http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=oxfam The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 22 May 2013 02:40:30 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=15849#post-43199 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:17:50 +0000 Sinnick 43199@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Boys &amp; girls, please !</p> <p>The sub is well written &amp; humorous, which is the point. The only point. End of. It doesn't have to reflect the truth, and we all know that volunteers generally do a great job because they want to improve things.</p> <p>Now, sit up straight and try harder. (that's also humour, btw) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=15849#post-43197 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:14:21 +0000 De-scribe 43197@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I thought it was funny. </p> <p>But then nothing is quite as it seems in this place .............. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=15849#post-43196 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:12:40 +0000 Doylem 43196@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yup, De-Scribe, a casual "fuck off" in the face of mild criticism, isn't really 'comedy'... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=15849#post-43190 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:03:06 +0000 Scroat 43190@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nice sub, shame about the attitude problem De-scribe. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=15849#post-43189 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:01:11 +0000 IABP 43189@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>They used to sell Italian 'combat' jackets back in the day and some of them had holes and bloodstains. Mostly in the back, I recall. It was considered a cool look for us rockers back in the day. You only had three outfits - denim, leather or combat jacket. Great days of greasy hair and patchouli oil. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=15849#post-43187 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:52:03 +0000 Doylem 43187@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Popped into a charity shop a while ago, where all the books were arranged by the colour of their spines. It made a pleasant - though irrelevant - rainbow effect... until customers came in and thoughtlessly put books back in the wrong places. </p> <p>I buy all my clothes from charity shops (obvious if you knew me...), but I still look for bargains. I demand a discount on anything bloodstained... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=15849#post-43183 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:51:49 +0000 Gerontius 43183@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Booooo<br /> I'm with <strong>sauce</strong> all the way on this one.<br /> The contribution made by these <u>volunteers</u> should not be underestimated.<br /> Not only do they provide valuable service to the community (and way beyond) it offers these wonderful people an opportunity to make a contribution in life. Feel they still have an important role to play and a future in Dave's Big Society<br /> Why not give it a go one day - give something for nothing.<br /> The way things are shaping up some of you high flying university types will be relying on them soon.<br /> Maybe some of our lard based pond life could learn a thing or two from them.<br /> There's always Primart<br /> Sauce was right to use the word 'coma'...she just put it in the wrong place<br /> ps...you forgot to mention how they always say 'oh, isn't that lovely"<br /> wouldn't it be refreshing if one of them was to say 'oh, thank fuck that's going, glad to see the back of that shite' </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=15849#post-43179 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:41:54 +0000 Griffin 43179@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A delightful sub full of gentle humour. Well done. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=15849#post-43178 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:19:39 +0000 sauce 43178@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Arthur, I bet Rikkor will be delighted to know he's a menopausal, impoverished Brit housewife and mom, hah. Might cramp his habit(s) a wee bit.</p> <p>DeScribe:<br /> - be glad someone actually bothered to read/comment. You don't have to agree but you don't need to swear at me.<br /> - read the "about" for NB: we're encouraged to comment, ooperate. If you are ever paid to write your work won't be critiqued, it'll be disembowled; it'll be shredded, chopped up and recreated; get used to it, else don't bother.<br /> - if you ever sub you need to have the basics perfect - else it's a giveaway you're an illiterate twat<br /> - critique the work, not the writer, fuck-wit</p> <p>Lots of love,<br /> Aunty Em </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=15849#post-43176 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:57:48 +0000 arthurminnit 43176@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>SAUCE! you ARE prikkor in disguise, and i claim my copy of the Daily Mail, please! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=15849#post-43135 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:34:12 +0000 Golgo13 43135@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I think you'll find that one of the peculiarities of NewsBiscuit subs page style is that the punctuation mark and the state of unconsciousness are interchangeable. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=15849#post-43132 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:56:45 +0000 De-scribe 43132@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oh fuck me it's the punctuation police. BTW "Comma" is spelt like that, and PS should have a full stop after it.</p> <p>I would quite happily show them how it should be done. It should be done in a competent, non-senile, not fucking about and wasting my time kind of way. I know they're fucking volunteers, Tena Lady, this is, in case you hadn't noticed, a COMEDY website. </p> <p>Now give me some stars or fuck off. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=15849#post-43116 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:06:17 +0000 sauce 43116@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>As a "Joan from upstairs" I can vouch that all the darlings are VOLUNTEERS and anyone who grumbles gets the offer to, "Come and show them how it should be done, then, if you're so clever, sweetie."</p> <p>Is there a sub in having the entire country run by pfaffing, useless old prats (ie retired bankers) in Cameron's Big Fucking Society?</p> <p>Yours, grumpily, NOT-Joan-Bloggs.</p> <p>PS, at the end of dialogue, the full stop or coma (or whatever) goes inside the speech marks. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=15849#post-43090 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:13:14 +0000 De-scribe 43090@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Charity shop worker Gladys Evans, 72, was sacked for gross misconduct when visiting bosses observed her “not being fussy enough”, a disciplinary hearing was told today. </p> <p>Steve Drummond, regional manager for the Heart Foundation charity, told the hearing that Mrs Evans "failed to demonstrate required levels of unnecessary activity" when he observed her at her shop during a routine visit last March. </p> <p>Mr Drummond said “Our employees are made well aware from the outset of the high levels of faffing about that we expect from them”. </p> <p>“For example they need to rearrange all the stock at least four times a day, preferably at the busiest times, and spend as much time as possible chatting to friends, blocking aisles and standing in front of displays so as to prevent customers accessing them”</p> <p>“Our employees must also spend time wandering round the shop picking out the best stuff for themselves, with some going on to specialise in choosing totally unsuitable toys for their grandchildren, which does take a certain skill”. </p> <p>“Finally, on no account whatsoever must anyone be able to use the till without having to get John from upstairs”. </p> <p>“Mrs Evans displayed none of these qualities – in fact she appeared in every respect as competent as a normal shop worker. We can’t have that in our industry – we have a reputation to consider”. </p> <p>Mrs Evans admitted that she had found the requirements of the role difficult. “At first, all I had to do was to put stickers on the clothes showing the wrong sizes, it was fine. But when they asked me to push all the displays close together to stop push-chairs getting through, and put big stickers on all the books and CDs so that you can’t read what they are, well, I just couldn’t cope”. </p> <p>The case continues, but Mrs Evans hasn’t given up yet. “I’m hoping they’ll give me a job at head office spraying all the clothes with that faint smell of wee”, she said. “Ooh what a lovely brooch”. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=886#post-2278 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:27:57 +0000 ronseal 2278@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Geldof denies 95 per cent of high street is now controlled by Hugger forces </p>