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ARW Wrote in message:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy Wonder what a modern version would look like!? -- -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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The ears would all be stuffed withearpones and somebody would be on their
phone? Brian -- ----- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please Note this Signature is meaningless.! "Jim K" wrote in message ... ARW Wrote in message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy Wonder what a modern version would look like!? -- -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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On 12/09/2018 07:32, Brian Gaff wrote:
The ears would all be stuffed withearpones and somebody would be on their phone? Brian Hopefully it would not be shown through a dirty sheet of glass, which this one seems to be, just to get the logo on. |
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On 11/09/18 20:44, ARW wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy No tape measures there, just the old trusty ruler |
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Luckily I cannot see the video, but I got the gist of the discussion.
Brian -- ----- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please Note this Signature is meaningless.! "Broadback" wrote in message news On 12/09/2018 07:32, Brian Gaff wrote: The ears would all be stuffed withearpones and somebody would be on their phone? Brian Hopefully it would not be shown through a dirty sheet of glass, which this one seems to be, just to get the logo on. |
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On 11/09/18 21:14, Jim K wrote:
ARW Wrote in message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy Wonder what a modern version would look like!? https://youtu.be/jJa7VzfWJQg |
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On 11/09/2018 21:14, Jim K wrote:
ARW Wrote in message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy Wonder what a modern version would look like!? As I work on site I already know. Back to the original film right at the beginning. Does that postman post letters through the letter box and then bang the door knocker? Presumably to tell Jacks wife the milkman is on his way round. -- Adam |
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"ARW" wrote in message ... On 11/09/2018 21:14, Jim K wrote: ARW Wrote in message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy Wonder what a modern version would look like!? As I work on site I already know. Back to the original film right at the beginning. Does that postman post letters through the letter box and then bang the door knocker? Yep. Presumably to tell Jacks wife the milkman is on his way round. Nope, that you are. |
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On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:09:03 UTC+1, ARW wrote:
Does that postman post letters through the letter box and then bang the door knocker? Probably. I think they used to do that to draw attention to the post being delivered. Hence some people having notices "please do not ring unless an answer is required". Owain |
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Blimey! Senile Rot has been up and Trolling since FOUR o'clock in the Morning again! LMAO!
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 05:42:42 +1000, cantankerous senile geezer Rot Speed
blabbered, again: FLUSH troll **** -- Marland addressing bull****ting senile Rot: "Stay in your wet paper bag you thick twit." MID: |
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On 12/09/18 19:09, ARW wrote:
On 11/09/2018 21:14, Jim K wrote: ARW Wrote in message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy Wonder what a modern version would look like!? As I work on site I already know. Back to the original film right at the beginning. Does that postman post letters through the letter box and then bang the door knocker? Presumably to tell Jacks wife the milkman is on his way round. He lives in a nice house. I thought bricklayers used to live in council estates. TW |
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TimW Wrote in message:
On 12/09/18 19:09, ARW wrote: On 11/09/2018 21:14, Jim K wrote: ARW Wrote in message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy Wonder what a modern version would look like!? As I work on site I already know. Back to the original film right at the beginning. Does that postman post letters through the letter box and then bang the door knocker? Presumably to tell Jacks wife the milkman is on his way round. He lives in a nice house. I thought bricklayers used to live in council estates. TW He hasn't built them yet... -- -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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On Thursday, 13 September 2018 06:54:18 UTC+1, JimK wrote:
TimW Wrote in message: On 12/09/18 19:09, ARW wrote: On 11/09/2018 21:14, Jim K wrote: ARW Wrote in message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy Wonder what a modern version would look like!? As I work on site I already know. Back to the original film right at the beginning. Does that postman post letters through the letter box and then bang the door knocker? Presumably to tell Jacks wife the milkman is on his way round. He lives in a nice house. I thought bricklayers used to live in council estates. TW He hasn't built them yet... The first council houses were built long before that. Some n the 19thC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_house https://fet.uwe.ac.uk/conweb/house_a...sing/print.htm |
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On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 09:38:19 UTC+1, RobH wrote:
On 11/09/18 20:44, ARW wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy No tape measures there, just the old trusty ruler They used chains over long distances. (Didn't stretch). |
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On 12/09/2018 08:34, Broadback wrote:
On 12/09/2018 07:32, Brian Gaff wrote: The ears would all be stuffed withearpones and somebody would be on their phone? Brian Hopefully it would not be shown through a dirty sheet of glass, which this one seems to be, just to getÂ* the logo on. That must be John Huntleys copyright protection. He used to do fascinating talks at Croydon festival Hall on all manner of stuff, notably railways. |
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On 12/09/2018 19:09, ARW wrote:
On 11/09/2018 21:14, Jim K wrote: ARW Wrote in message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy Wonder what a modern version would look like!? As I work on site I already know. Back to the original film right at the beginning. Does that postman post letters through the letter box and then bang the door knocker? Presumably to tell Jacks wife the milkman is on his way round. Those apprentices looked happy and well motivated. Not a tattoo in sight. I wonder how much his gross earnings were before he ended up with £7 5s 0d ?. |
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ARW presented the following explanation :
Does that postman post letters through the letter box and then bang the door knocker? Presumably to tell Jacks wife the milkman is on his way round. Postmen used to give a quick knock when they delivered mail. The convention seems to not happen now, but the dogs let us know just as soon as the postie gets in the street. |
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On 13/09/2018 12:28, Andrew wrote:
On 12/09/2018 19:09, ARW wrote: On 11/09/2018 21:14, Jim K wrote: ARW Wrote in message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy Wonder what a modern version would look like!? As I work on site I already know. Back to the original film right at the beginning. Does that postman post letters through the letter box and then bang the door knocker? Presumably to tell Jacks wife the milkman is on his way round. Those apprentices looked happy and well motivated. Not a tattoo in sight. I wonder how much his gross earnings were before he ended up with £7 5s 0d ?. very posh apprentices, with triangular sarnies. |
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harry Wrote in message:
On Thursday, 13 September 2018 06:54:18 UTC+1, JimK wrote: TimW Wrote in message: On 12/09/18 19:09, ARW wrote: On 11/09/2018 21:14, Jim K wrote: ARW Wrote in message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy Wonder what a modern version would look like!? As I work on site I already know. Back to the original film right at the beginning. Does that postman post letters through the letter box and then bang the door knocker? Presumably to tell Jacks wife the milkman is on his way round. He lives in a nice house. I thought bricklayers used to live in council estates. TW He hasn't built them yet... The first council houses were built long before that. Some n the 19thC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_house https://fet.uwe.ac.uk/conweb/house_a...sing/print.htm But were bricklayers the intended tenants? -- -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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On Thursday, 13 September 2018 12:28:38 UTC+1, Andrew wrote:
On 12/09/2018 19:09, ARW wrote: On 11/09/2018 21:14, Jim K wrote: ARW Wrote in message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy Wonder what a modern version would look like!? As I work on site I already know. Back to the original film right at the beginning. Does that postman post letters through the letter box and then bang the door knocker? Presumably to tell Jacks wife the milkman is on his way round. Those apprentices looked happy and well motivated. Not a tattoo in sight. I wonder how much his gross earnings were before he ended up with £7 5s 0d ?. In the 1960's, I was an apprentice and got nowhere near that! Three pounds something ISTR. |
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On Thursday, 13 September 2018 12:28:38 UTC+1, Andrew wrote: On 12/09/2018 19:09, ARW wrote: On 11/09/2018 21:14, Jim K wrote: ARW Wrote in message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy Wonder what a modern version would look like!? As I work on site I already know. Back to the original film right at the beginning. Does that postman post letters through the letter box and then bang the door knocker? Presumably to tell Jacks wife the milkman is on his way round. Those apprentices looked happy and well motivated. Not a tattoo in sight. I wonder how much his gross earnings were before he ended up with £7 5s 0d ?. In the 1960's, I was an apprentice and got nowhere near that! Three pounds something ISTR. If you could be arsed to have watched the film which is the topic of this thread then you would have realised the £7 5s 0d. was the earnings of the Bricklayer not the apprentice. Another classic case of Harry going off at half cock and getting something wrong again because you dont bother to actually to check details. No wonder a lot of your postings are complete ********. GH |
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harry writes On Thursday, 13 September 2018 12:28:38 UTC+1, Andrew wrote: On 12/09/2018 19:09, ARW wrote: On 11/09/2018 21:14, Jim K wrote: ARW Wrote in message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy Wonder what a modern version would look like!? As I work on site I already know. Back to the original film right at the beginning. Does that postman post letters through the letter box and then bang the door knocker? Presumably to tell Jacks wife the milkman is on his way round. Those apprentices looked happy and well motivated. Not a tattoo in sight. I wonder how much his gross earnings were before he ended up with £7 5s 0d ?. In the 1960's, I was an apprentice and got nowhere near that! Three pounds something ISTR. £4.8s 1960 St. Albans. I think we got *London weighting* because the company re-located during WW2. -- Tim Lamb |
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On 11/09/18 20:44, ARW wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy Awesome - shirt and tie on Saturday Classy. |
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On 13/09/2018 19:15, Marland wrote:
harry wrote: On Thursday, 13 September 2018 12:28:38 UTC+1, Andrew wrote: On 12/09/2018 19:09, ARW wrote: On 11/09/2018 21:14, Jim K wrote: ARW Wrote in message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy Wonder what a modern version would look like!? As I work on site I already know. Back to the original film right at the beginning. Does that postman post letters through the letter box and then bang the door knocker? Presumably to tell Jacks wife the milkman is on his way round. Those apprentices looked happy and well motivated. Not a tattoo in sight. I wonder how much his gross earnings were before he ended up with £7 5s 0d ?. In the 1960's, I was an apprentice and got nowhere near that! Three pounds something ISTR. If you could be arsed to have watched the film which is the topic of this thread then you would have realised the £7 5s 0d. was the earnings of the Bricklayer not the apprentice. Another classic case of Harry going off at half cock and getting something wrong again because you dont bother to actually to check details. No wonder a lot of your postings are complete ********. :-) -- Adam |
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wrote: Probably. I think they used to do that to draw attention to the post being delivered. Hence some people having notices "please do not ring unless an answer is required". I was in the shower yesterday morning when the door bell rang. Dead good was that. Got to the front door half naked and dripping water all over the floor. Dog going ballistic. There was the postman with three jiffy bags that would have easily gone through the letter box. Nothing to be signed for. How well does he know your dog or if you have a collection basket on the inside* Many a dog would see small Jiffy bags lying on the floor as a challenge to be ripped apart, Someone somewhere has probably blamed a postman for their dog eating something that has choked or poisoned them possibly fatally or at least tried to get the post office to pay a vets bill. * seems to be a thing that not many people have now, most preferring the mailed items just to fall to the floor where if someone has been away awhile the heap can obstruct the door. Having one saves bending down as well . GH |
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Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: wrote: Probably. I think they used to do that to draw attention to the post being delivered. Hence some people having notices "please do not ring unless an answer is required". I was in the shower yesterday morning when the door bell rang. Dead good was that. Got to the front door half naked and dripping water all over the floor. Dog going ballistic. There was the postman with three jiffy bags that would have easily gone through the letter box. Nothing to be signed for. How well does he know your dog or if you have a collection basket on the inside* Many a dog would see small Jiffy bags lying on the floor as a challenge to be ripped apart, Someone somewhere has probably blamed a postman for their dog eating something that has choked or poisoned them possibly fatally or at least tried to get the post office to pay a vets bill. * seems to be a thing that not many people have now, most preferring the mailed items just to fall to the floor where if someone has been away awhile the heap can obstruct the door. Having one saves bending down as well . GH You are a prick and I claim my £5. |
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Marland wrote: Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: wrote: I was in the shower yesterday morning when the door bell rang. Dead good was that. Got to the front door half naked and dripping water all over the floor. Dog going ballistic. There was the postman with three jiffy bags that would have easily gone through the letter box. Nothing to be signed for. How well does he know your dog or if you have a collection basket on the inside* Many a dog would see small Jiffy bags lying on the floor as a challenge to be ripped apart, Someone somewhere has probably blamed a postman for their dog eating something that has choked or poisoned them possibly fatally or at least tried to get the post office to pay a vets bill. * seems to be a thing that not many people have now, most preferring the mailed items just to fall to the floor where if someone has been away awhile the heap can obstruct the door. Having one saves bending down as well . GH You are a prick and I claim my ï½£5. Pity you omitted the words of the Postman when he saw your half naked body out of your first posting, and get your medical supplies from somebody who pays for the postage in future. GH |
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On 13/09/2018 20:31, Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , harry writes On Thursday, 13 September 2018 12:28:38 UTC+1, AndrewÂ* wrote: On 12/09/2018 19:09, ARW wrote: On 11/09/2018 21:14, Jim K wrote: ARW Wrote in message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy Wonder what a modern version would look like!? As I work on site I already know. Back to the original film right at the beginning. Does that postman post letters through the letter box and then bang the door knocker? Presumably to tell Jacks wife the milkman is on his way round. Those apprentices looked happy and well motivated. Not a tattoo in sight. I wonder how much his gross earnings were before he ended up with £7 5s 0d ?. In the 1960's, I was an apprentice and got nowhere near that! Three pounds something ISTR. £4.8sÂ* 1960 St. Albans. I think we got *London weighting* because the company re-located during WW2. I got £1000 a year London Weighting when I left the NHS in 1984. That was almost an eighth of my gross income. Amazingly, it counts towards the NHS pension too !!, even though most of the people working in central London hospitals commuted in from the suburbs, so when they retired, they did not have the costs of living in central London. |
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Marland explained on 14/09/2018 :
* seems to be a thing that not many people have now, most preferring the mailed items just to fall to the floor where if someone has been away awhile the heap can obstruct the door. Having one saves bending down as well . Maybe a lot to do with modern UPVC doors, many of the ready made ones will not fit a UPVC door - Having a dog, I needed one so had to DIY make a custom one. |
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On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:44:00 +0100, ARW wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy No hod-carriers?? -- This message may be freely reproduced without limit or charge only via the Usenet protocol. Reproduction in whole or part through other protocols, whether for profit or not, is conditional upon a charge of GBP10.00 per reproduction. Publication in this manner via non-Usenet protocols constitutes acceptance of this condition. |
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On 15/09/2018 12:59, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:44:00 +0100, ARW wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy No hod-carriers?? OK for ground floor but I wouldn't want a labourer to slip and the workmen below showered with bricks. I don't see any hard hats in the video, not that they would be much good against a brick falling 50ft. |
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I don't see any hard hats in the video, not that they would be much good against a brick falling 50ft. Plus I would imagine having a few bricks fall on your head would be a cake-walk in comparison to all the German bombs recently doing likewise! Living through a blitzkrieg really makes one re-calibrate one's concept of what constitutes personal danger. :-) -- This message may be freely reproduced without limit or charge only via the Usenet protocol. Reproduction in whole or part through other protocols, whether for profit or not, is conditional upon a charge of GBP10.00 per reproduction. Publication in this manner via non-Usenet protocols constitutes acceptance of this condition. |
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"Cursitor Doom" wrote in message news No hod-carriers?? In the film the bricklayers are working on a large block of flats with continuous scaffolding. In such circumsrtances its obviously easier and cheaper to rig up a lift or lifts to lift stuff to higher floors than it is to employ hod carriers. This is in contrast to building pairs of semi-detached houses or similar units where installing such lifts simply wouldn't be worthwhile. This has probably been the case since Victorian times if not earlier. No special knowledge of the building industry was required to provide this answer, just a modicum of basic common sense. michael adams .... .. |
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"Fredxx" wrote in message news On 15/09/2018 12:59, Cursitor Doom wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:44:00 +0100, ARW wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy No hod-carriers?? OK for ground floor but I wouldn't want a labourer to slip and the workmen below showered with bricks. I don't see any hard hats in the video, not that they would be much good against a brick falling 50ft. There were no ambulance chasing lawyers until fairly recently and so unless that person's union subs were up to date giving him access to legal advice nobody really cared if he copped the odd brick on the head or not. Certainly not the building firms themselves. While any compo should he have won would probably have been derisory in any case. In the end presumably the casualty figures persuaded the gvt. and/or the insurance industry to act. michael adams ..... |
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On Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:23:58 UTC+1, michael adams wrote:
"Fredxx" wrote in message news On 15/09/2018 12:59, Cursitor Doom wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:44:00 +0100, ARW wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy No hod-carriers?? OK for ground floor but I wouldn't want a labourer to slip and the workmen below showered with bricks. I don't see any hard hats in the video, not that they would be much good against a brick falling 50ft. There were no ambulance chasing lawyers until fairly recently and so unless that person's union subs were up to date giving him access to legal advice nobody really cared if he copped the odd brick on the head or not. Certainly not the building firms themselves. While any compo should he have won would probably have been derisory in any case. In the end presumably the casualty figures persuaded the gvt. and/or the insurance industry to act. michael adams but not act until decades later I'd also expect that any access to lawyers was prohibitively expensive, and that a court would only have blamed whoever dropped the bricks - or possibly the victim for going where they knew it was risky, ie underneath someone moving bricks. The fact that the guy was walking onto a crude lift floors up says it all. There was evidently scant concern for safety. NT |
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wrote in message ... On Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:23:58 UTC+1, michael adams wrote: "Fredxx" wrote in message news On 15/09/2018 12:59, Cursitor Doom wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:44:00 +0100, ARW wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy No hod-carriers?? OK for ground floor but I wouldn't want a labourer to slip and the workmen below showered with bricks. I don't see any hard hats in the video, not that they would be much good against a brick falling 50ft. There were no ambulance chasing lawyers until fairly recently and so unless that person's union subs were up to date giving him access to legal advice nobody really cared if he copped the odd brick on the head or not. Certainly not the building firms themselves. While any compo should he have won would probably have been derisory in any case. In the end presumably the casualty figures persuaded the gvt. and/or the insurance industry to act. michael adams but not act until decades later I'd also expect that any access to lawyers was prohibitively expensive, Hence at least one advantage of being in a union, even if it did mean also paying a stamp and tax. Which of course, many weren't : and didn't. and that a court would only have blamed whoever dropped the bricks - or possibly the victim for going where they knew it was risky, ie underneath someone moving bricks. The fact that the guy was walking onto a crude lift floors up says it all. There was evidently scant concern for safety. On the Empire State building some of them used to hitch a ride on the hook of the crane. https://artblart.files.wordpress.com...n_ball-web.jpg As well as his safety helmet and goggles it looks like he forgot his fluorescent vest as well michael adams .... NT |
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Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: Marland wrote: Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: wrote: I was in the shower yesterday morning when the door bell rang. Dead good was that. Got to the front door half naked and dripping water all over the floor. Dog going ballistic. There was the postman with three jiffy bags that would have easily gone through the letter box. Nothing to be signed for. How well does he know your dog or if you have a collection basket on the inside* Many a dog would see small Jiffy bags lying on the floor as a challenge to be ripped apart, Someone somewhere has probably blamed a postman for their dog eating something that has choked or poisoned them possibly fatally or at least tried to get the post office to pay a vets bill. * seems to be a thing that not many people have now, most preferring the mailed items just to fall to the floor where if someone has been away awhile the heap can obstruct the door. Having one saves bending down as well . GH You are a prick and I claim my ?5. Pity you omitted the words of the Postman when he saw your half naked body out of your first posting, and get your medical supplies from somebody who pays for the postage in future. GH Silly Billy who is going nowhere. |
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Old film 1940's bricklayers
In article , Fredxx
scribeth thus On 15/09/2018 12:59, Cursitor Doom wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:44:00 +0100, ARW wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuUqJH3ehM Not sure we have seen it before. Enjoy No hod-carriers?? OK for ground floor but I wouldn't want a labourer to slip and the workmen below showered with bricks. I don't see any hard hats in the video, not that they would be much good against a brick falling 50ft. Maybe not a direct hit but in any case it would offer some protection as it can absorb the impact to an extent.. -- Tony Sayer |
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