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  • Things that were better before health and safety ruined them?
  • choppersquad
    Free Member

    Paint stripper. Tried to strip a door frame today with new improved (non toxic and hurty) paint stripper.
    WHAT A LOAD OF RUBBISH!
    They’ve taken out the chemical that actually made it work, and now you have to use two coats and leave it for 1hr before trying to scrape the single coat of paint it has blistered. Great, except there are eight coats on the doorframe. Whatever happened to the stuff that used to blister the paint in ten seconds, and also your hands if you weren’t careful?
    Proper mans paint stripper. Anything else from the “olden days” which was far better than it is now?

    wanmankylung
    Free Member

    Anything else from the “olden days” which was far better than it is now?

    My wife.

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    Being a Health and Safety inspector used to be a piece of pish.

    Suggsey
    Free Member

    Chip wrappers, always were better in newspaper!

    TheBrick
    Free Member

    Masturbation.

    moniex
    Free Member

    Gigs – much better when a little crowd surfing and stage diving was still allowed.

    Simone

    Jamie
    Free Member

    Do you remember when we used to be able to work with asbestos?

    Those were…*cough*…days.

    Bloody *hack* killjoys.

    Edit: Sorry, I forgot about Wanmankylung’s wife.

    enfht
    Free Member

    White paint

    The top tube gear stick on choppers

    Wanmankylung’s wife 😉

    oldboy
    Free Member

    Do you remember when we used to be able to work with asbestos?

    I remember my father servicing the drum brakes on his Ford Anglia and brushing the accumulated asbestos dust out of the drum for us all to inhale – happy days!

    firestarter
    Free Member

    My job

    yossarian
    Free Member

    Using and removing asbestos
    Working down the mines or offshore
    Working for unscrupulous bosses used be brilliant

    In short, making more money by cutting corners was bloody great. Obviously it was only great if you didn’t get hurt, but it fuelled our sense of adventure didn’t it?

    OP – just get your door dipped and stripped. So much easier and cheaper.

    Jamie
    Free Member

    firestarter:

    My job

    To be fair, you did keep starting those fires.

    mark90
    Free Member

    White gloss paint that stayed white for more than 10 minutes.

    esselgruntfuttock
    Free Member

    Creosote.

    choppersquad
    Free Member

    Might have trouble with dipping the door frame.
    Not the door that needed stripping.
    As an aside, what do companies who dip doors use?
    They must have special dispensation to use the stuff that made you high?

    firestarter
    Free Member

    That is true jamie 😉

    choppersquad
    Free Member

    Can we have a picture of your wife wanmankylung, so we can be the judge?

    Jamie
    Free Member

    That is true jamie

    Just put down the matches, mate, and we can talk.

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    Just put down the matches, mate, and we can talk.

    You’re aware that reads like you want to bugger him into discussion?

    wanmankylung
    Free Member

    In an interesting turn of events this evening, the wife mentioned above looks like becoming my ex-wife in the foreseeable future. (It was always going to happen, just a matter of when).

    enfht
    Free Member

    😳 and 😕

    bruneep
    Full Member

    +1, been told we to have a risk assessment for sharpening chinagraph pencils 🙄 🙄 REALLY!!

    Northwind
    Full Member

    moniex – Member

    Gigs – much better when a little crowd surfing and stage diving was still allowed.

    You’ve been going to the wrong gigs! Constant flood of tubby fliers at the last few I was at, quite a lot of comedy droppage too.

    PrinceJohn
    Full Member

    Gigs – much better when a little crowd surfing and stage diving was still allowed.

    Not so much at Coldplay gigs these days…

    shifter
    Free Member

    1.1.1

    bob_summers
    Full Member

    Colman’s English mustard. Used to burn your nose hair, now it’s feeble. Bet it was those H&S meddlers 👿

    andytherocketeer
    Full Member

    They’ve taken out the chemical that actually made it work, and now you have to use two coats

    H+S ? or marketing ? 😉
    bit like the “rinse+repeat” on shampoo (I bet nobody does)

    Coyote
    Free Member

    I’ll name the brand. Nitromors. Used to be awesome. Paint would blister for miles around just by taking the lid off. The new stuff is like rubbing toothpaste into the paint just not as volatile.

    schnullelieber
    Free Member

    Pantomimes aren’t as good as they used to be.

    alexpalacefan
    Full Member

    Oh yes they are!

    mikey74
    Free Member

    The mosh pit is certainly one place the H&S man or woman hasn’t interfered with; I can attest to that :mrgreen:

    schnullelieber
    Free Member

    Oh no they’re not

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    Life, life was better.

    FunkyDunc
    Free Member

    Cars

    I work on the motorways – I used to wear a short sleeved hi-viz vest, hard hat, shorts and riggers in summer. If I wanted to get to the other side of the M1, I legged it across 6 lanes. Occassionally, I may have had a cheeky spliff at lunchtime. And what was a risk assessment?

    Now, I wear head to toe hi-viz, flame retardant overalls, gloves, glasses, no riggers (that’s probably not a bad thing). If I even look at a traffic cone, never mind set foot outside one, I’ll probably be off site. I can’t even have a cheeky spliff in my own time at weekends, as I’m always facing the prospect of a drugs test. I hear next week, they are risk assessing taking a dump.

    A lot of the work I do is for a major construction company – they have banned the use of Stanley knives – this is a real PITA being a sparky working with armoured cables.

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    Can I be the first?

    Are you defending getting stoned on the motorway?!

    😉

    slackalice
    Free Member

    Personal responsibility. 🙄

    In answer to the OP.

    enfht
    Free Member

    May I be the first to defend his right to get stoned on a motorway weekend.

    eddiebaby
    Free Member

    Spray Mount ozone friendly. Crap.

    slowoldman
    Full Member

    Children’s playgrounds. When I were a lad you could fall off a badly maintained roundabout onto hard concrete. Now it’s all soft surfaces. How’s a kid to lose a tooth?

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