The Retirement Thread
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9 Oct
6:36pm, 9 Oct 2024
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*staying for 24 years
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9 Oct
6:36pm, 9 Oct 2024
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Oh FFS!
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9 Oct
6:37pm, 9 Oct 2024
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Take #2: Other #1's on my notable dates (I've not made any of these up, honest!) Day I started work: "Papa Don't Preach" - Madonna (Dad retired the same day) Day I met my wife: "Dreams" - Gabrelle Day we got engaged: "Love Is All Around" - Wet Wet Wet Day we got married: "Three Lions" - Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds* Day I started my final workplace, staying for 24 years: "Keep On Movin'" - Five Day daughter was born: "Beautiful Girls" - Sean Kingston Day I retired: "Sprinter" - Dave & Central Cee (*While still on honeymoon, next #1 was "Killing Me Softly" by Fugees) officialcharts.com |
9 Oct
7:12pm, 9 Oct 2024
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Flatlander
I've succumbed and looked up the No.1 single on my birthday. I've never heard of the song or the group, and I very much doubt that any of you have, despite the group allegedly being quite popular at the time. Out of curiosity, I found a youtube record of the song and listened to it. How awful! I can't make up my mind if it was the normal style of the time, or a joke song (a metaphor for my life?  ). No, I'm NOT going to tell you what it was - I have no desire whatsoever to be associated with that song!
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9 Oct
7:25pm, 9 Oct 2024
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um
Can it be as good as this Flatlander? |
9 Oct
7:30pm, 9 Oct 2024
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Bazoaxe
Stroke of luck today. There was an all day training course of the sort I have hated all my working life. I seemed to have been missed off the invite list and while all my colleagues trudged off miserably I managed To do some work.
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9 Oct
7:31pm, 9 Oct 2024
3,343 posts
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Flatlander
No, mine is far worse!
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9 Oct
7:35pm, 9 Oct 2024
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Mr J
My birth song is Charles Aznavour with She. A bit draggy with a vibrating vocal. |
9 Oct
7:42pm, 9 Oct 2024
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HappyG(rrr)
She is a lovely song. Bazo, lucky escape! We've got a thing called [Insert Crp Name] Week. Not day, week! ARGH! I had to turn the sound off on the live stream. Wooops and cheering and everyone loving everyone and everything. Ewww. Shudder. On plus side, sailing post retirement project is progressing. G
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9 Oct
7:43pm, 9 Oct 2024
51,123 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
There were two 50 YEAR awards. That's giving your life to a company, surely?
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