 Sorry - that all got a bit off topic. On a better supervised site that kind of hijack wouldn't be tolerated Anyway - this polite person came to my door tonight and enquired about my TV licence. I showed him my TV licence, he complimented my Trailing Azaleas and I settled down to watch EastEnders Back over to Paddy P.S. Eastenders is like a puppet show with less expressive characters and less interesting stories but on a TELLYVISION pps I don't really watch it either
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 Anyway - this polite person came to my door tonight and enquired about my TV licence. I showed him my TV licence, he complimented my Trailing Azaleas and I settled down to watch EastEnders. That's £1.75 in the pocket of the 'polite person', only God knows what in the pocket of Capita for administering the visit, shuffling the paperwork and updating 'the database', and precious little left over for the BBC to make Doctor Who with.
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 amatuer - connotations of incompetence. volunteer - someones just turned up from somewhere hobbyist - implies a knowledge we need a human remains department somewhere to dream a long meaningless name. lol re eastenders kinley
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 You could just use all 3 and prefix it with skilled or unskilled. He was a skilled, volunteer, amateur hobbyist. 
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 In me pre piratical days, I were a volunteer - a doin' good deeds ye might say. wi' a passion an' commitment. I were loyal an' devoted to a cause, several in fact, an' I'd made me a pact to work free o' charge. I turned up an' did me bit reg'lar, sometimes the work was sh*t and folk were mean and angry to me. But I'd made a commitment and I had belief in what I were doin', so I did it anyways. Sometimes folk said thankee and that felt good. And if some rascal 'ad dared call me a mere 'obbyist, I'd 'ave split 'is gizzard.
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 And I've seen the size of Augusta's weapon so look sharp you lot! AAAAARRRRR! 
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 'Ang on a slack. Im a mite confused and the question that's driving me berzyquack is, If volunteer = amateur which is also defined as unpaid and not fully competent but, on the other hand, professional = paid, fully trained and fully competent then how can our armed forces be described as, the finest in the world, wholly volunteer and professional? 
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there's those bloody ticks again, what sort of ticks? seaman ticks!
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Dear Ms Roughknuckles. Did you used to go to the shop to collect a hovis? your piratical days do sound like they need dvorak's new world symphony as accompaniment.
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Oh! You show off you! So you know that the "Hovis" music is the Largo from Dvorak's 9th Symphony. D'ye see what I did there? What was the Cisco Kid's theme music?
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 ...and the classic Hovis advert featuring the largo movement from NWS actually uses Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset. Yet used somehow to invoke a better, Northern past...
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 Yes, having had a relative who lived on Gold hill, I used to have a chuckle whenever I saw that advert on TV. "Eee were a raught good baker, were our da ............................. OOOH ARRRRRGGGH!"
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classic Hovis advert featuring the largo movement from NWS actually uses Gold H And the original was actually one of the first things done by the director Ridley Scott, who went on to make the films 'Alien', 'Blade Runner' etc. Meanwhile, from an old 'I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue' ...and so, as the little white dot of eternity shrinks into the middle of the TV screen of destiny, while outside is parked the detector van of the Apocalypse, I see that it's time to blame the dog for eating the licence again...
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All those who think Jonathan Ross should get the boot, vote now to Mark Thompson ,.D.G.: Broadcasting House,London, W.1AA
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All those who think Jonathan Ross should get the boot, vote now to Mark Thompson ,.D.G.: Broadcasting House,London, W.1AA Vote? How? May I vote a hundred times to get rid of that smug, supercilious, talentless terwat?
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If you can be handed millions as a golden handshake for bankrupting companies, what is fair payment?
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If it were Tesco that was bankrupted then millions would not be adequate remuneration because perhaps then the food producers of this country would get a fair price for their produce with less profit wrung from them. A man can dream. A market should always be a buyer's market. If only there was a buyers' collective consciousness and will that we could buy into we could really thin down the fat cats, especially if we could tune in to a similar collective consciousness and will of producers.
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did you mean jonathan woss is ronderful? didn't carlsberg used to arrive on our shores upon the isle of wight ferry? probably a better image than the northampton brewery.......
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Ross has to go asap ,assassination perhaps. The format of his show is so dated too. How come we he has grabbed a Film slot as well. Aargh!!!
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