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Where's blaireau when you need a bit of plumbing advice?
The radiator in Sweary Jr's room won't heat up. It's been bled, and seems to have refilled with water but the whole panel remains cold. We've even tried switching it off and back on again. All the other radiators in the house are fine. Anyone got any ideas before we resort to ringing a plumber, staying in all day and him not fucking turning up?

Alt: What's the next gig you'e going to?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:04, 168 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Have you tried hitting it with a spanner?
Oh and 10ft Fez at the Polished Knob. I'm totally going to cop off with the lead singer because he reminds me of Pooflake.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:07, Reply)
It's getting close...
Trying re-bleeding it again now.

Is that when we're down? We'll try not to cramp your style :)
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:13, Reply)
Yes! it's ok though.
I quick knee trembler at the back of the pub should do it.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:24, Reply)
Just mesaged you and Beekers on FB as well
*EDIT* oh for fuck's sake, FB is cunting around. I'll gaz instead.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:14, Reply)
I haven't got it : (

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:19, Reply)
Gazzed.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:21, Reply)
how long has it been like it?
next gig is probably one of my own
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:11, Reply)
A few months.
Although it wasn't a problem in the summer, but now it's kind of necessary.

My next gig will be a local band on Saturday; next proper gig is the Sisters of Mercy in Leeds followed a few days later by the Levellers/Wonderstuff in Glasgow.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:13, Reply)
had anything been done to it before?
lockshield valve might be closed.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:14, Reply)
Nope, it's the newest radiator in the house.
We only just found the valve as it's a different design to all the others and in a completely non obvious place.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:15, Reply)
I'm assuming it worked at some point?

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:16, Reply)
Yep, it was fine until the summer
then stopped working.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:17, Reply)
hmm
difficult to diagnose then given my fairly basic knowledge. Nothing worse than when something just stops working for no apparent reason.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:19, Reply)
It's a pain in the arse.
One of the few drawbacks of no longer being council tenants is not being able to ring them when shit like this happens.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:21, Reply)
I have to fix everything that goes wrong in my house
can't afford to pay anyone else.

Fortunately my bro's mate is a plumber and gas engineer and has moved in down the road, and my mrs did some structural engineering for them gratis, so he owes us a few :-D
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:28, Reply)
Have you tried striking the valve quite firmly with a wrench or something
the valves can stick and giving them a series of good whacks can sometimes unstick them.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:29, Reply)
that's true
I struck Al's mum quite firmly with a wrench and her valve opened right up
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:33, Reply)
hahaha!
No need for WD40?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:34, Reply)
only as cologne

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:35, Reply)
That is one of the best "your mum" jokes I've ever read.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:38, Reply)
thanks
I'm quite pleased with it but you gave me a good opening.

just like your mum....
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:39, Reply)
Better than my multi-storey car park one?

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:13, Reply)
Did you get your place sorted out okay?

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:22, Reply)
Not yet
but a lawyer with great breasts gave us some good tips.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:32, Reply)
sighs...
p t

Are you back in yet or are you still staying with friends?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:33, Reply)
Pffft!

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:35, Reply)
^this
The radiator in my room at halls was the same. The maintainance guy hit it with a hammer and it worked
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:07, Reply)
I do this in the lab
you would be surprised at how often it fixes things - ditto for turning it off and on again.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:37, Reply)
Robyn hopefully

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:37, Reply)
MOTORHEAD!
On Saturday.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:41, Reply)
I really want to see Avenged Sevenfold
and they will be in Baltimore in January
but I will be broke and probably homeless
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:42, Reply)
If you give me your address I'll send you some cardboard for when you're on the streets
I can include a tin of dog food for Echo too.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:45, Reply)
she eats dry food!

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:15, Reply)
Any more news from your Landlord?
Have they now said that if they change jobs, you'll have to move?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:16, Reply)
nothing from her, things have been tense to say the least, today she signed the loan papers taking full ownership
of the house, so she's looking at it as now she has no link whatsoever with her ex, with whom she is still in love with, so who knows what tonight will bring
I'm just going to keep my mouth shut and wait out the holidays and move on after the first of the year. If I'm not asked to leave before then, at least.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:23, Reply)
Why not buy her a bottle of wine to congratulate her on getting full ownership?
It might curry favour.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:26, Reply)
That's what I was planning on doing.
I read that as curry flavour and was confused for a minute.
But mmmcurry.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:27, Reply)
When you're on the street, you'll be grateful she has food you can share

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:20, Reply)
you're a twat
I'd rather starve than starve my dog.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:21, Reply)
You can use her to make people feel guilty
so they give you more money.

Or alternatively, use her to menace people to give you more money.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:23, Reply)
"IF YOU DON'T GIVE ME MONEY MY DOG WILL LICK YOU TO DEATH"

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:28, Reply)
I think Jeff would like to die like that.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:33, Reply)
Sssh!
I'm busy sorting out flights and converting my money into dollars!
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:34, Reply)
Mogwai in February.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:45, Reply)
I think I might go and see them too
probably not where you're seeing them though. I can't decide if they'll be good live or not..
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:09, Reply)
I've seen them before and they are fantastic live.
I'm seeing them in Leeds.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:17, Reply)
Birmingham
Shame - aren't you the one that used to be a male model? :P
They just seem awfully downbeat to be able to keep a crowd going, if you know what I mean? I have no doubt that they'll be good, but I just can't see there being a normal gig-like atmosphere.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:26, Reply)
I'd be guessing it's gonna be a period of wasting time waiting to an engineer
My guess is either a valve that's fubar'd or an airlock somewhere ... However, Netto have those oil filled radiators for very little money if time or cash is short as an interim remedy.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:49, Reply)
We have electric ones although the cost of running them is a bit excessive.
There is another valve on the other end that appears to be seized so maybe that's it? The pipe underneath is heating up, just not the panel. Could this be the lockshield valve Vipros mentioned?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:53, Reply)
could be
the lockshield one is a valve on the other end of the radiator to the one where you adjust the temperature.

generally it has a plastic cover that you pop off and adjust it with a screwdriver to balance the flow through and the flow past (or something)
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:56, Reply)
If the pipe is warm then it's your valve that's jammed.
So twat it a few times, and then if that doesn't work replace it.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:57, Reply)
On it now.
Your mum, etc.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:58, Reply)
It's amazing, I never realised how similar radiators are to my mother.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:00, Reply)
Alternately warm and inviting then icy cold
and with a propensity to break down when you most need her?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:01, Reply)
I believe so
They're a son bitch for those plastic caps fraying ... Could always see if the raised valve bit turns with the aid of a pipe wrench or mole grips. By no means an expert btw.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:01, Reply)
A new valve is about a fiver or so from Wickes.
Might be the easiest thing to change at first.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:56, Reply)
Aha!
I think we may have it sorted... Please proceed with normal service and discuss the virtues of al's mum etc.

Thanks to blaireau via the medium of phone technology!
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:55, Reply)
I hear she can suck a golf ball through a straw.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:58, Reply)
I heard she's so loose that she keeps getting mistaken for change.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 20:59, Reply)
And more accessible than a disabled toilet.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:03, Reply)

hear she
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:02, Reply)
I ain't been to a gig in ages
and I still haven't done anything with my radiator
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:00, Reply)
I still haven't sorted out my cistern.
I hope to be tackling that little job tomorrow. I also need to paint my kitchen windowsill. I bought the paint a year ago and still haven't done it.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:01, Reply)
As I Lay Dying, Heaven Shall Burn, Suicide Silence and Sylosis
Only 2 I actually want to see tbh!
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:01, Reply)
That last one sounds like VD...

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:02, Reply)
English band, very good!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKQYQ9sNWiE
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:06, Reply)
sounds melodramatic

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:03, Reply)
Sounds like a line from an incredibly arty play

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:09, Reply)
Tim Minchin
in a fortnight's time, if he counts. Otherwise the next gig I definitely have tickets for is Pulp at the Wireless festival next July. I shall probably go to something between now and then, though.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:11, Reply)
OMG I'm totally going to se Pulp too! We should totally be "Going to see Pulp at the Wireless festival Buddies"!!!

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:12, Reply)
I am so fucking excitable about it
that I may well take you up on that, even if it's in jest.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:20, Reply)
I'm going with the mrs and our neighbours, so if you want someone to hang around with
it's a genuine offer.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:30, Reply)
Cheers
I shall gaz you closer to the time...
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:34, Reply)
STALKER WEIRDO!

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:34, Reply)
I'M CLEARING THE DUNGEON ALREADY!

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:37, Reply)
Don't forget to polish the manacles.
Women notice if things aren't shiny; she'll probably suspect something otherwise.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:39, Reply)
Manacles? Dungeon?
Pfft. I should be so lucky.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:41, Reply)
You do know that al's surname is Fritzl, don't you?

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:44, Reply)
Cast
Will be my next gig.

So I guess I'm alright.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:14, Reply)
cast? really?
weren't they dull the first time round? why have they reformed?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:18, Reply)
Cast are a massive bag of cunt.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:18, Reply)
Cast?
Must be before my time... what did they do?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:24, Reply)
They bored Crunchy and annoyed dozer!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=COtXPIeTQbs
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:28, Reply)
Oh!
I think I know this...
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:35, Reply)
brain-numbing isn't it?

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:39, Reply)
*shrugs*
they're like a slightly shitter Oasis, but I like britpop-era stuff.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:41, Reply)
I was once taken to see an Oasis cover band.
They were called Oasish.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:42, Reply)
Hahaha!

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:44, Reply)
I've seen a Irish RHCP cover band called
'The Red Hot Silly Feckers'
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:45, Reply)
Hahaha!

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:46, Reply)
Genius.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:46, Reply)
There was a strange phase of cover bands taking silly names.
There was a Nirvana band (the name of the band escapes me now) where the singer introduced himself as...

'Bert Cocaine'
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:50, Reply)
The Chuckle Brothers should form a U2 tribute band
and call it 2U 2ME.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:02, Reply)
hahahahahaha
I've seen Sgt Peppers Only Dart Club band, they were rubbish.

I'd pay to see a Chuckle Brothers U2 tribute band.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:05, Reply)
Barry could call himself 'Nobo'

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:06, Reply)
Who would Paul be?

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:08, Reply)
I think an anagram of 'The Edge'
is 'Wanker'.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:10, Reply)
*Tugs hood*
To me, to you....
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:12, Reply)
Fred Zeplin used to play in crewe

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:48, Reply)
The aristocracy should form a poodle rock tribute band and call it 'By Jovi'.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:06, Reply)
One, is halfway there.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:09, Reply)
Woh-oh!
Living on the every word of a frankly outdated religious doctrine that hasn't been updated for centuries....
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:11, Reply)
Says the larper!

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:41, Reply)
larping is exciting!
as long as you don't read the rules. And I never read the rules
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:49, Reply)
Isn't it just
wearing silly stuff and running at some other fucker wearing equally silly stuff, carrying a padded weapon and shouting 'aaaargh!'?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:50, Reply)
nah
there is some politics and some storylines and code cracking and drinking and waking up in a pool of your own vomit
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:53, Reply)
It's not exactly Alton Towers though, is it?

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:08, Reply)
well there are less queues

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:12, Reply)
What does that tell you?
People would rather stand in line at a shit theme park than run around a field dressed as a a warlord.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:15, Reply)
their loss

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:31, Reply)
You made any progress with your job?

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:35, Reply)
still waiting on word
of the person I'm covering and/or from the job I applied for
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:38, Reply)
Fingers crossed for you!

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:44, Reply)
More like Disneyland
what with all the grown adults dressed up in costumes...
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:14, Reply)
more mead I am led to believe

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:15, Reply)
couple of guys from Cast (or possibly just one)
were in Robert Plant's band The Strange Sensation

fucking awesome
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:34, Reply)
Strange Sensation had the drummer from Reprazent and Portishead.
And were remixed by Unkle.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:47, Reply)
Have a look at some of these
www.videojug.com/tag/boilers-and-radiators
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:18, Reply)
You're a bit late
he's already fixed it
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:19, Reply)
Leave him alone, he's trying to help!
You mean, fact pointing out bastard.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:20, Reply)
HES SUCH A BULLY

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:21, Reply)
You missed out
cunt bearded cavalier-o-gram cunt. With a gay bike.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:23, Reply)
I should be naughty stepped

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:24, Reply)

naughty stepped raped with a bratwurst then forced to eat it afterwards.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:26, Reply)

bratwurst rake forced to eat beat to death with
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:34, Reply)
Kristine?
Really?

Oh sadface!
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:35, Reply)

sadface stonking hardon
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:37, Reply)
*bullys*

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:38, Reply)
You don't expect me to read these threads do you?

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:21, Reply)
Bookmarks too, even though my dad usually fixes stuff.
I'd like to think one day I can make him proud of me by sorting out my own DIY shit.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:26, Reply)
trying to cheat in pub quiz
Several vodkas down and been suctioned onto by a mad scottish mab how do we get rid of it please guys??
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:29, Reply)
Punch it RIGHT in the cock.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:32, Reply)
Mad scottish mab?
Man?

Tell him you're off the internet.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:32, Reply)
tell him you look much more like a woman after the surgery

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:35, Reply)
This is even better because it's true.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:35, Reply)
Just be yourself

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:35, Reply)
i like this

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:38, Reply)
i fucking don't

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:49, Reply)
WHY ARE YOU ONLINE WHEN YOU ARE IN PUBLIC WITH OTHER PEOPLE IN REAL LIFE??????

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:53, Reply)
googling answers
Not sure why, losuy prize money!
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:57, Reply)
you will be in a special level of hell
for those people who cheat at quizzes
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:58, Reply)
^this

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:59, Reply)
deserve everything you get.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:06, Reply)
it was onnnly the shjtty sportsround
Niine cares about that it's not realquestions.

Done now. "Barely Legal" didnot cover ourselvess in glory.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:13, Reply)
And this post hasn't been your finest hour either!

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:21, Reply)
She's typing with her cock, Jeff.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:25, Reply)
it id v hard to type on a blackberry in a moving cab!

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:26, Reply)
tell him you don't sleep with a man until after the third fendi bag

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:39, Reply)
I like this.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:40, Reply)
Throw a penny into the far corner of the pub.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:45, Reply)
You really aren't good at this quiz cheating thing are you?
You could have posted us any of the questions you are stuck with, instead, you've got to come on here and boast about how you've pulled.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:48, Reply)
To be fair
we'd only deliberately give her the wrong answers anyway.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:58, Reply)
pulled?
He's 75 and mad and married and annoying
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:58, Reply)
Never stopped Catherine Zeta Jones.

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:03, Reply)
hahahaha
Theres lovely!
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:06, Reply)
HE'S GOING TO DIE!

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:07, Reply)
I know he's been ill.
Has he been 'falling down' as well?
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:10, Reply)
His health
has totally gone to the wall street
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:13, Reply)
He's also
romancing the gravestone
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:13, Reply)
And soon to be starring in Hawai-Five-Oh Fuck...

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:16, Reply)
Will be remake his 1978 film 'The Coma'?

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:20, Reply)
The Ghost and the Graveyard await!

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:19, Reply)
Your point being?

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:06, Reply)
I think it should be sorted.
But I'll retain the link for future reference, cheers Chompy.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 21:19, Reply)
Not sure about next gig
there's a few on the radar though
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:07, Reply)
can i also just say
That it's v chivalrous and nice when cabbdrivers wait until you've got through the gates. But it is also truly embarrassssing wjen you simply canNOT find your keys in your monstrous handbag. Urgh.
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:37, Reply)
He now has all the information he needs!

(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:46, Reply)
The next gig is Arcade Fire
going to be aMAAAAAZING
(, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 22:44, Reply)

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