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Dairy Chit Chat- Please read Mod note in post #1

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  • #2012
    Willfarman
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    One million dollars


  • #2013
    kowtow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭kowtow


    Willfarman wrote: »
    One million dollars

    "A fair days pay for a fair days work"


  • #2014
    Dawggone
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    Willfarman wrote: »
    One million dollars

    Zimbabwean dollars??


  • #2015
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,707 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    Dawggone wrote: »
    Zimbabwean dollars??

    What's the exchange rate like back to French euros!!!!!


  • #2016
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    stanflt wrote: »
    I know these quys very very well- they would put you and your finances to shame
    They also have a very low mortality rate

    If you haven't something good to say about someone don't say it


    The Irish and their begrudgery
    They did mention they lost 20 calves to coccidiosis, fair play they said it. Looking at the infrastructure, milking parlour, roadways, overpass looked top notch. At least it was a fair reflection rather then the man in his Sunday Best shirt


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  • #2017
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    stanflt wrote: »
    I know these quys very very well- they would put you and your finances to shame
    They also have a very low mortality rate

    If you haven't something good to say about someone don't say it


    The Irish and their begrudgery
    ]
    They did mention they lost 20 calves to coccidiosis, fair play they said it. Looking at the infrastructure, milking parlour, roadways, overpass looked top notch. At least it was a fair reflection rather then the man in his Sunday Best shirt,


  • #2018
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    mahoney_j wrote: »
    What's the exchange rate like back to French euros!!!!!

    ZW$0.00 = €0.00


  • #2019
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,754 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    ]
    They did mention they lost 20 calves to coccidiosis, fair play they said it. Looking at the infrastructure, milking parlour, roadways, overpass looked top notch. At least it was a fair reflection rather then the man in his Sunday Best shirt,
    was it not 30 calves to salmonella? and they were debating over vaccinating?


  • #2020
    Buford T. Justice XIX
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    kowtow wrote: »
    You'd have to wonder if they are pushing it till spring in an attempt to micro-manage on farm finances.

    SFP is around at the moment, spring could be tougher.
    It looks that way, tbf, but the money is due when it's due.

    Imagine the furore if the christmas bonus was delayed till january as pensioners/unemployed cash flow wouldn't be as strong then!

    I'm sure the recipients can decide for themselves the correct way to manage their money.


  • #2021
    Dawggone
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    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    It looks that way, tbf, but the money is due when it's due.

    Imagine the furore if the christmas bonus was delayed till january as pensioners/unemployed cash flow wouldn't be as strong then!

    I'm sure the recipients can decide for themselves the correct way to manage their money.


    Kow is probably right on this Sherif.

    General election on the way...keep farmers on side...

    Bread and circuses.


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  • #2022
    Buford T. Justice XIX
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    Dawggone wrote: »
    Kow is probably right on this Sherif.

    General election on the way...keep farmers on side...

    Bread and circuses.
    Keeping to a Roman theme, it may be time for a decimation at election time.


  • #2023
    Dawggone
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    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Keeping to a Roman theme, it may be time for a decimation at election time.

    Maybe a proclamation?


  • #2024
    Buford T. Justice XIX
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    Dawggone wrote: »
    Maybe a proclamation?
    That will happen in March, apparently:pac:


  • #2025
    kowtow
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    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Keeping to a Roman theme, it may be time for a decimation at election time.

    Regrettably decimation, in the strictest sense, would only remove one in ten of them.


  • #2026
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    That will happen in March, apparently:pac:

    Knives drawn...


  • #2027
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Dawggone wrote: »
    Kow is probably right on this Sherif.

    General election on the way...keep farmers on side...

    Bread and circuses.

    I thought it was bread and vodka.


  • #2028
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,754 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Dawggone wrote: »
    The package was paid here with the first tranche of Sfp.


    To qualify for the aid you had to furnish up to date accounts. Rightly so.



    Guess how much I got? :)
    out of interest are there many farmers over there still waiting on thoer bps payment?


  • #2029
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    freedominacup wrote: »
    I thought it was bread and vodka.




    You would! :):)


  • #2030
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    whelan2 wrote: »
    out of interest are there many farmers over there still waiting on thoer bps payment?

    Decisions made/paid before dec1.

    It's usually nov1 but pushed out this time because of change of system.


  • #2031
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Dawggone wrote: »
    Zimbabwean dollars??

    lol

    I spent 4 weeks in Zim back in 08. The level of inflation was such that our punt was buying 1 beer the day we arrived and 8 the day we left.

    Ques at supermarkets for bread and all cash gone from ATMs. I Harare every other car was a Merc S class in fact the level of Merc ownership was greater than Germany's.

    Mugabe was rewarding his "war veterans" with Government ministries. Flew over Kariba dam and all we could see were centre pivots to the horizon.

    Imagine this country fed Southern Africa and even could have fresh cut flowers in London every morning just as the Dutch could.

    Sorry for the derailment but a dreadful pity to see such a fantastic country go down the tubes and farms confiscated from farmers. A real tragedy


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  • #2032
    Dawggone
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    lol

    I spent 4 weeks in Zim back in 08. The level of inflation was such that our punt was buying 1 beer the day we arrived and 8 the day we left.

    Ques at supermarkets for bread and all cash gone from ATMs. I Harare every other car was a Merc S class in fact the level of Merc ownership was greater than Germany's.

    Mugabe was rewarding his "war veterans" with Government ministries. Flew over Kariba dam and all we could see were centre pivots to the horizon.

    Imagine this country fed Southern Africa and even could have fresh cut flowers in London every morning just as the Dutch could.

    Sorry for the derailment but a dreadful pity to see such a fantastic country go down the tubes and farms confiscated from farmers. A real tragedy

    +1. A true breadbasket.
    Spent some time in Harare back in the day. Love story lol :)!!

    Worked in a bank there for a year...


  • #2033
    kowtow
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    frazzledhome wrote:
    Sorry for the derailment but a dreadful pity to see such a fantastic country go down the tubes and farms confiscated from farmers. A real tragedy


    +1000

    So many individual family tragedies there, and such a stoic people.


  • #2034
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    kowtow wrote: »
    +1000

    So many individual family tragedies there, and such a stoic people.

    We actually housed a farm family that had to flee with only their clothes and passports, tragic.


  • #2035
    darragh_haven
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    We actually housed a farm family that had to flee with only their clothes and passports, tragic.

    My current boss was a farmer in Zimbabwe for 35 years. Dairy, Beef and corn. Slavery was still very prevalent before they had to flee.

    Altho the treatment of the black population by the white farmer was extremely poor, after the take over a lot of them are worse off.


  • #2036
    Buford T. Justice XIX
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    kowtow wrote: »
    Regrettably decimation, in the strictest sense, would only remove one in ten of them.

    Only if you do it once...


  • #2037
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Only if you do it once...

    If you did it 10 times, you still wouldn't be rid...


  • #2038
    Buford T. Justice XIX
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    Dawggone wrote: »
    If you did it 10 times, you still wouldn't be rid...

    Life is a journey, not a destination.


  • #2039
    whelan2
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    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Life is a journey, not a destination.

    Thank you Mr Christy mooore


  • #2040
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Thank you Mr Christy mooore

    Or Drake....or Aerosmith...


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  • #2041
    kowtow
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    darragh_haven wrote: »
    My current boss was a farmer in Zimbabwe for 35 years. Dairy, Beef and corn. Slavery was still very prevalent before they had to flee.

    Altho the treatment of the black population by the white farmer was extremely poor, after the take over a lot of them are worse off.

    My best man arrived from Rhodesia (as an eight or nine year old) in the West Country with his family, carrying all they could in the form of a few largish diamonds. They were quite a well off, but tough, farming & army family and when they arrived in the UK they found the first obvious place to live and bedded down - sending the kids off to school.

    So when the boys at school asked him where he lived he naturally said "that big barn up on the hill beyond xxxx".... and they naturally assumed that it was one of the big stylish oak barn conversions which are popular around there.

    It was only around the first Exeat when some boy went back to visit him that his friends discovered it wasn't a barn conversion at all - just a barn!


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