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Previously on "Have you got previous experience in hostile/arduous locations?"

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  • Pogle
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    Swindon

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  • MyUserName
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    Originally posted by tractor View Post
    I hope you used your loaf and rose above it. igmc

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  • Sysman
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    Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
    Halalifax is a new one for me
    New one on me too, but it's good.

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  • tractor
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    Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
    In a previous contract, we swapped the G and H keys on a Unix techie's PC.

    He spotted it quite quickly, but left the rest of us thinking he hadn't and got on the phone to the help desk. When the H/D monkey asked the nature of his fault (bearing in mind we were all waiting with baited breath for him to realise), he told the helpdesk dude that 'He couldn't lohon'
    In the post utility de-regulation, ICL everywhere days, we had a bob's uncle who used to use the wired mouse by pulling/pushing the mouse by its' tail and pressing the upside down buttons with his other hand

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  • TestMangler
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    Originally posted by tractor View Post
    lmao yeah who swapped my keys.....
    In a previous contract, we swapped the G and H keys on a Unix techie's PC.

    He spotted it quite quickly, but left the rest of us thinking he hadn't and got on the phone to the help desk. When the H/D monkey asked the nature of his fault (bearing in mind we were all waiting with baited breath for him to realise), he told the helpdesk dude that 'He couldn't lohon'

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  • tractor
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    Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
    FAIL......LOL
    I'm sure you've edited it by now though......
    lmao yeah who swapped my keys.....

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  • TestMangler
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    Originally posted by tractor View Post
    I hope you used your load and rose above it :igmc
    FAIL......LOL
    I'm sure you've edited it by now though......

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    that's your usual room?

    So NLYUK and I need to bring the pineapple?
    No need. Already got it. Bring the cheese and cocktail sticks.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    I have just submitted SASGuru's CV
    He is a conscientious objector (a coward variety).

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  • tractor
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    Originally posted by MyUserName View Post
    I was born and bread in an ex mining town in the Welsh valleys. It was wonderful, I moved to Portsmouth and used to go clubbing near the docks. I burst out laughing when people told me it was a rough area. I was only beaten unconscious once over the entire year (and technically that was my fault as I punched a bouncer when he was trying to throw me out)!

    I have never bothered with Afganistan - too quiet and not enough sheep.
    I hope you used your loaf and rose above it. igmc

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  • SimonMac
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    Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
    When i left a previous contract there I got gifted a T-Shirt saying "Welcome to West Yorkshire, would you like your Udders Feeled ?"

    Oh how we laughed

    Udderfeeled, Mansfeeled and 'Oldem

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
    Room 217.
    that's your usual room?

    So NLYUK and I need to bring the pineapple?

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  • DodgyAgent
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    I have just submitted SASGuru's CV

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  • TestMangler
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    Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
    Halalifax is a new one for me
    When i left a previous contract there I got gifted a T-Shirt saying "Welcome to West Yorkshire, would you like your Udders Feeled ?"

    Oh how we laughed

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    purple heart in post!
    Room 217.

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