DIY disasters
I just can't do power tools. They always fly out of control and end up embedded somewhere they shouldn't. I've no idea how I've still got all the appendages I was born with.
Add to that the fact that nothing ends up square, able to support weight or free of sticking-out sharp bits and you can see why I try to avoid DIY.
Tell us of your own DIY disasters.
( , Thu 3 Apr 2008, 17:19)
I just can't do power tools. They always fly out of control and end up embedded somewhere they shouldn't. I've no idea how I've still got all the appendages I was born with.
Add to that the fact that nothing ends up square, able to support weight or free of sticking-out sharp bits and you can see why I try to avoid DIY.
Tell us of your own DIY disasters.
( , Thu 3 Apr 2008, 17:19)
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I was never much one for the rough hurly burly world of DIY,
given that I'm a sensitive little flower, who would recoil at the horror of blemishing my velvety fingertips - I need them to write horrendously deep and meaningful prose. That's right reader, I'm you! I josh.
I do however like pretending at DIY, you know, when you hold tools and occasionally hit stuff, and to this end thought I'd make meself a shelf/clothes rack combo in my freshly painted room.
I'm gonna attempt to show you the basic premise:
shelf shelf
----------] [-----------
______|___|______
^ length of curtain rail wedged through curtain rail holders
I decided to eschew the measure twice, cut once rule, in favour of a more dynamic tilting of the head and frowning system, thus ensuring utter failure. Basically the two top shelves were not level. Somehow, and I still chuckle to think of the effort involved, I wedged the rail in there.
But it's in! Success. I adorn my creation with my clothes, and settle down to a well deserved jazz cigarette on my bed, possibly watching Gordon Ramsays Kitchen Nightmares, or some similar pillar of televisual entertainment. Minutes later, a soft "shiiiiissssssshhhhhhhh" noise is heard, followed swiftly by a "FWUMP". The FWUMP is made by all the clothes on the right side of the rail falling on my head - it is at such an angle, that any coathangers on it set off in a very slow, but very constant, slide. On the plus side, the left part of the rail is ridiculously effective.
Don't you just hate a long winded piece of guff with no pay-off? That statement works both for this piece, and when doing a poo.
[EDIT] Why can't html just be like, you know, I want a space there. Let me. Now. Oh you need a little 6 character doohickey to do something I can do with but one button push. Computers = WACKY AND FUN
( , Sat 5 Apr 2008, 21:30, 1 reply)
given that I'm a sensitive little flower, who would recoil at the horror of blemishing my velvety fingertips - I need them to write horrendously deep and meaningful prose. That's right reader, I'm you! I josh.
I do however like pretending at DIY, you know, when you hold tools and occasionally hit stuff, and to this end thought I'd make meself a shelf/clothes rack combo in my freshly painted room.
I'm gonna attempt to show you the basic premise:
shelf shelf
----------] [-----------
______|___|______
^ length of curtain rail wedged through curtain rail holders
I decided to eschew the measure twice, cut once rule, in favour of a more dynamic tilting of the head and frowning system, thus ensuring utter failure. Basically the two top shelves were not level. Somehow, and I still chuckle to think of the effort involved, I wedged the rail in there.
But it's in! Success. I adorn my creation with my clothes, and settle down to a well deserved jazz cigarette on my bed, possibly watching Gordon Ramsays Kitchen Nightmares, or some similar pillar of televisual entertainment. Minutes later, a soft "shiiiiissssssshhhhhhhh" noise is heard, followed swiftly by a "FWUMP". The FWUMP is made by all the clothes on the right side of the rail falling on my head - it is at such an angle, that any coathangers on it set off in a very slow, but very constant, slide. On the plus side, the left part of the rail is ridiculously effective.
Don't you just hate a long winded piece of guff with no pay-off? That statement works both for this piece, and when doing a poo.
[EDIT] Why can't html just be like, you know, I want a space there. Let me. Now. Oh you need a little 6 character doohickey to do something I can do with but one button push. Computers = WACKY AND FUN
( , Sat 5 Apr 2008, 21:30, 1 reply)
hahahahahahahahahaha
"in favour of a more dynamic tilting of the head and frowning system"
*clicks*
( , Sat 5 Apr 2008, 22:04, closed)
"in favour of a more dynamic tilting of the head and frowning system"
*clicks*
( , Sat 5 Apr 2008, 22:04, closed)
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