Umbrellas

Originally posted by @wolfgang59
And being German they don't break.
Vorsprung durch Technik

But do take over the sun loungers.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
But do take over the sun loungers.

Take it to the parasol thread Spanky.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Splendid, I will acquire one. (To fit it in my brief case I'll probably have to remove the donkey jacket and gold bars).

The wonderful donkey jacket! Now that does take me back. I used to wear one as an art student. I loved it.
Not the one with the plastic covered shoulders though. In fact Next redesigned it into the reefer jacket and
stuck and extra 50 quid on the price.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Last Autumn, on a particularly windy and rainy day I popped into a shop to buy an umbrella and it functioned as such for around 7 seconds before being blown inside out and irreparably damaged.

That's 3 pounds I'll never see again.

Buy a good storm umbrella..

I have one myself, and i'm really happy with it. 🙂

YouTube

Originally posted by @eriron
Buy a good storm umbrella..

I have one myself, and i'm really happy with it. 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFzOwq5PldQ

Blimey, next time I jump out of a plane I'll get myself one of those.

🙂

Originally posted by @wolfgang59
And being German they don't break.
Vorsprung durch Technik

'Vorsprung durch Technik'
Since the exhaust emissions scandal we don't use that slogan anymore.😕

Originally posted by @biffo-konker
'Vorsprung durch Technik'
Since the exhaust emissions scandal we don't use that slogan anymore.😕

VW don't use "Das Auto" anymore since the emissions scandal.

I don't think AUDI were caught cheating. (????)

Originally posted by @wolfgang59
VW don't use "Das Auto" anymore since the emissions scandal.

I don't think AUDI were caught cheating. (????)

It was meant as a joke.
Audi is a part of the VW group.

From wiki
In 2015, Audi admitted that at least 2.1 million Audi cars had been involved in the Volkswagen emissions testing scandal in which software installed in the cars manipulated emissions data to fool regulators and allow the cars to pollute at higher than government-mandated levels. The A1, A3, A4, A5, A6, TT, Q3 and Q5 models were implicated in the scandal.

Do you own one?

Originally posted by @biffo-konker
It was meant as a joke.
Audi is a part of the VW group.

From wiki
In 2015, Audi admitted that at least 2.1 million Audi cars had been involved in the Volkswagen emissions testing scandal in which software installed in the cars manipulated emissions data to fool regulators and allow the cars to pollute at higher than government-mandated levels. The A1, A3, A4, A5, A6, TT, Q3 and Q5 models were implicated in the scandal.

Do you own one?

A friend of mine owns a Skoda garage.
He was flapping like an old budgie when the VW scandal broke.

Originally posted by @the-gravedigger
A friend of mine owns a Skoda garage.
He was flapping like an old budgie when the VW scandal broke.

That's crazy.
No way do you have a friend.

Originally posted by @biffo-konker
Audi is a part of the VW group.

Do you own one?

😲
Didn't know that.

I own a 15 year-old Toyota. 😞

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Last Autumn, on a particularly windy and rainy day I popped into a shop to buy an umbrella and it functioned as such for around 7 seconds before being blown inside out and irreparably damaged.

That's 3 pounds I'll never see again.

Look at you fancy man, £3. You know they have them in pound land, will last an equally impressive 7 seconds or so.

I borrowed my mums umbrella a few months ago, after not getting back she bought me one for my birthday and asked for hers back... i didn't like the new one and said no. Best son ever 😵

Useless things anyway with our sideways Irish rain.

Originally posted by @trev33

Useless things anyway with our sideways Irish rain.[/b]

Lol, so that’s where the sideways rain comes from!

That explains why my logs dry best against the western sided fence of my garden. 🙂

Originally posted by @wolfgang59
VW don't use "Das Auto" anymore since the emissions scandal.

I don't think AUDI were caught cheating. (????)

Who cares who was caught cheating? They're all at it, and we all know it.

(BTW, it's Audi, not AUDI. It's the Latin translation of the German "Horch", not an acronym.)

Originally posted by @drewnogal
Lol, so that’s where the sideways rain comes from!

That explains why my logs dry best against the western sided fence of my garden. 🙂

Shouldn't it be the east facing log which dry best? All that wind and rain coming from the Irish west...