Why has this forum become sooooooooooo boring?

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Yup perhaps we are a bit overdosed on WNS. But the forum is the sum total of what is posted. You're as "responsible" as anyone else. So make a contribution; write about something boaty and interesting. Your last cruise, toilet explosion, with pictures, or something :-)
 
Its the weather.We are all suffering from S.A.D. Lets all be cheerful, soon it will be liftout then we can all enjoy ourselves by working on our boats this winter. YIPEE I cant wait!!
 
PS Think of a simple tip or idea that you,ve found useful ,over the years and share it, I will start: When working on Jabsco toilets, when replacing the 6 self tappers, for the top part, put screws in the holes,before tightening turn anticlockwise until you feel screw click, this enables the screw to start into the previous threaded part.Thus you dont start another thread and strip it.
 
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That's it, I'm going to slit my wrists..

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Nah go and slit Fatipas wrists before I get to him /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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WNS again
Can you see some other riveting reading matter here, take the WNS threads out and theres B all left.

Put up or shut up.
 
Look, I'll tell you all something that has been going on in my world for three a week now!

A ginger tw4t from OOOP NOOOORTH, who sells shirts to tesco's and drives a nice bit of Aston..............decides to stop a cheque on us when we delivered his kitchen for the builder to install earlier lastweek.

No dialogue, just decided to stop it. Bank calls us and says bla bla bla..............my contract manager goes to meet the said ginger short srsed, northen tw4t, who refuses to accept the fact that he has got precisely what he ordered. He chose exactly the same furniture as we have in our Huntingdon showroom............no messing around!

We took the doors off, my mate who is the builder having notified me that the same tw4t currently owes him close on 50k for works carried out at his property thus far.

Alarm bells ring when after 3 days there is still no contact, and no cleared funds offered to settle his account............8k to us.

I called the tw4t this morning and he noted that the phone was on speaker in his office, and 4 people were listening before I gave him the facts of life speach. After an informed conversation from myself, and the suggestion that we could do it his way or 'My Way'.............I had a call back with 2 credit card numbers 5 minutes later.

Now, at last we have secured authorisation codes splitting the debt on two cards.

His company must be doing well to pay the lease figures on his Aston, but clearly not so well as to fund cheques their boss is writing!

well, at least this boring chapter has nearly come to a close, tomorrow I and one of my guys are going to visit said tw4t, and re-fix his doors that we removed...............one wrong word???!!!

Jas.
 
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Look, I'll tell you all something that has been going on in my world for three a week now!

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Happy to help and I'm from Ooop Norrrrrrth, so understand the lingo!!!!

6'3" and 20 stone...would have had the forum name "BigNick" if BigNick hadn't got it first....... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

We're not all like that though!! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Hope it gets sorted ok...

Nick
 
Now thats interesting Argonautical why is it they always keep the car till the end,if i was you once the funds are cleared i wouldnt go back and put his doors on,let him chase you then hit him with another bill for ****ing you about let that clear then fit the doors,just my opinion.

ash
 
You know, one man or woman's boring is another man or woman's fascinating. Which is probably the most boring comment I've made since joining this forum!
 
Blimey, well done for getting the money but it reminds you to keep customers on v short leash, creditwise, these days.

When you turn up to fix the doors presumably you'll be telling him that's £200 labour plus 45p mile from Bedford, and in view of his poor credit you want cash before doing the doors :-) Will only just cover your cr card fees anyway.

Indeed, depending what your terms were for this sale you might want to bill him the £200 cr card fee and do no more till he pays you? If he contracted to pay cash and you were forced to take cr card, you're entitled to the £200 as a loss you have incurred by his breach? All depends on the terms of the deal of course.

Anyway thanks for the reminder. I'm about to order £8 or £9k worth of new tender/outboard and you kinda wonder who is solvent and who isn't these days. If Brunswick's sales are down to 1/3rd of normal levels surely their dealers must be the same. I might insist on 10% deposit and the rest cash on collection...
 
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So make a contribution; write about something boaty and interesting. toilet explosion, with pictures, or something :-)

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Bloody hell!

I had a "toilet explosion" after a dodgy curry at the weekend but the last I though of, as I groaned and flushed it away, was taking a photograph of it! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
I might insist on 10% deposit and the rest cash on collection...

That may well be a very good idea! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Cheers guys...............'Big Nick Mark2' I know your not all the same.............Compared to some Im from oooop Nooooorf anyway!! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

JFM, I am just glad to get the dough, the tw4t has just sent me a text very sorry for the inconvenience???? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Normally we take a 25% deposit, all bunded by the KBSA approved deposit scheme.
We then take 70% on delivery / commencement of works, leaving 5% as a retention. We have been trading since 1974 and I can count the times on one hand when we have been mucked about like this.............I was tipped off by my mate who is doing the construction there, and when in Guernsey on our trip a couple of weeks ago, I told the office to not deliver unless we had cleared funds...........they delivered it anyway!

Lessons learned all around. 'The Boss Is Always Right'!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Jas.
 
chocolate is handy when bog fixing

Tee hee!

Reminds me. When hanging out with TCM this summer in France we were anchored near his cat and I had my teenage son and lots of his mates on board. Sure enough, one of them managed to block one of my bogs. Bog-fixer-in-chief TCM came over with a plunger and skillfully fixed it in about 5 minutes. Before we went up to the party of folks lounging around on the flybridge we stopped by the galley and got a bar of chocolate and put splatters off it on our shirts, faces and necks. Then we sat down for lunch (doing well at keeping straight faces - I couldn't look at tcm at this point) happy as could be and said yep the bog was challenging but all fixed now hey let's carry on with lunch. You should have seen everyone's faces... TCM and i managed to keep straight face for 20seconds before falling about with laughter :-)
 
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Reminds me. When hanging out with TCM this summer in France we were anchored near his cat and I had my teenage son and lots of his mates on board. Sure enough, one of them managed to block one of my bogs. Bog-fixer-in-chief TCM came over with a plunger and skillfully fixed it in about 5 minutes. Before we went up to the party of folks lounging around on the flybridge we stopped by the galley and got a bar of chocolate and put splatters off it on our shirts, faces and necks. Then we sat down for lunch (doing well at keeping straight faces - I couldn't look at tcm at this point) happy as could be and said yep the bog was challenging but all fixed now hey let's carry on with lunch. You should have seen everyone's faces... TCM and i managed to keep straight face for 20seconds before falling about with laughter :-)

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Excellent!!!!!!!

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