Should I be worried?

[vernon]

An item on Radio Four prompted me to look up an article in today's Daily Telegraph that covered the 40 dullest men of Great Britain's book by Leland Carlson.

I trawled through the slideshow covering some of the men and I found the following activities of theirs appealing:

Vacuum cleaner collecting
Building a World War One Tank and parking it in the drive
Beer can collecting
Lawn mower collecting

Which activity/activities of the men listed appeal to you?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/11898415/Are-these-the-23-dullest-men-in-Great-Britain-.html

 

[Drago]

Drain spotting looks right up my street.

 

[vernon]

Drain spotting looks right up my street.

It's right up Jeremy Corbyn's street

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...I-both-love-coal-plates-and-drain-covers.html

 

[JtB]

None.

 

[IDMark2]

I was surprised you could be so interested and collect so many handsaws and then be only 'one of the foremost' authorities on the subject. There's more of them?
Nobody else is such a pie authority though, so you're OK on that vernon.

 

[Drago]

It's right up Jeremy Corbyn's street

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...I-both-love-coal-plates-and-drain-covers.html

Oh my God! I've got hidden communist leanings!

 

[stephec]

I quite like some of them, I wouldn't mind the tank on my drive.

 

[IDMark2]

Just thinking about it... what led you @vernon, presumably on seeing a link for an article called 'The 23 dullest men in Britain' to think 'Oh, that looks interesting, I'll click on it....'?

Edit: Just reread and saw you heard it first... sorry.
I shall retire to tend my collection of frying pans.

 

[Brandane]

Beer can collecting

What's wrong with that (apart from the obvious fact that most canned beers taste like pish)?
Assuming that they are full, and that the intention is to empty them and thereafter dispose of the empty can!

 

[Hugh Manatee]

Oh no! Number five could be me! I have an urge next time we take a beach holiday, to take my GNSS (the very same model he has there) with me to check the theory and extent of tidal loading under different geological conditions.

Tidal loading is where the body of water moving over the land as the tide comes in actually pushes the land mass down.

I have already forced the family to visit Newlyn (home of the UK national datum level) with me to see the aforementioned datum. The children looked at me with deep suspicion for ages every time I said, "Good news kids, we're going to the beach." Newlyn turned out to smell of fish and not have a beach!

For the record, those chaps are using a Leica GS15 GNSS antenna. They will almost certainly be static logging due to the lack of 3G signals on top of hills/mountains.


Oh, I'm probably worse than them. Help!

 

[vernon]

I quite like some of them, I wouldn't mind the tank on my drive.

I fancied having a Massey Ferguson 35 on my drive. Not as imposing as a tank but still too wide to fit between the gate posts frustrating my acquisition plans and ensuring domestic harmony.

I settled for a a much less demanding substitute, a Lister D stationary engine.

 

[Fubar]

Just thinking about it... what led you @vernon, presumably on seeing a link for an article called 'The 23 dullest men in Britain' to think 'Oh, that looks interesting, I'll click on it....'?

Checking to see which one of us was on it.

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

Have they just copied the whole book and put it on the website? That's a bit cheeky isn't it?

Edit: Only 23 out of 40, so only half the book. That's OK then...

 

[HertzvanRental]

The guy with the Hoover's can't Hoover his floor for Hoovers!!

 

[stephec]

I fancied having a Massey Ferguson 35 on my drive. Not as imposing as a tank but still too wide to fit between the gate posts frustrating my acquisition plans and ensuring domestic harmony.

I settled for a a much less demanding substitute, a Lister D stationary engine.

There's a bloke near me who used to have a Land Rover 101 on his drive.

It filled the space between the posts so that he had to squeeze past it.