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Post subject: 'Brains' the Contracts Manager

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 2:36 pm

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Have a Contracts Manager we call 'Brains' (from Thunderbirds), he even looks a bit like him! Can anyone think of a building related acronym that will fox him? He knows MCWS, MDPE, PTFE, OSB, CBT etc.

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Post subject: Re: 'Brains' the Contracts Manager

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:08 pm

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AAAV would catch 99 out of a 100 out.

Not even the plumbers and heating guys use the term.

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Post subject: Re: 'Brains' the Contracts Manager

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 4:08 pm

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http://www.abbreviations.com/acronyms/CONSTRUCTION/7

Unfortunately alot of this is Amercian, on the other hand, that gives you more chance of finding some he doesn't know.

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wine~o

Post subject: Re: 'Brains' the Contracts Manager

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 4:59 pm

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thescruff wrote:

AAAV would catch 99 out of a 100 out.

Not even the plumbers and heating guys use the term.

Would that be "automated air admittance valve"...or am I barking??

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Post subject: Re: 'Brains' the Contracts Manager

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 5:09 pm

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wine~o wrote:

thescruff wrote:

AAAV would catch 99 out of a 100 out.

Not even the plumbers and heating guys use the term.

Would that be "automated air admittance valve"...or am I barking??

Been reading my posts again have we. :mrgreen:

No it's Automatic. :wink:

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wine~o

Post subject: Re: 'Brains' the Contracts Manager

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 5:37 pm

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thescruff wrote:

wine~o wrote:

thescruff wrote:

AAAV would catch 99 out of a 100 out.

Not even the plumbers and heating guys use the term.

Would that be "automated air admittance valve"...or am I barking??

Been reading my posts again have we. :mrgreen:

No it's Automatic. :wink:

Automatic/automated...you are such a pedant John..... :lol:

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Post subject: Re: 'Brains' the Contracts Manager

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 6:50 pm

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here's a couple of wigan terms he might not know

guzinto = spigot
guzonto= socket
elephants foot = soil manifold http://www.screwfix.com/p/waste-manifol ... p588/40832
our mary = emery cloth
jackbit box = lunch box

p.s sorry for the s/fix link mod 6, it was for grafic purposes only :oops:

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wine~o

Post subject: Re: 'Brains' the Contracts Manager

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 6:54 pm

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Nowt to do with the building trade... but when need arises (and it will) try TINA

There Is No Alternative :wink:

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thescruff

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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 10:01 pm

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wine~o wrote:

Automatic/automated...you are such a pedant John..... :lol:

Only 93 days till Christmas Mike. :lol:

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Stoday

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Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 12:49 am

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tomplum wrote:

jackbit box = lunch box

Is that the lunchbox in the form of a tin in which you keep your sandwiches.

Or is it the lunchbox in the form of a pair of trousers in which you keep your b'lox?

:lol:

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Post subject: Re: 'Brains' the Contracts Manager

Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 10:19 pm

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Involved in any steelwork Simon.....?

Plenty there he probably wont know....

Probably knows the ol UCs and UBs.....but theres plenty more...

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Post subject: Re: 'Brains' the Contracts Manager

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:24 am

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you could use PPE...... puppet ( brains) prick exposed :-)

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