You mean saying 230V and being wrong is better than the correct answer.
Old one. new one or a Chinese one?
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Adam's apprentices
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It just means the people that set the rules were to thick to understand English and should be the first ones sacked.
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Try working it out with a pencil.
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BULLSHIT.
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I know perfectly well what blotting paper is for, having spent the late
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A wise man speaks.
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Blotting paper is for filling up the ink-well on your friend's desk.
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Surely any school leaver who wants to be trained for such a job should be able to show that they already have a grasp of basic principles?
I would agree but I didn't set out to write the complete test!
Assuming a European immigrant, wiring colours were harmonized
50 years ago. And are you suggesting that an immigrant from anywhere interested in becoming an electrician would not have bothered to find out how to fit UK plugs to any equipment they bought with them?- Vote on answer
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Just watched 'Escape to the chateaux:DIY' on C4.
some crazy woman was trying to fill a 1 to 3 inch gap between some oak lintels (on a step ladder, above her head) with expanding foam, and then blaming the material for 'falling out'. 'It never did this at home'.
We never saw the after effect when it had expanded. Fuck knows what she was using but she was using the canister upside down, i.e. like a can of WD40, which is normally wrong for a can of expanding foam or sealant.
The local mayor then asked her (via interpreter) why she hadn't learnt any french (having been there for 5 years).
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But plug designs are highly variable over Europe, and only we have 'ring mains'.
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No.1 Daugher asked for a tool kit when she moved into rented student accomdation. Didn't dare get her one in girly colours though.
Do you wish to rephrase that? Most odd for a young male not to know what to do with his tool kit. B-)
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And flicking an ink soaked piece with a ruler.
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You sure? Wouldn't you get covered in ink and so be easily identifiable?
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Of course . It's for pressing flowers in...
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Before starting an apprentiship, at least in Scotland there is a test. The electrician one is the hardest. Adam should be seeing the best that is on offer as far as apprentises go.
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I didn't dare ask about that.
But the boys were totally useless when it came to hammers, spanners and, umm, the pointy things for twirling threaded objects which are used to fasten stuff together.
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Sample test here
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I got 100% but that was with a couple of short-cuts on the mental arithmetic.
Owain
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If I think they are trying it on I make sexual comments about their mother. That usually upsets them or stops them.
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They get a two week trial. We only keep on the ones that last two weeks.
Some last one day. Some do not last a full day. Some never even make it from the office to the van.
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You wouldn't if you'd met my mother.
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