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Come Inside... => Petrol/Diesel/Red Diesel/Aviation Fuel Head Zone => Topic started by: Snoopy on October 10, 2007, 07:56:27 PM

Title: The Problem
Post by: Snoopy on October 10, 2007, 07:56:27 PM
With this bit of the pub is that so few of us know owt about motors.

I mean ~ we all Well nearly all) drive them and stuff but having told everyone what we have owned in the past and currently drive ~ what's left to say?

I mean, cars just go nowadays. You start your journey with every expectation of completing it. Not like in the old days when we could parrot on forever about the breakdowns en route, the punctures, the brake failures. These things just don't happen anymore.

P'raps we could have a bitch about motorway services but that's been done to death.

F1 is, to many of us, just a case of follow the leader nowadays and rallying really doesn't seem as exciting either. Probably good fun to do but it doesn't make for good TV.

Sorry but that's me on cars ..... the only difference I can see between most "Average priced modern cars" is which side you put the fuel in. Makes a big difference at Sainsburys if you get in the wrong lane and find the pump nozzle wont stretch far enough and you have to ask the 15 people lined behind you to back up a bit so you can reverse out and then drive to the other side of the pump ~ dare not drive forward or the attendant will report you for driving away without paying 'cos they've got you on CCTV taking the nozzle and thus starting the pump, then replacing the pump and driving forwards out of the filling station. It's a worry. scared2:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Darwins Selection on October 10, 2007, 10:28:59 PM
Sometimes, Snoopy old dog, you make the rest of us feel so shallow. surrender:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: GROWLER on October 10, 2007, 10:43:03 PM
Well I luv 'em.  cloud9: OK?

I suppose being involved with them in both my jobs, and having had a healthy interest in them for decades makes me want to discuss them I suppose.
Could be worse. Imagine wanting to discuss fishing for instance, or growing turnips on the allotment? ::)
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Barman on October 11, 2007, 06:03:24 AM
Turnips you say?  cloud9:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Darwins Selection on October 11, 2007, 07:53:24 AM
Turnips you say?  cloud9:
cloud9:

Do tractors count as on-topic?
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Barman on October 11, 2007, 07:59:13 AM
Turnips you say?  cloud9:
cloud9:

Do tractors count as on-topic?
Oh yes...
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Darwins Selection on October 11, 2007, 08:03:29 AM
Turnips you say?  cloud9:
cloud9:

Do tractors count as on-topic?
Oh yes...
cloud9:
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Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Nick on October 11, 2007, 08:10:10 AM
I was at a service station on the M6 a few weeks back as I drove out I saw a sign that said "Thank you for your visit. You have been recorded on CCTV"

Bastards. That's the last time I go there!
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Snoopy on October 11, 2007, 08:57:48 AM
And I go fishing .... I could talk about that instead.  whistle:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Bar Wench on October 11, 2007, 08:58:30 AM
 point:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Snoopy on October 11, 2007, 08:59:32 AM
point:

If that's directed at me 'cos I go fishing ~ it's the only place I can get away from the family OK  evil:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Bar Wench on October 11, 2007, 09:02:59 AM
point:

If that's directed at me 'cos I go fishing ~ it's the only place I can get away from the family OK  evil:

 point:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Darwins Selection on October 11, 2007, 10:33:33 AM
I was at a service station on the M6 a few weeks back as I drove out I saw a sign that said "Thank you for your visit. You have been recorded on CCTV"

Bastards. That's the last time I go there!
There, there. You can't be that ugly.
 happy100
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Nick on October 11, 2007, 10:34:40 AM
I jolly well am!
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Darwins Selection on October 11, 2007, 10:35:38 AM
I jolly well am!
scared2:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Nick on October 11, 2007, 10:40:59 AM
I used to be an Adonis. That was between 1973 and 1979. Not now though!
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Darwins Selection on October 11, 2007, 11:01:58 AM
I used to be an Adonis.

Is that the same as a "Redcoat"?
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Nick on October 11, 2007, 11:06:18 AM

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I also had ringlets and 28" waist

All gone! cry:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Darwins Selection on October 11, 2007, 11:10:11 AM
I also had ringlets

I have never liked the idea of piercing I must say.
Still, each to their own. noooo:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Nick on October 11, 2007, 11:11:20 AM
My hair is still inclined to curls, which is ridiculous in a man of my age.

|Bastardo!
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Darwins Selection on October 11, 2007, 11:13:38 AM
My hair is still inclined to curls, which is ridiculous in a man of my age.

|Bastardo!

Oh I see!

A touch of the tarbrush somewhere in the dim and distant eh? ;)

Probably goes some way to explaining the 28" as well.
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Nick on October 11, 2007, 11:14:43 AM
 evil:

Don't you have geese to attend to?
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Uncle Mort on October 11, 2007, 11:31:21 AM
My hair is still inclined to curls, which is ridiculous in a man of my age.

|Bastardo!

Surely not?  eeek:

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Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Nick on October 11, 2007, 11:32:21 AM
It can go that way if left unattended. But not ginger, obviously. Oh no. Blonde, like an, er, Adonis. cry:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: The Moan Ranger on October 11, 2007, 11:57:26 AM
It can go that way if left unattended. But not ginger, obviously. Oh no. Blonde, like an, er, Adonis. cry:

You are David Gower and I claim my £5.
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Nick on October 11, 2007, 11:59:58 AM
Bless you my son. NOw come up and see me! eyes:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: tel on October 11, 2007, 12:21:20 PM
That was Cockney Rebel!
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Nick on October 11, 2007, 12:21:54 PM
Que?
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: The Moan Ranger on October 11, 2007, 12:23:12 PM
Sera sera...
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: tel on October 11, 2007, 12:23:29 PM
"Come up and see me, make me smile"

It is my disjointed way of thinking. ;D
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: tel on October 11, 2007, 12:24:12 PM
Sera sera...

That was Geno Washington.

Next?
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Nick on October 11, 2007, 12:24:48 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6WDdZ6xaPg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6WDdZ6xaPg)

For Berek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9opdQcowXs&mode=related&search= (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9opdQcowXs&mode=related&search=)
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Snoopy on October 11, 2007, 01:35:08 PM
I used to be an Adonis. That was between 1973 and 1979. Not now though!

My ex wife used to say that she married me when I looked like a Greek God and divorced me when I looked like a Goddamn Greek.
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Darwins Selection on October 11, 2007, 01:42:13 PM
I used to be an Adonis. That was between 1973 and 1979. Not now though!

My ex wife used to say that she married me when I looked like a Greek God and divorced me when I looked like a Goddamn Greek.
Are you Prince Philip?
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Snoopy on October 11, 2007, 01:47:43 PM
No ~ I think she meant I had put on  little weight.


BTW Nick ~ did you say blonde curls? ..... More grey and grizzled would have been my thought but perhaps the lighting was poor that day.
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Nick on October 11, 2007, 01:55:18 PM
I was talking about the early 70's. We are now 30 years on. Sadly. cry:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Snoopy on October 11, 2007, 02:05:45 PM
I was talking about the early 70's. We are now 30 years on. Sadly. cry:


Nearer forty years on Nick ~ nearer forty  cry:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Nick on October 11, 2007, 02:55:49 PM
Each to his own. I still feel 18 inside. sad24:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Snoopy on October 11, 2007, 03:14:24 PM
Each to his own. I still feel 18 inside. sad24:

I've always said that you are as old as the woman you feel ~ Unfortunately she seems to be getting old.
Time perhaps for another change?
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Bar Wench on October 11, 2007, 03:14:57 PM
 point:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Snoopy on October 11, 2007, 03:22:24 PM
point:

Don't laugh too loudly young lady ~ age and GRAVITY will get you too.
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Barman on October 11, 2007, 03:22:56 PM
point:

Don't laugh too loudly young lady ~ age and GRAVITY will get you too.
'get'?  rubschin:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: tel on October 11, 2007, 03:25:06 PM
As in "going south".
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Snoopy on October 11, 2007, 03:26:56 PM
Let those who are without ~ etc.
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Darwins Selection on October 11, 2007, 03:42:23 PM
Let those who are without ~ etc.
Even the 'first stones' are heading South without being cast. cry:
Title: Re: The Problem
Post by: Snoopy on October 11, 2007, 04:05:40 PM
Let those who are without ~ etc.
Even the 'first stones' are heading South without being cast. cry:

Oh yes ~ and don't they bloody hurt on the way through!  eeek: