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12 hours ago, scottsdad said:

That's fine if you're running to something. What about running from something? An irate Fifer, a wasted Wedgie, a fan of a chipper and so on... 

 

1 hour ago, alta-pete said:

This is probably a good benchmark for fitness. I expect I’d likely get caught by an irate Fifer but should be able to easily escape a wasted Wedgie (sic). 

A new sport on a greyhound track. You are the hare and are set off and out of the boxes come chasing,

An Irate Fifer,

A Wasted Wedgie

A Leith Junkie,

First to catch you wins, I'd bet on that and sure I could get Sky to televise.

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12 hours ago, scottsdad said:

That's fine if you're running to something. What about running from something? An irate Fifer, a wasted Wedgie, a fan of a chipper and so on... 

I guess I would be like a final boss on a game..

I was born in Fife, lived on the West Coast, I can be very angry when wasted and I love chippers. I have also had the Dundonian fit like upgrade.

Start running now cunto.

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35 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

Petrol stations charging people for blowing up their tyres.

I would pay good money for someone inflating my tyres. 

Last time I attempted this I managed to deflate them. 

I am, admittedly mostly a public transport w****r these days. 

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On 21/07/2023 at 10:19, DG.Roma said:

Amazon's packaging, particularly when buying something like this....

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The arseholes once sent me a bag of 12 guitar picks in a box the size of a typical microwave oven, complete with bubblewrap, rolled paper filling, carboard inserts etc. 

It was part of a larger order that they couldn't consolidate, for some reason, but even still it would have fit easily in an envelope the size of a beermat and gone through my letterbox no bother.

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On 22/07/2023 at 14:15, Brother Blades said:

See also “the proof is in the pudding” just f**k off!

Ive also seen this used by supposed journalists! 

Cut your cloth. Absolute abomination.

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Ok, ok, my turn. What in the name of the wee man with big feet is the story with plumbing these days?

In times gone by, when everything cost a penny and was made of wood, I could fix a dripping tap or toilet cistern with about 10 minutes work, a pair of pliers and a washer.

Nowadays, our kitchen and utility room taps are both dripping and when I take the cover off not only are there now abominations called "ceramic cartridges" inside, each tap takes a different design of cartridge at both ends. Added of course to the next issue that because both are mixer taps, I'd have to turn the water off not only to replace the d@mn thing, I'd also have ato turn it off to find out if it's the hot or cold one that's the source of the drip.

The toilet, that used to be a push handle, floating ballcock type is now some sort of internal solid state plastic monstrosity so that it's impossible to tell exactly where the problem is.

Improvement? Modernisation? I'll give them improvements and modernisations! 

I'm off for a cup of tea.

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18 minutes ago, Salt n Vinegar said:

Ok, ok, my turn. What in the name of the wee man with big feet is the story with plumbing these days?

In times gone by, when everything cost a penny and was made of wood, I could fix a dripping tap or toilet cistern with about 10 minutes work, a pair of pliers and a washer.

Nowadays, our kitchen and utility room taps are both dripping and when I take the cover off not only are there now abominations called "ceramic cartridges" inside, each tap takes a different design of cartridge at both ends. Added of course to the next issue that because both are mixer taps, I'd have to turn the water off not only to replace the d@mn thing, I'd also have ato turn it off to find out if it's the hot or cold one that's the source of the drip.

The toilet, that used to be a push handle, floating ballcock type is now some sort of internal solid state plastic monstrosity so that it's impossible to tell exactly where the problem is.

Improvement? Modernisation? I'll give them improvements and modernisations! 

I'm off for a cup of tea.

I'm guessing the industry realised that, once their equipment was installed, there wasn't a huge amount of money to be made after that, other than for plumbers. So they did something about it.

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44 minutes ago, Salt n Vinegar said:

I could fix a dripping tap or toilet cistern with about 10 minutes work, a pair of pliers and a washer.

Nowadays, our kitchen and utility room taps are both dripping and when I take the cover off not only are there now abominations called "ceramic cartridges" inside, each tap takes a different design of cartridge at both ends. Added of course to the next issue that because both are mixer taps, I'd have to turn the water off not only to replace the d@mn thing, I'd also have ato turn it off to find out if it's the hot or cold one that's the source of the drip.

The toilet, that used to be a push handle, floating ballcock type is now some sort of internal solid state plastic monstrosity so that it's impossible to tell exactly where the problem is.

 

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