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15th March 2018, 08:08 AM
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Re: Funny if it wasn't serious
john an erection in Russia?? tell us more please {even if you lie}
jp
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15th March 2018, 08:53 AM
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JP... I think he is right when he says we are all spied on, probably this site has been inspected for any future employees of various political parties, I don’t think the talent scouts for any of the professional sports will waste too much time on here so have missed your chance for playing for Liverpool. If anyone is approached by SPECTRE now they will be frightened to put on site as have seen what happens to those who spill the goods.. Cheers JWS.
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15th March 2018, 09:41 AM
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as long as its not a crew alexander scout john they knew they had a convicted child abuser working for them and what really pi..es me of my team often played against them at that time80/90s i would gladly have strangled the bastard? jp
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15th March 2018, 03:22 PM
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I get a little bit fed up of all the news about how Hollywood starlets have been abused etc but what really irritates me is our when people have gone to the police in the past and said I have been abused and the police have left them out of the place I know it goes back over decades but it's a shame that there's policeman that dismissed any claims at the time were not tried and Friday now
Rob Page R855150 - British & Commonwealth Shipping ( 1965 - 1973 ) Gulf Oil -( 1973 - 1975 ) Sealink ( 1975 - 1986 ) 

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16th March 2018, 04:41 AM
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Re: Funny if it wasn't serious

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John Pruden
john an erection in Russia?? tell us more please {even if you lie}


jp
Quite simple John, in the end no matter whop you vote for we all get screwed.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
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16th March 2018, 07:59 AM
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john first thing Monday morning on building sites we would line all the apprentices up and the subject would be did you have sex over the weekend tell us all even if you lie
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16th March 2018, 08:50 AM
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I was nearly one of those apprentices John. My old man was a hard task master though and it wouldn’t have lasted. Ambrose who held all the so-called titles was a con job to me. The only thing my old man ever wanted from me was to bring him back some American trowel he had heard of, can’t remember whether it was the shape or the weight of it was the attraction. The one thing I always regretted not doing for him. Took at least 2 hod carriers to keep pace. With him when working. From a scaffold. He built me an extension and porch to my house and put in a stone fireplace in the lounge running the full length of the room. On the condition l laboured to him, nearly killed me but did it. As a 6 day a week job though it would never have lasted. Most of his mates built their own homes, he out of principle wouldnt, saying a council house was the best built house due to the many surveyors they had at every level. People today when they talk about politics don’t know what they are talking about , it was always his saying that the working man couldn’t afford not to vote for a labour government, which I begged to differ. My mother being a Scottish liberal just to get him going. Politics though never interfered with normal family life. His last words to me as he put me on a train for the Bristol Channel was son wherever life takes you never look down on the working man, he is your bread and butter. I did see him at various times later, even out here, he worked on the tools to well past 70. Cheers JWS
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16th March 2018, 11:02 AM
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john i done everything you can name on construction but always went back to plastering i got great satisfaction seeing a bare brick room and leaving it with a marble like finish or working for the national trust on the ornamental stuff put on with bare hands lime mortared and laths ? jp
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16th March 2018, 11:20 AM
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##john my big buddy in shields is a plasterer .....his work is ist class but as he gets older he is finding it very hard work .so recently managed to get a job portering in the hospital it has a good pension scheme and lunches chucked in ......he still does plastering in his spare time and as he ses the graft is not so hard ......he is a older happier bunny .........cappy
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16th March 2018, 11:36 AM
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John Pruden
john i done everything you can name on construction but always went back to plastering i got great satisfaction seeing a bare brick room and leaving it with a marble like finish or working for the national trust on the ornamental stuff put on with bare hands lime mortared and laths ? jp
John, skills such as that are now in decline with modern technology taking over.
But I have seen the job done and it does look good.
The only plastering I ever did was in the pub on a Saturday night, well and truly plastered


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
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