Radiator sizes

[Owain]

He saw what happened to those suicide bombers on Saturday and didn't fancy getting banjoed by a weegie.

Owain

[The Medway Handyman]

Well you might not. Good enough for Noah, good enough for me..........

[The Medway Handyman]

Distracted? He gave him a 'damn good thrashing' to quote Mr Wellesley.

Native if which parts? Arthur was Irish.

[Andy Hall]

What on earth is a weegie?

I must admit that I haven't seen anything as incompetent as Saturday's affair for a long time.

I did like the guy who stuck one on them though.

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[Andy Hall]

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[Andy Hall]

I was starting to think it was something to do with the occult.

Mind you, one does have a devil of a job to understand what they are saying.

[clot]

If you've had the opportunity to work with them, which I've had on many an occasion, then you get to understand the lingo. I should talk, I'm from N Wales with its own style of speaking English! Though today, I'd be accused of being rather RP!

[Andy Hall]

Yes I think that's true anywhere.

That's certainly true, I lived there for three years.

[Frank Erskine]

I once spent an evening in a pub in the middle of Glasgow. I was in that sort of area on business so I thought I might as well experience the experience. I must say it was a bit worrying at times, but quite entertaining seeing hard Scots sipping Iron Brew with their 'Heavy', then disappearing to get a deep-fried pizza. Just keep a low profile if you do anything similar...

They're probably all dead now - this was about ten years ago.

(Completely O/T for radiator sizes, I think)

[clot]

I probably shouldn't have, but I did smile at that!

[Lobster]

I'd love to see one of your punters' faces when you try to to sell them a deck 20 cubits square...

David

[The Medway Handyman]

Dual purpose innit? Use as a deck if it's sunny, use as a raft if it keeps raining.

[Andy Hall]

Does that B&D impact driver really let you get the boards in that tight?

[The Medway Handyman]

It's a Makita dear boy - one wouldn't be seen dead with a B&D - so last year.

[Doctor Drivel]

No wonder they threw you out.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Andy Hall saying something like:

Actually, I found the cubit a handy measurement once, when stuck without a tape measure and needed to know how long to cut a beam with some excess. Afair, it was 4 anna bit.

I've seen (and do it) people routinely step out distances for rooms, gardens, etc. Not everything needs to be measured to the nearest mm.

Other body parts could be used, of course, but it might frighten the ladies of the houses.

[Dave Baker]

I doubt if the ladies of the house would be alarmed by anything that small :)

[Brian Sharrock]

Skipping lightly past the 'I have a twelve-inch; but I don't use it as a rule' ... invitation;- It's a good practise to gauge various parts of your anatomy and memorise them; a hand width is four-inches; the separation between a little finger tip and an outstretched thumb end is nine-inches (fingers 'fanned' out); from index finger to index finger of the other outstretched arm is a fathom (Ok six-feet); a 'cubit' (from elbow to end of straightened hand's index finger is eighteen inches; etc. etc. ...when you've forgotten to take your tap measure and/or the dimensions of that alcove or room with you - you'll still have your body with you! - I',m sure the continental types have memorised 'miilmetric' equivalents - but God definitely used 'cubits' when he told that Noah guy how to build the Ark. If it's in the maker's manual then it's good enough for me!