Channel 5 looking for the worst DIYer in Britain

[BigWallop]

Well folk, channel 5 are looking for Britain's worst DIYer, so is anyone in here willing to take the challenge ? :-))

[Mary Fisher]

Oh no - not ANOTHER public humiliation programme ...

But someone will do it just for the fame. And money.

Mary

[BillR]

I know someone who is gradually reducing the value of his house with poor diy jobs but it would be too cruel to submit his name :-)

[Dave Liquorice]

Channel 5 - Money? Naa, unless you consider the normal sort of =A3150 facility fee "money".

However the great unwashed go bonkers given half a hint they might appear on TV, probably do it for free. (Which I expect Ch5 are hoping...)

[MH]

Laurence Llewelyn Bowen gets my vote every time...

:-)

MH

[Dave Plowman]

Perhaps we could nominate? Give the white dinner jacket an outing....;-)

[Dave Plowman]

Crikey - that's a day's budget for Family Affairs.

[No-one]

I nominate Tony Blair as he is successfully f****g up the whole country with his DIY schemes :-))

[Huge]

Yours truly was on that Internet Cafe program, I forget the name. They paid expenses and beer money. I think they were a little taken aback about the magnitude of the latter. Bloody cheek, given that the former was nil.

[Mary Fisher]

I'm on Telly on Sunday. And the one after that.

But not diy and I shan't see it and shan't be named and didn't get paid and I don't see it as any glory. I'd have been at the event anyway.

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

Our Glorious Leader?

Surely you can't REALLY mean that - I mean, who'd support you?

Mary

[BillR]

with his DIY schemes :-))

The header of your post is being processed by Tone's Ministry of Doublespeak right now... expect the heavies round anytime soon. :-)

[Jet]

Yeah BigWallop...

I nominate the previous owner of my place :(((

-- Jet (Finds yet *another* double socket wired to the mains with a badly patched-in piece of frigging portable radio grade wiring... patched with.... wait for it!!! MASKING TAPE! Woah, the joys, the joys....

[PoP]

No chance. The message is written in plain text and so will cause immense problems for the message sniffers our wondrous government employ. Those computer systems can't manage anything that isn't encrypted with PGP or similar.

You'll probably have David Blindgit on the phone shortly though, requesting the encryption passphrase for the message as per the RIP bill he pushed thru parliament not long ago.

PoP

[BigWallop]

Masking tape ? You mean you had the luxury of having masking tape on the joints of your wiring ? :-))

[Matt Beard]

I think most of the people I have bought houses from in the past should be in the running.

As a minor example a recent check of the rewirable fuses in the CU of my new house showed that most of them had been rewired with 2.5mm copper wire!!

[PoP]

A Darwin award beckons for that one!

PoP

[mike ring]

"BigWallop" wrote in news:ZEMCb.4782$ [e-mail]:

Wiring? You had wiring!! we had wool from old cardies we had to spit on when we wanted t't'light

mike r

[Simon Avery]

Hello BigWallop

Nice to see they're continuing to stretch the boundaries of top quality television...

[Mary Fisher]

Must have been dark in your 'ole then, wool won't burn.

Mary