Bloke stuff

[stephec]

Luckily you'd stocked up on the old colour cable too

I've still got some in my shed.

 

[Profpointy]

I've still got some in my shed.

can't use it now as it was only allowed before the date - oh, hang on, that's when the work would have been done wouldn't it?

 

[Profpointy]

as a parallel to this, in Australia, or New South Wales at any rate, it was illegal to do your own plumbing. Didn't affect me personally in my company-paid flat, but I commented derisively to my Ausi friends only to be told very earnestly "that's really important as if you get it wrong you can cause Cholera". Have to say, even the least competent plumber is unlikely to mix up the 12mm pipe going into the crapper from the 100mm pipe coming out the bottom. And even then, if you screw up installing a dunny, to use the local term, you'd get shyte leaking into your living room and would likely get it fixed pdq, long before an epidemic wiped out half of Sydney.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I don't think I've ever done a blokey thing in my entire life. Oh, I've just remembered, I did once go to a football game, Derby County verses somebody. Does that count ?

 

[Drago]

If that's the case, why is cholera not rampant in the UK?

 

[Profpointy]

If that's the case, why is cholera not rampant in the UK?

we're smarter than Australians and can tell the difference between 12mm and 100mm.
Or maybe less boastful - there's an obscene joke in there somewhere.

 

[slowmotion]

as a parallel to this, in Australia, or New South Wales at any rate, it was illegal to do your own plumbing. Didn't affect me personally in my company-paid flat, but I commented derisively to my Ausi friends only to be told very earnestly "that's really important as if you get it wrong you can cause Cholera". Have to say, even the least competent plumber is unlikely to mix up the 12mm pipe going into the crapper from the 100mm pipe coming out the bottom. And even then, if you screw up installing a dunny, to use the local term, you'd get shyte leaking into your living room and would likely get it fixed pdq, long before an epidemic wiped out half of Sydney.

Completely off-topic but faintly plumbing related..... When the Australian government restricted the private ownership of rifles, there was a nationwide shortage of six inch plumbing pipe and stop-ends. People were burying the pipe vertically and stashing their guns in a convenient underground container.

 

[TeeShot]

Went to B and Q, bought two 9 foot lengths of 4x2 timber. Put them in the van, closed the back doors with the aid of a bungy and a ratchet strap. Red rag tied to the protruding timber and drove home. Perfectly safe !!

 

[perplexed]

I'm in an emotional torment today. I want to buy a Dremmel with lots of attachments.

But I'm emotionally conflicted by the battling hormones within me - I want it because I want to make something small, delicate and artistic...

 

[hopless500]

I bet you can grow a magnificent handlebar moustache?

I sincerely hope she can't

 

[hopless500]

I'm in an emotional torment today. I want to buy a Dremmel with lots of attachments.

But I'm emotionally conflicted by the battling hormones within me - I want it because I want to make something small, delicate and artistic...

I love my Dremel

 

[Speicher]

The hinge of one of the doors in this house started to squeak. I found the WD40 within two days of the squeak starting, and stopped the squeak. Is this "bloke stuff" or would you have waited at least two months before fixing the squeak?

The webbing under one of the chairs has stretched and one end of one of the lengths of webbing had broken away from the end clippy part. I prised apart the arms of the clip, cut the frayed webbing back to a strong part. Should a bloke know the proper name for the "clipppy" end part?

I will be purchasing new webbing in order to make it a proper job, rather than a botched one.

 

[ColinJ]

The hinge of one of the doors in this house started to squeak. I found the WD40 within two days of the squeak starting, and stopped the squeak. Is this "bloke stuff" or would you have waited at least two months before fixing the squeak?

You may laugh, but ...

My front door key had been sticking in the lock off and on for several months. I thought that I might end up snapping it off and was getting really wound up with it. My sister was here and watching me get really ratty.

"Er, have you tried putting a few drops of oil in there?"

Of course, I hadn't, so I did, and that fixed it!

 

[perplexed]

Well, I got the Dremel.

I spent some time today taking apart a lamp from Wilkinsons - It was brand new, but it was actually cheaper to do this than buy a 'lamp kit'. I then got my old, steel stove top coffee pot and drilled through the bottom (no easy feat - it's steel rather than aluminium) to put a small bolt through. I cut down the lamp bracket to fit and bolted it to the bottom. By fortuitous coincidence, I could feed the cable through the old safety valve hole, once I took the nut off...

Then I cut out the base of the chamber which held the brewed coffee to accommodate the bulb. Then, some 'artistic' cuts/slashes/holes made in the upper section to create an 'interesting' light cast on the wall. Screwed the whole thing together, and hey presto, a new, individual 'upcycled' lamp.

I would post a picture to bore everyone with, but computer says no at the moment...

 

[Mile195]

I finished rewiring my garage, having condemned the 40+ year old sockets and florescent light fittings some weeks ago. Unfortunately this now means I have run out of convenient excuses to service my motorbike, since I can actually see what I am doing again... So my bloke stuff for tomorrow will be... Servicing said motorbike......... Well I'll see how I feel in the morning perhaps!