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  1. 20th January 2004, 05:34 PM #16
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    Default More stereotypes

    Darren,

    I spent time being the group web developer too, so I was a spotty youth with no social graces in a lab coat with weird specs and a further lack of social graces but at least I wasn't an old cantankerous flannie-wearing woodie then! (But I am now - 39 seemed a good age to make the change.)

    OK, I'll admit to the lab coat but not the microscope - nothing I work on is big enough to see down one of them. I'm an engineer, mate, (genetic that is) which I think means I have to spend a lot of time looking under the bonnet of my bacteria, sucking air through my teeth and saying "Yer T4 DNA ligase is stuffed, mate. It'll cost yah!". Or is that just another stereotype?

    Also no scarey hair 'cos it all had to go when the spaces between got too noticable. And the glasses are only for driving and watching the Brumbies play.

    Time to go home and hand cut some (quiet) dovetails.

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  3. 22nd January 2004, 11:20 PM #17
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    Default Neh?

    I have to admit that I have never heard of, never mind seen, the show you are all referring to. And I haven't watched 'Changing Rooms ' either. I'm guessing it's on Foxtel, or something of its ilk? Can't be bothered with cable, there's well enough crud on commercial tv without paying for it...oh, and I'd need a dish out where I am to receive it.

    Anyway, I know what you mean about it being an anti-social hobby (to a degree). I wear earmuffs, but all my tools are still loud, especially the Bosch router. As I'm in the middle of nowhere, about 200m from my nearest neighbour, who's behind two rows of trees, then it doesn't really matter how much noise I make (as long as it doesn't wake the kids). As I finally have my own shed, it doesn't matter how much mess I make either ;-)

    It was interesting to read about young people not having the money to pursue woodworking (in its many manifestations) as a hobby. I am 40 in May, and it's just now that I am in a position to start setting up a workshop and accumulate power tools.

    ...and I work in the National Bank (in the same room that lost $180 million recently). So I suppose a cardigan and tie with the leather apron?

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    You could set up a GREAT workshop with $180 million?
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  5. 27th January 2004, 11:14 PM #19
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    You could set up a GREAT workshop with $180 million?
    Ya spot on there mate.

    And you'd probably have a little bit of change left over for some stock and glue.
    Ohh, and some more clamps. Always need more clamps.
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