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Who the HELL puts things together with screw thingies smaller than PEPPERCORNS, fer crissake???!!!

 
 
Setanta
 
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Reply Sat 31 Jan, 2009 01:16 pm
@dlowan,
Quote:
The International Dateline alone nearly killed me.


I'm not saying this to be unkind, Miss Wabbit, but you would be better off finding a man on your own in Adelaide than relying on one of those dodgey matchmaker services. Have some confidence in yourself, and in your own attractions!
dlowan
 
  1  
Reply Sat 31 Jan, 2009 05:01 pm
@Setanta,
Grrrrrr!
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Setanta
 
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Reply Sat 31 Jan, 2009 06:16 pm
I'm sorry . . . i ought to have known that you'd be uncomfortable talking about your awkward diffidence and tendency to laugh brayingly at inappropriate times.
dlowan
 
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Reply Sat 31 Jan, 2009 06:37 pm
@Setanta,
I AM a little shy and retiring.

But I only bray as part of my repertoire of animal imitations.
dlowan
 
  1  
Reply Sat 31 Jan, 2009 06:39 pm
@dlowan,
Not a single one of you has come up with any explanation for the size of the goddam screws, you know.

I have a good mind to photograph the spare next to a peppercorn so that you may empathize properly.

You think I am exaggerating, don't you?

Well, I am NOT.



Or minimalizing.

Well, I ain't.
DrewDad
 
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Reply Sat 31 Jan, 2009 06:49 pm
@dlowan,
And how many of us do you think will admit to being intimate with tiny screws?
dlowan
 
  1  
Reply Sat 31 Jan, 2009 07:23 pm
@DrewDad,
The truly adult.
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Tai Chi
 
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Reply Sat 31 Jan, 2009 08:20 pm
@dlowan,
dlowan wrote:
Not a single one of you has come up with any explanation for the size of the goddam screws, you know.


Er, metal is expensive? Both to produce and ship? Or they're just trying to drive you mad?

If t'were me, I might consider visiting a proper hardware store and purchasing longer screws (if the thickness of the wood/metal shelving will allow it) with proper phillips or robertson heads. (Do these peppercorn screws even have proper points?)
ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 31 Jan, 2009 08:36 pm
@dlowan,
dlowan wrote:

Not a single one of you has come up with any explanation for the size of the goddam screws, you know.


they'd heard you're the crafty type, working with broken tiles and the like and they thought you'd like a new medium to work in

peppercorn inlay!
dlowan
 
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Reply Sat 31 Jan, 2009 09:33 pm
@Tai Chi,
They have a teensy thread and a teensy allen key shaped hole on one end.

Thay actually appear to do their job quite well.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Sat 31 Jan, 2009 09:34 pm
@ehBeth,
Fiendish Taiwanese!
Setanta
 
  2  
Reply Sat 31 Jan, 2009 11:03 pm
@dlowan,
Quote:
Fiendish Taiwanese!


Linguistics, archaeology and paeleo-biology all show that the Austronesian wave of settlement came from Taiwan. Spreading from South China to Taiwan, a distinct culture and four language families spread out from Taiwan to the Philippines, the Celebes, Borneo, Java, Sumatra and the rest of the Indonesian archipelago, the Bismarck archipelago, the Solomons, and all of Polynesia to the east to Easter Island and Pitcairn's Island; and most surprisingly of all, to the Island of Madagascar, off the coast of southern Africa.

You're surrounded, Wabbit. You'd best learn to live with it.
dlowan
 
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Reply Sat 31 Jan, 2009 11:52 pm
@Setanta,
I'm not Indigenous...I'm Anglo-Celtic.

Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Sun 1 Feb, 2009 02:35 am
@Setanta,
Quote:
but you would be better off finding a man



You just wash your mouth out, Mr Set!! This is the 21st century here in Australia and no-man should needlessly be harassed by a sideways glance, a throaty laugh and a languid...
http://www.onlineobservations.net/wp-content/2008/04/jessica-rabbit-real.jpg
"I'm not bad..... I'm just drawn that way".
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Setanta
 
  1  
Reply Sun 1 Feb, 2009 06:32 am
@dlowan,
I don't resent you for it . . . you can't help the accidents of your birth . . .
patiodog
 
  2  
Reply Sun 1 Feb, 2009 10:27 pm
@Setanta,
I passed my meconium on my father, but I can't positively state that is was an accident, as I've retained no memory of the event.
dlowan
 
  1  
Reply Sun 1 Feb, 2009 11:09 pm
@patiodog,
You did ok, then...not passing it in utero and all.

THAT'S when meconium goes all pear-shaped.

Shocked
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farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 2 Feb, 2009 07:12 am
Slowlllyyyy taking this thread home....
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OGIONIK
 
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Reply Fri 6 Feb, 2009 07:40 am
@dlowan,
id make my own furniture.

soon as a fin a decent full tiem job (rolfmfao LOLOLOLOLOOL)

ima gonna get some power tools and build my own desk and coffee table and chairs etc..

i cant wait to build my computer desk.

building shits so fun!
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parados
 
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Reply Fri 6 Feb, 2009 07:49 am
@dlowan,
But were the directions easy to understand?


If you don't step on one of those screws barefoot in the next week, I'll bet you swallowed them. Size, colour, but not the taste, eh?
 

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