Comments on Ken Armstrong Writing Stuff: Not Competent Technically

This is really funny! I live with one of those gu...

2009-05-02T13:41:00.000+01:00

This is really funny! I live with one of those guys whose family dexterity skipped a generation. Too much! I'll be back.

Oh dear, and Matthew S says "piece of cake" with an instruction book. I KNOW how that makes you feel. It might have more value as a rain hat, eh?

Interesting Fiendish, I address this very point in...

2008-09-05T20:32:00.000+01:00

Interesting Fiendish, I address this very point in the post I just posted while you were... um... posting this.

The point, basically, is - we have to find some things out by ourselves in order to full appreciate them.

No, this wasn't really one of those things was it? :)

Ken, Ken, Ken.Even I knew that.;)

2008-09-05T19:54:00.000+01:00

Ken, Ken, Ken.

Even *I* knew that.

;)

I have done many things like this. You make me fee...

2008-09-04T19:14:00.000+01:00

I have done many things like this. You make me feel almost human!

Some of you might think I made this one up.All I c...

2008-09-04T13:43:00.000+01:00

Some of you might think I made this one up.

All I can say is, I bloody wish I had but, alas, no.

And there's worse to come... so much worse.

I am similarly challenged in that regard. When I w...

2008-09-04T10:21:00.000+01:00

I am similarly challenged in that regard. When I was at school one of the subjects I too was Applied Mechanics and I came top of the year, smart fart that I am. Of course the workings of the internal combustion engine were covered, 2-stroke, 4-stroke and the beautiful 3-stroke. Some short time later I had learned to drive and became the family chauffeur and shortly after that my dad introduced me to a real internal combustion engine filthy thing that it was. Oh, no no no, we didn't much care for getting our hands dirty there let me tell you. However it was a good ten years later when my first car was acting up that the level of my ignorance made itself manifest when my dad had to show me that you had to put water and oil in the damn thing - it had never crossed my mind.

OMG...I am laughing my derriere off, and I am spit...

2008-09-04T02:59:00.000+01:00

OMG...I am laughing my derriere off, and I am spitting coffee too! :)

I am very good with my hands, but somehow, changing a tire is something I never had to do. Thank God. ;)

Hi Ken,I forgot to tell you about a question I hav...

2008-09-03T17:30:00.000+01:00

Hi Ken,

I forgot to tell you about a question I have for you at my working abroad blog.

http://wwwworkingabroad.blogspot.com/

Drop by when you have the time, no pressures,and no need to post in your blog. Thanks.

He he he, (sorry, I can't help but laugh) , that m...

2008-09-03T13:15:00.000+01:00

He he he, (sorry, I can't help but laugh) , that must have hurt. Imagine prising something made up of alloy with a rudimentary tool and your bare hands.

Thanks for the laugh Ken, as ever that was superbly told . I can just imagine you with a straight-faced expression telling that story infront of your friends.

Are you good too at that?

Cheers!

Oh, dearie dearie me...Alloy wheels get stolen all...

2008-09-03T12:11:00.000+01:00

Oh, dearie dearie me...
Alloy wheels get stolen all the time, don't they? Presumably by people with better motor controls than you, Ken. I don't think it's impossible to get the piece off the wheels.
Although why the heck does the NCT require hubcaps to be removed anyway?! The MOT certainly doesn't.

A very enjoyable post -it's always a pleasure to c...

2008-09-03T12:05:00.000+01:00

A very enjoyable post -it's always a pleasure to come upon a well-written piece in which the author can laugh at himself. This piece really sparks., and for all sorts of reasons, it was just what I needed.

Excellent girlie moment! I laughed, my beloved lau...

2008-09-03T07:50:00.000+01:00

Excellent girlie moment! I laughed, my beloved laughed, we all laughed...not that I would have been any more use...
x

Very Fine Post. I almost snorted milk out of my no...

2008-09-02T23:49:00.000+01:00

Very Fine Post. I almost snorted milk out of my nose. (Not that you would know if I actually did such a thing) I gave you a buzz also.

Beamer

Yup, the crows have one up on you. Some of them ev...

2008-09-02T23:35:00.000+01:00

Yup, the crows have one up on you. Some of them even figured out that dropping a nut onto a road will get cars to run over it and open it for them. More figured out that if they drop it near a traffic light, then the cars will eventually stop so they can get their nut safely.

Ah, Matt beat me to it. Such a simple phrase, "Ve...

2008-09-02T23:31:00.000+01:00

Ah, Matt beat me to it. Such a simple phrase, "Vehicle inspection", yet it sent terror into those who feared their cars wouldn't pass. And those that were borderline... many a station attendant was paid to slap the sticker on and overlook the faults. Which is why in S.C., we no longer have such inspections... they did absolutely no good.

I too laughed. Heartily. Sorry. Here's my penance. Dad said I never had any interest in cars until he popped open the hood. When I was a kid, he went to great lengths to teach me how to change a flat tire. Not because I was his first born but because I was a girl. After his demo, he turned to me and asked like a professor, "So, what do you do when you get a flat tire?" And I replied innocently,"I call you. Because I can't get the lug nuts off." :)

Let's just say I had the knowledge to handle hubcaps already, but not so sure the muscle to finish the task.

OMG! That is so funny! Alloy wheels! You poor g...

2008-09-02T22:32:00.000+01:00

OMG! That is so funny! Alloy wheels! You poor guy.

I actually had to change a tire once on the freeway in the rain at rush hour outside Detroit while cars were zipping by me at 75+ mph (That's hurricane speed.) I had never changed a tire before. I just read the directions with the jack and it was a piece of cake.

BTW, in the states we call such tests, or vehicle inspections: "vehicle inspections." The tautology of it all....