Apologies to Bexhil Palace and Stormproof, I missed the Ide connection with the original post.
My wife once played a girl at pool in the pub and beat her. The girl kept saying that she would have won if she hadn't had potted the black and my missus, who is more aggressive than me, said, "Listen, sweetheart. You did pot the black and that's why you lost," and the girl shut up after that. I was quite impressed at the time.
When I have a fight, Militantdave jumps in on my side and he comes up with good sayings like,
"would not suprise me if it was true...thats real democracy in a union....hang on let me watch orson wells animal farm again"
He may get Orson Welles and George Orwell confused but he doesn't defend the CWU when the CWU is wrong.
RMG, the CMA and the CWU together have created an oppressive neo-primitive culture where no two people in the permanent worker caste are equal because everyone is ranked according to seniority. If a worker shows signs of above average capability they are simply cajoled into doing more work so that the seniors can do less or they are trained on a higher grade task but have to do it at the lower grade pay unless they want to return to less interesting tasks. As there are no promotion opportunities, there is no escape from the caste and all those more senior than you will always be more senior than you:
"KNOW YOUR PLACE!"
"You wanna f**k with me? Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend!" - Tony Montana