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**ordinaryforces** · 30-06-2010, 21:55

Building some doors for a cubboard, should be simple - 5 planks, couple of cross braces, handle, 2 hinges...done.....all put together - 100mm TOO DAMN SHORT.

In the same vein, last bit of plasterboard to cut....200mm TOO DAMN SHORT.

S_R[/quote]
Serves you right for poncing about with them kilometer things. Yards, feet and inches young man. It's the way forward.[/quote]

Sensible advice there
And always remember....cut twice measure once....that should keep you right

**detmold_padbrat** · 30-06-2010, 22:18

hit myself on the top of my head with a sledgehammer.. whilest breaking up some bricks slabs etc for footings in my garden.. the mother in law (she of the basilisk stare.. !!! cracker that from the horned god !) had put a new GREEN washing line up purposely against the apple trees so as not to be seen.. hammer gets bounded back by it at the top of my lift, to propel it straight on the top of my balding bonce.. result blood pissing everywhere, bandage needs to be applied such that I look like an afghan.. now got a scar the same shape as the mercedes badge, as a momento.

**ordinaryforces** · 30-06-2010, 23:24

Originally Posted by detmold_padbrat

hit myself on the top of my head with a sledgehammer.. whilest breaking up some bricks slabs etc for footings in my garden.. the mother in law (she of the basilisk stare.. !!! cracker that from the horned god !) had put a new GREEN washing line up purposely against the apple trees so as not to be seen.. hammer gets bounded back by it at the top of my lift, to propel it straight on the top of my balding bonce.. result blood pissing everywhere, bandage needs to be applied such that I look like an afghan.. now got a scar the same shape as the mercedes badge, as a momento.

I would have travelled a fair distance and paid good money to have watched that happening

**bmal** · 30-06-2010, 23:59

i managed to attach myself to a fence, straight through my finger (which still works somehow) to add insult to injury it was my DIY hand.

**StrainOfCommand** · 09-07-2010, 12:54

Managed to fall off a roof trying to clean out a gutter. Cleaned it out alright as I took the whole damn thing with me!

Luckily I landed on a garden table which broke my fall and my collar-bone...

I really liked that garden table...

...And not having rain-water p*ssing down my walls...

**CaptainPlume** · 09-07-2010, 13:33

This bird scored an own girl when doing it herself...

**vinniethemanxcat** · 16-07-2010, 16:32

Mother found dead after she was electrocuted by hedge trimmer | Mail Online

Horrible, sounds like some dumb cnut wired up one of those torpedo sockets the wrong way round, you pull them apart and you see a male and female..... if you fit it the wrong way round, the brass pins that stick out are on the live side of the cable, and if you touch them..... PFFFFFFT

**Sparky2339** · 16-07-2010, 16:50

DIY?

Caught my knob in my zip many years ago. Helluva scar for a while but what a chat up line. Wanna see my scar?

**seaweed** · 16-07-2010, 17:09

When he was 12 my brother was given a carpentry set and promptly set about making a two-legged table, in the face of considerable advice to the contrary. He has always thought the world is rigged against him.

**longlivethequeen** · 16-07-2010, 19:19

Originally Posted by vinniethemanxcat

Mother found dead after she was electrocuted by hedge trimmer | Mail Online

Horrible, sounds like some dumb cnut wired up one of those torpedo sockets the wrong way round, you pull them apart and you see a male and female..... if you fit it the wrong way round, the brass pins that stick out are on the live side of the cable, and if you touch them..... PFFFFFFT

Realy I wounder when my other half is going to trim the hedge