I have just received this from a colleague.. Endemol, what a bunch of twats...

From: shop@britanniamusicshop.co.uk
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:25 PM
To: Nadia Dyer-Collins
Subject: Re: URGENT TV REQUEST - Instrument Hire Enquiry

Hi there Nadia there,

Thanks for your email. We are very sorry to hear that Big Brother is in such financial difficulty that it cannot afford to pay honestly for the equipment for its activities. Unfortunately, as a small family company we just don't have the financial strength to prop up your organisation in its desperate need, but perhaps there are charities to whom you could apply if you are struggling.

As you may gather from the tone of this email, we find it hard to have any respect for an enterprise which on the one hand blatantly sucks money from an un-suspecting public, and yet on the other seeks to freeload on small hard-working family businesses. Is it perhaps that you think we are so dumb as to imagine that it will be worth any amount of hassle and potential damage to an expensive and delicate musical instrument just to have interacted with the most unremarkable end of the television spectrum?

Your begging letter will be shown to our friends and colleagues as we feel appropriate. What an embarrassment for you!

Needless to say we hope you are able to avoid wasting our time and yours in the future by concentrating your scrounging efforts elsewhere.

Best of luck with all that you do.

Britannia Music Shop Ltd
Tel: 01727 846055
email shop@britanniamusicshop.co.uk
www.britanniamusicshop.co.uk
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From: Nadia Dyer-Collins
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 1:57 PM
To: shop@britanniamusicshop.co.uk
Subject: URGENT TV REQUEST - Instrument Hire Enquiry

Hi there

I left a message on your answering machine, but also just wanted to drop you an email.

I’m working on Celebrity Big Brother at Elstree, and I’m looking to borrow a trumpet for tomorrow as part of one of the tasks. I wondered if this could be something you could help us with?

If you could let me know as soon as possible, I’d really appreciate it.

Many thanks

Nadia

Nadia Dyer-Collins
Task Associate Producer – Celebrity Big Brother 2012
T: 020 8324 2834 · M: 07791 055 261 · E: nadia.dyer-collins@endemoluk.com
Elstree Studios · Shenley Road · Borehamwood · WD6 1JG

This about sums up the fucked up legal system in Britain.. these skumbags walk free and celebrate outside court for beating someone senseless for no reason. One of them even calls the police to come and remove journalists from his home for trying to interview him. These fuckers should be socially-osterized if the muppets in court won't hand out justified sentences!

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Was John Watkins a Time Traveler?

If I was going to go back in time and let a few snippets of info about the future slip I think I would keep it toned down, much like the predictions made by Watkins... food for thought.

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I don't find it suprising in the least that iphones track their users and store the information. We are all be monitored, or should i say herded...

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At last councils are taking action against 'charity muggers'... I've forgotten how many times I've had confrontations with chuggers over the years, including one who turned out to be poising as a charity worker but was in fact a fraudster. Found out after I contacted the charity in question complaining about there hard sell charity tactics for them to inform me they they did not have any workers out on that day. They contacted the police who asked me for a description so they could identify this woman on the towns cctv cameras...

Many of us do not like being approached in the street by kids in benetton clad outfits wielding clipboards who try and get your bank details by giving you a sob story about dying children and starving Africans. One, they are on commission... that's exploitation and two, they are mainly students with near zero experience of life and are not qualified to lecture the public on such matters.

They are arrogant and frequently after you say no thanks and walk away make cryptic, sarcastic and abusive comments behind your back. In my case, guaranteed to make me immediately walk back and confront them... the sooner they are restricted to chugger areas the better, because then you don't have to play dodge the chugger on the high street. When they position themselves across the high street in an offensive maneuver they are seeking confrontation and alienate shoppers who simply order more online and start to avoid the high street because it no longer remains a comfortable place to be..

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There is a battle raging and it's being fought behind the mainstream and in England’s home counties. With the demise of the farming Industry into a mechanised system the villages were wasted of its farm workers. Many emigrated to the colonies or moved to the Industrial towns to find work. Gypsies who relied on the summer work in the fields lost there profession as well... The result has been dramatic:

Townies moved into the villages, renamed dormitory villages, they have now become towni-country folk... they don't work in the rural areas they commute to the towns and return just to sleep, only venturing out on weekends to live the towni-country life. There are certain regulations to being towni-country, the first, on moving to the country, is to immediately install a wood burner in your home. The second is to shove some chickens in your backgarden. The third is to have raised vegetable plots. The fourth is to buy a four wheel drive.

On installing the wood burner they realise they need logs, so to start with they spend a fortune on seasoned logs from B&Q. When they understand they need lots of logs they start to order a truck load. Then they look at there gardens and notice some trees in them, so they get some local cowboys to cut those down for the wood. After removing all the trees and getting fed up with having to get logs in and start a fire after 12 hours at work they put the central heating back on.

The chickens end up being eaten by the foxes or stolen by pikeys, yet they replenish their stocks... they are feeding the foxes and the underclass, it's there form of charity. The raised beds get put up because they saw it on a television program, so it must be good. On buying the ready made kit to do this for an extortionate amount of money they plant up the veg and then leave it until it all flowers and rots because by the time its ready for harvest they have already lost interest in it. It's quicker to order online from Tesco.

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I know bloggers and the media are going mental about the wikileaks sarga and I felt I had to join in with my own personal anger at revelations made by American Generals and the puppet President Karzai about Britains involvement in Afghanistan. It has been published that:

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The leaked US cables, published in the Guardian newspaper, contain harsh criticism of the UK military effort in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2009.
In one cable, US general Dan McNeill was said to be "particularly dismayed by the British effort" in fighting the drugs trade in Afghanistan.
He is quoted as saying that British forces had "made a mess" of counter-narcotics operations in Helmand by employing the "wrong" tactics.

Criticism of the British military effort goes back to 2007 when Gen McNeill was in charge of Nato forces.

In another cable, the then Afghan Foreign Minister, Rangin Dadfar Spanta, expressed disappointment at the ordering of an extra 2,000 British soldiers to Helmand, saying: "They were not ready to fight as actively as American soldiers."

At a meeting with Senator John McCain in December 2008, President Karzai said he was relieved that US Marines were being sent to reinforce the British-led mission in Helmand and "related an anecdote in which a woman from Helmand asked him to 'take the British away and give us back the Americans'."

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My reaction, as many agree, is Karzai and all the other drug dealers running Afghanistan, should go FUCK themselves!! Why should British soldiers die defending what is quite obviously a corrupt Afghan administration. I do not see them on the front line dying for there people, they are skum of the highest order. I don't believe they are worth defending from the Taliban if that is there opinion of us.

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The pick of the 'silly season' stories... resulting in a 'angry mob' who were set on lynching the women. This type of thing is the norm on cartoon shows like 'the simpsons' and 'family guy'.. woman dumps cat in wheelie bin - angry mob - woman appologies - everyones happy again...

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