Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 31)
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Bobberoo99 said:
I can confirm that operation "Get Mrs Bobbers a new ring" has been successful, she picked one very different from the ones she originally looked at, we've had to order her size in, she has chubby little fingers, and here's the rub, 15-16 weeks!!!!
Well it's quite a long walk to Kathmandu and back... I presume the more expensive ones include the return air fare in the price for earlier collection?
V6 Pushfit said:
slopes said:
I grew up in the East Midlands, local copper was a nasty piece of work....long story - he ended up causing my dad to make a complaint aginst him for harrassing me - however, he met an early end due to THAT particular disease.
Trivial news, the late Graham Chapman and i went to the same school, although not at the same time.
Our local copper was Dick Bright who was more into stopping his police mini and chatting to his pals than doing any police work.Trivial news, the late Graham Chapman and i went to the same school, although not at the same time.
At 16 I got an mot failure moggy 1000 and ran it round the fields, shot it up with all manner of guns and painted it bizarre colours. I sold it to a local and decided to deliver it by road. Went round a bend and there was DB sitting in his mini. I had no licence no tax or mot no headlamps no windscreen and with bullet holes all over the bodywork with ‘dragonfly’ painted down the sides.
I gave him the thumbs up.
He nodded in acknowledgment.
That was it.
Local policing at its zenith
About a week later he was walking about with two constables - he was a sergeant - and as per normal, it kicked off in one of the pubs big time. He allegedly shouted come on and piled in. They sensibly waited outside for back up. He got a proper kicking and the rumour is that it was the subject of much mirth amongst his fellow peelers.
He later died from the big C but after i had moved away.
Bobberoo99 said:
Thanks chaps, sage advice indeed Dicky, and not something we'd considered!!!
That was the sage advice, now for the onion conversation. It's the mark up that gets you. My mum, still with us but detiorating rapidly, wants her jewellery dispersed between the ladies of the family with at least a nod towards fairness. Her four best rings are in her will so this is the rank and file stuff. I took what I considered to be the next most valuable to my favourite jewellers and asked. There is a three stone diamond ring and a ring with a sapphire surrounded by small diamonds. The jeweller said they were both nice pieces but old fashioned. The three stone diamond ring would cost £3,000 to replace and the sapphire ring £1,500. How much to sell if no one wanted them? In principle, a jeweller would give a third of the replacement value but, in practice, at the moment, as it's slack, he'd give £400 for one and £80 for the other. Kin hell.
We're in the wrong racket again.
slopes said:
This guy...
...later died from the big C.
Clostridium difficile infection? Chlamydia? ...later died from the big C.
It's okay Slopes, I know what you mean really. We've all been affected in some way by the evil that is the Big C.
I just can't help being obtuse at times. Sorry.
He did sound like a right t
t though.
DickyC said:
Bobberoo99 said:
Thanks chaps, sage advice indeed Dicky, and not something we'd considered!!!
That was the sage advice, now for the onion conversation. It's the mark up that gets you. My mum, still with us but detiorating rapidly, wants her jewellery dispersed between the ladies of the family with at least a nod towards fairness. Her four best rings are in her will so this is the rank and file stuff. I took what I considered to be the next most valuable to my favourite jewellers and asked. There is a three stone diamond ring and a ring with a sapphire surrounded by small diamonds. The jeweller said they were both nice pieces but old fashioned. The three stone diamond ring would cost £3,000 to replace and the sapphire ring £1,500. How much to sell if no one wanted them? In principle, a jeweller would give a third of the replacement value but, in practice, at the moment, as it's slack, he'd give £400 for one and £80 for the other. Kin hell.
We're in the wrong racket again.
about selling the 300 yr old gand father clock as neither myself or my brother have the room.....apparently the bottom fell out of the antiques market but he'd give us 50 quid for it.
Said antiques dealer got a bit mardy when i suggested that he would then sell it for thousands and i wasn't born yesterday. I might also have referred to him as a 3.142 key and suggested he move away in short jerky movements.
glenrobbo he was and i knew you were on the wind up
Edited by slopes on Sunday 17th February 15:43
Edited by slopes on Sunday 17th February 15:44
glenrobbo said:
Clostridium difficile infection?
No, that was the local NHS trust who gave that to the old man when he went on for his first cancer op and mum wouldn't let us raise a complaint. Mind you, not that it would have made much difference, the local NHS trust chairman is a dick and will never see his staff do anything wrong. Even after sending someone home to die with no nursing support of family support in place, his response to their complaint was the same as it always is.....My Doctors performed their task properly.And that was the end of that.
Edited by slopes on Sunday 17th February 15:45
Saw a rare sight today.
I was in primark in the afternoon (when it's very busy). I noticed that the area where they sell all the £2.-3 printed tshirts...were all neat and tidy!! not a single shirt was unfolded/messed up. A truely rare sight, I commended the young lady that was doing the job of folding everything.
Anyone who's been to primark knows that that pile of tshirts is always a mess because people will pick up and unfold the tshirts so they can look at the full print. I tend to be considerate and only pick up the ones that have already pick picked up/unfolded and chucked on the top, so as to create more mess.
I was in primark in the afternoon (when it's very busy). I noticed that the area where they sell all the £2.-3 printed tshirts...were all neat and tidy!! not a single shirt was unfolded/messed up. A truely rare sight, I commended the young lady that was doing the job of folding everything.
Anyone who's been to primark knows that that pile of tshirts is always a mess because people will pick up and unfold the tshirts so they can look at the full print. I tend to be considerate and only pick up the ones that have already pick picked up/unfolded and chucked on the top, so as to create more mess.
DickyC said:
Bobberoo99 said:
I've quit the Beetle for now, 2/3rds done but had enough, Mrs Bobbers has been watching Sherlock Holmes films whilst I've been tinkering!!!
Has Holmes worked out why you do it yet?Lego assemblage, I mean.
The Mystery of the Missing Brick by Arthur Conan Bobbers.
It's elementary my dear Whatsup!!! Christmas is nearly over. To be complete it has to include Mary Poppins, Bullitt and 2001. On the telly, not on DVD or watch now or anything, that would be cheating. Just 2001 to go.
Too much research into TV schedules is also cheating. There has to be the element of chance.
You've all dropped off, haven't you?
How rude.
Too much research into TV schedules is also cheating. There has to be the element of chance.
You've all dropped off, haven't you?
How rude.
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