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  1. Received this morning via email...

    Subject: Complaints to landlords

    1) My bush is really overgrown round the front and my back passage has
    fungus growing in it.

    2) He's got this huge tool that vibrates the whole house and I just can't
    take it anymore.

    3) It's the dogs mess that I find hard to swallow.

    4) I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt my
    knob off.

    5) I wish to complain that my father hurt his ankle very badly when he put
    his foot in the hole in his back passage.

    6) And their 18 year old son is continually banging his balls against my
    fence.

    7) I wish to report that tiles are missing from the outside toilet roof. I
    think it was bad wind the other night that blew them off.

    8) My lavatory seat is cracked, where do I stand?

    9) I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is coming away from the wall.

    10) Will you please send someone to mend the garden path? My wife tripped
    and fell on it yesterday and now she is pregnant.

    11) I request permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen

    12) 50% of the walls are damp, 50% have crumbling plaster and 50% are plain
    filthy.

    13) I am still having problems with smoke in my new drawers.

    14) The toilet is blocked and we cannot bath the children until it is
    cleared.

    15) Will you please send a man to look at my water, it is a funny colour and
    not fit to drink.

    16) Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in three pieces.

    17) I want to complain about the farmer across the road; every morning at
    6am his [censored] wakes me up and its now getting too much for me.

    18) The man next door has a large erection in the back garden, which is
    unsightly and dangerous.

    19) Our kitchen floor is damp. We have two children and would like a third
    so please send someone round to do something about it.

    20) I am a single woman living in a downstairs flat and would you please do
    something about the noise made by the man on top of me every night.

    21) Please send a man with the right tool to finish the job and satisfy my
    wife.
    22) I have had the clerk of works down on the floor six times but I still
    have no satisfaction.

    23) This is to let you know that our lavatory seat is broke and we can't get
    BBC2.

  2. wafflycat wrote:

    <ancient chortlesome snuff snipped>

    Quoted message said:


    12) 50% of the walls are damp, 50% have crumbling plaster and 50% are plain
    filthy.

    Call me a humourless twunt, but there's nothing wrong with that
    statement. In fact, it resembles a place I rented in Portsmouth a few
    years ago :-)

  3. Russell Fulker said:

    wafflycat wrote:

    <ancient chortlesome snuff snipped>

    Quoted message said:


    12) 50% of the walls are damp, 50% have crumbling plaster and 50% are
    plain
    filthy.

    Call me a humourless twunt, but there's nothing wrong with that
    statement. In fact, it resembles a place I rented in Portsmouth a few
    years ago :-)

    You're a humourless twunt ;-)

    You are, of course, also correct as the three categories are not
    mutually exclusive. So while it would be logically incorrect to say 50%
    of people have brown eyes, 50% blue eyes and 50% green eyes, it would
    not be logically incorrect to say 50% have brown eyes, 50% have brown
    hair and 50% have brown skin.

    Have I won the even-more-humourless nerd award?

    --
    Tony

    "I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
    Anon

  4. Tony Raven said:

    So while it would be logically incorrect to say 50%
    of people have brown eyes, 50% blue eyes and 50% green eyes

    No it wouldn't, as some people have eyes of different colours.

    Quoted message said:

    Have I won the even-more-humourless nerd award?

    Apparently not ;-)

    --
    Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
    <URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/>
    "He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

  5. At Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:32:32 +0100, message
    <[email hidden]> was posted by Danny Colyer
    <[email hidden]>, including some, all or none of the
    following:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    So while it would be logically incorrect to say 50%
    of people have brown eyes, 50% blue eyes and 50% green eyes


    No it wouldn't, as some people have eyes of different colours.

    Eyes of differing colours (heterochromia iridis) is a rare somatic
    mutation (or sometimes a response to disease), not a polygenic trait
    like regular eye colour. So Tony is right: it is not logically
    possible for the 50% brown, 50% blue, 50% green situation to exist.

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Have I won the even-more-humourless nerd award?


    Apparently not ;-)

    That would be me, then.

    Guy
    --
    http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

    "To every complex problem there is a solution which is
    simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken

  6. Just zis Guy said:

    Eyes of differing colours (heterochromia iridis) is a rare somatic
    mutation (or sometimes a response to disease), not a polygenic trait
    like regular eye colour. So Tony is right: it is not logically
    possible for the 50% brown, 50% blue, 50% green situation to exist.

    Or, according to one theory, the result of a chimera forming when twin
    embryos fuse at an early stage of development. It is logically possible
    for rare mutations to become more common, or for a rare embryo fusion
    event to become more common, most likely in response to environmental
    changes, so it is logically possible for the situation to exist, even if
    unlikely.

    --
    Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
    <URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/>
    "He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

  7. Danny Colyer said:


    Or, according to one theory, the result of a chimera forming when twin
    embryos fuse at an early stage of development. It is logically possible
    for rare mutations to become more common, or for a rare embryo fusion
    event to become more common, most likely in response to environmental
    changes, so it is logically possible for the situation to exist, even if
    unlikely.

    Or maybe they just mixed up their coloured contact lenses in the
    bathroom that morning ;-)

    --
    Tony

    "I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
    Anon

  8. In article <[email hidden]>,

    Tony Raven said:

    Or maybe they just mixed up their coloured contact lenses in the
    bathroom that morning ;-)

    When my wife was a trainee nurse she scrubbed all the false teeth :-))

    --
    A T (Sandy) Morton
    on the Bicycle Island
    In the Global Village
    http://www.millport.net

  9. Sandy Morton <[email hidden]> wrote in
    news:[email hidden]:

    Quoted message said:

    When my wife was a trainee nurse she scrubbed all the false teeth :-))

    And if you [censored] them off, they still do. With Dettol.

  10. Graeme said:

    Sandy Morton <[email hidden]> wrote in
    news:[email hidden]:

    Quoted message said:

    When my wife was a trainee nurse she scrubbed all the false teeth :-))

    And if you [censored] them off, they still do. With Dettol.

    While you are still wearing them ;-)

    --
    Tony

    "I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
    Anon

  11. Danny Colyer said:

    Or, according to one theory, the result of a chimera forming when twin
    embryos fuse at an early stage of development. It is logically
    possible for rare mutations to become more common, or for a rare
    embryo fusion event to become more common, most likely in response to
    environmental changes, so it is logically possible for the situation
    to exist, even if unlikely.

    Or, apparently, if one gets smacked in the face in a playground fight,
    resulting in one eye changing colour. This, I believe, is what happened in
    the case of the famous Mr. D. Jones of Brixton.

    --
    Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
    Electricity comes from other planets.

  12. Just zis Guy said:

    <[email hidden]> was posted by Danny Colyer

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    So while it would be logically incorrect to say 50%
    of people have brown eyes, 50% blue eyes and 50% green eyes


    No it wouldn't, as some people have eyes of different colours.

    Eyes of differing colours (heterochromia iridis) is a rare somatic
    mutation (or sometimes a response to disease), not a polygenic trait
    like regular eye colour.

    And anyway, having, for example, one green and one blue eye is having
    neither blue eyes (plural) nor green eyes.

    Quoted message said:

    So Tony is right: it is not logically
    possible for the 50% brown, 50% blue, 50% green situation to exist.

    Counting those people with eyes that some people describe as blue
    and some people describe as green twice (and similarly those with part
    green part blue eyes) would be possible, but probably illogical.

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