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Post by mrsonde on Feb 24, 2018 1:31:55 GMT 1
The Ratner question - you're seriously confused about that whole issue. You seem to believe for some reason that the "scandal", such as it was, was about his firm selling "crap", or fooling people into buying stuff they didn't know was "crap". That's exactly what it was about. Errr...no. You're just confused. No. No evidence for that whatsoever. If Ratners made any claim that their moulded glass was cut crystal, or charged a comparable price, you and more pertinently the people who were so suckered. and Trading Standards, would have a case. But none of this happened - that wasn't the story. It was foolish of Ratner to crow that he was selling stuff people wanted that was not high quality and making fun of their pretensions. As I said, you didn't understand this story at all. If you want to be personal: The Queen bought my clothes. I built houses that their owners themselves designed and had total supervision over. I have no worries at all that I wasn't at all times pursuing quality, and at all times satisfying my customers. That's how I had customers.
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Post by aquacultured on Feb 24, 2018 1:46:25 GMT 1
The Queen bought your clothes?
For you, or from you?
We must be told!
(I mean, really! I'm all of a dither.)
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Post by mrsonde on Feb 24, 2018 1:49:27 GMT 1
I've sold hundreds of books, and I've told you when, where, and how, and even which firms published them. Oh yes, you were a salesman for those rather pretty but overpriced travel books, wasn't that it? No. Never sold a travel book, to my recollection. I sold educational books. You like "education", don't you? A little? They weren't "amusing", I'm afraid. Most of us have some compassion for the disabled. It wouldn't satisfy people like you. That one was nothing to do with me - some imput, at the editorial level, that's all; I raised some funds for it, I suppose. Very hands off. I wouldn't "put my name to it"! God knows how you got that idea.
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Post by mrsonde on Feb 24, 2018 2:08:27 GMT 1
Good. What's your problem?
Dream on. You might be called out of retirement, like Smiley.
Firstly, Latin isn;t difficult - it's a doddle. Anyone can earn it. It's a memorising process. As you say, no one even speaks it, or really ever did. Your average 15 yr old who has learned the basics in how to code has learned far more than would ever have been required had the task been to learn Latin. You know this.
No, they don't. Latin is not the selling point. The selling point is discipline and regime.
It syas to the parents: we instil discipline, we adhere to traditional standards.
Hmmm, yes. There is some value in it. Discipline in your institution is essential; traditions are traditions because they've survived the rigours of evolutionary pressures. It's why Harrow students still wear boaters and Eton plays fives.
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Post by mrsonde on Feb 24, 2018 2:14:27 GMT 1
The Queen bought your clothes? Well - not personally, I'm sure. The royal household - someone. It's a firm. Eh? From me. Eh? Okay - we sold more than seven thousand quid worth of clothes to the royal household, in 2003, through the firm of Hardy Amies. You want further details?
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Post by aquacultured on Feb 24, 2018 2:20:05 GMT 1
No, I'm satisfied, completely gobsmacked. Weirded out. Bloody lackey!
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Post by mrsonde on Feb 24, 2018 2:28:36 GMT 1
No, I'm satisfied, completely gobsmacked. Weirded out. Bloody lackey! Hmmm, yes, I had much the same sentiments at the time. I made a decent profit out of it though - and, really, why shouldn't they be able to purchase my skills? They're just people. I struggled with it - a little.
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Post by aquacultured on Feb 24, 2018 2:31:59 GMT 1
Wow. Good for you, and I mean it.
And I mean them no harm.
Who's the lackey now?
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Post by mrsonde on Feb 24, 2018 2:51:18 GMT 1
Wow. Good for you, and I mean it. And I mean them no harm. Who's the lackey now? I dunno. I was earning a living. I'd spent years acquiring a very demanding skill, and people valued it and were willing to pay a fair price for my products. To be frank, I don't thin there was a "lackey" in this exchange, They were rich, that's all. Made the sale easier. I suppose. I made clothes for plenty of poorish people too - weddings, mostly, or honeymoon knockout dresses, that sort of thing; by the by. But quality does cost. C'est la vie.
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Post by jean on Feb 24, 2018 20:15:09 GMT 1
Latin isn;t difficult - it's a doddle. Anyone can learn it. ...when I was at school...If you were in the O-level stream you did Latin... Did you never ask yourself why it was only the O level stream who were ever given the chance to try?
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Post by jean on Feb 24, 2018 20:15:50 GMT 1
Eh? Okay - we sold more than seven thousand quid worth of clothes to the royal household, in 2003, through the firm of Hardy Amies. You want further details? Oh yes, please!
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Post by jean on Feb 24, 2018 20:18:27 GMT 1
It wasn't answered because I never saw it... It hasn't been answered now. Because it's unanswerable. (You know this, really.)
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Post by alancalverd on Mar 4, 2018 9:32:06 GMT 1
Back again! What was that pearl of wisdom?
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