the plasterer I had doing my bathroom told me an amusing tale
he was working on a big grand old house which was being done up for it's re-opening, possibly with the BBC there and stuff. The painters/decorators also working there were complete cunts and pulled loads of cunty pranks, so to get them back the plasterers heavily polished a section of new plaster in a stripe around one room. Polished plaster is incredibly slippery and shiny etc, but the painters didn't notice until they started painting it and the paint wouldn't stick to the stripe.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 12 Nov 2009, 10:30, Reply)