Give us a job Guv!

[papasmurf]

It's amazing that you think you know everything and everyone else knows zero about everything. You need to get a new set of one liners because your current set are boring.

Nick, I am amazed at so many people being so ill informed and ignorant of subjects that are widely investigated and reported.(At least I was until I checked the BARB viewing figures for new and current affairs and especially how few watch BBC Parliament and select committee meetings.
As for crop pickers the ignorance of people about the job is scary, especially by DeFRA and Tory MPs.

[Nick]

Borchester you very obviously know zero about modern day crop picking. (Plus you keep making assumptions about me.  Unlike some on this forum I know what hard work is.) 
The problem with government is few of the MPs have ever done any hard work.

It's amazing that you think you know everything and everyone else knows zero about everything. You need to get a new set of one liners because your current set are boring. 

[papasmurf]

Not so long ago, the London dockers would be given a day's work. They would then sell a couple of hours of that work to other dockers so that they had the money to buy a dinner to enable them to complete the other six.

If you want to work you will always find a way. If you don't then Pappy will always find you an excuse

Borchester you very obviously know zero about modern day crop picking. (Plus you keep making assumptions about me.  Unlike some on this forum I know what hard work is.)  
The problem with government is few of the MPs have ever done any hard work.

[Borchester]

If you are hungry hard work tends to make you faint/pass out.

Not so long ago, the London dockers would be given a day's work. They would then sell a couple of hours of that work to other dockers so that they had the money to buy a dinner to enable them to complete the other six.

If you want to work you will always find a way. If you don't then Pappy will always find you an excuse

[papasmurf]

Depends how motivated they are.
You will find hunger to be highly motivational.

If you are hungry hard work tends to make you faint/pass out.

[Baff]

Baff you obviously know precisely zero about fruit picking. Most people over 40 would not last an hour.

Depends how motivated they are.
You will find hunger to be highly motivational.

[johnofgwent]

LOL how did you come to that conclusion? I know nothing of machetes but am pretty handy with other knives - there must surely be a discipline you could devise that would teach correct and proper use involving respect for the dangers  without unleashing mayhem  Rather like martial arts! 

Is it a blue moon because this time I think pappy might have a point. The reason I was able to take down the vandals brawlers and burglars that have tried to make a nuisance of themselves over the last 40 years is the recent ones were pissed off their head and the rest were incompetent.

Willie Whitelaw's "short sharp shock" boot camp did nothing for the law abiding except infest us with leaner, meaner, fitter criminals. I was personally astounded with the speed by which the one such I caught trying to break into the local chemist made his getaway having been disturbed by my driving by and had he not slipped over and gone sideways into a post box he wpuld not have been apprehended by some upright citizens who were deprived of the chance to give the little shit te kicking he deserved by the prompt arrival of the plod.

Frankly, the thought of three of the little bastards of his ilk arriving tooled up with machetes they KNOW how to use scares me shitless. I need their leader to be so incompetent i can take him down with a pickaxe handle.

[johnofgwent]

I have seen little reporting of machetes being used in attacks in Britain, load of knives, but not machetes.

Then come to Newport. They are the standard weapon of the blade crime reports round here.

[T00ts]

Really, so instead of severe injuries you wish them to be able to take someone's head off with one blow.

LOL how did you come to that conclusion? I know nothing of machetes but am pretty handy with other knives - there must surely be a discipline you could devise that would teach correct and proper use involving respect for the dangers  without unleashing mayhem  Rather like martial arts!  

[papasmurf]

Good for you perhaps you should start a Machete school and get these chaps properly taught! 

Really, so instead of severe injuries you wish them to be able to take someone's head off with one blow.

[T00ts]

T00ts it is not a case of getting out more knife crime is out of control but the use of machetes in crime is low in number in comparison but increasing. (I have a WW2 British army issue machete I use for chopping lighting wood.)

Good for you perhaps you should start a Machete school and get these chaps properly taught!  

[papasmurf]

We keep telling you to get out there more. There are plenty of reports and one of a 6 fold increase in 7 years. I think by next year the crops will be well catered for.

T00ts it is not a case of getting out more knife crime is out of control but the use of machetes in crime is low in number in comparison but increasing. (I have a WW2 British army issue machete I use for chopping lighting wood.)

[T00ts]

I have seen little reporting of machetes being used in attacks in Britain, load of knives, but not machetes.

We keep telling you to get out there more. There are plenty of reports and one of a 6 fold increase in 7 years. I think by next year the crops will be well catered for.

[papasmurf]

I agree but bless them they are practicing! 

I have seen little reporting of machetes being used in attacks in Britain, load of knives, but not machetes.

[T00ts]

Wielding is not skilled in the use of them.

I agree but bless them they are practicing!