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    What about pallets ? Knock them apart and electric chop saw ...... Do it in your log shed
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    1250 dead in ulster for no purpose
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    Can't say I thought he brought anything positive to the world ....
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    He used brand new pickup as a tractor Pushed floor panel up six inches ( ie he bent the all the floor panels up ) Chassis legs would have gone too, so would need new bodyshell to repair Vehicle write off and uninsured ........
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    Send him an invoice
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    Just realised I can top most of these When I was assessor asked to look ar brand new ( as in couple of weeks old ) subaru pick up truck Local estate had bought it for the gamekeeper There had been no tractor available so he had planted whole field of game cover with pickup Harrowed the whole lot Pushed floor up by about six inches over whole of vehicle ...... Unrepairable but NOT AN ACCIDENT. So not covered by insurance....... Amazingly one of the toffs loved him so didn't lose his job.......
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    Lad from agricultural building co Doing donuts in izuzu pickup Then ooops clutch has gone
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    British railways sandwiches where top slice of bread had curled up Disgusting
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    Watched my dad ( rough as hell with tools ) use every one of my grandads wood chisels as screwdrivers - snapped every one off - so much for toos that had last a lifetime Then every screwdriver as pry bar - so all bent Then anything he could lay his hands on as hammer ..... He thought it was hysterically funny to break my stuff ........yanked gearlever out of my mini when I was a kid ...... Pilloch
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    Bet your glad you started this thread !
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    If you rang bala in early 1960's and asked telephone operator for Mrs Price She'd say I saw her go up the high street 15 minutes ago, she'll be home in about twenty minutes....... Told this by my mate .......
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    Think like a scally 1) road tax for cars highest rate £1000+ 2) change owners address on dvla database ( probably just a form ) 3) report car as change of ownership - and wait for cheques(?) to roll in Repeat until your rich.........
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    Going camping with everyone in the back of a truck About 30 kits and their kit Brave kids standing on tailgte and looking overroof on motorway
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    I looked at this and eventually said " stuff it " Especially given number of people whos system just don't work ...... £15k for two bedroom house just bonkers If your borrowing at 6% your interest charge ( first year) will be £900
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    At lancashire traction engine club Talk about fair organs Little feeble old fellah shouts out I WISH I HAD A SAVAGE ORGAN Upoar
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    Spend school holidays collecting pop bottles off building sites Returned them for 3p each ( thats old pence) Forgotten all about that Putting on my dads old flying jacket in the shed and then regretting it because he used it for dirty oily jobs ......
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    Having to make the monthly payments is the business stresser.... I do look at local gov't employees who have steady income, holidays, pension etc and think have I been wasting my time? They seem to have no real stress in their life..... After 15 yearsself employed my missis took lecturing job, she says they all stress themselves up about redundancy, whilst she knows if it happens we can work our way out of the hole..... I guess real stress is illness, especially a kid .......puts rest into perspective
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    I inspected landrover where owner had fitted overlong bolts, they had fretted through fuel tank So he fitted temp fuel tank in back of land rover, and thrown old curtain over the tank He got caught running on red diesel, and was charged with having concealed tank with red diesel. With concealed tank the c&e go back to when you started in business, work outyour milegefrom then, then they calculate fuel duty you should have paid, and multiply by 5 Usually bankrupts them....... Expensive bolt ......
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    £10 first week Mini 850 18s to fill tank from empty (£0.90) in 1973 In 1963 saw austin 7 on lake at ellesmere - wheels had dropped through ice George Best trying to pick up girl I was with.....In club at stretford Again 1973
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    E4b and georgie best That girls wearing harmony hairspray Then we smashed them all to bits ........
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    What an arse Her not you
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    My new tax disc ( paid for last week ) hasn't arrived yet Gave magistrate a lift - he spotted it straight away......
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    Susan strakes?
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    That girl on magpie with no bra ......
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    Hare coursing with colliers on sunday mornings Driving saddle tanks ( spitfire and hurricane ) at bickersaw colliery ( proper train set ) 1000's of huge rats coming out at night near the maggot farm - and what a smell Working coal barges on the canal Poaching ( nothing much ) with retired collier / prize fighter ( 75 bare knuckle rounds in 1930's) and watching him die with silicosis in 1970's And I thought I'd done nothing!

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