In a mild panic. Made a set of five custom brackets that are being used to install some christmas lights in a shopping centre over night tonight. Client came to pick them up yesterday – “Yeap they’re great…. er where are the other 2 sets?” Turns out there are 3 entrances to the centre and everything was to be duplicated 3 times. Either he didn’t tell me or I didn’t listen, or more likely both.

Anxiously sitting on my hands waiting for new steel to arrive and wondering how quickly I can persuade paint to dry to get them onsite and ready to install at 6pm.

It’ll be fine

World’s smallest man

Scale model of the world’s biggest bottle

Theres another reason why you’ll see empty bikelocks on street furniture but people here get uppity if you discuss how bikes get stolen

Pub Landladies – the breweries always choose women to manage the roughest pubs

if duct tape can’t fix it beer can

If duct tape can’t fix something I fear bear my have played a role in breaking it.

I think the defender is as at home on a farmyard as it is outside a nice restaurant.

Well it would in the sense that it would appear someone who owns a Defender has come to visit, the farmers I know drive mondeos. The broken down landrover in the barn (or the 5 broken down LRs in the barn) has been surpassed by the quadbike.

About twenty years ago myself and some mates befriended Barry, a retired Hells Angel in our local pub. Lovely old guy, not as many fingers as most of us would like, but plenty of tall stories to tell, some of them ended with the loss of a finger. Anyway we’d just chat with him if he was around the bar, we didn’t have him around for dinner or anything.

One Christmas there was a knock at the door and it was Barry with little giftwrapped presents for us all – they were hand knitted moccasin slippers, each knitted frugally out of a bewildering variety of left over bits of yarn, and with improbably large pompoms on the toes. They each came with a card from Barry’s mum (who we’d never met or even heard of) who’d knitted them to thank us each personally for being so nice to her Barry.

Even though they were way too small for my size 12 feet (they’d ping off quite comically if tried to go down the stairs too quick) I wore them for the best part of 10 years.

Cover versions can be ace, some people get more out of the song that the original author – William Shatner’s cover version of Common People, although its a bit camp, is a far better rendition of the song than the original for example.

Its a fairly recent phenomenon that its considered (more) valuable to be both the author and performer of a song, and that its somehow less ‘genuine’ or even a bit lazy not to be, whether you’re rerecording someone elses song or having one written specially for you. Songs used to more of a currency, some people wrote them others performed them, the songs travelled but the performers were local.

A sticker on the back that says “Hows my riding?” and gives a 0800 number to call. If you call the number speech-to-text technology posts you’re rantings direct to the comments section of a randomly selected article on the Daily Mail’s website

cant see it changing anything result wise as most wont vote IMHO.

It wouldn’t change results here as there just aren’t all that many people in prison.

an area mostly inhabited by 60+ year olds.

Thats what the hike in premiums is about- although all the road safety campaigns focus on child victims its pensioner pedestrians that are most likely to be killed or injured on the road (you’d need to find a kid to knock on down) so you’re paying for the increased risk you’ll squish a granny 🙂

Do bear in mind that it is the power tool with which most people injure themselves.

Its so difficult to pick up your own fingers

So sitcom/ comedy drama rather than sketch shows? Best I’ve seen in a long time is Misfits on E4 / Channel 4, you’ll prob find the first series on 4OD, second series coming up next month.

If you’re loosing money then maybe you’ve chosen a car thats too expensive for what you’re using it for – tax, insurance, servicing and fuel cost are all fairly constant but the car is as cheap or expensive as you choose it to be.

It’s hardly DIY if you get someone else to do it.

Do it! Yabass.

The spans in the bottom pic look pretty large for a residential project. Traditional timber/masonry doesn’t really work with spans much over 5m.

One or two steel beams would deal with those spans though, all the vertical metal had no purpose at all.

I though the end result was ok looking but the steel frame was so redundant, a massive, over engineered frame between elements that would stand up all by themselves without it. If the spans were massive (like in a shopping centre), or the whole thing was cantievered out over the edge of a cliff then the structure would make sense, but on a household scale its just daft. Most of that steel didn’t need to be there and the modular concept would have mostly been achieved without it.

As a retirement gift to yourself, if you’ve spent your working life building steel buildings then its ace, but I can’t see a market for selling more of them. Its a £500,000 solution to a £50,000 problem.

Dick, where real men get their choppers.

go both ways and make half a fortune

Are you comparing PC World to the British Museum?

Are these middle lane hogs that everyone gets all flustered about real? I’ve clocked up roughly 3000 miles in the last week or so and I can think of only 2 or 3 instances of someone daydreaming in the middle lane, and thats usually been quite late and in pretty quite conditions.

Why would the dangers be any more prevalent on the inside?

Because broadly we have an etiquette of passing on one side and so thats the manoever that drivers are expecting – and specifically with a lot of vehicles visibility is poor to non on the left and during the time you are passing you can’t be seen.

Make a habit of passing commercial vehicles on the inside and see how that works out for you
Well, that would be plain silly now because it’s illegal, but if the law was changed, it wouldn’t be so ridiculous.

I’m not demanding chance, or saying it’s right, just looking for opinion, this isn’t a troll either.

The legality has nothing to do with it – its the death like symptoms. Passing some vehicles on the inside is extremely dangerous. If you changed the law you’d either need to have a two tier law that made it legal to pass some types of vehicle on the left but not others or have open season and accept the deaths.

Make a habit of passing commercial vehicles on the inside and see how that works out for you

The speed limit was set 100s of years ago when cars had crap top speeds and crap brakes.

Risk homeostasis

better than that picolax shyte

See what you did there

Interesting notion that a bunch of pictures of cyclists have a greater laxative effect than this forums favorite chemical purge.

geoffj – Member
“Outwith” as the opposite of “within” for example.
Aah yes, that old chestnut. It’s not in any dictionary I’ve seen, and yet used extensively in even the most formal documents. Just weird.

Ah dictionaries without Outwith within

I once made an edition of bookmarks for an exhibition with ‘Outwith’ and its definition so that you could put ‘outwith’ it in any dictionary you like. I bought half a dozen dictionaries to ‘model’ my bookmarks with, except bugger me when I get them home and open them and for the first time Outwith was bloody in there!

Then how about Plan B then?

Not strictly in that order though

The question now is whether Mr Monkey has been duped into forwarding a hoax email or whether life has started to imitate art – like so – and his wife’s friend really does have a L_a in her class. If she does then Mr Monkey wins a prize 🙂

I saw this one on Wednesday – stuck in the Leeds Liverpool canal

A Dash has a compartment for stringbacked gloves and a Hyphen is a mythical beast, made of scrag ends of other animals held together with No More Nails

Name your kids after the numberplate on your car, keep them numberplate on retention then gift it to them on their 18th Birthday, boom, instant cherished number.

If I had my way it would be you Molgrips – Bigelle-smallay – superb

Who knows though L_a / Ladasha might catch on, some names just seem to appear spontaneously and become commonplace in no time at all ‘Darren’ just appeared in the middle of the 20th Centry. There were no Darrens, then suddenly there were lots and nobody really knows why.

Perhaps the underscore is like the blank letters in scrabble

L’Dasha

trust the slow-worms to turn up last

put them on freecycle, someone else might have a garden full of severed heads. Make do and mend and all that, theres a recession on you know!

Where is Kaesae when you need him?

what happens when you say his name three times? (and does the quote count as a second?)

wee in it to get it started no seriously wee in it to get it started

Tell your wife she needs to wee in it for the best result, mutter something about hormones and stuff.

My tip is don’t spend £30 on a B&Q compost bin when you can buy the water butt on the shelf next to it for £5, turn it upside down and clumsily cut the bottom off to make a makeshift lid. 🙂

If you’ve room don’t bother with a plastic bin at all and try an knock up something from old pallets nearer to 4ft square. The aim is to get heat to build up and off the shelf bins are too narrow and tall to keep the warmth in in the winter. But obviously you need to be creating a fair bit of green waste for something that big otherwise you’ve just got a small heap of spoilt veg with a fence round it