DIY Forum for DIY Electricians? - Doing It Yourself? Electrical Advice This Way

[rapparee]

Is this to me?

My stance hasn't changed.

I want the most members on the most forums. Have done since my first forum in 2001.

But they only work if they do what they say they do and don't have some agenda. Like run a training center or are linked to a tool supplier. Like all my competitors.

Yes it was

I understand that you don't want disruptive members, it makes sense.

But I was merely stating that not every new member is a good thing either.

There is some higher calibre than others.

Would you rather have a electrical engineer from Brazil or Pamela from Stoke who has a can do attitude and is going to rewire her house herself. Most people know it's going to end in tears. Sometimes you need to say that they aren't capable of the work.

 

[pirate]

When I was a little schoolboy ( a real one, long time ago...not a dressed up one, at weekends) my bus fare was a "tupp'ny half".
With inflation, it became a "thrupp'ny half" etc etc
I just mention this in passing, since my use of "tuppence" caused such joy
Not meaning to derail this thread, just saying...

 

[telectrix]

When I was a little schoolboy ( a real one, long time ago...not a dressed up one, at weekends) my bus fare was a "tupp'ny half".
With inflation, it became a "thrupp'ny half" etc etc
I just mention this in passing, since my use of "tuppence" caused such joy
Not meaning to derail this thread, just saying...

tuppence??? thought you used pieces of eight.

 

[pirate]

Yes, Tel...four tuppences to an eight-piece..or eight-pence piece!
TRhe pre-decimal currency was so much better, imho...
remember the thrupp'ny bits???

(Don't...just don't!)

 

[telectrix]

thruppenny bits? i remember farthings, had a wren on the reverse. and half-crowns at birthdays.

 

[Dan]

Yes it was

I understand that you don't want disruptive members, it makes sense.

But I was merely stating that not every new member is a good thing either.

There is some higher calibre than others.

Would you rather have a electrical engineer from Brazil or Pamela from Stoke who has a can do attitude and is going to rewire her house herself. Most people know it's going to end in tears. Sometimes you need to say that they aren't capable of the work.

Both would be allowed.

The system awards people now. Not staff. Trying to step away from humans dealing with things. That's when it goes wrong and ends up biased.

Collective human input it good. So all member types posting ends up sorting its self out as long as everybody sticks to the rules.

To be fair I've forgot the previous posts in this thread I've been so sidetracked.

Hope that explains whatever your aim was there lol

Edit: I reread your post. The DIY person would go in the DIY forum on here and hopefully get told / realise it's too much and use our directory to find a local sparky.

On a DIY forum, we'd direct her to here to find a sparky.

I'm not sure a dedicated DIY forum would have so much electrical advice floating around to be fair. And also no Gas Advice, but lots of plumbing (water) advice.

DIYers tend to be DIYers. They will have a bash of anything.

I think if (don't think we're going ahead with it now) we ever had a DIY forum - The aim would be to find the jobs bigger than them, and send the work to the guys on our forums. Whether they took it up, not sure.

Apologies. I didn't read your reply properly.

 

[pirate]

Oh yes, the farthings with the wee bird...oh, and florins too...made infamous by the expression "two-bob coachline"...
or was that just a Scottish thing?

 

[telectrix]

i well remember, at secondary school, we has a shilling per day for dinner money. friday was fish (as there was 1 catholic boy in a class of 36). me and my mate spent the friday shilling on 5 Park Drive apiece. our parents always wondered why we were ravenous at tea time.

 

[pirate]

I'm guessing you smoked them, not ate them?
Imagine being able to buy a pack of 5 cigs, as a minor, these days? Crikey, the corner shop would sell "singles" to us as kids, no questions asked...
Park Drive though...that's posh!

 

[telectrix]

we have progress now. min. quantity is 20 smokes, so young kevin will need to nick a tenner from his mam's purse instead of a fiver.

 

[Pete999]

we have progress now. min. quantity is 20 smokes, so young kevin will need to nick a tenner from his mam's purse instead of a fiver.

How much is 20 Cigs these days, on average?

 

[telectrix]

How much is 20 Cigs these days, on average?

£8 - £9. bloody disgrace. 80+% of that is tax.

 

[Pete999]

£8 - £9. bloody disgrace. 80+% of that is tax.

Crikey for 20 plus a day that'll be nearly a Ton a week, glad I packed on when I did

 

[Dan]

Eyup - Who started the oldies off again?! lol

 

[Pete999]

Eyup - Who started the oldies off again?! lol

As Tel would say" Age is just a number" and you are only as old as you feel, right now after a great big fry up, I'm feeling quite frail

 

[Dan]

Branflakes all-round my end mate. Trying get rid of last Christmases extra weight still ready for this Christmas.

 

[telectrix]

bran flakes?? YUK. like eating the wood butcher's shavings. here, breakfast in the week is coffee and a smoke or 3. weekends - bacon, eggs, sausage, mushrooms, hash browns,tomatoes, beans, fried bread, toast (real butter, not fake margerine), couple of brownies or choc chip cookies. after a good week, 1/2 bottle JD just to marinate that lot.

once dead, i'm donating my body to the british heart foundation. keep them baffled for years.

 

[Dan]

I'd hammer that breakfast right now.

(We need more smilies - I wanted the bacon one then - I'll stick it on my list - More smilies required)

 

[telectrix]

here you go dan. 1 min. in the microwave:

 

[Dan]

The egg goes funny then.