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Original poster

is my friend ureasonable for starting a royal mail petition personally i dont think so

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lillaura123 · 03/08/2007 21:35

my friend started a petition on the 10 downing street website about Royal Mail
to Stop them Striking all the time.Please sign it here is the link to sign.
petitions.pm.gov.uk/RoyalMailStrikes/

since we have started signing she has suffered from horrible comments from posties etc - come on girls please help and sign up xx

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expatinscotland · 04/08/2007 23:11

Or learn to read and write the English language for that matter, Aitch.

Seriously, I despair!

PersuasiveArgumentGirl · 04/08/2007 23:12

Move along, nothing to see here!

lisad123 · 04/08/2007 23:12

does anyone know how we can find out if one group strike more than others?

Original poster
lillaura123 · 04/08/2007 23:13

and what is it about personal attacks? you dont like my views fine but you are really beginning to turn pathetic with that - as a mother, well im sorry if my education isnt up to scratch - its not as if i got to choose it so lay the F**k off about that now please - i remember now why i didnt learn much - it was being picked on by older bullies - wonder why i suddenly remember that --- r u trying to say that you would do the same if your kids couldnt learn as well your as fast as others and that effected them later on that you would think them of less than a person to - how utterly nasty can u get?

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ThePedantifier · 04/08/2007 23:14

Gosh, PAG, I never thought I'd see YOU on Mumsnet!

Aitch · 04/08/2007 23:14

my great grandmother was a friend of Keir Hardie, my grandmother and grandfather were Post Office union reps and my father a Civil Service union rep. they must be turning in their graves. all this talk of respect while working people are getting more screwed-over by the minute. [truly]

themoon66 · 04/08/2007 23:14

I don't know lisad123, but you said you felt the posties did it more than most.

ThePedantifier · 04/08/2007 23:15

Can someone please explain how being a mother has anything to do with one's spelling and grammar?

Oh, and it's allowable to say "fuck", you know, the asterisks aren't really a great subterfuge!

NotADragonOfSoup · 04/08/2007 23:15

You said "because i disagree with the strikes" which means you don't support them at all!

Aitch · 04/08/2007 23:16

if you're talking to me wrt to teh education thing, i saw that you mentioned earlier on that you had a crap education. that's not your fault, not at all. but i do worry that the more people who have suffered at the hands of an under-funded education system there are, the worse things will get before they get better.

lisad123 · 04/08/2007 23:17

I said I felt, but dont really know, as I said maybe I notice more as it affects me. I guess i wouldnt notice if the bank workers went on strike as I use online. I only know the trains or on strike as its normally on the news.

Well as hearty as this debate is think im off to bed with a good book
L

Aitch · 04/08/2007 23:18

night night lisa, love to misdee next time you see her...

elesbells · 04/08/2007 23:18

post office strikes 1962-2006 is it? now who did write that one?

expatinscotland · 04/08/2007 23:20

This thread is depressing me, although probably not for the reasons lillaura would think.

[Hmm]

Expat sips herbal tea and waits for Pedant to come and rap her knuckles for something. Remember she was once corrected by a famous author. [Preens]

themoon66 · 04/08/2007 23:21

'the trains or on strike '

or what? [genuinely puzzled emoticon]

ThePedantifier · 04/08/2007 23:22

"Remembers" expat

Aitch · 04/08/2007 23:24

nyer-nyer expat. {grin]

Aitch · 04/08/2007 23:24

aaargh...

expatinscotland · 04/08/2007 23:24

She caught it! She spotted the error. I knew I could count on you, Pedant. Can I be in ur gang?

ThePedantifier · 04/08/2007 23:26

"ur"? "UR"?!

I assume you mean "your" - was that text speak? Perchance it was some bizarre American variant of the correct spelling!

Original poster
lillaura123 · 04/08/2007 23:27

u keep going on about back in my day - wel think thats invalid - the way i see it if dont like you r job leave it get another - in this day and age we work to pay our way because we have to - so wheres the point in at a picket fence shouting about something that you cant change - its possibly a shame that the vaste majority of postman are maybe not educated enough to get better jobs - doesnt even from day to day wish they had more money ? but i dont see my dh going on strike BTW he is a delivery driver he works in all conditions too and deals with the public and lifts heavier things than the odd parcel - he works 7 days a week - so how hard have they got it again - oh on that note if its such a bad job and this has been an ongoing issue for years why ar ethese people going for post persons jobs if they knew the circumstances?
striking killed the ship industry in britain back in your day -

and back to the education thing i was taught by an older person so does that make you better than me

plus striking costs RM more money so why would they do anything about it RM is obviously run by old bullies - i disagree with the RM strike you obviously disagree with the youth of today - whos worse???

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expatinscotland · 04/08/2007 23:27

Hey, Pedant, you are supposed to show some respect to everyone here! Even those who don't express proper use of the possessive here.

Life isn't about grammer, it's about getting your bank statements on time.

ThePedantifier · 04/08/2007 23:28

Aitch, I think she thinks you are very old

expatinscotland · 04/08/2007 23:30

My husband's a driver, too.

He supports the strike all the way.

He's not old, but he remembers what happens when you break the chain.

We're still living with that legacy, and I have to say, I think it's a really sad legacy to live with.

'There is no society' has come home to roost, lillaura, and the saddest thing is that you're not even aware of how much of a victim you are of that, and just how much that's going to cost you further down the line.

ThePedantifier · 04/08/2007 23:30

grammar

Respect has to be earned, expat. Although respect for the English language is not optional!

Now I must return to my secret lair and revert to my mild-mannered librarian alter-ego. Please play nicely, children

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