Dunno. Old things, I guess.
I'm going to repair my grandad's old record player this weekend, for example. People will probably say "why don't you get one of them CD burners that play that MPOggvorbs music what lives on your computer?" but I just like the idea of fixing somethign with my own fair hands so it can return once again to play some scratched up bits of dustbin cut-offs that had shit audio quality when they were new.
( Kroney, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 15:47, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

I'm with you on this krone.
Modern stuff is useful, but nothing beats a good tinker to fix up old things.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 26 Feb 2014, 15:48, Reply)

Old stuff has more personality.
I have an old car, I prefer to get my shoes resoled rather than thrown out, I'm capable of most household maintenance jobs that went out of fashion in the 50s.

I'm a bit of an anachronism, really.
( Kroney, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 15:55, Reply)

I know it's good for tradesmen that people can't fix their own shit.
But it's still a shock when people can't even do simple tasks like putting up a shelf.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:01, Reply)

I'd be ashamed of myself if I paid a man to do a job I could do myself.
I'll have a crack at anything short of mains electrics and structural stuff.
( Kroney, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:05, Reply)

this^
I've done so much work in the house and garden this year that would have otherwise cost a fortune.
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:06, Reply)

Manliest subthread ever.

( Kroney, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:09, Reply)

*high-fives*

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:12, Reply)

You lot are as common as muck.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:29, Reply)

I like soldering things back together
Rebuilding things is great, a few weeks back our front door lock broke and the missus wanted to pay a fortune for a locksmith I just cut the fucker out with a hacksaw and put a new lock in. I turned to her expecting to see lustful admiration, and she passed me the fucking hoover. MAN POINTS DESTROYED
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:06, Reply)

I gave her a right good seeing to while you were wearing her apron

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:07, Reply)

Ah that explains the look of disappointment on her face

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:08, Reply)

It's her own fault, I told her not to expect too much.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:13, Reply)

You would think she was used to
ineffectual 30 second fumblings by now.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:14, Reply)

I'll have it when you've fixed it

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 15:48, Reply)

No you won't
It's going to live on my hifi cabinet being a conversation point.

People will go "Hey, it's one of them gramophonotables, me dad used to play Shakin' Stevens on one of them"

And I shall go "Hactually I prefer the sound, it's warmer and less clinical than CDs, hactually" even though I don't and think that people that do are cunts.
( Kroney, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 15:59, Reply)

You know hus album is only available on vinyl right?

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:02, Reply)

Get some valve speakers as well
Massive and a great ponce factor
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:03, Reply)

I have three B&Ws and a couple of Ruarks
Even the mrs wants to display them. Win for Team They Built Things To Last In Them Days!
( Kroney, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:06, Reply)

Nice
For years I kept an old Sony Music Centre running taking it apart and rebuilding and that had massive wooden cab speakers I loved that thing
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:08, Reply)

I quite fancy getting one of those ancients old music centres they used to make look like sideboards.
Lift up centre for a turntable and woven fabric covered speaker bays. There was one on eBay the other week. Proper cherry wood. Lovely.
( Kroney, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:09, Reply)

They are great
My folks had one (when I was very young) and I am sure it had a drinks cabinet built into it as well
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:13, Reply)

Your lush mother hiding bottles of vodka inside the speakers does not make it a drinks cabinet

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:21, Reply)

It would have been gin
But you are probably not far from the truth there
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:22, Reply)

Me and my sister have my mum and dad's old Ferguson radiogram
It looks incredible. No idea if it still works though.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:27, Reply)

Tune in Radio Luxembourg!

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:31, Reply)

I think all their DJs got Yewtreed

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:43, Reply)

Radio Gropesomebird more like

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 26 Feb 2014, 16:54, Reply)