Mark Bolam
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Everything posted by Mark Bolam
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Not easy slipping them past you Mr. J!
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It’s like chicken tikka, but ‘otter.
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Have you had chicken tarka?
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For everyone. And cold beers for everyone after work. (Champagne for the climbers).
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Haha, good lad! Sense of humour always helps.
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Pete Donetelli was a co-author. He died in a rigging accident! Good book, like. No one will be interested in a new guys input on rigging, though. Driving, towing, reliability and willingness to graft are the foot in the door attributes. As is looking after the kit and staying off your phone.
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Lose the pine for a start, you can’t reduce them meaningfully.
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Deep fat fryers were invented for a reason.
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Is it your tree?
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Can I do some extra freelance work for the company I work for?
Mark Bolam replied to Sam's topic in General chat
Now we’re cookin’ Paddy! -
Can I do some extra freelance work for the company I work for?
Mark Bolam replied to Sam's topic in General chat
PL on it’s own (for solo stuff) is peanuts. It’s a pikey move not having it. -
If you drink a pint of warm lard mixed with broken glass before you call it helps with the accent.
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What a ridiculously reasonable answer.
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No harm in checking mate.
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Nice one Ben. I’m sure some on here will still argue with you like!
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He can’t be SE and work for you full time.
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He can’t do that Ben, it’s totally illegal. Of course bona-fide subcontractors should have their own insurance, but there’s a big difference between them and freelancers.
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I’d look at it more simply Huck. Check your freelancers are covered by your insurance, and if they aren’t then move insurers. Rich’s story bought it home to me, he was insured (as a freelancer) by the same company who were insuring the main contractor. They can’t have it both ways, and they can’t be charging two premiums to cover the same event. Of course they’d like to, and I’m sure they’d be happy to take money from any freelancers. It always made me laugh when I saw freelancers advertising that they were ‘fully insured’. I’d think ‘Bingo, I’ll get him in to do that 200’ dead pop overhanging the Ferrari garage’. Ben, just ring your insurance company, they will soon clarify.
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We’ve the rest of 2021 to take the piss out of you, pisshead! Feel for the dogs though, I love a good firework on November 5th and that’s it now.
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Let’s hope he meant that to 2020! We’ve clashed on here a few times Paddy, but you seem like the sort of bloke who can take it, and give it back!!! I was lucky enough to get into this game, later in life, where Arbtalk was the springboard for actually putting names to faces at shows, shops and events. Something we can’t do at the minute, obviously. Too many new stagers come on here and talk the talk, but leave when they find they can’t actually walk the walk. To an extent, some have probably forged an excellent arb career, but just couldn’t be arsed with the internet bs. You’re maybe a bit different, a brain on shoulders broad enough to take the stick. Happy New Year to you anyway mate, let’s make it a good one.
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3 kids and the snip here Paddy, the procreation isn’t the problem!
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Happy New Year Arbtalkers. Are you talking about the the Jools Holland thing I put on as a countdown? I thought I was back in 1990. The bloke just doesn’t age, does he? Incredible. Make 2021 a good one folks. My resolutions are to smash even more chin-ups, think before I type more, and become less obsessed with sex.
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I wouldn’t quote on a job where someone wanted 50% on lombardys. What are they thinking of?
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Don’t you think that door has been open for a very long time already?!
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Can I do some extra freelance work for the company I work for?
Mark Bolam replied to Sam's topic in General chat
To be fair, I think we knew it was iffy in answer to the OP’s question from page 1.
