UK DIYers clueless about tools

[The Medway Handyman]

Good news for me :-)

to be a problem to the people here :-)

[NT]

"The survey revealed that a whopping 84% of DIY enthusiasts admit to using kitchen cutlery to finish a job, while 43% use their fingernails and 24% use pennies. Some of those unable to find the right tool chose to use a nail file instead (14%), with 13% choosing to use shoes and

4% trying oven gloves.

Focus project manager Nasim Valli said: "The problem seems to be that most of us simply don't own the right DIY tools, or in some cases any at all. 48% of us own 10 or less tools, which is probably why some of us have resorted to using our toothbrushes and even saucepans!"

Damn!

NT

[Theo Markettos]

"Tool store in tool selling shocker!"

Theo

[Andrew Gabriel]

I read that as "The survey revealed that a whopping 84% of DIY enthusiasts admit to using kitchen cutlery to finish a job, while 43% use their fingernails and 24% use penises."

Talk about a pointless non-story though. I guess they couldn't think of something useful to publish.

[Owain]

size.

And I have sometimes used bulldog clips if I can't find the safeblock(tm) ...

Owain

[Owain]

Which is alright in the privacy of your own home but you want to be

*very* careful buying cut to length chain in B&Q.

Owain

[John Rumm]

Calling Focus a "tool store" is like calling a school tuck shop a "supermarket". ;-)

[John Rumm]

When they day "DIY enthusiasts" do they perhaps mean "the first plebs we asked, regardless of whether they professed to know anything about DIY"?

[Matty F]

I use a saucepan with my wireless modem. I bet nobody can guess why!

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Medway Handyman" saying something like:

A "slotted screwdriver" sounds like a rare beast.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Matty F saying something like:

[D.M.Chapman]

Focusing it to increase distance? Shielding to reduce interference from next door?

Building a microwave deathray with 500 focused netgears?

Darren

[Matty F]

None of those. The saucepan is sometimes put over the entire modem.

[dennis]

I have used kitchen knives (the bluntish sort) when I needed a wedge, I would be amongst the 84% if they asked me. Spoons are good for removing lids too.

[dennis]

Making an omni-directional slot aerial out of the omni-directional aerial on the modem?

[Invisible Man]

To kill the wireless signal so the kids upstairs can't use it after bedtime?

When I decided to go all wired I was surprised there was no option for turning the wireless signal off. Even with all the various protective measures available set I was dubious as to whether some of the local students might have found it a challenge to hack.

[Piers Finlayson]

Exactly. Regularly use blunt knives for opening tins.

[Man at B&Q]

I have one, in common with lots of other people. For doing up Romford axle nuts.

MBQ

[Matty F]

article,

Wrong! He's downstairs! When he's used up all my bandwidth and we are back on dialup speed, the modem seems to give precedence to the wireless connection ahead of the ethernet cable connection. So his Youtube download stops a quite small jpg from arriving in my machine. But not with a saucepan over the modem!

[pete]

... and even saucepans!"

Maybe the problem is that Focus shopkeepers are confused about the difference between DIY and cookery? It would explain the utter lack of knowledge in their staff.