same here over the channel. The race to lower cost killed out manufacturing capacity
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Runners who flaunt it past my house in t-shirt and shorts when it’s below zero. Come on, I run, but in winter I dress appropriately, sometimes I even wear a wooly hat!
Oh dear, I have been known to do that on occasion (more than I should admit to) if I am going to move fast enough 
. As long as I have gloves on I am pretty happy. I cannot run in a wooly hat but do have insulation from bird’s - nest hair 
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Some of you may have seen my tale of woe regarding my car brakes. Just been talking to my son who lives in London about the performance of the electricians rewiring the house. Been unable to use the boiler for four days as it keeps blowing fuses. So my question is - how the fuck do professionals consistently get away with being complete numbnuts? It’s clear you can’t trust people to do their job properly. Back in the day you could do this shit yourself, I’ve done sparky work, fixed my boiler etc. Seems to me all this regulation to protect the consumer from bodge jobs is simply allowing “tradesmen” to do exactly that. 
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I think that’s being worked on, judging by the pound’s performance against the Euro…
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Not a terrible one but why oh why do they not call it what it is? Its a straw ffs…
I’m surprised its not been jazzed up tp a “vacuum assisted liquid relocation apparatus”…
It’s for my girlfriends diet thingy btw. Which means i will be starving for 3 days of course!
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Gloves are good, they show the runner acknowledges that it isn’t summer 
At the end of the day it’s just because they make me feel like a wuss. 
The clown who wired the lights in my house.
I’m putting a new diffused light fitting in the upstairs bathroom, take off the old light fitting and find the neutral wire is brown, the live wire is blue! He must have crossed them when he tapped into the lighting and couldn’t be arsed to change it.
Without chopping a massive hole in the ceiling or pulling up the insulated floor in the loft the best solution was to add a couple of feet of cable reversed and tuck the crossover up into the ceiling. There’s been many more cases of eccentric wiring decisions so far.
I only run if I’m being chased
Unbelievably, that was comedy in the early 80’s … 
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Whereas now there is the “hilarious” Mrs Brown’s Boys 
It was crap though
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I’ve never watched that…
Duncan Norvelle made Bobby Davro look funny…. No mean feat!
Some made a career out of “shut that door” no, not your dad.
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I’ve become that dad… along with “Turn’t bloody lights out!”
Aye, we shout “Golau” pronounced Go-lie, welsh for light.
I prefer the passive - aggressive approach pioneered by my Dad (who is a lovely man) that I used to SWEAR I would not replicate “Helmut, have you finished upstairs; only all the lights are still on”.
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Too subtle for my 16 &19 year olds
Jesus i have grandchildren nearly that age 
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