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Previously on "Anyone else working this weekend?"

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  • HairyArsedBloke
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    Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View Post
    Aye.

    Today
    I'm going to have my businessman undies on.
    Some house work to do too.

    Sunday
    DB maint and reference data updates.
    Maybe a bit of Excel.
    Weekly bath.
    Then pub - I've been avoiding going out. It's been nearly three weeks since I've been in a pub. The isolation of working at home is not good for people. It may be seriously damaging me.
    I feel a lot better for that.

    One pint of Fuller's London Pride - barely drinkable.
    Two pints of Green King's IPA - Excellent form, best beer I've had in a long time.
    One pint of Young's Bitter - OK, but after the IPA it was a bit of a disappointment.

    Never really spoke to anyone.

    For those that desire working from home - DON'T. It's not good for you.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by Paddy View Post
    No graffiti or badly behaved passengers.
    That's because they are too scared of the police!!!!

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  • Paddy
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Queueing to get into a bus was sure a novelty for me - at first I thought: BINGO those old ladies got no chance to get into the bus first before me!

    it's not like you are queing to swap your bread stamps for actual bread
    I found bus etiquette really good in Siberia and even Moscow. You could pass the your fare to the line of passengers to the driver. No bags on seats. Men always help ladies off buses. No graffiti or badly behaved passengers.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    Why not just send your driver?
    Golf was one of the things we did not have in USSR

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Try queueing in a local post office during lunch time - I've seen shorter queues in USSR when humanitarian aid was delivered!
    Why not just send your driver?

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    Sounds like fun. I love some of those quaint old customs.

    Try queueing in a local post office during lunch time - I've seen shorter queues in USSR when humanitarian aid was delivered!

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Queueing to get into a bus was sure a novelty for me - at first I thought: BINGO those old ladies got no chance to get into the bus first before me!

    it's not like you are queing to swap your bread stamps for actual bread
    Sounds like fun. I love some of those quaint old customs.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    We still have queues here AtW. People get very particular about adherence to protocol. I hope you have not been flouting convention in this area??
    Queueing to get into a bus was sure a novelty for me - at first I thought: BINGO those old ladies got no chance to get into the bus first before me!

    it's not like you are queing to swap your bread stamps for actual bread

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post

    Queues was one thing I won't have to hear or see ever again when I escaped to UK from the Soviet Russia
    We still have queues here AtW. People get very particular about adherence to protocol. I hope you have not been flouting convention in this area??

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    That is because, when you go through Soviet schooling, there are so many more things that you've never heard of.
    Exactamundo.

    Queues was one thing I won't have to hear or see ever again when I escaped to UK from the Soviet Russia

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    I can see clearly now (not that I needed this confirmation) that your schooling was very poor - had you been through Soviet school you'd know how to give very good asnwer about things you've never heard of
    That is because, when you go through Soviet schooling, there are so many more things that you've never heard of.

    HTH

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    If I knew what one of those was I could answer you.
    I can see clearly now (not that I needed this confirmation) that your schooling was very poor - had you been through Soviet school you'd know how to give very good asnwer about things you've never heard of

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Are you still stuck in your bottom of the pit mobile antenna site test monkey?
    If I knew what one of those was I could answer you. I would explain some of what I do, but as you are so glacially slow on the uptake on most things, I shan't waste my time as it would go so far over your head it would leave a vapour trail.


    Originally posted by AtW View Post

    Here some peanuts for you to supplement your ultra-cheap Tesco Lager
    Keep your peanuts. You might need them as a deposit on your next bedsit. I'll stick to my luvverly Banana Bread Beer!
    Mmmmmmmm.....shlurp!!

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    Had to drive down to Truro to babysit some antenna riggers as they did some replacement work. Then make a few test calls and kerching!!
    Are you still stuck in your bottom of the pit mobile antenna site test monkey?

    Here some peanuts for you to supplement your ultra-cheap Tesco Lager

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Working?
    Kind of!!
    Had to drive down to Truro to babysit some antenna riggers as they did some replacement work. Then make a few test calls and kerching!!
    Easy money!!
    Back home and drinking my first beer now!

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