Bee network bus strike

stonerblue said:
Fucking hell, i'd have thought a seaman of several years would have had a bit of a thicker skin than to be offended by a light-hearted Grandad or a coffin dodger comment.
Then you go on to wrongly assume a lot about me which was way off the mark and pen your little hate filled rant.
Every poster in this thread moaning about the strike upto that point was also very vocal about WFA and pensions and, are all old.
I was at work when posting yesterday. Inbetween popping on here i gave an old dear who was struggling to walk a brand new fancy walking stick for nowt, delivered a meal from the cafe to another who can't get out at the moment, fixed a watch for another, phoned another to tell her to stay home and i'll deliver her shoes today. I'll also be spending a good portion of today talking to Virgin to get a new package for 2 friends in their 70's who are clueless about technology. Their bill will be reduced by about £70 a month, 'cos that's the kind of 'snivelling disrespectful piece of shit' i am.
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stonerblue said:
Fucking hell, i'd have thought a seaman of several years would have had a bit of a thicker skin than to be offended by a light-hearted Grandad or a coffin dodger comment.
Then you go on to wrongly assume a lot about me which was way off the mark and pen your little hate filled rant.
Every poster in this thread moaning about the strike upto that point was also very vocal about WFA and pensions and, are all old.
I was at work when posting yesterday. Inbetween popping on here i gave an old dear who was struggling to walk a brand new fancy walking stick for nowt, delivered a meal from the cafe to another who can't get out at the moment, fixed a watch for another, phoned another to tell her to stay home and i'll deliver her shoes today. I'll also be spending a good portion of today talking to Virgin to get a new package for 2 friends in their 70's who are clueless about technology. Their bill will be reduced by about £70 a month, 'cos that's the kind of 'snivelling disrespectful piece of shit' i am.
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Too late to redeem yourself now with your self promotional praise. I wonder how those older people you have supposedly helped would feel about you laughingly referring to them as coffin dodgers and grandad/grandma behind their backs, as well as appearing to have the hump their pension has the audacity to rise to.keep in line with inflation. My opinion of you was based on what you posted at the time. What else do people on an online forum have to base it on but the words people post? Referring to people as coffin dodgers and grandad isn't funny or clever.and had nothing to do with the topic whatsoever which was the forthcoming bus strikes. You chose to fetch the state pension into it which then veered the discussion off topic.

My time spent at sea has nothing to do with it, but that was actually 42 years not several.I hate condescending wankers who look down on people they consider themselves superior to, or their opinion of less value than theirs due to age, sex or demographic. Your off the cuff dismissive coffin dodgers and grandad comments puts you firmly into that category. There was nothing hate filled about my rant as you call it. I just gave my opinion of yourself based on the image you portrayed. I stand by it. Be thankful you chose cobbling as a profession. At sea, let's just say you wouldn't have had a long career.
 
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mexico1970 said:
I'm stood at the door counting my faculties (Being a coffin dodger and all) before venturing out Gold Bus Card in hand ready to flag anything moving down.

Have I had a wee?

Are the doors and windows shut?

Check I need a wee again.

:)
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Recheck everything again by which time you will have missed the bus and have to wait for the next one....but before you leave you'll have to recheck everything again. Groundhog day.
 
paulchapo said:
Too late to redeem yourself now with your self promotional praise. I wonder how those older people you have supposedly helped would feel about you laughingly referring to them as coffin dodgers and grandad/grandma behind their backs, as well as appearing to have the hump their pension has the audacity to rise to.keep in line with inflation. My opinion of you was based on what you posted at the time. What else do people on an online forum have to base it on but the words people post? Referring to people as coffin dodgers and grandad isn't funny or clever.and had nothing to do with the topic whatsoever which was the forthcoming bus strikes. You chose to fetch the state pension into it which then veered the discussion off topic.

My time spent at sea has nothing to do with it, but that was actually 42 years not several.I hate condescending wankers who look down on people they consider themselves superior to, or their opinion of less value than theirs due to age, sex or demographic. Your off the cuff dismissive coffin dodgers and grandad comments puts you firmly into that category. There was nothing hate filled about my rant as you call it. I just gave my opinion of yourself based on the image you portrayed. I stand by it. Be thankful you chose cobbling as a profession. At sea, let's just say you wouldn't have had a long career.
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Keel hauled or walk the plank?
 
stonerblue said:
Keel hauled or walk the plank?
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Neither but when I first went away to sea in the mid seventies any problems were soon sorted out in house. At that time there was also a free monthly publication called imaginatively, 'The seaman.' it was an interesting read and it had a section that listed deaths in service and retirement. An unusually high proportion of deaths in service were put down as, 'Lost at sea, believed killed or drowned." That meant somebody had disappeared off the ship and was never found. Indeed I joined a Manchester Liners vessel in Liverpool in 1977 where the CID were questioning the offgoing crew about a chief officer who had disappeared going through the straight of Belle isle on the way to Montreal. It was put down as a potential suicide. Who knows? They were the more extreme means of in house sorting but almost impossible to prove foul play.
 
paulchapo said:
Neither but when I first went away to sea in the mid seventies any problems were soon sorted out in house. At that time there was also a free monthly publication called imaginatively, 'The seaman.' it was an interesting read and it had a section that listed deaths in service and retirement. An unusually high proportion of deaths in service were put down as, 'Lost at sea, believed killed or drowned." That meant somebody had disappeared off the ship and was never found. Indeed I joined a Manchester Liners vessel in Liverpool in 1977 where the CID were questioning the offgoing crew about a chief officer who had disappeared going through the straight of Belle isle on the way to Montreal. It was put down as a potential suicide. Who knows? They were the more extreme means of in house sorting but almost impossible to prove foul play.
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Am taking the wife on a cruise next week..
 
paulchapo said:
Neither but when I first went away to sea in the mid seventies any problems were soon sorted out in house. At that time there was also a free monthly publication called imaginatively, 'The seaman.' it was an interesting read and it had a section that listed deaths in service and retirement. An unusually high proportion of deaths in service were put down as, 'Lost at sea, believed killed or drowned." That meant somebody had disappeared off the ship and was never found. Indeed I joined a Manchester Liners vessel in Liverpool in 1977 where the CID were questioning the offgoing crew about a chief officer who had disappeared going through the straight of Belle isle on the way to Montreal. It was put down as a potential suicide. Who knows? They were the more extreme means of in house sorting but almost impossible to prove foul play.
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Did you ever know Captain Alan Cookson?
 
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