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Hermit
Witchfinder
Spanish Inquisition
and....Centre Forward down the CCS (other stadia are available)
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poc
from the docks:thumbup:
I thought the Britos were from Corporation Road ? …..near the Docks
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A positive happy CCMB statistician.
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xsnaggle
He worked nights, did he? :shrug:
They did….they used to drive along the M4 too, and note down any lights out.
Meter reading was a really good number back in the day…..job and finish ;)
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Looking to the future when driverless cars become the norm….taxi drivers
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fingers
Looking to the future when driverless cars become the norm….taxi drivers
I did the job for a fair few months in 2017 because I needed time to do something else which was very important. Worked for E on, gave me a van, money was bearable. As soon as I had done what I had to do I quit, and went back to my normal work. Some of the things I saw in the short time were real eye openers.
About 6 months later they made redundant (sacked) all my erstwhile colleagues because with the roll out of so many smart(?) meters they were no cost effective.
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Herb Strewer - distributed herbs and flowers throughout the royal palaces in order to mask less pleasant aromas such as those from the Thames before the construction of London's network of sewers.
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Council DL, lovely number
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fingers
Looking to the future when driverless cars become the norm….taxi drivers
Looking to the future when humans become extinct....taxi drivers.
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SLUDGE FACTORY
Traffic wardens ticketing selfish twats parking in disabled badge holders areas
I hate these tossers and the parking enforcement officers today seem to let everyone off
Don't get me started on this-it's my pet hate.Blue badge misuse is huge.
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Cleve van Leef
Gas Lamp Lighters.
Though Gaslighters are still 10 a penny.
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SLUDGE FACTORY
Traffic wardens ticketing selfish twats parking in disabled badge holders areas
I hate these tossers and the parking enforcement officers today seem to let everyone off
and there it is. A traffic warden lover.
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jon1959
Knocker uppers.
And Snuffer Outers.
Actually the same person as Knocker Uppers (or Knockers Up) would often snuff out the gas lamps when they went around knocking on doors and windows to wake people up pre alarm clocks
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From the computer world, punch card operator
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Typists & the typing pool.
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fingers
Looking to the future when driverless cars become the norm….taxi drivers
Bank Cashiers and Banking Advisers in the not-too-distant future!
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splott parker
Typists & the typing pool.
They were hopeless most of the time but handy for the Christmas party :hehe:
Well one or two.
Switchboard operators.
Post Room Staff - Massively reduced memos turned to emails.
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Elwood Blues
From the computer world, punch card operator
Youngster!
Paper tape in my early days. :old:
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My brother in law worked for Kodak in the photograph film and paper division for many years. It closed around 15 years ago and all were made redundant .
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Originally Posted by
Elwood Blues
And Snuffer Outers.
Actually the same person as Knocker Uppers (or Knockers Up) would often snuff out the gas lamps when they went around knocking on doors and windows to wake people up pre alarm clocks
Who knocked up the Knocker-upper?
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Jobs gone from where I worked on the old electricty board.
Meter readers (Fing smart meters) , and a guy who went around in a van checking which street lights needed changing
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Originally Posted by
xsnaggle
He worked nights, did he? :shrug:
Late afternoons.
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bobh
Youngster!
Paper tape in my early days. :old:
Sadly Bob I remember paper tape as well.
My first proper job in Nat West Bank when I was past the making tea and doing the post stage was inputting the days work into a massive NCR machine which encoded a blue punch tape which was sent to a computer centre for overnight processing.
In those days if you paid money in or took it out at your own branch your account would not be updated until the following day.
If you used another branch or bank it took 3 days.
No ATM's in those day so it was useful to build up a good relationship with your local corner shop do you could cash a cheque if need be.
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