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The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 5:15 pm
by Mikero
When the Grenfell inquiry restarts every witness should be asked " Are you now, or have you ever been a Freemason? "
Mikero
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 6:24 pm
by Max B Gold
Why is it relevant?
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 6:34 pm
by KC & sunshine band
Mikero wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 5:15 pm
When the Grenfell inquiry restarts every witness should be asked " Are you now, or have you ever been a Freemason? "
Mikero
just try drinking water
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 6:45 pm
by Mikero
The way that planning and building control permissions in this country are awarded is often based on who is a mason and who is not.
Mikero
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 7:11 pm
by Oforever
Mikero wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 6:45 pm
The way that planning and building control permissions in this country are awarded is often based on who is a mason and who is not.
Mikero
You have evidence of this? No? Thought not!
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 7:32 pm
by Max B Gold
Mikero wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 6:45 pm
The way that planning and building control permissions in this country are awarded is often based on who is a mason and who is not.
Mikero
Is this practice restricted to planning and building control or are there other areas we should be concerned about?
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 7:39 pm
by Long slender neck
Have you been talking to Thor?
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 7:50 pm
by Lovejoy
Unlikely, Thor is on coronavirus leave.
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 8:32 pm
by spen666
Waiting for suggestion Ling is a freemasonry as is Embleton and all those others the moaners take cheap shots at
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 8:48 pm
by RealLoughtonO
Mikero wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 6:45 pm
The way that planning and building control permissions in this country are awarded is often based on who is a mason and who is not.
Mikero
Must be an awful lot of Freemasons applying for permissions then.
As above, stick to water.
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 9:28 pm
by Ronnie Hotdogs
Is Freemasons really a thing? Not suggesting it isn't, just that I've never experienced it.
Direct backhanders obviously are.
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 9:29 pm
by Real Al
Mikero wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 6:45 pm
The way that planning and building control permissions in this country are awarded is often based on who is a mason and who is not.
Mikero
Wouldn't you want someone building a structure to be a mason?
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:00 pm
by Max B Gold
RedO wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 9:28 pm
Is Freemasons really a thing? Not suggesting it isn't, just that I've never experienced it.
Direct backhanders obviously are.
My old man was one and I inherited his Masons coin which I put beside the other Masons coin I own which I was given by a drunken Mason one night to pay his cab fare. Obviously I haven't told anyone about this until now.
I have to say that I count the Masons of the local Lodge as amongst the most polite and best tippers when I take them back to their secret locations at the end of one of their animal sacrificing ceremonies of a Tuesday night.
I've got some Lodge manuals I inherited from my old man and will post them up here in full detail later.
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 11:34 pm
by Mikero
Having spent many years in the Construction Industry and later lecturing in Construction subjects I met many people who thought that joining the local lodge was the best way to get on with a career, this was especially true of local authority workers including Building Control officers. Tendering for council contracts should be a fair process between companies, but time and again I heard complaints that things were subject to 'influence'. As someone has said 'bungs' probably still change hands as well.
Personally I have friends who are masons and have been encouraged to join several times, but I did not want to be part of a secret society based on 'mutual assitance' and pseudo religious rituals.
Mikero
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 12:32 am
by Max B Gold
Mikero wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 11:34 pm
Having spent many years in the Construction Industry and later lecturing in Construction subjects I met many people who thought that joining the local lodge was the best way to get on with a career, this was especially true of local authority workers including Building Control officers. Tendering for council contracts should be a fair process between companies, but time and again I heard complaints that things were subject to 'influence'. As someone has said 'bungs' probably still change hands as well.
Personally I have friends who are masons and have been encouraged to join several times, but I did not want to be part of a secret society based on 'mutual assitance' and pseudo religious rituals.
Mikero
You need worry no longer about not being "in"
A.U.A.F.C?
I am try me and prove me.
By what instrument of Architecture will you be proved?
By the Square.
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 8:54 am
by Mikero
Talking of your fathers coin Max, I made a masonic door for one of the city lodges. Another strange ritual.
Mikero
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 3:37 pm
by Dohnut
Mikero wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 11:34 pm
Having spent many years in the Construction Industry and later lecturing in Construction subjects I met many people who thought that joining the local lodge was the best way to get on with a career, this was especially true of local authority workers including Building Control officers. Tendering for council contracts should be a fair process between companies, but time and again I heard complaints that things were subject to 'influence'. As someone has said 'bungs' probably still change hands as well.
Personally I have friends who are masons and have been encouraged to join several times, but I did not want to be part of a secret society based on 'mutual assitance' and pseudo religious rituals.
Mikero
Bit like social clubs. Not always what you know but who you know. Just the members have more influence probably.
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 4:39 pm
by NuneatonO's
Mikero wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 11:34 pm
Personally I have friends who are masons and have been encouraged to join several times, but I did not want to be part of a secret society based on 'mutual assitance' and pseudo religious rituals.
Mikero
Snap!
Although more acquaintances not friends, I've been sounded out a couple of times over the years.
I could have been totally wrong - but my gut instinct just told me something didn't feel right.
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 4:43 pm
by Max B Gold
NuneatonO's wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 4:39 pm
Mikero wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 11:34 pm
Personally I have friends who are masons and have been encouraged to join several times, but I did not want to be part of a secret society based on 'mutual assitance' and pseudo religious rituals.
Mikero
Snap!
Although more acquaintances not friends, I've been sounded out a couple of times over the years.
I could have been totally wrong - but my gut instinct just told me something didn't feel right.
Cheap drink at the Masonic Club. Worth considering further.
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:11 pm
by Dohnut
Max B Gold wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 4:43 pm
NuneatonO's wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 4:39 pm
Mikero wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 11:34 pm
Personally I have friends who are masons and have been encouraged to join several times, but I did not want to be part of a secret society based on 'mutual assitance' and pseudo religious rituals.
Mikero
Snap!
Although more acquaintances not friends, I've been sounded out a couple of times over the years.
I could have been totally wrong - but my gut instinct just told me something didn't feel right.
Cheap drink at the Masonic Club. Worth considering further.
Just like cheap drinks down the social club. Same thing, just more influence. One is a group that own the country the other is a group who think they should.
Re: The question that wont be asked.
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 12:04 am
by Max B Gold
Redline wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:11 pm
Max B Gold wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 4:43 pm
NuneatonO's wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 4:39 pm
Snap!
Although more acquaintances not friends, I've been sounded out a couple of times over the years.
I could have been totally wrong - but my gut instinct just told me something didn't feel right.
Cheap drink at the Masonic Club. Worth considering further.
Just like cheap drinks down the social club. Same thing, just more influence. One is a group that own the country the other is a group who think they should.
Do you have any evidence to back this up?