Be Excellent To Each Other

I, for one, can't tell.

Can't this be split into a pedantic arguments thread or sub-forum? On the moon.

For the first time ever, I've just skipped a load of B&B.

I can honestly say that I did each and every single one of those things when I was little.

I wave my private parts at you, you filthy son of a horse.

Sorry Peter, I forgot to mention that on top of everything else, I'm also a boring bastard, in the emo hangups thread.

These are the only ones I haven't done. I've made papier-mache stuff before, just not masks because I'm scared of them. Like, phobia scared.

I've just installed Cubase Studio 4. It looks awesome after manky old Cubase SL I had before. The LED on my dongle is pulsating.

Today is going sooooo slooooowly.

I've only just woke up. After going to bed at 11 last night. I hate my meds sometimes.

Yes.




Yes it is.

I'm waiting until someone on the other side of the atrium* notices the commentary on my employer in my desk area.



Yes, I'm really, really bored.

* our offices are around a big internal atrium, annoyingly, so if you're on the "internal" side you're stared at by loads of other people sat in their glass offices.

WHERE HAVE ALL THE GAYS GONE?

Has anyone noticed any brightly coloured vans around, perhaps enticing people inside with the promise of high quality tailoring?

Is that green-spined book MacKenzie and Phillips?

Those fibre tipped pens from your mob are a bit shit, though, Mr K, Covington's Parerk pens are somewhat superior.

Sort this.

Ha! Yes. Left behind by my old room mate and stolen by me. All my books are at home in the library.

Mali - our pens are fucking awesome, you pleb. Especially the new, sleek black version.

Has M&K got MrsA's name in it? She worked on it ages back, and a friend probably has more recently.

Aside from Blackstone's, my law books are boxed and in the loft.

I have the most recent yellow version. I was going to ner you, but seeing as it's not actually yours, I'll let it slide.

God we're lame.

No, that's just you hopalong.

The cloth bag is OK, though. Earned me lots of clubcard points, has that. I approve of that.

Pot off tomorrow!

Oh yeah, I very nearly "rescued" some Gippies yesterday from Pets at Home. I would've had to buy the full kit, though, and I'm skint. I'm sure they'll find a nice home soon.

Anecdote would've been more interesting had I taken photos. I knew I should've taken photos.

Facebook borked?

Yup. It was giving me DNS errors initially. Now my main page loads but the apps don't. Maybe not a bad thing.

Been playing Railroad Tycoon 3. It's still awesome. But I fucked myself by doing a emrger with another company, without looking at the balance sheet. Which is quite stupid of me, as I know about shit like that...

Anyway, everyone should buy it as it is acebest.

I spent all afternoon today glazing the two replacement sashes I've built for our bedroom windows at the front of the house. I hasten to add I've not completely rebuilt the windows — that would have been a far bigger job, something I could do but wouldn't feel comfortable doing without a proper workshop. I've just made replacements for the two bottom panels/sashes as they were rotten beyond repair. Still, making windows is a long and drawn out experience with the amount of treatment and painting you have to do. Putty can fuck right off — it's such a tedious thing to apply with anything approaching a decent finish.

Anyway, the sashes are pretty much good to go — took a couple of days to make them, a day to sand and seal them, four days to paint them with various primers, undercoats and gloss finishes and now there's two weeks before I can overpaint the putty on the glass. I've replaced the sill on one of the windows entirely and will repair and rebuild the other window sill. Just have to get the multimaster on the boxes and upper sashes, apply treatments and filler and then paint them. I think it's going to take another 2-3 weeks before they're both done properly.

Why am I doing this? Because I can, because I know I'll do a better job than the three companies I approached to repair and rebuild them (who quoted me an average of £2k to do the job!). It's still fucking boring though, so I felt I should share it with you lot

Wow, making windows, even bits of them, is no small undertaking at all, much respect.

Personally I'd skip all the gloss paint, but I suppose you needed to make it match the rest of the frame...

Pics?

Making windows is just silly.

The cool people make OSXs these days.

Mummy and Old Man Afterthought are coming to visit today. My throat has got loads worse and I'm pumping out mucus like there's no tomorrow. It's going to be a fun few days, then.

Proving the point nicely



A master of wit and repartee.

MI6 experimented with using semen as an invisible ink during the First World War.

Gotta love that the Chief of MI6 at the time was called Mansfield Cumming, eh?

If attacked by a bear dont forget your courgette

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11401167

Just received this, thought Zardoz might be interested:

Jedward? Fucking SOLD.

Can't see it but I'm assuming it's £12 or Dead Space.

Also: I've just been offered a 4 day trip to Dubai with work all expenses paid staying at the Kempinski and taking in a dessert safari and other stuff. I bit their fucking hand off!!!

Nice!

Excellent.

Take USD to make smaller problems go away, or GTFO on next lane if it all goes tits up.

This time of year it should be on the "OK" side of fucking hot, and ensure you drink a pint of isotonic drink in the morning and in the afternoon.

Have a lovely time.

Don't take any crack or have sex in public. They don't like that.

Bastard.

How the hell did you swing that one, Zarzipan? All i get offered at work is the occassional sausage bap *MR TOP-HAT FACE*

Ramsea has and will be spending 9 out of 12 weeks in Zurich, he assures me it is rubbish d Swiss birds are mingers. Not that he's been looking, obviously. Oh, how I do love him so.......

True story - in a restaurant in the House of Commons, Ken once cut my steak for me as it was too tough. I was about 10 at the time.

Here's a pic of one of the sashes recently built — obviously this is just assembled and if you look closely at the top you can see the biscuits used to joint it — anybody interested in making things like this or jointing any wood I thoroughly recommend biscuit joints as a quick and incredibly sturdy means of jointing and you can buy biscuit jointers for about £50 nowadays.

The gaps at the bottom of the architraving, moulding near the wide part at the bottom of the frame were cut out to allow the use of the biscuit jointer — this is the first time I've made sashes, but I think in light of the fact that the architraving supports the glass I still think I'd cut this in the original uprights rather than add them on later for reasons of structural integrity. I simply glued and filled the fillets I'd cut out back in before finishing.

With regard to the gloss I was simply using paint I already had.

I used to have a biscuit jointer

Not bad at all! They look rebated for single glass panes, are you re-using the old bits?

My comment about the paint was that modern gloss paint isn't vapour permeable. Window frames in particular are subject to very high vapour pressure, liquid water and thermal stresses. This will crack the paint in short order, then water gets in and can't get out again, and rot the wood.
9 times out of 10 this is what has killed sashes and frames which have otherwise been fine for the last hundred years. Originally they would have been painted with white lead paint, which is both flexible and breathable. Obviously you can't use that these days, but you can get similar "natural" paints with a boiled linseed base, which are breathable.

Anyway sorry, a nerdy detail. If you keep the paint maintained on the outside it will be OK for a long time.

*cancels*

I didn't know that about paint. Interesting stuff that.

I didn't reuse the glass as I can't take the existing sashes out until I'm ready to fit the new ones due to the weather being shit at the moment. I did think about it but wasn't prepared to leave the windows "open" for 24 hours with the rain we have at the moment. That and this is the first time I've done this so didn't want to take any chances of fucking things up.

I went on dessert safari once, I bagged a cheesecake and three eclairs.