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[dugong]

I have met several owls. They are brilliant. "WAAARK, WARK," etc

[purplebargeken]

Owls are very, very cool!

[MrDuke]

Owls are truly awesome. If I ever met a person who oozed the same combination of self-assured coolness and indifferent contempt as owls have, I'd want to beat them senseless, but on an owl it's just the best look ever.

[Lankytim]

Owls are a bit like flying cats.

[DS20]

Yes, that's him. As you may have gathered I am not really cool about caged animals and birds so life is a constant battle trying to stop him from chewing through sofas and cables and unwrapping customers orders that are ready to post.

 

What form does Mr Parrot's schizophrenia take (as per your Location tag)?

 

That's a question I never thought I'd ever find myself asking

[vulgalour]

Owls are all sorts of awesome, including this sort of lovely awesome.

 

 

 

Then there's the slightly wonky mechanical awesome that is Bubo from Clash of the Titans.

[dave21478]

Owls can FRO.

An enormous white one has taken up residence in a tower in one of the buildings I look after. It is exceedingly angry, and expresses its displeasure by massively shitting on anyone who sets foot through the door. Every time I go in there now, I literally have to take an umbrella with me.

[320touring]

Owls can FRO.

An enormous white one has taken up residence in a tower in one of the buildings I look after. It is exceedingly angry, and expresses its displeasure by massively shitting on anyone who sets foot through the door. Every time I go in there now, I literally have to take an umbrella with me.

Thatz their built in "Twit Tpoo" mechanism;)

[cms206]

SVM FUNERAL SERVICES

 

 

[EssDeeWon]

Im still the highest bidder on a Rover 75 that ends in 2 hours but the reserve is not met, no doubt there will be some bids lobbed in with 7 seconds to go, either way im spent as its 100 miles away and the photo's are pish. I should also add I dont have the room or any need for another car  But I would make room somewhere for this early launch car.

 

edit* I was the highest bidder but RNM

[Semi-C]

SVM FUNERAL SERVICES

 

 

 

[rml2345]

^ Mine also. A great many parts will live on though.

[DSdriver]

What form does Mr Parrot's schizophrenia take (as per your Location tag)?

 

That's a question I never thought I'd ever find myself asking

We never know who he is going to be next, small child, my mother, my mother's carer, or me (although he struggles with deep bass voices).

On one occasion he asked one of my wife's friends (in the voice of my mother's carer) "do you want the toilet?" which caused much embarrassment and hilarity.

It's a bit like taking your small child to the doctor's. You never know what they are going to say when they have got an audience in the waiting room.

[saucedoctor]

I drove a 500-mile old Merc E250CDi auto today. What a horrible thing. Bone-jarring ride, hard seats, nasty cheap plastics, instruments you can't see when the sun is behind you and shitty grey alloys that will never look clean. £40k worth, too. No thanks.

[Mike D]

Previously mentioned old mondeo is getting ripped to bits then weighed in, its grotty underneath and the handbrake was crap - engine is going as a spare for my mates mk4 Escort cab, that runs a 2 litre on bike carbs, wheels should sell then i'll remove the cat and weigh the rest in. See ya later moondog, you did yourself proud.

[Craig the Princess]

Just won a rear windscreen for the Saab on ebay, only bidder £30.

 

Hopefully collecting Friday, Warminster to March with a windscreen on a train? WCPGW?

[The Moog]

Sounds a bargain. Might be a mega cheap fix 😊

[Craig the Princess]

Let's hope so, still may need to be a bit creative on reattaching the bottom row of clips. Fingers crossed I could have a go this weekend.

[Ratdat]

Previously mentioned old mondeo is getting ripped to bits then weighed in, its grotty underneath and the handbrake was crap - engine is going as a spare for my mates mk4 Escort cab, that runs a 2 litre on bike carbs, wheels should sell then i'll remove the cat and weigh the rest in. See ya later moondog, you did yourself proud.

 

What colour is it and is the front bumper any good?

[DS20]

We never know who he is going to be next, small child, my mother, my mother's carer, or me (although he struggles with deep bass voices).

On one occasion he asked one of my wife's friends (in the voice of my mother's carer) "do you want the toilet?" which caused much embarrassment and hilarity.

It's a bit like taking your small child to the doctor's. You never know what they are going to say when they have got an audience in the waiting room.

 

 

I like the sound of that - that's cool  I'd thought, maybe, that you never know whether he'll be in a good mood or a bitey mood, or something like that.  Which would be considerably less cool, and more painful.  

[Mike D]

It's a silver one, It's in reasonable nick as far as I can see, no gaffa tape! It's a mk2 zetec if that makes any difference?

[Ratdat]

My old man has an X plate Zetec 2.0l with a split front bumper. How much you after for it? Could do with an idle control valve too. I've not looked into it much but I think it's under the intake manifold somewhere. 

[Mike D]

I'll go and have a look at it check it's all ok, it's outside my mates now as he's removing the engine, If you come and take it off you can have it. I'm not sure if he needs the ICV or not, i doubt it

[John F]

John F, on 17 Nov 2014 - 12:43 PM, said:

Wow.

 

After much searching through a year's worth of receipts and my email inbox, I finally got in touch with the radiator supplier - Budget Radiators (ebay shop). The chap there took my word for the defect being a manufacturing fault (leaking from crimped seam) and is going to send me a new radiator out, free of charge, no quibbles.

 

I was expecting a long & drawn-out battle, with the supplier wanting to see the rad & probably having to forward it to the manufacturer for their comments, leaving me with the Disco off the road for the duration or having to source a rad from somewhere else... I have to say, I'm impressed by Budget Radiators' customer service ethos.

 

Follow-up on this... the replacement radiator arrived today, well-packaged and in good condition. The supplier is collecting the defective radiator (at their expense!) next Monday.

 

I am chuffed to bits.... and am going to start a thread on here for "Recommended suppliers" - this outfit are going straight to the top of the list

[M'coli]

There was an attempt at that called "The Limeflower Pages", IIRC.

[Ratdat]

I'll go and have a look at it check it's all ok, it's outside my mates now as he's removing the engine, If you come and take it off you can have it. I'm not sure if he needs the ICV or not, i doubt it

 Cool, just let me know 

[The Moog]

Fitted new speakers to 405 because energetic DnB blew one of the cones. £15 pair brand new from ebay and back to pumping base.

 

One thing that drove me mad was trying to fit crimp connectors. They are a right pain in the arse and kept popping off. In the end I had to wrap elec tape round the wire to make it thicker.

[John F]

M'coli, on 20 Nov 2014 - 11:58 AM, said:

There was an attempt at that called "The Limeflower Pages", IIRC.

 

Yeah, I remember now. Shame it never caught on

 

On the plus side, I fitted the new radiator this afternoon and the Disco is now leak-free   < deranged happy Nazi smilie, couldn't find a dancing banana...

[stuboy]

not much.. drove upto here

from ashford taking my mate to fat clinic..

 

 

usual idiots on the road, but worst ones were bus drivers!!!

[cms206]

not much.. drove upto here

from ashford taking my mate to fat clinic..

 

 

usual idiots on the road, but worst ones were bus drivers!!!

"Taxi drivers are BASTARDS!"

 

- c. The Bus Driver Marketing Board, 1984.