So what frivolous things have you bought lately? Why?

[Don the Don]

It's arrived & it looks good.
Inc the results on the formal looking "Certificate Of Calibration"
I mean, how could you not trust a company that tests an item not 1th, not 2th but 3th times. And the same again in reverse

three is the minimum standard over the range and it's good to see that it's been done looks good Jez No two give the same readings but as long as they are within the tolerance they pass

 

[Doc Strange]

In the pub on Wednesday and the landlady was telling me about the citronella candles she uses to keep the mossies away.

Didn't know they were a thing, but got some off 'bay as we're inundated with mossies at the moment - couldn't believe the size of one I got in the garden last night!

DS

 

[MartytheMartian]

Are mossies anything like Midgies? We've got tons of Midgies here this year and the buggers drink citronella and use it as perfume.

 

[Don the Don]

Eradicate the bastids, do the world a favour get rid and save millions of lives, if it was left to me all insects save Bees would be got rid of and birds would have to evolve into eating other stuff, hate the bastids

we had a wasps nest in our garden some time back, Dig one hole fill with petrol and cut nest down [after smoking it] and dropped in in the hole along with a match job done

 

[Don the Don]

Had to get a new disability sticker for the wifes motor so took the trouble to get one for my side of the motor, do you think it appropriate?

 

[Doc Strange]

Are mossies anything like Midgies? We've got tons of Midgies here this year and the buggers drink citronella and use it as perfume.

Really? Used to use the oil directly on the skin in Asia and always found it worked. Fingers crossed that the candles are just as good.

While I agree with you @Don the Don on eradicating mozzies, it isn't just bees that do the pollinating - getting rid of the other insects would be a disaster for many plants and we'd starve.

DS

 

[MartytheMartian]

Ah the Midge is a breed apart @Doc Strange they may be tiny but by God they are vicious. Before I gave up smoking my pipe I often smoked a tobacco that was made with Citronella and it didn't keep the midgies away and nothing else, and I mean nothing, else worked either. We can sometimes get clouds of the damn things that resemble fog and it's like a million tiny little itchy pinpricks when they feast on you.

 

[Tallpaul]

But what shall we eat when Klaus bans us from eating meat?

Eradicate the bastids, do the world a favour get rid and save millions of lives, if it was left to me all insects save Bees would be got rid of and birds would have to evolve into eating other stuff, hate the bastids

we had a wasps nest in our garden some time back, Dig one hole fill with petrol and cut nest down [after smoking it] and dropped in in the hole along with a match job done.

 

[Scrappy]

Ah the Midge is a breed apart @Doc Strange they may be tiny but by God they are vicious. Before I gave up smoking my pipe I often smoked a tobacco that was made with Citronella and it didn't keep the midgies away and nothing else, and I mean nothing, else worked either. We can sometimes get clouds of the damn things that resemble fog and it's like a million tiny little itchy pinpricks when they feast on you.

Apparently the military use Avon Skin So Soft as an insect repellent, my bother-in-law is a game keeper and used to organise shoots in Scotland and they used Avon SSS also, he said it worked for midges but not mozzies.

The best-selling £2.25 moisturiser that the Royal Marines swear by

Avon's Skin So Soft Dry Oil Spray is not only used to hydrate the skin, but also apparently manages to effectively keep the mosquitoes away. Five bottles of the product are sold every minute.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[DD67]

Apparently the military use Avon Skin So Soft as an insect repellent, my bother-in-law is a game keeper and used to organise shoots in Scotland and they used Avon SSS also, he said it worked for midges but not mozzies.

The best-selling £2.25 moisturiser that the Royal Marines swear by

Avon's Skin So Soft Dry Oil Spray is not only used to hydrate the skin, but also apparently manages to effectively keep the mosquitoes away. Five bottles of the product are sold every minute.

www.dailymail.co.uk

That is 100% true.
But it's relabeled to make it look much less "Gay"

 

[Foxy]

First time i can ever recall having to fit a new front afore thread, when I fitted last set as a pair.

 

[MartytheMartian]

I tried Avon Skin So Soft about five or six years ago and all it did was make the Midgies stick to me while the sucked my blood. By the end of mowing the garden as I was as black as the Ace of Spades with the little buggers and bitten all over. Someone told me that Avon had re-formulated the stuff and it didn't deter the little buggers any more.

 

[Don the Don]

getting rid of the other insects would be a disaster for many plants and we'd starve.

"cow shit" eat more meat and spray plants with manure "sorted"

 

[MartytheMartian]

Apart from Midgies, which apparently are a big part of the diet for bats and birds around here, the only other insects that really piss me off are Wasps and Horseflies. Horseflies are filthy wee scumbags that sneak up on you, chew their way into your flesh and leave you with big nasty weals that are itchy as feck and potentially can become really badly infected (I had a mate who needed to be airlifted to hospital after an abscess developed from a horsefly bite) and I'm allergic to wasps although I don't think I'm in anaphylactic shock territory as, when I have been stung the area around the sting just got red and expanded outward over days until I got anti- histamine injections although, given that the last time I was stung was forty years ago that could have changed. I will tolerate every other insect and even rather like some of them but I happily murder wasps and horseflies whenever I get the chance.

 

[Big Sandy]

Cleggs are evil cunts. One bit me through a welding glove! It didn't survive though. I get a really bad reaction to them, comes up like a golf ball.

The others I don't like are ked lice. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipoptena_cervi They come off the deer, when you hang a stag in the larder you should see the bucketful of vermin that drop off them.... Anyhoo, ked lice fly on to you, shed their wings and burrow in. I get a bad reaction to them twats too.

Time they made flea and tick collars for humans, innit? Frontline for humans!

 

[Don the Don]

Cleggs are evil cunts. One bit me through a welding glove! It didn't survive though. I get a really bad reaction to them, comes up like a golf ball.

The others I don't like are ked lice. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipoptena_cervi They come off the deer, when you hang a stag in the larder you should see the bucketful of vermin that drop off them.... Anyhoo, ked lice fly on to you, shed their wings and burrow in. I get a bad reaction to them twats too.

Time they made flesh and tuck collars for humans, innit? Frontline for humans!

Right about cleggs, nasty bastids, I still say we don't need these insects eradicate them

 

[Big Sandy]

Fucking spell checker...it changed flea and tick to flesh and tuck. Different subject entirely!

 

[Doc Strange]

First time i can ever recall having to fit a new front afore thread, when I fitted last set as a pair. View attachment 25326

You're doing too many stoppies - stop being an 'ooligan!

DS

 

[Public Enemy]

So I got a tax rebate of a few hundred quid and treated myself to this. I just love this paint job.

 

[MartytheMartian]

Very nice lid there @Public Enemy I'd have one of those myself if I wasn't such a tighwad miserable Scots git.