UK 22 Turkey 8 .

begonia


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 10:43

The number of over 60s as a proportion of the populace in the UK is 22 %. That of Turkey 8% .

In India it is also 8%.

Both have huge rural areas of course with poverty.

And the Turks at least smoke like chimneys.

So perhaps the smoking ban is not such a bad thing !

begonia


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Posts: 229

Message Posted:
11/03/2010 11:09

I guess everyone thought this was a football result and were disappointed when they read it ! But there ARE more important things than football ! Discuss.

greylag


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 11:21

I thought it was a rugby leagure result.That would have been one hell of a score in football begonia,

Grey.

begonia


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 11:23

Sorry about that. My knowledge of football is zilch !

begonia


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 11:26

But I guess noone is interested in my original post......which I thought was quite interesting really.

greylag


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 11:29

More and more young people need to be attracted and trained into the skilled jobs in th U.K. going by those stats.I know apprenticeships seem to be a thing of the past.but skills are so relevant in the work place and need to be handed down to the younger generation,

Grey.

greylag


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 11:54

Begonia,

Took me ages to think of that,

Grey.

begonia


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 12:05

Thanks for that Grey . It was nice to get at least a spark of interest ! I rather think you have to be part of the 'great and the good 'on this site to get any replies. So thank you again !

cypgab


Joined: 09/01/2010
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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 12:09

Just keeping taking the medication begonia.

begonia


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 12:40

You or me ?

Woodspeckie


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 12:43

Msg 6 grey. Students will be able to work at McDonalds for 2 weeks if they pass a test they will be given a grade B GCSE. how about that for skills.

begonia


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 13:44

Will they get an A'level if they stay for 4 weeks ?

greenman


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 13:56

Hi Begonia. It is an interesting, if worrying statistic for pensioners in the UK going into the 21 century. Pension pots at an all time low (unless you're an MP, civil servant or other public worker), little chance of UK Gov Pension increasing significantly, an increase in unemployment and a worryingly low working population. Throw into the pot a disastrous economic policy that will have a knock on effect for at least the next 10 years, and you have a very unhappy outlook. Third world UK here we come.

greylag


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 13:56

Hardly a technical/highly skilled job selling big macs.I was thinking more along the lines of technicians engineers etc,

Grey.

Woodspeckie


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 15:35

Looks good on a CV though Grade B for, interacting with the public. How many chicken nugggets would you like 3, 6 or 9? do you want chips with them? what flavour milk shake would you like? eating in or out? is that everything? and then the Maths skills adding it all up using a computer.

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
11/03/2010 16:12

It is a good post begonia, but thought it was something to do with b----y football again!!



Looks like our dear old Labour gov intend to kill us all off as they want to bring in some sort of tax to pay for our old age... A lot of us will die of a heart attack if they just dip their grubby little fingers in our bank accounts again....

They have pinched our pensions, .....



Wheres Coachie, he likes to argue with us over these issues? Coachie baby, come back.

With our crime figures rising up by 44% since Labour got in, another reason them lot are killing us off, stab the elderly we wont have to look after them once they got the dosh....

Woodspeckie


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 16:24

I think Coachie must be out canvassing for his mate Gordon.

begonia


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 16:33

If some of those who choose not to work and take benefits instead entered the real world we would gain twice over. We wouldn't have to support them and they would pay something in taxes to help us (the poor old pensioners) And if you get a GCSE for working in MacDonalds for two weeks ( can this be true ?) I think we're doomed anyway !

dizzycows


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Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
11/03/2010 17:05

Dooomed we'r all dooomed, what has happened to coachie? he hasnt been on for ages, I need my fix, coachie, where art thou.



What really gets my hackles up is the work shy who plead that they are on the poverty line they can still smoke, can still drink in the local pub, GO shopping with their 15 kids around the supermarkets, and say its non of our business what they do.....

Woodspeckie


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 21:07

begonia. The GCSE for working in McDonalds was discussed on The Wright Show this morning, it was reported in one of the newspapers one of Mr Ed Balls idea I suppose.

newlad



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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 21:30

Dizzy,

Prey tell what "hackles" are,

Paul.

Woodspeckie


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 21:34

Msg. 19 Coachie did say he was going to Mexico he may be there now, he will have to get back for May 6th if there is going to be the election.

Jeannie


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 21:44

Woodspeckie - well, if Coachie is in Mexico, he's browsing this forum as we speak

Woodspeckie


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 21:49

Now I see that, must be going later then, he did say he was going shortly last week.

begonia


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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 23:10

'Hackles'...........the hair standing up on the back of a dogs neck when it is enraged by something.

newlad



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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 23:12

Begonia,

What are you suggesting,lol

dizzycows


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Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
11/03/2010 23:13

Oh newlad, heck I meant hackels, blonde mo again!!!!



Well I do miss coachie, woodspeckie, think you do too.... better send out a search party....



Mexico, if he's gone to mexico without telling me I shall be livid......

dizzycows


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Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
11/03/2010 23:29

Hey, I only get my hackels/hackles up sometimes, .....

newlad



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Message Posted:
11/03/2010 23:50

Its alright getting them up the trick is keeping them up,

Paul.

dizzycows


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Message Posted:
12/03/2010 10:59

Newlad.... gel. . or, ...no I wont tell you or I might get banned

newlad



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Message Posted:
12/03/2010 18:18

Come on Dizzy were all grown ups,

Paul.

begonia


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Message Posted:
12/03/2010 18:33

Oh well ! Bang goes my attempt at a sensible conversation !

dizzycows


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Message Posted:
12/03/2010 18:37

Sorry begonia its all newlads fault, he leads me astray



Back to being sensible.... ummm.. your turn...

begonia


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Posts: 229

Message Posted:
12/03/2010 19:11

I'm going to start again !

newlad



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Message Posted:
12/03/2010 20:11

Sorry Begonia i dont know what i came over.Sorry what came over me,

Paul.