SPAM random annoying things

[DaGaffer]

I think you forget that the vast majority of the people on this forum have a stroke when they think of a screwdriver.

This is what you pay tradesmen for Old Boy. DIY? Perish the thought.

 

[Raven]

Turning up at work to let the builders in for them to not bother turning up. Going to throw them offsite on Monday, their work is shoddy as fuck when they bother to turn up.

 

[DaGaffer]

So, since I got home last night, my missus' laptop has had hard disk failure, our dishwasher has packed up, and I've just dropped a floor tile on my toe. I think I want to go back to work...

 

[caLLous]

My dishwasher also broke this morning. I think the heating element is shot, it's not doing anything even close to drying.

 

[Shagrat]

My dishwasher also broke this morning. I think the heating element is shot, it's not doing anything even close to drying.

I got married so I'd always have a backup if this happened.

 

[DaGaffer]

I got married so I'd always have a backup if this happened.

I'm the backup

 

[old.user4556]

Drill a hole in the ceiling in the corner of the room

See I don't want to start doing that, going outside and back in would be much easier.

 

[Trem]

I thought we were all a bit handy when it came to stuff like this, apart from @Trem of course, but that's a given isn't it?

How dare you

All of my cabling is chased in the walls and hidden, all done by me. I was a qualified electrician once upon a time you know (forgotten every last bit of it apart from the practical bits and it wasn't a massive amount of time ago either )

I was once clumsy I am much better now, but still clumsy

 

[Edmond]

How dare you

All of my cabling is chased in the walls and hidden, all done by me. I was a qualified electrician once upon a time you know (forgotten every last bit of it apart from the practical bits and it wasn't a massive amount of time ago either )

I was once clumsy I am much better now, but still clumsy

 

[caLLous]

When @Trem talks about hiding cables in walls I imagine literally the whole cable in the wall and no ends sticking out anywhere to wire sockets or plug stuff in.

 

[Trem]

When @Trem talks about hiding cables in walls I imagine literally the whole cable in the wall and no ends sticking out anywhere to wire sockets or plug stuff in.

When you talk I imagine a French Peter Beardsley with more slobber and a worse hair cut.

 

[Lakih]

I wish I had the patience to learn all the math required to become an electrician. I wouldn't like to work as an electrician but I would love to have the skills and knowledge. Same with carpentry.

 

[Trem]

I wish I had the patience to learn all the math required to become an electrician. I wouldn't like to work as an electrician but I would love to have the skills and knowledge. Same with carpentry.

It was very interesting then I instantly forgot it after the exams

 

[TdC]

It was very interesting then I instantly forgot it after the exams

I have that with just about everything

 

[caLLous]

I'll learn something new that really interests me (like some hacky way of doing something in bash or css or whatever) and I think "wow, how am I ever going to forget that" and then a few weeks later I can't even remember what it was that I was supposed to not forget.

 

[Trem]

I can remember writing down these things and even the colour of the pencil used for the schematics (black and yellow) but it's just like remembering a part of a dream.

 

[Raven]

I struggled to remember how to wire a plug the other day, not had to do it in about 10 years.

 

[dysfunction]

I get that too. I can picture everything apart from the details I need to know. I have a blury photographic memory.

 

[soze]

Phone calls at 2am from managers who think waking you up to say they have not had an email in 30 minutes is important. I asked if he was expecting something and he said that no it is just unusual that he gets nothing. A test from G Mail later and he is happy everything is working. Fucker.

 

[CorNokZ]

How about he uses his phone and emails himself next time?

 

[dysfunction]

Or just set your phone to silent or turn it off?

 

[soze]

Or just set your phone to silent or turn it off?

It's an on call phone, so I'm not allowed to do that I don't mind getting woken up with real problems but when it is something so easy to diagnose it gripes me.

How about he uses his phone and emails himself next time?

I did feel like suggesting that.

 

[DaGaffer]

I have that with just about everything

I'm kind of the opposite. Things take forever to sink in, but once in there, they're pretty permanent. Its why I was always better at course work than exams.

 

[CorNokZ]

I can obtain shitty good for nothing trivia really quickly and remember them like an elephant, but when it comes to stuff I need to learn at uni I basically need to reread it a gazillion times in order to understand it

 

[soze]

Anything I read or am shown I will forget in next to no time at all. If I do it myself even once I do tend to remember it fairly well. Even if I don't remember if I start doing it then it tends to come back to me.

 

[Moriath]

I got a good memory. Never had to revise for exams to get a b,c grade. Guess if i did i woulda got an a but revision bored the shit out of me.

I have a head full of shit including lyrics to 80s pop songs

 

[TdC]

Anything I read or am shown I will forget in next to no time at all. If I do it myself even once I do tend to remember it fairly well. Even if I don't remember if I start doing it then it tends to come back to me.

I just compensate by making tonnes of notes. I note stuff up, make sure it's accurate and tidy, etc. Somehow the act of doing the notes makes things stick longer, and ofc I always have my notes to fall back on (unless I lose them, which has happened )

Current odd thing is that I tend to insta-forget people's names when they're introduced to me. I *have* to use someone's name withing 10 or 15 seconds or it's gone. This kind of makes me sound like a motivational speaker or a politician, because you get -imo- a kind of an odd back-and-forth going on where I keep using new people's names to keep from forgetting them "Jeremy, I'm Andrew, pleased to meet you. You know Jeremy, that's a really interesting question. Tom, Jeremy here just asked me a really interesting question." Ugh

 

[dysfunction]

I don't even remember to use that technique

 

[Trem]

I just compensate by making tonnes of notes. I note stuff up, make sure it's accurate and tidy, etc. Somehow the act of doing the notes makes things stick longer, and ofc I always have my notes to fall back on (unless I lose them, which has happened )

Current odd thing is that I tend to insta-forget people's names when they're introduced to me. I *have* to use someone's name withing 10 or 15 seconds or it's gone. This kind of makes me sound like a motivational speaker or a politician, because you get -imo- a kind of an odd back-and-forth going on where I keep using new people's names to keep from forgetting them "Jeremy, I'm Andrew, pleased to meet you. You know Jeremy, that's a really interesting question. Tom, Jeremy here just asked me a really interesting question." Ugh

I have this with my kids mates names because I take the piss out of them. So Dan's mate who is called Jacob and is very god fearing I have always referred to him as Jebus in private but when talking to his mum I just can't say his name because my brain can't force the correct one out

 

[CorNokZ]

I'm amazed that I even managed to log into this FH account. Who am I?