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[LENA]

pumpy...why do you care so much if we are being ripped off? is it happening to you?

"The only people who do any real work are the fucking Phillipinos and the Eastern Europeans who are disgracefully used as slave labour by the arrogant too-big-for-their boots locals."

oh and this is not happening in the UK? are you serious now?
the only people i see working in the UK are foreigners..asians,eastern europeans,and from other EU countries you telling me that if all the foreigners stopped working in buses,trains,cleaners etc you lot would pick that up ? oh please,,.

.all you lot do is wait till 5:30 comes so that you can bugger off and get drunk in the pub,,,so seriously,,look at what you do first before you judge others...

but i dont blame your bitching...obviously i would be bitching (and i am since i am in the UK atm) if i had to commute 2 hours a day to work,,,be packed in trains and buses like a sardine, pay 1000's £ in mortgage pay ££££ to go away for the weekend in my own country..when i cant get out because is raining 4 out of five days..,,pay 1000 or more in council tax...tv licence, half of my wage goes to NI and other taxes,,etc etc etc...i dont blame you buddy...the only thing you can do is bang your head on the wall,....oh well,,shit happens and life goes on,.,,get used to it and get over it...

Amen! Well said Andrea!

[kokorosie]

Any closer to figuring out just how badly you were being ripped off under the old currency? Or still blithely and blissfully unaware of the state of pricing and supply and demand economics?

I know the sun and good weather must be a sop for many things, but I like to hold to the following adage wherever I go in life:

A fool and his money are easily parted.

Oh well, must be nice to not care about being ripped every day. At least it must be good for the old blood pressure!

Bye now!

Yes ,that happened
But have in mind that happened in most of countries where Euro came.


Pumpy

You grumpy bastard.

I could have been worse. I could have pointed out the undeniable fact that prices have been rounded up by anything up to a third under the new currency!

Ah, the good ol days of calculating costs by taking into account a 20% increase on Sterling!

[kokorosie]

Well, I'll give the Cypriots one thing. Even when they are at 'work', they spend virtually no time actually 'working', the lazy bastards. If you add up the amount of time they spend slaving away at work, discounting weekends which are sacked off, Wednesdays and massive siesta breaks, it amounts to the same length of time I spend filling my motor up with petrol each week.

The only people who do any real work are the fucking Phillipinos and the Eastern Europeans who are disgracefully used as slave labour by the arrogant too-big-for-their boots locals.

Work is for those who cannot think.

The UK / rest of the world, has a great workforce.

I agree, though would rephrase.

Work is for those who haven't had the fucking cajones or luck or whatever you want to call it, to get the money to not have to work.

I work. I hate it. I wish I didn't have to do a 'job' but needs must.

Though I would say, businesses should be allowed to open whenever they like. It's a bit of an antiquated socialist system that restricts businesses from opening when they want. The customer should be provided with a better status than it is in Cyprus. Let's face it, the customer is not King in Cyprus. He's a pain in the arse.

There can be work and work
There are huggggeeeeeee differences between salaries at work and work
You don't have to have fakin' cajones or luck or whatever
If u will find your place in the job-world you can be ....nearly HAPPY
OK I'll stop this, I just wanted to say that some people may like their job
for examle I'm happy doin' what I'm doin and would not be more happy
born never-working-aristocrate