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And that's what I've done. Maintained it for 20 years. This old brooms had 17 new heads and 14 new handles in its time. There’s the picture. What more proof do you need?

Trigger
 
Dictatorships breed oppression, dictatorships breed servility, dictatorships breed cruelty; more loathsome still is the fact that they breed idiocy.
Bellboys babbling orders, portraits of caudillos, prearranged cheers or insults, walls covered with names, unanimous ceremonies, mere discipline usurping the place of clear thinking...Fighting these sad monotonies is one of the duties of a writer.


Jorge Luis Borges
 
‘I NEED A HORSE’
‘I’m sorry, we only have cats and dogs’
‘OK GIVE ME ONE OF THOSE BIG ENOUGH TO RIDE’
Thor, five minutes ago E4
 
He mentioned the fuse box would need to be replaced because it wasn't "regs". He quoted £430 + VAT for this and then the quote for the rest was the other code 1 stuff came to about £370 + VAT.
No RCD Protection CODE 1
Fusebox not Labelled CODE 1
No Danger Stickers or labels CODE 1
Circuit 9 should be rated at 16amps (not 32amp - firehazard) CODE 1
Hob ignition 0.75mm cable connected to a 32amp cooker circuit CODE 1

A quote from some chancer in 2011.
 
Hello Mummy! Hello Daddy! Woozee nine milimeter?

Little Arnold Schwarzenegger
 
Always keep on the lights you must. Failing lights will lead to the dark side.

Yoda
 
There are 2 types of people in this world , those with shovels and those with guns . When the man with the shovel meets the man with the gun , the man with the shovel digs .
 
I see no ships only hardships.

Me.
I’ve only ever heard electricians say this.

The first chap I heard it from was also apt, when asked by another trade if they could use the sort of tool they clearly ought’ve had themselves, to come up with fantastically absurd response:
“Alright mate, got a screwdriver I borrow?”
“No, but I’ve got a postcard of Hitler riding a bicycle”.
 
“I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind”

Kelvin.
If it can’t be expressed in figures, it is opinion, not fact.

Robert Heinlein.
 
My old mentor long gone now would come up with similar things. When asked do you know such and such he would say does he have a red handled pen knife.
 
Clint Eastwood
There are 2 types of people in this world , those with shovels and those with guns . When the man with the shovel meets the man with the gun , the man with the shovel digs .
I can’t attribute it to anyone, but...

“There are two kinds of people in the world:
Those who can extrapolate a conclusion from incomplete data,
.....”
 

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