Quote: Marc P @ August 3 2009, 12:26 PM BSTI did originally write women aren't very good etc... but thought I 'd have that Sarah Beeney banging on my door!!
If only you'd said Kirsty Allsop I could have done a moustache gag!
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Quote: chipolata @ August 3 2009, 12:27 PM BSTIf only you'd said Kirsty Allsop I could have done a moustache gag!
She usually brings a sledgehammer.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 3 2009, 12:24 PM BSTOr pretending we don't so we don't have to look at your boring floor plans.
To balance my argument, I freely admit that I have a terrible sense of direction and map-reading skills. As a teenager I was once leading a group of Venture Scouts in a overnight orienteering competition. I was meant to lead the group to a disused railway line. Instead I managed to get us all nearly killed on the Bristol to Bath mainline track. 
Quote: Tim Walker @ August 3 2009, 12:34 PM BSTInstead I managed to get us all nearly killed on the Bristol to Bath mainline track.
I don't think that was an accident. 
I'm not good at dealing with criticsm about my spatial awareness skills.
Quote: Tim Walker @ August 3 2009, 12:34 PM BSTAs a teenager I was once leading a group of Venture Scouts in a overnight orienteering competition. I was meant to lead the group to a disused railway line. Instead I managed to get us all nearly killed on the Bristol to Bath mainline track.
I feel a pre-watershed sitcom brewing! Scouting for Boys.
Quote: Griff @ August 3 2009, 12:31 PM BSTI know a surprising number of blokes who think that wouldn't be a bad thing.
Now about this unsightly erection in your garden!
Quote: Marc P @ August 3 2009, 12:42 PM BST
I'm not keen on her arm.
"She certainly wasn't last in the queue when God was handing out... chests."
Quote: Tim Walker @ August 3 2009, 12:34 PM BSTTo balance my argument, I freely admit that I have a terrible sense of direction and map-reading skills.
I do hope you never ask for help, otherwise we'll have to take away your 'bloke licence'.
Quote: NoggetFred @ August 3 2009, 12:46 PM BSTI do hope you never ask for help, otherwise we'll have to take away your 'bloke licence'.
Of course not. During the holidays after my second year at uni, I was invited to stay with a mate in Hull. I drove up from Bristol by myself, never having driven north before.
I somehow took a wrong turn at Birmingham and, despite being fairly certain I was going the wrong way (driving through Cumbria should have been a give-away) I drove on in the bloke-ish certainty I was probably right.
I ended-up in Carlisle before I stopped to reassess the situation... 
(After driving across the country to Hull, I did make it to my mate's local in time for last orders. So not a complete embarrassment.)
Commendable behaviour.
And, of course, I blamed the terrible signeage on the M6... 