Tony Marlin

See what you've done now... Man, 22, taken to hospital after plunging from cliff

A snake goes into a bar. Barman Says "I'm not serving you; your legless and can't hold your drink".

38.50 + booking fees! Am I being tight or is that a bit steep?

It's tough to get hired without experience. Unless you get in on one of the graduate programs you might have to start at the bottom to get your foot in the door. I struggled get hired after finishing my engineering degree. Sent out CVs all over the place but no positive responses, ended up working in a shop on Union Street for a while just to make some money. Eventually I got hired as a workshop technician for a MWD company. Spent a year there building and repairing downhole tools and really enjoyed it. Great banter and good money if you put in the overtime. After gaining that experience I got a transfer into the office a drilling engineer for 2 years and now I’m transferring again as a field engineer. Just don't think of starting at the bottom as a step down though, it was great experience for me and far more relevant to the job I do now than anything I did at uni. It's also experience I’ve got that the graduate scheme guys don't. What kind of job do you want to do? Mech engineering gives you a whole spectrum of options. Do you want to be in an office doing CAD & calculations? Or do you want to be offshore getting your hands dirty and using the equipment for real?

This thread has been dragged up from 2005 pogofish, I don't know if there are any current plans to develop the site.

I can only see a bright future for Aberdeen. Yes it has its fair share of junkies and scumbags, but it's certainly no worse than any other city in the UK. I’ve seen more violence in some rural towns on a Saturday night than I have in the city centre. Aberdeen is generally a safe place to live. There are so many exciting new developments going helping to improve Aberdeen too: The AWPR by-pass will have dramatic effects to various areas of the city, reducing traffic levels everywhere from the Haudagain to the Bridge of Dee, from the Beach Esplanade to the North Deeside Road. The Union Square/Guild Square centre will be a massive lift to the shopping available in the city, integrating the train and bus stations and attracting new shoppers up here or retaining locals who would maybe head to Glasgow. The pedestrianisation of Union Street will open up the whole area to become a much more pleasant place. No more crowded pavements or that familiar wait outside M&S for the green man to cross the road. The demolition of the council offices will reveal the hidden historical gem of Provost Skene’s house, creating a new public space and bringing Marischal College back into daily use. The extension of the Bon-Accord centre into the Gallowgate area adding more shopping capacity. New arts centre in Union Terrace Gardens, which will not only provide an exciting new venue but rejuvenate the under-used gardens. Trump’s Pitch n’ Putt at Balmedie: Bringing in the tourists, jobs and a bit of glamour. Of course there are objections to many of these projects on various grounds, but they will all help improve this city. Oil production and exploration will decline at a slow rate over the coming decades. However this is an ageing workforce. A huge proportion the people employed in the industry are expected to retire in the next 10-15 years and this will more than make up for any decline in jobs. Thousands of people will be needed in the industry to start gaining the experience necessary to fill these vacancies. Unemployment in Aberdeen will remain low, and all those retiring old-boys will start pumping their retirement funds into the pubs, golf courses and garden centres all over the north east. It just seems to be the character of this city, or maybe just human nature, to have a good moan. The weather is shite, the food is shite, the traffic is shite, the music scene is shite, my jobs is shite, football team is shite, the nightlife is shite. How many times have you heard any of those expressions lately? How many of them are actually true? I’m rarely on here nowadays but just thought I’d add my 2p. Ta.

Where can I get tickets for this? One up don't have them and I grudge paying almost double the price for the privilege of buying them on Ticketweb.

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It was a great show, I've never seen it before but will check it out next week, dispite the twattiness. I only caught it by accident 'cos i was watching Flight of the Conchords beforehand, which has potential to be the funniest show on TV. Their songs are genius,

BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | Chelsea | Manager Mourinho leaves Chelsea Apparently he sent the players a text tonight.

180 feet? That would be scary as fuck I'd love to see that photo if you can put on-line somewhere, or even email it to the Evening Express - they love all that interesting old picture stuff.

They did taste better' date=' but they were purple and not blue like I remembered according to the Smarties tube geek:

I think Elgin would be a good place to live. It has almost everything i'd need in somewhere to live, except somewhere to work. Where does everyone in Elgin work? there doesn't seem to be any major employers or industries, yet everyone seems to have a job.

Does anyone remember donkeys ago the special editon blue ones wearing sunglasses? You could send off 3 tube lids for these cool as fuck wrap-arourd mirrored shades, Must have been about 15 years ago.

Yup, I'm sure it's Ben Collins most of the time. This was also solved by P:Venhell last year.

Or loan CDs from the central library and rip them, selection is limited but you can find lots of old gems to bulk up yer hard drive.

Top 5 ways I've lost my house keys: 1. Throwing in the skip when taking out the rubbish (Embarrasingly retrieved in full view of my neighbours and passing traffic on Great Northern Road) 2. Throwing on top of bathroom cabinet (After getting getting home, locking the door behind me and going for a piss, late for work next day 'cos I was locked in). 3. Drunkenly discarding them in a nightclub (Retrieved from venue next day). 4. Hidden in jeans pocket in laundry basket (Found week later while doing laundry). 5. Left in locker at work over the weekend (Found on Monday morning).