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silvertop Flag Portishead 25 Jul 24 10.16am Send a Private Message to silvertop Add silvertop as a friend

Originally posted by YT

My next-door-neighbour when I lived in Northumberland Heath, Erith.

Did you live there during your school years?

Either way, you would know it is properly pronounced "Norff Eeff"

 

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Cannonball Flag High in the Ozarks. 25 Jul 24 10.17am Send a Private Message to Cannonball Add Cannonball as a friend

Everyone on reality TV
Actors
99% of royalty

 


Touch my coffee and I will slap you so hard even Google won't be able to find you.

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palace99 Flag New Mills 25 Jul 24 10.19am

Originally posted by PalazioVecchio

....and by 'work' , we mean a real job.... with a nominated start & finish time. A boss directing you, paid money, and the chance to get fired if you mess up. And a genuine fear of getting fired. Your employer is not also your dad. Ideally taxpaying.

- Karl Marx, champion of the working-class. Never worked a day in his life. Too busy impregnating the cleaning lady while the wife was shopping at Fortnum & Masons.

- the NEETs of Thanet, Kent.

- Everybody's Great great great grandmother , from the pre-industrial age. Pregnant at 17, not much jobs for ladies who eventually have a dozen kids. Far too busy working to ever hold down a 'real job'. She is likely to have married some bloke significantly older than herself.

- any other women who today go straight from childhood to motherhood, and never pass employment go.

- George iv, the lazy fat Prince Regent who paid somebody else to build the Brighton Pavilion

Also included in the thread, people whose day job was so insignificant as to be almost forgotten. So both Julius Caesar and Stalin may be included because you could argue neither ever answered much to a boss in a job. But Hitler is excluded even though most of his youth was spent as an unemployed artist loser....cos in WWI the army accepted everybody- a paid job with a boss.

Also included : wherein the day-job is hardly a real job at all - more of a hobby. Therefore most professional footballers, artists, painters, musicians.

- So, Messi / Ronaldo

Never employed in a real job. Career-politicians.

- irish PM, Simon Harris

Queen Elizabeth II is not included because of her sterling work with vehicles in WWII, but QEI may be included as she spent much of her youth conjugating verbs in her various languages.

- Jon Venables, and any other scum who went direct from childhood into long-term prison.

- the Tasaday tribe of the Philippines. And all other Hunter-Gatherer types.

- Tyson Fury was tarmacking roads at age 11, but gets included here because a) it was a family business and b) if any eagle uploads his 1992 tax-return i will happily remove his name.

what others ?

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Edited by PalazioVecchio (24 Jul 2024 12.47pm)

So you have a simplicist Victorian factory definition of a job. I think the world has moved on.

Artists and sportsman do things the majority of people can't and give 'pleasure' to millions.

A footballer has a boss, can be sacked/contract not renewed and pays tax.
I think by any definition they are contributing to society

 

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YT Flag Oxford 25 Jul 24 11.27am Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

Originally posted by silvertop

Did you live there during your school years?

Either way, you would know it is properly pronounced "Norff Eeff"

Yes I did and indeed I do.

Are you from that 'manor'?

 


Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

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kingdowieonthewall Flag Sussex, ex-Cronx. 25 Jul 24 12.41pm Send a Private Message to kingdowieonthewall Add kingdowieonthewall as a friend

A cousin of mine never done a single days work in his entire life.
Benefits scrounger, dodgy deals, poncing off girlfriends incomes etc etc.
Was very proud of the fact & thought anybody else was a mug for working to obtain their goals in life.
Died a couple of years ago (alcoholism)

 


Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

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PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 25 Jul 24 5.05pm Send a Private Message to PalazioVecchio Add PalazioVecchio as a friend

Originally posted by Forest Hillbilly

Dylan Thomas. Got through education, and went straight onto a pub crawl for the rest of his life. Did some writing along the way.

very similar to Brendan Behan, except for planting bombs & shooting people for the 'RA. Plus a couple of stints in jail.

Both p.1ssheads drank themselves to death at ages 39 & 41 respectively. And left behind them a literary legacy way better than most people who lived twice as long.

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Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

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PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 25 Jul 24 9.19pm Send a Private Message to PalazioVecchio Add PalazioVecchio as a friend

Originally posted by beak

Rishi Sunak.

yes. I was debating including him. What is it about political leaders and connections with a shadowy banking industry ?

Macron, Farage. Hardly the same as a college-leaver struggling to climb the ladder & pay the rent ?

 


Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

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silvertop Flag Portishead 25 Jul 24 9.31pm Send a Private Message to silvertop Add silvertop as a friend

Originally posted by YT

Yes I did and indeed I do.

Are you from that 'manor'?

Yup. Erith comp class of 76 to 83.

 

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kevlee Flag born Wandsworth emigrated to Lanc... 25 Jul 24 9.59pm Send a Private Message to kevlee Add kevlee as a friend

Originally posted by beak

Rishi Sunak.

Come on! If your missus had £600m would you work?

 


Following Palace since 25 Feb 1978

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Phil H Flag 25 Jul 24 10.26pm Send a Private Message to Phil H Add Phil H as a friend

Palazzo, can you please take musicians off the list...or at least some musicians? I worked for 40 years (1982-2022) as a professional musician working in mainly West End shows. Although I loved playing my instrument it felt very much like a proper job - you can't be late (despite the best efforts of the train companies), too many mistakes and you're out, paying the mortgage requiring the standard to be high every time you picked up your instrument, a bollocking from the boss (musical director/conductor) if things went wrong, the hassle of the self-assessment tax return. Okay it's not working down a pit but we slogged hard to give audiences a great night out!

 

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martin2412 Flag Living The Dream 25 Jul 24 10.58pm Send a Private Message to martin2412 Add martin2412 as a friend

Teachers - Just stayed on at school.

 

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martin2412 Flag Living The Dream 25 Jul 24 11.08pm Send a Private Message to martin2412 Add martin2412 as a friend

Originally posted by kingdowieonthewall

A cousin of mine never done a single days work in his entire life.
Benefits scrounger, dodgy deals, poncing off girlfriends incomes etc etc.
Was very proud of the fact & thought anybody else was a mug for working to obtain their goals in life.
Died a couple of years ago (alcoholism)

I know a couple of people exactly the same as this Bob. They were really cocky about it when they were in their twenties and thirties, but now they look around at their old friends who have grafted and own their houses outright, and they are sitting in their poxy little rented sheethole without a pot to pi55 in, and are not so cocky now. Funny ain't it

 

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