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10th December 2013, 07:45 AM #136
Subconscious be blowed, I still shudder at the thought of the wrath of my grade 7 teacher if we mixed up our declensions! Artme, if you went to school in Qld, you were getting close to the last cohort that were drilled in grammar in primary school. My youngest brother is 8 years behind me. Despite a tertiary education, the poor b*gg*r is functionally illiterate. Well, that's what I tell him.
I mourn the loss of precision in our language as words like 'alternate' and 'alternative' have completely lost any distinction, but after reading exam responses for years, I am resigned to a lost cause. When the Y generation are bereft of electronic assistance, it descends into near farce, at times. I used to get a good chuckle from a few of the more frequent mixups - 'illicit' and 'elicit' make some interesting juxtapositions.
The spalling chequer has much to answer for.....
CheersIW
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10th December 2013, 08:22 AM #137Skwair2rownd
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Went to school in NSW Ian, but the same thing applied.
I remember in the first three years of high school there was a set of eight rules
that we had to recite and give examples of.
I could go on and on about this, but I won't Perhaps a thread elsewhere is appropriate.
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10th December 2013, 09:50 AM #138
In the not too distant future written communication will only consist of a series of meaningless acronyms without any punctuation or capitals, so why worry about it?
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17th December 2013, 03:24 PM #139GOLD MEMBER
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Great read Paul. Following with interest.
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17th December 2013, 04:05 PM #140
i 2 c dis thread goin off topik! L8Rz…..
…..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands
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17th December 2013, 06:44 PM #141Skwair2rownd
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17th December 2013, 10:45 PM #142
bnch wot bnch?
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Nick
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Without wood it's just ...
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19th December 2013, 07:49 PM #143
Funny you should ask ... even given the thread title ...
I had the three-plank tabletop in the kitchen/whatever sitting ontop of the current little round thing to suss out length & width etc.
I mustn't have taken any photos before it got the boot back outside.
I needs more width, and given the original had the jarrah on each side I'm planning to use one of the jarrah planks (holy side down) to edge it on each side.
I think that will need to branch off into a separate, meandering and often pointless thread.
But ... in order to work on that ... and December being a traditional cleaning-up time around here ... I am pulling the crap pine together into at least a workbench top ... and it might even get legs ... but let's not hold our breath.
I've been jointing two sides of each post/plank today ... ready to insult the big thicknesser with this stuff after that.
Some of it is treated-pine ... but I already have a somewhat poisonous personality ... so ...
Cheers,
Paul
Still be be cleaned up ...
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Two sides jointed ...
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19th December 2013, 08:31 PM #144
You know what they say…..Good things come in small packages……….like arsenic!
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19th December 2013, 10:10 PM #145
All jointed on 2 sides.
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All the end-docking done by handsaw as penance for using the jointer.
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19th December 2013, 10:25 PM #146
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19th December 2013, 11:41 PM #147Skwair2rownd
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21st December 2013, 12:41 AM #148
Cleaned up all round ...
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Thanks to ...
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Not sure what to do with the wider post.
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Thinking of cleaning up and using the tie-rods that were part of the original bench I picked up.
Probably hardwood planks front and back.
And the jarrah/karri I planed straight before for end-caps.
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21st December 2013, 07:23 PM #149
love that thicky
regards
Nick
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21st December 2013, 11:02 PM #150
I only had a 1L container of auqadhere (interior) so went to the green shed this afternoon to look for exterior glue.
They had a 4L of exterior aquadhere there for $58 ... and a 4L of a no-name brand of PVA for $17.
So I decided to just give the underdog a go and see what happens.
It'll have the bolts also, so it'll be interesting.
Paul
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