A bull****** who wasn't actually?
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Ari said:
At the London Boat Show one year, went for a drink afterwards with some of the guys from the show on a barge that was converted into a pub in the docks close to the show.
The barman was telling us that (amongst other things) he used to be an engineer for Lotus and how he had invented the windsurfer!
Sounded like typical 'bloke behind the bar bulls
t' - turned out to be this bloke...
https://ukwindsurfing.com/hall-of-fame/peter-chilv...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Chilvers
I used to live there, that was my local. He's a great guy, very open about his past. I don't know if he still has it but he used to have a factory prototype Esprit convertible parked outside the barge. There was also loads of photos from Lotus insdie the bar, showing things like Diana Rigg in her Elan, Roger Moore in the red Esprit in For Your Eyes Only etc. All were signed by the people in them. The barman was telling us that (amongst other things) he used to be an engineer for Lotus and how he had invented the windsurfer!
Sounded like typical 'bloke behind the bar bulls
t' - turned out to be this bloke...https://ukwindsurfing.com/hall-of-fame/peter-chilv...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Chilvers
MLH said:
Strangely enough i was going to post a story along these lines on the other thread last night.
Anyway, i work a lot of night shifts all over the place and get to meet all sorts of characters (the people on night shifts always seem a bit more odd than day shift workers) and there was this one particular job i was on and their manager was known as a compulsive bullstter.
Needless to say when i met him i could see where they were coming from. No matter what i said he had done bigger/better/faster etc. I mentioned to him one day that i had built a kit car to which he replied with that he used to race dragsters. Another time a colleague said he had bought a remote control helicopter, billy bullstter went onto say that he flies jet powered remote controlled planes. One day the weather was particularly bad and he went onto say how 5 of his huge trees had uprooted in his 20 acre garden.
Many of his colleagues doubted everything he was saying with their reason being that a guy doing the job he does could no way afford the sort of lifestyle he had claimed to live.
As the contract went on i found myself becoming more friendly with him, its strange how some people who you think youre going to dislike at first grown on you over time, and near the end of the contract during one lunch break he called me over and pulled out a photo album. in that photo album was a photo of almost every single 'claim' he had madeover the previous weeks. The drag racing, the jet powered plane, the huge property....
He then went on to say that he was fully aware of everyone thinking he was a bullstter but had no interest what so ever of proving any of them wrong. I found that restrain remarkable as if it was me i would have had that photo album out straight away!
How long ago did he race? Name Andy?Anyway, i work a lot of night shifts all over the place and get to meet all sorts of characters (the people on night shifts always seem a bit more odd than day shift workers) and there was this one particular job i was on and their manager was known as a compulsive bulls
tter.Needless to say when i met him i could see where they were coming from. No matter what i said he had done bigger/better/faster etc. I mentioned to him one day that i had built a kit car to which he replied with that he used to race dragsters. Another time a colleague said he had bought a remote control helicopter, billy bulls
tter went onto say that he flies jet powered remote controlled planes. One day the weather was particularly bad and he went onto say how 5 of his huge trees had uprooted in his 20 acre garden.Many of his colleagues doubted everything he was saying with their reason being that a guy doing the job he does could no way afford the sort of lifestyle he had claimed to live.
As the contract went on i found myself becoming more friendly with him, its strange how some people who you think youre going to dislike at first grown on you over time, and near the end of the contract during one lunch break he called me over and pulled out a photo album. in that photo album was a photo of almost every single 'claim' he had madeover the previous weeks. The drag racing, the jet powered plane, the huge property....
He then went on to say that he was fully aware of everyone thinking he was a bulls
tter but had no interest what so ever of proving any of them wrong. I found that restrain remarkable as if it was me i would have had that photo album out straight away! s3fella said:
vescaegg said:
I dont actually know what you are trying to say here unless you are actually claiming said building has cloaking capabilities...
Am I having a really thick moment?
Yes, you are! Am I having a really thick moment?
Oh my fking God.
The joke is, that the "bullstter" was telling the truth because if you look on google maps, there is nothing there, indicating that it could very well be showing an "invisible" hangar.
Jesus tittyfking Christ. I can't believe I had to explain that. When do you lot go back to school?
king God.The joke is, that the "bulls
tter" was telling the truth because if you look on google maps, there is nothing there, indicating that it could very well be showing an "invisible" hangar.Jesus tittyf
king Christ. I can't believe I had to explain that. When do you lot go back to school?HereBeMonsters said:
The joke is, that the "bullstter" was telling the truth because if you look on google maps, there is nothing there, indicating that it could very well be showing an "invisible" hangar.
If thats the case its the least evident joke ever. And the stter" was telling the truth because if you look on google maps, there is nothing there, indicating that it could very well be showing an "invisible" hangar.ttest.He wrote it as 'having been to the site' [and presumably knowing that there is a building] that it 'is actually invisible' [from the outside].
Edited by vescaegg on Thursday 28th August 14:50
vescaegg said:
HereBeMonsters said:
The joke is, that the "bullstter" was telling the truth because if you look on google maps, there is nothing there, indicating that it could very well be showing an "invisible" hangar.
If thats the case its the least evident joke ever. And stter" was telling the truth because if you look on google maps, there is nothing there, indicating that it could very well be showing an "invisible" hangar.ttest.HereBeMonsters said:
vescaegg said:
HereBeMonsters said:
The joke is, that the "bullstter" was telling the truth because if you look on google maps, there is nothing there, indicating that it could very well be showing an "invisible" hangar.
If thats the case its the least evident joke ever. And stter" was telling the truth because if you look on google maps, there is nothing there, indicating that it could very well be showing an "invisible" hangar.ttest.vescaegg said:
HereBeMonsters said:
The joke is, that the "bullstter" was telling the truth because if you look on google maps, there is nothing there, indicating that it could very well be showing an "invisible" hangar.
If thats the case its the least evident joke ever. And stter" was telling the truth because if you look on google maps, there is nothing there, indicating that it could very well be showing an "invisible" hangar.ttest.The real joke is when people start to think one scenario of said paradox is the "right" one. And start swearing at people who disagree
Mark-C said:
I used to be Suzi Quattro's paperboy ...
Am I doing this right?
Not quite.Am I doing this right?
Here's your thread.
Yes it is a paradox!
The guy is clearly a deluded bullstter, as I am sure the fellow PHer that seems to know him to will elude to.
However, regarding this particular nugget of nonsense, if you look and can't see anything, and put that to him, he'd say 'exactly'.
It's funny because it is dead true, this is what he believes, and the guys clearly a wack job!
The guy is clearly a deluded bulls
tter, as I am sure the fellow PHer that seems to know him to will elude to. However, regarding this particular nugget of nonsense, if you look and can't see anything, and put that to him, he'd say 'exactly'.
It's funny because it is dead true, this is what he believes, and the guys clearly a wack job!
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