Forum: Mess Deck
26th July 2021, 14:47
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Replies: 3
Views: 3,985
NEARLY caught out!
I was contacted by an 'Eastern' chap who said my computer had been cloned and £1300.00 had been taken from my Account.
I asked where he was calling from and he said, "California".
Strangely there...
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
4th July 2021, 11:12
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Replies: 32
Views: 13,630
Now THAT is a bike!
My eldest daughter had a boyfriend with a GSXR. He could ride it too!
My daughter and boyfriend, (John), lived with me for a while.
We three would go for a 'blast-out' on the twisty...
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
3rd July 2021, 09:24
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Replies: 32
Views: 13,630
Flying cars.
I see the 'flying car' has reappeared with the forecast, 'This is the future!', accompanied by a description of hundreds of these vehicles criss-crossing towns/cities etc. etc.
Every one of the...
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
10th June 2021, 14:56
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Replies: 1,844
Views: 858,063
Freon, FREON!----
----get some in, ES, and get a good whiff of NH3-----that'll clear your tubes! Even the smallest leak! Too small, even, to be detected by a 'hiss'-----now---where's me litmus paper? Phil (ex-Sabroe...
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
1st June 2021, 18:07
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Replies: 1
Views: 3,488
On a more sombre note.
No doubt many ex-passie boat members will have attended many burials at sea but I only witnessed one in my years at sea.
Our Old Man, Walter Couling was on his final trip. He had his wife with...
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
25th May 2021, 17:05
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Replies: 26
Views: 12,869
Had another!
Phone rang and, as it was an 020 number, I answered it.
An 'Oriental' female told me my computer had been badly 'invaded' but, as a Microsoft subsidiary, she would fix it.
All I had to do was...
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
22nd May 2021, 09:18
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Replies: 26
Views: 12,869
I had a message t'other day----
----apparently from Amazon telling me £900 would be taken from my bank account.
All I had to do to stop this 'with-drawel' was key-in a Code the voice gave me.
Unfortunately I couldn't tell the...
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Forum: Brocklebank Line
16th May 2021, 16:01
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Replies: 15
Views: 14,568
Agree Roger.
Without wishing to sound snobbish the food on all Brock ships, I was on, were of a much higher class than 'burgers'.
In fact I think MY first taste of a 'burger', (and hot-dogs!), would be on my...
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Forum: Brocklebank Line
14th May 2021, 16:50
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Replies: 15
Views: 14,568
Eh-up Hugh!
I fed 'Malabar' into my 'Search' and it came-up with a 'Burger-joint', in a town (in the States), called Malabar. So I wonder if that's where your burger comes from and not the Brock ship. Cheers,...
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Forum: Brocklebank Line
12th May 2021, 10:27
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Replies: 6
Views: 6,516
Thanks Harry.
. Doubtless India, like most Nations, have 'gone container' and they have had to build new 'Container Ports' close to the river mouths as there is no areas suitable for the thousands of boxes ready...
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Forum: Brocklebank Line
11th May 2021, 15:16
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Replies: 6
Views: 6,516
Ha! Deathly 'ush!
Why the 'deathly 'ush'?
I imagine it's probably because Members memsahibs have been asking, "Who was Isiah and what does 'mem's' mean?".
Or am I the only one who went down Free School...
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Forum: Brocklebank Line
9th May 2021, 09:24
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Replies: 6
Views: 6,516
Indian woes!
Eh-up chaps!
Bloody good job we don't have to go to Cal., any more, what with Covid ravaging the Country.
Doubtless Kidderpore is jammed with ships going nowhere!
Isiah's? Shut-down I...
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Forum: Brocklebank Line
6th May 2021, 16:28
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Replies: 10
Views: 6,220
Brilliant!
It's great to know there are a load of us still around!
Personally I'm about as much use as the proverbial a**e-pocket-in-a-vest these days, what with my crook knees, so my bike-riding is a...
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Forum: Brocklebank Line
4th May 2021, 16:30
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Replies: 10
Views: 6,220
All alone am I----
----or am I?
Surely there's more than ex-Brocklebanker me on this Site?
I've logged-on several times hoping to see someone from Brock's.
Let's se! Phil ex-Teen Sahib.
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Forum: Mess Deck
9th September 2020, 10:15
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Replies: 7
Views: 7,946
I've just had a look----
----on a Site called Gourock History and there was a Cloch Hotel there so looks like I was mistaken with its location!:very_sad: Phil
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Forum: Mess Deck
3rd September 2020, 08:39
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Replies: 7
Views: 7,946
Anyone remember?
We were dry-docked in Glasgow and one of the other engineers, being a local-yokel, suggested we go out to Greenock to the Clock Hotel, "Where you will have quite a surprise!". He would say no more so...
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Forum: Vintage Vehicles, classic cars etc...
26th August 2020, 14:18
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Replies: 188
Views: 160,526
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Forum: Life After The Sea
20th August 2020, 12:58
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Replies: 50
Views: 69,852
Seeing all the----
----'Posts' about various diesels and the 'horror's' of working on them:cloud: am I glad that 'Brock's'/ ACL were steam outfits! Not good for the 'Owners' as they were quite 'thirsty' but relatively...
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Forum: Life After The Sea
18th August 2020, 10:39
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Replies: 50
Views: 69,852
I was with----
----'Brock's' from 1960 to 1974 coming ashore as I had got as far as I could without getting a 'Ticket'. My reasons for not getting Ticket's was quite simple! Math's were/are a complete mystery to me...
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Forum: Say Hello
17th August 2020, 13:11
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Replies: 16
Views: 8,846
B****r----
----spotted again and, this time, David, I wanted to be so right! Mind you Ron spotted that wonderful epithet 'privileges of all Yorkshireman' which I did think gave me a certain something but...
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Forum: Say Hello
17th August 2020, 09:50
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Replies: 16
Views: 8,846
Tried that----
----Malcolm, but it doesn't work, (could be me, of course----'thick as pig-s**t' as the saying goes!).
When I 'click' onto the icon I get a circle with a bar across it which, I presume, means I'm...
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Forum: Say Hello
16th August 2020, 17:32
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Replies: 16
Views: 8,846
Thank you----
----all for your warm welcome and John, (Post 3), ladder safely ensconced in garage!
Is there a way I can get a quick 'Entry' to the Site, as I could with SN? You know one of them there...
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Forum: Say Hello
15th August 2020, 15:59
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Replies: 16
Views: 8,846
Phillthechill
Hello all! I'm ex-Brock's and, as the saying goes, as old as Methusala, (whoever he was!), and hope to 'meet' new and old friends. Cheers!:pint: Phill
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