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?
Anything else from the "olden days" which was far better than it is now?
My wife.
Being a Health and Safety inspector used to be a piece of pish.
Chip wrappers, always were better in newspaper!
Masturbation.
Gigs - much better when a little crowd surfing and stage diving was still allowed.
Simone
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.
White paint
The top tube gear stick on choppers
Wanmankylung's wife 😉
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!
My job
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.
firestarter:My job
To be fair, you did keep starting those fires.
White gloss paint that stayed white for more than 10 minutes.
Creosote.
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?
That is true jamie 😉
Can we have a picture of your wife wanmankylung, so we can be the judge?
That is true jamie
Just put down the matches, mate, and we can talk.
Just put down the matches, mate, and we can talk.
You're aware that reads like you want to bugger him into discussion?
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).
😳 and 😕
[quote=firestarter ]My job
+1, been told we to have a risk assessment for sharpening chinagraph pencils 🙄 🙄 REALLY!!
moniex - MemberGigs - 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.
Gigs - much better when a little crowd surfing and stage diving was still allowed.
Not so much at Coldplay gigs these days...
1.1.1
Colman's English mustard. Used to burn your nose hair, now it's feeble. Bet it was those H&S meddlers 👿
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)
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.
Pantomimes aren't as good as they used to be.
Oh yes they are!
The mosh pit is certainly one place the H&S man or woman hasn't interfered with; I can attest to that 
Oh no they're not
Life, life was better.
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.
Can I be the first?
Are you defending getting stoned on the motorway?!
😉
Personal responsibility. 🙄
In answer to the OP.
May I be the first to defend his right to get stoned on a [s]motorway[/s] weekend.
Spray Mount ozone friendly. Crap.
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?
The baby Jesus.
Bikes.
Nowadays they're all really good and put together with the forks on the right way round. In the olden days you'd get one with the wheels on backwards or it'd be a Raleigh chopper just waiting to go round a corner before losing control and throwing your knackers onto a gear stick.
Remember those god-awful full-suss Klein's that rammed you up the arse every time you put the brakes on?
Or those disk wheels that wobbled sideways under load?
How about those adjusta-stems?
Rear suspension only bikes?
They don't make dangerous kit like that any more.
The HSE haven't really ruined anything, it's the people who are "health and safety experts" with no hands on experience or legal knowledge, employed by our firms who do little but impose PPE rather than tackle the real issues.
RCD's have taken the fun out of things somewhat, especially when popping some toast on whilst having a bath. Never were the stakes so high.
Kia-Ora
[i]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). [/i]
We're still looking for a picture 🙂
