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[LinkedIn is full of these charlatans.]

A good rule of thumb is to avoid any that refer to themselves as talent acquisition specialists, LinkedIn is full of these charlatans.
Best of luck with the job hunting.

Agree Linkedin is the laziest form of job recruitment,  where most of these IT recruiters don't know the difference between an operating system or a fecking spreadsheet. They just send everything through to everyone in the hope someone will apply and they get their big commission.

Albeit 100% true.

Nearly as ridiculous as equating all Catholics with being Christian!

I am guessing you aren't the sharpest tool in the box!

I am also of the opinion that the Orange Order would be all but irrelevant now had SF's policy of protesting not revived an organisation whose membership had dwindled seriously in the early 90s.
Best thing to do with parades and bonfires is ignore them

Croppies lie down, let them trail their coats and walk all over you. Aye, right. You talk of your experience in Portadown. I've family from the Tunnel and I know well what the people of Obins Street and Parkside had to put up with in the 70s/80s, and what the people of Garvaghy Road had to deal with in 90s. Around 25 years ago the RUC forced an Orange parade through the 100% nationalist Panda estate in Dungannon. The b**tards even broke down doors to arrest people waving tricolours from their own bedroom windows and charged them with behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace ... needless to say the judge laughed the police out of court and dismissed the cases. The strong protests from locals that day, who were batoned off their own streets, ensured those f**kers never walked that route again

There was a loyalist parade thru the Panda around 1992?  Seriously doubt that RH.

It happened, forced down the Ballygawley Road towards their 'field', sparked rioting.

Ah OK. So it was a march along the Ballygawley Road past the Panda  rather than thru the estate itself?

The amount of bands and parades has more than trebled since Drumcree.  I'd agree that ignoring them would have been the best policy and by now they'd have mostly disappeared.

You are totally correct ignoring it would make it better.  It is common throughout history turning a blind eye is the best policy.

Ignoring clerical child abuse.
Ignoring the civil liberties of the nationalist community.
Ignoring North Korea's weapons program I am sure will work itself out.

So Ignoring triumphalist, sectarian bands hemming in the nationalist community in their own homes year after year I am sure it would have worked itself out, if only folk didn't take it too seriously and let the OO walk all over them, folk eh there is no accounting for them.   

[Don't get the one that straps on to the boot of a hatchback. They are pretty crap and you spend half your time checking that the thing is actually still attached. Plus for 4 bikes there would be a lot of scratches to the bikes.]

Folks hoping to buy a bike rack and roof rack for the holidays

Any suggestions on what would be and are the best

1. Tow bar mounted bike racks for possibly 4 bikes

2. Roof racks

Are Halfords the best supplier for both?

I have a roof mounted one that I got off ebay for next to nothing. There is quite a bit of drag off it though and will mess with your MPG. But it is rock solid. I intend getting the one that is tow bar mounted maybe when I change motor next. Don't get the one that straps on to the boot of a hatchback. They are pretty crap and you spend half your time checking that the thing is actually still attached. Plus for 4 bikes there would be a lot of scratches to the bikes. Halfords is the devil you have to deal with unfortunately

I learned that the hard way - with two bikes!