tuesday seeking wine in an alien land

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,330
    team47b wrote:
    Staircase fitted in the studio today, no more using a ladder to get upstairs :D

    You found another discarded bed? :wink:

    Pics by the usual method please sir.

    I hope your wife likes the Seat Marbella Oxo.
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  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,562
    Not sure if dinner at the local golf club counts as "alien land" or not, but the wine was good.

    .


    Did you know that as a percentile of club ownership, golf clubs have more paedophiles in their membership than any other organization?

    Bizarre-o fact of the day there guys.
    Really? More than the Church, or the Boy Scouts? Probably is more than the military though, coz they own the majority of wife-beaters and psychopaths I think. :D
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  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 21,862
    oxoman wrote:
    What a momentous day today was, NOT. Firstly chose car ordered it and arranged pick up of said car in time to pick wife up from work with bunch of flowers. Then emptied old car ready to exchange, then all he'll lets loose. Mini oxo,s school rings to say sorry but he's hurt himself playing football at lunch. Pick clumsy little so and so up and take him to A&E, 3hrs later emerge with plaster on fractured wrist. Screwed up surprise for wife had to take her to dealership to pick car up, no flowers and little oxo miffed as he can't do football, take his black belt grading, ride his bike at Sherwood with mates but more importantly he can't hold his Xbox controller due to how he's fractured it and been plastered. Well something good had to come good out of it.

    Poor mini oxo
  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 21,862
    Ballysmate wrote:
    hopkinb wrote:
    Just had a nice thank you message on Strava from the guy I stopped to help on Sunday (flyby stalking on his part). He's bust his jaw and had stitches in the lip, but apart from that and a lot of bruising and road rash, he's ok. Not a bad outcome from a 40 mph crash into a car.

    Did he mention his missing watch and wallet?

    :)
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Not sure if dinner at the local golf club counts as "alien land" or not, but the wine was good.

    .


    Did you know that as a percentile of club ownership, golf clubs have more paedophiles in their membership than any other organization?

    Bizarre-o fact of the day there guys.
    Really? More than the Church, or the Boy Scouts? Probably is more than the military though, coz they own the majority of wife-beaters and psychopaths I think. :D

    Yup - fraud so. Weird fact, eh, but there you go. More paedos than anywhere else.

    Also bizarrely, the military don't tend to have many psychos because we kick them out - the last thing you want is psycho with a shooter putting everyone else in danger by not only being mental but not following orders.

    Psychos tend to be in civvie street saying that they were military.

    Wife beaters - well, as you tend to hardly see your family it's pretty low as well.

    Average military bloke generally isn't an angel but anything like that tends to get sorted out in house pretty rapidly, if you know what I mean.

    Now golf clubs.... Paedo central I'm afraid. Sorry.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    TLW1 wrote:
    Ballysmate wrote:
    hopkinb wrote:
    Just had a nice thank you message on Strava from the guy I stopped to help on Sunday (flyby stalking on his part). He's bust his jaw and had stitches in the lip, but apart from that and a lot of bruising and road rash, he's ok. Not a bad outcome from a 40 mph crash into a car.

    Did he mention his missing watch and wallet?

    :)

    Thankfully the concussion seems to have wiped his memory. :wink:
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,300
    Psychos tend to be in civvie street saying that they were military.
    Accountants?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,330
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Psychos tend to be in civvie street saying that they were military.
    Accountants?

    Accountants aren't psycho's, they're psychopaths. There's a difference.

    Take Hoppy for example; knocks innocent cyclist off his bike and then rescues him for adulation purposes.
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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Did you wipe his credit and bank cards?
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Pinno wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Psychos tend to be in civvie street saying that they were military.
    Accountants?

    Accountants aren't psycho's, they're psychopaths. There's a difference.

    Take Hoppy for example; knocks innocent cyclist off his bike and then rescues him for adulation purposes.

    Munchausen's (sic) syndrome n'est pas?
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,480
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Have to delay my Steve McGarrett party until he gets back.
    :D

    A Hawaii themed party is probably better in the summer anyway.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,480
    Pinno wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Psychos tend to be in civvie street saying that they were military.
    Accountants?

    Accountants aren't psycho's, they're psychopaths. There's a difference.

    Take Hoppy for example; knocks innocent cyclist off his bike and then rescues him for adulation purposes.
    I don't think that Hoppy and I are a representative sample...
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Aren't accountants generally turned on by spreadsheets though?


    Ppppppwwwwwwoooooooaaaarrrrrrr - look at the columns on that.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • cld531c
    cld531c Posts: 517
    Aren't accountants generally turned on by spreadsheets though?


    Ppppppwwwwwwoooooooaaaarrrrrrr - look at the columns on that.

    Nah, I hate em. Give me a lovely handwritten analysis pad any day...
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    cld531c wrote:
    Aren't accountants generally turned on by spreadsheets though?


    Ppppppwwwwwwoooooooaaaarrrrrrr - look at the columns on that.

    Nah, I hate em. Give me a lovely handwritten analysis pad any day...

    A what? I have no idea what one of them is.

    Is it like a big maths book with lots of small squares on the pages? Sounds incredibly dull. Sorry,
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    cld531c wrote:
    Aren't accountants generally turned on by spreadsheets though?


    Ppppppwwwwwwoooooooaaaarrrrrrr - look at the columns on that.

    Nah, I hate em. Give me a lovely handwritten analysis pad any day...

    A what? I have no idea what one of them is.

    Is it like a big maths book with lots of small squares on the pages? Sounds incredibly dull. Sorry,

    That's exactly what it is.

    I'm an accountant, double accountant really, seeing as I have the full set of both beancounter and tax qualifications. I get turned on neither by spreadsheets, nor by analysis pads, but by Brazilian girls with dubious morals and big @rses. Might explain why I never get promoted... :roll:
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,480
    hopkinb wrote:
    cld531c wrote:
    Aren't accountants generally turned on by spreadsheets though?


    Ppppppwwwwwwoooooooaaaarrrrrrr - look at the columns on that.

    Nah, I hate em. Give me a lovely handwritten analysis pad any day...

    A what? I have no idea what one of them is.

    Is it like a big maths book with lots of small squares on the pages? Sounds incredibly dull. Sorry,

    That's exactly what it is.

    I'm an accountant, double accountant really, seeing as I have the full set of both beancounter and tax qualifications. I get turned on neither by spreadsheets, nor by analysis pads, but by Brazilian girls with dubious morals and big @rses. Might explain why I never get promoted... :roll:
    You must be doing something wrong then :wink:

    Not sure if its the lack of a tax qualification or the preference for nice firm arrises on Brazilian girls that has helped me get promoted mind :P
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,330
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    hopkinb wrote:
    cld531c wrote:
    Aren't accountants generally turned on by spreadsheets though?


    Ppppppwwwwwwoooooooaaaarrrrrrr - look at the columns on that.

    Nah, I hate em. Give me a lovely handwritten analysis pad any day...

    A what? I have no idea what one of them is.

    Is it like a big maths book with lots of small squares on the pages? Sounds incredibly dull. Sorry,

    That's exactly what it is.

    I'm an accountant, double accountant really, seeing as I have the full set of both beancounter and tax qualifications. I get turned on neither by spreadsheets, nor by analysis pads, but by Brazilian girls with dubious morals and big @rses. Might explain why I never get promoted... :roll:
    You must be doing something wrong then :wink:

    Not sure if its the lack of a tax qualification or the preference for nice firm arrises on Brazilian girls that has helped me get promoted mind :P

    Well, being a belligerent 4rse has surely helped?
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,480
    Pinno wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    hopkinb wrote:
    cld531c wrote:
    Aren't accountants generally turned on by spreadsheets though?


    Ppppppwwwwwwoooooooaaaarrrrrrr - look at the columns on that.

    Nah, I hate em. Give me a lovely handwritten analysis pad any day...

    A what? I have no idea what one of them is.

    Is it like a big maths book with lots of small squares on the pages? Sounds incredibly dull. Sorry,

    That's exactly what it is.

    I'm an accountant, double accountant really, seeing as I have the full set of both beancounter and tax qualifications. I get turned on neither by spreadsheets, nor by analysis pads, but by Brazilian girls with dubious morals and big @rses. Might explain why I never get promoted... :roll:
    You must be doing something wrong then :wink:

    Not sure if its the lack of a tax qualification or the preference for nice firm arrises on Brazilian girls that has helped me get promoted mind :P

    Well, being a belligerent 4rse has surely helped?
    That as well.

    Hasn't helped everyone mind :wink:
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,330
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    hopkinb wrote:
    cld531c wrote:
    Aren't accountants generally turned on by spreadsheets though?


    Ppppppwwwwwwoooooooaaaarrrrrrr - look at the columns on that.

    Nah, I hate em. Give me a lovely handwritten analysis pad any day...

    A what? I have no idea what one of them is.

    Is it like a big maths book with lots of small squares on the pages? Sounds incredibly dull. Sorry,

    That's exactly what it is.

    I'm an accountant, double accountant really, seeing as I have the full set of both beancounter and tax qualifications. I get turned on neither by spreadsheets, nor by analysis pads, but by Brazilian girls with dubious morals and big @rses. Might explain why I never get promoted... :roll:
    You must be doing something wrong then :wink:

    Not sure if its the lack of a tax qualification or the preference for nice firm arrises on Brazilian girls that has helped me get promoted mind :P

    Well, being a belligerent 4rse has surely helped?
    That as well.

    Hasn't helped everyone mind :wink:

    Least of all the minions.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    hopkinb wrote:
    cld531c wrote:
    Aren't accountants generally turned on by spreadsheets though?


    Ppppppwwwwwwoooooooaaaarrrrrrr - look at the columns on that.

    Nah, I hate em. Give me a lovely handwritten analysis pad any day...

    A what? I have no idea what one of them is.

    Is it like a big maths book with lots of small squares on the pages? Sounds incredibly dull. Sorry,

    That's exactly what it is.

    I'm an accountant, double accountant really, seeing as I have the full set of both beancounter and tax qualifications. I get turned on neither by spreadsheets, nor by analysis pads, but by Brazilian girls with dubious morals and big @rses. Might explain why I never get promoted... :roll:
    You must be doing something wrong then :wink:

    Not sure if its the lack of a tax qualification or the preference for nice firm arrises on Brazilian girls that has helped me get promoted mind :P

    Is this accountancy one - up manship?
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Stevo wins. He's a boss. I'm a minion.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,330
    hopkinb wrote:
    Stevo wins. He's a boss. I'm a minion.

    Oh no, poor show - not even handbags :roll:
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Even Steve is somebody's minion.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,330
    "But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes
    You're gonna have to serve somebody..."
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Even the CEO of GBC is beholden to the shareholders and the press I suppose and is a minion to them. Just once you reach that level you're insulated from failure.
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Pinno wrote:
    hopkinb wrote:
    Stevo wins. He's a boss. I'm a minion.

    Oh no, poor show - not even handbags :roll:

    Nah, I got the exams with minimal effort and interest. Getting ahead in a large organisation is not part of my skill set. I'm a bit too arsey/condescending/downright rude with people I don't respect, and I'm not great at admin. I'm hoping for a lottery win really. :D
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,330
    hopkinb wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    hopkinb wrote:
    Stevo wins. He's a boss. I'm a minion.

    Oh no, poor show - not even handbags :roll:

    Nah, I got the exams with minimal effort and interest. Getting ahead in a large organisation is not part of my skill set. I'm a bit too arsey/condescending/downright rude with people I don't respect, and I'm not great at admin. I'm hoping for a lottery win really. :D

    Set a retirement age, say 55. Sell your overpriced London pad and move Norf, buy a house and have plenty of change leftover.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Problem is that I love London. I did as a kid, and I still do now. Mrs H3 (As from Saturday, so ill start calling her that) is born and bred here. So yes, my house could be exchanged for a bigger one back in Cov, or even further north, but I love the stuff on my doorstep or a short ride/train/tram/bus/tube ride away. I say hello to my neighbours and local shopkeepers anyway, what with not being a Londoner, so its not so different!
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    hopkinb wrote:
    Problem is that I love London. I did as a kid, and I still do now. Mrs H3 (As from Saturday, so ill start calling her that) is born and bred here. So yes, my house could be exchanged for a bigger one back in Cov, or even further north, but I love the stuff on my doorstep or a short ride/train/tram/bus/tube ride away. I say hello to my neighbours and local shopkeepers anyway, what with not being a Londoner, so its not so different!


    Born and bred?

    Is she like one of those Pearly Queen burds?

    Knees up muvva brown, knees up muvva brown, knees up knees up don't get a breeze up

    Fackinnnn' hell H3 where you been? Your jellied eels are in the dog. Pie n mash n the Krays - that Ronnie was a lovely lad. Ooooooh it's Babs Windsor on the goggle box. Innit she luvvvly jubbly.

    Rickeeeeeeeeeee!
    Bianca!
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.