DIY music

[Huge]

So, what do you like to listen to when you're doing DIY?

(The Dandy Warhols, "Welcome to the Monkey House" at the moment.)

[Eiron]

Strangely enough, last time I was bodging stuff, I was listening to:

with the rest of the album.

[Steve Firth]

Heavy banging beat, torrent of verbals like someone with Tourettes syndrome, occasional falsetto scream. No it's not "Anarchy in the UK" it's me trying to pound in a nail and failing.

[nightjar]

I usually wear ear protectors, to keep me from having to listen to the noise I'm making.

Colin Bignell

[bof]

In message , nightjar writes

It has to be said, the hammer drill going through a brick wall is very reminiscent of the Ramones.

[Andy Hall]

Ravel's Bolero....

[Mike]

Usually listening out for whichever sheep has now got itself somewhere it can't get out of.

[Ian Stirling]

I find that very effective for DIY listening is a pair of earmuffs, combined with a pair of shortened in-the-ear earplug, with earphones over the earplugs turned up to '9'.

Of course, it's wise to make sure that you let everyone know that you're effectively deaf when doing this.

At the moment my MP3 player has a few albums on, of rather different genres.

Avril Lavine, Coldplay, Altered Images, Mnemosyne (Hillard Ensemble), Scooter (Stadium techno experience).

[Dave Baker]

Funny how you see an unusual word for the first time in years and then it pops up again a day or so later. There's a current thread in rec.puzzles.crosswords about a famous British newspaper crossword setter retiring this week at the age of 86. See thread entitled "farewell Crispa".

Her current newspaper editor rated her best ever clue as being..

Men's my one failing, (mother of nine) (9)

I guess anyone who doesn't do cryptic crosswords won't know what the hell all that means - or who Crispa is. The word "failing" is a clue indicator which means it's an anagram (other anagram indicators are broken, jumbled, garbled etc) of 'men's my one' and the solution to the clue means 'mother of nine'.

Once you've 'mused' about it for a while and worked out which of the above bands is the answer Google will explain why.

The clue is brilliant on several levels. The anagram not only gives the answer but in conjunction with the anagram indicator also explains it. Crossword junkies would say the 'surface' (the way the whole thing reads without looking artificial or contrived) is absolute perfection.

[raden]

In message , nightjar writes

What ... you sing while you DIY ?

[jon]

They are fine when everything works but one of the worst companies I have ever had to deal with when things go wrong. As you have found, their stock control is a complete joke.

Check your credit card carefully, they took £180 off me for £20 worth of goods and it took me weeks and weeks with numerous phone calls and letters to get it back.

I warned this group about BES back in August and at that point nobody else seemed to have had problems.

I took the trouble to write to their MD twice but she just ignored me.

They had the cheek to offer me a small discount if I spent another £50 with them. Needless to say I have never ordered from them since!

Jon

[Philip Davies]

If the diy job does not come up to her expectations then I listen to AC/DC Highway To Hell, that's what it feels like. If she really approves of the work then it's Led Zeppelin Stairway To Heaven, One particular job was painting the bedroom walls. I was up the steps with a 5litre tin of pink paint, over stretched, yes you guessed it. She came flying up the stairs, and I was playing the funeral march in my head. Made it a lot worse when I tried to clean the spilt paint up with the Vax cleaner. She reckons I should have been listening to Buddy Holly and been on his f*****g plane. Nice girl really.