Lurid Work Stories"I know a railwayman of 40-odd years' service," says Juan Quar, "and he tells me a new gruesome yarn each time we meet. Last week's was of checking the time on the wristwatch of a severed arm he'd just collected after a track fatality."
Tell us the horrible stories you tease the new hires with, or that you've been told.
NB By definition, these are probably all made up. Roll with it
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chthonic, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:33)
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I heard that video in the 405-line era was recorded on magnetised wirebut in order to gain sufficient bandwidth witha a low-fi system they had to run it at 100 feet per second. So if you stand between the reels of wire as it whirrs up to speed you are likely to risk the wire under tension snapping and the sharp end slashing your jugular as it wound onto the draw reel.
Guess which newbie gets to stand there with the tensioning meter.
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Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 5 Sep 2013, 20:52,
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Oooh, oooh, I think I know the answer to that one. Is it Headless Dave?
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sat 7 Sep 2013, 7:44,
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