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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:22 am
by lutonlagerlout
hadnt noticed them whatsoever,i generally switch off to adverts ,i suppose paving related ads could earn their keep
i was on the trip advisor webby a while back and there was a google ad for a fencer i know in dunstable which was a bit surreal
lets pave the way to a bright new future!!
one step at a time
he was alive right till the end
and my favourite when destroying some ones lawn " you cant make an omelette ,without breaking eggs"
LLL 
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:47 am
by flowjoe
and from the customers we get on a daily basis....
Do you see many rats......
I couldn`t do your job....
I bet you dont bite your nails.....
And the old chestnut when digging "if you find any gold down there, i want half" to which i usually reply if i find any gold you have just won yourself a large van and everything in it
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:34 pm
by lutonlagerlout
lmao the gold one has to be an all time classic, every bleedin' job the same old line
another favourite of mine is " while you have got your trowel out"
or "if you have any spare cement"
i just reply "you couldnt possibly ring up the halifax and pay my mortgage could you?"
it kills the convo real fast
LLL
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 5:22 pm
by Dave_L
ha! Yeah - the "If you have any spare tarmac left over can you......" gets right on my tits!
The answer is almost always "No!" unless said person is blond, fit, leggy etc etc etc
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 7:13 pm
by seanandruby
"can you come and do mine after?" i get the hump when i'm doing a job and joe bloggs comes up and tells you " i know so and so and he is an expert at doing that. i say "well go and fecking get him then and i'll watch him." 
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:33 am
by Tony McC
We were manually digging 2.5m deep trial pits in advance of a large re-sewering scheme in a large town not too far from here back in the mid 1980s. It was summer, so we had every bloody kid within a 3 mile radius ignoring the barrier fencing and peering over the edge of the trenches. After being ashed for the three thousandth time what it was we were digging for, I jokingly told them that a dinosaur bone had been found so we were looking for the rest of it.
An hour later, the local newspaper are on the scene, complete with camera-laden togfer, wanting an 'exclusive' and a photie!
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:57 pm
by Pablo
I love spreading rumours with the neighbours and general busy bodies. Usually tell them we're building a swimming pool or tennis court etc. Before you know it the whole street thinks they're getting above their station.:laugh:
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:57 pm
by Pablo
How do you get the faces to work on the quick post.
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:15 pm
by Tony McC
Re: emoticons - I had another look at the coding for them over the weekend, and I'm buggered if I can see what the problem is. I normally check with [Preview] before posting
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:27 pm
by flowjoe
Pablo wrote:I love spreading rumours with the neighbours and general busy bodies.
Likewise i tell a few porkies when we are looking at larger sites in the leafy suburbs, prior to their demolition and rebuild.
Oh i think they are building a Synagogue/Mosque/Nightclub are the usual replies i give dependant on which will have the most impact on the nosy git doing the asking.
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:30 am
by oioisonnyboy
Pablo wrote:Usually tell them we're building a swimming pool or tennis court etc. Before you know it the whole street thinks they're getting above their station.:laugh:
Working on a job in Bromley (The one with the sheet piling photos) we had a woman who lived nearby who would come round and complain about noise, dust, crane blocking her view, tippers / mixers in and out every 5 mins etc etc
She was quite a young lady but looked like a f**kin weeble (the kids toy that you push over...and it can't fall down)
One day she came round to whinge and we were all just going in for breakfast and she said to us "What is it exactly that your building??" (Site hoarding just had main contractor name on it)
My foreman said to her completly straight faced
"Its going to be a brothel."
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:03 pm
by Asbury
Hi I'm new to the forum, and my name is Darrin or Daz.... stop laughing thats a normal name 
A teacher at school called Mrs Gunn called her son Tommy, (but she said his name was Thomas)
A man phoned me for a quote for a job he wanted me to do, and I asked him for his name, he said..
Last name Rogers, first name Roy, trouble was, I did laugh :laugh:
But he said, yeah yeah, I get that a lot.
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:20 pm
by lutonlagerlout
hi asbury,funny enough my middle=name is darrin too ,spelt with an I (dad was lashed when he registered the birth)
and i have a daz works with me so no chortles here
i met a guy in london once who everyone called daz being a polite sort i called him darren
he said " no my name really is daz,daz ariel is my full name"
now his mum and dad must have hippys to call him that
LLL
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:44 pm
by Asbury
lutonlagerlout wrote:hi asbury,funny enough my middle=name is darrin too ,spelt with an I (dad was lashed when he registered the birth)
Wooo Hooo another Darrin
Mine was because my Mam thought that's how one spelled Darrin, and she remembered later that it was off that program called Bewitched, which is American and they spell it like that.
And no, my wife is NOT a Witch :laugh: :laugh:
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:03 pm
by lutonlagerlout
in the late 80's early 90's there was a world super middleweight champion called "darrin van horn"
barkley versus van horn
LLL
