The "I'm Such a Fecking Div" Thread

[citoyen]

Thought I was being clever by booking a hotel stop on the DIY 600 I'm doing next month. It's about 420km into the route, so it will mean arriving in the middle of the night but after a shower and a few hours kip, that will leave a nice easy second day.

Discovered yesterday that check-in closes at 11. 

[Legs]

** currently humming Alice's Restaurant.

As am I now.

27 8 by 10 color glossy photos with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one saying what each one was.

Me too!

Ah, but do you know ALL the words?

Does ANYONE know ALL the words?

[Torslanda]

The other 2 are Woolworths.

No. Pound Shop.   

Demob suit?

[CAMRAMan]

Unleaded in a diesel car. Enough said!

[504steve]

Unleaded in a diesel car. Enough said!

Done that. I was only going to put a £10's worth in. But whilst filling I thought I'd treat the car a bit and bunged £40's worth of fuel in. Only to realise whilst putting the pump back it was unleaded not diesel. Expensively annoying .

[Diver300]

Unleaded in a diesel car. Enough said!

How much?
Less than 1/4 of a tank, just top up with Diesel and don't be so stupid in future.

BTDTGTTS and got away with it.

[Basil]

Cost me a fortune when I did that.  Filled up from fairly empty.  I got about half a mile.

[CAMRAMan]

Including the £26-worth of unleaded I put in, it cost me £210! Hopefully a mistake you make once! Fortunately, no lasting damage to the car appears to have occurred.

[clarion]

** currently humming Alice's Restaurant.

As am I now.

27 8 by 10 color glossy photos with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one saying what each one was.

Me too!

Ah, but do you know ALL the words?

Does ANYONE know ALL the words?

Yes.  Simon Harraghy, Lighting Designer par excellence, and general all-round Good Egg.

Though I haven't seen him in a while, so he may have forgotten it a bit

[Redlight]

Unleaded in a diesel car. Enough said!

Did that about 10 years ago when we were on our way to a wedding in our brand new (first ever) diesel car.  Let's just say there were two empty seats at the table and a very grovelling letter sent to our friends (who have since divorced, which is what nearly happened to us that day).

[clarion]

Unleaded in a diesel car. Enough said!

Ouch!

I've never quite done that (though I have been close)

[Torslanda]

Came close once when I got a C1 as a courtesy car. Everything has been diesel for the last 15 years . . .

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Spent entire meeting wondering about reason for horrible medicinal smell in room. Eventually remembered had put savlon on crack in nostril.

[Legs]

Spent entire meeting wondering about reason for horrible medicinal smell in room. Eventually remembered had put savlon on crack in nostril.

Agree that that's fairly div-like, but you're wrong about Savlon - the smell's amazing!

[Kim]

I quite like medicinal smells.  I blame childhood memories of my parents on the rare occasions they didn't stink of smoking.   

Full divvishness cannot be achieved with tube-based substances unless you apply the wrong one...

[orienteer]

Yes, don't keep the Vick and Vaseline jars together.....

[ian]

That could make for a stimulating evening.

[ElyDave]

Did you hear the one about the builder who got his putty and his toothpaste mixed up?

[mrcharly-YHT]

Did you hear the one about the builder who got his putty and his toothpaste mixed up?

Nobody heard a word from him again?

[ElyDave]

All his windows fell out.

But his false teeth were OK

IGMC

[De Sisti]

Took out some clean pyjamas yesterday evening to wear for the night; had a momentary thought about the three
lots of washing I did earlier in the day. Went downstairs (for whatever reason I can't remember) and put the pyjamas into the washing machine. It was only upon waking this morning that I thought; "I'm sure I put these (the set I was wearing)  PJs in the washing machine yesterday evening".

[mrcharly-YHT]

Ordered a plumbing adaptor - 15mm male plain-gauge tube - 1/2" male threaded. What I needed was 15mm male plain-gauge tube - 1/2"(12mm) male threaded.

Completely ignored the photograph that showed the threaded part being wider than the plain gauge bit. So of course it turned out to be 1/2" BSP (no, it wasn't shown as such on the website).

[Legs]

I came out of Tesco and spent a while looking for my car, before remembering that I'd gone in my wife's car... 

[Guy]

I did similar in Biggleswade years ago, when Asda first opened. I went to see what it was like, came out with a bag of shopping and started hunting through my pockets and wallet for my return bus ticket, only for it to fianally dawn on me that I was standing by my bike

One reason was not wearing cycling-speffic clothes when doing errands by bike. The other is, of course, that I'm a feckin' div

[fuzzy]

My dearly departed Grandad took neighbours to Gatport Airwick a many of moons ag. 2 1/2 hour round trip for him. 5 hours later the family put the alarm out as he hadn't returned. He was found wandering the car park having lost it somewher in the concrete maze........