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  1. Barry Ten

    Why is that any RMWeb thread on a CERTAIN TOPIC always ends up with the same three or four indivisduals having an endless pointless (geddit) slanging match?

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    2. BlackRat

      BlackRat

      You win the prize Gunners

    3. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      Can't beat that!

    4. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Railing against misfortune.

  2. Barry Ten

    Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky.

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    2. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      He was a bit before my time, I'm afraid.

    3. Mikkel

      Mikkel

      Last seen having meatballs in Ikea, wondering why they couldn't see it coming.

    4. Re6/6

      Re6/6

      Ice pick...?

  3. Barry Ten

    There's a rat in my garden, what I'm a gonna do?

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    2. Boris

      Boris

      Eat the ######

    3. darren01

      darren01

      Hve you phoned BR and told them ,they have lost one!

    4. BlackRat

      BlackRat

      SHOOT IT! (Unless its a Black one! ;)...)

  4. Barry Ten

    I'm in love with a German film star

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    2. Ramblin Rich

      Ramblin Rich

      ...You once met in a bar?

      Sitting in a corner in imperfect clothes
      Trying not to pose....

    3. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      Peak mullet for me was around 1986.

    4. marc smith

      marc smith

      Ah, I still had my spiky flat-top back then :)

  5. Barry Ten

    Just seen a bus with "Merry Christmas" on the indicator panel.

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    2. St Enodoc

      St Enodoc

      Buses seem to be running later then ever these days.

    3. Compound2632

      Compound2632

      There's Christmas Common near here. Maybe it was diverted? 

    4. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      I put the decorations up yesterday. I love xmas...   I do.

  6. Barry Ten

    What did they call the Pre-Grouping Era in the Pre-Grouping Era?

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    2. Tim Hall

      Tim Hall

      Now

    3. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      The present?

    4. Chamby

      Chamby

      Post-Victorian

  7. Barry Ten

    Catalan independence is a political topic and therefore "off limits" according to the forum guidelines. Those of us who have friends and family in Spain will understand that this is an extremely sensitive and divisive issue. You may feel soldarity with the Catalan independence movement but a modelling forum is not the place to express that solidarity.

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    2. Bernard Lamb

      Bernard Lamb

      I an just surprised that the folks at the other end of the Pyrenees didn't beat them to it. We all should be aware of the leanings of the man with the flag. I might even change my avatar to the flag of my choice.

    3. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Each to his own

  8. Barry Ten

    Uh-oh - it's Elaine Page on Sunday. Time to turn off the radio and get out of the modelling room for a couple of hours...

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    2. Tony_S

      Tony_S

      Buy a DAB Radio!

    3. big jim

      big jim

      she's still not played any "book of mormon" tunes too

    4. NHY 581

      NHY 581

      Me, me, me, me, me !!!!!!......

  9. Barry Ten

    Local Focus is going out of business - bad news for the employees (who are being kept in the dark) and if it shuts, rather than being taken over by Wickes or B&Q, it'll mean a much longer drive for wood, paint etc.

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    2. Mickey

      Mickey

      Wickes is owned by TP...Focus seem to have been on the slide for quite a few years....

    3. Mickey

      Mickey

      Wickes is owned by TP...Focus seem to have been on the slide for quite a few years....

    4. Coombe Barton

      Coombe Barton

      Focus sold Wickes to TP some years ago. Now TP has bought 13 Focus to turn into Wickes. B&Q are supposed to have bought some - people are cherry picking - as TP exec says here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-1387948/Wickes-owner-Travis-Perkins-buys-Focus-DIY-chain-administrators.html

  10. Barry Ten

    Said he'd never buy a Sat Nav. Has just bought a Sat Nav.

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Can you get them with Josef Stalin's voice?

    3. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      I am not aware of any such pack, though I would not preclude the possibility of one existing.

    4. gwrrob

      gwrrob

      Don't turn right or left on a level crossing.Its been done !

  11. Barry Ten

    First sighting of a red kite right over our house. They've been encroaching into South Wales from Brecon for some while but not yet seen one right over head - until now!

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    2. mike morley

      mike morley

      My mother lives very close to the very end of the flightpath into Heathrow. Whenever I look out of her back window towards the planes on finals I can see at least one Red Kite. I dont even want to think about the likely consequences when the inevitable happens and one is sucked through an engine.

    3. The Stationmaster

      The Stationmaster

      Would you like some of ours? We had half a dozen circling our garden the other day and our 'pet' one sits on next door's tv aerial watching our back garden very carefully or calls out for something to eat.

    4. Chamby

      Chamby

      They are very partial to chicken skins if you throw them on the roof... make an impressive sight swooping down for them just feet away from you.

  12. Barry Ten

    Anyone noticed that George Warleggan's bank in Poldark is Wells Town Hall, as featured in Railwells?

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    2. Re6/6

      Re6/6

      We don't talk about THAT sort of thing in our house!

    3. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      I had a lovely curry from Wells market.

       

    4. Southernman46

      Southernman46

      There's ALWAYS something going on, Constable

  13. Barry Ten

    HULK ATTEMPT KIT WITH LIMITED OR INADEQUATE INSTRUCTIONS. HULK GET FRUSTRATED! HULK SMASH KIT!

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Wait! Wait! Is it Mongo from "Blazing Saddles"!

    3. trisonic

      trisonic

      A Rumble in the Valley's. Dai!

       

    4. Tony_S

      Tony_S

      I thought it was good to go green.

  14. Barry Ten

    That thing where you've got a tiny, fiddly, irreplaceable bit of model between tweezers and think "I really must not drop this on the floor, or I'll never find it again" - and then drop it on the floor.

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    2. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      I believe there is something called a jeweller's apron and that might be worth trying out?

    3. Mikkel

      Mikkel

      It is twice as likely to happen if it was the last one you had.

    4. sigtech

      sigtech

      Lost count of the number of times its happened to me! - it's even worst if the object 'pings' off into space, as you have no idea where it went!!!

  15. Barry Ten

    Finally caved in and ordered the lighting kit and photo-etched add-ons for the Polar Lights 1/350th Starship Enterprise kit. It's a monster!

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    2. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      It's the later issue of the Polar Lights kit with the full set of Azteking decals - massive sheets of them...

    3. Re6/6

      Re6/6

      "Look forward to seeing it on your blog"......same here Al!

    4. BlackRat

      BlackRat

      Its a kit Al, but not as we know it..

  16. Barry Ten

    I'm going to leave old Durham town ... and then pop back a bit later.

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    2. Barry O

      Barry O

      but it isn't on the banks of the coaly tyne.. It sits by theRiver Wear!

    3. marc smith

      marc smith

      Apparently, you can get your eyesight tested for free, in Barnards Castle....
      If you don't run anyone over on the way...... you have perfect 20/20 vision ;) 

    4. Barry O

      Barry O

      only if you are "a chosen one"!!

       

  17. Barry Ten

    I must be one of the top RMwebbers as my name's always first on the list of who's online.

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    2. Liam

      Liam

      At least you were on there - I must be the least popular member as I'm not even on that list. :D

    3. JDW

      JDW

      And Phil Parker is in red, he must have been naughty...

    4. saxokid

      saxokid

      Im just happy to be back on here!!:senile:

  18. Barry Ten

    Decided it was time to retire the pair of running shoes I bought in May 2000 with a final valedictory run last night. And they sat we modellers never throw anything away.

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    2. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      I put my riding boots on for the first time in about five years last week, to say they were stiff was an understatement.

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Give them a bit of leather food / oil. They should soften a little.

    4. Welly

      Welly

      I still have a pair of wellies that are 30 years old!

  19. Barry Ten

    I've come back from the Netherlands with something long, yellow and electric.

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Why am I fearing the worst? Does it have a "herbal" tinge to it?

    3. Grafarman

      Grafarman

      naughty...naughty...very...

      naughty...!!!

    4. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      ...hahahahahahaha

  20. Barry Ten

    Guitar homework and burnt fingers from soldering do not go together.

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    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Horse is offering to pluck your strings. I'd run a mile, if I were you.

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Oi!

    4. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Make that two miles!

  21. Barry Ten

    Terrific! While drillinga new hole in my control panel for a toggle switch, with the power drill, I managed to snag the end of the drill on the existing wiring behind the panel - result, instant spahetti bolognese, wires ripped out of switches etc! Why do I never learn?

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    2. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      I've also (in the past) twice ripped the internal wiring out of a Peco point by snagging one of the wires with a drill...

    3. Grafarman

      Grafarman

      Ouch...

    4. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Sympathy, mate. I really hate having to re-do work I've already done!

  22. Barry Ten

    A scrote has nicked stuff from our neighbour's garden... and now we've noticed stuff missing from ours. Makes me think a garden railway may not be such a great idea after all.

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    2. 28XX

      28XX

      Need dog

    3. polybear

      polybear

      I recall an antique toy train layout on the Antiques Roadshow - the locos were powered thru' the track with 240vac...

    4. DougN

      DougN

      Nahh green concrete as far as the eye can see.

  23. Barry Ten

    Trying to make sense of the "instructions" for a "kit". Sub-literate, sub-grammatical, borderline comprehensible at best ... and steadfastly not telling us anything we couldn't have worked out for ourselves, yet at the same time not telling us crucial stuff! Grr!

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    2. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      Trouble is, the first diagram you get tells you how to phone IKEA.

       

      I don't wish to sound ungrateful, guys, but I think I might have managed to work that one out for myself!

    3. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      I know of only three manufacturers who make genuinely helpful instructions and they all have NE England connections.

       

    4. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      That doesn't surprise me.

  24. Barry Ten

    Radcliffe and Maconie show moving to BBC6 - bah!

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    2. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      bah and indeed humbug. Don't get me started on digital radios.

    3. Garry D100

      Garry D100

      who?

    4. Mike G

      Mike G

      Plant rock ok, but since Rick Wakeman left seems to have fallen a little flat

  25. Barry Ten

    How many charity shops does one town need?

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    2. Dave47549

      Dave47549

      dunno, how many vacant premises do you have??

    3. 46444

      46444

      Sounds like Queen Street in Newton Abbot along with more mobile phone shops than you can shake a stick at!

    4. 28XX

      28XX

      Always worth a look. Solid brass chalice in Harborne 0.99p last week.

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