Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 26)

[Mr Roper]

DickyC said:

Mr Roper said:

pad58 said:

The sun has just come out , I feel the need to be productive.

Wash my car.

Yeah, I get the feeling he meant in the procreative sense.


Call Mrs pad to give her time to prepare.

That should leave plenty of time to clean, clay and wax my car.

[DickyC]

Studio117 said:

my liver hurts

Have you spoken to Chunky? The answer lies in the soil Diet Irn Bru.

[Pixel Pusher]

Fishtigua said:

Add your own tuna joke here.

Petuna Clark.

[Chunkymonkey71]

DickyC said:

Studio117 said:

my liver hurts

Have you spoken to Chunky? The answer lies in the soil Diet Irn Bru.

I'm working on that!

Did you know it's not even called diet Irn bru any more?

They call it 'sugar free' now.

'Diet' sounded too poofy for them, I think.

[4941cc]

Also irrelevant, given that it's only for washing down deep fried kebabs...

[pad58]

Mr Roper said:

DickyC said:

Mr Roper said:

pad58 said:

The sun has just come out , I feel the need to be productive.

Wash my car.

Yeah, I get the feeling he meant in the procreative sense.


Call Mrs pad to give her time to prepare.

That should leave plenty of time to clean, clay and wax my car.

And you know it Ro'ster.

[Chunkymonkey71]

4941cc said:

Also irrelevant, given that it's only for washing down deep fried kebabs...

Never seen a deep fried kebab.

I'm taking that to Dragon's Den!

[Leafspring]

Evening folks

It's been a good day at work today, Turns out I knew how to drive a JCB Teletruck forklift without being taught... don't know how but I instinctively knew which lever did what. So work just got easier now I don't have to fetch someone to drive the forks

Also because I voluntarily cancelled my week off to cover for an injured colleague they gave me Monday off with full pay

[FailHere]

Today in work we had emergency birthday cake, which was nice as it wasn't anyone's birthday in work, or an emergency. It was a cake that a colleague had bought for her son's party on Saturday, as a standby cake, in case the specially ordered one didn't turn up in time, but it did. I am just disappointed that we did not get the emergency balloons, emergency jelly or emergency cocktail sausages on sticks as well, nor did we get emergency party bags.

[Gorilla Boy]

Feeling nervous for probably the first time in my life at the prospect of my final engineering OOW orals exam with the MCA next week.

Hate this permanent butterflies feeling!

[DickyC]

FailHere said:

Today in work we had emergency birthday cake, which was nice as it wasn't anyone's birthday in work, or an emergency. It was a cake that a colleague had bought for her son's party on Saturday, as a standby cake, in case the specially ordered one didn't turn up in time, but it did. I am just disappointed that we did not get the emergency balloons, emergency jelly or emergency cocktail sausages on sticks as well, nor did we get emergency party bags.

Note to self: Party Bags for TT5*



*TT5 - five weeks tomorrow. Don't forget.

[DickyC]

Gorilla Boy said:

Feeling nervous for probably the first time in my life at the prospect of my final engineering OOW orals exam with the MCA next week.

Hate this permanent butterflies feeling!

Do you feel more like Geoffrey Palmer of Wendy Craig?

[Justayellowbadge]

FailHere said:

Today in work we had emergency birthday cake, which was nice as it wasn't anyone's birthday in work, or an emergency. It was a cake that a colleague had bought for her son's party on Saturday, as a standby cake, in case the specially ordered one didn't turn up in time, but it did. I am just disappointed that we did not get the emergency balloons, emergency jelly or emergency cocktail sausages on sticks as well, nor did we get emergency party bags.

That's almost as delightfully middle class as maintaining understudy olives just in case Abel & Cole are late.

[Gorilla Boy]

DickyC said:

Gorilla Boy said:

Feeling nervous for probably the first time in my life at the prospect of my final engineering OOW orals exam with the MCA next week.

Hate this permanent butterflies feeling!

Do you feel more like Geoffrey Palmer of Wendy Craig?

Had to google them both to get the reference!

I feel like a guy who is confident of a pass but still has that niggling thought of "what if".

[DickyC]

Gorilla Boy said:

I feel like a guy who is confident of a pass but still has that niggling thought of "what if".

I worked with a guy who dropped out of an obscure socio politico history something or other degree course, wrote "educated to degree level" on his CV and burst into engineering as a cad drafter. We started at Babcock's on the same morning, met our new boss and as he guided us towards a room for our induction he asked my fellow inductee what his engineering experience was. "I did a lot of Lego when I was growing up." The guv'nor thought it was the funniest joke he'd heard for a week and matey got away with it.

You've done real enjermaneering stuff. You're going to be fine.

[TheChampers]

ali_kat said:

Mr Roper said:

NOT THE BLACK SPOT!!???

I really hope I'm not the only one (aside from DC) that got this!


Did the Blind man tune the piano? We always got excited at School when the Piano was being tuned as we got to play with his Dog

Yay! I got something Not one of JAYB's (rarely get those )

When I was young we had a piano and the tuner would come every so often, he was blind, and we used to sit and watch him work on the piano with his tuning key and tuning fork with a lovely dog curled round his feet; no interest in us, just devoted to its master. He was a lovely man, Mr Parry.

On the topic of Treasure Island, I have always considered Treasure Planet to be somewhat neglected; a very good re-telling imho, and this is a good choon

http://youtu.be/Ex9AWegauJM

[Gorilla Boy]

DickyC said:

Gorilla Boy said:

I feel like a guy who is confident of a pass but still has that niggling thought of "what if".

I worked with a guy who dropped out of an obscure socio politico history something or other degree course, wrote "educated to degree level" on his CV and burst into engineering as a cad drafter. We started at Babcock's on the same morning, met our new boss and as he guided us towards a room for our induction he asked my fellow inductee what his engineering experience was. "I did a lot of Lego when I was growing up." The guv'nor thought it was the funniest joke he'd heard for a week and matey got away with it.

You've done real enjermaneering stuff. You're going to be fine.

Thanks Dicky, most people have said the same (from my class and lecturers) but i suppose its only human nature to second guess yourself.

I used to work with a coded welder who was trained at babcocks funnily enough

[SpeedMattersNot]

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had finished my degree, achieved a 2:1 and got accepted onto my Masters...and today...

...I managed to get a bursary of £10,000 for it!!!

Elated, is probably the best word I can find. I am speechless, to be fair. I've never received anything like this...whilst money will still be tight, but wow. Literally feels like I've won the lottery.

GoodwoodFOS tomorrow too...can't wait. Not going to take the camera this year, just want to enjoy it.

[Justayellowbadge]

SpeedMattersNot said:

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had finished my degree, achieved a 2:1 and got accepted onto my Masters...and today...

...I managed to get a bursary of £10,000 for it!!!

Elated, is probably the best word I can find. I am speechless, to be fair. I've never received anything like this...whilst money will still be tight, but wow. Literally feels like I've won the lottery.

GoodwoodFOS tomorrow too...can't wait. Not going to take the camera this year, just want to enjoy it.

Congrats, good on you.

[TheChampers]

Justayellowbadge said:

SpeedMattersNot said:

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had finished my degree, achieved a 2:1 and got accepted onto my Masters...and today...

...I managed to get a bursary of £10,000 for it!!!

Elated, is probably the best word I can find. I am speechless, to be fair. I've never received anything like this...whilst money will still be tight, but wow. Literally feels like I've won the lottery.

GoodwoodFOS tomorrow too...can't wait. Not going to take the camera this year, just want to enjoy it.

Congrats, good on you.

Agreed Well done Keep going