http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/ Come in and discuss anything: politics, the state of the world economy, the weather and even rubbish bin collections. en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:16:42 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/ http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1443-rooney.html Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:05:39 GMT Caption from yesterday's News of the World

Hooker Rooined his World Cup | The Sun |Sport|Football

"WAYNE ROONEY had a wretched World Cup because he was living in fear of being exposed as a love cheat."

Really?

I thought Rooney had a rubbish World Cup because he's actually not as good as everyone makes out. Just because he's English, the British media think it's a good idea to build him up as "The best in the world" when he's blatantly not.

No doubt this has all gone to his head now. After all, who else pays £1,200 for a hooker and £200 for a pack of Marlboro Lights? ]]> The Coffee shop WYSIWYG http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1443-rooney.html http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1437-tiny-desks.html Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:29:43 GMT This throwaway line in this article made me chuckle

"He’s even proposing to move staff to smaller desks in order to squeeze more people into his HQ thus saving money on rent"

Spending cuts hit the Treasury | Contractor Accountants

Anyone else got an image of lots of civil servants crammed in to a room, sat on the excess stock of infant school tables and chairs from the slashed school building program? ]]> The Coffee shop curleyted http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1437-tiny-desks.html http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1428-bank-holiday.html Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:49:17 GMT Bank holiday comes six times a year
Days of enjoyment to which everyone cheers
Bank holiday comes with a six pack of beer
Then it's back to work
A-g-a-i-n.....!

How was yours everyone?

G ]]> The Coffee shop The SMG http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1428-bank-holiday.html http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1424-cheese-roll-ham-pickle.html Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:01:17 GMT Copywriter fail.

Employers 'struggling to fill' skilled rolls

Well, either that or the employers in question need to get new caterers in fast. ]]> The Coffee shop Presto http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1424-cheese-roll-ham-pickle.html http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1405-online-fraud.html Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:06:16 GMT Some chancing b@stard tried to buy a holiday yesterday on the wife's credit card. Fortunately, Lloyds TSB blocked the transaction and gave her a call.

It did get me thinking though. If the transaction had gone through, which she would have then picked up on her statement a few days later, surely the travel agency will have a record of the people that booked the holiday?

I'm talking name, address, telephone number......the works. In fact, since they tried to buy the holiday online, there must have been a web-based form that was pretty much 100% complete before then proceeding to payment. So if that's the case, surely a little digging at the travel agency would reveal the details of these horrible people.

I guess once I have this, all I need to do is phone up a couple of hard-hitting ex-gangsters or even visit www.hardhittingexgangstersforhire.co.uk, and pay the credit card crooks a little visit.

I had in mind the painful removal of something like one finger or one toe for each number on a credit card. What do you reckon?

G ]]> The Coffee shop The SMG http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1405-online-fraud.html http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1392-lets-all-boo-england.html Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:59:32 GMT Stevie G believes that we should boo England tonight. BBC Sport - Football - I would boo England, says captain Steven Gerrard... Stevie G believes that we should boo England tonight.

BBC Sport - Football - I would boo England, says captain Steven Gerrard

He is of course under very deluded assumption that people will actually turn up to Wembley tonight for what is one of the least anticipated England games I can ever remember. I personally won't even be watching on TV, even though my shiny new HD television arrived on the weekend.

Is anyone else planning to boycott the game?

Iain ]]> The Coffee shop WYSIWYG http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1392-lets-all-boo-england.html http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1381-obamas-mental-state.html Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:10:05 GMT Experts are worried about President Obama's mental state after he pledged millions of dollars of aid to Northern Ireland, following the tragedy of Hurricane Higgins. :D

]]> The Coffee shop The SMG http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1381-obamas-mental-state.html http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1368-weekly-poll-will-new-nmw-rules-weed-out-unscrupulous-umbrellas-29-07-10-a.html Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:59:35 GMT It has now been confirmed that from 1st January next year, the payment of travel expenses to a temporary workplace will no longer count as pay for... It has now been confirmed that from 1st January next year, the payment of travel expenses to a temporary workplace will no longer count as pay for National Minimum Wage purposes. This clarifies what has been a particularly grey area of tax law, and one that some of the more unscrupulous umbrella companies have been using to their advantage in recent years.

The new government highlighted the continued non-compliance of employment businesses, including umbrella companies, within their NMW response document. But will the proposed amendments really weed out bad practice in the umbrella marketplace?

Feel free to join the debate below... ]]> The Coffee shop UKFF Mod http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1368-weekly-poll-will-new-nmw-rules-weed-out-unscrupulous-umbrellas-29-07-10-a.html http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1365-best-goal-celebration-ever.html Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:20:02 GMT I watched this on SkySports yesterday and absolutely p1ssed my pants. Check it out: YouTube - Best Goal Celebration EVER!!... I watched this on SkySports yesterday and absolutely p1ssed my pants.

Check it out:

YouTube - Best Goal Celebration EVER!!

G ]]> The Coffee shop The SMG http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1365-best-goal-celebration-ever.html http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1345-cyclists-pest-road.html Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:46:01 GMT I've been meaning to post up a poll on this for a while. Every morning during my commute to the office, without fail, i'm forced to either serve, stop or take drastic action to avoid either killing a cyclist or crashing my car.

Cyclists are, in my honest opinion, an absolute pest on the road. Most of the b@stards ride in tandem with their mates and proceed to have a little 'chat' in the middle of the road whilst causing all manner of traffic queues behind them. The worst are the old men who think it's still ok to dress in tight blue lycra yet cycle ten times slower than every other b@gger on the road.

I say ban cyclists from our roads. Or at least between the hours of 6 - 10am, and then again between 4-7pm. They're a total pain in the @rse. Forget all that environmentally friendly cr@p, it's about time someone spoke up and forced these cretins off our roads.....permanently.

G ]]> The Coffee shop The SMG http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1345-cyclists-pest-road.html http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1337-how-much-cognac-do-you-need-row-across.html Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:38:53 GMT http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23856382-cognac-filled-swimming-pool-of-party-lord.do Brandy maker Courvoisier said it had created... http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...-party-lord.do

Brandy maker Courvoisier said it had created a “gigantic punchbowl” filled with 1,000 litres of alcohol, “so big you can row across it”.

Assuming cognac is roughly as dense as water, I make 1000 litres equal in volume to 1 cubic metre?

So even if 20cm deep, it would be 225cm * 225cm - hardly big enough to row across?

Sounds like stanard media hype to me - or have I got my maths wrong? ]]> The Coffee shop BrilloPad http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1337-how-much-cognac-do-you-need-row-across.html http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1335-fair-play-david-cameron.html Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:15:21 GMT This was my favourite quote from yesterday's news:

''It is absolutely clear that Raoul Moat was a callous murderer, full stop, end of story. I cannot understand any wave, however small, of public sympathy for this man. There should be sympathy for his victims and the havoc he wreaked in that community. There should be no sympathy for him.''

Facebook defies David Cameron and keeps Moat tribute page - Telegraph

Shame all the Goody two-shoes in the country don't understand the difference between right and wrong. I say fair play to David Cameron for having the balls to say something like this when he knows it's a bit right wing. ]]> The Coffee shop Howzat http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1335-fair-play-david-cameron.html http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1325-why-world-cup-rubbish.html Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:13:28 GMT I've already mentioned (once or twice) how cr@p I think this World Cup has been. I'll start off my list of the reasons why, feel free to chip in:

1. Vuvuzelas
2. The way England played
3. The ball
4. Sepp Blatter (cretin)
5. Goal line technology
6. Lack of good goals
7. The fact that Holland got to the final
8. The fact that the cheating b@stard French team got there at all
9. The form of Torres and Rooney
10. Howard Webb taking charge of the final

At the risk of getting emotional, i've been watching World Cups since 1982 and that, hands down, was the worse pile of horsesh1t since the second Stone Roses album. And that really was horsesh1t.

Roll on the Open...

G ]]> The Coffee shop The SMG http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/forum/coffee-shop/1325-why-world-cup-rubbish.html