http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/health/offshore-worker-blasted-radiation-north-5176874 Offshore worker blasted with radiation on North Sea oil platform
I've only been on a BG platform once, back in 2008. There was a bird from FHM High St Honeys on at the time and I also had the misfortune to walk in to the cabin and see the auld **** I was sharing with ****ing away on the bed like a steam engine.
I already have one; the power to make you jealous as **** and mention me every five minutes like a leashed spastic.
Aye, I stood there politely with my hands clasped behind my back... ...In reality I told him he was a clatty bastard then got out of there like a whippet out the trap.
I remember my first trip offshore. One of the guys I was with went down to the spider deck and started fishing. Changed days now.
Loving the radioactive barrel that the DR have used to illustrate their point. I was totally lost without that...
Aye can barely move offshore for bright yellow barrels with big radioactive stickers on them. As I typed that I just realised that most platforms you can hardly move for barrels but it's usually a rusty as **** barrel of lubricant that they'll then put into a clean machine. ****ing spastics.
For what is supposedly high technology there are some amount of Heath Robinson practices out there. I remember being up in Ardesier for a few months 25 years ago. In the middle of winter. ****in freezing it was. We warned not to pick up any paint tins on site as the workers has developed a propensity for ****ing in them rather than taking the long trek to the lavvy. Having said that it was debatable which was more hygienic.
Funnily enough the occasional sealed paint tin would wash up on Invergordon beach when I was a nipper...about 25 years ago