I would just like to say

Stanleysteamer said:

Feck me your world knowledge exceeds mine by a long straw.
All i know about hiding one's worldly belongings up one's jackssy is to do with the peeps who got deported from Frogland to bits of south America right up until quite recently, last ones released in 1953. (Think Papillon). they used to make special aluminium tubes and put everything that mattered to them in those. then insert them where the sun didn't shine.
I read a book a while back, long out of print and they never printed many copies when they did it. I actually had to sign about 23 pieces of paper to ensure I returned it to its owner. Which was all about life as a "bagnard".
Bloody terrible.
And if you managed to live to the end of your sentence, you were slung out of the jail and just left there to serve the equivalent of your sentence again outside of the jail in Guyana.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_French_Guiana.

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Stanleysteamer said:

Wish I could still get hold of that book.
I'd send it to you.
You'd go grey overnite!
Think if it was me I'd try to catch the worse case of warts I possibly could, like glorious technicolor ones.
God, what a thought!

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kevstar said:

Ive had two, im working in the morning.. Oh Cognac I used to drink that in shots when I was a barman
in spain or anything else that was fired up & down the bar haha

Glad the pooch is better thats good news.

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Hippo said:

Bosh. Mite be er but big fet wot yet wants

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8672760

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Stanleysteamer said:

So you was a Sambuca special!!! Ho, Ho, ho!!!

Pooch, and the others, are still sleeping downstairs in the kitchen tonite! Till we are sure she has got over it!

When I was a (cocktail) barman I was working in such a straight joint that I never was able to sling booze down the bar. It wouldn't have made it as the bar was only about 4 feet long!
When the owners did a refurb they asked me how I wanted the bar to be. They were making a bar out of what had been a small dining room in the restaurant. So there I was, 18 and designing my own bar. So I wanted a really small bar so no one else could get in there and get in my way. I wanted a bank of glass shelves behind me uplighted with botts on them. and
everything really close to hand as basically no one ever stood at this bar, It was the bar in a very posh hotel and restaurant. No one ever went in there just for a drink.
I simply went to the party, took their drink order then ran back to the bar, mixed the drinks and then ran back to serve the drinks from a silver tray!!!
But the owners did get the bar done exactly as I wanted it. So it worked fine.
Did have a fire one night.
A lady decided to help herself to the soda syphon. So she reached across the bar and managed to put her inflammable sleeve over the candle that was there on the end of the bar. It caught fire.
Imagine a very filmy, see-through blouse with drooping seventies style sleeves, as we were, after all in the seventies. (1973)
She went up like a Roman candle!
I grabbed the soda syphon and sprayed her with it. Put the fire out quite quickly.
She decided she wanted to complain to the owners. She was half of the ownership couple of the "Hole in the wall" restaurant, very famous place in Bath. But she was well known to the owners as, although rivals they got on very well, and they simply pointed out to her that if she had asked me for the soda, it wouldn't have happened!
Then there is the story of the guy who managed to cut his scrotum on a chair.
But I'll keep that for another time!!!

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kevstar said:

Haha good times I had a great pal Miguel who owned a club I used to be the peace keeper
at the front on house, but when it came to 11ish I used to go behind the bar & keep an eye on fings
inside like the talent haha worst bit was chucking all the drunks out at 5am. It seamed to be loads of French dudes causing trouble. Big long bar you could slide bottles up n down loads of free ones given
out for a flash (wink wink)

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Stanleysteamer said:

Fanks mate.
i need to reely get to grips with all the different types and what they are all used for. Neva knew it was so complex!

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doriz said:

I am knackered - do I sit in the kitchen sipping coffee waiting for the sun to rise whilst listening to Classic FM, or do I go back to bed after this cuppa.
Now I’m here it might just be too much effort to move

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Stanleysteamer said:

Although I started in the posh place, later on I got other jobs and did bar work as an extra source of income which is when I sampled the rougher types of place. Like the one where I used to grab a bottle out of the empty bottle trolley whenever some dick used to try summat on. All fun times!
Out for a flash?! You shoulda bin locked up!!!

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Hippo said:

Mine is variable speed depending on how mush yer push the on switch. Yer haf ter pick yer blades correctly. It wears them oot quickly. Also angle yer cut so it dunt catch between teef on thin stuff. When it does the reciprocating continues wiv the bkade stationary. Can be quite frightening when it appens. Look ont youtube for reviews.

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