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Rubbish
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:45 pm
by Lawrence
When does something become rubbish?
Engine oil £30 squid for 4 litres to go in the engine and when it comes out it's rubbish. So how long does it take to morph? an hour? or 6 months?
A new battery, gets the car running again but the old one's rubbish, how did that happen? They both look identical!
Lotus Elise, drive it out the showroom and it value plummets but it'll never be rubbish
Lada Samara is always rubbish even when it's new
Can anyone explain?
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:18 pm
by Sanjøy
There is no spoon
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:42 pm
by Dominic
It's simple really:
It becomes rubbish when you are ready to throw it away.
Takes Shug's Elise for example
(Take my BMW as a fine example; was someone else's rubbish, but now a means to hours of endless fun
)
Also explains all the tat I have in the garage, house & shed; it's really rubbish, but I'm not ready to throw it away
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:53 pm
by tut
Always a market for rubbish:-
Engine oil, pour it into an empty Mobil 1 container and sell it at a car boot sale.
Put the old battery on eBay, the idiots on there will buy anything.
New Elise out of the showroom = more money than sense, so you deserve all you get. Or to be accurate, all that you dont get.
Lada Samara? Ok, there are exceptions.
tut
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:59 pm
by Mr Momo
Related to Monday's Jaguar advert thread :
"Rubbish is .... not trying too hard, but knowing you are simply rubbish"
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:14 pm
by Victor Meldrew
tut wrote:Always a market for rubbish:-
tut
an the Lord invented Ebay
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:34 pm
by Novice Racer
That 4 litres of oil is £30 rather than £3, or that US expenditure on oil exploration is several fold that of worldwide health investment, is a more comprensive and philosophical way of addressing how we evaluate what is useful or what is rubbish.
NR
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:21 am
by Rich H
This thread is rubbish, discuss....
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:11 am
by Dominic
OOpps .. forgot two words, should read;
Take Shug's Elise's OLD ENGINE for example
Dominic
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:22 am
by Shug
Dominic wrote:
OOpps .. forgot two words, should read;
Take Shug's Elise's OLD ENGINE for example
Dominic
Aye - we'll see
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:57 pm
by tut
Congrats Rich, Flt Lt bars, and here was me thinking that you were an LAC
tut
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:59 pm
by Rich H
Been on ops them, Op Banner NI, got a medal too (for being at work for 30 days...), carefully washed to ensure they fade so you look like an old hand...
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 4:17 am
by tut
What is the minimum time nowadays to make Sqn Ldr?
How do you go on with a short service Commission, presume gratuity but no pension?
tut
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:41 am
by Rich H
Approx 6-7 years for an engineer at Flt Lt to Sqn Ldr, but all the Sqn Ldrs hae just been told they ain't getting promoted probably.... I get bus fare home on leaving and at 60 a lump sum and a miniscule pension. Just in time to buy me another Elise