bidet - which way to you face?

[BigWallop]

Oh Shit !!! Yes, I know the phrase well. :-)

[Huge]

Fascinating. Thank you. As a "part American" with a fascination for words, that site is going to waste many happy hours.

[The Medway Handyman]

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[Huge]

Already done.

And ended up, through the "folk etymologies" page on Wikipedia, with this, which has some relevance to DIY;

not for the delicate of stomach; "Ines Ramírez Pérez is a peasant woman living in rural Mexico. She speaks Zapotec and some Spanish. She had no medical training, but nevertheless performed a successful Caesarean section on herself: both she and her baby survived."

[Owain]

woman

Very impressive I'm sure, but can she build argos flatpack?

Owain

[BigWallop]

peasant woman

It seems she is even more impressive when you think she made the cuts with a broken bottle. But I'd still like to see her with a posi-drive in her hand and an MFI Chest of Drawers unit to build. :-)

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

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

I shouldn't laugh at another's misfortune, but that's what a lot of humour is, so I'm going to anyway.