversation one can take.
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I'd love one of the hoodies that you wear, the all white ones with just eye slits in them?
EDIT: Next are doing those with the baggy white robe and flaming crucifix for £69.99, absolute bargain.
Here you go and it would be a perfect compliment for your bracelets (he's even wearing one in the pic).
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Or a catwalk show where fans can parade in their football costumes around the pitch to the benny hill tune.
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