Walterp's Posts

[Hilly]

How many other industries are have assets into the millions yet still have to work all the hours God sends in such poor conditions for such bad returns and have to put up with the world and his wife KNOWING how to do their job better than them and telling them they are a poison to society and the planet while enjoying the fruits of their labors? Does your sanctimonious self important attitude tell you the answer to that question?

Thing is farms are worth millions because of other factors out with our hands, if they were valued on their books, alot would be worth nothing, some would have to be paid to take them on, funny old world.

 

[New Puritan]

How many other industries are have assets into the millions yet still have to work all the hours God sends in such poor conditions for such bad returns and have to put up with the world and his wife KNOWING how to do their job better than them and telling them they are a poison to society and the planet while enjoying the fruits of their labors? Does your sanctimonious self important attitude tell you the answer to that question?

Sounds like you ought to sell up and try doing something else then...

 

[Hilly]

Sounds like you ought to sell up and try doing something else then...

I dont thinks he dose, hes just telling it how it is, hes bloody right.

 

[New Puritan]

I dont thinks he dose, hes just telling it how it is, hes bloody right.

That's fine if people don't mind doing it, it's a lifestyle as well as a job, I know that, but don't be a martyr to it. Nobody owes us a living, and if what you do makes you as bitter as that post sounds then perhaps it's time for a change.

 

[stevedave]

Sounds like you ought to sell up and try doing something else then...

It's not a question of doing something else but I don't spend my time telling builders how to build or teachers how to teach and I don't know how to do their jobs better than them, but every one knows how to do my job better than me and they feel the need to tell me. I've also had a shitty day.

 

[Hilly]

That's fine if people don't mind doing it, it's a lifestyle as well as a job, I know that, but don't be a martyr to it. Nobody owes us a living, and if what you do makes you as bitter as that post sounds then perhaps it's time for a change.

I sort of agree with you both, a happy medium has to be struck, at the end of the day it is a life style but we are independent selfemployed business men.

 

[New Puritan]

@stevedave - sorry, I wasn't trying to have a go, and I'm sorry about your sh1tty day.

 

[Hilly]

It's not a question of doing something else but I don't spend my time telling builders how to build or teachers how to teach and I don't know how to do their jobs better than them, but every one knows how to do my job better than me and they feel the need to tell me. I've also had a shitty day.

Just tell em too bugger off and mind their own !

 

[stevedave]

The thing is we feel we have to bow down to the bureaucrats because they have the money and they feel they are more important than us but the reality is that the same as every industry the bureaucrat is a by product and in the great scheme of things doesn't matter. Ask yourself this would agriculture fail if bureaucracy didn't exist or would bureaucracy fail if agriculture didn't exist?

 

[stevedave]

@stevedave - sorry, I wasn't trying to have a go, and I'm sorry about your sh1tty day.

It's not your fault unless you put the hole in my tire.

 

[New Puritan]

@stevedave - nope, not me! I hope you've got it fixed.

 

[stevedave]

Fixed and I hope tomorrow is better.

 

[traineefarmer]

I'm still fairly new here and seem to find myself being drawn into walterp's threads. I then seem to get upset, post something inflammatory and have an awful lot of notifications when I next login.

I might have to wean myself off his posts, because I'm enjoying my time on this forum and don't want to pi$$ off half the membership.

 

[milkloss]

I reckon Walter ha got himself on the TFF payroll........keep numbers and debate lively and all that.

 

[Hilly]

I'm still fairly new here and seem to find myself being drawn into walterp's threads. I then seem to get upset, post something inflammatory and have an awful lot of notifications when I next login.

I might have to wean myself off his posts, because I'm enjoying my time on this forum and don't want to pi$$ off half the membership.

Na go for it, if they are pee'd off thats their problem, you have to be like an elephant, thick skinned and good memory

 

[Red Fred]

According to the Jeremy Vine show yesterday, 34% of people think that their jobs are pointless and make not a jot of difference to the world, so we are lucky in that respect.

 

[stevedave]

According to the Jeremy Vine show yesterday, 34% of people think that their jobs are pointless and make not a jot of difference to the world, so we are lucky in that respect.

We are lucky and I know that but when we have to put up with various sections of society tell us how bad we are, how we are murderers of animals and rapists of the environment while still eating the food we produce it does get a bit trying at times. Let them go hungry and then see what their opinion of agriculture is.

 

[awkward]

not too sure if im rite but didnt the U.S. vice president put it that never befor did the lives of so many depend on the work of so few or somthing like that. i believe their is an video clip on internet from an interview he gave

 

[ollie989898]

TFFs version of Dennis Skinner!

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Thank you for the kind remarks.

Someone once observed that farmers have more in common with farmers from other countries than they do with their own fellow-citizens. It is true, certainly, but what does it imply?

I don't think farmers realise that it isn't me who is different, but them - obvious, when you think about it.

How many other industries are there where enterprises are acquired largely by inheritance, supported generously by the European public purse, and which have quite such an inflated sense of their own value?

And how many appreciate just how lucky they are, I wonder?

Your starting to sound like John Clarke