As the boot is part of the car, and the car is facing away from the direction that the boot opens, the object is at the back of the car. The front of the boot would be directly behind the rear seats.

If you put your wallet in your back pocket it’s not at the front of your backside is it?

Plus it appears that the Imperial Storm-troopers were on duty at the G-20 with the Met!

Last night I went for a run and accidentally passed a villiage that was 7 miles away. So I turned round and ran back home, which easily surpassed my previous efforts at longer distance running.

My pro-tip for the day: audiobooks are awesome for running to!

Regards,

Afternoon chaps and chapettes,

I must admit i’m a little annoyed at the second having read this thread. I have a degree from the best new University in the country, gotten through hard work and a rediculous amount of personal debt. Due to neccessity, and the current financial climate, I am working full time in a bookshop on minimum wage. I am the only employee (other than my General Manager) who is full time. Therefore when she’s on lunch, or away, or ill, I am the unpaid acting manager. In this role I have no distinguishing marks to denote me as a full-timer, as the store is pretty inflexible when it comes to uniform, nor do I don the sacred ‘Manager’ tag- as my name’s not Sandy- not even on weekends.

So, when Old Shape says that he’ll immediately bypass me to go to my General manager because he’s pre-determined his problem to be above my paygrade it irks me somewhat. I work exceptionally hard to provide a good customer service as I know that’s the way we get sales, which is what pays my meager wages.

I think that it should be mandatory for everyone to work in a customer-facing situation for one day every year to really undderstand what it’s like to be told that you’re an idiot for not knowing immediately that you wanted the economics book by Begg, and not by Griffiths. Or being told that you’re a “cretin” for serving someone before you when after waiting at the bar for 10 minutes you respond to the question: “What can I get you, mate?” by turning around to ask everyone in your party what they want. It’s genuinely infuriating to be talked down to by a bloke in a suit as if he’s worth more than me because he flashes one of many notes under my nose. What do I get for that abuse night after night? £5.72 an hour and a bad back.

So it must be noted that whilst there are many delightful people I serve on a regular basis, there are also some customers who are morons. Below are some tips for customers, arisen from my own personal experience:

1) Never open a conversation with the phrase “Do you have…” A “Good Morning”, “Hi”, or even an apologetic look will do wonders to my attitude towards you, just as it will the other way around.

2) If you’re listening to music through headphones, turn it off. Take the damned thing out of your lugholes before you even think of asking me a question. You may be a phenomenal lip-reader, but if I will not serve you if you have them in.

3) If you do require assistance finding a title, as is your right, we are there to help. However, we can only help within certain parameters. If we can get it for you from another branch it will take a few days. I will not drive to Liverpool and get it for you for before your exam tomorrow morning. Similarly, we will not package books bought at our store over a year ago and send them on our DHL account to your new home in India.

4) Prices are non-negotiable. We are not in a barter economy (yet, anyway). £39.99 means you pay £39.99, not with a bookmark thrown in, and not with a special discount because it had been filed incorrectly. If you think you saw it cheaper in another store, sod off and get it there.

5) We are NOT a library. You can’t buy a book, use it for three days and then return it. If you DO try it- don’t ask before hand, I’ll just make a note of your intentions on your reciept and refuse return. Similarly, whilst we do take back old books as second-hand on occasion, we’re a business, not a charity. 30% are our terms, like ’em or lump ’em.

6) We are obligated by our superiors to ask if you have or want a reward/dicount/club card. A simple “no, thank you” will sufice. We don’t want to say the speel any more than you want to hear it.

However soon hopefully i’ll be in a much better paid job, but will never forget how to treat the poor guys and girls on minimum wage in order to get the best service.

P.S Ill take the third from right off the Russian MoD’s hands… (cheers)

The one in the light blue’s a MAN!!

Good point well said !

and then you see muppets like these clowns…talk about revisionism and/or ignoring the real lessons of history;

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2327844.ece

So they werent really that bad? so they didnt round up POWS/innocent civilians/ men,women & kids and shoot/gas/burn them ? who would want to hide or ignore what they did? ignore their sins and live their life???

Why oh why would anyone want to glorify this bunch of murdering scum???

What is soo glorious about the Third Reich that 80% of re-enactors want to be German and a lot of them want to be SS ???? Why ?????

This is one kind of revisionism they can stick where the sun dont shine!

Isn’t the whole point of the freedom that WW2 in particular taught us the ability to go and do these things without being harrassed by reporters? The fact that the group run around fields in Kent pretending to be Nazi’s in no way means that they sit at home in the evening awaiting the call to eliminate all the jews or invade Poland. In their re-enactments do they fight against G.I’s or British Tommies or ‘Juden’ who are mown down to cheering crowds? There is also no evidence to suggest that this LSAH preport to be a tool for teaching people about the war. They are simply passionate about grey uniforms and German rank titles, clicking their heels and shouting Jawol at intermittent intervals. There is also nothing against the law in possessing such replica items.

If we start following that logic didn’t most medieval battles end with the mass slaughter of the opposition team who were injured- and if so, isn’t it disturbing to see knights of Arthur clattering around castles- I mean they even have days designed for schools, so kids can teach them about the battles through re-enactment.

Similarly, what about the Roman re-enactors? Surely the Centurions condoned crucifiction and if the Bible is to be believed, killed God’s only Son. How are they a model force to be allowed to march in similar fields in oh-so-similar kent.

I personally think that the LSAH are an important part of the UK re-enactment community. They show that there were bad guys who fought their fathers and uncles, or grand-dads. Evil men certainly, but still men- flesh and bone who were brought up to believe that what they were doing was right. The learning of the history surrounding them is for the spectators to look up and decide for themselves. Or are people simply trying to excuse themselves from the responsibility of teaching that Nazism was foul and putrid ideology borne from the fascist doctrine of Palingenetic Ultranationalism.

Surely simply outlawing them or villifying them as automatically being the monsters that they replicate by replicating them is infantile as an argument.

Finally, if you start outlawing selected parts of history because their depiction could be offensive, you start going down the same slippery slope as holocaust deniers and Nazi sympathiers- as in, where do you stop? If anything, History should be immune from this rubbish, it happened and there is nothing that can change it, so why try and sanitize the brutal facts or sweep them under the carpet when if anything they should be on the mantlepiece in all their putrid detail so no-one can ever forget that they happened.

My Dad has a Trident, I think its a 1973 but I can’t be sure. He also has a Triumph Twentyone, a Tiger Cub, a Bonneville and a Moto Guzzi Ladona. I’ll get a picture up when I go home.