Reply to: Fuel Strikes

[EternalOptimist]

Forthright!

thick puppy

EO = firstright
Lucy = secondright
Bagpuss = thirdright
thickpuppy = forthright

[RichardCranium]

They won't need any until the internal combustion engine penetrates that far. Well, unless there's a cider shortage.

"But Doctor, will I still be able to play the piano after the operation?"
"Of course."
"That's good, 'cos I can't now."

It hadn't dawned on my to ask if they had ever had petrol in the past.

[NickFitz]

There seems to be no petrol to be had anywhere around Taunton. According to my colleagues.

They won't need any until the internal combustion engine penetrates that far. Well, unless there's a cider shortage.

[Alf W]

The bloke who's been sat opposite me for a week has, along with his wife, been topping up his car every other day "in case there's a fuel shortage caused by those panic buyers". Tw@t! he's deadly serious about it.

He's a Contractor by the way!

[RichardCranium]

There seems to be no petrol to be had anywhere around Taunton. According to my colleagues.

[Churchill]

What is the right word for Churchill?

Forthright!

[Peoplesoft bloke]

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Peoplesoft it doesn't matter if I was wrong about most foreign cars having the pump on the drivers side, many do, but the point I was making is there is no need to queue for ages for a pump on the filler side.

I was trying to be helpful, but at times like this I wonder, why do I bother with this anally retentive site?

That's very laudable of you, but I cannot imagine that anyone who reads or posts on here wouldn't have thought of it.

Of course it doesn't matter if you were wrong about which cars have the filler on which side; I just have an aversion to stuff that people have made up being posted as fact - hence, for example I get fed up of people claiming that Thatcher cut taxes (which isn't true) - I just can't help it.

[Kinvara]

So you want him to be all pointy like a needle?

I still think you have the wrong word.

Pointy like a p-r-i-c-k.

[BrilloPad]

So you want him to be all pointy like a needle?

I still think you have the wrong word.

What is the right word for Churchill?

[RichardCranium]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/obtuse

2. not sharp, acute, or pointed; blunt in form.

I just want Churchill to say what he thinks!

So you want him to be all pointy like a needle?

I still think you have the wrong word.

[BrilloPad]

Obtuse? Did you mean 'obscure'?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/obtuse

2. not sharp, acute, or pointed; blunt in form.

I just want Churchill to say what he thinks!

[RichardCranium]

I do wish you woulod not be so obtuse - why not say what you think?

Obtuse? Did you mean 'obscure'?

[BrilloPad]

I disagree with almost everything you post. You know **** all about anything. To make matters worse, you try and sound authoritative which makes you out to be an even bigger tit when you're proven wrong.

Next question.

I do wish you woulod not be so obtuse - why not say what you think?

[BrilloPad]

The bad news is I've just bought the farm down the road...

Will you move your local pikeys to there?

[NickFitz]

It works with large saloon cars, and you dont have to have the nossle upside down unless you park miles away or have a gargantuan car. I did it yesterday in a mondeo sized car when there were long queues but empty pumps.

Peoplesoft it doesn't matter if I was wrong about most foreign cars having the pump on the drivers side, many do, but the point I was making is there is no need to queue for ages for a pump on the filler side.

I was trying to be helpful, but at times like this I wonder, why do I bother with this anally retentive site?

Doesn't work with an Orion, at least not at Sainsbury's