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Hampstead shoppers slam Tesco after organic porridge oats disappear from store
What's worse is that they have to live in Hampstead!
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This headline[^] caught my eye in the More News section. I have no clue what it is about, but I couldn't help but click on it... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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It is one story you shouldn't smile about. The stupid bint was in charge of social services when a child, they were supposedly protecting, died in the most horrific way at the hands of her mother's boyfriend.
Ms Shoesmith does not deserve a penny for letting that boy die and yet she's been rewarded with a 'six figure sum'; purported to be around £250k.
speramus in juniperus
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She has been rewarded because she was scapegoated in the most blatant and stupid way by people trying use her to deflect all other blame.
It is one of those situations were nobody involved at the time deserves any credit at all, and their actions since have made everything worse.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I agree she should not have been sacked.
She should have already resigned. It was her job to oversee children's safety, she was responsible for the dysfunctional department. A scapegoat would have been the social worker or the team manger, but not her. Sharon Shoesmith was paid a very high salary and with it went the responsibility. She failed and should not be rewarded, it is a travesty.
speramus in juniperus
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It is, but it is the failings of others that have led to this situation.
What is legal does not always equate to what is moral.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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ChrisElston wrote: It is one of those situations were nobody involved at the time deserves any credit at all, and their actions since have made everything worse.
Agreed.
However, when the only one of the bunch who was even lightly punished gets rich from it, what message does that send?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Agreed that the story shouldn't be smiled at but I don't think Ms Shoesmith should be vilified in the way she has.
The reality is, the case didn't cross her desk until Baby P had died, the social workers that were in charge of the case had already undergone disciplinary procedures (blame the fact they weren't sacked on the mindset of 'public servants' anyway) and Ed Balls wanted to make himself look good so announced that he was taking action to sort the situation.
The inspectors that went into the branch were under instructions to ensure that a result could be delivered by Balls and a number of them disagreed with the way that the NHS and police were absolved of blame while all the fault lay with Ms Shoesmith. She'll likely never work again so some political point scoring could take place and I think that alone deserves her some sort of recompense.
Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
modified 31-Oct-13 8:40am.
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An electron was driving down the motorway when he was pulled over by the police.
"Do you realise you were travelling at 120 mph?" asked the policeman.
"Great," said the electron, "now I'm lost!".
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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[ruin-the-joke]
Dalek Dave wrote: when he was pulled over by the police
At that point, the electron was already lost.
[/ruin-the-joke]
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Nope, it was simply a bit collapsed.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Are you positive?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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How much did he charge?
Veni, vidi, vici.
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An electron was lost, so it decided to speed up to 120mph.
A policeman stopped it and said "Do you realise you are in the middle of London?"
The electron thanked the policeman. 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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There is a sign in Munich that says, "Heisenberg might have slept here."
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 That is pretty good.
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They evidently watch too much Breaking Bad 
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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What if (xkcd)[^] is quite philosophical this week.
The privacy question about accessing data of dead people is interesting. I am doing a lot of things online, and I am quite sure Mrs. RaGE does not know about half of them (I am only talking about the one she may know about  ). Not because I am hiding anything, but just because of her lack of interest. This very account is a good example.
The other question is about Facebook going down in the future, "like any other web creation so far". While it has already been seen in the past (AOL or eBay alike sites or search engines before Google), I very much doubt that sites such as Google or Facebook would die at some point of time. This would mean there would either be no user anymore because the need they fulfill would not exist anymore, or that a form of concurrence would arise, which both seems quite unlikely ( But I guess that is what people said about AOL, or Blackberries for real world examples, in the past, and this must precisely be the point of Randall).
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: I am quite sure Mrs. RaGE does not know about half of them
Like the other women?
speramus in juniperus
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What difference does it make?
Oh. The word "brain", I suppose.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I did not get that. Unless you are talking about Facebook diying, here you have all my support.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Is there a vast difference between dead and brain-dead FB users?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Is there a vast difference between dead and brain-dead and FB users?
FFY.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Rage wrote: I very much doubt that sites such as Google or Facebook would die at some point of time.
Why?
Both rely on advertising to make profits.
If people stop using them (in Google's case because someone else starts a better search engine, or <joke> Bing gets better than Google</joke>; in Facebook's case because something else becomes more fashionable) then advertisers stop paying them, so they lose money and eventually close.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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