knock yourself out ? Do not think it means the same here as your way ? K
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knock yourself out ? Do not think it means the same here as your way ? K
HI All.
Here for all you Vindi boys is a memory.
Cheers Des
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Vindi Again.
I got this from Robin Hurst a few years ago.
Cheers Des
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Marian, Thanks for that I have no idea how you found that to be honest I always kept a can full or empty of the unforgettable {Angela contented} Saying no more, Regards Terry. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by gray_marian
You are most welcome Terry. However apparently "Knock yourself out" can mean something different down South, so I apologise if my reply sounded rude. As I understand it, up here it just means "Go for it" or "Do whatever your hearts content." Usually something I say to hubby if he offers to take over in the kitchen. He would definitely have said otherwise. Anyway as for the Tennent Ladies all I vaguely remember is a lady dressed in a crimplene outfit propping up or sitting on bar stool early 60's me thinks.:)
From the very first girl "Ann" who appeared on a set of 20 cans showing pictures of English Scenes in 1962.
All the way to "Violet" who appeared in the last set of girls in 1991. A wide spectrum indeed, over nearly 30 years. From the red of the original cans to Violet.
Tennent's Lager Lovelies Archive
What would one get for 3 odd Quid these days Des! LOL
A Glass of Scotch perhaps!
Cheers
Six odd Dollars,Doc:cool:.
i miss seeing the world but dont miss feeling seasick. paid off a 1000 tonner after a fortnight cos of it, told the pool bloke not to put me back on anything that small again so they stopped my pool pay (cos i had intentionally made myself unemployed) he then later offered me the 320k tonner shell Lepeta and said "is that one big enough for you" still felt queasy coming through the med on her though, got a beam sea and it took about a min to roll from one side to the other, didn't know when it was gonna start back the other way, very unsettling. pussy!! At least I can say without fear of contradiction that I was the first kid in my year to completely circumnavigate the continent of africa by the time i was 17... sardinia to durban via the gib straits, then up to venezuela, back round the cape to singapore, through the suez and paid off in tarragona spain.
I did 43 years at sea retired in 2013. I can honestly say I do not miss sailing on it but I do miss not living close to it. By the time I retired I hated it. One thing I certainly do not miss is having to fly half way round the world to join a ship, but also did not mind flying halfway round the world leaving a ship. What killed it for me was all the bullshit paper work, permits to work , risk assessment just to tighten a gland on a pump FCS.
It also used to really get on my tits when some snot nosed kid of a second mate (safety officer) would try and tell me I was holding a hammer wrong or a spanner. More than once a few would be told to GTF or the hammer would be placed somewhere the sun did not shine.