How hungry have you been at work????????????????????/

[Pete999]

Just a thought, whilst working away from home, especially after a hard long day, the usual regime was to go to Hotel get showered, shaved etc, have a few beers and go for some grits. on occasions when we had to work late there was no time for a sluice, just a few beers and then some solids.
One particular day we worked late 6 or 10 beers later the Stomach was asking for solids, what was nearest? well it began with M and sold double cheeseburgers, 10 later along with copious amounts of Coke an 6 apple pies, my guts were satisfied, anyone got any stories?

 

[Sintra]

12th photo along on the bottom is his wife.........

@GMES sent me that showing what he looked like when he was younger.

 

[Sintra]

What, with no shrooms - what were you thinking?

Shrooms don’t travel well from Northern Ireland so had to do without

 

[Squid]

Shrooms don’t travel well from Northern Ireland so had to do without

But the Mary J did I bet........

 

[Squid]

Yes well we often hear your streets are paved with gold.

More like chewing gum, dog rubbish, dog ends and rough sleeping Romanian gypsies with a 3 legged dog......

 

[PEG]

More like chewing gum, dog rubbish, dog ends and rough sleeping Romanian gypsies with a 3 legged dog......

You forgot crusty jugglers

 

[PEG]

On a weekend job I didn't have time for a full English breakfast cause the foremans a swine,So I got on the phone and I authorised them to send me some Holland meat pies.

Those Holland meat pies, the kind that I like, are coming to me on the back of a bike. In a minute or two Deliveroo will be here with my Holland meat pies.

The pies were long overdue so I called back and said, sir why are my pies not here yet. He said your pies were delivered 30 minutes ago. Then the foreman said, will all those waiting for a pie delivery report to the site office across the street. The boss said your pies were here on the desk. Only the plumber has been in and he says he hasn't seen them.

I felt a deep down hunger inside as I knew wetpants was so full of lies. Then straight away I realised he had eaten my Holland meat pies.

Now out on the site they all speculate what's happened to wetpants cause he's in a state. But to those in the know it is no surprise that he's wearing two ebony eyes.

....Now then,my friend...but not for my bride,but my beautiful prize,my wonderful Holland meat pies

I am cursed with knowing the words to nearly all of that man's songs....sung a few at a Gypsy wake.

Run them through the PC filter now,and not much left but a handful of pronouns and conjunctives

 

[Squid]

You forgot crusty jugglers

Thats the East End with the the jellied eels.....

 

[Risteard]

I keep a small stock of pot noodles on the van for that hungry time - I note that I do need to be hungry as the thought is alway better than the product!

I like Bombay Bad Boy.

 

[littlespark]

I like Bombay Bad Boy.

Is that a flavour of Pot Noodle or your local Indian male prostitute?

 

[Deuce]

All I do when working away is work, drink, eat. I have never denied myself of the latter two long enough to suffer from their absence

Also there is normally some on-site catering or at very least a stocked snack room. Today I went into the welfare cabin to grab a coffee, and came out with 3 kit-kats, a twix and a bag of quavers

 

[Squid]

All I do when working away is work, drink, eat. I have never denied myself of the latter two long enough to suffer from their absence

Also there is normally some on-site catering or at very least a stocked snack room. Today I went into the welfare cabin to grab a coffee, and came out with 3 kit-kats, a twix and a bag of quavers

I suppose you would have fainted if you had seen the hair dryer in the bathroom.......

 

[Deuce]

I suppose you would have fainted if you had seen the hair dryer in the bathroom.......

hair dryers.. not gonna waste anymore hot air on that one

 

[Squid]

hair dryers.. not gonna waste anymore hot air on that one

Electrifying.......

Oh and don't get your hopes up as its not a sublime message to try to chat you up, sorry to "deflate" you bubble.......

 

[Deuce]

Electrifying.......

Oh and don't get your hopes up as its not a sublime message to try to chat you up, sorry to "deflate" you bubble.......

Now you're calling me Bubble?

 

[Squid]

Now you're calling me Bubble?

Well you do squeak when you leave site...... eek eek eek

 

[Toneyz]

All I do when working away is work, drink, eat. I have never denied myself of the latter two long enough to suffer from their absence

Also there is normally some on-site catering or at very least a stocked snack room. Today I went into the welfare cabin to grab a coffee, and came out with 3 kit-kats, a twix and a bag of quavers

Stop nicking other peoples packed launches.

 

[Deuce]

Stop nicking other peoples packed launches.

I've tried paying for my own, but the bottom line is the stolen ones taste just as good. So what's the point?

 

[Squid]

I used to do some work at the Church Commission who where based next to Westminster Abbey the bonus being free parking in the underground car park (meter days so I claimed for the parking on expenses) and the silver service lunch if I got in on time. Damn the food was good.

JP Morgan have a fantastic subsidised restaurant if you are ever in Cnary Wharf.

 

[Deuce]

JP Morgan have a fantastic subsidised restaurant if you are ever in Cnary Wharf.

Is that one of those restaurants that in between serving the staff, continues to run for walk in public?

Germany is full of such places. All the big companies subsidise staff meals, and outside of staff dining times, anyone is welcome to come in and enjoy the same. Apparently it's more efficient than stopping/starting the kitchen, makes a small profit on the public and as a bonus means that food is always available on site, so anyone working odd hours knows they don't have to break for lunch exactly on cue.

 

[Squid]

Is that one of those restaurants that in between serving the staff, continues to run for walk in public?

Germany is full of such places. All the big companies subsidise staff meals, and outside of staff dining times, anyone is welcome to come in and enjoy the same. Apparently it's more efficient than stopping/starting the kitchen, makes a small profit on the public and as a bonus means that food is always available on site, so anyone working odd hours knows they don't have to break for lunch exactly on cue.

Yep,

my son loves visiting the offices of Google as they supply their staff with free food all day long and their sushi bar is meant to be amazing.

 

[PEG]

I used to do some work at the Church Commission who where based next to Westminster Abbey the bonus being free parking in the underground car park (meter days so I claimed for the parking on expenses) and the silver service lunch if I got in on time. Damn the food was good.

JP Morgan have a fantastic subsidised restaurant if you are ever in Cnary Wharf.

Truth be told,we have been subsidising more than their food,for a long time...

 

[Deuce]

Truth be told,we have been subsidising more than their food,for a long time...

That's a very good point!!

Back in the days when the church used to allow the peasants to farm the land it owned, in return for enough payment to survive and do more farming... All run from a 12 bedroom rectory, fully staffed of course

The lord does indeed move in mysterious, yet highly profitable ways

 

[PEG]

Yep,i always managed a wry smile,when one of the biggest landowners in the country,has a blue peter type appeal poster,outside one of it's many properties...coz they need our pound coins,for the roof...

 

[Deuce]

Yep,i always managed a wry smile,when one of the biggest landowners in the country,has a blue peter type appeal poster,outside one of it's many properties...coz they need our pound coins,for the roof...

A church near us recently went door to door begging for more money for repairs - the justification being that less people attend to donate during service, so they have reached out to the community....

Nope. If no one is going, then it doesn't need fixing. It needs re purposing. Same as a shop that no longer attracts a flock.

I would have far more patience with such people if they could hold a sustained debate with me about their philosophies. But resorting to 'faith is it's own reward', just doesn't fly with my technical, logical mindset.

 

[Kevy]

Breakfast is normally a pear on the way to site, 1/4 of a melon around 0830, yogurt, home made flapjack and a fresh brew at 1000-ish. Lunch will be the same as what I had for dinner (tea if you’re northern) the evening before. Piece of fruit mid-afternoon

When rustling up my evening meal I make enough for the next day too, eat it cold, or the luxury of a hot lunch if there’s a microwave to hand. Beats stuffing your face with sarnies, crisps and chocolate bars, and is healthy to boot along with keeping energy levels constant throughout the day. Oh, it’s also cheaper than buying snacks from the garage or corner shop

It’s not difficult to eat healthily on site, just requires a little plannng

 

[telectrix]

Yep,

my son loves visiting the offices of Google as they supply their staff with free food all day long and their sushi bar is meant to be amazing.

anybody that eats sushi has got to be a herring short of a shoal. bloody disgusting food. i'd rather eat crocodile feet.

 

[telectrix]

Breakfast is normally a pear on the way to site, 1/4 of a melon around 0830, yogurt, home made flapjack and a fresh brew at 1000-ish. Lunch will be the same as what I had for dinner (tea if you’re northern) the evening before. Piece of fruit mid-afternoon

When rustling up my evening meal I make enough for the next day too, eat it cold, or the luxury of a hot lunch if there’s a microwave to hand. Beats stuffing your face with sarnies, crisps and chocolate bars, and is healthy to boot along with keeping energy levels constant throughout the day. Oh, it’s also cheaper than buying snacks from the garage or corner shop

It’s not difficult to eat healthily on site, just requires a little plannng

so you eat healthy, you live longer. more drain on the pension service and NHS for coffin dodgers. . with me smoking, drinking (in moderation) and eating sirloin steak and chips, i should probably pop my clogs & 80 ish, that gives me another 8 years or so to annoy forum members. ,

 

[Pete999]

When I was living at Home before I was Married my Mum used to make me sarnies, mainly Cheese, nothing bu Cheese, which, as you can guess got monotonousness, so after a while, I told her not to bother as we had a canteen we could go to (all lies) but I was getting cheese bound to the extent that I hated Cheese, I was living in Bath in those days and they had a lovely Market that opened early every day and the bakers shop was epic, 4 Lardy slices buttered every day, I never tired of them, unhealthy, you say, but what a way to go. 4 slices and a couple of pints of Gold top Milk, "Drink a Pinta milk a day" was the Motto, for healthy living in those days, and I worked off the fat during the day.

 

[Kevy]

Good point, @telectrix. I shall start eating deep-fried lard sarnies and smoking Woodbines immediately

 

[telectrix]

that reminds me of Paddy the steel erector who was moaning to his mates about having cheese sarnies every day.
one day, he's a bit down in the mouth and says..
"if i get cheese sarnies again tomorrow, I'm going to jump off the 200ft high girder"
sure enough, next day he has cheese sarnies.
he jumps off the high girder and splatts on the ground, deaded.
at the funeral, Mick is talking to his widow and explaining why Paddy had jumped, due to cheese sarnies.

his widow says.......

can't understand it.paddy always made his own sarnies.

 

[Pete999]

that reminds me of Paddy the steel erector who was moaning to his mates about having cheese sarnies every day.
one day, he's a bit down in the mouth and says..
"if i get cheese sarnies again tomorrow, I'm going to jump off the 200ft high girder"
sure enough, next day he has cheese sarnies.
he jumps off the high girder and splatts on the ground, deaded.
at the funeral, Mick is talking to his widow and explaining why Paddy had jumped, due to cheese sarnies.

his widow says.......

can't understand it.paddy always made his own sarnies.

The Old ones are the best Tel

 

[telectrix]

The Old ones are the best Tel

that's me and thee then????

 

[ipf]

Back to thread......looking at all these new avatars it seems like a few bananas will be all the rage.

 

[Squid]

anybody that eats sushi has got to be a herring short of a shoal. bloody disgusting food. i'd rather eat crocodile feet.

Not talking about the raw fish ones, how about naked sushi?

 

[Deuce]

so you eat healthy, you live longer. more drain on the pension service and NHS for coffin dodgers. . with me smoking, drinking (in moderation) and eating sirloin steak and chips, i should probably pop my clogs & 80 ish, that gives me another 8 years or so to annoy forum members. ,

So true!

What exactly is the average lifespan of a person who worries about their health vs a person who doesn't care? 2-3 year perhaps. Hardly seems worth a lifetime of worry for an extra few years of incontinence at the end!

And say you get the extra years and they are healthy years... Does that make up for all the times you said no to a drink and a smoke in your 20-30's, and as a result the girl slept with your less uptight friend instead?? You haven't exactly 'lost' 2-3 years if you spent 2-3 years chomping on rare steaks and loved every minute of it...

Not to mention that surely stress worrying about health has an impact on health too

 

[Midwest]

Not talking about the raw fish ones, how about naked sushi?

Bet thats a really fishy taste.

 

[Midwest]

As a special treat on the weekends at the car factory in Oxford, we'd go to a great nearby breakfast café, have a huge fry up, including black pudding & chips, washed down with a pint of banana milkshake.

There was of course the obligatory 3 pints & a Pukka pie on Friday lunchtime. Ohh and the disgusting fry up week days served up by Johnsons Café, chipolata sausages cooked at 3am & kept warm all day, eggs deep fried to order, hamburgers out of a tin, gallon tea pot topped up with tea & milk, and kept warm in front of an electric fire.

Ladies in T Building served the best crusty cheese or ham rolls, with lashings of butter, for 10 o'clock break. Bought in own grub for lunch. Can't remember what we did for afternoon cuppa, must of starved ourselves.

Fruit, flap jacks, yoghurt. You'd been marched off site, by the Union Convener.

 

[Kevy]

I do treat myself to fish’n’chips when I’m working on Hayling Island as two of my customers there both live within 100 metres of a chip shop and one of the chippies has a patisserie next door...

 

[Sintra]

Well this evening I’ve had a nice taste of tear gas. You can just see the cloud of it wafting about in the picture lol.

 

[Pete999]

View attachment 45959 Well this evening I’ve had a nice taste of tear gas. You can just see the cloud of it wafting about in the picture lol.

Nice, what was that all about?