Everything is better somewhere else

[al_yrpal]

Britain's decline is 'partially' due to the contempt the ruling classes have for those engaged in actually doing something. And that lives on - that is how we (The UK) treat our engineers.

Not only the ruling classes… its been going on since about 1820, grubby industry is something to despise.

As a former doer and someone who came to despise the 'peripheral people' I heartily agree that the loss of our industries is a major cause of our decline. Get a Physics Maths or Engineering degree and head for the City for maximum salary, then retire at 40.

Perhaps British Gas's 6000 'Engineers' and that cute penguin can save us?

Al

[Mick F]

Spain.
If you're a smoker .................

Mrs Mick F smokes roll-ups.
She's in her early 60s now and been smoking since age 15. We met when she was 15 and I've lost count of the cross words we've had about her smoking. I'm a lifelong never-smoker. She has no intention of giving up, and she enjoys smoking.
Anyway, I digress.

As most of you know, we were in Benidorm last week.
Price of Cutters Choice in UK is 30g for £14.00 or so.
That's 47p per gram.

Cutters Choice in Spain is about £75.65 (converted fro Euro) for 500g in ten packets.
That's 15p per gram.

She bought two boxes of 250g with a free quarter bottle of vodka with each box.
500g of tobacco .....................and I did the arithmetic about all this and noted it down, so that's why I have the figures.

If she'd bought the 500g in UK, it would have been £235.00 .............. and not had any vodka!
That's nearly £160 profit not counting vodka.