Is it true

ha ha yeh i know that word " ricky and bianca"
 
I know its like talking to America with the time delay but what the F**k has Eastenders to do with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
w a n k e r s mate its rhyming slang
 
21,An inherant hatred of traffic wardens,the police,Judges,Magistrates,Site managers and most of all Bricklayers Superb!

22, Have a stupid, childish ringtone on his mobile phone
23, Gets the evening standard for the sole purpose of looking at the scaffolding jobs (regardless of whether looking for work or not)
24, Have chips with their breakfast (under 25's only)
25, Spends every other night 'up all night with the little one' - even though their missus doesn't work
26, Have an amazing ability to keep a straight face when saying 'what are we gonna get paid for saturday?' - even though a complete moron could work out that absolutely nothing got done on the saturday and they were clearly in the Wetherspoons at 11am
27, Have tinned, not fried tomatoes with their breakfast (over 25's only)
28, Own a 'standard scaffolders issue phone' that runs out of battery at 3.30pm, every day
29, Takes a sh*t at least 4 times a day (daywork lads only)
30, Thinks Cancun is a good place to get married
31, Has a bacon roll for breakfast (over 50's only)
32, Doesn't realise that there is an echo when you ring your governor from a pub toilet.
1, Tattoos on the forearm or neck
2, A complete and utter lack of financial understanding and planning.
3, A mobile phone with a cracked screen.
4, At least a dozen Grandmothers (all of whom die on a sunday night/monday morning)
5, Has had a stint in prison.
6, The unique ability to talk a complex structure (up and down and on the wagon) from the comfort of a bar stool.
7, The CSA after him.
8, A brother/cousin who "is on Trad's"
9, A suprisingly fit girlfriend.
10, At least one staffie.

11, Kids by at least 2 different partners
12,Had worked putting the roof on Canary wharfe
13,has been done for drink driving at least once
14,knows at least 1 person that worked with the Krays
15,smokes or smoked weed
16,drives a battered old car with no tax insurance or mot
17,must be racist
18,wears joggers with holes where burned with disc cutter
19,must have illegible handwriting, like a Doctor.
20,The ability to swear at least 3 times in every sentance and make it sound ok.
21,An inherant hatred of traffic wardens,the police,Judges,Magistrates,Site managers and most of all Bricklayers + their ex wives and their ex wives partners,families, families pets etc etc etc

And most of all the ability to be able to never accept any blame for anything ever, leave for work late "because we ave to load the lorry init" but get back early "Cus we gotta load the f*ckin lorry init"

21,An inherant hatred of traffic wardens,the police,Judges,Magistrates,Site managers and most of all Bricklayers Superb!

22, Have a stupid, childish ringtone on his mobile phone
23, Gets the evening standard for the sole purpose of looking at the scaffolding jobs (regardless of whether looking for work or not)
24, Have chips with their breakfast (under 25's only)
25, Spends every other night 'up all night with the little one' - even though their missus doesn't work
26, Have an amazing ability to keep a straight face when saying 'what are we gonna get paid for saturday?' - even though a complete moron could work out that absolutely nothing got done on the saturday and they were clearly in the Wetherspoons at 11am
27, Have tinned, not fried tomatoes with their breakfast (over 25's only)
28, Own a 'standard scaffolders issue phone' that runs out of battery at 3.30pm, every day
29, Takes a sh*t at least 4 times a day (daywork lads only)
30, Thinks Cancun is a good place to get married
31, Has a bacon roll for breakfast (over 50's only)
32, Doesn't realise that there is an echo when you ring your governor from a pub toilet.

33,Only ever does "drawing jobs mate" but can't actually read one.
34,works on a site with skips ,and waste bins everywhere but can't put the crisp bags,coke cans,fag packets,old scratch cards,copies of the Sun,Sport etc into one of the said wast recepticles,prefering instead to leave it in the lorry so that its so dirty you need a tetnus jab to get in it.
35,would walk miles to get to a cafe, but won't walk 50 ft to get the gear because "I'm a f*ckin scaff not a Donkey mate"
36,Will use any of the following items, Nail,bolt,old drill bit,bit of threaded rod,piece of wood or metal to knock in a hilti m16 insert EVEN IF THEY HAD THE DRIFT .
37,Would think nothing of carefully cutting out a patch of carefuly erected monoflex
so as to be able to watch women below.
38,Will spend thousands on the latest flatscreen tv but won't buy a new spanner ,prefering to fix it with an old nail or the like.
39,Will wear boots that Robinson Crusoe wouldn't been seen in,unless on the cards and then DeWalt are the only boots acceptable.
40,Will ask endless stupid questions during a toolbox talk in your time to drag it out,but won't even breathe during a toolbox talk ,at lets say 4 ish !

Your turn Phil
 
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well well funni mate thats tickled me! my ex pretty much fits most of that lot lol an if he dont his mates do!
 
ha ha ha 38 yep your right on that one dangeruss wait to it slips and cuts ya head open
then you get new one.
 
you forgot "i can stand a longun up wen im on me knees" and "i can carry 20 5 foots on me shoulder at any 1 time"
 
oh nah cos his arms hurting cos hes bin on the spanner all day! doesnt seem to encounter any problems wen lifting his pint (stella of course) or wen having a sneaky w**k!! lol
oh yeah and we got 2 dogs-he wanted a red nose pit (close to a staff) which i wasnt havin any of-but guess wat? in typical scaffolder fashion he named one of em 'stella'!!!!
 
It doesn't make us bad people Michelle, we still need lovin.:cool:
 
1, Tattoos on the forearm or neck
2, A complete and utter lack of financial understanding and planning.
3, A mobile phone with a cracked screen.
4, At least a dozen Grandmothers (all of whom die on a sunday night/monday morning)
5, Has had a stint in prison.
6, The unique ability to talk a complex structure (up and down and on the wagon) from the comfort of a bar stool.
7, The CSA after him.
8, A brother/cousin who "is on Trad's"
9, A suprisingly fit girlfriend.
10, At least one staffie.

11, Kids by at least 2 different partners
12,Had worked putting the roof on Canary wharfe
13,has been done for drink driving at least once
14,knows at least 1 person that worked with the Krays
15,smokes or smoked weed
16,drives a battered old car with no tax insurance or mot
17,must be racist
18,wears joggers with holes where burned with disc cutter
19,must have illegible handwriting, like a Doctor.
20,The ability to swear at least 3 times in every sentance and make it sound ok.
21,An inherant hatred of traffic wardens,the police,Judges,Magistrates,Site managers and most of all Bricklayers + their ex wives and their ex wives partners,families, families pets etc etc etc

And most of all the ability to be able to never accept any blame for anything ever, leave for work late "because we ave to load the lorry init" but get back early "Cus we gotta load the f*ckin lorry init"

21,An inherant hatred of traffic wardens,the police,Judges,Magistrates,Site managers and most of all Bricklayers Superb!

22, Have a stupid, childish ringtone on his mobile phone
23, Gets the evening standard for the sole purpose of looking at the scaffolding jobs (regardless of whether looking for work or not)
24, Have chips with their breakfast (under 25's only)
25, Spends every other night 'up all night with the little one' - even though their missus doesn't work
26, Have an amazing ability to keep a straight face when saying 'what are we gonna get paid for saturday?' - even though a complete moron could work out that absolutely nothing got done on the saturday and they were clearly in the Wetherspoons at 11am
27, Have tinned, not fried tomatoes with their breakfast (over 25's only)
28, Own a 'standard scaffolders issue phone' that runs out of battery at 3.30pm, every day
29, Takes a sh*t at least 4 times a day (daywork lads only)
30, Thinks Cancun is a good place to get married
31, Has a bacon roll for breakfast (over 50's only)
32, Doesn't realise that there is an echo when you ring your governor from a pub toilet.

33,Only ever does "drawing jobs mate" but can't actually read one.
34,works on a site with skips ,and waste bins everywhere but can't put the crisp bags,coke cans,fag packets,old scratch cards,copies of the Sun,Sport etc into one of the said wast recepticles,prefering instead to leave it in the lorry so that its so dirty you need a tetnus jab to get in it.
35,would walk miles to get to a cafe, but won't walk 50 ft to get the gear because "I'm a f*ckin scaff not a Donkey mate"
36,Will use any of the following items, Nail,bolt,old drill bit,bit of threaded rod,piece of wood or metal to knock in a hilti m16 insert EVEN IF THEY HAD THE DRIFT .
37,Would think nothing of carefully cutting out a patch of carefuly erected monoflex
so as to be able to watch women below.
38,Will spend thousands on the latest flatscreen tv but won't buy a new spanner ,prefering to fix it with an old nail or the like.
39,Will wear boots that Robinson Crusoe wouldn't been seen in,unless on the cards and then DeWalt are the only boots acceptable.
40,Will ask endless stupid questions during a toolbox talk in your time to drag it out,but won't even breathe during a toolbox talk ,at lets say 4 ish !

Your turn Phil

41, Utters the generic phrase "I could get a start on there tomorrow if I wanted to" (at intervals not exceeding 35 minutes.)
42, If a large, prestige job is mentioned by anyone, the words "yeah, I put that up" is muttered, following a pause not exceeding 0.015 seconds (even though it clearly took at crew of 12 blokes, 6 weeks to erect, during which time the scaffolder in question was doing house fronts for £80 a day, cash in hand.)
43, The supervisor was ALWAYS 'useless on the tools'
44, Leaves a perfectly good, regular job for an extra fiver a day.
45, Thinks Sharm el Skeikh is a decent holiday resort.
46, Is a fully certified and paid up member of 'The Monday Club'
47, Has a complete and utter lack of understanding of the difference between a half hitch and a clove hitch.
48, Surveys suggest that the average London scaffolder with 10 years in the game has said "Yeah, I know Hayden" at least 8 thousand times during his career....
49, Has a missus who works part time in a high street bank.
50, Whilst having a mandatory stella and cocaine session in the local boozer on a Friday afternoon/evening, only multi lift hangars, apexed temporary roofs, flying shores, or jobs exceeding 600ft high will be mentioned.
 
1, Tattoos on the forearm or neck
2, A complete and utter lack of financial understanding and planning.
3, A mobile phone with a cracked screen.
4, At least a dozen Grandmothers (all of whom die on a sunday night/monday morning)
5, Has had a stint in prison.
6, The unique ability to talk a complex structure (up and down and on the wagon) from the comfort of a bar stool.
7, The CSA after him.
8, A brother/cousin who "is on Trad's"
9, A suprisingly fit girlfriend.
10, At least one staffie.

11, Kids by at least 2 different partners
12,Had worked putting the roof on Canary wharfe
13,has been done for drink driving at least once
14,knows at least 1 person that worked with the Krays
15,smokes or smoked weed
16,drives a battered old car with no tax insurance or mot
17,must be racist
18,wears joggers with holes where burned with disc cutter
19,must have illegible handwriting, like a Doctor.
20,The ability to swear at least 3 times in every sentance and make it sound ok.
21,An inherant hatred of traffic wardens,the police,Judges,Magistrates,Site managers and most of all Bricklayers + their ex wives and their ex wives partners,families, families pets etc etc etc

And most of all the ability to be able to never accept any blame for anything ever, leave for work late "because we ave to load the lorry init" but get back early "Cus we gotta load the f*ckin lorry init"

21,An inherant hatred of traffic wardens,the police,Judges,Magistrates,Site managers and most of all Bricklayers Superb!

22, Have a stupid, childish ringtone on his mobile phone
23, Gets the evening standard for the sole purpose of looking at the scaffolding jobs (regardless of whether looking for work or not)
24, Have chips with their breakfast (under 25's only)
25, Spends every other night 'up all night with the little one' - even though their missus doesn't work
26, Have an amazing ability to keep a straight face when saying 'what are we gonna get paid for saturday?' - even though a complete moron could work out that absolutely nothing got done on the saturday and they were clearly in the Wetherspoons at 11am
27, Have tinned, not fried tomatoes with their breakfast (over 25's only)
28, Own a 'standard scaffolders issue phone' that runs out of battery at 3.30pm, every day
29, Takes a sh*t at least 4 times a day (daywork lads only)
30, Thinks Cancun is a good place to get married
31, Has a bacon roll for breakfast (over 50's only)
32, Doesn't realise that there is an echo when you ring your governor from a pub toilet.

33,Only ever does "drawing jobs mate" but can't actually read one.
34,works on a site with skips ,and waste bins everywhere but can't put the crisp bags,coke cans,fag packets,old scratch cards,copies of the Sun,Sport etc into one of the said wast recepticles,prefering instead to leave it in the lorry so that its so dirty you need a tetnus jab to get in it.
35,would walk miles to get to a cafe, but won't walk 50 ft to get the gear because "I'm a f*ckin scaff not a Donkey mate"
36,Will use any of the following items, Nail,bolt,old drill bit,bit of threaded rod,piece of wood or metal to knock in a hilti m16 insert EVEN IF THEY HAD THE DRIFT .
37,Would think nothing of carefully cutting out a patch of carefuly erected monoflex
so as to be able to watch women below.
38,Will spend thousands on the latest flatscreen tv but won't buy a new spanner ,prefering to fix it with an old nail or the like.
39,Will wear boots that Robinson Crusoe wouldn't been seen in,unless on the cards and then DeWalt are the only boots acceptable.
40,Will ask endless stupid questions during a toolbox talk in your time to drag it out,but won't even breathe during a toolbox talk ,at lets say 4 ish !

Your turn Phil
41, Have to have at least 6 red bulls a day.
42, Go to the shop for food after coming to work,even if they pass the bloody thing on the way in.
43, Must own an aquaphone:- rings the boss the instant a drop of rain hits it.
44, Be allergic to the fittings shed.
45, And paint.
46, Must have the ability to drive to the job and back at 40 mph (motorway or not )
47, And 90 mph if it's a job and knock.
48, Be a proper chatterbox from 8am to 8:30 when they get into work and practically deaf and dumb at ten to five when its time to go home.
49, Must think that supplied work clothes are of the disposable type. Most of ours are behind seats of lorries and in the canteen.
50, Who's next for a rant
 
oh yeah and as for the **** that scaffolders leave in the wagon instead of puttin in the bin well take it from me as someone who does the washing lol i used to find half that crap in his pockets!! scratchcards, crisp packets, chocolate wrappers, fag boxes, rizla packets, oh yeah and 5-6 lighters that hes aquired from the other scaffolders throughout his very busy, important, mentally and physically demanding day!!!
 
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It doesn't make us bad people Michelle, we still need lovin.:cool:
of course!

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41, Have to have at least 6 red bulls a day.
42, Go to the shop for food after coming to work,even if they pass the bloody thing on the way in.
43, Must own an aquaphone:- rings the boss the instant a drop of rain hits it.
44, Be allergic to the fittings shed.
45, And paint.
46, Must have the ability to drive to the job and back at 40 mph (motorway or not )
47, And 90 mph if it's a job and knock.
48, Be a proper chatterbox from 8am to 8:30 when they get into work and practically deaf and dumb at ten to five when its time to go home.
49, Must think that supplied work clothes are of the disposable type. Most of ours are behind seats of lorries and in the canteen.
50, Who's next for a rant
you hav to hav a dodgy nickname if ur a scaffolder 'the horse' , 'armpit' , 'no show joe' to name a few
 
so let me see if i have this right the average scaffolder is a violent drunken drug addicted lazy mouthy theiving uneducated oversexed neanderthal ?
 
of course!

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you hav to hav a dodgy nickname if ur a scaffolder 'the horse' , 'armpit' , 'no show joe' to name a few
Originally Posted by scaffman1
41, Have to have at least 6 red bulls a day.
42, Go to the shop for food after coming to work,even if they pass the bloody thing on the way in.
43, Must own an aquaphone:- rings the boss the instant a drop of rain hits it.
44, Be allergic to the fittings shed.
45, And paint.
46, Must have the ability to drive to the job and back at 40 mph (motorway or not )
47, And 90 mph if it's a job and knock.
48, Be a proper chatterbox from 8am to 8:30 when they get into work and practically deaf and dumb at ten to five when its time to go home.
49, Must think that supplied work clothes are of the disposable type. Most of ours are behind seats of lorries and in the canteen.
50, Who's next for a rant

51,Will be able to text whilst carrying out any number of precarious tasks including, Driving,scaffolding,eating in the cafe,on the rope and wheel,talking on the landline
52,Will think nothing of bombing tonnes of gear into an area the size of a stamp rather than walking it 10 yards, so the whole area resembles a crows nest or giant game or Kerr-plunk with people everywhere dodging the tubes raining down from above,only to down tools should a speck of debris from another trade fall within 50ft of them.
53,will take weeks to carry out a job whilst on daywork ,but hours if its job and knock.
54,Can do amazing calculations Stephen Hawkins would struggle with to work out the odds on a yankee at the bookies or work out what they have earned on a price,but cant fill in a tacho.
55,Are able to park the lorry anywhere in london at any time for any reason "cus we're scaffs mate,don't need an exemption"
56,Can get a lorry into any area any where, if it means not walking the gear more than a metre.
57,Have or will work on "Buck ouse" (Buckingham Palace)at sometime between stints in Jail
58,Are "Friends" on Raol Moats facebook page
59,Went to Ronnie Krays funeral
60,Erect 20 square each and every day regardless of where they are.
61,Insist you buy fruit of the loom sweatshirts for them ,and then after 1 day they wear crappy old sweatshirts from their old firm claiming the new one you gave them is in the wash,and they need another one or they'll have to wear this one from ***** again "mate"

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