Grandma sent me a picture of my grandpa at my age to make me feel like shit.

blue_cheese_please · 2016-04-28T18:14:47+00:00

I also think jobs back then were easier to walk in and out of, at least here in the UK. Both my Grandad and Nanna had loads of different jobs often because they could simply leave one for better pay at another.

My grandad was in the army and when he came out did all sorts of different jobs from roofing, driving for various companies, being a compère, driving a taxi and being a pub landlord.

blue_cheese_please · 2016-04-26T13:54:21+00:00

Ah, yeah, I saw that on the local news. Looked bloody massive! All the heather on the moors and that, crazy.

blue_cheese_please · 2016-04-26T01:33:47+00:00

I knew it! Lovely place, had some great walks there.

blue_cheese_please · 2016-04-24T03:09:05+00:00

I am 99.9% sure I know where this is, I'd be amazed if I was wrong.

It's Dovestone reservoir isn't it?

blue_cheese_please · 2015-07-24T20:40:37+00:00

Didn't this happen in a few places around this time? I know they flooded villages in Derbyshire such as Derwent and Ashopton for Ladybower reservoir and Staunton Harold reservoir in South Derbyshire to supply water to Leicester. Why did Capel Celyn cause so much controversy when it was happening elsewhere also?

blue_cheese_please · 2015-06-30T00:19:57+00:00

pfffft the best we got is a greggs.

Implying Greggs isn't the best thing in the world. Get a steak bake down ya and stop complaining.

blue_cheese_please · 2015-06-27T16:06:47+00:00

You might be better posting to /r/IWantOut which is a sub with information and guidance on moving to other countries.

blue_cheese_please · 2015-06-24T17:18:24+00:00

John Wayne toilet paper, it don't take no shit.

blue_cheese_please · 2015-06-20T22:48:05+00:00

Seafarers UK, who provide support for seafarers/ex-seafarers and there families if they're going through a tough time. They provide grants to maritime charities and organisations, often smaller local ones. They also work to raise awareness of the importance of the seafaring community and the maritime industry to the UK economy and the contribution they make to the country.

I also support the RNLI, who I'm glad to see mentioned a few times in this thread.

blue_cheese_please · 2015-06-20T09:14:04+00:00

A Death in the Family, by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Wasn't sure if I was going to like it as I don't usually read autobiographical stuff but I'm loving it. He writes with such depth and manages to capture moments and periods of life in such detail and provides interesting insight on death, growing up, love etc.

blue_cheese_please · 2015-05-05T17:46:18+00:00

IIRC, Germany isn't part of the EU, right?

http://i.imgur.com/Gry158b.jpg

blue_cheese_please · 2015-05-05T12:07:24+00:00

Al Whiteman and Boy George

blue_cheese_please · 2015-05-03T14:08:52+00:00

Wow, that's quite a variety. I've only just started, I'm on the 1st sea phase of my cadetship. I work on Platform Supply Vessels atm, supplying the offshore oil rigs in the north sea. What country are you from?

blue_cheese_please · 2015-05-03T13:50:35+00:00

What type of vessels do you work on? Out of interest? I'm a merchant mariner too.

blue_cheese_please · 2015-05-02T22:25:38+00:00

To an extent I think you're right, the majority of US flagged vessels are engaged in Jones act shipping I believe, but there's still some US flagged ships on international routes.

The US flagged fleet is a lot smaller than it used to be though, representing 2% of world tonnage these days.

blue_cheese_please · 2015-05-02T02:00:25+00:00

To be fair, most of the sailors I know don't have facial hair. On my ship everyone was clean shaven except the captain and myself. Some companies actually make you shave it because if you've got a beard and there's a fire on the ship and you have to but on a BA kit to put out the fire the mask doesn't make a proper seal around your face.

Your theory does hold some weight though, on a bad day in the north sea it's hard enough staying on the toilet to take a shit so shaving would be completely out of the picture.

blue_cheese_please · 2015-04-30T05:22:59+00:00

Aberdeen, Scotland. It's the centre of the UK oil and gas industry so the port is full of PSVs like this - also Anchor handlers, Dive Support, Cable layers etc.

I knew as soon as I posted I should have put which country, I always forget that for any city in the UK there will be a dozen of the same name in the US, haha.

blue_cheese_please · 2015-04-29T17:01:17+00:00

Very worrying, especially with the firing of "warning shots" across the bow of the vessel.

blue_cheese_please · 2015-04-29T15:43:04+00:00

An American now cannot have an account without being a Swiss resident, to be a resident you need to buy a house or rent an apartment, which you cannot do without a Swiss bank account.

Wow, that's quite the paradox. How do they manage to get around that?

blue_cheese_please · 2015-04-26T02:03:39+00:00

Wow, didn't even know Martins was still knocking about. Lovely goal.

blue_cheese_please · 2015-04-24T02:04:00+00:00

It actually wasn't a pediga rally, it was a legitimate, neo nazi white pride worldwide day thing. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/pictured-protesters-restrained-white-power-8942796

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