DAPPH
as dyslexik as I'm daft
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I harbour fantasies about Liz Truss.
Like the Reeperbahn , I guess all tastes must be catered for
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Like the Reeperbahn , I guess all tastes must be catered for
graffian
Seer unto the end of his beard
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I had a job where I worked with 60 women.
I remember the old foreman, who never stepped foot in the big room, telling me "but you would have to work with women"
I was 16 and loved every minute of it and I got paid.
KemppiFrog
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Any more detail ?? Many friends want to know!!
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The sewing rooms at car factories were like that, we would normally send the apprentice under the benches to fix the treadle switches, they'd normally be shouts of "cop a load of that sonny" and they'd come out red faced
8ob
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When I were a lad we never thought twice about knocking up a few tons of concrete by hand, if there was no mixer we just got on with it. Got a brikkie in atm doing variety of very small oddsnsodds, he wouldn’t use a barrow of muck in a day doing what he is and wants a mixer, looked at me like I was an alien when I told him to knock it up in a barrow 
Bob
Bob
mtt.tr
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I just use a paddle mixer on small mixes.When I were a lad we never thought twice about knocking up a few tons of concrete by hand, if there was no mixer we just got on with it. Got a brikkie in atm doing variety of very small oddsnsodds, he wouldn’t use a barrow of muck in a day doing what he is and wants a mixer, looked at me like I was an alien when I told him to knock it up in a barrow
Bob
Though I did hand mix a load over the weekend, to much for a paddle not enough for a mixer
OJCar
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Double down and tell him to mix it in a bucket!When I were a lad we never thought twice about knocking up a few tons of concrete by hand, if there was no mixer we just got on with it. Got a brikkie in atm doing variety of very small oddsnsodds, he wouldn’t use a barrow of muck in a day doing what he is and wants a mixer, looked at me like I was an alien when I told him to knock it up in a barrow
Bob
At my first job Thames marine there was a fibreglass store where all the boxes off rolls of mat & cloth were kept, underneath was the cutting room where one guy weilded a stanley knife all day cutting the glass to pattern for all the boats & industrial jobs.
It was not unknown for people to go upstairs & have a kip in the warm inside a fibreglass box.
It was not unknown for people to go upstairs & have a kip in the warm inside a fibreglass box.
pedrobedro
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I've still got the old tin bath behind the shed for mixing purposes. Half a bag of cement and two of sand then get the rake and add water to suit.
arther dailey
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doing light haulage I worked for a firm that employed only women , thhe boss warned me you will get some grief as he put it when you walk through , did nt know what to expect , sure enough half way through with a pallet truck one of the gals lifted her top and shouted ...woohoo what about some of this then ..I promtly shouted back yes Please theres a room over there (toilets) at that she pulled her top down and it all went quiet..never any problems after that..and soon as they got used to me it was happy days .The sewing rooms at car factories were like that, we would normally send the apprentice under the benches to fix the treadle switches, they'd normally be shouts of "cop a load of that sonny" and they'd come out red faced
Rannsachair
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That certainly beats my offshore drilling training as a Derrickman in Montrose around 1991 (I do not like heights)
redlig
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As a young sales rep for a linen hire co. I got a good order to supply workwear for Johnson & Johnson in Slough. Really pleased with myself until I realised that I had to measure up all the staff,mainly ladies for their kit. I bottled out and gave the tape measure to the line manager and said "just call out the sizes".
As an apprentice I was sent down to the coil winding dept to get some HF coils wound .While waiting I noticed a large cullender on the wall with girls names written in the daily squares. On asking I was told that it was unwise to try to date any girl whose name was on that days date if my intentions were not "honorable". Evidently it had been discovered that the change in the sweat from the girls fingers altered the values of the hf coils and ruined them.
addjunkie
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My feet too have graced that and a couple of other Monkey Boards. Did you enjoy the view!
Almost like a dog with . . . a short memory?A mate of mine left school and went to work as a mechanic in a Laura Ashley sewing factory back in the very early 80’s.
He was like candy to them…poor bloke
(see post #1,245
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daleyd
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I don’t really recall what I did yesterday so remembering 2 years ago is asking for a miracle!
And yes I’m still jealous of him…
Parm
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I’ve slept on the cupola roof of a well know insulation manufacturer
arther dailey
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she never took me up on it , as a lad I was quite miffed
