h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

it did rain yesterday; no thunder though.... though there were a lot of aeroplanes flying over for the air show thing....; And more of them now also I brought towels, tea towels, sheets, duvets, bedding and stuff yesterday nice new towels
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Good job they had a sale on despite which i didn't get any change from 200 packing soon but that will have to wait till after I've been to the pub

£200 on linen!

I hope you've really stocked up, this country is a rip off!

Mel

Everything is expensive in this country, despite which, and despite a lot of the cost being down to tax, we still seem to suffer underinvestment in our services, because:

Every government the UK has ever* had has subsidised the big company's, such as MC donalds, to give but an example.

They do this by not insisting that a decent wage, enough for someone to live off is paid by such company's, so, when a man, for example, who is married and has say, 2 children works for Mc Donalds, the "chicken Factory", in a bakery etc, the take home pay after tax, can be less than £180 per week.
In this example with whife and children, this man would probably recieve all kinds of government benifits to enable him to survive on such low wages.
This is paid for by our taxes, so, in purchasing my cigerettes, beer, and, well just about anything, we help Mc Donalds, and other (quite often, but not necessarily international company's), make excessive profet, by paying such low wages Oh, i've ranted Oh well
I've got a fair bit of bedding for my money, but not that* much, : though i didn't wan too much at a time, as I'll just replace the lot again, (hopefully in a fair few years), when it needs replacing.

I didn't realise that about macdonalds, but at least that guy has got off his backside and taken the underpaid job, I think the problem nowadays is the lot who sit on their backsides and say, nope I'd rather live off benefits than go and do that job. Admittedly the job may not be nice but beggars can't be choosers, and lets face it they're practically begging off the government.

Mel *Has nothing against the dole when it's used wisely*

I agree I've probably more of a problem with those who can't be arsed to get a job.... But, its still a strange situeation when someone is working full time, and is getting paid so low that they still have to get government benifits to be able to survive though, I doubt MC donalds is the only perpittrator: I have a friend, who works five days a week, starting at Midnight, till about 9 in the morning, which must be *calculates I think it totals something like 40 or 45 hours a week, so maybe he finishes at 8.30 rather than 9.
He is a baker working, strangely enough, in a bakery, as an employee (he doesn't own the place), and I find it weird that, giving its such horrible antisocial hours to work, he still only gets £180 a week... And can't aford to buy a house and so lives with his parents, and can't therefore get married till they can afford a place of their own to live.. NINE DAYS TILL I RETURN TO CAMBRIDGE!!!!!

Nasty.

2 weeks 1 day till I leave cambridge!

Mel

Where you goind? anywhere nice?:
I'll be in Cambridge Friday! Hmm, maybe we should meet up for a drink?

I'm going back home to colchester, I'm just working here over the summer!

We can meet up for a drink if you like, not Fri though as I have plans for the next 2 weekends!

Mel

Cool : I'll have to figure out when I'm going to have sorted out my place after moving back, and find a mutual time and place

Sounds good to me!

Mel

I'm in Cambridge but you probably arn't now : took ages to get phone and cable connected, and then yonks to get cable modem thing working <?>

Sorry, looks like you moved in literally as I moved out, I was probably on my way to cumbria when you last posted!

Am in Guildford now though! Boy I don't half get around (in the geographical sense of course)

Mel

Yeah, its a pity, must have been very close to both being in the same geographical location : is it work you move about with ?

Am also afflicted with an East Anglian heritage, I wonder if it is the education system or the small gene pool that account for all the typo's in this chain?

Probably a combination of both, plus my contributing more than my fair share, due to me being a and hence adhering to the normal stereotype of types in not being able to spell or use grammer punctueation or anything else of the sort and also for writting sentences that are far too long and don't appropiately arrange the subject and verb. : ahh, East Anglia; Home, where most married couples get on like brother and sister

Moving about because I am a student in guildford, actually have a home-home in colchester, work summers in cambridge, am learning french on the side, and have a boyfriend who lives in cumbria and goes to uni in liverpool!

phew!

As for the punctuation/typos, take a look around you. A lot of h2g2 is like that, people are more interested in the content of their posts than the grammar.

Mel

My money is still on the gene pool!

Oh I don't know, if you lessen the gene pool too much they wouldn't be able to type all!

Mel

No, probably the gene pool : haven't you niticed how we all look alike (us east anglian's), quite frightening really oH WELL WE AL BEAR OUR SHRE OF WHATEVER YOU CALL IT, ONLY WE EAST ANGLIAN@S HAVE MORE THAN AOUR FAIR SHARE