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Quote: keewik @ September 26 2012, 12:01 AM BSTForget it. You'd be far better coming to Loch Lomond or Loch Ness or Kintyre or Mull. *thanks the nice man from VisitScotland for the cheque*
P. S. Hope you're all pronouncing 'loch' correctly in your heads.
Visions of Keewik preparing the whicker deep fat fryer to fry yet another sacrificial victim to the God of Whee Beestie.
Coconut.
This is what I say to the wife when she buys things that really aren't all that important or necessary compared to other things we need. A few years ago I said "when you do the shopping just get the absolute essentials ONLY". She came back with an actual coconut, not a packet, but the real thing. OK, it wasn't much but the idea that this was an essential item was beyond me.
Yesterday she came back with a hideous bobble hat for our daughter which she neither asked for or likes, some storage containers for cereal when we've been happily using the boxes they come in for years and a new pastry brush to go with the two we've already got.
It's already been agreed that I'll do the next shop and she'll no doubt moan at me for buying provisions for the family that's not enough for a starving refugee (singular).
She's probably right. 
My wife has a very unique approach to shopping.
She'll often return with something entirely superfluous with the justification that the item is normally twice the price.
So, in fact, we've saved money!
Quote: sootyj @ September 26 2012, 6:41 AM BSTVisions of Keewik preparing the whicker deep fat fryer to fry yet another sacrificial victim to the God of Whee Beestie.
Bastard! You've exposed my cunning plan.
Quote: keewik @ September 26 2012, 12:01 AM BSTForget it. You'd be far better coming to Loch Lomond or Loch Ness or Kintyre or Mull. *thanks the nice man from VisitScotland for the cheque*
P. S. Hope you're all pronouncing 'loch' correctly in your heads.
I've been to Scotland twice. It rained every day. When the rain stopped the midges came out. It is a beautiful country though. Couldn't believe how light it was at night.
If it's any consolation Tuumble, my son is going to Florida next month but it's for work so he won't be having a holiday.
Quote: Lazzard @ September 26 2012, 10:02 AM BSTMy wife has a very unique approach to shopping.
She'll often return with something entirely superfluous with the justification that the item is normally twice the price.
So, in fact, we've saved money!
I can assure you that's not a unique approach! Women. Know your limits! 
I love Scotland but I think I've caught it on good days. Isle of Arran, water like mill pond, not a cloud in the sky and I don't recall being dive bombed by midges at all. The Edinburgh Festival is something to behold too.
Quote: Tuumble @ September 26 2012, 12:52 PM BSTWomen. No your limits!
Tuumble. "Know" your spelling.
"Sometimes my arms bend backwards".
Quote: Pingl @ September 25 2012, 5:15 PM BSTThought I was going to see John Bishop tonight, but checked the tickets, its Thursday. GRRRRR...
At least you thought it was before it actaully was.
I was just thinking: if human beings really were designed by God, our cocks would be on the back so we could automatically clean the toilet bowl after us.
I can think of no possible drawbacks.
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ September 26 2012, 2:53 PM BSTI was just thinking: if human beings really were designed by God, our cocks would be on the back so we could automatically clean the toilet bowl after us.
I can think of no possible drawbacks.
What do you mean?
Mine is.....
Quote: David Bussell @ September 26 2012, 12:55 PM BSTTuumble. "Know" your spelling.
Jeez! Where did that come from? You wouldn't believe that one of my roles is as a magazine editor would you? In my defence my mind has been crunched today by writing an article on network flow monitoring and how it can be used in creating availability metrics.
Quote: David Bussell @ September 26 2012, 1:29 PM BST"Sometimes my arms bend backwards".
A verse from one of my Father's poems about the Home Guard during WW II.
From: "The Battle of Beaufort Hill"
Very Good, Very Good, Corporal Harding
I'm glad you are one of the rousers,
But Dammit All, Dammit All, Corporal Harding
Why the hell don't you
put on your trousers!
Quote: chipolata @ September 25 2012, 4:47 PM BSTChip's winding down with the fan heater on his desk, blowing warm in his face.
This. Again. Chip's a creature of habit.