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Previously on "Odd jobs from yesteryear"

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  • Cyberman
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    Originally posted by KentPhilip View Post
    Nice

    What did it taste of?

    Human meat tastes like pork from what I have heard.

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  • KentPhilip
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    Originally posted by Cyberman View Post
    A guy that I used to work with told me how during the Blitz in the war it was his job to go around collecting pieces of meat from bombsites where bodies had been blown apart, burned etc, and he had to collect a certain weight to enable a funeral.... just a pound was required from what I remember.
    Nice

    What did it taste of?

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  • Cyberman
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    A guy that I used to work with told me how during the Blitz in the war it was his job to go around collecting pieces of meat from bombsites where bodies had been blown apart, burned etc, and he had to collect a certain weight to enable a funeral.... just a pound was required from what I remember.

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  • Bear
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    Originally posted by DaveB View Post
    Others included selling discount cards for restaurents door to door...
    I've done that!

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  • rootsnall
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    Originally posted by DaveB View Post
    I suspect I graduated at about the same time, late 80's. Jobs that kept me afloat included working in a crab processing plant in Cornwall. Worst job I've ever done and I quit after a week.

    Others included selling discount cards for restaurents door to door, security guard and motorcycle courier.
    Late 80s here and I did my share of tulip jobs that I still use as motivation when I'm bored tulipless. 12hr night shifts in a bakery and working in an ice cream factory on a production line are the ones I remember with horror.

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  • DaveB
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    Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
    Seeing as I graduated in a recession, I had to take any job available. I spent two years working as a plastic welder in sewage installations, fitting plastic protective covers to the concrete. In a sewer, ye olde shytte sticks to the concrete, and in dry weather, if the concrete dries out, ye shytte falls off and take great chunks of concrete with it. The plastic linings were intended to prevent the adhesion of turd to the cloacular walls.

    It paid very well for a shytte job, and I learnt a valuable lesson; if you want good money, do a job that nobody wants to do; so I became a tester.
    I suspect I graduated at about the same time, late 80's. Jobs that kept me afloat included working in a crab processing plant in Cornwall. Worst job I've ever done and I quit after a week.

    Others included selling discount cards for restaurents door to door, security guard and motorcycle courier.

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  • Sysman
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    Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
    Worth considering in the current economic climate.

    http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22277/42618

    Note the 5th ad down. Is that how AtW is making his millions?
    Yes sir, out of a real squirrel

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  • zara_backdog
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    Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post
    I learnt to mount birds a long time ago
    I was a chicken plucker once

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  • DimPrawn
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    http://thebothanspy.com/bothanusers/....Odd%20Job.jpg

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  • Mich the Tester
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    Seeing as I graduated in a recession, I had to take any job available. I spent two years working as a plastic welder in sewage installations, fitting plastic protective covers to the concrete. In a sewer, ye olde shytte sticks to the concrete, and in dry weather, if the concrete dries out, ye shytte falls off and take great chunks of concrete with it. The plastic linings were intended to prevent the adhesion of turd to the cloacular walls.

    It paid very well for a shytte job, and I learnt a valuable lesson; if you want good money, do a job that nobody wants to do; so I became a tester.

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  • Bagpuss
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    I learnt to mount birds a long time ago

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  • bogeyman
    started a topic Odd jobs from yesteryear

    Odd jobs from yesteryear

    Worth considering in the current economic climate.

    http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22277/42618

    Note the 5th ad down. Is that how AtW is making his millions?

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