Hi,

I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's of dangerous /
potentially lethal DIY. At the moment it's on a freebie host, but if
it works I'll get a domain and have it hosted properly.

If anyone has any photo's of DIY that is potentially dangerous, then
please drop me a line! Either by email, or via the website below.

Thanks

http://members.lycos.co.uk/dodgydiy/

I think he really needs info on professional disasters, there seem to be
very few DIY ones in comparison.

Regards
Capitol

David wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's of dangerous /
potentially lethal DIY. At the moment it's on a freebie host, but if
it works I'll get a domain and have it hosted properly.

If anyone has any photo's of DIY that is potentially dangerous, then
please drop me a line! Either by email, or via the website below.

Thanks

http://members.lycos.co.uk/dodgydiy/

On 19 Feb 2005 15:02:07 -0800, (David) strung
together this:

I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's of dangerous /
potentially lethal DIY.

Try Google, there's at least 2 threads from recently on DIY disasters.
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Hi,

I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's of dangerous /
potentially lethal DIY. At the moment it's on a freebie host, but if
it works I'll get a domain and have it hosted properly.

If anyone has any photo's of DIY that is potentially dangerous, then
please drop me a line! Either by email, or via the website below.

Thanks

http://members.lycos.co.uk/dodgydiy/

Go to PLowman's, Rogers, The Unatural Thing and Jerrys houses. You will see
some hum-dingers there.


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"David" wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's of dangerous /
potentially lethal DIY. At the moment it's on a freebie host, but if
it works I'll get a domain and have it hosted properly.

If anyone has any photo's of DIY that is potentially dangerous, then
please drop me a line! Either by email, or via the website below.

Thanks

http://members.lycos.co.uk/dodgydiy/

Go to PLowman's, Rogers, The Unatural Thing and Jerrys houses. You will
see
some hum-dingers there.

Absolutely

David wrote:

I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's of dangerous /
potentially lethal DIY. At the moment it's on a freebie host, but if
it works I'll get a domain and have it hosted properly.

If anyone has any photo's of DIY that is potentially dangerous, then
please drop me a line! Either by email, or via the website below.

Ah, you can see it now.... a handy web site for use by phony tony and
friends to justify yet more nanny state legislation! ;-)



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On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 03:12:24 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:

David wrote:

I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's of dangerous /
potentially lethal DIY. At the moment it's on a freebie host, but if
it works I'll get a domain and have it hosted properly.

If anyone has any photo's of DIY that is potentially dangerous, then
please drop me a line! Either by email, or via the website below.

Ah, you can see it now.... a handy web site for use by phony tony and
friends to justify yet more nanny state legislation! ;-)

Part Q1, outlawing the sale of hacksaws with plastic pipe for
example......




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"David" wrote in message
om...
Hi,


I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's

If anyone has any photo's

Not wishing to be pedantic, but the word does feature somewhat prominently
on your website ....

http://www.englishonline.co.uk/englishnon/sf/wow/

"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 03:12:24 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:

David wrote:

I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's of dangerous /
potentially lethal DIY. At the moment it's on a freebie host, but if
it works I'll get a domain and have it hosted properly.

If anyone has any photo's of DIY that is potentially dangerous, then
please drop me a line! Either by email, or via the website below.

Ah, you can see it now.... a handy web site for use by phony tony and
friends to justify yet more nanny state legislation! ;-)

Part Q1, outlawing the sale of hacksaws with plastic pipe for
example......

Frank, have you sent him the pictures of your boiler installation? You
should ASAP.


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David wrote:

I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's of dangerous /
potentially lethal DIY. At the moment it's on a freebie host, but if
it works I'll get a domain and have it hosted properly.

If anyone has any photo's of DIY that is potentially dangerous, then
please drop me a line! Either by email, or via the website below.

Ah, you can see it now.... a handy web site for use by phony tony and
friends to justify yet more nanny state legislation! ;-)

If it drives away dangerous people like you, I think it a very good thing.



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On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:37:26 -0000, "Doctor Evil"
wrote:


"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 03:12:24 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:

David wrote:

I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's of dangerous /
potentially lethal DIY. At the moment it's on a freebie host, but if
it works I'll get a domain and have it hosted properly.

If anyone has any photo's of DIY that is potentially dangerous, then
please drop me a line! Either by email, or via the website below.

Ah, you can see it now.... a handy web site for use by phony tony and
friends to justify yet more nanny state legislation! ;-)

Part Q1, outlawing the sale of hacksaws with plastic pipe for
example......

Frank, have you sent him the pictures of your boiler installation? You
should ASAP.

That would need to go in the masterpiece gallery. No hacksaw in
sight......



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On 19 Feb 2005 15:38:49 -0800, "kmillar" strung
together this:

Poor site with popup adds - the Internet's biggest annoyance.

No pop-ups here, maybe you should use a proper browser?
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Lurch wrote:
On 19 Feb 2005 15:38:49 -0800, "kmillar" strung
together this:

Poor site with popup adds - the Internet's biggest annoyance.

No pop-ups here, maybe you should use a proper browser?

Nor here actually, and I'm only using the latest version of the
proverbial "improper" browser, IE.

I used to use a third-party pop-up nobbler, and TBH I think it's a Bad
Thing that MS have finally incorporated this into IE functionality
because it spells the end for pop-up ads as a revenue generator, and
they will need to be superceded by something else.

David

David wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's of dangerous
/
potentially lethal DIY. At the moment it's on a freebie host, but if
it works I'll get a domain and have it hosted properly.

If anyone has any photo's of DIY that is potentially dangerous, then
please drop me a line! Either by email, or via the website below.

Thanks

http://members.lycos.co.uk/dodgydiy/

I suggest you'll get a lot more material if you look for dangerous
proferessional work. DIYers pay a lot more attention to their work, and
care what the result is, as we have to live with it for a long time.


NT

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David wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's of dangerous
/
potentially lethal DIY. At the moment it's on a freebie host, but if
it works I'll get a domain and have it hosted properly.

If anyone has any photo's of DIY that is potentially dangerous, then
please drop me a line! Either by email, or via the website below.

Thanks

http://members.lycos.co.uk/dodgydiy/

I suggest you'll get a lot more material if you look for dangerous
proferessional work. DIYers pay a lot more attention to their work, and
care what the result is, as we have to live with it for a long time.

The problem with DIYers is that they think they know more than a competent
experienced professional. The clearly do not. Must of the reasoning behind
many jobs they do is clearly warped in some way. This group is full of them.



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wrote:
David wrote:

I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's of dangerous
potentially lethal DIY. At the moment it's on a freebie host, but if
it works I'll get a domain and have it hosted properly.

If anyone has any photo's of DIY that is potentially dangerous, then
please drop me a line! Either by email, or via the website below.

Thanks

http://members.lycos.co.uk/dodgydiy/

I suggest you'll get a lot more material if you look for dangerous
proferessional work. DIYers pay a lot more attention to their work, and
care what the result is, as we have to live with it for a long time.

Judging by his site, he's evidently a pro sparks (and hasn't ever posted
here before apparently); and he visits a diy newsgroup expecting the
inhabitants to provide him with photographic evidence of bad diy work,
presumably in support of his own business and in order to add more grist
to the mill of the 'pro-Part P' brigade. I wonder how he defines "...
if it works..."? Personally I think I'll pass.

David

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:14:30 GMT, Lobster
wrote:

I used to use a third-party pop-up nobbler, and TBH I think it's a Bad
Thing that MS have finally incorporated this into IE functionality
because it spells the end for pop-up ads as a revenue generator, and
they will need to be superceded by something else.

I think they have been replaced by something else....enabled in IE at
the same time as pop up blocking was introduced. I think it's a kind
of floating window which third party pop-up blockers cannot block.
I haven't seen this for myself since I use Firefox, but I remember
reading something about it at the time.

David

In article ,
fred wrote:
Go to PLowman's, Rogers, The Unatural Thing and Jerrys houses. You
will see some hum-dingers there.

Absolutely

See John has morphed again...

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In article ,
Doctor Evil wrote:
Go to PLowman's, Rogers, The Unatural Thing and Jerrys houses. You will
see some hum-dingers there.

Yours, of course no longer exists, after you washed away the foundations
with your episode of not knowing how to join plastic pipes properly. And
this from someone who calls himself a heating engineer.

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In article ,
"Doctor Evil" writes:

The problem with DIYers is that they think they know more than a competent
experienced professional. The clearly do not. Must of the reasoning behind
many jobs they do is clearly warped in some way. This group is full of them.

Now remind me again, which of us is it who has been served
an Immediately Dangerous (ID) notice by Transco on a boiler
installation they were doing, and which of us is it that
keeps going on about how professional they are because
otherwise we'd never guess?

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On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:56:17 -0000, "Doctor Evil"
wrote:



The problem with DIYers is that they think they know more than a competent
experienced professional. The clearly do not. Must of the reasoning behind
many jobs they do is clearly warped in some way. This group is full of them.


Possibly not as bad as those who would have you believe that they are
qualified professionals but who are consistently unable or unwilling
to provide evidence of either.

It seems that this type of individual has the most hare-brained
schemes, thinks that they are above and beyond reading manufacturer's
instructions and then blames the manufacturer for their own
shortcomings.

There was somebody called IMM who was rather like this, but he doesn't
seem to be around any longer......



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Doctor drivel wrote:

If it drives away dangerous people like you, I think it a very good thing.

You obviously don't recognise dangerous when it is looking you straight
in the mirror...


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In article ,
David wrote:
If anyone has any photo's of DIY that is potentially dangerous, then
please drop me a line! Either by email, or via the website below.

The example on the electrical section shows a Crabtree socket and box
which suggests original pro installation as I've not seen these in the
sheds, etc. Complete with ****ed trunking...

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Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
"Doctor Evil" writes:

The problem with DIYers is that they think they know more than a competent
experienced professional. The clearly do not. Must of the reasoning behind
many jobs they do is clearly warped in some way. This group is full of them.

Now remind me again, which of us is it who has been served
an Immediately Dangerous (ID) notice by Transco on a boiler
installation they were doing, and which of us is it that
keeps going on about how professional they are because
otherwise we'd never guess?

Andrew, I'm afraid you're just going to have to remind us, I don't
remember that thread... got the link??!

In article , David
wrote:
I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's of
dangerous / potentially lethal DIY. At the moment it's on a
freebie host, but if it works I'll get a domain and have it
hosted properly.
If anyone has any photo's of DIY that is potentially dangerous,
then please drop me a line! Either by email, or via the website
below.
Thanks

http://members.lycos.co.uk/dodgydiy/

Very good! Viewed under Opera 7.54 half the content - in particular
the link buttons - is missing. As the site says "The purpose of
this site is to show examples of what happens when inexperienced
persons do work that is beyond their abilities".

The W3C Validator shows up 54 errors on the page, though of course
some of these may be cascading errors from one above.

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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember (David)
saying something like:

I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's of dangerous /
potentially lethal DIY.

**** off.
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 01:10:34 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember (David)
saying something like:

I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's of dangerous /
potentially lethal DIY.

**** off.


I think that that's him told, then.......




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On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:13:09 +0000, Andy Hall
squeezed out the following:

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 01:10:34 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember (David)
saying something like:

I'm trying to put together a website that shows photo's of dangerous /
potentially lethal DIY.

**** off.


I think that that's him told, then.......

Nah - from Grimly that's a polite request.

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Lobster wrote:

Judging by his site, he's evidently a pro sparks (and hasn't ever
posted
here before apparently); and he visits a diy newsgroup expecting the
inhabitants to provide him with photographic evidence of bad diy
work,
presumably in support of his own business and in order to add more
grist
to the mill of the 'pro-Part P' brigade. I wonder how he defines
"...
if it works..."? Personally I think I'll pass.

David

With that site he's clearly trying to do something that he doesnt have
the ability to, design a competent website.

"So, if you are a tradesman or an individual,"

Tradesment are not individuals according to him? Interesting.

I thought I had a whole bunch of atrocious pro sparky scrwesups on
file, but couldnt find the pics. They make his examples of spurring
look pretty tame.

I think Grimly summed it up fairly neatly.


NT

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
David wrote:
If anyone has any photo's of DIY that is potentially dangerous,
then
please drop me a line! Either by email, or via the website below.

The example on the electrical section shows a Crabtree socket and box
which suggests original pro installation as I've not seen these in
the
sheds, etc. Complete with ****ed trunking...


Here we go:
http://electrical-contractor.net/ubb...ML/000323.html

full of pics of pro disasters.

NT

In article , David
wrote:

If anyone has any photo's of DIY that is potentially dangerous, then
please drop me a line! Either by email, or via the website below.

I have just discovered a "gallery 2" job.

In the bedroom, a previous owner had decided to add a second lighting set,
fed from a twin dimmer. To wire it, a pair of single core cables had been
polyfillerd into a shallow groove to the right of the main feed. These wires
then went over the top of the back box so that the metal dimmer plate (earth
lead floating) pushed the wires against it, making the whole lot live. My
partner was doing wallpaper stripping while I was out and complained of
getting a shock off it. No pictures as I have started ripping it all out to
make safe!

You can see where part P comes from.

Another gem I found last year, was the shower fed by a spur off the ring
main. 9kW was not a sensible load methinks!
Kitchen to do next and I just know what I am likely to find.

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In article , brugnospamsia
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Not wishing to be pedantic, but the word does feature somewhat prominently
on your website ....

http://www.englishonline.co.uk/englishnon/sf/wow/

I thought that too. Then I realised that as a contraction of photographs, it
was probably reasonable.

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In article , Andy
Luckman (AJL Electronics) wrote:
Another gem I found last year, was the shower fed by a spur off
the ring main. 9kW was not a sensible load methinks!

According to the Triton website FAQ this is not uncommon

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"Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)" wrote in message
. ..
In article ,
brugnospamsia
wrote:


Not wishing to be pedantic, but the word does feature somewhat
prominently
on your website ....

I thought that too. Then I realised that as a contraction of photographs,
it
was probably reasonable.


I suppose one shouldn't be pedantic - the English language owes its success
to its flexibility.

By all accounts one should really use the apostrophe only for numerics such
as "the 90's"

brugnospamsia wrote:
I suppose one shouldn't be pedantic - the English language owes its success
to its flexibility.

By all accounts one should really use the apostrophe only for numerics such
as "the 90's"

Why? I would say that was one definite occasion where you shouldn't...

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:59:54 UTC, Lobster
wrote:

brugnospamsia wrote:
I suppose one shouldn't be pedantic - the English language owes its success
to its flexibility.

By all accounts one should really use the apostrophe only for numerics such
as "the 90's"

Why? I would say that was one definite occasion where you shouldn't...

Not according to Lynne Truss...
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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something
like:

Here we go:
http://electrical-contractor.net/ubb...ML/000323.html

full of pics of pro disasters.

Holy ****!
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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Bob Eager"
saying something like:

By all accounts one should really use the apostrophe only for numerics such
as "the 90's"

Why? I would say that was one definite occasion where you shouldn't...

Not according to Lynne Truss...

Who would take seriously the opinion of somebody named after a surgical
appliance?
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:32:00 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon
strung together this:

Here we go:
http://electrical-contractor.net/ubb...ML/000323.html

full of pics of pro disasters.

Holy ****!

You can spend days there, I have!
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