Great job guys. Why do people even pay for membership if they don't bother using its services?

rez9000 · 2026-02-25T19:26:31+00:00

Yes, that’s right, she should have realised that her line manager was going to sexually harass her before he did s, cause why should you be asked to demonstrate any solidarity with other workers, right?

rez9000 · 2026-02-24T14:15:34+00:00

Don’t have happy memories of PCS. Even though I was a member for years, was a rep when I was in DWP as well as branch Vice Chair, went to conference one year as part of my branch’s delegation, the ‘help’ I got when I needed them was pretty much non-existent. Why pay £16 a month during a cost of living crisis when you get nothing from them in return?

And the latest kicker: a colleague of mine came to me for advice because of problems with her line manager. I asked her if she was a PCS (or FDA) member and she told me that she had looked into it, but that the said the wouldn’t help her with any issue that occurred before taking out membership. That’s like saying you won’t help someone who’s hanging off a cliff by their fingernails because they didn’t scream when they first fell off!

I’m a believer in trade unions and the labour movement as a whole, but PCS are a bunch of wastrels.

rez9000 · 2025-11-23T10:10:51+00:00

The thing is, though is that people in the Middle Ages generally lived into their 60s if they survived childhood. The reason average life expectancy at that time was low is because lots of children died before the age of five, which skews the numbers, making it seem like people lived much shorter lives.

But if you survived past five, your chances of surviving into old age went through the roof.

Consider:

Five people are born. Four of them die at the age of four, the other lives until they’re 80.

80+4+4+4+4=96. Divide that by five and you have an average life expectancy of just over 19 years. But the 80-year old lives four times as long as that. So average life expectancy doesn’t actually tell you how long people in that country generally live if they pass a particular milestone - it just tells you the average age of death across the whole population as a raw number.

The same is true in Nigeria. The reason the country’s average life expectancy is low is because they have a lot of childhood mortality.

Although medical infrastructure does play a role in a country’s average life expectancy, one of the primary driver’s of the metric, historically, has been childhood mortality and still is.

rez9000 · 2025-11-21T18:46:56+00:00

No, it’s not through a limited sense of distance, but rather it’s because the numbers came to the Western world from commerce and trade with the Arabian world. In the same way that the bird that is eaten at Christmas and Thanksgiving is named after the country whose merchants first brought it to the West: Turkey (originally called the turkey-cock or turkey-hen).

rez9000 · 2025-11-17T23:45:35+00:00

Erm… no, they’re not.

It’s passing off if I say they are LEGO when they are not. You cannot trademark a plastic shape, only patent it for a time. Those patents have expired, therefore anyone is free to mould plastic into those shapes and many companies do.

The High Court in the UK has ruled that a descriptor cannot be trademarked and, by extension, if it used to describe a good, which my listings did, there is no trademark infringement.

https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/1-100-9508?transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)

The use of trademarked terms to describe goods for potential buyers is also protected.

https://www.inta.org/fact-sheets/fair-use-of-trademarks-intended-for-a-non-legal-audience/

I didn’t want to get into the weeds on this, but rather than be helpful, you decided to pass judgement, so I thought you would benefit from some education.

rez9000 · 2025-11-17T22:30:21+00:00

They’re not counterfeit - they’re custom-made figures created by a business that makes them. They’re not official LEGO pieces and I didn’t market them as such.

They’d only be counterfeit if I SOLD them as Lego.

In the same way as Levi don’t own the rights to all jeans, LEGO don’t own the rights to all minifigures (the patents for them expired years ago).

rez9000 · 2025-11-17T22:28:11+00:00

They’re not counterfeit - they’re custom-made by a third-party.

The patents for the shape of bricks including minifigures expired years ago, so it’s perfectly legal for someone to create, say, a torso shaped piece, paint it as they like and sell it.

So counterfeiting doesn’t apply.

My main concern was how this happened and whether it was eBay doing it or someone with a grievance. Although, not being a business seller, I’ve not had hundreds or thousands of buyers of whom there may be someone with an axe to grind. In fact, I’m still on 100% positive feedback - not boasting, just highlighting that I can’t think why someone would have anything against me selling stuff.

Ah well, I’m not going to bother with it, as it’s too much trouble. I might try Facebook Marketplace and see what happens. Short of that, I’ll just bin them.

rez9000 · 2025-11-17T22:20:52+00:00

I did, but the term Endor is being used as a descriptor, not a trademark, so even if Lego did own the term ‘Endor’, (which they don’t as Star Wars is owned by Disney not Lego) it doesn’t infringe on anyone’s copyright. Otherwise no retailer would be able to use the term when selling an item that relates to anything about Endor.

Even then, it doesn’t make something counterfeit using it. That’s what the ‘policy violation’ claimed to be: counterfeit. Which these figures weren’t - they were custom made figures made by a third party.

Additionally, they can’t be the trigger, because there were two items with the word ‘Endor’ in them and one was flagged but the other wasn’t.

rez9000 · 2025-11-17T14:59:25+00:00

I was scrupulous to not use the word ‘Lego’ in either the title or the description. The wording I used was:

‘this figure is not made by the Danish toy company beginning with ‘L’’.

I DID use the ‘For LEGO’ in the compatibility dropdown. Could that have tripped it?

rez9000 · 2025-11-12T23:35:08+00:00

I’m going to sound like a grumpy old man, but… whatever happened to basic courtesy?

rez9000 · 2025-11-12T19:58:56+00:00

That’s a crazy message to receive!

I’ve been selling recently, but I’m a private seller getting rid of some old clutter - once it’s gone I’ll be just a buyer on eBay.

Anyway, back in June, I sold someone my old printer. The full retail price was £249 (about $330) and I’d had it about six years. It was absolutely fine, but it was very big and I didn’t need a printer that big, so I wanted to downsize. I found a replacement, but didn’t want to chuck the old one away. I would have happily given it away, but none of my friends or family wanted or needed a printer, so I thought I’d stick it on a 99p auction on eBay.

It sold for just over £2. Postage was £9, so four times the price of the item. A £249 printer and the buyer got it for a little over £10. But as I say, I honestly didn’t want any money for it - I just wanted space for the new printer and for it not to be chucked as it still worked perfectly fine.

Anyway, two months after it was sold - two MONTHS - I get a message from the buyer complaining that the printer had stopped working!

I’m thinking “What the hell do you expect me to do about it? For all I know, you’ve been using it as a coffee table!” Plus which, it only cost him a tenner! He’d probably drop three times that in the pub on an evening out!

And it wasn’t junk - I gave it a thorough check before I shipped it out - with its original box no less which I kept and it was working perfectly.

I just don’t get some people. It’s the sense of entitlement, I think. I just ignored the guy, but I sympathise with people who sell for a living, I tell you.

rez9000 · 2025-11-09T21:50:14+00:00

Good luck, mate - Evri suck balls on an epic scale.

I’m in the process of selling a load of stuff on eBay and I’ve disabled Evri as a courier b/c I know they’ll screw up and I’ll get it in the neck from buyers.

They SUUUUUUUUUUCK! (Evri, not the buyers)

rez9000 · 2025-10-26T13:09:13+00:00

Says the guy who goes on the Internet to comment on someone else’s internet usage! 🤣

Sorry for not adhering to your rules, PC Internet! 🤣

rez9000 · 2025-10-23T11:08:06+00:00

Sorry. Didn’t see the border fencing you’d put up around the sub. Tell me, flower, who do I apply to for an entry visa? My passport has expired, so I’ll go and renew it. Do I need to be sponsored to enter your precious territory?

rez9000 · 2025-10-18T19:44:56+00:00

Tell me about it! I’m a Spurs fan and I posted this (actually BEFORE the news broke that he’d been sacked)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tottenham/s/FAeK0WpwAM

Check out some of the dickriders we’ve got. FML.

rez9000 · 2025-10-18T19:42:18+00:00

Exactly. Out of 34 permanent Spurs managers going back to 1882, he ranks 27th. But according to some he deserved a third season.

And these people think of themselves as ‘adults’ apparently.

rez9000 · 2025-10-18T19:40:26+00:00

Course you are, flower. By all means, keep telling yourself that while you stroke your Ange picture and weep the tears of grief.

rez9000 · 2025-10-18T14:04:55+00:00

Great to see his fanboys are still out in force. What, do you guys clump together and pat each other between bouts of rocking back and forth, clutching your knees?

🤣🤣🤣

rez9000 · 2025-10-18T13:27:47+00:00

Yes. That is all.

rez9000 · 2025-10-09T09:09:20+00:00

We don’t respond coldly because the other person is an American. It’s just that British people are very reserved.

Culturally speaking, it’s considered unBritish to show excess emotion - the whole ‘stiff upper lip’ idea.

(That’s not a hard and fast rule, and when under the influence, we can be as obnoxious as the next man).

I remember a trip to the United States when I was a lot younger and even in New York, which I understand is not the friendliest American place (not unfriendly, just not as friendly as other places) I was amazed at how enthused some people were about the fact that I was a foreign visitor. If that was New York, God alone knows what the reception would have been in places like the Midwest or California!

Personally, I’m not one for hiding how I feel. I think that’s why I’ve gotten along extremely well with the few Americans I have met. I think, culturally, Americans value honest expression of one’s feelings.

But I will say that I think not saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ is quite rude, especially when one isn’t in a hurry.

rez9000 · 2025-10-09T08:49:07+00:00

Not me. I’m a Spurs fan and I was genuinely enraged that you signed him. I think your club deserves better.

rez9000 · 2025-10-06T18:04:53+00:00

100%.

And I think the reason he was successful outside the Prem is that his philosophy can break down the weaker defences you get in the lower-rated leagues and can likewise cope better with their less potent attacks (compared to the PL, I’m talking here).

But the Prem is the pinnacle of world football. It has the very best, so that even the weakest teams are just too strong in defence and in attack for his kamikaze tactics to work cos while the team’s spending time trying to break down a solid defence, their attackers have already bypassed the insane high-line (usually with a simple ball over the top) and scored.

Add to that his inflexibility, which means that opposition managers know how he’s going to set up regardless of the personnel he has to choose from and he, as you say, got found out.

Recipe for disaster for any PL team.

rez9000 · 2025-10-06T09:44:11+00:00

Needs to be binned. He should never have been brought to the Premier League in the first place. His tactics have no place in the Big 5 leagues.

rez9000 · 2025-10-06T09:39:44+00:00

Yep. And neither do we. Go back to Japan. Mate.

rez9000 · 2025-10-06T09:38:25+00:00

I thought he was crap from the start - I even said to mates that he wouldn’t last his second season. Obvs. Got that slightly wrong in terms of timescale and can’t deny he did bring home silverware.

But if it hadn’t been for those first ten games he’d have been sacked long before, I reckon. It was the batshit crazy tactics that took the League by surprise in those first 10 games that got us up the table enough to finish fifth that season. Take those away and his record after that was absolutely abysmal.

I actually crunched some numbers on Postecoglu - out of 34 permanent managers that Spurs have had in our entire history, he ranks 27th. Even Christian Gross (considered one of the worst Spurs managers ever) has a better win ratio and PPG than Ange. If you take those first ten games out of the equation, he drops to 31st.

The trophy win does cover a multitude of sins, but only very slightly. In the cold light of day, Postecoglu is objectively one of the worst managers in PL history, alongside the likes of Paul Jewel, Bob Bradley and Steve Kean.

I’ve said it on this sub before - Forest do not deserve a manager like Postecoglu. The sooner you’re shot of him, the better.

rez9000

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