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You mean he was a Rupert Marty....
What's Boiling Your Pi$$ Today?
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Sarky B’stard
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Or a Rodney? You plonker!
Scrappy
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Maybe the reason why this has not been in the UK media, is that gas prices are to remain inflated. I heard that UK gas prices are not expected to fall for the next three years. We are told that gas prices are so high due to scarcity and competition for limited supply, but if we are now going to get twice as much gas from the US then surely that ends the scarcity. Maybe this is also why Sunak (WEF, Goldman Sachs as stated by RB) reversed his position on UK shale gas immediately after becoming PM, even though throughout his previous campaign for the top job stated that he was in favour of shale gas and would allow it
- We could have our own plentiful relatively cheap gas supply, and could be exporting it to Europe making money to pay off our national debt.
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Don the Don
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"UK" the 51st state
gazzatriumph
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Sunak is a foreigner with no loyalty to the UK.
Maybe the reason why this has not been in the UK media, is that gas prices are to remain inflated. I heard that UK gas prices are not expected to fall for the next three years. We are told that gas prices are so high due to scarcity and competition for limited supply, but if we are now going to get twice as much gas from the US then surely that ends the scarcity. Maybe this is also why Sunak (WEF, Goldman Sachs as stated by RB) reversed his position on UK shale gas immediately after becoming PM, even though throughout his previous campaign for the top job stated that he was in favour of shale gas and would allow it
Tallpaul
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You make it sound like Fishy has the good of the country in mind....................
Maybe the reason why this has not been in the UK media, is that gas prices are to remain inflated. I heard that UK gas prices are not expected to fall for the next three years. We are told that gas prices are so high due to scarcity and competition for limited supply, but if we are now going to get twice as much gas from the US then surely that ends the scarcity. Maybe this is also why Sunak (WEF, Goldman Sachs as stated by RB) reversed his position on UK shale gas immediately after becoming PM, even though throughout his previous campaign for the top job stated that he was in favour of shale gas and would allow it
Big Sandy
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Once had a clerk of works when working on Thelwall Viaduct mid 90's every time this particular Jaeger came in to dump a load of concrete, he would reject it, too dry, too dry, too dry. End of the day came, in comes the last 8 cubic metres of the day, clerk of works steps up with his little probe to test the load, driver switches the gear in full, and sploiiiish. All water. "Wet enough for ya?"
Steve 998cc
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Theres some clerk of works real twats as a brickie I've worked for some c**ts. On one site the scaffolders forgot about a trap end on the first lift not such a c**t after that, not hurt but gentle reminder building sites can be a dangerous place
Big Sandy
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One site agent pissed me off whilst up a scaffold. I told him to be careful he didn't go down the ladder the same way he came up. Fechin head first!
Those were the days, job down the road paying a penny an hour more, and you either negotiated a new rate or voted with your feet. Can't do that nowadays.
Used to work with a guy who had been a tunneler, built like a brick shithouse, he could work wonders with a cp90 and a clay tool ..he had a very short fuse though. We were at the office window for the pay packet, pay clerk shouts "first 5 in line docked a 1/4 HR" ( for being early). Frank was first in line. He got hold of the pay clerk by the lapels and dragged him out the window, frame and all. Got paid, and walked. Them were the days!
Those were the days, job down the road paying a penny an hour more, and you either negotiated a new rate or voted with your feet. Can't do that nowadays.
Used to work with a guy who had been a tunneler, built like a brick shithouse, he could work wonders with a cp90 and a clay tool ..he had a very short fuse though. We were at the office window for the pay packet, pay clerk shouts "first 5 in line docked a 1/4 HR" ( for being early). Frank was first in line. He got hold of the pay clerk by the lapels and dragged him out the window, frame and all. Got paid, and walked. Them were the days!
Sarky B’stard
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My favourite story is the joker who switched from site work to a job with building control over the weekend. He condemned on Monday the drain he had laid on Friday and was physically chased off site.
MartytheMartian
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The other day I bought some brushes for my planned coachpainting of bodywork for one of my bullets. After hunting around I found that one of the few places I could get the best brushes (Hamilton Perfection) was a company called 'The Paint Shed' who have places across Scotland including Helensburgh and Dumbarton, thirty to forty miles from me. Turned out they didn't have everything I wanted in stock at their nearest shops and it would take a week for them to get them in to collect so I decided to order from them online. Their website said 'Free Delivery on orders over £50' so I thought that'll do me as the total form my order was nearer £100 (Hamilton Perfection brushes ain't cheap) and I went to check out but, lo and behold! Free Delivery doesn't include my area but, as they were quite a bit cheaper than anyone else online for the brushes I decided to pay their £11 postal charge. Well I got a message from DPD to say they had collected my parcel from the company in Glasgow and then I got an update to say that, as of early today they had reached the DPD depot IN HINCKLEY!!!! and will be delivered to me in another two days. Given this massively roundabout journey I'm not surprised they charge so much for courier delivery to Argyllshire.
Scrappy
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That is taking the piss some what, DPD claim they are "Committed to 100% carbon neutral deliveries"
I'm currently waiting for some guitar parts from the US, the supplier despatched them almost immediately and they arrived at the first carrier facility on the 6th January, then they seemed to go round in circles for nearly a week. See the image below there are at least three locations they travelled to within the red square, with them taking a brief detour miles away before coming back to almost the original location, not what I'd call efficient routing
Doc Strange
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MartytheMartian
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Ah that, I'm afraid, comes as no surprise. Oddly also Gretsch related I used to belong to the Gretsch forum until I had a fight with a twat from Edinburgh who wanted Scottish independence but objected to me referring to him as a separatist, and there were a few tales of parts and guitar taking bizarre and highly circuitous routes including being shipped from less than a hundred miles away from the buyer and then passing through a couple of whole states and several thousand miles before arriving at their destination a couple of weeks later. I can't remember what it was but there was some very odd but supposedly rational reason for it.
Sarky B’stard
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Probably because parts attract lower import duty than complete items? I bought a small block Chevy that way!
MartytheMartian
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It would seem that way. If a company in Glasgow charges me eleven quid to send a small packet of stuff to me, half a dozen brushes and a vapour box, I wouldn't expect it to take a trip down to England and five days to reach me. Royal Mail routinely get stuff from Glasgow to here next day and it would have cost half that price.
Foxy
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Had a speeding notice drop on mi doormat last week, from ont way back from Scarborough, ont A64. 84 in a 70, just inside t'threshold for a speeding course. Then Saturday I got a parking ticket, in a place I've parked at least 6 times this season, when going to watch t'Blades.
I don't wish to sound paranoid, but I think they're out to get us!
Gimme a bell if you need a few tips on how to be a thorn in the side of the sanctimonious tw@ts that run those speed awareness courses
But are you sure that you qualify? I'd have thought the cut off would be 79mph. i.e. 10% plus 2mph.