Off Topic Compare the cheese to no 10 thread

Went to hozzie to get my knees and hip checked yesterday. The consultant said it was one of the best outcomes he's ever seen. I told him again how grateful I was to him and his team. He said he was only doing his job. I said I do a job. He has a vocation improving the quality of people's lives; a massive difference. Went to Wetherspoons afterwards and ended up with Ben Westwood, Lee Brears and 4 other Warrington rugby players sitting round me. There was plenty of space in there. They weren't as big as I thought they'd be

 

I thought that as well and considered still leaving, but then thought better the devil you know. Our industry is having a lot of poaching of qualified staff at present, after years of very few people moving around. Lack of training of younger staff in the past 15 years, and not encouraging them to get qualified as the powers that be thought computers would change the way the job was done. They help, but they can't interview someone on site yet! So there is now a shortage of qualified staff as so many have retired in the past few years.

 

and you are closeish to the magic age too no? the place will be there til you do retire so getting the cash and the car is ok.

 

I'll be working till I drop.

 

2 pints of Carling should do the trick

 

Blimey that amount of rimming must mean you're worried you might need some more bits replaced.

 

no pension?

 

Not worth thr paper they're written on

 

not true cos there's plenty of people living very well off thiers.

 

Very true.

I used to work in an ifa and plenty take monthly incomes as well on their peps and isas as a top up.

 

My view is if the world goes tits up enough for pensions to fail (2008 didn't cause this) then we will be so ****ed other savings and having a job is all... hmmm.... yeah.

 

Very quiet weekend. My ex-barber mate is now out of Walton neuro unit after 10 months following a brain hemourrhage and 3 strokes (this after recovering from cancer twice). I took him for a push in Stockton Heat for a couple of beers in the Red Lion. I hope he manages to start walking properly again, but a lot more physio required. Poor ****er didn't deserve any of that.

 

yes he did

 

No. He's a really nice bloke.

 

We have a new customer at the Cheese. He hails from Anfield. Came in for the first time the night before last. Massive shiner and and a hugely swollen cheek. I asked him how it happened and he said he got twatted with a tyre iron. It's defo fractured. He said the bloke who did it ended up wearing a telly. He came in again last night and I persuaded hi m to go to A & E this morning. Nice feller

 

hmm lol.

have to ask why he got twatted with a tyre iron in the first place.

my uncle is a nice bloke, but you really wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of him.

 

It was all over £20 he lent the bloke, who denied borrowing it. Needless to say, no coppers involved He used to use the Cabbage Hall before it burned down and turned into a ****ing hotel. Apparently, the Lutine Bell is a no-go zone now

 

must have been a seriously old telly .

 

I think it was meant to mean he put it over his head.

 

Yeah I think solid got that.

Think his point was why waste a perfectly good tele, so must have been an old one.

Mind you the weight on some of those old teles was huge and would hurt like ****.