fun with a stanley knife

mike · 2004-12-14T00:56:42+00:00

So I was at the local refuse tip emptying large plastic bags full of leaves andchunks of cherry tree I'd had to cut down. The place was -very- busy and I wasaware of the queues of cars full of junk waiting to get in. The skip was parkedrather high up but there was a metal barrier by it which I had to climb on inorder to be able to reach over the skip. As plastic bags aren't allowed in thatskip I had a stanley knife with me in order to slit the bags open. Of coursethis never works cleanly and my "always cut away from you" policy soon gotdumped. Result! A 3" slice down my left wrist! I just stared at it a while.... Iwaited a second or two - I could see a nice clean red line bleedingaway...Expecting a sudden spurt of blood then lights out I glanced at a womanwho was emptying her rubbish alongside me. Holding my arm up I said (for noreason I can recall) "this looks good doesn't it". To which she replied, "yes, Imust get some of them plastic bags myself"! Hah hah - I did laugh. She then wenton to ask me if she could have some of the larger bits of cherry wood - which Iwas delighted to give her :-)Fortunately the cut, while deep, didn't touch any artery/vein. Phew.The moral of this story is:--Never break your own safety policies -Never carry a sharp knife-Never cut a cherry tree (it was a very nice tree in it's time, but it was infact, dead)-Never visit a council tip, they are dangerous places-If you're doing something dangerous, never stand next to a woman- (Add you're own moral telling me what an idiot I am)Well, that it. A true story. Take care out there and have safe and HappyChristmas.

Dec 14, 2004 68 Replies

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Andy Dingley 21 years ago

Rabbit skin glue has a few drawbacks, but its big advantage is retaining flexibility once set - so it's popular for artists or work with fabrics. It's also the ingredient in gesso for sculptors or gilders.

"Hide" or "Scotch" glue is made from the trimmed scraps of hides but mainly cartilage or tendon. It's not made from hooves or horns - it could be, but they'd take far too long to render down. It used to be made as bricks or "biscuits" than needed to be broken up before soaking and heating, but these days it's all "pearl" glue that is quicker to soak.

Hooves were granulated and went for either case-hardening compounds (before the cyanide processes) or as garden fertiliser.

Fish glue is made from the cartilage of non-boney fish (sharks or dogfish) and sometimes from the skins of larger boney fish. It has a higher tack on first contact than hide glue. With Victorian chemistry it was also possible to make a cold fish glue that stayed liquid, but this wasn't possible for hide until fairly recently.

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F 21 years ago

"Owain" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@nnrp-t71-03.news.uk.clara.net:

It doesn't have to be a wound...

Once, during my career in teaching, I was advised that a child would be absent as he had a problem with his eye. His mother had administered eye drops. You can guess the rest!

I understand the nursing staff in Minor Injuries were *distinctly* unimpressed.

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Ian White 21 years ago

In Days of Old, two new products came out in tubes at about the same time. One was Deep Heat Rub for aching backs. The other was Evo-Stik. You can guess the rest of that one too.

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Ian Stirling 21 years ago

I thought that was Red Dwarf, maybe I'm confused.

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Lurch 21 years ago

On 20 Dec 2004 18:12:33 GMT, Ian Stirling strung together this:

Now you mention it, you could be right. Most probably both.

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Ian Stirling 21 years ago

I thought it might have been in 'meltdown', set on waxworld, a speech by Rimmer to the 'troops'. (an assortment of historical and fictional animated waxworks, fighting an assortment of evil waxworks.)

It would have made some sense, as red-riding-hood may indeed have been on one of the armies.

However, a quick read over the script doesn't show any really close scene. And 'chin the bitch' is all over google as a "Dog Soldiers" quote.

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Lurch 21 years ago

On 21 Dec 2004 12:13:44 GMT, Ian Stirling strung together this:

Does ring a bell, I shall watch all 8 series' until I hear it!

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BigWallop 21 years ago

Wasn't the Red Dwarf scene a parody of the Dog Soldiers scene.

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John Rumm 21 years ago

Might have been, I will ask SWMBO, she is the RD fan...

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