Dodgy DIY photo's
 

Hi,

I posted recently about starting a website that collects photo's of bad diy
jobs. This may include bad "professional" jobs too!

Anyway, I've had a couple of submissions, the site gets a reasonable number
of visitors so I've moved the site to a proper domain. The new address is
www.dodgy-diy.org

Currently all the examples are electrical ones, but I'm sure that as there
are multiple trades here, some of you will have wonderful examples to add.
Now the website is properly online, people can get the idea of the sort of
thing it's about.

The aim is to build up galleries of pictures, therefore I'd be grateful if
anyone has any contributions. Please email them to

Many thanks!

David

"David" wrote in message
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Hi,

I posted recently about starting a website that collects photo's of bad
diy
jobs. This may include bad "professional" jobs too!

Anyway, I've had a couple of submissions, the site gets a reasonable
number
of visitors so I've moved the site to a proper domain. The new address is
www.dodgy-diy.org

Currently all the examples are electrical ones, but I'm sure that as there
are multiple trades here, some of you will have wonderful examples to add.
Now the website is properly online, people can get the idea of the sort of
thing it's about.

The aim is to build up galleries of pictures, therefore I'd be grateful if
anyone has any contributions. Please email them to

Many thanks!

David


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And it's PHOTOS - no apostrophe.

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And it's PHOTOS - no apostrophe.

I too cannot reach the site. For once I must defend the user of the
apostrophe (I am usually on the attack) - "Photo's" is an abbreviation and
the apostrophe seems to me to (quite correctly) indicate that there are
missing letters. However, I can also see the sense in omitting it.

I am beginning to wonder, now that the use of apostrophes in plurals seems
to be increasingly widespread, that the adoption of the apostrophe in the
first place (for whatever purpose) was a very big mistake! How much simpler
and calmer life would be without them...

{Awaits the storm of controversy}

Rick

Sorry - I gave the wrong address. It's www.dodgy-diy.net

In message , David
writes
Sorry - I gave the wrong address. It's www.dodgy-diy.net

What is the point of a text-only version of the site?
(Especially as it is no such thing).

--
dave @ stejonda

David wrote:

jobs. This may include bad "professional" jobs too!

So why call it dodgy-diy.org then?

Did you read people's replies to your original post?

Dvaid

"Richard Sterry" wrote in message
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"brugnospamsia" wrote in message
. uk...

SNIP

And it's PHOTOS - no apostrophe.


SNIP

I am beginning to wonder, now that the use of apostrophes in plurals seems
to be increasingly widespread, that the adoption of the apostrophe in the
first place (for whatever purpose) was a very big mistake! How much
simpler and calmer life would be without them...

{Awaits the storm of controversy}


Thinking about it, "photo" is a pretty meaningless contraction - just a
prefix ..similar to "telly" I suppose.

No, they're fully established "self-sufficient" nouns and need no apostrophe
except to imply possession - i.e "my old telly's turret tuner" ...

The problem in (with ?) ditching the apostrophe is what to do about "its"
and it's"... and what would be next ? - there / they're / their ?

I'm no linguist myself, and abit over-liberal with punctuation, but at some
point the language "looses" its meaning. (there's another AOL special !)

...Newspeak here we come ....

ducks in anticipation of Huge flinging the charter at me for "deviation"

;-)

Jeremy.

"Lobster" wrote in message
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David wrote:

jobs. This may include bad "professional" jobs too!

So why call it dodgy-diy.org then?

Did you read people's replies to your original post?

Dvaid


Dvaid (if that's your real name!) are you and the others trying to discourge
the lad?

Nobody's perfect.

Mary

In article ,
Mary Fisher wrote:
jobs. This may include bad "professional" jobs too!

So why call it dodgy-diy.org then?

Did you read people's replies to your original post?

Dvaid


Dvaid (if that's your real name!) are you and the others trying to
discourge the lad?

Nobody's perfect.

Because most of the rather stupid regulations we have come from so called
'pro' bodies with an axe to grind - ie to protect their incomes or
whatever from the DIY alternative - when doing little to protect from the
far greater problem, to most, of cowboy 'pros'.

Ie. Of course there are some clueless DIYers that might put themselves and
their nearest and dearest at risk. But IMHO, they are but a tiny fraction
of cowboys who do this - and worse - in the name of a fast buck.

--
*Money isn't everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Mary Fisher wrote:
"Lobster" wrote in message
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David wrote:


jobs. This may include bad "professional" jobs too!

So why call it dodgy-diy.org then?

Did you read people's replies to your original post?

Dvaid



Dvaid (if that's your real name!) are you and the others trying to discourge
the lad?

Yup...

David

In message , David
writes
Hi,

I posted recently about starting a website that collects photo's of bad diy
jobs. This may include bad "professional" jobs too!

Anyway, I've had a couple of submissions, the site gets a reasonable number
of visitors so I've moved the site to a proper domain. The new address is
www.dodgy-diy.org

"Page cannot be displayed" here

--
geoff

"raden" wrote in message
...
In message , David
writes
Hi,

I posted recently about starting a website that collects photo's of bad
diy
jobs. This may include bad "professional" jobs too!

Anyway, I've had a couple of submissions, the site gets a reasonable
number
of visitors so I've moved the site to a proper domain. The new address is
www.dodgy-diy.org

"Page cannot be displayed" here

you aren't missing much :-(

"David" wrote in message ...
Sorry - I gave the wrong address. It's www.dodgy-diy.net

Can you be sure any of this is DIY? To take just two examples:

Roofing Gallery 1 – “Not bad for a £7000 re roof
job!” If they were charged £7000 for it then it was presumably a
professional. In any case I can’t imagine any DIYer who would
contemplate a complete re-roofing job without doing it properly. I am
sure that there are many pros who would if it’s a quick buck.

Gas Gallery 1 – “It was fitted by a corgi registered
installer” By their own admission a professional job. Did the
submitter report the Corgi engineer in question?

Perhaps renaming the site dodgy-tradespeople.net would get you a few
more submissions.

The site also seems to keep crashing Opera. A quick check of the home
page, which is not exactly large reveals nearly 20 violations of the
html standard. Perhaps a candidate for dodgy-html.net?

In message , Lobster
writes
David wrote:

jobs. This may include bad "professional" jobs too!

So why call it dodgy-diy.org then?

Did you read people's replies to your original post?


He's certainly read mine & changed the text accordingly.
:)

--
dave @ stejonda

In message , David
writes

The aim is to build up galleries of pictures, therefore I'd be grateful if
anyone has any contributions. Please email them to


Can anyone tell me how to photograph a 3-pin socket that blows the
lighting fuse when you plug a kettle into it?

--
Sue ];(:)

I've just gone and bought this house...

In message , Sue
writes
In message , David
writes

The aim is to build up galleries of pictures, therefore I'd be grateful if
anyone has any contributions. Please email them to


Can anyone tell me how to photograph a 3-pin socket that blows the
lighting fuse when you plug a kettle into it?

With a flash ?

--
geoff

Sue wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to photograph a 3-pin socket that blows the
lighting fuse when you plug a kettle into it?


That woudl qualify as a Very Odd Question.

NT

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:49:09 +0000, David wrote:

Hi,

I posted recently about starting a website that collects photo's of bad diy
jobs. This may include bad "professional" jobs too!

Anyway, I've had a couple of submissions, the site gets a reasonable number
of visitors so I've moved the site to a proper domain. The new address is
www.dodgy-diy.org

Currently all the examples are electrical ones, but I'm sure that as there
are multiple trades here, some of you will have wonderful examples to add.
Now the website is properly online, people can get the idea of the sort of
thing it's about.

The aim is to build up galleries of pictures, therefore I'd be grateful if
anyone has any contributions. Please email them to

Many thanks!

David

Have e-mailed the webmaster with this one i found today.. Again, not DIY
but done by our fav big telecoms company.. In their defence, the cover was
on, well sort of, it was balanced on this mess..
Marvel at the workmanship :: http://tinyurl.com/3kr4t

../Bob