Author Topic: The Good News Thread  (Read 1111211 times)

Kim

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6900 on: 15 January, 2021, 09:24:30 pm »
Sea shanties?   :D

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6901 on: 15 January, 2021, 09:27:56 pm »
Sea shanties?   :D

I saw a segment about this on tonight’s C4 news.  Obviously* Pirate Metal is going to be the next big thing.  Yarrrrr!

* FSVO “obvious”
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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6902 on: 15 January, 2021, 09:48:36 pm »
Sea shanties would be my choice over hers, but Tik Tok's allure escapes me...
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Kim

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6903 on: 15 January, 2021, 09:57:47 pm »
Ah, apparently I'm already out of date (see above re C4 News, I suppose).  Space[1] shanties are where it's at.


[1] For disappointingly Star Wars values of 'space'.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6904 on: 15 January, 2021, 10:04:54 pm »
Space shanties; shanty towns in space. Sounds more realistic in the near future...
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Mrs Pingu

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6905 on: 15 January, 2021, 10:21:33 pm »
We've got the funk.... forget the P-funk, we've got the sea funk (The Mighty Boosh, see 1m20s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qs7XFmZ69rE)
And now Pingu & I have just done the Captain Pugwash theme tune  :D
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dat

Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6906 on: 17 January, 2021, 09:13:18 am »
Just got handed my contract as a bike mechanic after my 3 month trial. After 16 years of cheffing its lovely to turn up to work with a smile on my face and loving what I do! I’ve never been happier. Icing on the cake is that I’ve just bagged myself a Pinarello Prince at trade, it’s good to have perks to the job!

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6907 on: 17 January, 2021, 10:23:11 am »
Welcome to the Business DaT.

Now is time to learn that retail and service industries are great until the customer gets involved (though being a lapsed chef means you prolly knew that already).

Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6908 on: 17 January, 2021, 10:38:54 am »
Just got handed my contract as a bike mechanic after my 3 month trial. After 16 years of cheffing its lovely to turn up to work with a smile on my face and loving what I do! I’ve never been happier. Icing on the cake is that I’ve just bagged myself a Pinarello Prince at trade, it’s good to have perks to the job!

:-D

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6909 on: 19 January, 2021, 02:44:55 pm »
Just got handed my contract as a bike mechanic after my 3 month trial. After 16 years of cheffing its lovely to turn up to work with a smile on my face and loving what I do! I’ve never been happier. Icing on the cake is that I’ve just bagged myself a Pinarello Prince at trade, it’s good to have perks to the job!
:thumbsup:
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robgul

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6910 on: 19 January, 2021, 03:23:17 pm »
Just got handed my contract as a bike mechanic after my 3 month trial. After 16 years of cheffing its lovely to turn up to work with a smile on my face and loving what I do! I’ve never been happier. Icing on the cake is that I’ve just bagged myself a Pinarello Prince at trade, it’s good to have perks to the job!

The 3 years (finishing at the end of 2019) that I did running an LBS were probably the most enjoyable time in over 50 years of working . . . having retired and come back to working was great, minimal pressure . . . and mostly great customers.   The brands we sold didn't appeal to me but I did get some stonking deals on stuff when I upgraded a couple of my own bikes.

What sort of business, and if you're prepared to disclose - whereabouts?

dat

Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6911 on: 20 January, 2021, 07:47:11 am »
Just got handed my contract as a bike mechanic after my 3 month trial. After 16 years of cheffing its lovely to turn up to work with a smile on my face and loving what I do! I’ve never been happier. Icing on the cake is that I’ve just bagged myself a Pinarello Prince at trade, it’s good to have perks to the job!

The 3 years (finishing at the end of 2019) that I did running an LBS were probably the most enjoyable time in over 50 years of working . . . having retired and come back to working was great, minimal pressure . . . and mostly great customers.   The brands we sold didn't appeal to me but I did get some stonking deals on stuff when I upgraded a couple of my own bikes.

What sort of business, and if you're prepared to disclose - whereabouts?

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Mrs Pingu

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6912 on: 19 March, 2021, 05:32:32 pm »
Holiday for a week \o/
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Beardy

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6913 on: 24 March, 2021, 10:47:42 am »
He passed. He actually passed. I’ve been his only driving instructor since he failed his first test.
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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6914 on: 24 March, 2021, 11:12:38 am »
Huzzah !!
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barakta

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6915 on: 24 March, 2021, 02:35:25 pm »
He passed. He actually passed. I’ve been his only driving instructor since he failed his first test.

SUPER CONGRATS!!!

Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6916 on: 24 March, 2021, 02:47:03 pm »
 :thumbsup:    Well done that Beardling.  (and his instructor).
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Mrs Pingu

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6917 on: 24 March, 2021, 03:55:14 pm »
Gosh, that must be a massive relief :)
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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6918 on: 24 March, 2021, 04:19:35 pm »
 :thumbsup:
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Beardy

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6919 on: 24 March, 2021, 05:05:48 pm »
It is a big relief because it releases me from teaching him* and also of travelling with him on his visits. When he took his present job he had plans to take his driving test before starting, but lockdowns caused him all sorts of problems and the driving instructor he went to for a 5 day course turned out to be an egotistical nob with no understanding of atypical** students and no ability to alter his teaching methods to accommodate them.

*something I’ve enjoyed so much that I’m considering a second career as a driving instructor. Possibly specialising in teaching those with spacial awareness issues.

** Freddie has an awful lot of dyspraxia like traits (as reported elsewhere) which needs a different approach, mostly lots of patience, and lots and lots of repeats. Scaffolding is essential.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6920 on: 24 March, 2021, 05:14:44 pm »
Well done to O'Beardy and phew! to Beardy.
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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6921 on: 24 March, 2021, 07:03:44 pm »
Congratulations Beardy and son!
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Beardy

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6922 on: 24 March, 2021, 09:01:53 pm »
Thank you all. I love you lot.  :)
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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6923 on: 25 March, 2021, 07:46:45 am »
Well done Beardy and Beardy Jr.

You can get those running shoes out again now.  😉

barakta

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Re: The Good News Thread
« Reply #6924 on: 25 March, 2021, 09:44:29 pm »
That skill in being sensitive, adaptive and successful with atypical learners is an important one. Well done you Beardy for having compassion, understanding and effectiveness at helping your son overcome barriers and clearly improve confidence to pass his test (at a REALLY tricky time). If this is a thing you wanted to do, I reckon it'd be an interesting later-life career.

I swear 50% of driving instructors are shysters. My 1st one advertised his firm as disability-specialists and was a hideous disablist macho creep who drove aggressively, jumped out of the car at the start of one of my lessons to threaten one of my college peers who he perceived as "driving too close to his car" and ditched me after 4 lessons (thankfully) having taught me nothing and told me it was all my fault for being too disabled... (But not in the actual ways that I am too disabled to drive safely). I know someone who shouldn't legally be driving (who didn't get told this) whose driving instructor took their money for THREE years before suggesting a 2nd opinion who immediately spotted the issue and told person they weren't safe to drive.