What that story fails to go on to say Henry is that by the following summer the farmer had gone bust because all the men would hide until the eleventh hour and work for a penny an hour rather than a penny a day.
You see word goteth aroundeth that you could spend most of the day in the pub then turn up for an hour and get paid the same as the blokes that had been sweating all day. In the end those that were working for a penny a day decided to join those that were working for a penny an hour - why wouldn't they?
In time the farmer was paying close to ten times as much for his labour and had to bring in more and more men and the price of his wine went up so much that no one would buy it and he lost his farm, his wife and his kids as they all ran off with the farmer down the road, who demanded a whole days work for a penny.
What's ironic with this story, however, is that those men that were working for a penny an hour never felt any obligation to the farmer, and when he committed suicide as he'd lost everything they just went on their way and sought employment elsewhere - for a penny a day.
What that story fails to go on to say Henry is that by the following summer the farmer had gone bust because all the men would hide until the eleventh hour and work for a penny an hour rather than a penny a day.
You see word goteth aroundeth that you could spend most of the day in the pub then turn up for an hour and get paid the same as the blokes that had been sweating all day. In the end those that were working for a penny a day decided to join those that were working for a penny an hour - why wouldn't they?
In time the farmer was paying close to ten times as much for his labour and had to bring in more and more men and the price of his wine went up so much that no one would buy it and he lost his farm, his wife and his kids as they all ran off with the farmer down the road, who demanded a whole days work for a penny.
What's ironic with this story, however, is that those men that were working for a penny an hour never felt any obligation to the farmer, and when he committed suicide as he'd lost everything they just went on their way and sought employment elsewhere - for a penny a day.
Must have been the Medieval warm period, fucking bollox Global Warming not brought any decent vineyards back.
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Can the fans buy a medal , wonder if Henry's got a stash of them to raffle?
............including too much time on his hands, obviously.
Shows how education now is so much better than in previous decades. : - )