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@Snowy yeah my evening shift on the first night consisted of indoor cricket in the shop with the inside of a big glad wrap and a balled up thing of electrical tape. Turns out it wasn't smart as the boss reviewed the tapes the next day to see how I'd gone - how was I to know that wasn't the done thing!
Ended up getting the highest score for shop n check in the country as we spotted one nice and early and went out of our way even cleaning the diesel stains off her car and selling her a range of cleaning goods.
How's that for a euphemism?
Great job.
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Speaking of pumping gas, my grandparents owned a Europa? Petrol Station back in the day, I think it was around 50c a litre or similar. Also had a box of fuel caps that had been forgotten to be put back on. Also think I had to clean the toilets which was never fun.
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@NTA The fact your mate is at a strip club whilst his missus and kids are at home makes me slightly confused. What did he tell her? got a work function on in the city?
Literally that. Some kind of leadership team building thingy. I am led to believe it didn't start in the strip club.
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They treat me like one of the girls and, mate, they are hilariously filthy
This is something that bugs the shit out of me as a grumpy old man: women to treat mean like dirty pervs despite being just as bad. A lot of the women in my wider friendship circle carry on like they're pure as the driven snow and roll their eyes if the blokes are doing anything they consider inappropriate - particularly if the kids are within half a kilometre.
Only just now have I got my wife to admit she finds guys like Jason Fucking Momoa hot*, and of course if I get caught looking at anything I get the furrowed brows.
*This will make you laugh: she was a few glasses of Rose into a lunch one day with friends, and the topic of JFM came up. One of the ladies says "Oh no you couldn't do that hair could you?" to which Mrs TA replied "oh I think you could ..." in much this fashion
Does it bother me? No. That big, ridiculously funny and handsome fluffybunny isn't about to show up at my doorstep looking like Aquaman, after all.
But if it whets the grindstone....
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@Snowy yeah my evening shift on the first night consisted of indoor cricket
Haha. We used to play cricket on the forecourt and the boss caught us. We invited him to join our indoor cricket team and then it was just practice, not misbehaving. He was a good fluffybunny and not bad at cricket either.
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BTW, the youngest (who hijacked my Fern account a while back) sits beside me and when she saw me browsing the Fern the other week announced to them all that JC was back on his incel group.
We're not incels.
We're married.
Subtle difference?
Subtleties are oh-so-important at this age.
I like cooking dogs and kids.
I like cooking, dogs, and kids. -
BTW, the youngest (who hijacked my Fern account a while back) sits beside me and when she saw me browsing the Fern the other week announced to them all that JC was back on his incel group.
We're not incels.
We're married.
Subtle difference?
Subtleties are oh-so-important at this age.
I like cooking dogs and kids.
I like cooking, dogs, and kids.Mumble, mumble, something about helping Uncle Jack off a horse. Mumble, mumble.
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@mariner4life mobil was my first job out of school. Got a written warning after my first day.
I got a roofing job for a couple of months when I lived in Sydney, one of the best jobs I ever had!
The price of beer in Australia is fucked. I'm quite happy drinking Coors, Heineken, Guinness, fosters, bud. Probably not much more than a tenner for a dozen here, between 3-4 pound for a pint...a proper pint.
Please explain
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he wanted to show me that you had to work for money and that any job is a good job.
Probably the most important life lesson my Dad taught me too.
Had a Sunday Times paper round at 12 and worked in Woolworths after school 3 days a week and during the holidays when I was 14. Left school at 17 after getting UE but didn't go to Uni and went down the NZCE route.
With the push to everything being learned at a University and rules about employing youngsters, you wonder if kids today have the job opportunities and tertiary education choices we had.
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@Victor-Meldrew got a mate who is an accredited floor layer. They're flat out to the point where he took his son on as an apprentice. The money is amazing but the physical work is tough.
In Australia the lack of vocational training is becoming an issue
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@Victor-Meldrew got a mate who is an accredited floor layer. They're flat out to the point where he took his son on as an apprentice. The money is amazing but the physical work is tough.
In Australia the lack of vocational training is becoming an issue
Ditto in the UK. Everything is via University.
My daughter is a Uni-educated nurse and she really struggled with the mental pressure of dealing with patients and the less-glamorous side when she qualified. Big contrast to my sister who spent the 1st year of her nursing training washing patients and emptying bed-pans - nothing fazed her after that and ensured she'd made the right career choice.
Less opportunity for kids and way more pressure these days in many ways.
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@Victor-Meldrew got a mate who is an accredited floor layer. They're flat out to the point where he took his son on as an apprentice. The money is amazing but the physical work is tough.
In Australia the lack of vocational training is becoming an issue
A real problem is people tend to think of it in binary terms. A mate of mine started life as an electrician, put himself through uni to become an electrical engineer and is now doing very well thank you very much for a major mining company.
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Something else which is funny is I find middle aged woman attractive now when I never used too. Mind you I haven't stopped looking at young woman too.
I'm with you there. There is a lot to find sexy about an older woman once you realise you're married to one
However, on the younger crowd: a 40yo mate of mine found himself in a strip club talking to a stripper who just got off shift. Now of course, the caveat is she's there to keep you at arm's length and try to get you to spend, but once they got a couple of drinks in, and just started talking about life in general, he really appreciated her perspective on life.
Not burdened with kids and 20 years together, he found it very refreshing to speak to a woman who wasn't a work colleague or part of the circle of friends.
No midlife crisis just yet.
.... BTW, the youngest (who hijacked my Fern account a while back) sits beside me and when she saw me browsing the Fern the other week announced to them all that JC was back on his incel group. She thinks @Catogrande is funny, so there’s no helping her.
Any chance of a pic and following that an address if deemed appropriate?
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All jokes aside the biggest thing I note about me with getting older is boozing.
My desire just drops and drops. I still love a beer, but a pint or two is generally enough for me these days. I just can’t be bothered with the shit sleep, hangover, hangxiety and The General lousy feelings and demeanor the next day.
A mate got me going on Heineken double zeros and I’m turning for them in a big way. They really do allow you to have a session with your buddies, in a way that water, coke and line Soda don’t.
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@Catogrande said in Aging:
Something else which is funny is I find middle aged woman attractive now when I never used too. Mind you I haven't stopped looking at young woman too.
I'm with you there. There is a lot to find sexy about an older woman once you realise you're married to one
However, on the younger crowd: a 40yo mate of mine found himself in a strip club talking to a stripper who just got off shift. Now of course, the caveat is she's there to keep you at arm's length and try to get you to spend, but once they got a couple of drinks in, and just started talking about life in general, he really appreciated her perspective on life.
Not burdened with kids and 20 years together, he found it very refreshing to speak to a woman who wasn't a work colleague or part of the circle of friends.
No midlife crisis just yet.
.... BTW, the youngest (who hijacked my Fern account a while back) sits beside me and when she saw me browsing the Fern the other week announced to them all that JC was back on his incel group. She thinks @Catogrande is funny, so there’s no helping her.
Any chance of a pic and following that an address if deemed appropriate?
I’m pretty sure there are laws against that or something. She comes from Rotorua and lives in Hastings so she
probablydefinitely would though, probably for a point of meth or whatever it is that passes for a good time amongst the kids these days. And she better get the fuck off my lawn.