On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:15:26 -0600, The Nomad wrote:

On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:44:00 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:

On 21/01/2012 10:44, charles wrote:
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:21:42 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:

On 20/01/2012 19:11, harry wrote:
On Jan 20, 6:00 pm,
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It was like travelling back 40 years in time.

The labourer was called "Black Dave".

That's the last time I work in S****horpe.

--
Adam

We had a labourer who was called "PakiJack". It never worried him
in the least back then. He was of "mixed blood" actually, had
nothing to do with the subcontinent. I only found that out after
years.

We have a Pakistani handyman locally - Jamal Fixit.

My last girlfriend, slightly bemused by the large number of Asian-run
newspaper shops in a small area, called them newsasians. I do like an
apposite neologism!


close to Tv Centre in the 60s was an asian run "Cash& Carry". It was
known as 'vendapaki'

We have a local diamond drilling firm called Rahjinder & Sons Ltd.

The slogan on their van is "You have tried the cowboys, now try the
Indians!"

That used to be the slogan of Scan (www.scan.co.uk) a computer part
supplier on the outskirts of Bradford or Bolton - can't remember which
now. Once went to collect (rather than courier) and 'Granny' was
serving behind the counter and boy did she know her stuff!

Years ago I needed a particular motherboard, and the nearest place I
could collect one was a firm in Frindsbury (Medway Handyman's patch).

I got there and all I could find was an Asian-run supermarket. I
eventually noticed a door to the right, to a partitioned off part of the
shop, where the owner's sons ran their PC business!



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