The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Nick on February 01, 2009, 07:28:57 PM
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Thread pending till I can be arsed to write the tale of woe
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tunble:
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No time now. Tap water and bread and scrape for tea, like. I have to run the tap. And cut some bread
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Be careful.
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It's a ........
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Well, he's coming back on Wednesday, so once that ordeal is over, and he's talked in Glaswegian about '...my little Kyle...' it will all be over
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No time now. Tap water and bread and scrape for tea, like. I have to run the tap. And cut some bread
You'll be needing one of these then! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kenwood-SL250-Food-Slicer-100W/dp/B0000ZH0DA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=1233516785&sr=8-3) whistle:
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I am getting my coat and will drive round to Nick's and Keeeeeel Heeeem myself if he keeps this up. Banghead
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¬For tap water? rubschin:
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NO For the friggin' story you moron! cussing:
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Banghead
Keeel Heeem!
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Maybe I should post your bank details here in case i meet an untimely death whistle:
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I think I can speak for the assembled gathering when I offer surrender:
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Wait till Wednesday then
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Bastardo!
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I like Stanley Baxter. cloud9:
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I knew somebody had to. ::) I had assumed it was only his mother.
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No she disowned him when he started impersonating her: ;)
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I like Stanley Baxter. cloud9:
You wouldn't if he turned up at your house and shouted at you evil:
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eeek:
The story better be good, cos I can see a lynchin' happening otherwise !
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The man's a nutter.
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It takes one to know one they say ........... whistle:
Come on Nick, you've strung this out long enough ~ give with the story. Who is this guy and what has he to do with your TV no longer being in it's box?
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Wednesday
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Banghead Banghead Banghead
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I can give you his number. He yells into the phone in an impenetrable Glaswegian accent Angry9:
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February the 2nd is Groundhog day whistle:
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This Yelling ~ What about?
Carpets
Cars
Court Cases
Television Licences
the list could go on and on.
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Televisions
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February the 2nd is Groundhog day whistle:
Yes, and Nick is the annoying insurance salesman... Am I right, am I right, am I right? Banghead
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Right.
We had the TV in a box for about 8 months but got it out at Christmas for our guests (tho there wasnothing on worth watching) and then I couldn't be arsed to put it away again.
Then it went wrong. Totally dead. No point having £700 pounds worth of dead telly in the corner, so I found a local repairman in the Yellow Pages and called him. Incomprehensible Glaswegian accent and very shouty. Doesn't listen. Impossible to get a word in edgeways. So he turns up to collect it. He looks exactly like Stanley Baxter. IN the meantime Mrs Nick wants to watch summat on the telly so we get out an old 12 inch set so she can do that.
After a week he calls up and yells at me in Glaswegian some shite about circuit boards and power surges. The one thing I do get is the repair price: £300 evil:
He delivers it back to us on Satruday and then discovers the remote control is not working. He produces a hooooooge box of remote controls from his car and proceeds to test each one to see if he can find one that werks the set. Running commentary throughout which neither of us can understand. We suspect it's a fake accent designed to confuse us.
He burbles about 'My little Kyle' till we feel like killing him. By now it is 6.00.
He announces that he will return to his workshop and find some more remote controls and return. He turns up again at 8.30 carrying a mahoosive telly rubschin:
He yells at us that since ours is stil not werking he cannot leave us at the mercy of a little 12inch set and has brought a temporary replacement. We say that we don't want it. He insists (loudly) and positions it in front of the dead telly. It has a 60 inch screen eeek:
He then says he will have to order a new remote control (cost unknown at that point) and then spends anothor hour retuning the unwanted telly yelling in Glaswegian throughout. He leaves at 9.45! cussing:
He has now returned with a new remote control (£25) and removed the mahoosive telly. He lost his footing on the ice as he left the house and dropped it point:
The end
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A non working TV set that cost, originally, £700 is worthless. It would be stupid to commit to paying for repairs costing more than a new TV would cost. Prices of such things have dropped in the past couple of years to next to nothing and a new set would be HD ready, have built in DVD player etc ~ available currently from several High Street outlets for under £300.
In fact I could point you at a 22inch HD ready set, readilly available for around £175 to £199. Given the size of your rooms you certainly don't want anything bigger.
If you have really shelled out £300 for repairs to an old set you are indeed, as Growler has said so many times, mad!
Unless of course your worth(less) £700 set is another heirloom in the making. FFS man inside of 12 months the switch to digital will be happening and your old set won't work anyway.
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It is a digital set evil:
60 channels of shite
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More fool you on two counts...
1) You have turned a £700 obsolete broken telly into a £1,000 obsolete telly
2) Universal remote controls are available from Argos for £5
You should have junked the broken telly and bought a brand new all-singing-all-dancing HD set for £500 tops...
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It has been an expensive week sad24:
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It has been an expensive week sad24:
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Well at least he dropped his mahoosive telly.
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Was he on your property/grounds at the time? ~ We await the news from his solicitor's letter suing you because you failed to clear the ice from around the entrance to your property over which you invited him to pass. point:
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Nick - noooo:
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Fortunately it was in the street
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Nick - noooo:
As a Hatter Miss D ~ as a Hatter noooo:
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I see Growler has found this thread. Wait for the bang noooo:
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Fortunately it was in the street
YOUR street.
H&S executive will have summat to say about this. ::)
Where's there's blame, there's a claim. Angry9:
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Fortunately it was in the street
He slipped over on the slate! point:
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Wrong angel1
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Wrong angel1
Privately owned unadopted street iirc?
You and the neighbours responsibilty for not gritting it then soft shite. point:
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I suspect on the main road ~ but someone will try to make a case out about it you mark my words.
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Pile on the misery, please do cry:
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Pile on the misery, please do cry:
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Lucky he didn't drop it on your new rug like! point:
In fact, why didn't you get him to help you move the rug - he could have put a compo claim in for putting his back out too! point:
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Pile on the misery, please do cry:
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Lucky he didn't drop it on your new rug like! point:
In fact, why didn't you get him to help you move the rug - he could have put a compo claim in for putting his back out too! point:
Back and smashed telly. This just gets better. Was it a Plasma telly by any chance? happy088
Give him you shite flea ridden floor rag as compo. lol:
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I am impressed that Nick is still able to pull out his old 12incher to keep Mrs Nick entertained when the need arises.
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happy001
Not a hope!
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evil:
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I am impressed that Nick is still able to pull out his old 12incher to keep Mrs Nick entertained when the need arises.
lol: lol: lol: