Originally Posted by HBG

I know of at least three local people who have come over with partners and have really given it a try, for years. All of them eventually went back and what makes me sad is that they've gone back with different partners.

Do you not think that it would have happened in whichever country they had been. Boredom is a terrible thing believe me at the moment Rosemary and I both know but that is down to my situation and hopefully will improve. Back in GB I knew so many pensioners who were very unhappy due to the structure of their life collapsing, arguements with their partners etc. My father lived for work and was like a lost soul when he retired, he was of the generation that thought only of work and family. Family left home and he retired ergo nothing to live for. I think that people generally are now thinking more of what they will do when retired, women do appear to be better at this than we men are. To us at the moment the internet is a Godsend but yes I agree those dating agencies are everywhere, the problem is that I read somewhere that 20% of couples now meet on the internet including a couple that I know.
Now what is Rosemary doing on that computer.

(And some of those Russians look a bit fierce).

Originally Posted by bil

Yeah mate, that makes it much better. Me I LOVE a good rare steak, and it's a common factor in my meals out. Nothing worng with steak, it's the failure to try anything else that marks you out as a little Englander.

Originally Posted by angiescarr

Lets just think for a moment who decides who these "best" bankers are. Oh yes. Those just above them who are earning even more from shafting the public and countries who are too weak to resist. And they are weak because they've been lead down that path... By whom? The Bankers of course. Lets not forget they don't actually PRODUCE wealth. Nothing. Nada not one cent of actual 'wealth'. They just shuffle it around, and in shuffling, scrape off as much as possible. It's all just licensed robbery IMO. Bitter? Damn right! Grrrr

Originally Posted by The Oddities

A friend of mine is an executive director at 9 companies and a non executive director at 32 companies, one day he explained to me that in his non exec capacity along with others he decides the pay structure of the executive directors this way the exec directors can claim that they have no control over their pay. Guess who arranges the pay for my friend in his 9 executive positions.

Graham

Originally Posted by bil

The old boy network?.....

Originally Posted by The Oddities

Actually not, he started life in the steelworks of Sheffield, worked his way up. Still has a strong Yorkshire accent but lives in Cheshire now and woe betide anyone who criticises Yorkshire CC.
That was only one story, expenses, days out you have no idea believe me. The other side of this guy is that he will do anything for you, give his time freely he really is a person to like.

Graham

Originally Posted by bil

No, I meant the people whose pay he decides. Mucho back scratching and so on.

Originally Posted by The Oddities

Exactly the trouble is that some people believe it is a fair way.

Graham

Originally Posted by bil

Equally, it's buying and selling, just like the rest of the world. You buy yen and sell dollars, and so it goes, and so it goes.