Handy hints for 2012

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There was a long thread on this last year, so time to start a new one.

As I learned today ..... avoid keeping an aerosol of industrial strength adhesive next to the WD40 on your work bench. At least I got to 5 minutes past noon on New Year's Day before doing something wrong (but I didnt start until 1100). The hinge in question was pretty much past it, anyway !
 
MoodyNick said:
There was a long thread on this last year, so time to start a new one.

As I learned today ..... avoid keeping an aerosol of industrial strength adhesive next to the WD40 on your work bench. At least I got to 5 minutes past noon on New Year's Day before doing something wrong (but I didnt start until 1100). The hinge in question was pretty much past it, anyway !
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Stops it creaking. What's the problem?
 
Slight drift but ...

I still remember as a young boy going to brush my teeth one morning.

I absent mindedly picked up the first tube lying on the sink and put it on my toothbrush.

Now remember this was in the days when real men used shaving cream and a bristle brush - I was only 7!

You can guess the rest - and I can still remember the disgusting taste of my father's shaving cream - aarrrrgghh!
 
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jimi said:
A colleague once related a tale of nighttime confusion between tubs of deep heat and vaseline!
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I can understand with traces left on hands, but by god deep heat smells enough to awake you out of a.coma.... I just hope he had chapted lips.. even then Ouch
 
superglue/eyedrops

A colleague mistook superglue for eyedrops and put himself in hospital, but hankfully they saved his sight.
We never understood why they would get anywhere near one another to do that.
 
MoodyNick said:
You've got to laugh on these forums.

Firstly at the way some people miss the subtle humour in some posts, and secondly how others refer to a friend or colleague when they don't want to implicate themselves.
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lol, you wrote that, while I was typing...but it wasn't me, honest.
 
Don't park your PBO copy on the bottom of the stairs to be taken upstairs later. Someone might come downstairs with child in arms, slip on it and break a leg. (Now that WAS me with the broken leg, the child bounced).
 
My handy tip for 2012 is to make sure that the pie case you have so carefully rolled out and blind baked is water right.

This avoids the problem of the pie filling dripping through the base of the pie and all over the hobs, the kitchen floor, your trousers, the basket full of tea towels and your shoes.
 
ChrisE said:
My handy tip for 2012 is to make sure that the pie case you have so carefully rolled out and blind baked is water right.

This avoids the problem of the pie filling dripping through the base of the pie and all over the hobs, the kitchen floor, your trousers, the basket full of tea towels and your shoes.
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Toothpaste, Savlon and Anusol are definitely not interchangeable
 
chewi said:
Don't park your PBO copy on the bottom of the stairs to be taken upstairs later. Someone might come downstairs with child in arms, slip on it and break a leg. (Now that WAS me with the broken leg, the child bounced).
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That is probably the only reason why so many of us survive to maturity. ;)

I think it is the complete lack of understanding or fear, so they are relaxed like drunks when they fall. The rest of us panic, stiffen up & throw out arms & legs in a counter-productive attempt to recover or break the fall.
 
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