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Thread: I ENJOYED LOCK DOWN
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22-10-2020, 22:29 #21
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22-10-2020, 22:45 #22
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Re: I ENJOYED LOCK DOWN
On the money. The thing I miss the most concerning my service, is the absolute simplistic life you lead. Today we are doing CQB, next week it's a qualifying course, in 6 months you are being deployed.
All decisions are made for you. 4 meals a day, room and board, decent money, you work with your best mates and you do things that civilians will never understand. I miss it.
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23-10-2020, 06:21 #23
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Re: I ENJOYED LOCK DOWN
The day before the lockdown started the plant was put into "care and maintenance", that means they shut the plant down safely and in such a way that it would be easy to start up again when the market turns. There are a couple of personnel doing basic upkeep the rest were given severance packages.The covid bs and anc/china bedfellows doesn't help either but there is alway a slimmer of hope for the plant to be opened again. What irks me is that before 1994 it was always , Koop Suid Afrikaans but today it should read "support our chinese comrades".
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23-10-2020, 08:06 #24
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Re: I ENJOYED LOCK DOWN
At this point in time we are finding such fresh hell in sourcing any material thicker than 20mm plate, and basic sections such as req tubing which we could buy down the street in February does not exist anymore..... Hier is nie f@^Ken staal nie!
Happy to use Chinese material if we can find
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23-10-2020, 08:40 #25
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Re: I ENJOYED LOCK DOWN
Ja. I heard some weird stories. 6mm steel plate made in SA is 6mm thick. Imported 6mm plate from the far east come in at about 5mm to 5.6mm. And it has become the norm for years already
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23-10-2020, 13:58 #26
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24-10-2020, 09:12 #27
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Re: I ENJOYED LOCK DOWN
Level 5 of lockdown was great, simply because I had much more time with my family. And we did a few repares etc which one does not usually get to do. My phone bill went up considerably,and my fuel bill went down, simply because I worked from home.
From Level 4 onward it was basically back to work.
The one good thing of lockdown is that the government is doing the public a favour: more folks are starting to realise that this system does not think of itself as a servant. It also does not intend proper freedom and liberty.
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25-10-2020, 18:10 #28
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Re: I ENJOYED LOCK DOWN
Lots of rumors and messages going around in regard to a lock down again. I wonder what these retards are planning now?
Without the planning of course.
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25-10-2020, 20:20 #29
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25-10-2020, 20:25 #30
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