JTM Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Need a handyman? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FboWteH9Mk&feature=youtu.be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 That's brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Glitters Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Do you remember laughter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indigomoonbeam Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anniemouse Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 I cant get the video to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Glitters Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Mr. Tristram deleted it. No more laughter. :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted June 24, 2015 Author Share Posted June 24, 2015 At the end of the video Robert puts his business card through the letter box, on it is a phone number, a genuine number to someone called Jones. Hopefully the vid will be reposted with the phone number obscured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SozoZoso Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 I saw the video earlier on Facebook (which has been deleted since too) and thought it was hilarious, it made me wonder if Planty would be good enough to join the cast of GoT perhaps?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrycja Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Bah! It's too bad they took it down. I saw it this morning - it was actually really good! What a good sport. Bitumen down your alley? (Who could resist?!) Then Robert's face falls with the blunt rejection hahahaha! By the way, check out "Doreen's Christmas Message to the Commonwealth." What a riot! (I understood about 93% of it on the first go - sometimes the accent's tricky...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Glitters Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 The video was created for the book: http://www.jbsbook.com/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrycja Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 I recall seeing that photo somewhere a while back. It's a wonder that the video was taken down, then, given that it's purpose is to promote the book, and it does so well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Glitters Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 I'm not sure, but it seems to me that the related post on facebook (linked from the JB's site) is deleted to. There have been lots of comments, one saying that it will be too complicated to explain the reason why the video has been taken down. Maybe we'll have to write emails and ask too? Mr. Tristram, the author of the book, is the brother of Mr. Tristram, the producer of the Doreen-Plant-Video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indigomoonbeam Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Watch this space (in the broadest sense of the word), for further developments; there are reasons for everything! Cheers,Indi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Glitters Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Quickly, download it: https://www.facebook.com/groups/16648688206/permalink/10153016423678207/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anniemouse Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 "Would you care for a little bitumen slapped up your alley." "I have a full hot bucket" How could such innocent sentences reduce me to tears of laughter. Genuinely funny and surreal. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrycja Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Quickly, download it:https://www.facebook.com/groups/16648688206/permalink/10153016423678207/ Thank you! "Would you care for a little bitumen slapped up your alley." "I have a full hot bucket" How could such innocent sentences reduce me to tears of laughter. Genuinely funny and surreal. Thank you. Oh I think you know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Glitters Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Finally back on youtube, and in a higher resolution: https://youtu.be/v__bt-M2y9E A question to the native-speakers: could you make it possible to write down the dialog??? Me, a glittering german lady with only Shakespeare english learned at school, will be happy for the rest of my life! (Maybe others too...) Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woz70 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Finally back on youtube, and in a higher resolution: https://youtu.be/v__bt-M2y9E A question to the native-speakers: could you make it possible to write down the dialog??? Me, a glittering german lady with only Shakespeare english learned at school, will be happy for the rest of my life! (Maybe others too...) Thank you! The accents are Black Country, an area near Birmingham. I think Doreen is based in Tipton, just north of Dudley. Tividale is just outside Dudley to the east. RP: Good afternoon Madam, I just happen to have outside a truck with half a load of tarmacadam. Would you care for a little bitumen slapped up your alley? Woman: Eh? RP: A small amount of tarmac for your drive. Woman: (to Doreen) Some bloke 'ere Dor' wants to know if you want your drive tarmaced. Doreen: Is he from the council? Woman: (to RP) Am yer from the council? RP: No madam, private enterprise above all things. Woman: (to D) No. D: Does he want any money? W: (to RP) Dun yer want any money? RP: I'm quite solvent at the moment, but I could do with a little bit. A pinch here and there for some apple juice. W: (to D) Yes. D: Tell 'im to bugger off. W: (to RP) Not today thank you. RP: I'm distressed by this, I have a full hot bucket. It's the finest bitumen in the land, straight from Tividale! (She shuts door, he posts card). There must be an easier way to make ends meet. W: (to D) Well 'e's left 'is business card in case you change yer mind. ....and a bit of Wiki about the black country accent.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Country_accent People from the black country are sometimes called 'yamyams' (due to their saying 'you am', or 'yam' instead of 'you', 'you are' or 'are you?'.), but it wouldn't be wise to call someone from Dudley a 'yamyam' to their face..... An example of Black country speak (two people driving to the shops): "Yam gewin the wrung way! Where am yo gewin kid?" "I ay at all!" "Ye yam, yo day tek that last turnin ya saft get!" "Oh arr, soz I day realise" "yo'll atta gew back im starvin I cor wait no longer kid!" which means: "You're going the wrong way! Where are you going buddy?" "I'm not!" "You are, you didn't take that last turning you idiot!" "Oh yeah, sorry I didn't realise" "You'll have to go back, I'm starving, I can't wait any longer buddy!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Glitters Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Thank you very very much, hugs and kisses! Now I know where I'll go for my next summer holidays! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woz70 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Thank you very very much, hugs and kisses! Now I know where I'll go for my next summer holidays! Summer Holidays in Dudley? Really? The Black Country got it's name from the black smoke constantly belched out by the steel mills in the 19th & early 20th century. Now the industry has pretty much gone, but it's still not very pretty, there's high unemployment and it's quite a deprived area. It makes for an interesting day trip, for the canals and the Black Country Museum, but a summer holiday?? Some of the surrounding countryside in Worcestershire, Shropshire and Staffordshire is nice..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Glitters Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Hey, I'm fed up with the green green grass of home And what can be bad with a country where nice people come around to bring you buckets with finest bitumen? (P.S. First I understood: "bitchman" hehe) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anniemouse Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Its gone viral. Even the Ultimate Classic rock site has posted the video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woz70 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Hey, I'm fed up with the green green grass of home And what can be bad with a country where nice people come around to bring you buckets with finest bitumen? (P.S. First I understood: "bitchman" hehe) You have to understand there's two references going on here..... First - one of RP's early jobs was laying the tarmac on the high street in Wolverhampton, so there's a bit of fun going on there. Second - there's a certain group of gypsies, often called 'tinkers' or 'pikeys', and one of their scams is to offer to tarmac your drive with some 'leftover' tarmac (which they've actually stolen from somewhere). While you're haggling the price with one of them, some others are stealing the wheels off your car and leaving it propped up on bricks, or taking the lead off your roof, or they do the job (badly) and when they've finished demand a lot more money than you've agreed on with threats of violence, property damage etc.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Glitters Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 And finally look what you find when you google "Plant Hire"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Glitters Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Okay, finally the mystery seems to be solved why Mr. Tristram took the video down. In the opening and end-title there is the "be" missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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