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Crazy Diamond wrote (see)

That's ok, Nick, I object to pretty much every narrow minded, disrespectful sentiment you've displayed towards people who work in the public sector.

As someone whose partner works in the public sector and does not have a gold-plated pension an easy ride or a particularly great salary, I applaud your post Mr Diamond.

I am stunned by this - as everyone here has already said, this seems like the most disgusting exploitation of children and their parents by a publishing organisation that is interested only in making money and, worst of all, does not know the difference between 'there' and 'their' (god only knows what they'd make of 'they're'!). This hasn't surfaced at my kids' school yet, but I shall keep them peeled. My eyes, not the kids. 

The school photo one is an interesting one. They do these at our school and, yes, they get them into all sorts of bizarre poses, but the photographer is one of the mothers and is an excellent professional. We occasionally buy them. What I DO prefer is the group photos of a class or a year or the whole school - they're the sort of pictures the kids would probably like to look back on as adults. But, yes, most people these days can take as many photos as they like one way or another, so this sort of thing might die out one day.

Not while the woman is wearing them, no.

I think you Can start to tell something about the Mental Health of a Poster, the more they insert Rogue capital Letters into their Posts.

I"m not convinced she owes the other person in the queue anything. Was it a queue only for lottery tickets? People who buy lottery tickets in this country often have to get into queues in newsagents and grocers' shops - she probably didn't stop anyone else having the ticket. The morality of making multimultimillionaires of people is another matter...