Paul H Vigor Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 (edited) 56 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: As long as you don't use Veet for men. https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3GDDEL1SC1QQ5 That is one heck of a product review! ROFL! Edited February 4, 2023 by Paul H Vigor to add information 1 3 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 1 hour ago, PhilJ W said: As long as you don't use Veet for men. https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3GDDEL1SC1QQ5 I nearly laughed myself to death at that, so the memsahib wanted to see and laughed til she cried. She's gone to calm down but says that she holds you responsible if she ends up buying Tena Lady thirty years before her time. Might be a good idea to send a Facebook friend request to Elon Musk, just in case you need to leave the planet.... 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted February 4, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 4, 2023 1 hour ago, PhilJ W said: As long as you don't use Veet for men. https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3GDDEL1SC1QQ5 "A friend" is now regretting not going for a tinkle before he decided to read that................ 1 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 13 minutes ago, NHY 581 said: "A friend" is now regretting not going for a tinkle before he decided to read that................ A campanologist, perchance? 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 1 hour ago, Hroth said: Custard Creams are fine, preferable to Bourbon Creams... I'm sure that they put a form of crack cocaine in those things which is only activated by hot tea. Because you are likely to eat a whole packet and spend the rest of the day feeling like a F.L.B. 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 11 minutes ago, MrWolf said: I'm sure that they put a form of crack cocaine in those things which is only activated by hot tea. Because you are likely to eat a whole packet and spend the rest of the day feeling like a F.L.B. https://flbgroup.com/ ?? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 13 minutes ago, MrWolf said: crack cocaine Not the snorted variety, I guess? (asking for a friend) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 13 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said: Not the snorted variety, I guess? (asking for a friend) Something noxious and instantly addictive. It's very rare we have biscuits. We had some cookies at Christmas that were like someone had ram raided Thornton's. There were only about ten, but someone made me eat all but two because she didn't want to get fat... 1 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 18 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said: https://flbgroup.com/ ?? Nil point. It's an acronym for Fat Lardy (or Lazy) B@st#rd. But I'm sure that you already worked that out. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 31 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Something noxious and instantly addictive. It's very rare we have biscuits. We had some cookies at Christmas that were like someone had ram raided Thornton's. There were only about ten, but someone made me eat all but two because she didn't want to get fat... You sacrificed yourself for your beloved? Respect! 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 30 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Nil point. It's an acronym for Fat Lardy (or Lazy) B@st#rd. But I'm sure that you already worked that out. I did, but couldn't resist Googling 'FLB' to see what else came up! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted February 5, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 5, 2023 17 hours ago, Swissrail said: Not in Scotland it appeared. We never had to go through RI although we did have to endure hymn singing at assembly every Friday morning...torture because it was always the same hymns, week in, week out...Onward Christian Soldiers being my pet hate; still is fifty years later. If you forgot to bring your hymn book for this event, the headmaster took you aside at the end and gave you three lashes of the belt. Christianity in action! Thus GUARANTEEING you hated religion for the rest of your life- an own goal! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted February 5, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2023 We broke our RI teacher, a West Walian fundamentalist alcoholic with very proscribed views on, well, everything. When I say broke, he was a somewhat damaged individual anyway and we didn't have much work to do, but when Dave Crowle-Groves claimed that he was a practicing Satanist (he was, to be fair, the sort of boy of whom you would find such a claim credible; he was, with the best will in the world, a bit odd, and even in the company of 14-year schoolboys in an all-boys Grammar School was considered to be obsessed with sex), the Rev'd Iolo Rees-Thomas lost it, and a deputation had to be sent to the staff room to inform anyone handy that he was actually in the process of crucifying Dave to the fairly large pine cross he brought into lessons sometimes, and could they come and do something about him. He'd got as far as sending a prefect to the woodwork shop for a hammer and some 6-inch nails (who also rather sensibly joined the staff room rescue mission) and looked as if he was quite happy and more than ready to commit serious harm. Great for a laugh but enough's enough, we thought, and it took four teachers and a couple of our bigger rugby players to haul him off the hapless Jesus-substitute who was now being screamed at for being the Anti-Christ. He was frogmarched off babbling incoherently, never to return. We were told that he had gone on a Sabbatical, but this was probably at the local Mental Hospital. The matter was hushed up quite effectively, certainly the press and parents never got hold of it, and we were under pain of, I dunno, something dreadful, to keep schtum. We kept schtum. 1 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted February 5, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2023 Apologies for breaking this RI and biscuits stream of consciousness but back on eBay this has appeared. Battlespace cut and shut perchance? Not to be humped it says but I fear it’s too late… Cheers Darius 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted February 5, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2023 We’ve had this a few pages back, presumably it’s been relisted. I checked out the seller’s other stuff looking for something else to laugh at but the rest is fairly sane in comparison to, um, whatever this is intended to be… 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted February 5, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2023 Apologies for the repetition but I felt the need to change the subject… Speaking of cut and shut. Cheers Darius 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Darius43 said: Apologies for the repetition but I felt the need to change the subject… Speaking of cut and shut. Cheers Darius Cheers Darius It needed to be done. Interesting back story, a link to an article or design sketch might just help sell this thing, but there never is! Cheers, Rob. Edited February 5, 2023 by MrWolf 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted February 5, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2023 2 hours ago, Darius43 said: Apologies for breaking this RI and biscuits stream of consciousness but back on eBay this has appeared. Battlespace cut and shut perchance? Not to be humped it says but I fear it’s too late… Cheers Darius At least it's modelling, no sitting round complaining that there isn't a RTR version. Mike. 4 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted February 5, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 5, 2023 13 hours ago, Swissrail said: Then there's this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/364123657865?hash=item54c7761689:g:NB4AAOSwcExj0m58 Retailed for about £275 but now that it's discontinued, Go$tude will sell you this one for a mere £799.50. Bargain! Actually for one of those (pre new batch announcement) that's cheap. They were going for up to two and a half grand a pop at one point although there were suspicions someone was deliberately sabotaging the auctions in some cases. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swissrail Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 (edited) 10 hours ago, PhilJ W said: As long as you don't use Veet for men. https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3GDDEL1SC1QQ5 That review had me rolling around the floor in such paroxysms of hysterical laughter my wife thought I was having a seizure! Edited February 5, 2023 by Swissrail 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swissrail Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, John M Upton said: They were going for up to two and a half grand a pop at one point although there were suspicions someone was deliberately sabotaging the auctions in some cases. A few years ago I got a Lima SBB Gottardo six car electric multiple unit on Ebay for less than half that. Sounds a lot until you realise it was one of the sets that had been completely rebuilt by Hui Modellbau in Switzerland with a brand new machined brass power car chassis powered by a coreless motor driving all six axles, skirts over the bogies added but with the bogies' top edges cut down so that they would still swivel, fully painted and lit interiors, window blinds, new flexible corridor connections, full repaint, passengers and new pantographs. It's a beauty and rivals the Lematec brass one in terms of how it looks and for about £3,000 less. Edited February 5, 2023 by Swissrail 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swissrail Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 (edited) Now who in their right mind is going to want buy these...at any price? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363496163171?hash=item54a20f4763:g:rncAAOSwqT1hDQTo or these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333731137666?hash=item4db3ed0882:g:rgoAAOSwyR5fazGT Edited February 5, 2023 by Swissrail 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swissrail Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 How much?! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334696652576?epid=1673592247&hash=item4ded799f20:g:iyMAAOSwrcpju9FZ 280 quid for something that is freelance and... BOXED VERY GOOD USED This locomotive has not had a lot of use. There are some light marks. One pantograph is broken and one headlamp is a little intermittent in operation, so needs to be re set with the pins. This version dates from around 1961 production with the Triang Railways spaced far apart on the sides and working headlamps. So that's alright then. It's old, has working headlamps and is therefore worth a king's ransom. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveyDee68 Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 Just now, Swissrail said: How much?! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334696652576?epid=1673592247&hash=item4ded799f20:g:iyMAAOSwrcpju9FZ 280 quid for something that is freelance and... BOXED VERY GOOD USED This locomotive has not had a lot of use. There are some light marks. One pantograph is broken and one headlamp is a little intermittent in operation, so needs to be re set with the pins. This version dates from around 1961 production with the Triang Railways spaced far apart on the sides and working headlamps. So that's alright then. It's old, has working headlamps and is therefore worth a king's ransom. It’s Go$tude - he doesn’t need a reason to price anything at a king’s ransom except maybe whether there is a “Y” in the name of the day he posts it onto eBay. Steve S 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveyDee68 Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 6 hours ago, Darius43 said: Apologies for the repetition but I felt the need to change the subject… Speaking of cut and shut. Cheers Darius I think that is done quite well, but having looked it up on eBay itself I think the loco seen in the photos behind (so called Class 39) is even more interesting - it’s like a forerunner of the Class 89! Certainly given me a couple of ideas for “backdating” some modern locos, stylistically! Steve S 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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