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Just reading your posts lads........have youse nothing better to talk about ,,,,is it getting to a stage were theres no technical questions being asked because there is no work....hopefully not......only kidding
Dave - I like your humor. I have visited your country London, Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard. Thoroughly enjoyed everything but "kippers". Visited Sir Neville Bowman Shaw's company - Lancer Boss. He wasn't knighted at that time. I recall my first 2 days in London walking around and continually reminding my self to look for traffic coming from my right side when I crossed a road. I did that effectively until I reached the middle of the road adn immediately revert to my USA habits. My you have a lot of horn blowers in a short period of time - especially those on a "lorrie". After the first day that I took a cab.
You know I'm in Georgia, USA many of the locals here have roots going back to the days of King George (don't recall what Number) when he sent them here for a good reason I'm told. But when thay have too many pints of bitters (which I prefer) or ale they will drive on the LH side of the road for sure.
Cherrio!
The title was originally "service engineer" but it seems to have been shortened to just engineer, and as you say that is normally a guy with a degree. More often now in the UK the term technician is used these days. And as for driving on the wrong side while wearing a lab coat, we kidded the ozies to do it and somhow they still do it in Japan. I always drive on the left when I visit the US or Canada, but the other drivers just wont take my lead! Oh yeah, and I fill up with petrol. Have a good day across the pond. And we all use PDA's
In Europe, they commonly refer to service technicans an "engineer" & it is very common in the UK. Maybe other parts of the world too - especially those countries that were under British rule at a point in time & they even taught some of them to drive on the wrong side of the road.
it's a 'translation" thing...
and in the EU they all wear a lab coat and have pocket protectors in their shirt pocket.
;-)
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