Things are like that at the mo. Aren’t they? For us on both sides of the pond. I must confess that I have long wondered about our Capitalist systems of business. When I worked for Bass Brewers – and they were excellent employers – I would receive Company Shares each year as a ‘Bonus’. I hasten to say that EVERY employee received these, varying according to one’s wages, as you would receive a percentage-based bonus. Well, that’s all very well BUT………..surely this would simply add to the thousands of millions of Bass Shares that would – for ever, thereafter – have to paid a ‘Dividend’ every year. This, in turn, means that the company’s products need to increase in price continually, simply to fund this extravaganza! Needless to say, most employees would sell their shares quite quickly, so that the vast majority of shares would soon belong to ‘financiers’, etc. I couldn’t understand this, as surely Bass (and here, substitute YOUR company name) would wish their products to be as competitively priced as possible, for obvious reasons. So Dickiebo ’suggested’ that, instead of awarding shares annually, the company paid out in cash. Seemed sensible to me. Alas! Not to be! ‘The Company’ replied that Bass’ Salaries and other Conditions of Employment had to be similar to other top companies, to ensure that we got our share of the ‘best’ employees, and these included the issue of shares. So. Just think. If some brave company stopped issuing these silly shares, and started a chain of re-action amongst other companies, how well-off we would ALL become. I do understand that where it is sometimes necessary to raise capital for expansion, etc., then the system of shares could still be used, but – issuing them willy-nilly? I really don’t think so! Unless you, of course, know better!

The only good thing on the horizon, as I see it, is that O’Bama looks like being the next President of the U.S.A., so at least the Yanks can then suffer the same fate that we are suffering in this God-forsaken U.K. Well, it’s only fair that we stick together. Ain’t it?

Oddities

No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.

A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab centre said: ‘Keep off the Grass.’

A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, ‘No change yet.’

Giggle of the Day

A married couple in their early 60s celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary in a quiet, romantic little restaurant.Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on their table.

She said, ‘For being such an exemplary married couple and for being loving to each other for all this time, I will grant you each a wish.’

The wife answered, ‘Oh, I want to travel around the world with my darling husband.’
The fairy waved her magic wand and – poof! – two tickets for the Queen Mary II appeared in her hands.

The husband thought for a moment:

‘Well, this is all very romantic, but an opportunity like this will never come again. I’m sorry my love, but my wish is to have a wife 30 years younger than me.’
The wife, and the fairy, were deeply disappointed, but a wish is a wish. So the fairy waved her magic wand and poof!
The husband became 92 years old.

The moral of this story: Men who are ungrateful bastards should remember fairies are female…..

 

Died on this Day
1967 – Che GUEVARA

I do think it a great pity that he did not live longer. He shared a vision with Fidel Castro – his big buddy – and it’s a pity that he is not alive to see the abject misery of the Cuban People after a lifetime under Castro. The loony left – bah!