The dispute between Pakistan and India over Kashmir is, in part, over resources, namely a river which provides water to a significant area of Pakistan. Control over the source of this river is tantamount to control over the lives of millions.
From the same guy, living under a military dictatorship in Pakistan is not that bad and actually preferable to democracy. The political class has an international outlook and is more easily influenced by outside interests while the military is composed of ordinary Pakistanis who have the welfare of their country at heart. When they’ve dabbled with democracy life hasn’t been that great. Concession that their dictatorship is a nice one and should a nasty one come along democracy might be preferable, but in a new country like Pakistan (only 40 years old) maybe they’re just not ready for democracy.
From a different bloke, women just aren’t to be trusted, and a woman told him this herself. They can’t help themselves and don’t realise they’re doing it when they marry you for your money and take it all away. Case proven by his son, in his 20s, who isn’t interested in getting a girlfriend because all his mates have been fucked over by their birds. Long story followed about him helping a mate with his HND maths module and when his mate passed his dad bought him a Porsche. Mate goes on holiday for three weeks and lends son the car as thanks. Son decides to prove something to his mother who’s worrying about him not meeting girls and goes out with car bringing back three women over three nights. Announces to mother than they weren’t interested in him, only the car and the assumption that he was loaded.
Cat Stevens was really popular before he went Muslim, not that going Muslim is a problem or anything, but he was. [The next day I'm presented with a CDR of his album "Remember". It's kinda shit.]
Car factories have closed and are in trouble because of a lack of investment which leads to inefficient practices like assembling a car in one place, adding a few final bits in another place and then bringing it back to the first place to dispatch it. The Japanese have the right idea. [I'm not sure what idea the Japanese have.]
Quality control is really odd but kinda makes sense. The assembly company, whose warehouse we’re in, would like to do their QC in house but this would lead to them cutting corners to save money and their customers, the car companies, prefer that they outsource it to the company we’re working for. It’s in the interests of this company to be extra thorough and take its time in order to charge the assembly company more, which is why we’re sometimes given 4 hours worth of work and subtly told to make it last eight, and we have to make it last as the supervisors of the assembly company are watching us what with their office facing directly at where we’re working.
Some rugby player punched some football player and that was funny.
Like I said, things I’ve been told at work.
“Car factories have closed and are in trouble because of a lack of investment which leads to inefficient practices like assembling a car in one place, adding a few final bits in another place and then bringing it back to the first place to dispatch it. The Japanese have the right idea. [I'm not sure what idea the Japanese have.]”
Interesting. Of course this is actually to do with getting EU tax breaks because you put the engine in the chassis it becomes a euro-car and not a jap-car. As the EU expands the factory, build with massive UK tax payer funded subsidy, moves to Poland or some such.