Am I totally imagining it, or was the fact that one of the London Bridge terrorists

[SWv2]

I loved you as if you were my son. You are dead to me.

Son of a second rate plumber who I expect has already been featured on the BBC Rogue Traders?

Cosmic.

[Burney]

Son of a second rate plumber who I expect has already been featured on the BBC Rogue Traders?

Cosmic.

To be fair, sw, we've no evidence that h was anything other than a top-class jobby-botherer.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

To be fair, sw, we've no evidence that h was anything other than a top-class jobby-botherer.

To be fair to s b, a functioning brain in that particular discipline is something of a hindrance and my heart was never really in it.

I am rather worried however by S's uses of the word cosmic. Is he a bit of a six counties version of Withnail do you suppose?

[Burney]

To be fair to s b, a functioning brain in that particular discipline is something of a hindrance and my heart was never really in it.

I am rather worried however by S's uses of the word cosmic. Is he a bit of a six counties version of Withnail do you suppose?

Oh, I don't know. Some of these chaps seem awfully clued-up about all the pipes and valves and water pressures and gubbins.

Be honest, though, it was the Poles who undercut you and drove you out, wasn't it?

[Sir C]

Oh, I don't know. Some of these chaps seem awfully clued-up about all the pipes and valves and water pressures and gubbins.

Be honest, though, it was the Poles who undercut you and drove you out, wasn't it?

They used to put that juice on the pipe and heat it up and it smelled nice. What was that stuff called?

Maybe it was gas fitters actually. Same thing, I suppose.

[Burney]

They used to put that juice on the pipe and heat it up and it smelled nice. What was that stuff called?

Maybe it was gas fitters actually. Same thing, I suppose.

I once had a chap spend most of a day in my loft trying to work out how my pipes worked. He was getting awfully cross about something or other.

[SWv2]

I once had a chap spend most of a day in my loft trying to work out how my pipes worked. He was getting awfully cross about something or other.

Ah, the almost incandescent rage of a tradesman as he swears and gets angry, almost blaming you the Householder for the original placing of pipes, the original wiring etc, the garage mechanic who will almost give out to you because your car is French.

Of course a lot of it is just a whizz to try and make the job appear more difficult and thus an excuse to raise the price.

Just fix it you ****, I have things to be getting on with, television to watch etc.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

They used to put that juice on the pipe and heat it up and it smelled nice. What was that stuff called?

Maybe it was gas fitters actually. Same thing, I suppose.

Fluxite you big middle class tosser

[Sir C]

Fluxite you big middle class tosser

Nah, it had a different name.