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Ned Nederlander

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  1. 18 minutes ago, Salt n Vinegar said:

    I well remember the days of the sales technique that prefixes every item with "Erzie...". "Erzie mars bars, Erzie macaroon bars" among them. 

    Possibly an urban myth but reminded me of the story of someone knocking a mars bar/macaroon box to the ground only to be followed up with "Get yer broken macaroons here" :P

  2. We did a learning styles thing at work that gave folk characteristics based on animals - Monkeys were hands on, Elephants analytical etc (I think)

    During roll out I said I used a variety of all methods and was told I was a Zoo Keeper :wacko:

    We had to show we'd accounted for the different styles when putting together training packages.

     

    Edited to add: I vaguely remember a meeting where folk wore animal badges.

  3. 3 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

    Not sure this is the right place for this but

    The FT data guy posted this, which shows that in 1997 the most common living arrangement for 18-34 year olds in the UK was living in a couple with children.  Now the most common living arrangement for 18-34 year olds in this country is living at home with their parents.

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    It's probably my age but 1997 doesn't seem like ancient history, a land to which we can no longer even hope to return to.  The changes seen since then for young people are pretty huge - the expansion of higher education in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the housing price boom (just before 2000 the average house price was 4x the average salary, now it is 8x), the stagnation of the UK economy since the late 2000s.

     

     

    Yip - my daughter is in a better place financially than I was at her age - I already had a house, she's living with us.

    Mind you, although we didn't get one, back then you could get a 100% mortgage - so it was actually too easy to get a house. 

  4. 45 minutes ago, RubyTuesday said:

    Utter confusion from the referee, waves his arm in the air but even the commentary team don't know what he'e given. 

    I saw him point to the spot but I couldn't convince anyone in our group that he'd given a penalty - even when the protests had settled and Miller was getting ready to take it I was still getting told it hadn't been given.

    Mind you it took us about 15 minutes to realise Morrison hadn't come on at half time ... and in a special mention to the view shout out to the seated Falkirk fans who celebrated a 'goal' about 5 minutes from the end 😋

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