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Previously on "Where were you 20 years ago?"

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  • BA to the Stars
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    Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
    Lindsay Parker's bedroom whilst her parents were out after school.
    Daddy, where have you been

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  • Scrag Meister
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    Originally posted by Alf W View Post
    Working for a bank.

    21 years ago I had just spent the day throwing stones at the police.

    I'm not sure of the exact point at which I started selling out.
    Probably when you realised that there wasn't much money to be made throwing stones at the police.

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  • realityhack
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    Where were you 20 years ago?

    Emma's bedroom finding inventive uses for a flute. Also: properly walloping Art and Design GCSEs, and neglecting Spanish & History.

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  • minestrone
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    Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
    Steam tables LOL....the good old days.

    When were you there and which building/section ?

    I was there '79 (**** me, that was a while ago) until '94, split between Engines Sect and bloody Flow Measurement.
    Never manged to get in the place, always had a copy of the steam tables doing my degree in Mech Eng, as they costed 10 quid they were all photo copied and ended up with a copy featuring a drawing of a fat naked traffic warden with a hairy...

    Worked up the hill in a place that advertises on the TV all the time, think of trains and sheep.

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  • TestMangler
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    Originally posted by minestrone View Post
    The NEL, steam tables doing my degree and a 6 month gig in the building next door where we decamped to the crooked lum each lunch time for 3 pints.

    Steam tables LOL....the good old days.

    When were you there and which building/section ?

    I was there '79 (**** me, that was a while ago) until '94, split between Engines Sect and bloody Flow Measurement.

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  • gingerjedi
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    Making Puma tail rotor spars on my Beaver.
    Last edited by gingerjedi; 4 April 2011, 21:34.

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  • minestrone
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    Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
    Working in the National Engineering Laboratory and hating everything and everyone. Permenant job and permenantly skint.....

    Little did I know that redundancy was on the way (YAY !) to change my life completely. Contracting, importing, the lottery, STD's were all on there way
    The NEL, steam tables doing my degree and a 6 month gig in the building next door where we decamped to the crooked lum each lunch time for 3 pints.

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  • TestMangler
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    Working in the National Engineering Laboratory and hating everything and everyone. Permenant job and permenantly skint.....

    Little did I know that redundancy was on the way (YAY !) to change my life completely. Contracting, importing, the lottery, STD's were all on there way

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  • Cliphead
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    Originally posted by NorthWestPerm2Contr View Post
    Primary School..........
    Originally posted by minestrone View Post
    18 and full of stupidity

    I'm now 38 and full of stupidity.
    Originally posted by norrahe View Post
    Year before my leaving certificate............
    Now I'm feeling old

    Cue MF...

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  • norrahe
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    Year before my leaving certificate............

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  • minestrone
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    18 and full of stupidity

    I'm now 38 and full of stupidity.

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  • Cliphead
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    Doing pretty much the same as I'm doing now but for a better daily rate.

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  • NorthWestPerm2Contr
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    Primary School..........

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  • TykeMerc
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    Originally posted by wobbegong View Post
    Living in Reading, wondering if I'd ever get a whole nights sleep again, after the birth of my daughter two weeks earlier.
    Similar, but Halifax, son and 2.5 months earlier.

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  • wobbegong
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    Living in Reading, wondering if I'd ever get a whole nights sleep again, after the birth of my daughter two weeks earlier.

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