Bodge JobsIf you can't fix it with a hammer and a roll of duck tape, it's not worth fixing at all, my old mate said minutes before that nasty business with the hammer and a roll of duck tape. Tell us of McGyver-like repairs and whether they were a brilliant success or a health and safety nightmare.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 11:58)
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My dad is a warchild, and thus resents having to replace absolutely anything.He's a keen and celebrated scientist, and his office at the university when he was there was an original professor's combination of a desk surrounded by piles of books, batterered armchairs, and mechanical devices that no doubt today would have him surrounded by an army of health and safety experts every time he operated them. Some of my first toys as a child were jigsaws for the undergraduates of the current knowledge of DNA structures, and animal skulls, with which I'd play when he'd bring me into work with him. He made his coffee in a beaker on a tripod & gauze, over a bunsen burner on a blue flame. It took all of a minute and a half to make, as a result.
His current single bedroom flat is like a Heath Robinson cartoon designed by a graphophile: books line all the walls to the high ceilings, and everything nearly works. The cooker has a wedge with which to close the door, the fridge is leaning backwards slightly so that the door doesn't fly open when you open it, and the chest of drawers in the hallway fits so into the alcove so well it's supported by the skirting board.
That high ceiling has an increasing amount of dents in it - he regularly drives to France to stock up on booze, and has a taste for champagne. Thus whenever he opens a bottle he likes to pop the cork with aplomb, and wherever it falls it stays, for another visitor to find, that he can regale them with the story of who that bottle was drunk with and what was discussed.
Without doubt my favourite mechanism is for the shower door, which requires the "magic paperclip" as the door does not quite fit flush to the bath. This is a clip bent in a manner just so, that, when hooked over there and then tucked into there, holds the door shut.
Bodgers? He's the King.
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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 13:18,
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I haven't read the storybut you should say to him "back off Warchild, seriously" and then end up breaking your surfboard on him
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 13:21,
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*click*and not only because i'm going to nick his fridge idea tonight!
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lucosade is counting down the minutes until, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 13:32,
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