Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Alan,

Just what have you been on today. Yanks, Kiwi's and 'cheques', (don't you mean Czechs) and Hybrids. Just how politically incorrect can you get.

This thread has gone to the dogs. Politically incorrect, racist, inaccurate......I could go on but I won't. Suffice to say I am shocked and dismayed. WE, THE WELSH have sole right to the term "sheep shagger"; you lot from 'oop north' have no right to try to steal our rightful title. It has always been the same, the English trying to steal from the Welsh (no don't even think of going down the "Taffy is a Welshman, Taffy is a thief" road) - we were shagging sheep long before you lot.

Signed
Disgusted of Denbighshire (somewhat shakily)

Sheep, thats all you heathen lot can manage. Now my great, great, great (you get the idea) granddad fancied woolly mammoths. What do you think killed them all off.
Going to the dogs. OK not going down that road either.
By the way, it's oop norff. Tipical the welch cud nefer spel.
OK off out now, tonights date has just walked past the end of the field.

Please tell me it's not Mutt on tonight! She gave me the chop last week.

Remember the Yorkshire National Anthem is not Ilkley Moor Bah Tat, its "I'll never find another ewe".

Our nursery rhyme starts with "Mary had a little lamb, her father shot the shepherd".

I have known people attend clinics because they have scrapie, and our local porn shops sell knitting patterns.

Well! I never knew this before!

Q. Do you know where the 'H' comes from in 'Jesus H Christ'?

A. The H stands for Harold, as in, 'Our Father, who art in heaven, Harold be thy name'.

So now you know.

Have we moved the thread onto things I never knew???

If so, did you know King Henry the eighth never had 6 wives? He had 2 wives (or 4 if you are a Roman Catholic).

King Henry actually had over 50 wives. Problem was most of them were married to other men at the time.

Greedy bugger!

Greedy yes, but there is no evidence he was a bugger.

Well according to the man for all seasons.....

How bloody annoying - I've just opened a pack of digestives to have with my coffee - only to find they are all broken :-((

Sounds like they have been victim of a supermarket aisle rage Skinny!

I think you are right - having persevered with a couple of broken bits - I've discovered that wet digestives and keyboards do not make good bed fellows :-((

Goodbye to my England, So long my old friend



Your days are numbered, being brought to an end



To be Scottish, Irish or Welsh that's fine



But don't say you're English, that's way out of line.


The French and the Germans may call themselves such



So may Norwegians, the Swedes and the Dutch



You can say you are Russian or maybe a Dane



But don't say you're English ever again.



At Broadcasting House the word is taboo


In Brussels it's scrapped, in Parliament too


Even schools are affected; staff does as they're told



They must not teach children about England of old.

Writers like Shakespeare, Milton and Shaw


The pupils don't learn about them anymore


How about Agincourt, Hastings, Arnhem or Mons?


When England lost hosts of her very brave sons.


We are not Europeans, how can we be?


Europe is miles away over the sea


We're the English from England, let's all be proud


Stand up and be counted - Shout it out loud!


Let's tell our Government and Brussels too


We're proud of our heritage and the Red, White and Blue


Fly the flag of Saint George or the Union Jack


Let the world know - WE WANT OUR ENGLAND BACK!!!!

Stable,

Excellent and unfortunately true. Have copied (hope you don't mind) and sent it via e-mail to many people.

regards Greek.

Agree 100%, but nevertheless..........










...........Cymru am byth!

:o)

Today ; I have just been ripped off by a plumber in London 579.02 to fix a siphon in the bottom of a toilet cistern.....at the start the going rate was : 65 a half hour plus vat....well I know plumbers have to live and so do we, so I thought well this will come to somewhere between 250 to 300 (that's plenty I thought ), this cowboy has charged me three and a half hours work.....he came in looked at the job.....a few days later comes back, stayed on site for 2 hours and then he charges me another hour for getting the materials....don't ever ring LOCAL (the blue advert ) in the yellow pages or even think about employing a "Mr Paul LEVEY" of 1st Access Limited.....they won't pull that stunt again on me !, after the first half hour the going rate should be less....that's what I thought it would be....that works out at 130 per hour.....there should be a law against criminal activities like that....criminal it is !.

I've had another look under Electricians and the same cowboy ad is there too...page 380....I suppose that that would be the same story if anybody decided to ring them....by the way the page number for the rip off is page 701 in the London yellow pages ...BE WARNED !.

Required Field,
It would have p****d me off as well.
Ever since I was overcharged for a vehicle repair years ago, I now always obtain a written quote. A quote has to be abided by unless there is extra work of which the customer has to be informed prior to that work being carried out. An estimate by virtue of the name, is just that an estimate.
Obviously cowboys in any profession get the (bad) publicity and quite right, but there are some good (not many now days) fair craftsmen out there. I can give 2 examples.

1 Several years ago, our local builder gave me a quote for a dormer extension. When the work was completed, the actual bill was for 75 less than the quote. He explained that the bill for drawing up and submitting the plans as less than he had thought.

2 Our plumber of many years (recommended by our builder who we called first) came at short notice to fix a leak from the roof that was being caused by a twisted piece of leading that had slipped. He fixed it in less than 10 mins. When I asked him, how much he said, there was no charge as it was such a quick job and he was nearby anyway and also we were regular customers (we had a new bathroom suite fitted about a year earlier).

Both these craftsmen are in such demand, the builder ended up only working around the village and the plumber for many years has not taken on new customers, but only does work for previous customers.

I now only have work done by recommendation from these 2 professionals, as most builders/plumbers know others that can be trusted. That's how we got the services of a good reasonably priced electrician.

Have you thought of contacting Watch Dog. I appreciate they are probably inundated by such stories but you never know, they may be compiling a list of over paying customers by this cowboy. I would also inform the Local (the blue advert) as rip off merchants like Mr Levey don't do the circulation figures any good.
As to there being a law against such practises, I have no faith in such as the laws re business practises already out there have about as much bite as a Rottweiler with no teeth.