On 13/07/2012 19:24, Rod Speed wrote:


"stuart noble" wrote in message
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On 13/07/2012 11:43, ARWadsworth wrote:
jgharston wrote:
On tonight's episode they sent in some youngsters
to compare with the 70-year-olds from yesterday.
The plumber Ashley was outstanding from the first
second he walked onto the job. The rest of the
20-year-olds were such a appalling example of
"today's yoof" they could be poster-childs for
any Daily Wail young benfer scrounger scum
campaign.

JGH

I have watched it.

There is no way I can do what I do now when I am 70 at the same speed.

Could I still do it? Why not?

BTW we have a new apprentice. There is something seriously wrong with
this
one. He is interested in what he does, he is a quick learner and is
good at
his job. And for some reason I liked him the moment I met him (just
the way
he spoke to me when we met did the trick).

He cannot afford to insure a car so he takes the train to Doncaster
and then
bikes it from the train station to the unit. He is an absolute
pleasure to
talk to and is just superb in every aspect of his work. In fact he is
causing problems because he is fitting the gear faster than we can
get it
delivered! And everything he has installed is perfect.


Hearing that has made my day. I'd like to meet his parents. They
should be appointed special advisors to the government

Its unlikely that they can do anything about transferring their genetics
to everyone else's kids.

Assuming it is all genetic. I very much doubt that