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Previously on "Occupations you don't see so much of, any more"

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  • expat
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    TV repair man
    ...
    Originally posted by zeitghost
    I did that in another life...

    Never had outrageous rumpy pumpy with nubile housewives though
    Feel all the EF80s, replace the one that stayed cold. Then plenty of time left for tea & crumpet.

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  • RichardCranium
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    Until they bang him up for being a War Criminal...
    Tony Blair is Captain Kirk?

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  • RichardCranium
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    Not many thatchers left these days. That's a profitable job...
    Blair earns more.

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  • Bagpuss
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    Mobile car tuning

    Those guys still exist , but more toward dignostics these days, rather than tinkering with the carb and points on a Cortina

    http://www.cartune.co.uk/

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  • Bagpuss
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    HIP assessor

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  • d000hg
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    Not many thatchers left these days. That's a profitable job...

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  • SuperZ
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    'Cow banger', that sounds a little dodgy

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  • EternalOptimist
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    The Bannerman

    from Sunday Parades. I used to love them parades





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  • alreadypacked
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    We could do with one of them on this site

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    I did that in another life...

    Never had outrageous rumpy pumpy with nubile housewives though
    Is it cos you is ugly?

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  • DimPrawn
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    TV repair man
    Mobile car tuning
    Stone cladding installers

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    Those blokes who used to go around sharpening things were really useful.

    We could do with one of them on this site

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  • swamp
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    Those blokes who used to go around sharpening things were really useful.
    They'd just have a queue of chavs waiting to sharpen their 'blades'.

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  • xoggoth
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    Those blokes who used to go around sharpening things were really useful.

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  • MrMark
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    A long time since I've seen a "one-man band".

    Or did they all become DBAs?

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