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Re: World Cup 2006
Use the mouse to play
Just make sure you hit in the breastbone. Sorry about the Italian script.
http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Spor … dane.shtml
Edit………Sorry have tried & tried, all I’m now getting is a still. Wish I hadn’t bothered now
Re: Refrigeration Training Centres
I had the same list e-mailed to be by E/Lux 3 months ago. I didn’t post or action it as was stupidly out of date. Prospective centres will need to check out their local centre and see if they still exist. There were 3 for my area.
Tiverton have never done it.
Bath had never heard of it
Gloucester was demolished 5 years ago to make way for a Tesco & Comet store.
Alex
Re: Workloads
We are the same, worringly dead.
Passing to engineers most as same day calls, provided we can get the customer to stay at home in this weather. When we have a chance of doing a job in a particular area, and the engineer is that way today or tomorrow, you can bet the customer won’t be available.
Today we started with an engineer with only 2 calls booked. We have gradually filled him as the day has progressed, but leaves him very little for tomorrow.
Next week, kids will be on holiday, and so will some engineers over the following 6 weeks. Then it will pick up, and customers will berate us for allowing fridge engineers to take holidays in the hot weather. Very inconsiderate of us to allow this I know.
Come November/December we shall be moaning as we will be too busy.
Alex
Re: Service Power
An update for you all.
You may recall from an eariler posting that it looks like I’m a fully paid up member of the Service Power network. Well if that is the case, they don’t have any work for me, as bu99er all had been passed to me.
Then I get a rumour that they are second tier for one or two national service networks.
Will keep you posted if this ever kicks into anything.
Alex
Re: British Gas To Drop Appliance Servicing?
washdoctor wrote:I don’t think they are dropping appliance servicing……..as a very good friend of mine has been working from home now for 3 months…….putting all of the info off partfinder, tds etc …………… (literally copying and pasting)!. Not the actions of a company thats contemplating dropping the white goods.
Nor the actions of a Bona Fide’ company.
There is a copyright on TDS, and I thought it impossible to copy Partfinder, and it needs to be registered on EVERY machine. I’d love to know how they can do that.
If this is right, someone needs to know about it.
AlexRe: Network Seeking Agents
As I’m staying Friday night, yes I’m in for the Saturday. Will need time to recouperate before visiting my Daughter & family near Hyde on my way home.
Alex
Re: Shine on you Crazy Diamond.
Yes you are right. I’ve got a DVD of a 2 day recording session from January 11th 1967, Sound Techniches Studio, London. Line up, Syd Barrett, Nick mason, Roger Waters & Rick Wright.
Cameo appearances a few passers by who dropped in, John Lennon and before that Yoko who didn’t see John there, they had not yet met. There was Arthur Brown (I am the god of Hell Fire), Soft Machine, the Move, Pretty Things and a few others.
Long time ago, nearly 40 years.
Alex
Re: Shine on you crazy diamond.
Syd left in 1968 after the only album he worked on with Pink Floyd, Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Best track was Bike. He did record 2 solo albums, and I made the mistake of getting the album “The Madcap Laughs”. Clever bloke, but too much of that 1960’s brain juice got to him too soon.
Was replaced in Floyd by Roger Waters and Dave Gilmour, and the development from there-on happened.
The Crazy Diamond reference, was spot on, although released in 1975 as the beginning & end of Wish You Were Here, it was dedicated to Syd Barrett.
Alex
Re: World Cup 2006
You don’t frighten us, English pig-dog! Go and boil your bottoms,
son of a silly person. I blow my nose on you, so-called Arthur-king,
you and your silly English K…kaniggets.Might have been John Cleese. Not as good as Life of Brian though.
Blessed are the Cheesemakers, the Greek shall inherit the earth.
Alex
Re: D&G Karting ~ Grantham
There is another one at Grantham being on Weds 26th July. Maybe those that cannot do this week should give Lyndsay a call she might be able to get you in on this one.
Hotel will still be busy I suspect.
Alex
Re: World Cup 2006
Out on her royal yacht the Queen was enjoying the sea air when she spied a man in the water off the port bow – clearly being menaced by a very large shark. Through her binoculars she could see it was Christian Ronaldo, struggling frantically to free himself from the jaws of a 20 foot shark! The queen ordered the captain to change course to try and save the poor man, but she knew the yachts top speed would never get them there in time.
At that exact moment a speedboat containing three men wearing white tops sped into view. One of the men took aim at the shark and fired a harpoon Into its ribs, immobilising it instantly. The other two reached out and pulled Ronaldo from the water and, using long clubs, beat the shark to death. They bundled the bleeding, semi-conscious Ronaldo into the speedboat along with the dead shark and prepared for a hasty retreat, When they heard frantic calling….. It was the Queen calling them to The yacht.
On reaching yacht the Queen went into raptures about the rescue and said, “I’ll give you a knighthood for your brave actions. I thought the England team would hate Ronaldo after the world cup. But I see that the England team are true heroes and should serve as a model for sportsmanship to other countries.”
She knighted them and sailed away. As she departed Rooney asked the others, “Who was that?!”
“That,” Beckham answered, “was our Queen. She rules the Commonwealth and knows everything about our country.”
“Well,” Rooney replied, “she knows stuff all about shark fishing. How’s the bait holding up?
Re: THE THINGS CUSTOMERS SAY ?
Customer comes in to buy a part.
My Wife goes out to the front desk, and he looks right through her towards me at the back end of the office. Says to her, “I wan’t him to serve me, because I wan’t a part”. She told him she had been doing the job for years, and knew exactly what he wanted as he had put the old one on the counter.
No, he insisted. She looked at the part, told him “Not all women are useless”, went into the storeroom, and slammed the replacement part on the counter. His face was a picture.
Another one, customer comes in and sees a Female assistant, puts a part on the desk and asks if we have one. She looks at it, realises it is a valve, but doesn’t recognise it. Asks for model number, and get a reply that she is a dippy tart, and he demands to be served by a man.
I go out there with the view or ordering him off the premises, but intrigue gets the better of me. I look at the item, and the same as her, fail to recognise it. I ask what is it from, and he starts to berate the lot of us, and we are useless, and “what sort of company are you”? Then he tells me it is from a Potterton Boiler, and we should have recognised it. I tell him had he bothered the read the signs outside, he would have recognised he was in the wrong place altogether. Spun on his heels told me I was Effing useless and slammed the door on his way out. I hope he could hear our laughter as he went to his car.
Alex
Re: Special tool of yesteryear
iadom wrote:Somewhere in my garage is a box spanner that is around two foot long and the diameter of an old type drain pipe. Any guesses as to what that was for.
2 instant thoughts.
1) Taking heaters out of Rolls twin tubs.
2) Undoing the nut at the bottom of the shaft of the turbulator of an English Electric Twin Tub.
Probably neither, my memory is failing.
Alex
