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Cheers. I'll get a photo of the real thing added in.

Would appreciate some feedback on an issue we have in the bathroom.
The coving paint and some on the ceiling was suffering from peeling (in the form of running splits on the coving) so we took the opportunity to clean back properly and repaint with Dulux kitchen & bathroom paint. 2 weeks down the line and the coving peeling has started again. We are careful to ventilate whenever possible with an open window and there is a functioning extractor fan wired to the light switch too. Did the coving need prepping with something perhaps?

Oh, and incidentally, I know about Brick Owl and Brick Link which are useful resources for this and that but where are these Lego 'mega builders' getting their bulk bricks from?

A busy day in my workshop

Its as genuine as a prescription in a Team Sky bus.

Thats a proper bike, that is. Identical spec to my Rick Powell. . . . wherever he now resides..boo hoo.

Bloke walks into a pub with his dog which dumps on the floor without him noticing. Little guy walks in next, slips on the turd and ends up in a heap by the bar. As he picks himself up a big guy does the same. Little guy says to the big one "I just did that" And wakes up in hospital.

Q. What should you do if your nose goes on strike?
A. Pick it.

"Vat iz your name?"
(SLAP)
"Ahhh!"
(GASP)
"Vat iz your rank?"
(SLAP)
"Argg!"
(GASP)
"Vat iz your mission?"
(SLAP)
"Nyrggg!!"
(GASP)
"Vill you ztop hitting me ven I am azking you zees kvestions!"

timing

The secret of good comedy is good

You say local pick up. Where is that?

It was a brain buster that my dad used to chuck at me when I was a kid. It's easier to work out when its written rather than spoken.

If a brick weighs a pound and half a brick, what does a brick and a half weigh?

I hate EastEnders etc. Entertainment? Bah. If the telly was a window and they were your neighbours you wouldn't call it entertainment.

The 'of' is unnecessary. The sentence makes perfect sense without it not being there. Oh, would you look at that. Now you have me doing it as well.

Ah, if only I still was. It was some years ago when the company was getting a foothold in the European market. I was one of a team of builders/designers making repeat models for display in high street shops as well as one-off creations for exhibitions and toy fairs. Highlights were a static preying mantis that sat in Hamley' shop window with people staring at it for ages convinced it was going to 'strike'. Also a ferris wheel reworked from 6' to 10' diameter. Like the other motorised pieces it had to be reliable enough to be left to run unattended for the duration of the show. The biggest issue was designing a drive system using standard parts that had enough umph to start it moving. I designed an adjustable mounting that worked like a vehicle clutch so the motor drive wheel slipped it up to speed rather than stalling and burning out. The drive mount also had to have enough adjustability to compensate for any deterioration in the physical property of the plastic beams. I also designed a double motor drive that worked through a differential so if one motor failed the model would still run.
Happy days.
here's photos of the mantis and diff.

Lego was the only toy I took seriously when I was a nipper. I had a few sets but it all ended up in a huge cardboard box where I would make whatever I could from the ideas in my head. Remember making a jumbo jet that was about 60 studs wide and running out of red bricks before I finished it. I rebuilt it 3 times so I could get it finished without using another colour. I made a differential out of technical before Lego made one themselves. That lead onto greater things much later as I woke up one day and realised my childhood dreams had come true and I was making a living by making models, but with k'nex. Amazing stuff all the same. Am I allowed to talk about that on this thread?

OK pass on. Cheers

I will take these if they have top routed (visible) cables?

Dibs on cant go slo

People who say "off of" or "skedule" or unnecessarily start a sentence with "So".
(bloody hell, I spelt 'unnecessarily' correctly first time!)

On the ground'. NO! Your reporter is 'there' or 'on location', he's not stoned out of his skull or shot through the head and lying in a gutter.

Company middle management who embrace ' values' and motivational products and processes and allow them to smother the abilities and resourcefulness of their staff.

Broccoli. Tooth issues. Debt. Acts created in ignorance and compounded by arrogance.