I have just replaced a couple of tap washers. I am feeling really smug about it as the taps came apart so easily as I had greased the threads in a nurdy moment when I had first bought the house new in 1988.
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Feeling Smug!
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You're gonna give the rest of us a bad name.....
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But think about how much grease you've drunk in the intervening 25 years.
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Roger Mills wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net:
Moisurises my skin in the bath!
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I bet you have soft water as well. Brian
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Got a compliment from the plumber who installed the new heating/thermal store here, the circulators in the existing system where to be reused. When I put them in >10 years ago I'd used vaselined "rubber" washers in the (ball valve) flanges, not fibre ones. They just undid, I'm not sure if he resused the rubber washers. I damn well hope he did...
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The silicone grease I use (came from BES) says OK for water and food use.
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IKIANB I've noticed you always write "where" when you mean "were".
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Speling and grammer are not strong points. Were were and where not so damn similar in speech it wouldn't be so much of a problem. I do try an get 'em right, that one slipped through. My little rule is where has a location context as in here.
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I know I'm a nosey bastard.
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were sounds whirr, where sounds ware, no possible confusion
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as in whirr-wolves?
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Um, no they're not. "Where" rhymes with "wear" whereas "were" rhymes with "her".
Distinctly different in speech.
If you had said "there", "their" & "they're" I would have agreed with you. ;-)
Tim
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You're not from round 'ere, are you? ;-)
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The wolves are weir
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And in posh England and Scotland the h in where is pronounced, as it was in the original word: hwere. Hwat you say? But it is true. All those wh words used to be hw.
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No they are not
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"I know it's a nit but" ... I'm a nit-picker, can't help myself ;-)