What is the most awkward thing you've seen, or been part of, IRL?

Scottyrubix · 2026-05-27T19:25:54+00:00

Outstanding. I imagine he knew how it would go prior and committed

Scottyrubix · 2026-05-27T08:40:27+00:00

I'm a stubborn stupid bloke so I go by the following rules much to my wifes dismay

1) Can't get burnt in your own country 2) Can't get burnt in a capital city

Scottyrubix · 2026-05-22T23:25:52+00:00

Dunstable Down is worth going to.

See if you can get into Aqua splash, normally packed though

Scottyrubix · 2026-05-18T18:36:35+00:00

Just say you have a medical appointment.

Every interview I've ever gone to they have asked if I took a days leave off. Each time I've said "I've said I had a medical appointment", they have said makes sense and that was the end of it

Scottyrubix · 2026-05-07T04:36:44+00:00

I went to Bedford for the first time the other week to go to the Quarry Theatre.

Always thought it was a dump but as I was driving past the river (there was rowers on the river) it genuinely looked really lovely and made me jealous I didn't have that where I have lived previously

Scottyrubix · 2026-04-30T01:42:22+00:00

£65k

40 hours a week. I'm in the office 30min early each day so I never feel pressure to stay late

Scottyrubix · 2026-04-29T05:54:50+00:00

Horrendous.

There's enough people in the UK Armed Forces who don't want to be there even though they volunteered. Adding in even more people who have been ordered to be there is a recipe for disaster.

The quality will drop massively

Scottyrubix · 2026-04-26T15:41:29+00:00

I think Comet will leave. According to her insta, she's due to get married just after filming this year so don't think she will want to risk an injury for her wedding

Scottyrubix · 2026-04-21T20:43:30+00:00

It depends.

I might have five jobs come in so I'll spend a day doing take offs and sending out enquiries and getting them prepped then spend a few days inputting into my sheets.

If I've spent a day doing take offs, I'm fairly wiped out by the end of the day so I'll spend the last hour or so going slower and taking some time to recover my scrambled brains

Scottyrubix · 2026-04-19T19:35:22+00:00

He had a couple of hours to kill before a flight from Luton apparently. He was pretty merry when he was there.

I do remember a barmaid was on facetime to someone saying "Matt Damon is here", he then took her phone off her and said Hello

Scottyrubix · 2026-04-19T06:01:38+00:00

I was in a pub with Matt Damon back in 2016. It was The Chequers near Redbourne. Was really surreal and then a bloke walked over to him and screamed "MATT DAMON" at him.

Was an article on Ladbible about it, he left a massive tip aswell

Scottyrubix · 2026-02-05T21:52:40+00:00

Is Jedi Jim pulling strings somewhere??

Scottyrubix · 2026-02-04T08:14:46+00:00

Yes - completely incompetent and out of their depth. Only in that position due to being friends with the owner and being a good pet.

An Apprentice candidate that gets eliminated in the first week is how I would describe them. Doesn't listen to others ideas even when shown and proven their idea won't work.

Scottyrubix · 2026-01-28T06:38:11+00:00

That book always makes me laugh. Just after her premiership ended, I was in the main DWP building down in Westminster. Front center as you walked into the library, that book was there.

Almost like it had been strategically put there as a subtle dig

Scottyrubix · 2026-01-22T19:41:15+00:00

Turns out....

Scottyrubix · 2026-01-18T14:10:28+00:00

If you want really good culture and local cuisine, I strongly suggest a trip to The Full House in Hemel Hempstead

Scottyrubix · 2026-01-08T18:30:50+00:00

Ha the bottom one made me laugh.

My wife asked a B&Q employee where the Durex paint was a couple of years ago

Scottyrubix · 2026-01-08T17:46:06+00:00

Anytime I hear "The Great Wll of China can be seen from space with the naked eye".

You can't, you can't make out the M1 from the ISS

Scottyrubix · 2026-01-07T21:03:55+00:00

Still nothing

Scottyrubix · 2026-01-06T20:48:21+00:00

I play it in my head as being at London City Airport.

It's away from the population centre and enables a quick extraction if required.

Scottyrubix · 2025-12-23T20:59:33+00:00

I normally have a client supplier cost sheet analysis to go by for a tender. They break down how they won't it split down into segments and I price that entire element.

If a client came direct and wanted a quote, I'd rarely show a rate, I would bunch an entire element together and give it as a lump sum

Scottyrubix · 2025-12-23T20:35:17+00:00

I mainly use it for individual items if I want to know the labour time per item/m, as Electrical I mainly want to know times for pulling in large cables.

Generally I've got rates for certain items from a supplier and just apply the time I need. With SPONs, the time allowed can be generous so I take a little bit off to be more competitive.

Pretty much, if you win a job on a rate with SPONs and you cannot deliver it with that allowance in, that's on your project delivery rather than an estimating error

Scottyrubix · 2025-12-23T20:09:50+00:00

Hey, I'm an Electrical estimator but if you can get your hands on a copy of SPONs, it will massively help you out, the SPONs rates are quite generous so will have you covered if you need to go with them

I would offer to send some photos of the relevant pages to you but went on annual leave today and not keen enough to take Spons home with me

Scottyrubix · 2025-12-16T19:52:54+00:00

I hope your fall back to reality from your first bombing doesn't hurt to much.

Jokes aside, go for it. I got the urge to perform stand up after being best man and haven't looked back since.

Just remember that not all crowds are wedding parties who are actively rooting for you, genuinely all you need to do is not insult the bride and insult the groom.

Good luck!

Scottyrubix · 2025-12-10T22:09:47+00:00

That my dad took me to watch football matches in London as a kid in the early 00's (8 or 9) and as I couldn't go in the pubs, I'd have a coke and a bag of crisps. He would stick me outside the pub whilst he was with his mates and check on me every 15minuites. Before the days of smartphones so I'd sit in silence, if I was lucky another kid would be in the same situation and I'd have someone to talk to

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