OT, Again: Ping RC helicopteristi

Damn. My best insult wasted.

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BTDTBTTS. The bloke doing ours is also a mate, so he knows he won't get
invited for dinner again if he doesn't do it right. And his wife will
kill him.

I bet.

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Sounds nice.

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there really are a few pubs in the town, just off the main streets,
where when you walk in, if you're not recognised, everything does seem
to go quiet...

 

Whereas I know I'd hate it and **** it up.

 

AO-fucking-L!

We've gone as far as GAMI to do the painting. I don't want to spend
*cough* grand on a kitchen, only for the final finish to make it look
like a dog's breakfast.

 

Or, maybe, they *do* recognise you.

I don't know Enfield at all really, it's never been an area that I
managed to get to.

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Why would you want to? It's just full of benefit claimants anyway...

 

I've always been one for DIM, and in the past that was the best way to
guarantee perfect results - or certainly stood a much better chance
than many installers, fitters and bodgers who'd occasionally do wok
for us. Laminate floors were a great example - I'd laid them myself
(and painstaking doesn't begin to describe the process) and achieved
an acceptable result, probably 99.5% perfect. I think there was one
gap a couple of inches long that you could have got a fag-paper into,
but that was all.

This was in the days before clip-together stuff, so you really had to
do it just right. Anyway, after a burst pipe and resulting four inches
of water, they all needed replacing, and as the Insco was paying I
thought I' get it done "professuinally". Now, given that I'd donw all
the hard work of cutting out the architraving, skimming the doors,
etc. it really shouldn't have been that difficult, but their first
effort was so mind-bogglingly bad that I rang the office when I got
home (I'd been out at work) and told them not to come in the next day.
Not one single plank was properly fitted.

That turned out to be poor materials, as I discovered later when I
found that no two planks, taken from the packet, would fit each other,
basically the whole lot were twisted and warped. So, fast forward a
few weeks, we'd chosen a new material and they'd been and gone, job
finished. Well, no, not really. Still loads of gaps and, get this,
they'd glued the fucking stuff down to the mastic underneath!

We never did pay for that, and as the Insco had already given us cash
I was in pocket. The floor looked OK at a glance, but creaked when
walked on for a couple of years due to the glue and had quite a few
scuffed edges and gaps in it. All in all, a fucking shite job.

So I vowed never to use the pros again.

Now, that was some years ago, as I said, and all my faculties weer
intact. The most recent DIY I've done consisted of laying new carpets
upstairs, and although the end result is OK, there are places where I
_know_ I bodged it, and one door's about 4mm higher than it needs to
be, stuff like that. It took me an age, and eventually it got to the
stage where I could only work on it for an hour or so before getting
pissed off. It's all related to pain, tiredness and irritability,
which is me at the moment, but I really, _really_ wished we'd just
paid the few hundred euros to get someone else to do it.

Clearly, I won't be fitting the kitchen myself.

 

heh - I'm not claiming "benefits".

"Jobseeker's Allowance" is all - not for the money (it's piss-all) but
just to keep my NI stamp up to date.

 

However you justify it, it's still a benefit!

 

Just think of it as a partial refund and you'll be ok.

 

'swot I thought. Though the increased posting frequency did make me
wonder.
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That looks very nice. I've got the less aesthetically pleasing Breville
Hot Cup. Most times it's perfect for a single cup of tea or coffee which
is 99% of the time. The layout of the Breville means filling a tea pot
is a little awkward.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002NGNRHC

 

I'm not "justify"ing it. As Andy says, it's just a (very) partial
refund on the NI I've paid over the years.

 

I was between the start of July and mid September - it was a temporary
role, which has now finished.

 

I thought there was a building regulation that prevented you putting a
water softener on your kitchen sink (so there's always unsoftened drinking
water available) but ICBMS.

 

Well, precisely. Take their passports away!

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I thought you had a contract with the NHS?

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Arse, mostly, then.

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