You have to laugh

[hissingsid]

Talking about statistics, the UK police are taking lock down very seriously, as so they should, but they have still found time to compile some statistics regarding crime during the lock down period.   Apparently shop lifting is down 54%....now who would have thought 

[doc.fixit]

Is it true that 6 plane loads of Rumanians are being flown into the UK to help with the picking on Camridgeshire farms ? 

[John Wright]

2 minutes ago, doc.fixit said:

Is it true that 6 plane loads of Rumanians are being flown into the UK to help with the picking on Camridgeshire farms ? 

Yes, Rog is putting most of them up. Easy money.

[Roger Mexico]

14 minutes ago, doc.fixit said:

Is it true that 6 plane loads of Rumanians are being flown into the UK to help with the picking on Camridgeshire farms ? 

Don't know if it's six (they'd probably need more), but it's true enough.  

[PaulJ]

23 minutes ago, doc.fixit said:

Is it true that 6 plane loads of Rumanians are being flown into the UK to help with the picking on Camridgeshire farms ? 

Are these Rumanians a mythical creature,such as part goat,part Eastern European?

[the stinking enigma]

These chaps should be clapped into the fields and then clapped out again, and talking about clapped out,  rog is best placed to represent us in this endeavour.

[2112]

5 minutes ago, Roger Mexico said:

Don't know if it's six (they'd probably need more), but it's true enough.  

The Romainians and Bulgarians are prepared to work and they earn good money, doing back breaking physical work, unlike some English people who don’t wish to get out of bed sadly. Come to think of it, there are some IOM locals like that!

[Roger Mexico]

18 minutes ago, PaulJ said:

Are these Rumanians a mythical creature,such as part goat,part Eastern European?

It must be one of the few groups of words which has three valid spellings: Romania/Rumania/Roumania and similarly for its derivatives. Romania seems to have become standard in recent decades (possibly because it is the native spelling) but the other two used to be more common than that.

[Neil Down]

1 hour ago, PaulJ said:

Are these Rumanians a mythical creature,such as part goat,part Eastern European?

Bet you wished you’d bothered with an education eh...

[woolley]

1 hour ago, 2112 said:

The Romainians and Bulgarians are prepared to work and they earn good money, doing back breaking physical work, unlike some English people who don’t wish to get out of bed sadly. Come to think of it, there are some IOM locals like that!

Exactly. There are legions of furloughed workers sitting on their arses. Requisition them into the fields.

[woolley]

1 hour ago, Roger Mexico said:

It must be one of the few groups of words which has three valid spellings: Romania/Rumania/Roumania and similarly for its derivatives. Romania seems to have become standard in recent decades (possibly because it is the native spelling) but the other two used to be more common than that.

It was always Rumania when I was a kid. I'd say up until the 80s. But then Caernarfon was Caernarvon, Conwy had an "a", and the capital of China was Peking. Things change.

[Non-Believer]

40 minutes ago, woolley said:

Exactly. There are legions of furloughed workers sitting on their arses. Requisition them into the fields.

An employer of these Romanian etc workers (a lady) interviewed on Sky News tonight. Asked the obvious question of why not employ UK workers, especially under the circumstances. The response was not exactly direct. The reasons given were essentially that it was too much hassle to recruit them and train them up to do the job and the imports already had the necessary skills.

Obviously an "Investor in People" then....

[Ďouglas Peel]

2 hours ago, doc.fixit said:

Is it true that 6 plane loads of Rumanians are being flown into the UK to help with the picking on Camridgeshire farms ? 

Yes,but thats the 55% drop in shoplifting statistic down the drain.However, with warmer days on the horizon,they will have to keep their hands in their own pockets.The Roomanyin males that go into Tesco ladies changing rooms and take a bottle of malt whisky and injure themselves trying to take the security tag off ,then need an ambulance,hopefully, will be at home doing home improvements, with money sent back to Rummaniah from pickpocket gangs all over Western Europe,Nb Polish and Lithuanians are decent hard working usually,and should not be confused with Rommaniyins.

[quilp]

37 minutes ago, woolley said:

It was always Rumania when I was a kid. I'd say up until the 80s. But then Caernarfon was Caernarvon, Conwy had an "a", and the capital of China was Peking. Things change.

In name only. A superfluous difference which essentially means nothing, except to a few. 

[Ďouglas Peel]

10 minutes ago, Non-Believer said:

An employer of these Romanian etc workers (a lady) interviewed on Sky News tonight. Asked the obvious question of why not employ UK workers, especially under the circumstances. The response was not exactly direct. The reasons given were essentially that it was too much hassle to recruit them and train them up to do the job and the imports already had the necessary skills.

Obviously an "Investor in People" then....

Its a shame if strawberrys rot in the fields,however farmers have gone for cheap eastern European labour that was done for decades by school kids and others fit enough locally,Often these workers live in substandard old caravans provided.The Romanian and Bulgarian workers have created more problems in local shops in Scotland ,by being a tad dishonest ,but nobody says it for fear of being called.......you guessed it " a racist"..A Farmer in rural Perthshire was fined thousands of pounds for paying less than the minimum wage.So whether you are on the side of the farmer or not,what i find is, a tin of pineapple chunks does the same job as some strawberrys.