What if Things Changed? (1 Viewer)

I think Rob has spent too much time in the gentlemen's rest room at The Ritz :D:D
 
Excellent thread guys. I really like Andy's response. I am going to sit back and watch the excellent companies out there like K&C, Honour Bound & Figarti just get better and better reacting to each others improvements . . . oh who am I kidding, I'm like a kid in a candy shop, I'm going to bankrupt myself buying it all!
 
Louis Badolato said:
Excellent thread guys. I really like Andy's response. I am going to sit back and watch the excellent companies out there like K&C, Honour Bound & Figarti just get better and better reacting to each others improvements . . . oh who am I kidding, I'm like a kid in a candy shop, I'm going to bankrupt myself buying it all!
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No you are not
 
panda1gen said:
Why, what happens there?:confused:
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It's an old thread joke. Rob was disturbed one day when he went for tea at The Ritz. If you do a search for a thread with Ritz in the title i'm sure it will appear!
It's just me being silly on a rainy friday afternoon while my printer is rattling off hundreds of pages!
 
Kevin,i will relate the true story of a S***z at the Ritz!.After a jolly nice tea with associated family members at the Ritz a few months back i thought i'd take advantage of the toilet facillities.As i finished my ablutions an elderly gentlemen in the pay of said Hotel grabbed my elbow and tried to lead me to the tip Jar cheeky old F****r!.Firstly my intial reaction to anyone grabbing my elbow in the mens room would be to smack afore mentioned old retainer in the mouth!.

Secondly he was not only dicing with an unpleasent death in a hotel toilet,he also expected me to pay two quid for relieving myself!.Call me old fashioned but at 43 i don't need much help in visiting the toilet and i was not going to pay this officious old fart for the priviledge.I'D JUST PAYED ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY QUID FOR TEA AND SANDWHICHES AND I'M NOW BEING TAPPED UP TO TAKE A LEAK!!!!

Churchill would turn in his grave

Rob
 
King & Country said:
Hi Guys,

In answer to this hypothetical question here is my hypothetical answer...If K&C’s quality and originality dropped and if another brand-new company appeared on the scene providing all kinds of new and exciting developments and ideas then I and K&C would deserve to lose out to the newcomer.

I’ve never, not even for one minute, thought collectors bought K&C because I was pretty...or nice...or just an all-round good guy. Collectors buy because what we make is what they like. Some people prefer Frontline...others Britains...New Model Army...Honour Bound...John Jenkins...whatever.

Quite a few collectors collect multi different manufacturers and that’s great too...So do I in what I collect.

Brand loyalty (for any brand) is in the hearts and minds of individual collectors. I would not want, or indeed expect, anyone to buy inferior products from us or anywhere else if we went into a “complete creative meltdown”.

To be honest, it’s a bit like saying, “Would you continue to fly with British Airways if their service and flying safety was going down the toilet?”

Of course you wouldn’t! And that’s why K&C and me will never sit back on any perceived laurels we might have no matter how successful we might appear to others.

Anyone who knows me...knows that I have a raging passion for this hobby and business and love it to death.

That means not sitting around gazing at my navel and sucking my thumb and watching the competition jump all over me and K&C.

As I’ve said many times before K&C welcomes competition from wherever it comes...but that’s not the same thing as “rolling over and playing dead”. As many of our competitors know all too well K&C knows how to work hard...and play hard.

Best wishes and...happy collecting!

Andy C.
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Andy

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KING AND COUNTRY

GREAT PRODUCTS - NO APOLOGIES !! :D :D

What do you think??

Ron
 
Ron

Forget the slogan here is an whole add based on UK MASTERCARD ADVERTS

Full set of K&C UK Crimean $480

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Monthly subscription to TSC $30

Andy's opinion on what you think about him or his products...................PRICLESS

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Rob said:
Kevin,i will relate the true story of a S***z at the Ritz!.After a jolly nice tea with associated family members at the Ritz a few months back i thought i'd take advantage of the toilet facillities.As i finished my ablutions an elderly gentlemen in the pay of said Hotel grabbed my elbow and tried to lead me to the tip Jar cheeky old F****r!.Firstly my intial reaction to anyone grabbing my elbow in the mens room would be to smack afore mentioned old retainer in the mouth!.

Secondly he was not only dicing with an unpleasent death in a hotel toilet,he also expected me to pay two quid for relieving myself!.Call me old fashioned but at 43 i don't need much help in visiting the toilet and i was not going to pay this officious old fart for the priviledge.I'D JUST PAYED ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY QUID FOR TEA AND SANDWHICHES AND I'M NOW BEING TAPPED UP TO TAKE A LEAK!!!!

Churchill would turn in his grave

Rob
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That's a great story Rob, we don't have a tipping culture in Australia.

The only time my father travelled overseas was when he was with the RAAF/RAF and he did a cooks tour after the war. He said he went to one restaurant and the waiter came back with the change on a plate but with his thumb on some of the money.

My father being a somewhat forthright person lifted the guys thumb and took that money as well.

To which the waiter replied:

"What about the waiter?"

F**k the waiter, replied my father :)
 
Rob said:
Kevin,i will relate the true story of a S***z at the Ritz!.After a jolly nice tea with associated family members at the Ritz a few months back i thought i'd take advantage of the toilet facillities.As i finished my ablutions an elderly gentlemen in the pay of said Hotel grabbed my elbow and tried to lead me to the tip Jar cheeky old F****r!.Firstly my intial reaction to anyone grabbing my elbow in the mens room would be to smack afore mentioned old retainer in the mouth!.

Secondly he was not only dicing with an unpleasent death in a hotel toilet,he also expected me to pay two quid for relieving myself!.Call me old fashioned but at 43 i don't need much help in visiting the toilet and i was not going to pay this officious old fart for the priviledge.I'D JUST PAYED ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY QUID FOR TEA AND SANDWHICHES AND I'M NOW BEING TAPPED UP TO TAKE A LEAK!!!!

Churchill would turn in his grave

Rob
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No he wouldn't
 
Rob, remind me never to go to posh hotels with you - let's stick to the cheap ones eh?:D
 
King & Country said:
...That means not sitting around gazing at my navel and sucking my thumb and watching the competition jump all over me and K&C.
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That's funny- tell you what -you post something like that on the KC UKTV as a video and I would buy strictly KC figures till I enter the Church Triumphant.
:D:D

CC
 
OzDigger said:
That's a great story Rob, we don't have a tipping culture in Australia.

The only time my father travelled overseas was when he was with the RAAF/RAF and he did a cooks tour after the war. He said he went to one restaurant and the waiter came back with the change on a plate but with his thumb on some of the money.

My father being a somewhat forthright person lifted the guys thumb and took that money as well.

To which the waiter replied:

"What about the waiter?"

F**k the waiter, replied my father :)
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:D:D

I don't mind a fair tip but when they take liberties:mad:
 
Rob said:
:D:D

I don't mind a fair tip but when they take liberties:mad:
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I love Australia- that's a great one Oz-

Yeah, I have been to some clubs where they have some derelict hanging around in the bathroom taking up space that would probably be better occupied by another latrine. The day I drop some money for a toilet waiter is the day I vote Democrat.

Yeah, like I said, the only time I have ever seen those guys is at clubs and well, one of those chuckleheads snatches me up after I have spent the night pounding pints of Guinness and chasing those down with shots of Jagermeister is going to require some medical attention.

Of course, if it was an elderly dude, I probably wouldn't have paid it much heed and chucked him a buck or two......
 
Rob, Kevin

Remember if you get tapped up at the royal National (home of the Toy soldiershow London) run boys run........dont look back run

Tony
 
At least K&C UK don't pay people to hang round the toilets asking for tips!.;)

Rob
 
I'm sure i heard Tony say the xmas drinks are on him;)

Rob
 
After a great deal of thought I've come to the conclusion that if things changed they'd be different - no change there then ;)
 
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