For foxes it is that time of year for vixens to attract foxes and my daughter rang me at 2 am the other evening to ask me to come over to her house as some-one was banging her wheely bins and scrabbling around outside her house. The culprits were not burglars or Thanet chavs but a fox and vixen caught in flagrante delicto!
On the subject of love and passion and Facebook security in general, it is just possible that our former Margate Mayoress might like to consider her Facebook site details and who her 'friends' are, as the cautionary tale below highlights so wonderfully.
I finish, this evening with a joke sent to me by a new contributor to Strife.
Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken wall for TDC. One from London, another from Dover and the third from Thanet.
They go with a TDC Officer to examine the wall. The London contractor takes out his note-book and gets scribbling into it as he measures the wall in detail. "Well" he says, " I figure the job will run about £2,000: £900 for materials; £700 for my crew and £400 profit for me."
The Dover contractor does some measuring and figuring and then says, " I can do this for £1,600: £800 for materials; £500 for my crew and £300 profit for me."
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The Thanet contractor doesn't do any measuring or even get his pencil and notebook out but leans over to the TDC Officer and whispers, " £3, 600".
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The TDC Officer, incredulous, says, " You didn't even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?"
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The Thanet contractor whispers back, " £1000 for me, £1000 for you and I hire the guy from Dover as a sub-contractor to do the job."
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"Done", says the Officer. And that is how it all works.
12 comments:
That would be funny Bertie if it did not stink of the truth.
You don't have to be FaceBook "friends" with the former Mrs-Mayor of Margate to read all about her private life; she's not on my friends list yet I can read everything (I can even see how their relationship developed during late September & early October). So she obviously needs to change her privacy settings.
She's changed her privacy settings now.
Your new contributor is nearer to the truth than they think
07:14, good.
Bertie,
They (TDC) may be able to whistle 'Dixie', but can they deal with whistle blowers correctly?
Wanted in Thanet does not actually mean employment land?
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It's very funny - and based on a joke by the late great Irish comedian Dave Allen circa 1971!
Nice to hear it again - and probably nearer the truth than we care to admit.
Nice fox bertie, on behalf of my chickens can I have his address, I have a small delivery I would like to send him.. It involves a 12 gauge side by side
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I used to have foxes in my garden - loved to watch them playing. Due to building development they have now all gone, such a shame. If you could see them kicking a football around the lawn and small cubs playing in the grass clippings you would realise how lucky we are to have them in the area.
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so thats how the director of finance got our budget in such a mess. Suddenly everything is as clear as the neccessity to build houses at eurokent.
I am not atall surprised at reading the TDC way of choosing a contractor. What really interests me is why they do not employ local men to do the jobs needed. Thanet has some really qualified workers and in my area 4 dry wall liners wait for work but every time TDC need this service they call in a firm from Folkestone, Medway or even further a field. It is disgraceful and should be stopped, If the Council stepped down for a month I know many people who could do a far better job and cheaper.
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