Pistonheaders and their First World Problems.

Pistonheaders and their First World Problems.

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wiliferus

4,053 posts

197 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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BoRED S2upid said:
CasTiger7 said:
I'm looking at buying a third car, but I can only fit 2 behind the gate on the driveway. Looks like I'll have to sacrifice one to be parked on the outside.
Why not put one in the garage?
Hush your lip peasant. The garage is for the ride on lawn mower. The cars go in the barn.

BoRED S2upid

19,643 posts

239 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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wiliferus said:
Hush your lip peasant. The garage is for the ride on lawn mower. The cars go in the barn.
Indeed. But some of us have to squeeze lawn mowers and cars into garages! Oh to own a barn.

Blown2CV

28,697 posts

202 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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BoRED S2upid said:
wiliferus said:
Hush your lip peasant. The garage is for the ride on lawn mower. The cars go in the barn.
Indeed. But some of us have to squeeze lawn mowers and cars into garages! Oh to own a barn.
Parrot?

Willy Nilly

12,511 posts

166 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Blown2CV said:
BoRED S2upid said:
wiliferus said:
Hush your lip peasant. The garage is for the ride on lawn mower. The cars go in the barn.
Indeed. But some of us have to squeeze lawn mowers and cars into garages! Oh to own a barn.
Parrot?
That lives in the aviary

DickyC

49,544 posts

197 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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You only have a aviary?

gherkins

483 posts

230 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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DickyC said:
You only have a aviary?
"A aviary" - what public school did you go to?

DickyC

49,544 posts

197 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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Slough Tech.

smile

wolfracesonic

6,940 posts

126 months

Saturday 6th September 2014
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Due to staff being on holiday/ill/malingering, I ventured down to the kitchens the other evening, as I was feeling rather peckish. Once I located them, I decided to cook myself some cheese on toast, a particular favourite of mine. What could go wrong? I placed the bread and a slice of processed cheese (a guilty pleasure) in the toaster and depressed the lever. However: as soon as the element got hot, all the cheese melted and slid to the bottom. I made a few more attempts, but with the same outcome, the toaster eventually resembling some sort of budget Fondue set. Am I missing something, or shall I best leave these things to the staff?

hidetheelephants

23,763 posts

192 months

Saturday 6th September 2014
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wolfracesonic said:
Due to staff being on holiday/ill/malingering, I ventured down to the kitchens the other evening, as I was feeling rather peckish. Once I located them, I decided to cook myself some cheese on toast, a particular favourite of mine. What could go wrong? I placed the bread and a slice of processed cheese (a guilty pleasure) in the toaster and depressed the lever. However: as soon as the element got hot, all the cheese melted and slid to the bottom. I made a few more attempts, but with the same outcome, the toaster eventually resembling some sort of budget Fondue set. Am I missing something, or shall I best leave these things to the staff?
You want something describing itself as Toastie Pockets, available at all good supermarkets. They make the toast taste funny so I don't like them.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 6th September 2014
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put the toaster on its side..

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

162 months

Saturday 6th September 2014
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The Spruce goose said:
put the toaster on its side..
I have done that.

Just don't use too much cheese.

pocty

1,117 posts

278 months

Saturday 6th September 2014
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I've got really bad reception on the radio in my 996 Porsche GT3 RS... frown

Pocty

marmitemania

1,566 posts

141 months

Saturday 6th September 2014
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gherkins said:
DickyC said:
You only have a aviary?
"A aviary" - what public school did you go to?
FML It's no good picking up on "A aviary" when you asked. What public school did you go to? It's which, which public school did you go to?

DickyC

49,544 posts

197 months

Sunday 7th September 2014
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marmitemania said:
FML It's no good picking up on "A aviary" when you asked. What public school did you go to? It's which, which public school did you go to?
As I was writing I was debating in my mind the vagaries of "An Aviary" and "A Haviary" and it all went downhill so quickly from there.

Yiliterate

3,786 posts

205 months

Sunday 7th September 2014
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DickyC said:
Not me this time but I know a chap who is finding his feet after being widowed last year. He and his wife had an apartment in London with a rather bashed up Ford Focus and a house in the country with a cossetted Jaguar saloon. If they were in the country, they could drive to town in the Jaguar. If they were in town, they could drive to the country in the Focus. If one was in one place and the other in the other place, there was always a car available. Now on his own, he has achieved a long standing ambition and bought a Bentley S3, circa 1963. It's a disaster. Where to keep the Bentley? The system worked up over so many years only works with even numbers. Now he has an even number of properties and an odd number of cars, the system fails. He keeps finding himself in the wrong place with the wrong car.

He'll have to buy a house at the sea. It's the only answer.
Ah yes, I think I remember this one from school. He has a Focus, a Jag and a Bentley, right? Now, let me see...

If he takes the Bentley, then the Jag will eat the Focus before he gets back, won't it? So that one's out. Well, my next thought would be to take the Focus to keep it safe from the Jag...but then the Jag is in danger of getting eaten by the Bentley...


scratchchin


Hmm...let me get back to you.

Blown2CV

28,697 posts

202 months

Sunday 7th September 2014
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To buck the trend of people thinking that FWP means pretending to be posh or rich, may I present to you what I believe epitomises FWP and also being British.

my regular hair cuttist was on holiday, so someone else cut my hair and they made a far better job of it. Now I have to either handle the awkwardness of the original seeing that I have 'dumped' them when I go in in future to use the new stylist, or more likely (here's the british bit) put up with receiving less optimal haircuts in order to avoid the awkwardness.

DickyC

49,544 posts

197 months

Sunday 7th September 2014
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Pretending?

rolex

3,110 posts

257 months

Sunday 7th September 2014
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Bought a kinetic watch and can't be bothered to wave my arm around.

hidetheelephants

23,763 posts

192 months

Sunday 7th September 2014
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rolex said:
Bought a kinetic watch and can't be bothered to wave my arm around.
Have a wk?

DickyC

49,544 posts

197 months

Sunday 7th September 2014
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hidetheelephants said:
rolex said:
Bought a kinetic watch and can't be bothered to wave my arm around.
Have a wk?
Possibly the wrong hand, which would lead to attendance at an Ambidextrous Acclimatisation Course to learn to wear the watch on the other wrist. It's just one damn thing after another.