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So has the thread title gone from yes yes fucking yes to YYFY?

[Yossarian]

I am particularly agitated by this incessant nanny-stating over-conservatism. Less time fannying about with thread titles, more time fixing my broken avatar (which didn't have any swearing in it). Your man ClimbingSheep was being helpful but nothing has happened.

Could I suggest a Make Fiend a New Avatar competition?

1st prize - An all-expenses-paid trip to Malham, with belaying by Shark
2nd prize - A philosophical walk in the woods with Dan (ayahuasca available)
3rd prize - Remote control car test drive

[bigironhorse]

Change back

[Steve R]

I'd vote for reversion but....if the site needs sponsors and potential sponsors are so lame that the former title might put them off then fuck it.

[SA Chris]

So has the thread title gone from yes yes fucking yes to YYFY?

Y

[DaveC]

Seems to me this thread is having an existential crisis! 

[Oldmanmatt]

I am particularly agitated by this incessant nanny-stating over-conservatism. Less time fannying about with thread titles, more time fixing my broken avatar (which didn't have any swearing in it). Your man ClimbingSheep was being helpful but nothing has happened.

Could I suggest a Make Fiend a New Avatar competition?

1st prize - An all-expenses-paid trip to Malham, with belaying by Shark
2nd prize - A philosophical walk in the woods with Dan (ayahuasca available)
3rd prize - Remote control car test drive

You forgot “Matching Shell suits for the whole family” as part of the First prize.

[Yossarian]

I’d settle for a Fiend™ camo vest tbh...

[Plattsy]

This thread identifies as an initialism and not as an acronym.

[shark]

I'd vote for reversion but....if the site needs sponsors and potential sponsors are so lame that the former title might put them off then fuck it.

Yes that's part of it - we do need to gather some dosh for a site upgrade especially the design costs. It also looks naff now - as a mid 50's white, stale male I am at one with the zeitgeist and was in the mood to take control and have a rebellion in my extension - fuck yeah!   

[tc]

If you’re editing thread titles, can you remove the the misplaced - out of my “non-quality bouldering videos” thread?

Non-quality requires a hyphen, Mr Tyson. Compound adjective preceding the noun innit.

[tomtom]

I am at one with the zeitgeist and was in the mood to take control and have a rebellion in my extension - fuck yeah!

What’s the rebellion in your extension Shark?

Is there a group of Maoist rebels plotting in your conservatory? Or perhaps a bunch of Che wannabe’s calculating whether the bridges of Sheffield can take the weight of M1A Abraham’s tanks in your garden office/sauna?

Such a rich tapestry.

[Mike Tyson]

If you’re editing thread titles, can you remove the the misplaced - out of my “non-quality bouldering videos” thread?

Non-quality requires a hyphen, Mr Tyson. Compound adjective preceding the noun innit.

Well blow me down with a feather, I’m not a total bafoon after all! Or am I?!

[andy_e]

bafoon

Can't decide if this is intentional or not...

[SA Chris]

Certainly not a bafoon.

 http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199829941.001.0001/acref-9780199829941-e-1641

[Mike Tyson]

 

[Yossarian]

I am particularly agitated by this incessant nanny-stating over-conservatism. Less time fannying about with thread titles, more time fixing my broken avatar (which didn't have any swearing in it). Your man ClimbingSheep was being helpful but nothing has happened.

Could I suggest a Make Fiend a New Avatar competition?

Just knocked something up...

[lagerstarfish]

I am particularly agitated by this incessant nanny-stating over-conservatism. Less time fannying about with thread titles, more time fixing my broken avatar (which didn't have any swearing in it). Your man ClimbingSheep was being helpful but nothing has happened.

Could I suggest a Make Fiend a New Avatar competition?

not my work

NSFW  :

[SamT]

Isn't that old cheese's avatar

[Fiend]

It's alarmingly similar!

Yossarian: fix my guts enough so I can eat a burger carefree, and I will happily have that as my avatar. Assuming avatars work by then.....

[DAVETHOMAS90]

I was having a chat with Rich Heap the other day about always turning off power tools, before doing things like changing bits etc.

When I was about 9, I thought I'd learned a lesson about not using a knife to test if the filaments of toasters were broken.

Tonight, I thought I'd use the bread knife to unstick crumpets in my toaster..

..this knife:



It had welded itself on. Toaster still works.

It's still raining. Still have a dicky finger, and no skin. Cool with that.

[Oldmanmatt]

Using the knife is not an issue.

Not turning the frigging toaster off before you stick a lump of metal in it?
Different story.

You Plonker.

I, of course, have never done anything of a similar vein...

[moose]

That's impressive.... I'd have thought heating wire would have too much resistance for such a high current short to occur.

On a more practical note... I suspect my mum's present of these to me many years ago have saved my life during many tipsy supper-times.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lakeland-Magnetic-Wooden-Toast-Tongs/dp/B00I9TNXBM/ref=pd_sbs_201_1/262-4309358-0633530?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00I9TNXBM&pd_rd_r=af3d424b-71d9-11e9-8f6d-5558d0c85632&pd_rd_w=BVPDY&pd_rd_wg=nyX8f&pf_rd_p=18edf98b-139a-41ee-bb40-d725dd59d1d3&pf_rd_r=6ARPR7Q8JH245W4DX6K6&psc=1&refRID=6ARPR7Q8JH245W4DX6K6
.

[mrjonathanr]

Congratulations on still being alive DT!

[DAVETHOMAS90]

You Plonker.

Me? Yes, complete idiot, but a living one - though I'm still not convinced I really am.

Thanks all.

I don't know whether this makes it better or worse, but the butter knife I was using before was solid metal. It wasn't really sharp/flat/long enough, so I picked up the bread knife, which just happens to have a thick PVC handle.

Who knows, maybe it would have earthed anyway..  through me.