todays buys

[chammyman]

was up the Barras with the mrs and got some stuff.

24, 18 and 15 inch 3/8 extensions.

Deep 11mm and 19mm 3/8 sockets

14 inch Record Stilson

£7. Bargain

The 14 inch stilsons are is beside its bigger 18 inch brother, a pic of them both

 

[Frank Elson]

good buys.
We called at Todmorden flea market. A huge stall full of ****. I had money burning a hole in my pocket and couldn't buy anything.

 

[chammyman]

same with me, a load of cheap nonsense few decent items. A few big vises but I wasn't lugging them home on the bus with me!

I love my big Record stilsons, the vises are the best as well. The small one I got today is missing 1 spring but no big deal.

The sockets are Stanley.

The extensions are a no name brand but tbh the uses I have for them mean theres no need for silly high torque stresses on them anyway so they will do just fine.

Still can't find my missing snap on 4 inch extension I feel like crying a wee bit

 

[davestlouis]

On the bus? Holy cow, I haven't been on a bus since I rode a school bus when I was 15. Sometimes I wish I didn't live out in the sticks...I'm 20+ miles from the nearest light rail or bus line into St Louis. You guys in England and Scotland have it made!

 

[bchee]

Barras is the name of the market?

 

[MechanicforLife]

I like the stuff you got, they pipe wrenches look better than mine what brand are your ext.?
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Suzuki DR400

 

[Moose-LandTran]

Barras is the name of the market?

Yup.

http://www.glasgow-barrowland.com/market/barras.htm

 

[chammyman]

yes on the bus, think LA gridlock, thats pretty much Glasgow city centre. Then parking depending on where you go 13 quid a day!

The train station is about 500 yards away and much better, its 2 stops into the centre of Glasgow, its great. Wasn't running yesterday due to the works going on though.

The barras is a famous market, according to the stalls world famous Its an institution of, well I suppose trailer trash junk really. Theres been many interesting things there, liek the Charles Rennie Macintosh stolen fireplaces they were selling for £120 each and they were worth 5 million etc.

The extensions are an unknown make but for the money they'll do the job as they are limited use anyway but very handy.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

I aksed my friend what it meant if you went "up the Barras" and he said to me "I once took a girl up the barras, but we're probably talking about different things."

 

[chammyman]

bit like doing jenny up the gary I assume?

 

[Moose-LandTran]

bit like doing jenny up the gary I assume?

I believe so, i didn't ask the details.

 

[eschoendorff]

bit like doing jenny up the gary I assume?

You guys have the most amusing euphemisms...

The Barras looks kind of dirty. I feel like I need a shower just looking at the pics. Does it smell like poopie there????

 

[chammyman]

sometimes they do esch. The mrs and I walked into a quiet bit, turne dout to be a pron emporium! lol We were laughing so hard.

Most things in glasgow are dirty tbh.

 

[Frank Elson]

I aksed my friend what it meant if you went "up the Barras" and he said to me "I once took a girl up the barras, but we're probably talking about different things."

are you sure he said Barras and not "arris" ?

 

[billymade]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arris

 

[Frank Elson]

Wikipedia doesn't do Cockney Rhyming slang then...

 

[billymade]

I tried this website but came up wanting.... http://www.urbandictionary.com/
That is a good website for slang; it has helped me up until this latest saying from you guys, "across the pond"!

 

[wilbilt]

In my younger days, I found myself working next to a guy from the UK by the name of Dave Harrington.

I had only been there about two days when, to my horror, Dave told me he was going out to have a ***.