Look stop... I've only just got used to calling it a "PRESSER".... please tell me this is a language thingy and not me falling hind the times again!
Exactly. I think it was pure greed and taking advantage. At the end of the day, the garage is in business to make a profit, so her spending that amount could mean a few quid on everyone else's bill. Rather typical, sadly, of today's Britain. Rather than "let's go somewhere nice we like" it's "how much can we spend ....." - I mean, 4 bottles of champers between 2 of them? Come on!
Problem today You have obviously never drank champagne with my wife then 4 bottles between 2.......easy.
It is kind of funny though. They tell her to have dinner on them, so she has the most extravagant meal of her life
Me and You agree on far too much, Chilco. You're not some distant pal I lost touch with from years back, are you..? Totally agree with the above of course.
Well let's see if I'm late to remind people that it's a 100 years since the RMS Lusitania was torpedoed. The RMS Titanic is rightly remembered as it was an avoidable tragedy with huge loss of life, and a maiden voyage, whereas the Lusitania was caught up in the First World War, only just over 3 years later, and had had several years of service, sailing out of Liverpool. The Cunard ocean liners had yet to transfer to Southampton, whereas White Star already had. The loss of life was enormous [1,191 people young and old, passengers and crew], with 761 surviving. It went down in around 20 minutes. It's true the ship carried some military cargo, but the passengers and crew were civilians. The ship now lies on its side in 300 feet of water, off the Irish south coast. Interestingly, the bow had hit the seabed while the stern was still stuck out of the water, such was the ship's size and depth of water. Lest we forget eh..?. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-32591599
I listened to an article in the radio for a little while about that. Interesting to the unkowledgable like me.
The boss of Thomas Cook has refused to apologise for the deaths of two British children, who died of carbon monoxide poisoning at a Corfu hotel. Christianne Shepherd, seven, and her six-year-old brother Robert were found dead while on holiday with their father and his partner at Louis Corcyra Beach Hotel in October 2006. At an inquest in Wakefield, Thomas Cook Group chief executive Peter Fankhauser, who has been in charge since November last year, was asked to apologise to the family on behalf of the firm. He said: "I feel incredibly sorry for the family - incredibly sorry. But I don't have to apologise." When a lawyer representing the Shepherd family asked him why he did not feel the need to apologise, he replied: "I feel so thoroughly, from the deepest of my heart, sorry but there's no need to apologise because there was no wrongdoing by Thomas Cook." The jury has heard that the two children were poisoned by carbon monoxide from a faulty hot water boiler in an outbuilding but Thomas Cook representatives claimed to have been told by the hotel that there was no gas supply at all. Mr Fankhauser, who has been in charge at Thomas Cook since November last year, insisted his company was lied to by people at the hotel about there being no gas heaters at the premises. Earlier in the inquest Manny Fontenla-Novoa, who was chief executive of Thomas Cook's UK and Ireland division in 2006, refused to answer a number of questions put to him by the family's lawyer, Leslie Thomas QC. Mr Thomas suggested to the former chief executive that "what was more important to Thomas Cook was profit so Thomas Cook put profit before safety". Mr Fontenla-Novoa declined to answer. Mr Thomas said to Mr Fontenla-Novoa: "How does it make you feel that your customers, who paid good money for your services, have had to wait eight and a-half years to get answers as to how their children were lost, and you are saying: 'I decline to answer'? "Does it make you feel good?" The witness said: "I decline to answer." Mr Fontenla-Novoa was also asked about Thomas Cook's health and safety systems but declined to answer. The barrister said: "If these systems worked, these kids would be alive. So what happened?" Mr Fontenla-Novoa refused to answer. Mr Thomas said: "Your staff have all sat there and declined to answer. Are you going to lead by example and co-operate?" The witness again refused to answer. Mr Thomas then read Mr Fontenla-Novoa a series of specific questions he said the family had asked him to put directly. Mr Fontenla-Novoa refused to answer them. The hearing continues http://news.sky.com/story/1479453/corfu-deaths-travel-boss-refuses-to-apologise Disgusting response.
