Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[Nakor]

If you were to open a new bra and lingerie shop devoted to the more 'developed' women of the world...what would you call it?

Now you're getting there Lads.  Not sure if it matters, but we're talking about a shop in America.

Shop for Big Bra's or Big Bra Shop

Its best to spell it out for these American types

[mondatoo]

Reason for alias: My Dad and Grandad were also called Raymond so we never knew who my Grandma was calling for, "Big Ray", "which Big Ray", Little Ray ofc didn't work neither. So instead of shortening it to Ray as is the norm but didn't help in this case my cousin decided to start calling me Mond which he then developed to mondatooooo

Age: 26 going on 66

Occupation: Rofling around and making just enough to survive from pokers

Location: Newcastle

Dream Job: Own a business and employ people I know and love so we could all just have a laugh, crush whatever it was and make enough to get by.

Person you would be reincarnated as: Lionel Messi

Fave comfort food: Haribo tangtastics

Imaginary super power: Teleportation

[sovietsong]

Reason for alias: favourite horse, set up my tribecca account (paddy power) off the back of a big win & its the only name i could think of at the time.

Age: 29

Occupation: insurance sales - yawn

Location: LEEDS LEEDS LEEDS

Dream Job: Guest House/Cafe Proprietor based on my self sufficient small holding... this changes everyday - in fact more often than that

Person you would be reincarnated as: a working class version of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Fave comfort food: Bangers & Mash in a giant yorkshire pudding

Imaginary super power: Bernard's Watch

[Skippy]

Reason for alias: My Dad and Grandad were also called Raymond so we never knew who my Grandma was calling for, "Big Ray", "which Big Ray", Little Ray ofc didn't work neither. So instead of shortening it to Ray as is the norm but didn't help in this case my cousin decided to start calling me Mond which he then developed to mondatooooo

That's disappointing. I always thought it was a contraction of "Come on the Toon!"

[mondatoo]

Reason for alias: My Dad and Grandad were also called Raymond so we never knew who my Grandma was calling for, "Big Ray", "which Big Ray", Little Ray ofc didn't work neither. So instead of shortening it to Ray as is the norm but didn't help in this case my cousin decided to start calling me Mond which he then developed to mondatooooo

That's disappointing. I always thought it was a contraction of "Come on the Toon!"

Haha.

[DMorgan]

Reason for alias: A hand between myself and a Blonde member in a DTD deepstack stimulated lots of discussion on the update thread, seemed easier to just use my real name to contribute.

Age: 23

Occupation: Button clicker

Location: Beverley, originally from Kent

Dream Job: What I do now with a few zeroes on the end

Person you would be reincarnated as: Wayne Gretzky

Fave comfort food:  Baked Alaska

Imaginary super power: Flight

[outragous76]

Reason for alias: A hand between myself and a Blonde member in a DTD deepstack stimulated lots of discussion on the update thread, seemed easier to just use my real name to contribute.

Age: 23

Occupation: Button clicker

Location: Beverley, originally from Kent

Dream Job: What I do now with a few zeroes on the end

Person you would be reincarnated as: Wayne Gretzky

Fave comfort food:  Baked Alaska

Imaginary super power: Flight

sorry tom, i must interject!?!?!??!?

You left Leeds?

and I agree that button clickerooooo is a great name for a job 

[atdc21]

Hi Tom,
How u doing?
That pic of the TK (truck not the other one  )  reminds me of my start in the working world,for the non artic trucks we had a fleet of those  to work on , and one D-Series, as you know the cab tipped on the D-Series but not on the TK,s , you sure could get dirty working on them, to change the engine you had to unbolt the cab (4 bolts usually rusted and have to cut them off with the gas) and lift off with a gantry. The replacement the TL was horrible and nowhere near as iconic as the TK imo.

[RED-DOG]

Hi Tom,
How u doing?
That pic of the TK (truck not the other one  )  reminds me of my start in the working world,for the non artic trucks we had a fleet of those  to work on , and one D-Series, as you know the cab tipped on the D-Series but not on the TK,s , you sure could get dirty working on them, to change the engine you had to unbolt the cab (4 bolts usually rusted and have to cut them off with the gas) and lift off with a gantry. The replacement the TL was horrible and nowhere near as iconic as the TK imo.

Oh my goodness! I've changed a few TK cabs in my time. I used to lift them by winding  the windows down and then fastening a sling to a batton that I had slipped  through the closed doors (the door frames added rigidity)

I once had a TK with a 330 engine that put a con-rod through the side of number one pot, so I took it out and replaced it with a 466 out of a coach.

What a job that turned out to be. It was about a foot too long, all the mounts were in the wrong place, the exhaust was on the wrong side, and it was on a 24 volt system and my truck was 12 volt.

Mind you, when it was done it went like shit off a shovel. I could surprise Triumph Stag drivers at the traffic lights.

D Series Ford's? Yep. Had a few of those too.

I remember one in particular. Everyone else had the 7.5 tonne gross model so that they could drive it in a car licence, but I found a beautiful 9:10. (the 10 tonne model)

It was for sale as cheap as chips because it was "Over the weight" but I went to see the people at the goods vehicle testing station at Swallownest and they told me that if I  removed the spring assisters and brought it in for inspection, they would downgrade it to 7.6 gvw.

I asked them what I should do with the spring assisters once they had finished their inspection. "Oh you can put them back on if you like." I they said. So i did. Which meant I had a "legal" 10 tonner.

I don't suppose that story means much to the people on here, but it made me into a minor celeb back in the day.

Thanks for the post. I could talk about old trucks all day. Just the mention of blowing those bolts off with the oxy - acetylene transported me back almost 40 years.

[atdc21]

I wouldnt mind a £1 for every time i have banged my head on one of those side flaps  .
The 4 cylinder engine was a perkins, . gutless but ok for local deliveries.

[RED-DOG]

Reason for alias: My Dad and Grandad were also called Raymond so we never knew who my Grandma was calling for, "Big Ray", "which Big Ray", Little Ray ofc didn't work neither. So instead of shortening it to Ray as is the norm but didn't help in this case my cousin decided to start calling me Mond which he then developed to mondatooooo

I know what you mean with the names.

When i was a boy I was always 'Little Tom' and my dad was 'Big Tom'.

Eventually, I grew taller than my dad, but he was still Big Tom and I was still Little Tom.

When my son came along, he was called Tommy, Tomtom, or, as his mam used to call him, 'Ticklemouse'.

[Junior Senior]

Reason for alias: I was nicknamed Junior by a guy i used to work with as i shared his surname and people thought we were Dad and Lad and that seemed to amuse him. It stuck, and when i first started playing poker there weren't many young players so it kind of suited me as everyone else was older than me.  However 12 years on and that Keef the Camel made me change it as i am too old for it now. Although Negreanu still manages to get away with KidPoker

Age: 34 looking like 24

Occupation: Resourcing Manager / Consultant

Location: Norwell, Notts.

Dream Job: RSPB Nature Reserve Warden

Person you would be reincarnated as: Tiger Woods

Fave comfort food: Fox's 'Classic'

Imaginary super power: To be able to freeze time (like that girl in that programme called 'out of this world')



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_This_World_(TV_series)

[RED-DOG]

I wouldnt mind a £1 for every time i have banged my head on one of those side flaps  .
The 4 cylinder engine was a perkins, . gutless but ok for local deliveries.

I hate to contradict, (I'm sure you'll remember when you think back) but the Bedfords had their own engine. The 200 in the 4 cylinder and the 300 in the 6 cylinder,  which was later upgraded to 220 & 330 respectively with the addition of the 'full-flow' head.

The Perkins 4 cylinder (4203) and 6 cylinder  (6354) engines were fitted into Laylands,  and the tiny 4108 went into the early diesel Transits.

[DMorgan]

sorry tom, i must interject!?!?!??!?

You left Leeds?

and I agree that button clickerooooo is a great name for a job 

Yeah vegas-induced cash flow issues, one of my housemates was busto and the other wanted to go back to Bristol. Got a deece team together for a 6 bed poker castle which lildave was gunna sort out but we had a few landlords get cold feet on signing day which was pretty tilt. At the same time my best mate from uni split up with his missus who he'd moved up here with so he had a 3 bedroom house to himself. Not having to deal with dickhead landlords and being able to pay rent on Stars pretty much swung it.

Plan is to be back in Sheffield by the end of the year though.

[atdc21]

Oh i thought they were perkins, my bad.
We only had 1 old TK with a 4 cyl it was the 'yard ' lorry, we gave it to the college when it became of no use in yard.
Yes most had the 330 or 500 6 cyl.
The TL had a turbo too.......