Thankfully its a Bompani Quattro and I will let you all know tomorrow evening how good it is at cooking a Roast pork dinner.
if it cannot do that simple task it will be relegated to just an oven for baked potatoes and heating pies.
It does have a lot of dubious functions like second ring hot plates that at the moment I have no idea on how to control.
so the kids have been warned already tomorrows dinner may be a late night restaurant deal.
Another driver moan, but I rather enjoyed this.
Went to park up on Burgess Road. Sweet, I think, as I see that the most of the marked parking area is free. Indicate, pull in, and start walking to the Co-Op.
āYouāre a fucking prick, mateā, says a voice from a car, idling in the traffic.
Eh? I look through the window.
āYouāve just cut me up. Youāre a fucking prickā.
I donāt know how I could have cut him up. The only way it would have been possible is if heād been hooning up the marked out parking area, undertaking, hard shoulder style. He wasnāt. So I respond.
āMate, you need to keep your eyes on the road and stop fantasising.ā, I say.
Livid, he starts yelling about how heās going to do me in, so I say āCome on then, mate. Letās have itā.
Heās still shouting about physical violence, so I repeat my invitation. āLetās have itā.
Next thing I know, the fucker has departed his vehicle and is walking toward me. I walk towards him calmly and say āAre you really walking over to assault me in the street? Youāve left your car unattended in the middle of a main road at rush hour. Whoās the fucking prick now?ā
The fucking prick returned to his vehicle and fucked off.
You should have said āI fucking will cut you up, you slagā
Corrected purely for my own self indulgence, not because I thought there was anything wrong with the original 
I would have saidā¦ āSo youāre quite prepared to assault an old aged pensioner in the street. That will look good on The Echo front pageā 
Thatās better 
To be fair, he was pretty cut up by the end of the exchange.
You know those arguments you think back on and wish youād said something different? Iām really not feeling that at the moment
Fark orf. This is clean shaven me weāre talking about.
The sort of person that looks like heās a good lad whoās taken a bunch of geriatrics out for the football and a bite to eat at The Stable.
Your statement would be fine for badger beard pap.
Good for you papster, but fats is 100% right about the calling him a slag bit. Try and get that in next time
What I really loved was apart from that last question, I didnāt eff and blind, and I was merely judoing his original insult.
Anyone know any Russell Group Universities offering a Masters in winding people up? Iād like to teach the course.
I guess if he had been clever he would have taken advantage of the ample parking and beat you up at his leisure rather than abandoning his motor in the middle of the road
I also think the additional threat to bleed over him is always worth considering.
I would have told him āIām a lover, not a fighterā 
Youād be posting something very different if you had.
From a corridor in an A&E.
Selling a car on eBay, with the winning bidder not having contacted me or seen anything other than the photos I put on the ad, then turning up (with his father), pointing out a couple of minor blemishes and wanting me to lower the price. Little twat.
Lol, only just seen this @sadoldgit and it made me grin for so many reasons that a single upvote hardly seems adequate ā¦ just being educated to a new word is worth a vote in itself (though Gablions is really _Gabions) _
Then thereās the mental picture formed in my head of Mr Angry Old Git going head to head with Mr Shifty Snakey neighbour in a big final showdown in the War of the Gabions ā¦ in my head its set in the Wild West and youāve got hosepipes instead of guns.
Anyway made me smile mate and definitly worth 3 or 4 votes if I could.
That old chestnut, would probably of done the same myself tbf but I wouldnāt of brought his father along ā¦ so how much did you have to knock off to get him to take it away ?
Youāve got to play hardball with those Ebay fuckers - I played sofa poker with a bloke once who agreed the price on the phone and then tried to renegotiate as his ugly son was carrying it out of the door.
Letās just say we agreed to my terms - he paid the whole seven quid.
I get the impression that the idea of beating @pap up at their leisure has appealed to 51.6% of our membership at some point in time.
Iām fantasising about it right now in fact.
Itās that time of year when far right groups hi-jack Remembrance and attempt to increase their Social Media traffic by inviting the unwary to distribute harmless-looking poppy-based pictures on their behalf.
Look carefully at the origins of anything you see - supporting racists isnāt the best way to show you care about our servicemen and women.