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Old 18th January 2023, 11:42
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Whitbread Tankard - subject to much Spoonerism.
Only someone from Aberdeen would drink it with a spoon.
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Old 18th January 2023, 12:35
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Aberdeen you say, no I don’t think my long lost ancestors came from that far north.
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Old 18th January 2023, 14:37
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Not even a ground birding nest on the lawn until the snow has gone - when frosted the grass is damaged if disturbed.

I am not sure Ma ever banned heels to preserve the parquet but the good Dr Taylor doesn't allow them at his fancy gaff charity 'do's. The place is on the market for much mullah. On the eye; easy from the front, difficult from the back but, as it is said, "Chacun a son gout" (and the blood test indicated that my chacun was certainly not gout!).

No one with a beard drinks anything with a spoon.
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Old 18th January 2023, 21:14
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Aberdeen you say, no I don’t think my long lost ancestors came from that far north.
Barlinnie perhaps?
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Old 18th January 2023, 21:27
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George MacDonald Fraser apparently wrote all about them in 'The Steel Bonnets'.
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Old 19th January 2023, 17:42
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Feck sake !!!! just back aboard from the annual bottom scrape and shaft stuffing and what do I find? the bloody injun room is a shambles, Squeek and Eric nissed as pewts comatose in the pump room. Turbines run down, steam leaks everywhere and ES conspicuous by his absence pinning a note on the bulkhead " feck this for a game of soldiers, I'm off to the pub" Even Lord Varley appears to have abandoned ship for a sojourn as DJ on Manx Radio, gives "moonlighting" a whole new dimension.

Doubtless our sainted owner Sir William may be found in the nearest shoreside hostelry sipping Guinness with a spoon while bemoaning the vagaries of life and having such a motley crew.

I can see that copious arse kicking is in order starting with the injun room crew, pass me my H&W shit kicker boots retribution is nigh.
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Old 19th January 2023, 23:13
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Ah Tmac, come on in and sit yourself down. Miss! bottle of black bush for my chief engineer please.
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Old 20th January 2023, 12:19
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Indeed I have the dimensions to dazzle should I moon. But I would not do it from Douglas Head - might be some sort of offence against navigational aids. Suggest our worthy chieftain of the plumbing race retune if he wants Manx Radio, I only appear as an advertisement for Bushy's (although Andy Wint lives next-door but one).
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Old 20th January 2023, 12:41
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Not my fault - I didn't do it. Nothing to do with me, it just happened. Anyway I have been ashore on night shift playing trains.
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Old 22nd January 2023, 08:47
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If Pete Waterman set out to build a model of Australian Railways he would tip a lorry load of sand in his back garden, level it and lay a few rails. QED.
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Old 22nd January 2023, 09:00
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Feck sake !!!! just back aboard from the annual bottom scrape and shaft stuffing and what do I find? the bloody injun room is a shambles, Squeek and Eric nissed as pewts comatose in the pump room. Turbines run down, steam leaks everywhere and ES conspicuous by his absence pinning a note on the bulkhead " feck this for a game of soldiers, I'm off to the pub" Even Lord Varley appears to have abandoned ship for a sojourn as DJ on Manx Radio, gives "moonlighting" a whole new dimension.

Doubtless our sainted owner Sir William may be found in the nearest shoreside hostelry sipping Guinness with a spoon while bemoaning the vagaries of life and having such a motley crew.

I can see that copious arse kicking is in order starting with the injun room crew, pass me my H&W shit kicker boots retribution is nigh.
Tmax, get your muffler out and your piece box, you're back in business. Put your bowler (negative sash) on Stand By. The RFA had the last ship to leave the Yard and the first to return. Three Cheers for Richie.
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Old 22nd January 2023, 14:37
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Doesn't HHI still offer a one-stop ship-shop?

Has Tmac got a copy of class rules with the chapter on ice strengthening still in it?
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Old 24th January 2023, 16:31
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HHI ?? Not a bother, as H&W workers said in the early 1960's: the Japanese, sure they're only wee Chinamen. And weren't we right.
A one-stop ship-shop is a dangerous concept, all our eggs in one basket. Far better to have the ship made from penny-packets of blocks fabricated in back sheds throughout the Realm and lorried and barged on the highways and byways to some second rate politicians constituency and cobbled together using yards of green steel. Makes you proud.
Ice cubes me bollix.
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Old 24th January 2023, 17:27
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Has Tmac got a copy of class rules with the chapter on ice strengthening still in it?
Only one rule in the H&W book "avoid the big icy lumps"
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Old 25th January 2023, 17:14
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As a logistical exercise the two flat tops did demonstrate excellence but isn't there a heathen saying along the lines of "you can't get there from here". To paraphrase that, one might be able to do it but one shouldn't. The only reason to have sex standing in a hammock is because Britbunks and PaillasseGB haven't been just-in time. (let's hear it for Hyundaihammocks).

A one-stop ship-shop does not mandate a lonely-ship-shop.
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Old 26th January 2023, 11:02
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Very sorry to hear that YM has lost his Prime Minister, Mr Ahern (Irish Connection??) ran out of petrol. He really should be driving an electric car rather than a gas guzzling Holden, although there appear to be no charging stations North or West of Geelong. My vote goes to the fragrant Mrs Gillard as she is less uncouth than her rivals and will keep Les Patterson in London. Chin up YM we've had 4 or 5 PM's recently and the pubs still open at 11 am.

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Old 26th January 2023, 11:15
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Only one rule in the H&W book "avoid the big icy lumps"
And don't buy cheap iron rivets from Scotland.
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Old 26th January 2023, 21:58
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Ice cubes me bollix.
Who gets that job ???
I know i`m new here, but i don`t remember that in the small print.
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Old 26th January 2023, 23:27
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Just over heard a steward saying he/she wants to be in Hamster Jam! ...Weird lot they are.
Suppose we could grab a couple of run ashores along the Channel en route...any sugestions guys?
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Old 28th January 2023, 14:31
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Better ask 2182 that one, Driver. I know his man Favesham has a testicle toaster in case we do the Murmansk run. If that is Peltier-effect based perhaps it's reversible for the tropics.
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Old 28th January 2023, 15:17
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Better ask 2182 that one, Driver. I know his man Favesham has a testicle toaster in case we do the Murmansk run. If that is Peltier-effect based perhaps it's reversible for the tropics.
Testicle Tickler, get it right first time or you've made a balls of it.
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Old 28th January 2023, 16:42
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We all had woolly ball bags in Harland and Bluff, down at the "deep water" there was a lazy wind, it went through you rather than round you. The ladies all had furry muffs to keep out the cold.

The things you learn every day never cease to amaze.
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Old 28th January 2023, 16:45
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Testicle Tickler, get it right first time or you've made a balls of it.
Testicle Tickler, I know her, she was the first aid nurse in H&W had a grip like a Scotsman on a five pound note.
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Old 30th January 2023, 09:37
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Old 31st January 2023, 07:03
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as you have been a good lad for a while you may choose our next port of call. Nothing from the agent so choose away young man.
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