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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.
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Ruptured your fuel tank? Not sure how to get petrol into the engine? Just build one of these babies out of a spare jerry can and the windscreen washer tubing, and run it straight into the carburettor:
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Just don't lean out the window for a smoke. Oh, and remember that the fuel gauge will no longer work. And you won't be able to wash your windscreen.
(The fuel tank, by the way, was the least of our problems.)
( , Tue 8 Apr 2008, 12:41, 68 replies)
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Like a tiny metallic Elephant, dispensing it's trunk fuel to feed it's engine baby.
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And that's why I shouldn't come to Mongolia with you. I don't even know what a carburettor is.
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neither did I until I spent 55 hours in a French toll booth car park holding a torch over a clapped out jeep. I also now know the French for "crankshaft".
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Definite click for ingenuity if nothing else!
Love the background - steppe somewhere?
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...I took a stab at the French for "I think my alternator's bust" being "Je pense que l'alternateur ne marche pas", and was right. Woo!
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Just south of the Tsagaanuur border crossing, Western Mongolia.
( , Tue 8 Apr 2008, 12:52, closed)
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You do indeed have gaps in your automotive knowledge. It's 'alternator'.
Wouldn't know what the French word for it is though.
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Ah, oui - d'accord. Je m'excuse. Regardez, mainteant: tout fait mieux!
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I do know the French for battery (batterie) and clutch (embrayage) as they both went tits up (seins vers le haut?) when I first took a car over to France.
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Je voulait dire "je le suis ninjé"...
NINJER
Je ninje, tu ninjes, il ninjet, nous ninjons, vous ninjez, ils ninjent. Comme vous pouvez voir, la verbe prend pas "avoir", mais "être".
Bon.
( , Tue 8 Apr 2008, 13:05, closed)
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pickle.
All the french I'll ever need to know, because they smell. BAD.
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*hands over goat milk encrusted butt plug*
BGB, it's up to us what we do, it's nobody else's business who we fall in love with!
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There are only a few phrases required when in France, to satisfy most human needs (excluding monkey-related needs, of course).
Deux bières, s'il vous plait.
Avez-vous une chambre disponible?
and of course
Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir?
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If I wasn't so turned on I'd be tutting right now.
K2K6 - why would you want a disposable shirt?
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But it's strictly BYOBilly.
BGB, I think it means free room... Chambre=Room
Cha-something else means shirt.
But, K2K6, two beers, free room, would you like to join me... is it a man you're trying to seduce?
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"Chemise" means shirt. "Chambre" means room.
So, using the above phrases you can get a pint, a bed for the night, and a shag.
Well, you can ask for them at least.
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K2K6 may not be fussy, but with me and Al already going at it, this place is getting to be like a sausage factory.
Any female volunteers, human, or goat, are welcome.
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Er, no. I wasn't!
*deepens voice*
I may not be fussy, as BGB says, but my sexual partners do at least have to be female. And preferably human.
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What if Enzyme had a shave, tied his hair back, and got on his knees...?
You would, wouldn't you?
I know I would.
*apologises to Enzyme*
( , Tue 8 Apr 2008, 13:27, closed)
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Not my type...he's all yours.
*also apologises to Enzyme*
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This reminds me of a story,
My dear dad was touring through Africa in the mid 70's when his fuel tank developed a hole.
Having a jerry-can in the car he was easily able to divert the fuel intake through the boot into the can and keep going.
However, this didn't stop him pulling into every fuel station and asking the attendant to fill the tank to the top with water...
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about the other week when there was that discussion about CHCB in her sex dungeon, I felt like I couldn't participate because that would be disrespectful towards my mrs...
Yet i have no qualms about gay and/or goat sex. Meh.
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and posting about your and her and the DIY sex isn't disrespectful to your missus? ;)
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That was just a vaguely amusing incident, she'd see the funny side to it.
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I go out for half an hour and you leave me and my goat for a clean shaven Enzyme.
I'm hurt.
But, since we're back talking about the sex dungeon, and it's S&M Tuesday and all...
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Didn't you know that Enzyme is thinking women's crumpet!
*apologies to Enzyme but it's true*
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seconded, but swapping "crumpet" for "rock-cake".
*apologises to Enzyme for nothing*
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lowering the tone again with your sex dungeons.
You know there will always, always be a special place in my pants for you, and the goat.
Thinking women? *OXYMORON ALERT!*
*awaits slappings*
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Oi! That really hurts my feelings!
I would never do anything to a comatose woman....
...see? There isn't even a punchline or anything.
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But I think the goat would have to be comotose also. *laughs*
Edit. I do love you both really!
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that this may have gone a little too far.
*shifts uncomfortably in his seat*
*removes goats milk encrusted butt plug*
*sits more comfortably*
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I go to the pub for lunch and things explode while I'm away.
And everyone but me gets "crumpet" brandings.
I hate Tuesdays.
*cries*
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But I have today had a style of fanny-maintenance named after me.
*beams proudly*
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As in "this mysterious man has just held a rag, that may or may not smell of chloroform to my mouth... Hmmm... How confusing."?
Or "confused" as in a polite way of saying "mentally ill"?
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is 'psychologically hilarious', everybody knows that.
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I'm alone, all by myself,
don't need anyone at all,
I know I'll survive,
I know I'll...
..stay alive.
/Madonna
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To disguising Enzyme as a woman and making him perform an act of fellatio in just a few replies...
I worry about you lot sometimes, I really do...
Not really, I've just been in a meeting all day and have missed out on all the fun. Hmmph.
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but the scraping the hair back put the image into my head and...
Oh, bugger it. I'm tired and have just emerged from an all day meeting about rural development and hill farming. I don't have to justify myself to you lot...
*Looks at watch and wonders if it' time to go home yet*
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Sheep, mostly... and the marketing/pimping of...
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