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I suspect Granny will disagree, but I still think 'generation' is singular:
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
No, I agree, B. Looks like some journos and copy editors still haven't caught up.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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Unusual for a headline in a tabloid to contain a verb.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Genuine job advert from Rapido Model Trains:
We are in the process of opening up our UK limited company and we are looking for an operations manager. This is a manager, right? Who's in charge of operations, right? Hence the name...
If you are the right person for this job, you have experience in the following areas:
Managing operations for a small- to medium-sized business
Bookkeeping or basic accounting
Hating people who use apostrophes incorrectly
Logistics, such as warehousing and packing/posting of parcels
Banking, as in using a bank and not "going up an incline"
Actually, being able to go up an incline is an asset.
Managing a small team
Being extremely organised and managing your time efficaciously
Knowing what efficaciously means
Customer service and putting out fires (not literal fires, but it is helpful if you could put those out too in case we ever make a Class 28)
Starring as Doctor Who on television, provided you also have experience managing operations for a small- to medium-sized business
If you have experience in the following areas, you need not apply:
Always - or even occasionally - or even once - referring to yourself as "one" like some toffee-nosed twit
Volunteering to be a crash test dummy
Being the CEO of a £100 million company (you are overqualified)
Routinely - and successfully - performing brain surgery (you are qualified, but in the wrong field)
"Role playing" as an arsonist but accidentally burning down buildings for real
Stealing stuff
Lying, cheating, murdering and pillaging
We have to say that we are an "equal opportunity" employer. If you refer to yourself as "one" in the interview, we will absolutely consider you fairly and then absolutely not hire you.
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Button- Location: Dover
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Button- Location: Dover
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The omnipresent Angry Birds?
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Button- Location: Dover
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From the Joint Council for Qualifications' 'Instructions for conducting examinations' booklet:
"Prior to the examination starting, the invigilator must ensure that candidates have
removed their wrist watches and placed them on their desks."
Some of the candidates (the likely suspects) do come with a lot of bling, but I've always restricted each candidate to one desk.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Hands off clocks, on secretary. Possibly.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Talking of clocks, I think Katya Adler's works differently from mine:
"We're witnessing that last minute, five to midnight scramble for a deal, widely predicted, but which the UK and EU always said was the last thing they wanted."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55195940.
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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Bob Whysman
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Janaury ? Is that the feminine gender of Jackanory? There could be a story involved here!
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Elizabeth de Jong, policy director at business group Logistics UK, said its members were "relieved" to hear the border had reopened. But she urged officials to set up Covid testing procedures quickly "to ensure divers can be processed and get home for Christmas safely".
So they can form a bubble presumably.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55420193.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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no chance.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Not at all a case of finger trouble, but I thought the structure of this DfT tweet might amuse WGS:
"If you are not a haulier but are an eligible passenger please do not travel to Dover without a negative test."
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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I couldn't not have put that no better myself.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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I cannot be mute about this.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
One small step for man...
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Button- Location: Dover
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Button wrote:One small step for man...
My apologies: whilst amusing I hope, I now realise that this is unlikely to have anything to do with Dover! Finger Trouble indeed
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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It's good to see from the Port of Dover Annual Report and Accounts for 2020 that Covid brought new freedoms (as well as a whole raft of challenges).
Whether Mr Pottage will revert to stereotypical dressing once Board meetings are no longer on-line remains to be seen.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Careful Button that might be Mr Pottage's new gender orientated look.
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