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Comment on ” £20 Elgar note withdrawal ‘a national disgrace’ “ by "male bondage

"male bondage — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:47:39 +0000

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Comment on Poppers banmongers by Darren T

Darren T — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 08:05:08 +0000

POSH are a bunch of twats!

I have no sex life now – thanks a fucking bunch!

Comment on About by Guy

Guy — Sat, 07 May 2011 00:05:34 +0000

Now you’ve given me a flashback of Jenny Frost in that pink jumpsuit from Famous & Fearless, thanks Nick: http://is.gd/Af7Xb6

Comment on Sinister pigeon by Martin

Martin — Mon, 02 May 2011 16:16:53 +0000

Could be…
The really sinister thing is the the pigeon wasn’t just watching… it was trying to get in….

Comment on Sinister pigeon by Uncle Nick

Uncle Nick — Mon, 02 May 2011 12:01:00 +0000

Odin used the ravens Munin and Hugin as his eyes and ears to watch the world and report back.

Perhaps Godron uses flying rats?

Comment on This is why we wear goggles when grinding by Oggmonster

Oggmonster — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:57:27 +0000

haha, lesson learnt I hope

Comment on This is why we wear goggles when grinding by Martin

Martin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:48:11 +0000

‘Twas my eye, Ogg. Was doing a little light dremelling in the flat, where I have no googles. Ironically this happened at home instead of at work, where there is extensive industrial scale grinding (and everyone wears goggles [when a gaffer is watching anyway]).
I intend fully to purchase goggles for home use, when I can be bothered and on a day when I’m not feeling particularly tightfisted.

Comment on This is why we wear goggles when grinding by Oggmonster

Oggmonster — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:41:21 +0000

This goes to show theres a happy medium between being overly safety concious (aka nannying) + being wreckless.
For once (and i think the only time EVER in the history of time) it would have been good if he had filled out a risk assessment. It would have probably taken a couple of hours then he would have been too tired to do any angle grinding!

Comment on Fuel prices by Martin

Martin — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:44:35 +0000

Tell me about it Nick; something like half the forklifts around are LPG, and I’m sick of getting price rise notices from my suppliers, and having to explain to $angry_customer that their gas has gone up again.
Thinking about the economics of it though, its a similar (but worse) situation to diesel; without refineries installing massive multi-million pound machines, the amounts of LPG, petrol and diesel you get from a barrel of oil are constant. Over the past ten years, the amount of diesel and LPG cars has increased massively (compared to petrol) so there is more and more demand for those slices of the oil. Demand up, price up.
You can alter the proportions by having lots of extra processing (cracking, for instance) but that’s expensive, time-consuming and risky to set up; hence the big difference between the prices of petrol and diesel since a few years ago, which has closed up a little now. The same goes for LPG.
What I’m finding at work is that up until a few months ago, everyone was screaming out for LPG forklifts, with a supposed crackdown on diesel exhausts indoors. Now the gas has gone up they’re screaming out for electrics. What they don’t realise is quite how much the electricity price has gone up, and how expensive batteries are due to the price of lead. Doh!

Comment on Fuel prices by Uncle Nick

Uncle Nick — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:12:38 +0000

I’d be interested in the same graph for LPG…

I’ve seen if fall a couple of times over the past few years, but it seems around my way not to be related to the rise and fall of oil prices (only the rise…).