Ronald_antly
12:26 Thu Dec 8
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So the Aussies had Irish accents?
That's weird.
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bruuuno
12:03 Thu Dec 8
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At the end of the nineties I used to drink in a pub in clerkenwell that was the base of cycle couriers. They would all get pissed and drugged right up and bomb it round the city on bikes. Lots of aussies and that.
If anyone's seen spaced the Irish guy tyres in that is exactly what they are like
Funny times
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claret on my shirt
1:58 Wed Dec 7
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one of mates is a scaffolder, he is mad as a hatter, drinks stella and has a spliff while working no matter if he is 5 foot off the ground or 1000 foot
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joe royal
1:33 Wed Dec 7
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I spent 15 years as a motorcycle courier and the worst accident I had was on a Sunday going to my dads.
Dunno about nutters but there are some strange people that drive rock and roll tour lorries.
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J.Riddle
1:21 Wed Dec 7
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Iron worker walking the steel
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yqqdIKshGMo
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Willtell
12:57 Wed Dec 7
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Scary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdPd1hlWe0k
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J.Riddle
12:34 Wed Dec 7
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Skywalkers
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Northern Sold
12:15 Wed Dec 7
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Bering Sea Crabmen deffo....
Jockeys.... must have a screw loose sitting on an animal that you get chucked off at 30mph+..... surprised more don't die to be honest
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SecondOpinion
11:03 Wed Dec 7
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a WHO moderator surely?
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neilalex
10:54 Wed Dec 7
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Probably like that onshore Mashed but you can't fuck about at sea without coming unstuck pretty quickly I would imagine.
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mashed in maryland
10:36 Wed Dec 7
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neilalex 12:51 Wed Dec 7
Dunno about the level headed bit. Every trawlerman I've ever met has spent their life in the pub, (except when they're at sea of course, where a lot of them spend their time pissed as well) When I lived in Devon the pubs they drank in made most of the boozers round Upton Park seem sophisticated. Think statistically it's by far the most dangerous job in the UK.
Scaffolders are a bit like vegans. How can you tell when you've met one? Don't worry they'll fucking tell you. Never done it but I've no doubts it's a proper tough job, mind.
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Grumpster
9:09 Wed Dec 7
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Suppose the blokes who climb up about 800 feet to work those massive cranes need some cojones.
Then again I knew one and he was on £500 a day, so it has its perks.
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Far East Hammer
6:52 Wed Dec 7
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Special forces.
A bit like trawlermen, it takes a specific combination of nous and common sense which somehow does not conflict with the nutterness required to put you in such situations in the first place.
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stomper
3:06 Wed Dec 7
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Motorcycle courier
Sod that for a game of soldiers. There wasnt a day that someone didnt try to kill me.
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Cheezey Bell-End
2:23 Wed Dec 7
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Or Bob Price... Splat!
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chim chim cha boo
1:47 Wed Dec 7
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Motorcycle road racer.
Ian Hutchinson's big TT crash flat-out on the Mountain makes me feel queasy every time I see it. As he hits a dry stone wall his body is flung spinning into the air like a rag doll.
For some reason it affects me even more than the many fatalities that have happened there. A miracle that he didn't die, a miracle he didn't lose his leg and a miracle that he was back this year and was so quick.
When I've done speeds like that I need all three lanes of a motorway just to keep the thing facing the right way. It's an unbelievably violent situation a bit like being in a big fight. Weirdly you don't really hear the screaming of the engine as it wails away at 14,000RPM, more the wind that's trying to separate you from your neck.
Your head starts to shake violently and you start to get tunnel vision like fighter pilots do. There have been times when I've actually seen stars like you get after a good punch to your face.
Racing throws up some total mentalists like Troy Bayliss who crashed in his first World Superbike race of the day, had it cut off and finished fourth a couple of hours later.
Jorge Lorenzo high-sided his MotoGP bike a few years ago and broke both his ankles. Next practice session he rode with both feet in plaster and had more or less the same accident again and broke his ankles in new places. He had to be caught by his mechanics who then carried him into the garage when he raced. He desperately needed the points so raced as if nothing was wrong with him. I personally can't imagine what it must be like to do 205MPH on a bike with two broken ankles.
That's probably why I'm typing this on the sofa and he ended up winning the World Championship.
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monto
12:57 Wed Dec 7
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Safe removals/installations. Great wedge, but there's a reason why. Absolutely fucking dangerous.
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neilalex
12:51 Wed Dec 7
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Yes, funny, before I opened the thread I thought scaffolders. A high proportion of utter fucking loons.
But trawlerman is actually more dangerous I think. My brother worked on the trawlers out of Lowestoft for a while when he was young, and blokes regularly died. The difference is that trawlermen have to be pretty level headed to survive whereas scaffolding just seems to attract head cases.
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normannomates
12:35 Wed Dec 7
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It's true..all scaffolders are class A oddbods
They only cope through copious amounts of beer and marching powder
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greenie1
12:29 Wed Dec 7
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Many years ago I did scaffolding for 6 months during the winter and spring. Freezing weather, used to get home and have to have a bath to thaw out. Carrying a 21ft pole on my shoulder, I once walked over a manhole cover, it collapsed and I knocked myself out.
Up and down ladders with poles, slipping around in deep mud trying to pass up endless 21ft poles to someone on a roof. Not an easy job to do, and I met some right characters.
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normannomates
12:29 Wed Dec 7
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Thinking about it..buying a Football Club has to be up there.
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