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and this is why we can't have nice things

[Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0
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British hero plumber turns out to be a shit.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3gxg4jd0ggo

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0
    edited May 2024
    Maybe I should add some more - I'm fucking livid at how often things that appear to be upright and nice and honest on the outside turn out to be towers of shite. Sometimes maybe they were started for the right reasons and the money and attention subverts and corrupts them. Or maybe they were always shitheads from the start.

    Another example I know from personal experience is a charity which is absolutely appalling to their staff. In a particularly unpleasant way, as if the CEO bossman (whatever his title is, I forget) has been taking lessons from ruthless capitalists and seeks to play games with the predominantly female staff.

    Fuck off. Then fuck off again. And then keep fucking off some more.
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    I would caveat, somewhat of a shit. He does appear to have at least actually given out some free services and not actually stolen from the people he was supposed to be helping. It is a small caveat, but a caveat none the less.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0
    Doublethink wrote: »
    I would caveat, somewhat of a shit. He does appear to have at least actually given out some free services and not actually stolen from the people he was supposed to be helping. It is a small caveat, but a caveat none the less.

    £2million donations. Has he completed £2million of free plumbing?

    I doubt we will ever know.
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    I would think that what sounds like a non-stop torrent of self-praise on the company's website might have been a giveaway. In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson...

    The louder he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
  • mousethiefmousethief Shipmate
    stetson wrote: »
    I would think that what sounds like a non-stop torrent of self-praise on the company's website might have been a giveaway. In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson...

    The louder he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

    One of my very favoritest quotes.
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    Maybe this calls for a public act of repentance. ;^)
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    mousethief wrote: »
    stetson wrote: »
    I would think that what sounds like a non-stop torrent of self-praise on the company's website might have been a giveaway. In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson...

    The louder he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

    One of my very favoritest quotes.

    And as I cannot actually recall where I first heard it, I can't say with certainty that it wasn't from you.
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