Here's a good one that I discovered at the weekend...
2) if you're trying to run some cabling under floorboards from point A to point B, simply raise a board at A, one board at B, and then spool out a measuring tape under the floor from point A until it becomes visible at point B. Then tape your cable to end of the now-visible measuring tape, return to point A, and then retract the tape, pulling the cable along under the floor.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:09, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Everything's wireless now, Grandad

( Kroney, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:10, Reply)

yeah, including electrical wiring

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:11, Reply)

Not far off.

( Kroney, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:17, Reply)

I want induction coils to make that final leap
then just have coils built into the walls to run everything
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:58, Reply)

Sky cables?

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:11, Reply)

Yeah, unless you've got one of those shit old boxes.

( Kroney, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:17, Reply)

My Sky box is about 2 months old, so yeah, well old.
So how does the signal get from the dish to the box in your house, Obi Wan?
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:21, Reply)

Duh, via wireless.
Prick.
( Kroney, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:22, Reply)

Absolute bollocks.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:25, Reply)

Yeah? How does it get from the satellite to the dish?
Use your loaf, mongie.
( Kroney, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:30, Reply)

Magic string, you fucknugget.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:32, Reply)

^Nakers-level tech retard

( Kroney, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:38, Reply)

^^Doesn't even have a Sky box

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:41, Reply)

Or tie it to a passing mouse.

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:21, Reply)

The only mouse I could see was running from north to south instead of east to west.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:25, Reply)

Put its feet on sideways.

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:29, Reply)

Where were you with your bright ideas when I needed them on Saturday morning?

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:30, Reply)

I take it you dont have joists in your flooring

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:23, Reply)

Yes I do Mr Bonzodog
I believe that they mainly stop the floor from collapsing.

My cabling was going in the same direction as the joists, thankfully.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:27, Reply)

I merely wished to point out the flaw in your plan

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:28, Reply)

My solution won't work in all situations, but it worked for me.
I couldn't care less about the rest of you, obviously.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 1 Apr 2014, 15:31, Reply)