Gondor's Grumblings

[NARSES2]

Not getting much modelling done as I have been getting hooked by the Olympic swimming, very gripping stuff.

Not really got into it yet, but the track cycling and athletics start over the weekend, so I might get into it a bit more.

[Gondor]

Not getting much modelling done as I have been getting hooked by the Olympic swimming, very gripping stuff.

Not really got into it yet, but the track cycling and athletics start over the weekend, so I might get into it a bit more.

Great, and there is me needing to get some D.I.Y. stuff done befor the Tiler arrives on Tuesday 

[zenrat]

What period of time are we talking about this bill covering? I pay 1200 per annum at the moment.

Gondor

Sorry mate, didn't see your question.
That was for two months.

[Gondor]

What period of time are we talking about this bill covering? I pay 1200 per annum at the moment.

Gondor

Sorry mate, didn't see your question.
That was for two months.

Ouch! My commiserations, especially when what I pay is for both electricity and heating gas.

Gondor

[Gondor]

Getting my bathroom finished off today as I hired a tiler to put the last times up and to sort out the grouting on the tiles that I had previously done myself. I have just got back from a very well-known D.I.Y. chain after buying more tile strips that have a black square rotated at 45^o to make a diamond sort of shape and a black stripe along the tops and bottoms of the strops of tiles, with white triangles in between the black tiles. Now you would think that if I put a centre line from some existing tile strips for where I want the pattern to continue. Now, this fellow decided not to do that so I have the large vertical surface of a half-black diamond against the point of another black diamond   
It was bad enough that he didn't want to follow the pattern of full and half tiles onto this end wall. He did convince me about his reason and it looks ok, the pattern though stands out a mile!

EDIT!

Thought that a picture is worth a thousand words, or so they say so here is what I am talking about.



I think that is pretty self-explanatory, don't you?

Gondor

[Rick Lowe]

 

'The Customer Knows Best'? Not when The Contractor Knows Better.
 

[Gondor]

'The Customer Knows Best'? Not when The Contractor Knows Better.
 

It should be the two-rule system.

Rule 1) The Customer is always right

Rule 2) If the Customer is wrong, Rule One applies.

Gondor

[scooter]

'The Customer Knows Best'? Not when The Contractor Knows Better.
 

It should be the two-rule system.

Rule 1) The Customer is always right

Rule 2) If the Customer is wrong, Rule One applies.

Gondor

Except that's already abused here in the States.

[Gondor]

The tiler arrived this morning and when I pointed out that the pattern on the section he had done didn't follow the pattern I had put up a couple of years ago he was ok in changing them. And I had a partly sleepless night worrying about it 

[NARSES2]

'The Customer Knows Best'? Not when The Contractor Knows Better.
 

It should be the two-rule system.

Rule 1) The Customer is always right

Rule 2) If the Customer is wrong, Rule One applies.

Gondor

Problem is the women of this planet have already copywrited that rule as :-

Rule 1) The Wife/Fiance/Partner/Girlfriend is always right

Rule 2) If the Wife/Fiance/Partner/Girlfriend is wrong then Rule One applies.

 

[Rheged]

'The Customer Knows Best'? Not when The Contractor Knows Better.
 

It should be the two-rule system.

Rule 1) The Customer is always right

Rule 2) If the Customer is wrong, Rule One applies.

Gondor

Problem is the women of this planet have already copywrited that rule as :-

Rule 1) The Wife/Fiance/Partner/Girlfriend is always right

Rule 2) If the Wife/Fiance/Partner/Girlfriend is wrong then Rule One applies.

 

A devout and utterly charming Muslim acquaintance of mine wishes to enquire "What happens when a man has three wives who disagree with him and each other?"     He's asking for a cousin in Saudi!

[kerick]

'The Customer Knows Best'? Not when The Contractor Knows Better.
 

It should be the two-rule system.

Rule 1) The Customer is always right

Rule 2) If the Customer is wrong, Rule One applies.

Gondor

Problem is the women of this planet have already copywrited that rule as :-

Rule 1) The Wife/Fiance/Partner/Girlfriend is always right

Rule 2) If the Wife/Fiance/Partner/Girlfriend is wrong then Rule One applies.

 

A devout and utterly charming Muslim acquaintance of mine wishes to enquire "What happens when a man has three wives who disagree with him and each other?"     He's asking for a cousin in Saudi!

Come home in 6 months!

[Steel Penguin]

jelly wrestling?? 

[kerick]

Four way pillow fight!

[Rick Lowe]

'The Customer Knows Best'? Not when The Contractor Knows Better.
 

It should be the two-rule system.

Rule 1) The Customer is always right

Rule 2) If the Customer is wrong, Rule One applies.

Gondor

Problem is the women of this planet have already copywrited that rule as :-

Rule 1) The Wife/Fiance/Partner/Girlfriend is always right

Rule 2) If the Wife/Fiance/Partner/Girlfriend is wrong then Rule One applies.

 

A devout and utterly charming Muslim acquaintance of mine wishes to enquire "What happens when a man has three wives who disagree with him and each other?"    He's asking for a cousin in Saudi!

I would opine he's asking for trouble with that many, and he's making (or made) a rod for his own back...

And Chris - I'm not sure that's really satire; rather an Unwritten Truth... and yet another one we can't do anything to alter