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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 7:25 pm
by Dave_L
We used to have a "horse" working for us!
Today we usually call people "Bruce" or "Malcolm" - you should shave seen this guys face when we called him Bruce......never seen him before but got his name right!!!!!
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 7:32 pm
by dig dug dan
back when i was in scouts, we had the annual two week scout camp, and there were so many boys and leaders called john, everyone ended up calling each other john.
One leader took exception to this. me and what was then my future brother in law(though i did not know it at the time) were in the mess tent, and another leader called colin was there. he heard us saying, "ok john", "yes John", "good john", and at the top of his voice yelled out "stop saying that, its absolutely stupid!", to which our reply was.... "alright john!"
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 7:57 pm
by ken
Here in Leigh every one is called “lad�. Regardless of age it’s not disrespectful for me age 31 to pass a 70 year old man in the street and say, “awlreet lad, heaw’s yo�
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:01 pm
by lutonlagerlout
one of the solar panel lads called me lad today
he said "wheres the butty shop lad?" must have been all of 22 
from Bradford
I asked the labourer to take him to our favourite sandwich bar (1 with a brothel above it==> no connection)
when he came back he was all excited
"stevie ,they've gorra knocking shop upstair in the butty shop"
so many accents in the UK
i think they only have 4 in america
LLL
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:20 am
by likkleyout
Hi all - (folks, lads & horses 
thanks for all the advice. I think im going to have to pull up a row of slabs next to the retaining wall, hack away the concrete base from underneath, and then dig a soakaway perhaps 1 foot wide and 2 metes wide. My question now is...how can i make sure that i do not damage the foundation of the retaining wall when i dig out the soakaway???
thanks
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:47 am
by Pablo
The short answer is you can't. A soakaway cannot be sited at the base of a retaining wall it will likely fail due to being weakened and undermined. Also if you have clay soil a soakaway probably won't work or would need to be a lot bigger.
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 10:45 am
by likkleyout
i read somewhere that you can dig at a 45degrees angle away from the retaining wall - so that it will still have its support..
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 3:45 pm
by seanandruby
Maybe a couple of pictures of the area might help us. Battering slightly is one thing, digging a soakaway is another, not a good idea. As suggested a small bore through, or take the water off somewhere else.
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 6:56 pm
by joydivision
The foundation should be very apparent, and you wont dammage it with a shovel, (it should be solid concrete).
When you hurt your wrist thrusting the shovel in, then you have hit the footing! Just dig down the side of this.
Remember though, when constructing your soak away, you must consider the problem of any water soaking the ground beneath the footing of the wall, thus could make the foundation unstable.
Can a soak away pit be dug in the lawn, and piped from your existing aco drain and bored through the wall.
you dont have a great deal of options without incuring quite a bit of cost.
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:27 pm
by cookiewales
every one in our gang is bruce in germany i was called the keller monster in my early days erko the gorrila whan working in ireland often called horse and welsh muck savage 
:p enjoyed them all
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:05 pm
by seanandruby
.......and no doubt sheep shagger ??? I've been called horse, skin, donkey, brummie b******, other names that are unprintable on here. Best name was my wifes ex husband named me .....neanderthal man, loved it, summed me up :laugh:
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:28 pm
by lutonlagerlout
its one thing thats always puzzled me the brummie accent?
most of the others kind of merge from leicester to luton to london
but the brummie one sticks out on its own
my brother has lived there for 15 years and him and his boy have it now
LLL ???
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:39 am
by seanandruby
you have the brummie and then a much broader black country yam yam. Depends where your bro' is.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 7:20 am
by lutonlagerlout
he was in stafford, then blakenhurst,but longbridge now.
its just strange that such a strong accent can develop when 40 miles in any direction its totally different
the south east has mainly kinda merged into 1 big estuary english accent
LLL
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:11 am
by seanandruby
i lived in longbridge facing the austin canteen for years. was some bad guys there, put there because close to the nut house. Used to be shebeens in my block. It was like the annex for winson green ha ha.