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To: Snowshoe who wrote (303671)	5/4/2009 6:35:35 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793866

I was a wharfie once [a seagull variety = one that hangs around and picks up the scraps after the union people had taken the easy stuff]. What a load of loot the wharfie unions extracted from their abusively monopolistic position. It was a good job when young - high pay, physical work [which was good = fit and strong and work is pleasurable], only worked half the day due to "ups" and "downs" and even when working there were spells between crane-loads and the men working there were informed and enjoyed discussions. Now it's all container cranes moving thousands of tons of cargo in no time. It was ridiculous the way we used to load cargoes item by item from railway wagons. Life is so easy these days, but nobody seems to notice and still they go financially broke while surrounded in luxury = wasting their money on stupid things and living beyond their means. In the "good old days" I had to work for days to buy a calculator and before that they didn't exist and we had to do it all by slide rule and trig tables and in imperial weights and measures at that [crazy USA still uses that archaic system]. A washing machine meant a day of work to get it through the wringer. Microwave oven? What's that? A car? Yes, heard of those and seen some passing by but they cost a fortune and need expensive repairs constantly. The only famines these days are due to wars and deliberate starvation. That was a good catch of Yamamoto - but what a waste that talented people spend so much effort preparing to and actually killing each other when they could be working together on producing CDMA/OFDM mobile cyberspace and shipping the dividends to me. Mqurice