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    Yes Ferrero Rocher is the sweet I like to hate for the marketing but they are quite tasty actually

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    Quote Originally Posted by Minstrel SE View Post
    Yes Ferrero Rocher is the sweet I like to hate for the marketing but they are quite tasty actually
    They were flogging the big trays cheap in the supermarket after Xmas a couple of years back, so I bought one and took it around the office. But I wouldn't let anyone have one unless they said the line first. Some of them did it, but most wouldn't and just took one anyway. Miserable bastards.
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    Not strictly speaking a foreign ad but pulled by the European sensors

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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    They were flogging the big trays cheap in the supermarket after Xmas a couple of years back, so I bought one and took it around the office. But I wouldn't let anyone have one unless they said the line first. Some of them did it, but most wouldn't and just took one anyway. Miserable bastards.
    I can just imagine the office conversation:

    'Oh no, the gaffer's coming 'round again, y'know, the one that's always banging on about his krells, whatever they are. Honestly, he cracks the whip all year, then can't take a bit of drunken abuse at the office xmas party, and now he wants us to say he's really spoiling us in exchange for a lump of chocolate. I say "shit on that, I'm gonna just take one anyway."

    'You must have a death wish, haven't you heard what he did to the HR guy who gave him back chat? Still can't keep down solid food.'
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    I can just imagine the office conversation:

    'Oh no, the gaffer's coming 'round again, y'know, the one that's always banging on about his krells, whatever they are. Honestly, he cracks the whip all year, then can't take a bit of drunken abuse at the office xmas party, and now he wants us to say he's really spoiling us in exchange for a lump of chocolate. I say "shit on that, I'm gonna just take one anyway."

    'You must have a death wish, haven't you heard what he did to the HR guy who gave him back chat? Still can't keep down solid food.'
    Christ I'm not the gaffer. I just make the tea and occasionally stuff some envelopes. Sometimes they send me to the foreman to ask for a long stand.
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    Well not quite. Lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    Sometimes they send me to the foreman to ask for a long stand.
    That's odd. They used to send to to find a skirting ladder.

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    When I worked for a printing company, newbies would be sent to get a tin of striped ink...
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    There's no fool like an old fool.

    While looking on ebay, the display was interrupted by an announcement by British Sky Broadcasting that as a valued customer I have won a prize. I just had to answer a few simple questions. I thought 'why not, I'm not doing anything else', so I did.

    I provided email address, phone number, delivery address, presumably so they'll know where to send my iPhone X, which is what they said I'd won.

    A few minutes later I got a text congratulating me on my win and giving me a number to call to claim my prize. This I did, and found myself answering more quiz questions to an automated service (example: polar bear are what colour? Press 1 for brown. Press 2 for white. Press 3 for black. Press 4 for blue.

    No mention at the start of this just how many questions I was facing. Approximately 25-30 questions in, I gave up. I was about 10 minutes into this call by then. Did I mention that the call was charged at 99p per minute? So I've added about £10 to my next phone bill, and of course my not answering ALL the questions will be their "get out".

    It came down to a kind of brinkmanship, how much time and money was I willing to throw at this "prize".

    As I remember back to the beginning of this thing, I was one of ten "lucky" people to be chosen, and there were two prizes available. Those questions could have reached a hundred for all I know, which would have cost me about £60, and that by my reckoning would give me a one in five chance of winning.

    I'm going to stop typing now, as I can feel myself getting more and more pissed off, and the last thing I need is an anger-stroke added to my next phone bill.

    Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    There's no fool like an old fool.

    While looking on ebay, the display was interrupted by an announcement by British Sky Broadcasting that as a valued customer I have won a prize. I just had to answer a few simple questions. I thought 'why not, I'm not doing anything else', so I did.

    I provided email address, phone number, delivery address, presumably so they'll know where to send my iPhone X, which is what they said I'd won.

    A few minutes later I got a text congratulating me on my win and giving me a number to call to claim my prize. This I did, and found myself answering more quiz questions to an automated service (example: polar bear are what colour? Press 1 for brown. Press 2 for white. Press 3 for black. Press 4 for blue.

    No mention at the start of this just how many questions I was facing. Approximately 25-30 questions in, I gave up. I was about 10 minutes into this call by then. Did I mention that the call was charged at 99p per minute? So I've added about £10 to my next phone bill, and of course my not answering ALL the questions will be their "get out".

    It came down to a kind of brinkmanship, how much time and money was I willing to throw at this "prize".

    As I remember back to the beginning of this thing, I was one of ten "lucky" people to be chosen, and there were two prizes available. Those questions could have reached a hundred for all I know, which would have cost me about £60, and that by my reckoning would give me a one in five chance of winning.

    I'm going to stop typing now, as I can feel myself getting more and more pissed off, and the last thing I need is an anger-stroke added to my next phone bill.

    Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
    I always work on the premise that you get nowt for nowt, and anyone offering a valuable prize is therefor at it. Also look at your security on pc as i bet that pop up wasnt from sky.
    Regards,
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    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

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