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  • nomadd
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    Originally posted by clearedforlanding View Post
    ..Caribbean performing offshore signal tests..
    Yeah, what could possibly go wrong: http://www.caribbeannewsdigital.com/...rricaneida.jpg

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  • stek
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    Originally posted by clearedforlanding View Post
    lol

    Just remembered there is that huge technology park Sophia Antipolis just outside of Antibes. Everyone is there, surely you could wangle a gig there?



    Because we always walk into every gig with rose tinted glasses thinking it will be marvellous?
    It was the Sophia Antipolis thing - i'd no idea about it. She's happy, French bloked up, permie now. I had a few sniffs after the event in same area, Aix-en-Provence, ironic cos I'm an AIX guy, not Sophia Antipolis though, money was pathetic though.

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  • clearedforlanding
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    lol

    Just remembered there is that huge technology park Sophia Antipolis just outside of Antibes. Everyone is there, surely you could wangle a gig there?

    Originally posted by stek View Post
    Why do good gig threads always turn into crap gig threads?
    Because we always walk into every gig with rose tinted glasses thinking it will be marvellous?
    Last edited by clearedforlanding; 5 February 2016, 22:09.

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  • stek
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    Why do good gig threads always turn into crap gig threads?

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  • stek
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    Originally posted by clearedforlanding View Post
    I guess not, but i can afford more than one Coffee there!
    When I was there i was actually staying in Aldershot, that 23 months, 3 weeks I'll never get back.

    What a hellhole, I honestly don't know why I stuck it out....

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  • clearedforlanding
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    Originally posted by stek View Post
    So Fannyboro is better? lol!!

    I guess not, but i can afford more than one Coffee there!

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  • stek
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    Originally posted by clearedforlanding View Post
    I ******* hate Antibes. My boat wouldn't even qualify as a tender to a tender. Watching the girls in skorts, doing the jetty walk in the morning to try and get gigs on the Mega Yachts is fun. Hanging out with them at the 'Old Sailor' when they are completely pissed is also fun - but besides that I will pass.

    Biot is nice and just up the road.
    So Fannyboro is better? lol!!

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  • clearedforlanding
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    Originally posted by stek View Post
    Last gig but one - always seemed to end up at same gig with this lass in the past, lovely girl, three years ago I got a two year one in fecking Farnborough, shiithole of Hants, she got similar in Antibes, still there, loving it...

    Works both ways!!
    I ******* hate Antibes. My boat wouldn't even qualify as a tender to a tender. Watching the girls in skorts, doing the jetty walk in the morning to try and get gigs on the Mega Yachts is fun. Hanging out with them at the 'Old Sailor' when they are completely pissed is also fun - but besides that I will pass.

    Biot is nice and just up the road.

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  • stek
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    Originally posted by clearedforlanding View Post
    I did a bit of work with McLaren in Woking when HP Openview was my thing. Used it for telemetrics. Went to a couple of test tracks & Silverstone, so I got a glimpse of what your mate had access to. lucky bastard.
    Last gig but one - always seemed to end up at same gig with this lass in the past, lovely girl, three years ago I got a two year one in fecking Farnborough, shiithole of Hants, she got similar in Antibes, still there, loving it...

    Works both ways!!

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  • clearedforlanding
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    Originally posted by stek View Post
    Had an AIX guru mate worked for Jordan F1 when they were good, all over the World, fit birds, top drivers milling round, celebs everywhere, Lord knows what AIX could do in that environment but still.

    tulip money though.....
    I did a bit of work with McLaren in Woking when HP Openview was my thing. Used it for telemetrics. Went to a couple of test tracks & Silverstone, so I got a glimpse of what your mate had access to. lucky bastard.

    *thinking about it AIX is was supported by Open View so your buddy may have been involved in taking advantage of AIX's FS to store vast amounts of data.
    Last edited by clearedforlanding; 5 February 2016, 21:48.

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  • stek
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    Originally posted by clearedforlanding View Post
    My former colleague just called me to announce he had landed the ultimate cushty gig.

    Sail around the Caribbean performing offshore signal tests to verify roaming partners are meeting their SLAs.

    FFS.

    Please help me get over this with examples of better gigs.
    Had an AIX guru mate worked for Jordan F1 when they were good, all over the World, fit birds, top drivers milling round, celebs everywhere, Lord knows what AIX could do in that environment but still.

    tulip money though.....

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  • northernladuk
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    Originally posted by clearedforlanding View Post
    Not at all. Your gig made me realise his gig would not be so cushty to me.

    Having done a gig in Aruba when I was single in my 20s, the single me of my memories does envy him a bit.
    Ahh never said don't get envious at exotic gigs

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  • clearedforlanding
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    Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
    So this question is just for the 30s & singles crowd then?
    Not at all. Your gig made me realise his gig would not be so cushty to me.

    Having done a gig in Aruba when I was single in my 20s, the single me of my memories does envy him a bit.

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View Post
    Is your friend MarillionFan, by any chance?
    Sitting in the Premier Executive Business Lounge at LVB waiting for a flight to HDY on an EA80 in Special Needs Class

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  • northernladuk
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    Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View Post
    I said single not undateable.

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