OT ish Kids!

[S Viemeister]

On _this_ group, I'd be very surprised if anyone _didn't_ get it.

[Rick Hughes]

Give them Meccano as kids I say ....

[Tim Streater]

Well I did but I'm buggered if I can remember what a bastard file is. It's more than 50 years since we did metalwork at our grammar school.

[Tim+]

I remember the name, but like you the last time I heard it was at metalwork class at school. In my case a mere 45ish years ago. ;-)

Tim

[dennis]

Well its not a big one, its a coarse one and they come in different sizes.

Most of the time you probably wnt 2nd cut of smooth anyway.

BTW I don't get it, probably because there is nothing to get.

[Frank Erskine]

One grade down fron Coarse.

[Matty F]

I've had two women in my house who can't remember which way to turn a tap off, having just turned it on. One kept winding it anticlockwise until water was shooting out of the sink on to the floor. The other managed to unwind a bathroom tap until it broke (I will never buy a plastic tap again!) I had to rush outside to turn the water off.

[Tim Streater]

Well I have a male relly who did that aged 9. But then this is a relly who having wired up an FM tuner (crap soldering job but still), turned it on and then asked me why there was no sound coming out.

[tony sayer]

In article , Matty F scribeth thus

Same here if you show them they seem to get very defensive about such things coming up with "its too complicated" " I'm not technical" etc which is a shame really.

I once was trying the explain to a woman how you go about changing a wheel on a car and all I got was "I'll just call the breakdown man out"!.

So what if you were in a remote area no mobile or coverage etc?.

No answer to that!...

[Thomas Prufer]

Replace taps with lever ball valve, and grind off the stops so it turns freely

-- on/off/on/off?

You don't stand a chance otherwise:-)

Thomas Prufer

[stuart noble]

:-)

[spuorgelgoog]

How can my mother understand knitting patterns but still have problems with light-switches (operating them)

uppy offy downy onny?

Owain

[The Medway Handyman]

I looked into this knitting lark - it's impossible & could never work...

[polygonum]

Gets marginally more believable when they introduce machines to do the knitting!

(Actually, my mother tells me that many of her male relations could knit

- seemed to have been common among sailors.)

[The Natural Philosopher]

I can knit if I have to.

[S Viemeister]

The first knitting machine dates from the late 1500s!

It was. I used to give talks on the subject, and always brought along old photos of sailors (and other men) knitting.

[F Murtz]

As long as you don't spend half your time in America