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Nimble said:

I really hope some of the "cryptozoology" ones are true (e.g dinosaurs in Congo!) but I find them very hard to believe.

CAJ said:... long and hard...

Need longer ones though due to my girthy I like them cos I can crank them right up and it gives me enough support cock

if you don't want super stiff

Rick said:Having spent my working life mostly in universities and schools, I'm going to have to go with "yes".

scruffmcbuff said:
Ok Macca. I see your point. Buy my point still stands 500kgs been done

scruffmcbuff said:
Yes. But it has now been done. When Ray W or who ever does it next he will be the second guy to do it. And the first guy in sleeves

scruffmcbuff said:
A very good point. But the fact still stands 500s been done now. Who ever dose it next ipf or not is still the second guy to hit it. Not the first.

ChrisMcCarthy said:
The IPF-ians still won't care.

AdamC said:
thats because the IPF attitude is 'it doesnt count if its not IPF'

Rick said:
It really isn't, you know (actually, the exception probably is athletes and performers, which ironically is what were were originally discussing). Maths and physics teaching are probably the most obvious examples of jobs where there is chronic undersupply at the (not-market-set) salary. Medicine and politics are fairly obvious examples of large salaries without even a hint of undersupply (medicine courses are hugely over-subscribed by people with the requisite grades). Medics have played a superb hand over the last twenty years to drive the divergence of their incomes from other stable-work professionals (and good luck to them).
In general frictionless market theories tend not to apply that well to the actual world; this is even truer in salaries than most other areas, where things are distorted by political action, people's understandable reluctance to change to a different career where that means starting again at the bottom, and people who set wages' equally understandable tendency to pay themselves rather well. And at one time there were effective trades unions, of course, from whom we still have SOME legacies (paid holidays etc).
I'm not complaining. I do well enough for my needs, and I have enough transferable skills and low enough debts that I COULD jump ship if I really wanted to. But the idea that remuneration is set principally by merit and market doesn't, in my experience and opinion, survive much contact with the facts.
(The idea that income, and indeed promotion, are driven as much by desire for them as anything else does, but that's a whole different conversation.)