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groucho
11,064 posts
115 months
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H&S is complete bonkers. Tying yourself off whilst on roof ladder? After 33 years I feel at home on one of those as I do on the ground.
I do not need some spotty H&S office bod to tell me what is dangerous or not. I ALREADY KNOW, THAT IS WHY I'M STILL ALIVE.
Sorry, but it's gone crazy.
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Gaz.
47,166 posts
120 months
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One of those naff commemorative sorts ran an advert for a time piece to celebrate the Queen's golden jubilee in a national paper opposite the TV listings:
"Reader offer- wall mounted cock £29.99".
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TinyCappo
1,397 posts
22 months
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We had a holiday flyer through the post recently advertising that firm thats 6 letters long and has red tailed aircraft they have trains and the tv ads that use muse as their soundtrack.
"BOOK DIRECT AND RECIEVE..."
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durbster
3,048 posts
91 months
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Bill said: Not quite the same level, but the order of service for my wedding had "The entrance of the bridge". Oops. We only found out when my mum spotted it shortly before the bridge arrived.  
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Robb F
3,838 posts
40 months
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TinyCappo said: We had a holiday flyer through the post recently from Virgin advertising that firm thats 6 letters long and has red tailed aircraft they have trains and the tv ads that use muse as their soundtrack.
"BOOK DIRECT AND RECIEVE..."
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sebhaque
3,375 posts
50 months
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We had a cracker about a year ago, new company had started up in the local area and was advertising their services, they were a drain maintenance-type company. The flyer they sent out (I wish I'd kept it now, if I'm honest) was a picture of a badly bodged gutter, with a caption "DOES YOUR GUTTER LOOK LIKE THIS? SHOULD OF CALLED XXXXXX!!" [I forget their name] There was another picture underneath it of a decent looking gutter, and it further went on to say "CALL US NOW ON XXXXX, YOUR NEVER GOING TO WORRY ABOUT YOUR GUTTERING AGAIN!" The best part of the whole flyer was that the picture of the crap gutter was at the top of the flyer, and the picture of the decent one at the bottom. For reasons I'll never know, pretty much 40% of the decent gutter picture had all the sales bumph on it ("call Dave on xxxxx or pop in at xxxxx") so at a glance you'd see XXX DRAIN MAINTENANCE and a s  tty picture underneath 
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172ff
1,405 posts
64 months
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Excellent I'm not going mad!
There are a couple of houses in my street who's roofs are much brighter than the rest. They look jet washed but I assumed they have been replaced recently.
They have been jet washed. This type of crazy practice does happen!
Why on earth would you want your roof done? Must be some crazy OCD thing about cleaning.
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Mojooo
7,304 posts
49 months
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isnt pressure washing meant to be bad for a roof anyway as the rpessure can dislodge tiles/pointing cement.
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CedGTV
Original Poster
2,177 posts
123 months
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I'm guessing that they wash down hill so to speak, and keep clear of the pointing to the ridge and hips.
But it has to be said it does seem unnatural to add pressure feed water to a roof, however well they direct it.
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Big News
1,814 posts
48 months
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My all-time favourite: 
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The Nur
5,427 posts
54 months
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eldar
6,996 posts
65 months
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timbob
1,841 posts
121 months
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I particularly liked the BNP leaflet that dropped through the door a couple of years ago before the last general election. The front was adorned with a picture of a mighty Spitfire, complete with "send the foreigners back" messages all over the place.
A quick Google of the squadron insignia of the Spitfire pictured revealed it was part of a Polish squadron during the Battle of Britain. Damn those foreigners who never do anything for Great Britain, eh?!
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Fun Bus
12,532 posts
87 months
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Big News said: My all-time favourite:  That's brilliant in a really bad way!
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Blue Oval84
1,755 posts
30 months
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p4cks said: Work's canteen...  Ah, you're on the same business park I used to work on, in fact I used to park in the visitors bays at your place to use the cashpoint, I refuse to pay to use the one outside Subway!
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TAHodgson
753 posts
40 months
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Fun Bus said: That's brilliant in a really bad way! It genuinely took me a couple of minutes to spot that, but I then burst out laughing, love it!
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kVA
2,133 posts
74 months
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The Nur said: Hmmm.... thinks...  So, a miss-spelled banner might be displayed for free on countless forums and viewed by millions - as long as the mistake is funny enough... All for £19.99 
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Baryonyx
6,880 posts
28 months
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Mastodon2 said: Most of the Indian takeaways around my town sell Korma with various meats, usually lamb or chicken. However, one of them appears to have misspelled it on their menu, calling it a "Kurma" instead. They must have been kicking themselves when they spotted that after printing 10,000 of them! ...  I much prefer reading Indian takeaway menus for their fanciful descriptions rather than their poor spelling and grammar. Though the tantalising description of a curry being "bassically not hot" usually has me on the phone to the local takeaway, who printed the menu with that glaring error and dashing turn of phrase. No, I love the way they describe the curry they serve. The delicate Bhuna: "briskly fry onions with peppers and rich spices to create a dry consistency". The fiery vindaloo: "hot blend of rich tomatoes and spices with extra added chilli and curry". The velvety Dansak: "bassically not hot, rich with pimentos and exotic spice to create a special curry". They describe the curry so well but invariable you are given a foil carton wit a sloppy sauce as a few bits of chicken in it. Great!
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AJS-
10,017 posts
105 months
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I would be seriously tempted to not even notice that glaring mistake.
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Google [bot]
3,080 posts
50 months
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