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there was almost a bit of life here, but now it seems to have slumped back downstereotypes. which stereotypes/cliches are true, and which ones do you not understand?
alt: what is the most pointless thing/hobby in the world?
altalt: have you ever trolled anyone? what happened?
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rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:12,
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hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:14,
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football?surely train spotting or plane spotting is more pointless - at least football keeps you fit?
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rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:15,
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hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:17,
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5.9.83.79/questions/browntrousers/post2011053
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:18,
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WTF?????(
hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:26,
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It's not this chap is it?b3ta.com/questions/caught/post747067
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Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:53,
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just because you look as if you live under a bridge does not make you a troll(
rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:19,
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Pretty much all stereotypes have at least a grain of truth in them or they simply wouldn't take hold.Alt: high end gaming
Altalt: I would never do such a cruel thing.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:19,
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bitches be crazy is an exception to your rulealt: what is the difference between "gaming" and "high end gaming"? are the high end gamers even more sweaty and desperate?
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rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:20,
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high gaming is an attitude, a lifestyle, it's not a hobby or a game it's a way of life(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:22,
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ironic given that a life is precisely what they need to get(
rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:24,
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you can actually buy tetris shaped cushionswho would do that? and why?
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rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:30,
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Nerds.Because they are nerds.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:31,
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"high end" = you have a constant erection while playing(
drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:25,
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When anyone shuts a bathroom mirror cabinet door in a movie to reveal someone/thing standing behind themThat's a cliche.
alt: If it makes someone happy it can't be pointless.
altalt: I used to collect trolleys from a multi-story car park when I worked for Bejams but I never lost control of them.
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Reginald Donkeyfuck, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:27,
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When there's a jew, who you owe money too, thatsa-cliche....When there is someone from france, who shows arrigance, thatsa-cliche.
When they speek punjabi and they smell quite funny, thatsa-cliche......
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G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:29,
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I was reading about how Jews got the money lending cliche the other dayOr it might have been on QI, I forget.
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Reginald Donkeyfuck, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:31,
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Because usury was banned by the Catholic church.Being non-Christians, Jew could and did lend money. Sadly no-one likes the people they owe money to, so this wasn't great for yer Hebrews in the long run.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:33,
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Yup, and the jews kindda lived up to it too, the money-lenders of the east end all that.(
G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:35,
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It shows how silly them lot were, should have gone to a muslim man, they can't claim interest.(
G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:36,
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I can't help feeling they would then have no incentive to actually lend you any money, though(
The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:40,
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this is why islamic finance is such a big thing these dayspeople who specialise in getting around that make a fortune out of advising on it
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rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:42,
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Just gotta marry your son off to their daughter, sweet as a nut.(
G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:47,
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Stereotypical trolls have a pointless hobby.I think that answers all the questions.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:27,
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this is quite cleverall those chickpeas have gone to your head
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rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:29,
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I'm off my box on high end mung beans(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:30,
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those little bastards made my friend fart like a dead horserank
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rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:30,
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Talking of rank, what was the problem with your assistant yesterday?
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hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:33,
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apparently her her boss is a ginger prick(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:36,
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Z to the I to the N to the G(
hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:37,
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That's got to be rough.With the whole office smelling like wet rust, and all.
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Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:41,
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so like your new car then?oh yeah, i went there, bee-hatch
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rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:46,
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I'm no expert, but it looks like some kind of die beast to me.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:49,
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i thought it was one of Emvee's adult photos(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:51,
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It's not necessarily a hobby.Some companies pay groups of people to troll a rival's facebook page, leave bad amazon feedback and tie their customer service team in knots :(
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:32,
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I know this because one of our competitors does it to us.Half the stuff that we get sent could only originate from somebody with industry insider knowledge.
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:44,
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Probably, but you try proving it(
drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:11,
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I'm a cynic when ever I look on trip advisor...I think all the positive feedbacks are from the owners/management of the business and all the negatives are from direct competition.
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hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:35,
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every hotel now has 5 satr reviews...they need to make it out of 10 or 17 or summit(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:36,
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To get to the top, yer?(
hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:39,
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People are much more likely to leave a bad review than a good one(
GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:42,
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sod the reviews, just look at the travellers' photographs, rather than the airbrushed hotel ones(
rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:42,
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^ This ^I do use trip advisor for this reason
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hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:44,
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I haven't had much of an option, it's frigging crazy this week.I have managed to snatch the time for two posts and a dump.
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Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:37,
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Well, the alternative is leaving you with Monty and Battered fighting overwho thinks it's shittest, here.
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Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:49,
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Doncha just want to hug it and pet it and call it George?(
The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:20,
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hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:38,
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It's certainly work when you get to your age, eh?(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:56,
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I was round your way a couple of weekends agoGunwharf Quay is nice. The rest is a dump.
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Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:38,
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Gunwharf is a plastic-fantastic, hollow piece of shitAnd yes, there are a few places in Portsmouth that are pretty grotty. Unlike ever other city in the country.
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Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:50,
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Not every other city in the country.Just those like Coventry, Middlesbrough etc. Portsmouth got really badly treated in the fifties :(
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Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:58,
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Problem is there are a bunch of areas that are over-spills of over-spillsSo loads of high rise, low rent tenements. Landport is particularly grotty. It's practically one step up from a slum.
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Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:11,
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There's a shitty casino run by retards there.(
Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:02,
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The whole of Gunwharf has the same vibeIt's designed so that chavs can feel like they've gone somewhere classy. But it's all fake.
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Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:12,
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You can say that again.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:38,
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I'm seeing a pattern in your responses, here...(
Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:40,
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I agree with Monters. All steretypes are derived from an exaggerated truth.Alt. Model aircraft/railway/village building
AltAlt. I feel I was trolled by Amourous Badger calling me thick in another thread. Do I really come across like I don;t 'get' the jokes on here? And, alas, he has succeeded.
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GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:44,
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Alt: golf.A wanky game played mostly by wankers.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:45,
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I NOES!(
Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:46,
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did the interview question responses help you feel more prepared for you telephone interiew?(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:47,
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I don't know.That was yesterday. Today is a proper interview, with a real person and reactions and shit. In fact, I'd better go and get ready.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:48,
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Chavs are scumAudi and BMW drivers are cunts
Jews have big noses and are tight
Essex girls are slags
Posh girls are the dirtiest
Cornish guys are great in bed.
Alt. Dunno, my hobby is making booze which is never pointless.
AltAlt. Not sure, does going on my brothers facebook and telling his mates that he had sadly died RIP Wid da angles etc count as trolling? Cos it made his ex girlfriend call me up in floods of tears hahahahahahahabitch
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Peej, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:50,
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I assume you took advantage of thisand went round to hers for a sympathy bumming
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Aren't all hobbies pointless to those that don't share an interest?Mind you, isn't EVERYTHING ultimately pointless?
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Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:51,
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Hey you're right.We should probably all just kill ourselves now.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:56,
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If I die, I'm gonna come back as a ghost and sneak carrots into every pasty you ever eat(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:58,
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Thats fine, theres nothing wrong with a Beef and Carrot pieIts just not a pasty anymore. Small price to pay really.
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Peej, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:01,
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Where are my tape measures?I have two, and I can't find either of them.
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Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:55,
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we seemed to own around 15 pairs of scissors, they are everywhereit drives me mad
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:55,
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When I lived with the ex, she'd have different scissors for different thingsand got well angry with me when I used the wrong pair. As far as I'm concerned, scissors are for cutting stuff that needs to be cut.
Like you.
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Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:59,
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more jewification of Briton, you make me sick(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:00,
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Have you looked in the kitchen drawer?(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:57,
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I'm all out of ideas then.What I don't understand is why someone would take them out and not put them back.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:59,
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Why the desperate need to measure something?(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:59,
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He needs to emergency order a curtain to go across the dividing line in the bedroom.Oh wait, I thought it was PJ. NM, I'm sure Twoey's wife is all over him.
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Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:02,
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Something clearly calls for desperate measures(
The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:03,
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I'm going to build a guitar out of some bits I found in the shedand an actual guitar neck, pickup and bridge
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Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:07,
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Compared to something crafted by a professional luthier, I'd say that's a safe bet(
Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:16,
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I'm going to attach the neck and pickup to mdfThen cover the whole thing in laminate flooring. JOB DONE!
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Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:18,
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ohh, flashyI'd have stuck with lino. It's way cheaper and from a distance nobody can tell the difference.
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Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:20,
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That's good adviceNext one will be covered in carpet. A nice cream burber I think.
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Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:41,
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Try your tool boxI keep mine in my tool box because I'm a man and not a girly fairy
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Peej, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:59,
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I dunno 'tool box' sounds a bit gay(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:00,
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You keep your tape measure in my wifes box?I presume by box you mean her vadge but I can't see why you would keep your tape measure there.
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Peej, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:03,
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I use it as a depth gauge so I dont damage her kidneysahhhhh yeah sex bomb
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I can only imagine that everyone fucks my wife because shes quite fitSo thanks for the compliment.
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Peej, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:21,
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I can't see a tape measure there.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:13,
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I'm not convincedWouldn't it make more sense to just tip the contents of that box all over the floor of the shed? Then you can see everything all at once.
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Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:15,
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Ok so now you know where your tape measure ison the floor of your shed somewhere.
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Peej, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:16,
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But my shed is full of bikes and gardening parafernaliaHow am I going to find my way to the floor?
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Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:18,
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Hmmm if only you have some sort of fold out compartmentalised box to put your tools in(
Peej, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:20,
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I did some trolling on QOTW once and then they all started trolling me back :((
Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:04,
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i used to think you were a girlmind you, nothing i've seen on here since has changed my mind, if i'm being brutally frank (without the parrot)
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rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:06,
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They all have a grain of truth, but none are wholly true.I understand the need that people have to define them selves by what they are not and to deionise the other to make then selves feel better.
Alt: I'd say professional competitive sport, does more harm than good for the most part.
AltAlt: A few times, nothing major happened except Dozer cried.
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:06,
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It's not always all about you. Alt: I'd say professional competitive sport, does more harm than good for the most part - really? MORE harm than GOOD?
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yes, those were the words I used and that was what I meant.Do keep up old chap.
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:09,
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You are mistaking your thoughts with your posts. You have to justify cretinous posts.
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never noticed you doing so.nor anyone else for that matter.
you seem tense. time of the month? run out of shandy?
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:15,
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well stuff some chocolate up your vadge or something(
CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:19,
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He prefers dark chocolate(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:29,
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dear me no.I can't think why such a thing would even be in your mind. have you sought professional help?
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:23,
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well one of us is either over or under medicated.not sure who.
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:24,
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Personally I blame professional sports for Libya, or something.(
Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:16,
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alt:altlolz(
hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:14,
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Salespeople are fucking self-entitled shitheads.Are any of you in sales? If so, yes this does apply to you and I hate you.
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Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:12,
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:oI'm a buyer, so I kinda troll salespeople for a living
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hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:14,
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Nakers is in advertisingwhich is, if possible, worse.
but yes, salesmen are scum.
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:16,
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I don't have a problem with advertisersthey put pretty pictures on billboards that I don't have to read, or on the telly that I don't watch, or the internet that I can block about stuff that I don't have to buy.
They don't call me up and get shitty with me because my response of "my boss isn't in, you say you've got his email address well use it" wasn't good enough for him.
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Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:19,
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Was this a cold caller?(
hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:20,
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True.out main sales guy nearly sunk the company. he sold stuff we didn't have yet for prices that we couldn't make it for on deadlines we couldn't hope to meet. He 'left to pursue other interests' or some other euphemistic shit. because directors don't get shit-canned apparently.
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:21,
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Most of them will promise the Earth in order to get their commissionand then leave the tech guys frantically trying to make the kit do what they've promised. Which they frequently can't because sales guy doesn't give the first, tiniest fuck what the kit actually does do.
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Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:27,
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I spent a number of years in sales and was very good at it before... I moved into buying, I always sold service and not product that's probably why I have been head hunted so many times
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hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:29,
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I'm just pissed off by the obviously lying guy who was blatantly just nosing for an introduction.(
Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:33,
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If it's a call center wanker just tell them to fuck off(
hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:34,
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One of them pissed me off so fucking muchby getting actually full-on aggressive with me that I told him that it wasn't my job to provide him with his livelihood and then hung up on the prick.
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Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:35,
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Our finance director gets about 30 cold calls a day he never has the bottle to talk to them so they just keep ringing back, what a pussy.
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hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:37,
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My brother's jobappears to consist mainly of placating people who've spent upwards of 100k on kitchens which are months later than expected, with unworkable designs etc all of which bullshit information has come from salescunts and designers who never have to deal with the fallout from their own cuntery.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:30,
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Absolute fucking shits.They should only get their fucking precious commission once the job's been properly completed. That way they might not just say any old shit in order to secure their 5% or whatever.
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Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:35,
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My first consulting gigwas rescuing a little 10 man Visual Basic software house whose salesman sold their client an Oracle system. For the money they'd have charged for a VB/Access system.
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The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:37,
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Already done by the time I got thereThey did fire the 3 indian contractors they had making a pigs ear of it after I got there.
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The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 13:17,
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We have created a fake head of department here called Malcolm BadgerWhen people phone up asking to speak to Malcolm Badger we know they are salesmen and we troll them asking them if their call is expected. You probably wouldn't be surprised to know that they all claim that not only is their call expected but that they spoke to Malcolm just last week and that he said to call. We never tell them he doesn't exist. We just put them on hold for a few minutes and then end the call.
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Peej, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:19,
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Yeah, he was all "well, he's given me his direct email"and then proved strangely reticent to use it. He was also startled to find out our company policy was "no information over the phone, give them the enquiries email address", which has been that way for well over six years.
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Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:21,
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I'm having some munchies and chilling for an hour.Amuse me please.
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