Malcolm Robinson
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Eggy, Your account of your first experience working should be required reading for all school leavers, the title of which would be, "How we gave away our world class manufacturing base!" The best we can hope for now is to bolt together pre-made (in other parts of the world) and delivered to site bits which will make up the likes of the trains Hitachi are being applauded for 'making' here.
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Should I Really Join Facebook? Read it all the way through - It's a good laugh! AND really quite true!!A good laugh for people in the over 60 group…. When I bought my Smartphone, I thought about the 30-year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a cell phone that plays music, takes videos, pictures and communicates with Facebook and Twitter. I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, my 13 grand kids and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space. That was before one of my grand kids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twitterific, Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other program within the texting World. My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything except the bowel movements of the entire next generation. I am not ready to live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag. The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I keep that in a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [it's red] phone I am supposed to use when I drive. I wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble talking to my wife and everyone within 50 yards was glaring at me. I had to take my hearing aid out to use it, and I got a little loud. I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside that gadget was the most annoying and rudest person I had run into in a long time. Every 10 minutes she would sarcastically say, "Re-calc-u-lating." You would think that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then if I made a right turn instead. Well, it was not a good relationship... When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross streets and, while she is starting to develop the same tone as Gypsy, the GPS lady, at least she loves me. To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven't figured out how I lose three phones all at once and have to run around digging under chair cushions, checking bathrooms, and the dirty laundry baskets when the phone rings. The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on something themselves but this sudden "Paper or Plastic?" every time I check out just knocks me for a loop. I bought some of those cloth reusable bags to avoid looking confused, but I never remember to take them with me. Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me, "Paper or plastic?" I just say, "It doesn't matter to me. I am bi-sacksual." Then it's their turn to stare at me with a blank look. I was recently asked if I tweet. I answered, No, but I do fart a lot."
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You asked for it..... Paddy and Paddy, two Irishmen, went out one day and each bought a pig. When they got home, Paddy turned to Paddy and said, "Paddy, me ol' mate, how are we going to tell who owns which Pig?" Paddy says, "Well Paddy, I'll cut one of de ears off my Pig, and ten we can tell them apart." "Ah, dat id be grand," says Paddy. This worked fine until a couple of weeks later, when Paddy stormed into the house. "Paddy" he said, "Your Pig has chewed the ear off my Pig. Now we got two pigs with one ear each.. How are we going to tell who owns which pig?" "Well Paddy," says Paddy,"I'll cut at other ear off my pig. Ten we'll ave two pigs and only one of them will avan ear". "Ah tat'd be grand" says Paddy. Again, this worked fine until a couple of weeks later, when Paddy again stormed into the house. "Paddy", he said, "Your pig has chewed the other ear offa my pig!!!" "Now, we got two pigs with no ears!!!. How we gonna tell who owns which pig?" "Ah, dis is serious, Paddy" said Paddy.. "I'll tell ya what I'll do. I'll cut de tail offa my pig. Den we'll av two pigs with no ears and only one tail." "Ah tat'd be grand" says Paddy. Another couple of weeks went by and...........you guessed it, Paddy stormed into the house once more. "PADDY," shouted Paddy, "YOUR PIG HAS CHEWED THE TAIL OFFA MY PIG, AND NOW WE GOT TWO PIGS WITH NO EARS AND NO TAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. HOW DE ARE WE GONNA TELL 'EM APART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "Ah, damm" says Paddy, "how's about you ave the black one, and I'll ave the white one"
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I would like to make a couple of points. First if I stood up on the Nail and shouted what those people are shouting in that video I would EXPECT to have my collar felt pretty dammed sharpish by the boys in blue. Incitement to any number of things no doubt. Why then if we are all the same under the law weren't all those people nicked? Certainly for these hard lined hateful clerics we keep reading about, a swift deportation to whatever Middle Eastern utopia they are trying to recreate here would be first order of business! Secondly we ask our armed services to protect this country wherever and whenever we, the democratically elected government operating supposedly under international law, dictates. We should do EVERYTHING in our power to make sure this country is safe for them to walk the streets with their heads held high. We owe them a debt which very few of us will ever repay. I don't agree with Keith's original premise that we should be banning Asian owned corner shops or other businesses, I think we should be looking at them and wondering why the indigenous population haven't got the same work ethic!
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Well it seems they are looking for the right place to put it Keith.........
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The amount of times it has been on fire might be a good idea to have its own fire brigade stationed there! Doesn't all the debris always run off into the river too?
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Here's a starter............ Don't you know who I am Vera! http://www.standard.co.uk/news/police-take-no-action-against-dog-messrow-minister-6786670.html
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I see the Egger plant at Hexham is in flames again. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-22677719
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How it ended up in Holland??????? http://www.journallive.co.uk/northumberland-sites/bedlington-northumberland/bedlington-news/2013/05/22/bedlington-school-s-lost-war-memorial-turns-up-in-holland-after-40-years-61634-33364537/
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We all know those Germans have the best run economy in the EU don't we. Nothing to see here, move alone now! $72 Trillion, how many zeros in that? http://www.examiner.com/article/banking-insider-deutsche-bank-danger-zone-and-will-go-belly-up
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Thank you Foxy and if anyone doesn't get the cheque thing, the Development Trust put up a prize for the winner of the Enterprise Fair. This was made up of teams of students who were given a small sum of money and told to turn it into a product which they could sell on the day. Fantastic efforts by all and they are all winners because they now have that experience which can only stand them in good stead in their futures. The Judges ultimately had to pick one winner and it was Northumbrian Rock by Sugarrushed! I will leave it for others to give their opinions of how the day went but I will say we did exactly what we set out to do, show there can be public events on this scale organised and run in Bedlington, for Bedlington and making use of some of the assets we already have in Bedlington. As for the song Wonky, again I will have to let others opine but there will be a video of the day produced in due course. (Paying my turn, I have a face like a turkey cock because of sun burn and we never stopped cooking on those barbecues from lightening them up until the field emptied! Seriously though thanks for helping out M8!)
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Horror Express!
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Big Trouble in Little China............ Medusa Touch? Re-make of Village of the Dammed. First one...............?????? Its in the back of my mind....
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No... step too far! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psZBaJU_Cvo
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Nice post Anne.
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Welcome Eileen
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America but it could just as well be anywhere else too! http://www.youtube.c...p?v=jeYscnFpEyA
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Bedlington Forum minutes and AGM. Web version Bed Forum Minutes 08.04.2013 .pdf Web version Bed Forum AGM 8th April 2013.pdf
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Cool jukebox courtesy of Foxy. Pick your years. http://upchucky.org/JukeCity/1980/OldJukes/player.htm?
