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    That is awful Ian. Sadly size is apparently still one of the things that society seems to consider it OK to discriminate against.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ian View Post
    when beautiful young kids get refused entry to nightclubs because there considered to large and most of there friends have already paid entry and gone inside earlier
    hen bouncing we would often joke amongst our seves about things like this but if somone does it there is defantly grounds for a discrimintaion case. The way the goverment has changed the rules just an investigation into a criminal or discrimination case and the bouncers licence is susspended but i have been told by managers on many occasions to denie people on basis that are classed as discrimination. Puts the poor bouncer in a hard spot as to do you follow who pays you or the law.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gcsmow View Post
    It's just so annoying, you can't avoid throwing a bit of grass around even if you use a catcher and they can't handle having some grass clippings on their path for longer than 20 minutes.

    Another block of flats I do there is this old Italian woman who comes out after I have mowed and sweeps the grass off the concrete, then I w-snip and throw more grass on the concrete, she comes out and sweeps it off again, then I come a long and blow all the concrete areas. I have told her a few times that she doesn't need to bother doing it because I will clean up the mess that I make. I think that she doesn't speak much English, even though she has probably been in Australia for forty years.

    Another time this bloke hosed off the clippings after I had mowed then when I snipped the grass stuck to the wet tiles and I had difficulty blowing it off, tosser.

    I have the same issue with an old lady next door to one of my good customers.
    Doesnt speak a word of english either.
    Last month, As i was driving to the house, I saw the old lady out the front with broom in hand waiting for me...LOL.
    She was shaking her head at me.
    I smiled and said Goodmorning....
    She gave me that stunned mullet look we always get....

    I ended up blowing her footpath and she still started to sweep the same area?????
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    Quote Originally Posted by imoww View Post
    I have the same issue with an old lady next door to one of my good customers.
    Doesnt speak a word of english either.
    Last month, As i was driving to the house, I saw the old lady out the front with broom in hand waiting for me...LOL.
    She was shaking her head at me.
    I smiled and said Goodmorning....
    She gave me that stunned mullet look we always get....

    I ended up blowing her footpath and she still started to sweep the same area?????
    You weren't doing it right and you were taking away her opportunity to legitimately spy on the neighbours.

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    LOL. The client actually said the old lady does spy on her...
    Good thing tho. She got me to cut down a few samll trees from her front yard. The old lady was complaining about leaves dropping onto her concrete...
    Everything looks good with a haircut.... ɐuıɥɔ ɯoɹɟ pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ɐ ʎnq ı ǝɯıʇ ʇsɐl ǝɥʇ sʇɐɥʇ

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    Unbelievable ! My neighbour doesn't spy on me she just has
    super-human hearing. I've been talking to her and she has asked me questions about certain things and I have thought to myself
    "How did you know about that ?"

    Quote Originally Posted by imoww View Post
    LOL. The client actually said the old lady does spy on her...
    Good thing tho. She got me to cut down a few samll trees from her front yard. The old lady was complaining about leaves dropping onto her concrete...
    Everybody is entitled to MY opinion

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    It is impossible to study in this joint. Faar out. I feel awful that the last 2 weekends all my kids have heard from me is...

    ssshhhh
    tell me about it later
    show me another time
    I'll play that with you another time
    can't you sing Katy Perry in your head instead?
    will you leave Mummy ALONE she's trying to study

    Why the hell am I doing this to them?? I must have friggin rocks in my head taking on study with full time work.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs HMS View Post
    It is impossible to study in this joint. Faar out. I feel awful that the last 2 weekends all my kids have heard from me is...

    ssshhhh
    tell me about it later
    show me another time
    I'll play that with you another time
    can't you sing Katy Perry in your head instead?
    will you leave Mummy ALONE she's trying to study

    Why the hell am I doing this to them?? I must have friggin rocks in my head taking on study with full time work.
    I'm not studying anything and find myself saying this all the time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs HMS View Post
    It is impossible to study in this joint. Faar out. I feel awful that the last 2 weekends all my kids have heard from me is...

    ssshhhh
    tell me about it later
    show me another time
    I'll play that with you another time
    can't you sing Katy Perry in your head instead?
    will you leave Mummy ALONE she's trying to study

    Why the hell am I doing this to them?? I must have friggin rocks in my head taking on study with full time work.
    I tried going back to uni just before starting the buisness. Its hard trying to work go to schoool study i did the first year and then just said to my ex i cant do it i am going to go to sleep in the car home or have a heart attack or something.

    Best of luck to you with it and hope you can manage it but yeah i know its hard.
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    Quote Originally Posted by courty View Post
    I'm not studying anything and find myself saying this all the time.
    Oh that made me laugh. I swear there have been times when I've thought if I hear you sing "Firework" one more time I am going to shove a cracker up your......

    Luckily she also likes Chisel lol. It's the only thing that's saved her today (bless her little cotton socks)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tender Lovin Lawn&Garden View Post
    Best of luck to you with it and hope you can manage it but yeah i know its hard.
    Thanks. I know I did really well on my assignment but I am stressing out about the last exam on Thursday. Far too much in the way of tax calculations and risk-adjusted investment performance analysis for this ageing brain to remember.

    I plan to sleep a lot next weekend. Getting up at 4am to study for a couple of hours and then a couple more after the kids eventually go to bed is making for a very grumpy Mrs HMS and a very nervous Tim.
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    Joanne we all know you're superwoman so don't stress it will all workout
    Anything Ian says may or may not be garbage, it may also be his own opinion or it may not be his opinion at all, it may just be something he felt like stating anyone following his advice does so at their own risk and may be doing something Ian would actually advise against.
    And if you don't like what Ian has to say use the ignore function if you don't know how ask i will gladly tell you

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs HMS View Post
    Oh that made me laugh. I swear there have been times when I've thought if I hear you sing "Firework" one more time I am going to shove a cracker up your......

    Luckily she also likes Chisel lol. It's the only thing that's saved her today (bless her little cotton socks)
    HAHAHA,I can relate to that.
    Lucy likes most of my music as well,I had Aus Crawl in the CD player on the way to school the other day and I was singing along when she asked"how can you understand what he's singing dad".
    My answer"To be truthful Lu,after 30 years of singing along I'm still not sure if I know".
    I'm sure you will do well with the exams.
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    Bloody scammers trying to sell me web site optimisation. There must be a fresh crop outta scammer school every 3 weeks or so. I get a rash of calls over a couple of days. Had one on Friday who started out with I spoke to you about your websites poor Google rank a couple of weeks ago. Really did you. Well if you had I would have told you what I am about to tell you now...STICK THAT F****** Phone UP YOUR F******G ARSE and while your at it have a look at where my website actually does rank before you ring me idiot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by courty View Post
    I'm sure you will do well with the exams.
    Just an update, my overall mark ended up being a high distinction (92%) so a very happy "yay me" was said.

    LOL Bluey, they picked the wrong mark to try that on when they called you. I get all the telecanvassing calls given to me at work because apparently I am the only one ***** enough to get rid of them so they never ring back.
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