| Chelski moving 18:35 - May 11 with 25575 views | HollowayRanger |
The Blues want to relocate to Wembley for three years and a £20m-a-year deal has reportedly been agreed.But they have also held talks with the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) about a temporary move to the Olympic Stadium, which will become West Ham's home from next season.It would mean West Ham receiving a significant discount on their £2.5m-a-year rent for the 60,000-seater stadium.
Chelsea are also understood to be considering a switch to Twickenham
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| Chelski moving on 18:09 - May 13 with 2395 views | danehoop |
| Chelski moving on 17:32 - May 13 by Phildo |
Home bar ?- no people make the inside of a garden shed look like the queen Vic these days and get a geordie man off channel four to come round and make a documentary about it.
My Dad had a much simpler version in the 1970s whereby he kept a crafty half bottle of johnny walker behind a jar of creosote. He could come home piss@d claim to do gardening and apparently magically get drunker. It was years before my mum twigged the whole shed / concealed alcohol thing. Odd as my dads brother - who was to married my mums sister pulled the identical trick for many years. It was harder to spot patterns of behaviour before the internet.
He did once fall on a g plan coffee table and break it in half though . |
I had a full home bar in the massive basement in a house that I rented in Copenhagen. Also had a diarama display made up of stuffed birds in a woodland seen in one wall. It was about 18 feet long, 3 feet deep and just plain scary. Kids wouldn't go in the room because it freaked them out. It was like a scene from tales of the unexpected. I kept on thinking Vincent price was going to walk out if the toilet attached to the basement bar.
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| Chelski moving on 18:10 - May 13 with 2395 views | PunteR |
| Chelski moving on 12:57 - May 13 by Konk |
You need to pick your battles. I’m not an official doctor in the sense that I haven’t studied medicine, but I’ve picked-up quite a lot over the years watching Holby City, ER etc. To be clear, mine weren’t made shelves that you simply fix to the wall, we screwed batons into the wall, glued struts(?) to the batons, screwed the board to the batons using my new power drill, glued strips of board for the fascia, filled the screw recesses, filled them, sanded them down and then painted the bas tards. And I did most of it in my pants cos it was boiling hot that week. |
This ^
Not the pants bit though, unless wearing a tool belt as well.
I've fitted many an alcove shelf and for a "floating" shelf look this is the most effective method. 32mm x 18mm batons to form a frame which you fix into position ,then clad over with 9mm mdf , glued and screwed. This will give you a nice 50mm chunky shelf .
A word of caution though to anyone thinking you can get away with using a standard 18mm mdf board for a shelf that span's more than 1000mm wide without a suitable support in the middle. You WILL get bowing. [Post edited 13 May 2016 23:52]
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| Chelski moving on 18:11 - May 13 with 2392 views | johann28 |
| Chelski moving on 13:14 - May 13 by R_from_afar |
Any lawyers on here? Is it legally possible to bequeath one's belongings to household appliances?
Oh, and while I'm here, do sheep know they are bored? Or are they just philosophical?
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Sheep are easily frightened, so I'd say they weren't 'bored' as such. However, since, contrary to popular belief, they are also quite intelligent, maybe they could get bored if their environment was too static. They also have excellent memories and have been known to ignore sheep dogs that are the wrong colour and to be worried by sheep that are sheep dog colour. Sheep are lovers of routine and spend their day between looking for new grass, chewing cuds, looking for shelter, mouthing abuse at Steve Claridge and whatever. So they're not really bored, just enjoying their routine life that is (to them) quite 'exciting'. |  | | |
| Chelski moving on 18:17 - May 13 with 2382 views | PunteR |
| Chelski moving on 18:11 - May 13 by johann28 |
Sheep are easily frightened, so I'd say they weren't 'bored' as such. However, since, contrary to popular belief, they are also quite intelligent, maybe they could get bored if their environment was too static. They also have excellent memories and have been known to ignore sheep dogs that are the wrong colour and to be worried by sheep that are sheep dog colour. Sheep are lovers of routine and spend their day between looking for new grass, chewing cuds, looking for shelter, mouthing abuse at Steve Claridge and whatever. So they're not really bored, just enjoying their routine life that is (to them) quite 'exciting'. |
Do you know much about cows?
I've heard if you push them when they're not expecting it you can push them over with relative ease. They've always looked a bit top heavy . Just wondered if you knew? | |
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| Chelski moving on 18:28 - May 13 with 2358 views | johann28 |
| Chelski moving on 18:17 - May 13 by PunteR |
Do you know much about cows?
I've heard if you push them when they're not expecting it you can push them over with relative ease. They've always looked a bit top heavy . Just wondered if you knew? |
Quite a bit, depending on how long you have. Cows love being milked. Any members on here familiar with the cover of Atom Heart Mother by Pink Floyd? Well, the reason they look so happy was that they'd just been milked. To answer your question, they are heavy f**krs, and I wouldn't try pushing them over (it's known as 'cow tipping' in the trade) as they are well aware of their surrounding and can get quite aggressive if suddenly surprised. A 2005 study led by Margo Lillie, a zoologist at the University of British Columbia, concluded that cow tipping would require a force of nearly 3,000 newtons (670 lbf), and is therefore impossible to accomplish by a single person. Her calculations found that it would take at least two people to apply enough force to push over a cow if the cow did not react and reorient its footing. If the cow did react, it would take at least four people to push it over. | | | |
| Chelski moving on 18:37 - May 13 with 2350 views | PunteR |
| Chelski moving on 18:28 - May 13 by johann28 |
Quite a bit, depending on how long you have. Cows love being milked. Any members on here familiar with the cover of Atom Heart Mother by Pink Floyd? Well, the reason they look so happy was that they'd just been milked. To answer your question, they are heavy f**krs, and I wouldn't try pushing them over (it's known as 'cow tipping' in the trade) as they are well aware of their surrounding and can get quite aggressive if suddenly surprised. A 2005 study led by Margo Lillie, a zoologist at the University of British Columbia, concluded that cow tipping would require a force of nearly 3,000 newtons (670 lbf), and is therefore impossible to accomplish by a single person. Her calculations found that it would take at least two people to apply enough force to push over a cow if the cow did not react and reorient its footing. If the cow did react, it would take at least four people to push it over. |
Interesting, thanks johann28.
I guess the most effective way of toppling a cow over would be to have 3 of you.
One to milk the cow to distract her and two of you to push. | |
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| Chelski moving on 18:37 - May 13 with 2348 views | johncharles |
| Chelski moving on 12:29 - May 13 by Monkey_Roots |
I have just been diagnosed with Crohn's disease 5 years after putting up some floating shelves of my own.
Coincidence? |
Did you read the instructions carefully ? |  |
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| Chelski moving on 18:59 - May 13 with 2322 views | Monkey_Roots |
| Chelski moving on 18:37 - May 13 by johncharles |
Did you read the instructions carefully ? |
Of course not!
I've had issues with screwdriver blisters before, but I never expected that the shelves would cause an inflammation of the large colon and small bowel.
A lesson learnt. |  | | |
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| Chelski moving on 22:01 - May 13 with 2272 views | YorkRanger |
I like red wine. In fact I prefer it to white, particularly French, St Emilion or something similar. Sometimes in the summer though I prefer white wine, even if I'm having red meat and I do enjoy a nice steak. |  | | |
| Chelski moving on 22:56 - May 13 with 2239 views | FredManRave |
Would it be fair to suggest that our interest in Chelskis move has been shelved?! |  |
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| Chelski moving on 23:19 - May 13 with 2175 views | WilloW4 |
| Chelski moving on 22:56 - May 13 by FredManRave |
Would it be fair to suggest that our interest in Chelskis move has been shelved?! |
It hasn't been shelved Fred, we just didn't give a monkeys in the first place... And this thread is all the better for it..why mention chelski? When there's cupboards and cows to talk about.. Long may it continue..wonderful stuff. |  | | |
| Chelski moving on 00:40 - May 14 with 2147 views | eastside_r |
| Chelski moving on 13:06 - May 12 by Konk |
My Mum says that people who say "Baguette" have delusions of grandeur. French stick all day long until I became a class traitor and turned into a great big ponce. I still call our Living room "The Front room", though, even though it's in the middle of our flat and we don't have a "Back room", so I'm not totally detached from my humble roots.
I think I say serviette. Or more likely, "Kitchen roll". |
The French word for ring is 'bague' so baguette means small ring. Feck knows how that became a very straight piece of bread in English.
I once had a lecturer (who I assumed was a bit of leftie) who disliked the Paris Commune because they banned the overnight baking of bread (workers rights!?) I don't know whether the Commune did do this but he was convinced they did and was quite passionate about it.
But he was right that French bread from France is the best bread, has to be fresh of course. (Bien sur.) |  | | |
| Chelski moving on 09:09 - May 14 with 2074 views | LongsufferingR |
If it's a baguette you're after, then I'd agree with you, but what do the French know about sourdough? It's something I've discovered only recently, but it takes my enjoyment of sandwiches, or even just bread and butter to a new level. There are of course different standards. The sourdough loaf you get in Sainsbury's is no tastier than any other loaf you care to mention, but my favourite has to be Waitrose Wheat'n' Rye Sourdough sliced, which you can get via Ocado if, like me, you have no interest in entering a Waitrose store. |  | | |
| Chelski moving on 09:14 - May 14 with 2068 views | MrSheen |
| Chelski moving on 00:40 - May 14 by eastside_r |
The French word for ring is 'bague' so baguette means small ring. Feck knows how that became a very straight piece of bread in English.
I once had a lecturer (who I assumed was a bit of leftie) who disliked the Paris Commune because they banned the overnight baking of bread (workers rights!?) I don't know whether the Commune did do this but he was convinced they did and was quite passionate about it.
But he was right that French bread from France is the best bread, has to be fresh of course. (Bien sur.) |
The Communards of 1871 wouldn't have known what a baguette was. They only appeared in the 1920s after the invention of the steam oven.
German bread is the best in the world. All shapes, sizes and colours. |  | | |
| Chelski moving on 09:15 - May 14 with 2067 views | Pommyhoop |
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| Chelski moving on 09:19 - May 14 with 2059 views | LongsufferingR |
| Chelski moving on 09:14 - May 14 by MrSheen |
The Communards of 1871 wouldn't have known what a baguette was. They only appeared in the 1920s after the invention of the steam oven.
German bread is the best in the world. All shapes, sizes and colours. |
However, the Communards of 1984 certainly knew of and appreciated baguettes.
Jimi Somerville used to insist on them backstage with various fillings. | | | |
| Chelski moving on 10:23 - May 14 with 2031 views | johann28 |
| Chelski moving on 00:40 - May 14 by eastside_r |
The French word for ring is 'bague' so baguette means small ring. Feck knows how that became a very straight piece of bread in English.
I once had a lecturer (who I assumed was a bit of leftie) who disliked the Paris Commune because they banned the overnight baking of bread (workers rights!?) I don't know whether the Commune did do this but he was convinced they did and was quite passionate about it.
But he was right that French bread from France is the best bread, has to be fresh of course. (Bien sur.) |
The word 'baguette' is actually derived from the Italian 'bacchetta' - which means 'wand' or 'baton', so it's entirely logical that it looks like a stick. | | | |
| Chelski moving on 12:10 - May 14 with 1986 views | TacticalR |
| Chelski moving on 00:40 - May 14 by eastside_r |
The French word for ring is 'bague' so baguette means small ring. Feck knows how that became a very straight piece of bread in English.
I once had a lecturer (who I assumed was a bit of leftie) who disliked the Paris Commune because they banned the overnight baking of bread (workers rights!?) I don't know whether the Commune did do this but he was convinced they did and was quite passionate about it.
But he was right that French bread from France is the best bread, has to be fresh of course. (Bien sur.) |
I wonder what kind of leftie your lecturer was? From what I can tell the abolition of night work was a popular measure introduced to improve the health of the bakery workers:
The Commune 'decreed an end to night baking, which had long been a grievance among the bakery workers'
Alistair Horne, The Fall of Paris The Siege and the Commune 1870-71, 1965 |  |
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| Chelski moving on 14:27 - May 14 with 1939 views | FredManRave |
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| Chelski moving on 08:12 - May 15 with 1858 views | JAPRANGERS |
| Chelski moving on 09:15 - May 14 by Pommyhoop |
On the shelf..
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Holloway's new Bird??? |  | | |
| Chelski moving on 10:47 - May 18 with 1740 views | Northernr |
| Chelski moving on 19:04 - May 11 by Northernr |
In equally relevant and interesting news...
I play football at Elephant and Castle on a Tuesday night, and have to get the train north from there through central London and change at Kentish Town onto the Northern Line to get home to Barnet. I've tried the Northern Line from Elephant but it takes forever to wind its way through the city, so the Thameslink is definitely quicker. Except, for the last four weeks in a row, there have been major signalling issues, delaying the Thameslink trains by up to 45 minutes at a time. Bloody sick of it to be honest, especially as Elephant and Castle is a dog of a place anyway and I don't like going there even for my football matches.
Hopefully the service will improve for next week. |
Just to come back to this vital issue and let you know that last night, thankfully, the Thameslink trains were not disrupted from Elephant and Castle, so after a 4-1 win and a quick shower I was able to get home in good time for most of the Hull v Derby game. |  | | |
| Chelski moving on 11:12 - May 18 with 1715 views | Konk |
| Chelski moving on 15:28 - May 13 by Mick_S |
Glass doors - turn it in. Solid wood all round - no veneer in here; but I have to admit you sound like you have very practicable soloutions to listening to music within your family - it sounds a bit like that multi-room thing you can get these days. |
Sorry — I can clearly see there are solid wooden doors on your units, Mick. On the plus side, there are no issues with fingerprints, on the negative side, you can’t see the record spines without shifting the doors backwards and forwards. But they look great.
On the Hi-fi front, my mate told me that when he was about fourteen, him and a couple of mates went to knock for another mate to go and play football over the park. No answer at the front door, so they open the gate and pop round the side to the back garden. He’s sitting on the floor with big headphones on in the back room with his back to them, they start hammering on the patio doors, he spins round in shock, the headphone jack comes unplugged, and at the same time as they notice he’s actually having a wan k, the sound of Status Quo’s “Rocking all over the world” comes blaring out of the speakers. Whenever I now hear that song, I get that lovely image in my mind. What could improve a run of the mill w ank? Listening to Rocking all over the world through a big set of headphones, obviously. Good times.
Bri — that is exactly the plastic runner that my Mum has in her hallway — taped down with brown parcel tape. Not only does it stop you treading mud into the carpet, but as my Mum likes to point out, it also stops you slipping (because walking across deep pile carpet is a lot like walking on ice).
Bars - I have worked with three people from Raleigh/Benfleet and all of them had a bar at home. One of them took up about 40% of my mate’s front room and meant they had to put the sofa in the back room, and just make do with two armchairs and three bar stools. Watching telly round someone’s house, perched on a bar stool about two foot above the people in armchairs, with your nose about 18’ from the wall-mounted TV is a weird experience. I wouldn’t do it — you just need a brilliant fridge, a cupboard for glassware and a booze stash under the stairs or in the shed. [Post edited 18 May 2016 11:15]
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| Chelski moving on 11:46 - May 18 with 1672 views | Monkey_Roots |
| Chelski moving on 09:14 - May 14 by MrSheen |
The Communards of 1871 wouldn't have known what a baguette was. They only appeared in the 1920s after the invention of the steam oven.
German bread is the best in the world. All shapes, sizes and colours. |
Maltese is the best bread in the world. | | | |
| Chelski moving on 12:09 - May 18 with 1642 views | LongsufferingR |
| Chelski moving on 11:46 - May 18 by Monkey_Roots |
Maltese is the best bread in the world. |
...and also my favourite chocolate based confectionery. | | | |
| Chelski moving on 12:13 - May 18 with 1628 views | Phildo |
Haemorrhoids is a word almost never set in school spelling tests which is a shame as 50% of adults will experience them at one time or another and they may need to write about their experience one day. |  | | |
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