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dave the builder

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Re: Roadside repairs
« Reply #30 on: 09 December 2018, 20:00:07 »

A midnight vigil wouldn't be any good, as that's when he's most powerful.....
We are NOT dissing the REAL santa  :o
Just the sick B****rds who need hanging by their balls for 12 months a year to keep them away from kids  :y
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« Reply #31 on: 09 December 2018, 20:09:15 »

A midnight vigil wouldn't be any good, as that's when he's most powerful.....
We are NOT dissing the REAL santa  :o
Just the sick B****rds who need hanging by their balls for 12 months a year to keep them away from kids  :y
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Far too mild a punishment , hung drawn & quartered or fed to pigs whilst bound & gagged would be my choice.
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Re: Roadside repairs
« Reply #32 on: 09 December 2018, 20:10:25 »

A midnight vigil wouldn't be any good, as that's when he's most powerful.....
We are NOT dissing the REAL santa  :o
Just the sick B****rds who need hanging by their balls for 12 months a year to keep them away from kids  :y




No, he's BAD; swearing, drinking stealing etc. I've seen the documentary.
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Re: Roadside repairs
« Reply #33 on: 09 December 2018, 20:18:30 »

A midnight vigil wouldn't be any good, as that's when he's most powerful.....
We are NOT dissing the REAL santa  :o
Just the sick B****rds who need hanging by their balls for 12 months a year to keep them away from kids  :y
No, he's BAD; swearing, drinking stealing etc. I've seen the documentary.
That was Fake, google "Billy Bob Thornton"  :y
the REAL santa can't be captured on film because of the magic fairy dust refracts light  ;)
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Re: Roadside repairs
« Reply #34 on: 09 December 2018, 20:21:43 »

Because there aren’t many mechanics these days, just fitters.  ::)


And they're expected to diagnose and repair increasingly complex systems too - carburettors and distributor ignitions are simple and so are their faults. That is not true of modern inter-connected electronics

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Re: Roadside repairs
« Reply #35 on: 09 December 2018, 20:56:23 »

A bit like telecomms. I used to drive around in my little van taking people's telephones to bits to fix them. Then someone had the bright idea of plugging them into a socket and sending a new one out in the post.
Can't beat restrapping a 746 to get it to work as a Plan 107 extension. Or, in the middle of Martins Newsagents, crawling around the floor looking for all the springs and contacts that had shot everywhere after I popped the top of an HES4
Martins Newsagents? I'm talking about going missing for two days in United Biscuits, or Plesseys, try to figure out which way some twonk had routed the wiring for an extension on the PABX. I've been known to go 'deep cover' for almost a week.  ;D
Switchboard operators liked nothing better than groping the young lad's bollix while he was crawling around their feet. Made me go quite red sometimes.  :-[
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Re: Roadside repairs
« Reply #36 on: 09 December 2018, 21:05:28 »

Would that be male or female gropers? :-X

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« Reply #37 on: 09 December 2018, 21:12:49 »

Would that be male or female gropers? :-X

Ron.
Doesn't really matter, they feel the same when you're trapped under the switchboard.  ;D
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Re: Roadside repairs
« Reply #38 on: 09 December 2018, 21:24:48 »

A midnight vigil wouldn't be any good, as that's when he's most powerful.....
We are NOT dissing the REAL santa  :o
Just the sick B****rds who need hanging by their balls for 12 months a year to keep them away from kids  :y
No, he's BAD; swearing, drinking stealing etc. I've seen the documentary.
That was Fake, google "Billy Bob Thornton"  :y
the REAL santa can't be captured on film because of the magic fairy dust refracts light  ;)


that's why they had to get an actor to play him in the reconstructions. Just like vampires always look like someone you've already seen on the screen.
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Re: Roadside repairs
« Reply #39 on: 09 December 2018, 21:33:59 »

Isn't it amazing that one night a year people welcome the idea of some big fat stranger gaining access to their homes in the middle of the night,where on any other night they'd be waiting for him with a baseball bat/shotgun/other :D :D
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Re: Roadside repairs
« Reply #40 on: 10 December 2018, 00:54:33 »

Very lucky to have had a father in law who was a proper mechanic (Jag & Aston Martin specialist) who used to work on my cars provided  I assisted & listened & watched exactly what he was doing taught me no end of useful things  to do with cars he died 14 years ago but often think of him when doing the odd jobs on our vehicles. Just wish he could have seen the Mercedes think he would have been very impressed with it, but probably would have talked me into buying an Aston Martin instead.

Sounds like a very sensible man!

My father was also a traditional mechanic from a time when you fixed everything from scraping white metal bearings to tuning by ear multi carb setups, taught me a lot!
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Re: Roadside repairs
« Reply #41 on: 10 December 2018, 05:58:44 »

Very lucky to have had a father in law who was a proper mechanic (Jag & Aston Martin specialist) who used to work on my cars provided  I assisted & listened & watched exactly what he was doing taught me no end of useful things  to do with cars he died 14 years ago but often think of him when doing the odd jobs on our vehicles. Just wish he could have seen the Mercedes think he would have been very impressed with it, but probably would have talked me into buying an Aston Martin instead.

Sounds like a very sensible man!

My father was also a traditional mechanic from a time when you fixed everything from scraping white metal bearings to tuning by ear multi carb setups, taught me a lot!



Isn't it great to have had someone like that in your life, it certainly helps me a lot especially when sometimes I tackle something that is a bit tricky , I stop & think how would Ron have done this and it seems to do the trick really miss the old boy.My missus is also very practical he wouldn't allow her to drive unless she was capable of at least changing a wheel & when it comes to electrics she is brilliant , very lucky to have married into the family.🎄🎄🎄
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Re: Roadside repairs
« Reply #42 on: 10 December 2018, 13:28:25 »

I have serious worries about an old man who likes young kids bouncing on his knee....

......in what was basically a dimly-lit cave.
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Re: Roadside repairs
« Reply #43 on: 10 December 2018, 17:05:56 »

You gotta love OOF thread drift. :y :y :y
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Re: Roadside repairs
« Reply #44 on: 10 December 2018, 18:29:04 »

By the time the thread comes back onto topic, i,ve forgotten what the hell it was about in the first place. :-[
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