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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    cjcp wrote:
    :lol:

    EDIT: Dressed in tweed?

    Me? In tweed? In a belgian bar? Have you thought of the consequences?
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  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    cjcp wrote:
    :lol:

    EDIT: Dressed in tweed?

    Nothing wrong with a good bit of strong weave to keep the draughts at bay :D
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Littigator wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    :lol:

    EDIT: Dressed in tweed?

    Nothing wrong with a good bit of strong weave to keep the draughts at bay :D

    but I want the draughts they taste good
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    DDD if you can make it Friday I'm going to try and bring the bowery.
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  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    Huzzah! The wife's ex bosses boyfriend's stomach bug is not better so no dinner party for us...which means beers tonight for me!

    DDD if you want to try out a bowery i can bring mine as well if LiT can't manage to bring hers, unless Biondino you want to have a look at Gareth and I can bring him instead.
    (yes I have named my first fixed build :oops: )
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Littigator wrote:
    Huzzah! The wife's ex bosses boyfriend's stomach bug is not better so no dinner party for us...which means beers tonight for me!

    DDD if you want to try out a bowery i can bring mine as well if LiT can't manage to bring hers, unless Biondino you want to have a look at Gareth and I can bring him instead.
    (yes I have named my first fixed build :oops: )

    Gareth? No, Jamie, nonononono. A bike like that is deserving of a truly English period name - what about Jonty? or Biggles? or Lacy? or Olivier?

    Gareth :roll:
  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    Actually Gareth means "trusty honest and reliable" in ancient Brummy tongue :lol:
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Woooo excellent! It's friday!

    And I've got my bowery, which will probably be a little little for DDD but it's worth a go.

    I like Gareth, but think that elk hide bars warrant something more olde worlde...
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  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    I do not live in or frankly near London and we have visitors this weekend so

    grrrrrr :twisted:

    Have one for me x
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    I will admit to not feeling my best this morning
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  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    Ahhhhhh Poor Mr CP. Dr Litt presribes BEEEEEEEEEEER! And if that doesn't work try....mooooooore beer!
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    DDD if you can make it Friday I'm going to try and bring the bowery.
    And
    Littagator wrote:
    DDD if you want to try out a bowery i can bring mine as well if LiT can't manage to bring hers

    Thanks guys, appreciate it, but I can't make it tonight as I'm 'dress shopping' with the GF :cry::cry::cry:

    Was looking forward to trying the/a bowery as well... :cry:
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    I can't make it tonight as I'm 'dress shopping'

    :shock:

    MTFU!
  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    Jash don't be mean, perhaps he needs a new frock for the weekend :wink:
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Yeah, DDD, MTFU!

    Surely you could pop along for 10 minutes, and maintian you were kept late at work...

    Go on....

    You know you want to....
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  • Feltup
    Feltup Posts: 1,340
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    DDD if you can make it Friday I'm going to try and bring the bowery.
    And
    Littagator wrote:
    DDD if you want to try out a bowery i can bring mine as well if LiT can't manage to bring hers

    Thanks guys, appreciate it, but I can't make it tonight as I'm 'dress shopping' with the GF :cry::cry::cry:

    Was looking forward to trying the/a bowery as well... :cry:

    This is so wrong. Girlfriends have girl friends to go shopping with because blokes cannot be trusted to say the right thing when they come out of the dressing room.

    I fear for you. On no account say yes if she asks if her bum looks big in this? It may well do and you may like it that way but she won't be pleased to hear it no matter how long you protest that she looks fantastic with a big bum. Also beware the trap where she takes a dress that you are supposed to know she doesn't like in to the dressing room. It's a minefield out there.
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Come on DDD - Beer and Bowery...

    and EMANCIPATION! Free yourself from the evil tyranny of your missus. Dress shopping? Sounds like "cruel and unusual" punishment to me.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Feltup wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    DDD if you can make it Friday I'm going to try and bring the bowery.
    And
    Littagator wrote:
    DDD if you want to try out a bowery i can bring mine as well if LiT can't manage to bring hers

    Thanks guys, appreciate it, but I can't make it tonight as I'm 'dress shopping' with the GF :cry::cry::cry:

    Was looking forward to trying the/a bowery as well... :cry:

    This is so wrong. Girlfriends have girl friends to go shopping with because blokes cannot be trusted to say the right thing when they come out of the dressing room.

    I fear for you. On no account say yes if she asks if her bum looks big in this? It may well do and you may like it that way but she won't be pleased to hear it no matter how long you protest that she looks fantastic with a big bum. Also beware the trap where she takes a dress that you are supposed to know she doesn't like in to the dressing room. It's a minefield out there.

    There was that great coffee ad:

    Girl, trying stuff on: 'Does this dress make me look fat?'

    Other girl, drinking said coffee: 'No, your fat makes you look fat'

    :lol:

    Note: Not an advisable tactic. :shock:
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    Ahh, guys? Bit of sensitivity here for DDD, please?

    It's obvious that he can't come out to play because (as he said) he's going "dress-shopping" with his GF.

    It ain't her who's shopping for dresses.

    Not that he should be ashamed of that sort of alternative lifestyle, obviously...
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  • Feltup
    Feltup Posts: 1,340
    I would maintain it is safer to go out without permission and have a couple of beers than to say the wrong thing whilst dress shopping.

    Beers without permission = one or two days of dog house
    One mention of the fat word = lifetime of remarks and jibes.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Sorry guys, believe me I would like nothing more than to go to the Mopeth, chat, drink beer with you guys and have a great bike ride back home.

    But...

    Me and my GF are going to my Friends wedding tomorrow, he is getting Married in the Temple (next to the high court) the bride's Dad is a Chief Justice or something, I know his name begins with Sir. Mrs DDD is really nervous whereas for me "it's just how I roll". So I promised her I would come and help her choose a dress, I can't let her down.

    I'm also sans bike.
    I fear for you. On no account say yes if she asks if her bum looks big in this? It may well do and you may like it that way but she won't be pleased to hear it no matter how long you protest that she looks fantastic with a big bum. Also beware the trap where she takes a dress that you are supposed to know she doesn't like in to the dressing room. It's a minefield out there.

    I know and I've resigned myself to having an argument tonight at no fault of my own.
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  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    I salute you for your selflessness, DDD. In time she may learn that there are better people to go dress shopping with, or you may be a match made in heaven in that respect.

    Try this comment...

    "It's not how I think you look in it - it's how you feel in it" (every dress I have tried and loved has made me feel like a princess when I have put it on)


    Ooh that was actually said with sincerity - get me!

    Hope you have a great day tomorrow too

    Linds
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    edited February 2009
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Feltup wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    DDD if you can make it Friday I'm going to try and bring the bowery.
    And
    Littagator wrote:
    DDD if you want to try out a bowery i can bring mine as well if LiT can't manage to bring hers

    Thanks guys, appreciate it, but I can't make it tonight as I'm 'dress shopping' with the GF :cry::cry::cry:

    Was looking forward to trying the/a bowery as well... :cry:

    This is so wrong. Girlfriends have girl friends to go shopping with because blokes cannot be trusted to say the right thing when they come out of the dressing room.

    I fear for you. On no account say yes if she asks if her bum looks big in this? It may well do and you may like it that way but she won't be pleased to hear it no matter how long you protest that she looks fantastic with a big bum. Also beware the trap where she takes a dress that you are supposed to know she doesn't like in to the dressing room. It's a minefield out there.

    There was that great coffee ad:

    Girl, trying stuff on: 'Does this dress make me look fat?'

    Other girl, drinking said coffee: 'No, your fat makes you look fat'

    :lol:

    Note: Not an advisable tactic. :shock:

    That gag was also deployed in the US series "Married with Kids".

    Along with one that went along these lines:

    Peggy: Al, why do you spend so much of your working day in the shoe store looking at the young beautiful women?
    Al (looking supremely pleased with himself): Peg, every day a guy drives a beaten up old Dodge. Once in while, he just wants to look at a Ferrari. [giggles stupidly with son, Bud, at the genius of his analogy]
    Peggy (with the confidence of knowing she's got this one sewn up): But Al, you can't drive. [Al looks suitably crushed]
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  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    I'm stuck working at home today waiting for someone from British Gas to turn up and fix our boiler. Due anytime between 12 and 6, so with any luck I'll still make the beers this evening.
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    linsen wrote:
    I salute you for your selflessness, DDD. In time she may learn that there are better people to go dress shopping with, or you may be a match made in heaven in that respect.

    Try this comment...

    "It's not how I think you look in it - it's how you feel in it" (every dress I have tried and loved has made me feel like a princess when I have put it on)


    Ooh that was actually said with sincerity - get me!

    Hope you have a great day tomorrow too

    Linds

    Thanks Linds

    I think you're right about either being a match made in heaven or not. My Aunts used to drag me shopping everywhere and anywhere. I've unwillingly become quite knowledgable on shoes, dresses and clothing... This I fear can be a little intimidating, as is my ability to cook...

    I do like your comment '...It's how you feel in it'. You may have just saved my life. There are very few things more scary than an angry Essex girl stressed while trying on clothes and shoes....
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    _Brun_ wrote:
    I'm stuck working at home today waiting for someone from British Gas to turn up and fix our boiler. Due anytime between 12 and 6, so with any luck I'll still make the beers this evening.

    at 5.59 you'll get a call saying they can't fit you in today, you're first on the list for..... Monday
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Clever Pun wrote:
    _Brun_ wrote:
    I'm stuck working at home today waiting for someone from British Gas to turn up and fix our boiler. Due anytime between 12 and 6, so with any luck I'll still make the beers this evening.

    at 5.59 you'll get a call saying they can't fit you in today, you're first on the list for..... Monday

    Or even worse - Sat. Then you'll spend all Sat stuck indoors only for them to turn up on Monday...

    Yes yes this has happened to me with a boiler engineer.

    Warning rant mode active:

    Why the fcuk can't people (engineers, surveyors, delivery peeps) arrive at a set time, say a 1 - 2 hour time window? And why can't they get the job done properly the first time? In Jan I had 3 engineer visits to fix 1 tumble dryer - he never seemed to have the right parts ffs. Or like my new wheels which arrived with something trapped in the rim (clearly noticeable and led to an instant return). Drives me insane, you have to wait all day and they turn up at 7pm. Either that or you nip over the road for 2 mins for a coffee and return to an arsy note saying "missed appointment" call my number then you dopey c*nt, that's why I gave it to you.

    Fcukers.

    Rant over. :shock:
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    I hear you Jash, I've had the same as well... it's hard to contain the RAGE
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Yeah, I can sympathise too.

    It boils down to why is it so hard to provide a decent service? That's what I don't get. If I get made redundant or something I'd almost like to spend a few months working in jobs like that to understand whether it's bureaucracy, laziness, stupidity... or something else.

    Anyhoo.

    Beer t minus 2 hours... :D
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    You want crap service?

    The UK distributor for Cervelo has had my Soloist frameset since Monday afternoon. Their task is to (a) take a photo of the crack; (b) send said photo by email to Cervelo. By my reckoning, this is 10 minute job. Max.

    After FOUR DAYS, they have not looked at the frame. And they won't take my calls. They will only speak to the shop who sent them the frame. The shop's OK, but they problem is they ring and get told "X isn't here. I'll get him to ring you back" = no ring back, ever.

    I swear that the bloody hardcore trade union officials from the 1970s have all been shipped off to work for said distributor.
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