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« Reply #28200 on: May 29, 2016, 10:33:36 AM »

Help please.

On the face of it, this is a simple question but we have a difference of opinion at Chez Red. (Me V everyone else)

Should the toilet roll hang with the loose end on the inside, near the wall, or on the outside away from the wall?

Answers accompanied by logical reasons appreciated.

Note, to give you an idea of the scope of this argument, "loose end outside makes it easier for a Labrador puppy to grab" has been muted as a logical reason.

When the loo was in the back yard the walls would often be damp through condensation and having the loose end against the wall meant soggy loo paper. Not a good thing.




Ah, a reason that has been obsolete for 40 years. Nice to see you are stooping to our level Mr D.
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« Reply #28201 on: May 29, 2016, 10:36:15 AM »

I'll tell you what I don't understand. If a couple want to get divorced why is it a palaver? Why can't they just go to a registry office and pay a fee and it's done instantly?

It kind of makes sense. Marriage is pretty important so it shouldn't be easy to switch it on and off at will. It would make it all pointless.

What I don't understand is why it's so easy to get married in the first place? It should be a similar palaver to get married then maybe there wouldn't be quite so many in the queue for your 5 minute divorces.




Yes, I see where you're coming from. Make em stay married for an extra year or so. That'll teach em.  Tongue
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« Reply #28202 on: May 29, 2016, 10:43:46 AM »

Help please.

On the face of it, this is a simple question but we have a difference of opinion at Chez Red. (Me V everyone else)

Should the toilet roll hang with the loose end on the inside, near the wall, or on the outside away from the wall?

Answers accompanied by logical reasons appreciated.

Note, to give you an idea of the scope of this argument, "loose end outside makes it easier for a Labrador puppy to grab" has been muted as a logical reason.

When the loo was in the back yard the walls would often be damp through condensation and having the loose end against the wall meant soggy loo paper. Not a good thing.


In those days the loo-paper would usually be Bronco which didn't really get damp as it resembled greaseproof paper; it made a damn fine kazoo if you wrapped a sheet around your comb though.
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« Reply #28203 on: May 29, 2016, 10:50:59 AM »

Help please.

On the face of it, this is a simple question but we have a difference of opinion at Chez Red. (Me V everyone else)

Should the toilet roll hang with the loose end on the inside, near the wall, or on the outside away from the wall?

Answers accompanied by logical reasons appreciated.

Note, to give you an idea of the scope of this argument, "loose end outside makes it easier for a Labrador puppy to grab" has been muted as a logical reason.

When the loo was in the back yard the walls would often be damp through condensation and having the loose end against the wall meant soggy loo paper. Not a good thing.


In those days the loo-paper would usually be Bronco which didn't really get damp as it resembled greaseproof paper; it made a damn fine kazoo if you wrapped a sheet around your comb though.

Oh my, Bronco, what memories. Whoever thought shiny paper would do the job.

I was an Izal or Jeyes man.




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« Reply #28204 on: May 29, 2016, 10:58:36 AM »

Another thing about Bronco loo-paper, it was virtually impossible to tear it along the perforations for some reason.
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« Reply #28205 on: May 29, 2016, 11:01:24 AM »

Have you always wondered if you shocked yourself with electricity, which type of electricity would hurt more: AC (Alternating Current) or DC (Direct Current)?

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« Reply #28206 on: May 29, 2016, 03:40:35 PM »

Original patent design by the inventor of perforated toilet paper.
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« Reply #28207 on: May 30, 2016, 11:54:02 AM »

Have you always wondered if you shocked yourself with electricity, which type of electricity would hurt more: AC (Alternating Current) or DC (Direct Current)?




I've shocked myself with both types Mr T.  The one that hurt worst was AC.


I was sitting with a bowl of very hot stew in my lap and examining the misshapen plug for my Philips tape recorder. One of the two terminal holes had been flattened in a hobnail boot indecent and I decided that I could bite it back into the correct shape, forgetting that the other end was still connected to the mains.

I will leave the combined effects of simultaneous electrocution and stew spillage to your imagination.






 
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« Reply #28208 on: May 30, 2016, 11:54:57 AM »

Original patent design by the inventor of perforated toilet paper.
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Am I to assume that this is a vote for loose end on the outside?
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« Reply #28209 on: May 30, 2016, 12:03:17 PM »

So, yesterday I made this tool and as a minor quiz I want to ask "What did I make this for ? "

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Really though, I just came for approval and for you to ruffle my hair
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« Reply #28210 on: May 30, 2016, 12:09:31 PM »

So, yesterday I made this tool and as a minor quiz I want to ask "What did I make this for ? "

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Really though, I just came for approval and for you to ruffle my hair



Consider it ruffled. I have no idea what it is (yet) but I'm totally impressed whatever.


Tentative, info seeking initial guess.

Looking at the notch cut in the tubing and the strengthening binding, it looks like perhaps a device for turning something?
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« Reply #28211 on: May 30, 2016, 12:10:23 PM »

And now, some poetry.

This was written by Maurice Ogden in 1951 but it still seems pretty relevant.

The Hangman


Into our town the Hangman came,
 Smelling of gold and blood and flame.
And he paced our bricks with a diffident air,
And built his frame on the courthouse square.
 

The scaffold stood by the courthouse side,
Only as wide as the door was wide;
A frame as tall, or little more,
Than the capping sill of the courthouse door.

And we wondered, whenever we had the time,
Who the criminal, what the crime,
That Hangman judged with the yellow twist
Of knotted hemp in his busy fist.

And innocent though we were, with dread,
We passed those eyes of buckshot lead;
Till one cried: "Hangman, who is he
For whom you raise the gallows-tree?"

Then a twinkle grew in the buckshot eye,
And he gave us a riddle instead of reply:
"He who serves me best," said he,
"Shall earn the rope on the gallows-tree."

And he stepped down, and laid his hand
On a man who came from another land.
And we breathed again, for another's grief
At the Hangman's hand was our relief.

And the gallows-frame on the courthouse lawn
By tomorrow's sun would be struck and gone.
So we gave him way, and no one spoke,
Out of respect for his hangman's cloak.

The next day's sun looked mildly down,
On roof and street in our quiet town
And, stark and black in the morning air,
The gallows-tree on the courthouse square.

And the Hangman stood at his usual stand
With the yellow hemp in his busy hand;
With his buckshot eye and his jaw like a pike,
And his air so knowing and businesslike.

And we cried: "Hangman, have you not done,
Yesterday, with the alien one?"
Then we fell silent, and stood amazed:
"Oh, not for him was the gallows raised."

He laughed a laugh as he looked at us:
"Did you think I'd gone to all this fuss
To hang one man? That's a thing I do
To stretch the rope when the rope is new."

Then one cried, "Murderer!" One cried, "Shame!"
And into our midst the Hangman came
To that man's place. "Do you hold," said he,
"With him that was meant for the gallows-tree?"

And he laid his hand on that one's arm,
And we shrank back in quick alarm,
And we gave him way, and no one spoke,
Out of fear of his hangman's cloak.

That night we saw with dread surprise,
The Hangman's scaffold had grown in size.
Fed by the blood beneath the chute
The gallows-tree had taken root;

Now as wide, or a little more,
Than the steps that led to the courthouse door,
As tall as the writing, or nearly as tall,
Halfway up on the courthouse wall.

The third he took — we had all heard tell —
Was a usurer and infidel,
And: "What," said the Hangman, "have you to do,
With the gallows-bound, and he a Jew?"

And we cried out: "Is this one he,
Who has served you well and faithfully?"
The Hangman smiled: "It's a clever scheme
To try the strength of the gallows-beam."

The fourth man's dark, accusing song
Had scratched out comfort hard and long;
And "What concern," he gave us back,
"Have you for the doomed - the doomed and black?"

The fifth.The sixth. And we cried again:
 "Hangman, Hangman, is this the man?"
"It's a trick," he said, "that we hangmen know
For easing the trap when the trap springs slow."

And so we ceased, and asked no more,
As the Hangman tallied his bloody score;
And sun by sun, and night by night,
The gallows grew to monstrous height.

The wings of the scaffold opened wide,
Till they covered the square from side to side;
And the monster cross-beam, looking down,
Cast its shadow across the town.

Then through the town the Hangman came
And called in the empty streets my name -
And I looked at the gallows soaring tall
And thought: "There is no one left at all,

For hanging, and so he calls to me
to help pull down the gallows-tree."
And I went out with right good hope
to the Hangman's tree and the Hangman's rope.

He smiled at me as I came down,
To the courthouse square through the silent town,
 and supple and stretched in his busy hand,
Was the yellow twist of the hempen strand.

And he whistled his tune as he tried the trap
And it sprang down with a ready snap—
And then with a smile of awful command,
He laid his hand upon my hand.

"You tricked me, Hangman!" I shouted then.
"That your scaffold was built for other men.
And I no henchman of yours," I cried,
"You lied to me, Hangman, foully lied!"

Then a twinkle grew in his buckshot eye:
"Lied to you? Tricked you?" he said,
"Not I. For I answered straight and I told you true:
The scaffold was raised for none but you.

"For who has served me more faithfully
Than you with your coward's hope?" said he,
"And where are the others that might have stood
Side by your side in the common good?"

"Dead," I whispered; and amiably
"Murdered," the Hangman corrected me;
"First the alien, then the Jew...
I did no more than you let me do."

Beneath the beam that blocked the sky,
None had stood so alone as I -
And the Hangman strapped me, and no voice there
Cried "Stay" for me in the empty square.
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« Reply #28212 on: May 30, 2016, 12:13:09 PM »

So, yesterday I made this tool and as a minor quiz I want to ask "What did I make this for ? "

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Really though, I just came for approval and for you to ruffle my hair



Is it a make-shift connector for a hose that's too big?
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« Reply #28213 on: May 30, 2016, 12:22:18 PM »

Actually, hose slightly small - as it transpired - so ptfe tape to avoid back flow
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« Reply #28214 on: May 30, 2016, 12:35:48 PM »

Actually, hose slightly small - as it transpired - so ptfe tape to avoid back flow


Excellent!

I'm awarding you a blue DIY novice 2nd Dan tool belt. Ashi Kodo.





Please post more DIY/repair/make-good pics.


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