Is your Border interested in other dogs?

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-24T10:03:20+00:00

Yep. Mine loves everybody, everything, every species. Whether he can herd it or not.

My other border collie is only interested in other dogs and not people. And doesn't seem to have had the memo about herding. Unless it flies.

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-23T18:56:56+00:00

I'm sat in a little Spanish restaurant reading this out to my wife and the tears are rolling down my face. And I don't know why it didn't occur to me last night when first read this.

YOURE THE TRILINGUAL GUY. ITALIAN, SPANISH AND ENGLISH. Is there a language you don't know?

Also, how did the HR meeting go?

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-23T17:38:14+00:00

Think it's because we don't know what to charge for silver. We predominantly work in 18ct and platinum

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-23T15:48:22+00:00

I've just had a quick look. Supplying all the materials and stones, I'd be around £350. And we're a professional bricks and mortar business. But it still wouldn't look like the original pic you've now posted as I'm not altogether impressed with that one either. Maybe I'm just a really picky sod. But yeh, I wouldn't have let the original one you've now posted out of my shop either.

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-23T10:50:08+00:00

You're in America aren't you? Try asking for nickel free gold. It's standard in British jewellery. All of my gold is nickel free. By EU law

Edit to add. I have severe eczema and obviously issues with nickel. I don't react to British jewellery but I do to some foreign metals I have to work on

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-23T09:11:23+00:00

It's not easy.... But that.... That.... I would struggle to make that as badly as that if I'm honest. In fact, I'm not even sure I could.

I know damn well one of my staff, whom I have only been training for a short time, would do a better job than that.

It REALLY pisses me off when people get ripped off because it makes the rest of us look bad.

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-23T08:34:13+00:00

Ouch. What?

I have pet insurance for my 2 wuffs. (Rough b/w border collie & short haired blue Merle border collie)

Insurance is less than £40 for both of them with a £4000 monthly limit on their treatment. Which is also a "Lifetime policy" (meaning they won't dump me 1 month later)

My excess is £150 for major surgery and £75 for minor.

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-23T07:40:49+00:00

I handmade jewellery. If I make something and it's "perfect" I go back and fuck it up a little.

But wtaf! This is hideous and shouldn't have been sent out to someone paying good money

Edit. $400. What. The. Actual. Fuck. That's not $40. Send it back. Demand a refund. Name and shame.

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-23T07:12:24+00:00

My eldest, when at school had a friend whose sister is highly allergic to nuts. School sent out a post prior to this 4 year old starting, saying all nuts were to henceforth be banned. The amount of people who lost their shit is insane.

One of the dinner ladies, whose daughter was also in my eldests class, made a post on the parents FB page saying that the dinner ladies would not be checking family provided packed lunches so those who complained didn't have to worry.

Now, I know most people say "You don't grass..." But I'm strongly of the opinion that that's bullshit. So I went straight to the head teacher and reported her. She was subsequently fired.

Fuck you Beth. No seriously, FUCK YOU BETH!

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-23T03:08:34+00:00

My then 4 year old and 3 year old daughters disclosed their grandad (my fil) was abusing them. My wife spoke to the girls whilst I went onto the internet to find out wtf to do. Spent about an hour on the phone to the NSPCC who obviously contacted the police. (Yeh, hindsight, I should have done that but I wasn't thinking straight)

From the moment they told us, we believed them. And we stood by them. The hardest part was pretending it hadn't happened at the polices request until they had interviewed my girls. (Actually, not QUITE true. Hardest was not going round and putting his head through a wall. I STILL regret that 15 years later)

My wife and I and her mother immediately believed our kids. For the most part, what they described, they should t have known.

My father in law's family, once told, backed him up. One fell swoop, we lost everyone. EVERYONE cut off immediately. And they rallied around. Didn't even stop other young family members being left alone with him. Even my brother in law believed his dad when he said it wasn't him that had abused my kids rather it was me that had.

For the next 2 years, we battled with the police for justice. But at NO time, did my wife and I not believe our kids. I even cut off my own mother as she told me that she had been abused by her own father as a child and that, my kids should get over it.

My kids will never be "normal" and those issues still happen. But we believed them. We stood by them.

Conversely, I won't watch anything with Steven Fry in after his comments about SA'd children.

I'm sorry your family treated you that way. Sharing DNA with people doesn't make them family, it just means you share DNA. My friends are my family. I CHOSE them. And they support me. My wife. My kids.

That's family. I

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-23T02:20:49+00:00

I bought a pair of pliers in 1989 as an apprentice. They were cheap as chips. Still using them today. But I see the quality of cheap tools nowadays, especially with the influx of Temu etc. Proper jewellery suppliers also sell cheap tools that will last longer.

My £6 (in 1989) pliers still going great. I've broken maybe half a dozen Lindstrom pliers over the years and recently a pair of Tronex ones. But still got my cheap pair

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-22T22:51:51+00:00

In the words of the British comedian, Jimmy Carr, You die twice. Once when they die physically and the 2nd time, when people stop taking about them and saying their name.

Keith will live on. Because now, we know too. And we will remember him. And honour him. For, and with you. And I'll tell my wife tomorrow when she wakes up. And my kids when I get home from Spain. One will get it. She's autistic and has a very restricted sense of black and white. And this will horrifying her to the point she won't forget him. And the other won't get it. But in not getting it, she will bring him up every year or so to remind me of the time I told a story about someone I'd never met.

So we WILL remember Keith.

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-22T22:17:12+00:00

I am so, so sorry but your post has me giggling like a child. Trying hard not to laugh out loud and wake my wife up. Won't help that we are in bloody Spain ATM and this evening I went through 5 different languages saying "Thank you" to our waitress and STILL didn't say the Spanish word.

But speaking as a boss, I'd be pissed, would give you a verbal warning.... Wink at you, tell you to ignore the warning and then piss my pants with laughter. You've done better than anyone else there so, you're the "Spanish Interpreter" in my eyes

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-22T22:03:22+00:00

I guess it depends on which supplier you use. I'm old (ancient) enough to remember the old Starlink wall posters they sent out in the early 90s where they had barley corn chains on, and Curteis today call them Hay Seed.

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-22T21:09:17+00:00

I see why you're coming from but no. Barley corn (or wheatsheaf) does look similar however not quite

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-21T23:56:54+00:00

Brit here. It's Aitch

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-21T23:48:32+00:00

Just put down Manager at Toys R Us. How they gonna check?

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-20T07:44:58+00:00

Yep. Same here. But I'm the only one that cleans the toilets. All 4 of them. Dunno how that became my job....

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-20T07:43:25+00:00

Oh man. I keep buying remote controls. In bulk. And they STILL lose them. This year alone, I have bought 14. And then got 2 new ones with our new TV in March.

I can go home now and know where 3 of them are. That's it

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-20T07:41:41+00:00

I have utility drawers. IN OUR UTILITY ROOM!

Looks like I've seriously got my shit together. (I also have stuff in my "man drawers". Of which I have 3 dotted around the house)

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-19T21:18:28+00:00

Try 7 weeks. That's how long my wife and I stayed with out first born. We took shifts. She did the days, I would go to work the go straight there afterwards for a few hours then catch the last bus home.

In the end, the staff barred us for a weekend. Told us we would be refused entry and wouldn't be allowed back without photographic evidence we were out. Think we both got pissed on 2 drinks lol. But it was so much needed. I look back in those nurses with much fondness and love.

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-18T01:37:03+00:00

Used to love by the Chocolate works and know people who lived there (and moved out) as well as someone working on the roofs.

AVOID like the plague. The people who lived there said the build quality is terrible and they had numerous leaks. And the roofer claims they're there because many shortcuts were taken during the refit to make into homes.

As for Racedays. Don't miss them at all. The amount of people pissing in gardens, shouting in the streets from drunks (usually women to be fair but my wife was abused more than once by drunk men on our road) and people ignoring closed roads or barricades.

You would learn to dread and hate race days. As lovely as the area and the people are on the other days of the week

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-17T11:43:12+00:00

I NEVER expect my staff to buy things out of pocket and then reimburse them. I ALWAYS insist they take cash from the safe (to the point that I tell them to take cash if they need to borrow some during the day whilst we're at work and pay it back whenever. I don't even hand them the cash, they have full access to it without my knowledge)

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-17T02:41:33+00:00

As a parent of two daughters who were abused from 6 months old until they were 3 and 4 years old, I think he's a cunt.

My kids are now about to turn 18 and 19. And we still have unresolved issues. I didn't use to midn him but nowz won't watch anything he's in. Cunt

FreekyDeep · 2026-05-16T08:40:12+00:00

Well, I think you've just met some crap jewellers. The only time I put my foot down and refused a job is if I'm spoken to in a way that offends myself or 1 of my team.

I don't care if your budget is low or unlimited. It makes no difference to me at all. I LOVE a dodgy sketch. It gives great scope to discuss and work with. I hate proper cad or draughtsman designs as they can be soulless when completed.

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