THE BRITISH THREAD II

Did anyone watch The Great British Bake-off?

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Hot bath with some smelly stuff, Smorgs.

Don't lie under the drippy shower, though.

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I don't have a bath McT, I have a walk-in shower - hence the need to sort it - which I will today.

Note the time I am up on a Saturday. Selfish baaastaards next door (but 1) are having yet another party. They did this the other week, thought maybe it was a special occasion, so I let it lie...

Just shouted out the window "please keep the noise down - you've woke the kids!" (me). It's not as if they're chavs, they are proper posh. A chorus of posh 'sorrys' came back - then they carried on! So I thought I may as well get up and make a brew and see if there was any action on here.

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@smorgs,

Bummer, Smorgs.
Next time it happens, go out with a big rusty nail and write an appropriate message on their Bentleys.

I wish I had the energy to party- cocoa and early nights with a good book are more my style.

I'm up early getting ready to take my double bass to the music centre- I have to fold the seats in the car down, and even then it's a squeeze.

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I didn't know you had one of them McT!

It's chilly this morning - time to get your winter kilt out for an airing.

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@smorgs,

You are so right, dear lady- ice on the car windows this morning, early doors.

I see M & S do a nice new line in Wincyette pyjamas.

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@smorgs,

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I didn't know you had one of them McT!

Well, I have. My brother gave it to me. He had it since his yoof, it was mouldering in his shed, and I got it refurbed in Fallowfield.

How did you get on with the dripping shower repair? I hope your water's not metered.

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@smorgs,

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No, the floss didn't work - it's worse now.

I forgot to mention this before: ( We were diverted by loose talk about PTFE tape.)

The watertightness of a shower fitting, if it's a screw-in type, is not a function of the thread, but of the washer located at the base of the female fitting.

So try not to muck about with the thread too much. Teflon tape might help, but only functioning as a stand-in washer. You need to try to achieve a solid connection with a sound (unworn) washer. It you can't, it might be time to think about replacing some parts.

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@McTag,

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The watertightness of a shower fitting, if it's a screw-in type, is not a function of the thread, but of the washer located at the base of the female fitting.

I can confirm from personal experience that Mac is right on with his statement.

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@spendius,

A "consortium" of three proles dropped the jackpot on one of the machines in the pub tonight. It fired out £1 coins like a machine gun for at least a minute. When it was finished I walked across and invited them to consider what a banker felt like after signing up 600 prime mortgage applications before lunch.

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@McTag,

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I forgot to mention this before: ( We were diverted by loose talk about PTFE tape.)

The watertightness of a shower fitting, if it's a screw-in type, is not a function of the thread, but of the washer located at the base of the female fitting

Isn't it amazing how easily we forget those common sense things?

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Honestly spenacious, yoose is well snooty at times...

What's your criteria for proles? If I were in the pub, would you consider me a member of the proletariat or is it just the fact they were on the slots?

McT - no, I'm ashamed to say I have not sorted the shower! But I will go B & Q tonight and try and do it. It's just so... so... complicated, and un-girly, looking down the many isles for stuff, keep undoing the shower head, getting me nighty wet with the spray - though I think I would have a chance (at least) of being ranked in a wet-winceyette competition...

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@smorgs,

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What's your criteria for proles?

Those three are a sludge gulper driver, an unemployed snow-shoveller and a hod carrier.

I hardly think of you as a prole smorgsie.

Mac--which is correct usage: Scotsmen or Scotchmen? I thought the former but I have read the latter in Boswell's Life of Johnson. Do we say Scottish or Scots?

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@spendius,

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Mac--which is correct usage: Scotsmen or Scotchmen? I thought the former but I have read the latter in Boswell's Life of Johnson. Do we say Scottish or Scots?

Fashions in this have changed over the years, as you have noticed.

I favour Scots ("the Scots Tongue", Scottish (the Scottish flag), and Scotsmen or just the Scots.

Here's tae us! Wha's like us?
-Damn few, an' they're a' deid.

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@smorgs,

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me nighty wet with the spray

I don't suppose you know where the water stop-tap is?

That could save you from a wetting.

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@McTag,

You shouldn't be giving ladies all these handy tips Mac. Do you want to make them even less dependent on us than they already are?

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@McTag,

And anyway, come to think of it, if the shower is turned off (at its own tap) no water should be getting to the shower head, so WTF?

Smorgs, go down to the nearest boozer, entrance Joe the Plumber with your womanly wiles, and invite him up for a coffee as long as he brings his tools. And spare parts. You've no idea how useful they can be.

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@McTag,

That's was my advice at the get-go Mac.

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@spendius,

It's amazing how seductive these American phrases can be.

Okay, I'll take a rain check.

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@McTag,

Is it American? I thought it was just an abbreviation for "get up and go". It's an improvement on it because it's shorter and thus conveys alacrity faster. "Get up and go" seems a bit sluggish in comparison.

What do you think of the new leader of the Labour Party Mac.

I gather from Sky News that the Grauniad and the Independent are on the skids.

Not before time.

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