Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 28)
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Not very trivial, but after many months of getting nowhere, and pulling out my hair, it's become apparent I'm useless at managing to get a date, or a job or anything really 
On the plus side, it's my birthday again this week, it's just another day... but at least I don't need to have an excuse to eat cake!
On the plus side, it's my birthday again this week, it's just another day... but at least I don't need to have an excuse to eat cake!
moneymakestheworldgoaround said:
Not very trivial, but after many months of getting nowhere, and pulling out my hair, it's become apparent I'm useless at managing to get a date, or a job or anything really
On the plus side, it's my birthday again this week, it's just another day... but at least I don't need to have an excuse to eat cake!
Sorry to hear that chap. For what it's worth, I know someone who fell on hard times a few years back and ended up marrying a woman who worked in the job centre place he was going to. Clouds and silver linings and all that...On the plus side, it's my birthday again this week, it's just another day... but at least I don't need to have an excuse to eat cake!
Sounds like a nice Victoria sponge might be in order for the birthday bash, always goes down well. Let us know when it is.
There comes a time in every man's life when he has one of those moments of epiphany and simply has to accept he has just too many sets of wheels 
Even with my super-efficient new garage arrangement there is not going to be room for the Volk GT-Cs, the Bridgestone Sharaks, the Watanabes, the Panasport G7s, the OEM RX-7 wheels and the Borbet As 
It's not fair
Even with my super-efficient new garage arrangement there is not going to be room for the Volk GT-Cs, the Bridgestone Sharaks, the Watanabes, the Panasport G7s, the OEM RX-7 wheels and the Borbet As It's not fair
Bomma220 said:
Go easy on the Pernod then chap. Or Pastis I think they call it there? It'll leave you thirsty in the morning, then if you drink water you'll be as pissed as a parrot again. Apparently.
Might help if you could get a map of the camp site too. Don't want to be turning up in the small hours with no idea of where to go.
Give them a call.
A few years ago an old friend of one of our group (who now lives in france) joined up with our group down there. One evening he had hit the Pastis fairly hard but he seemed ok the next morning so a few of us accepted a ride down into town with him. He slightly misjudged how wide his camper van was and accidentally peeled a renault5.Might help if you could get a map of the camp site too. Don't want to be turning up in the small hours with no idea of where to go.
Give them a call.
And I do mean peeled, the front wing was peeled back and sat by the front door, the door skin was peeled back so far that I could see the window winder mechanism!
GOG440 said:
A few years ago an old friend of one of our group (who now lives in france) joined up with our group down there. One evening he had hit the Pastis fairly hard but he seemed ok the next morning so a few of us accepted a ride down into town with him. He slightly misjudged how wide his camper van was and accidentally peeled a renault5.
And I do mean peeled, the front wing was peeled back and sat by the front door, the door skin was peeled back so far that I could see the window winder mechanism!
In doing a manouvre at a busy junction we were side swiped by an old Renault - we were going the opposite way and the old transit crewbus was knackered anyway so we both just carried on, later writing 'Ford 1 Renault 0' on the dented bit.....fast froward to late pm, we're parked next to a bus of asleep gendarmes. One wakes up, sees the damage and the writing, remembers some stuff on the intercom from earlier in the day and in half a minute were were being arrested for not reporting an accident. It took most of the night and the next morning for 9 of us in the gendarmerie to explain we werent the ones at fault. Turns out in France you cant claim on some policies if its your fault unless its hit and run, and as we had lost the Renault in traffic he had decided to report it to Police as not being his fault and hoping we wouldnt be found! And I do mean peeled, the front wing was peeled back and sat by the front door, the door skin was peeled back so far that I could see the window winder mechanism!
Bomma220 said:
Sorry to hear that chap. For what it's worth, I know someone who fell on hard times a few years back and ended up marrying a woman who worked in the job centre place he was going to. Clouds and silver linings and all that...
Sounds like a nice Victoria sponge might be in order for the birthday bash, always goes down well. Let us know when it is.
Thanks for the positive thoughts; Sounds like a nice Victoria sponge might be in order for the birthday bash, always goes down well. Let us know when it is.
My birthday is Friday! Guess how old I shall be
moneymakestheworldgoaround said:
Thanks for the positive thoughts;
My birthday is Friday! Guess how old I shall be
We should organise a party. Can't be too difficult for a Friday.My birthday is Friday! Guess how old I shall be
As for the guess at your age, I'm afraid I wouldn't even have a stab at it chap. I tried a similar thing with a woman once, missed by about twelve years and needed a good hour to sit down and recover.
Willy's bush and box?
Bomma220 said:
We should organise a party. Can't be too difficult for a Friday.
As for the guess at your age, I'm afraid I wouldn't even have a stab at it chap. I tried a similar thing with a woman once, missed by about twelve years and needed a good hour to sit down and recover.
Willy's bush and box?
I'll be the big... 23As for the guess at your age, I'm afraid I wouldn't even have a stab at it chap. I tried a similar thing with a woman once, missed by about twelve years and needed a good hour to sit down and recover.
Willy's bush and box?
moneymakestheworldgoaround said:
Not very trivial, but after many months of getting nowhere, and pulling out my hair, it's become apparent I'm useless at managing to get a date, or a job or anything really
On the plus side, it's my birthday again this week, it's just another day... but at least I don't need to have an excuse to eat cake!
What are your qualifications again?On the plus side, it's my birthday again this week, it's just another day... but at least I don't need to have an excuse to eat cake!
A City and Guilds qualification of some sort would probably get you a job, a mate of mine did bricklaying and is earning pretty solid money with no end of offers if he wants to leave who he's working for at the moment. Oh, and he's here in London, you like to look at cars around here no?
Nik da Greek said:
There comes a time in every man's life when he has one of those moments of epiphany and simply has to accept he has just too many sets of wheels Even with my super-efficient new garage arrangement there is not going to be room for the Volk GT-Cs, the Bridgestone Sharaks, the Watanabes, the Panasport G7s, the OEM RX-7 wheels and the Borbet As
It's not fair
Please say neither they Volks nor the Watanabes will be going! You have good taste in wheels too going by that list. Even with my super-efficient new garage arrangement there is not going to be room for the Volk GT-Cs, the Bridgestone Sharaks, the Watanabes, the Panasport G7s, the OEM RX-7 wheels and the Borbet As It's not fair
V6Pushfit said:
Today's trivia: a 1941 Willys Steering box bush is 11/16, all later are 3/4. Caught me out.
Do you have an expanding reamer?Don't set them off, Dicky, it's too early in the morning.
It's a perfectly legitimate question.
Perhaps, but by the time they've involved every variety of innuendo and Battert and Mrs Brassington we'll be here all day.
There are worse places.
leglessAlex said:
What are your qualifications again?
A City and Guilds qualification of some sort would probably get you a job, a mate of mine did bricklaying and is earning pretty solid money with no end of offers if he wants to leave who he's working for at the moment. Oh, and he's here in London, you like to look at cars around here no?
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll go and take a look right away A City and Guilds qualification of some sort would probably get you a job, a mate of mine did bricklaying and is earning pretty solid money with no end of offers if he wants to leave who he's working for at the moment. Oh, and he's here in London, you like to look at cars around here no?
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