[NCjim]

...youths attacked officers with bangers

What a waste of perfectly good bangers...

[Aliska]

Those bangers don't taste as good as our sausages. I imagine there are infinite varieties of them.

I just don't get it with these French. Haven't said too much, and employees deserve certain protections, but if people are not performing on the job well, an employer ought to be able to get rid of them.

We do have a lot of protected employees in this country, too, especially government workers. It's almost impossible to fire them.

Private sector employers can lay off employees pretty much at will if they aren't unionized. The worst that can happen is that they can get a discrimination suit slapped against them and/or they will have to pey unemployment benefits. That works kind of odd, too. They go back to your previous employer first. You might have quit that job and they still have to pay. If you did not do an adequate job or were a troublemaker, they did not have to pay unemployment if they fired you.

This business with the French has me stymied. Nobody should be guaranteed a job for life if they are not doing a decent job. That's why so many slacked off under communism; there was little incentive to perform well, and it bogged down their whole system.

Most Europeans don't seem to think like we do. I've read some of their comments and they look down their noses at our system. But they get ticked off when we can get consumer items they can't or have to pay a lot more for.

[Aussie Dasher]

That's what I thought. A sausage to the chops? Very strange!

[garyhope]

Ooooooo, bangers and mash,..yum.

Meat and potatoes, all around the world, the staff of life.

[Doc Savage]

I thought they "Mashed" them with "Bangers"!