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Malcolm G 13th January 2024 11:56

An old colleague went on an anger management course. They suggested that he wrote letters expressing his feelings to the people that he hated, and then burn them.
That was some time ago and he’s asking whether he should shred the letters now.
What do think?

YM-Mundrabilla 13th January 2024 21:57

Many years ago in one of my former lives I was responsible for collating the pile of data for my railway's entry in 'Janes World Railways'. For whatever reason I missed the deadline and my Head of Branch (HoB) got a 'reminder' from Janes.

I was duly called to front said HoB (coat and tie bit like a kid in front of the headmaster in those days) where I was instructed to write myself a 'bung' (admonitory letter) warning myself to take more care and not to reoffend in the future.

Duly wrote myself said warning and fronted HoB for him to sign it which he did and handed it to me, saying:

'Now tear the bloody thing up and get back to work............' :o

Lesson learned.;)

Engine Serang 13th January 2024 22:23

I thought you were a Fireman and next thing you're writing letters. Where did it all go wrong?

Dartskipper 13th January 2024 23:37

I never worked out why a fireman on the railway or at sea kept a fire going, but a fireman on the land put fires out.

rustytrawler 14th January 2024 08:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Engine Serang (Post 52688)
I thought you were a Fireman and next thing you're writing letters. Where did it all go wrong?

Eyup ES, you and your pal figment need to have a word with yourselves.

YM-Mundrabilla 14th January 2024 08:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Engine Serang (Post 52688)
I thought you were a Fireman and next thing you're writing letters. Where did it all go wrong?

Only aboard the GD Comrade...................;)

On land, in the railways tried all manner of things. Privatisation and redundancies forced many a twist and turn in one's career.:curtain_call:

Administration :quill:, marketing, turned into wagon fleet operations and maintenance over a span of 40 years and three redundancies. Each redundancy and forced change of direction turned out to be a blessing in disguise.:)

Engine Serang 14th January 2024 14:50

Fair play YM, you have to be flexible nowadays to keep a roof over your head and the wolf from the door.

Malcolm G 14th January 2024 17:36

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Anyone can work from home..

Malcolm G 21st January 2024 16:29

If you visit the Canary Islands...


You wont find any canaries.



Likewise,




If you visit the Virgin Islands,







No canaries there either. :big_tongue:

John Rogers 21st January 2024 17:06

How about Brest.?

Engine Serang 22nd January 2024 07:03

I've carried a cargo of nipples to Brest.

Dartskipper 22nd January 2024 13:51

There is a place in Pennsylvania named Bird in Hand, and another named Virginville.

Never saw any there though.

OLDGIT77 22nd January 2024 14:13

lots of places with funny names .
CROTCH CRESENT
PENIS ROAD
SLAG LANE
CUMMING STREET . LONDON N1

As a articulated lorry driver at one time use to get
a lot of funny addresses on my delivery ticket .
Could not beleive half of them and how the local councils
allowed them .

Tony

Dartskipper 25th January 2024 20:43

Further to my earlier post, here are some more names of settlements near the two previously mentioned in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They are all in or near an area populated mostly by Amish families.

Paradise.
Intercourse.
Bird In Hand.
Bareville.
Blue Ball.

Malcolm G 26th January 2024 14:21

A local fast food shop listed liver and onions on their flyer.
I ordered some and they bought just the onions because it was de-livered.

Engine Serang 27th January 2024 09:37

Liver, onions, bacon, creamy mash and gravy,(yes gravy, not sauce or jus) is a meal for a dinner plate rather than wrapped in a Daily Express.

Dartskipper 27th January 2024 12:42

Two chaps left a traditional East End of London Fish and Chipshop. One said,"My fish tastes funny." The other replied, "No wonder, it's wrapped in the cartoon page."

Boom-boom.

Varley 27th January 2024 13:28

Then what use is there for the Daily Express, E-S? Think of the dispossessed of Fleet Street before taking from them what little they have.

Malcolm G 11th February 2024 15:45

A horse walks into a bar and orders a pint.
The barman says “You come in her quite often, do you think that you might be an alcoholic?”
The horse says “I don’t think I am….” And promptly vanishes.

The joke is about Descartes’ famous philosophical idea “I think therefore I am.”
But if I had explained that before the rest of the joke it would have been putting Descartes before the horse.

OLDGIT77 11th February 2024 19:55

A WORD TO THE WISE :-
Dont play leapfrog with a unicorn .

Tony

Engine Serang 13th February 2024 07:20

Does Tubby Isaac still trade?

John Rogers 15th February 2024 02:46

How many of you old F...s remember the old kids' song, (My eyes are dim I cannot see) Clue Quartermaster.

Hugh Shuttleworth 15th February 2024 07:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Rogers (Post 52821)
How many of you old F...s remember the old kids' song, (My eyes are dim I cannot see) Clue Quartermaster.

It was one of the "standards" at the Boy Scouts. Late 50s til I went to sea in '64.
The Quartermaster's Store

John Rogers 15th February 2024 13:52

Right on Hugh.

Saudisid 16th February 2024 12:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Rogers (Post 52821)
How many of you old F...s remember the old kids' song, (My eyes are dim I cannot see) Clue Quartermaster.

The Shadows recorded it as a B side.Could have been Apache.


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