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3Faze
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
Posts: 99
Location: Lincolnshire, UK
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You know when you're a real roboteer when:
1. You find yourself really looking forward to a trip the scrap yard on the weekend. 2. Peoples first topic of conversation with you is about the latest Robot Wars on TV not the weather.
3. You know the names of at least forty robots and what there teams drink.
4. Your wife buys you a pneumatic ram for your birthday.
5. You understand what all those other buttons on the calculator do.
6. You don't use all those other buttons on the calculator because you have a CAD package.
7. You spent most of your Christmas day with your hand up a robot instead of the turkey.
8. You have the badge, wallet, posters, the spanner rash and most of at least two robots in your garage.
9. You find swarf in your tea after doing a spot of drilling and still drink it.
10. You have more machinery and parts catalogues than copies of FHM.
11. When you have a visitor, they are forced to drink their tea from a mug which has weld and grinding splatter on it as they have all been in the workshop sometime.
12. Most of the staff in Maplin recognise you.
13. You don't worry about your car battery going flat, because you've got four more powerful batteries in the boot.
14. You know which cars have right-hand and left-hand wiper motors.
15. Your computer crashes because it's been cut clean in half by a spinner.
16. Your idea of a good Saturday night involves setting up your speed controllers and posting on www.fightingrobots.co.uk/forum.
17. You receive divorce papers with the robot named as co-respondent!
18. You spend your birthday shopping for hydraulic couplings that don't exist.
19. You see a empty parking lot with a nice flat surface and imagine its heaven.
20. You dream about the bloody things!
21. You cant open any cupboard in the house without a fire extinguisher landing on your foot.
22. Your cats complain when you take the robot, the robot parts and the robot construction tools out of your living room because then they've just lost good hiding spots against the dog.
23. You wonder what colour your kitchen table had.
24. You start dusting with a CO2 bottle.
25. When your robot bites back & you end up in casualty.
26. When you buy sugar by robot weight category... 1 bag of ant weight and a featherweight please.
27. When you leave the living room curtains closed all the time to save discolouring your polycarb stash.
28. When you buy wooden drinks coasters because you accidentally put the old metal one on a battery by the coffee table.
29. You think about buying a car and looks style and practicality go out the window and the question how many robots can i get in the back with room for spares.
30. You select a car with compatible wiper motors for your feather's drive train.
31. When you see a disabled person passing by in an electrical wheelchair and your friends have to restrain you from approaching this person with the offer to give it more speed and maybe stronger batteries and perhaps a better gear ratio.
32. You know you are a roboteer when you go to buy an engagement ring for the bird and when the ask what size she is..... um..... M6 I think!
33. You want the ring made of titanium.
34. You look at remote controlled Beyblade's and think that's a good idea for a robot.
35. When you see a disabled person passing by in an electrical wheelchair and your friends have to restrain you from completely stripping the poor disabled persons wheelchair/scooter of every possible useful part, leaving them sitting stranded on the chair in the middle of the road!
36. When the only time your family can see you is when they visit a live event.
37. When your neighbours hold a rally in order to pay for soundproofing the walls of your shed.
38. When you program your alarm clock to wake you up with "Three, Two, One... Activate !
39. When your wife says your dinners in the GARAGE !!!
40. When your robot makes your dinner.
41. When your wife says your dinners in your imagination!
42. When the postman delivers mail addressed to (Workshop Widow)
43. When you sit down for a cr*p and the toilet seat flips you into next doors garden!
44. When you get a Christmas card addressed to your robot.
45. When you have more robot idea's in you head then there have been robots in all 7 series.
46. When you do a school project on batteries.
47. When you get a Hypnodisc birthday cake.
48. When you look forward to the next Machine Mart catalogue coming out!
49. When your work colleagues suggest that you convert the office mailing machine into a fighting robot.
Author long forgotten.
The key parts are 19, 20, 31 and 35... you see, it just proves you're normal.
.... Well as "normal" as the rest of us
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