Hello :)
Mar 28th 2017, 11:19 am
#1
Lowering the tone
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Joined: Mar 2007
Location: Here and there
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Hello :)
Greetings, moosef... hang on, there's no need for that. How are you all? Hope you're all well and looking forward to the first signs of spring, like dog turds emerging from the snow.
All is well at Jings Manor, I've been working in the UK for 2.5 years now since I left Canada. Home for tea every night, just brilliant. Unfortunately these cushy jobs don't last forever and I am rejoining the ranks of those who need a passport to get to work. Not as bad as Fort McMurray this time, thankfully - just Germany. I was going to introduce myself in the Germany forum in BE but I thought that first of all I would "visit with y'all". How is life with you lot?
All is well at Jings Manor, I've been working in the UK for 2.5 years now since I left Canada. Home for tea every night, just brilliant. Unfortunately these cushy jobs don't last forever and I am rejoining the ranks of those who need a passport to get to work. Not as bad as Fort McMurray this time, thankfully - just Germany. I was going to introduce myself in the Germany forum in BE but I thought that first of all I would "visit with y'all". How is life with you lot?
Mar 28th 2017, 11:23 am
#2
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Nov 2011
Location: Somewhere between Vancouver & St Johns
Posts: 19,851
Re: Hello :)
Welcome back. I take it you have been watching old episodes of Auf Widersehen Pet on how to survive in Germany.
Mar 28th 2017, 12:56 pm
#3
Professional Cat herder
Joined: Apr 2007
Location: TORONTO- yay!!!
Posts: 5,707
Re: Hello :)
well hello there stranger
long story short for me.
I was crazy for a while ..now I'm not ( even got a letter to prove that!)
got fired from a job i hated, now working in a job I love!
long story short for me.
I was crazy for a while ..now I'm not ( even got a letter to prove that!)
got fired from a job i hated, now working in a job I love!
Mar 28th 2017, 1:06 pm
#4
Stand-up Philosopher
Joined: Apr 2009
Location: Regina Saskatchewan
Posts: 16,344
Re: Hello :)
For God's sake, don't mention the war. Thanks for dropping by.
Mar 28th 2017, 1:26 pm
#5
Slightly Canadian
Joined: Jul 2005
Location: St. John's, Newfoundland
Posts: 10,129
Re: Hello :)
Oddly enough I was thinking of you yesterday as you popped up in my FB feed of people-you-might-possibly-admit-to-knowing-if-you-had-a-beer-or-two-inside-you. Good to hear that things are well and that you are taking the opportunity to work in Germany before Brexit kills that kind of thing. Presumably the beer is still good in Norfolk? (it was in January last time I was over).
Mar 28th 2017, 1:59 pm
#6
Assimilated Pauper
Joined: Mar 2005
Location: Ontario
Posts: 40,019
Re: Hello :)
Nothing has changed here, I am older but none the wiser. I'm trying to organise a trip to the UK for May but only the shopping list is at all arranged.
Mar 28th 2017, 6:27 pm
#8
Dive Bar Drunk
Joined: Nov 2006
Location: Toronto
Posts: 8,649
Re: Hello :)
Hooters put the price up on a bottle of Millstreet Organic to $6 from $5.50.
It hurts.
Other than that everything is the same.
Good to see you are alive and well. Germany a bit more sophisticated than Fort McMurray. I'm envious.
It hurts.
Other than that everything is the same.
Good to see you are alive and well. Germany a bit more sophisticated than Fort McMurray. I'm envious.
Mar 28th 2017, 7:02 pm
#9
Yo
Joined: Nov 2012
Location: UK
Posts: 24,490
Re: Hello :)
Guten tag. Deutschland sounds gut. 
Mar 28th 2017, 7:54 pm
#10
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 14,227
Re: Hello :)
I used to know a German. He had a beard before they were popular, so I suppose that would make him a bit of a hipster now-a-days.
Mar 28th 2017, 10:46 pm
#11
limey party pooper
Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 9,982
Re: Hello :)
Jings! Welcome back. I was thinking of you a couple of weeks ago when we were in Norfolk.
Mar 28th 2017, 11:07 pm
#12
Forum Regular
Joined: Nov 2008
Location: B C
Posts: 132
Re: Hello :)
Welcome back Jings..
Mar 29th 2017, 4:22 am
#13
Joined: Feb 2006
Location: Red Deer, Alberta
Posts: 10,612
Re: Hello :)
Yoohoo!
Mar 29th 2017, 4:15 pm
#14
Magnificently Withering
Joined: Jan 2007
Location: Oakville, ON
Posts: 6,891
Re: Hello :)
well hello there. Bon voyage - if that's not the wrong thing to say for travel to Germany. Gute Fahrt, perhaps... gute Reise is more likely but provokes fewer schoolboy giggles
Last edited by Oakvillian; Mar 29th 2017 at 4:18 pm.
Mar 30th 2017, 6:24 am
#15
Lowering the tone
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Joined: Mar 2007
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Posts: 7,351
Re: Hello :)
Good to hear from you all again, I've kinda missed you all in an odd sort of way.
Didn't feel any need to come onto BE when I was in the UK, and the Germany forum seems to have as much life as... I dunno, downtown Calgary on a Monday night in January. Perhaps I'll pop back here a bit more often.
Old oilpatch pals in Calgary tell me things are pretty rough at the moment, I think I got out at exactly the right moment - more by good luck than good planning, I assure you.
Time to dig out the Sprachfuehrer and get myself ready for Currywurst und Altbier...
Didn't feel any need to come onto BE when I was in the UK, and the Germany forum seems to have as much life as... I dunno, downtown Calgary on a Monday night in January. Perhaps I'll pop back here a bit more often.
Old oilpatch pals in Calgary tell me things are pretty rough at the moment, I think I got out at exactly the right moment - more by good luck than good planning, I assure you.
Time to dig out the Sprachfuehrer and get myself ready for Currywurst und Altbier...
