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isabelle [Visitor] in response to: Cherry picking

Sun, 14 Jul 2013 19:51:32 +0000

OE sprung to my mind too.

I’m not sure replacing the hard drive et al is so much manual ‘labour’, but it’s certainly impressively geeky. I wouldn’t have a clue .

looby [Member] in response to: Cherry picking

Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:06:48 +0000

I replaced my computer screen, the hard drive and the optical drive the other day and felt a frisson at doing “manual” labour. I still felt envious of the telephone engineer on his phone telling someone else about how many ohms are across A and B.

Gardening becomes more and more attractive as I get older. I love watching things grow in Kirsty’s tiny garden, which is starting to look more and more attractive, with its simple, pretty, thriving-in-Britain plants and herbs.

smallbeds [Visitor] in response to: Cherry picking

Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:21:43 +0000

That’s the problem with today’s management: too many hedge funds; not enough hedges. You can use that one yourselves in future; I won’t ask for it back.

I’ve found myself growing more interested in manual tasks as I’ve got older, but I couldn’t say whether that’s cause or correlation. Adopting gardening as a hobby, for instance, I put down to location - living in the leafier end of a small market town, near a volunteer-run museum-with-a-garden - twinned with generally greenish, permacultural tendencies. And replacement tap washers only came about when the homeowner’s burden finally combined with a dislike of having workmen in the house. I don’t yet take apart a tap for fun.

Exile on Pain Street [Visitor] in response to: Cherry picking

Tue, 09 Jul 2013 10:15:51 +0000

My oldest joke: Q: Do you know what I keep in my toolbox? A: A checkbook. I’m USELESS in the manly arts. I blame my father for not teaching me a damn thing or igniting a spark of curiosity. I read an article recently that said all the manly arts—carpentry, electrical, plumbing, etc.—are all on a slow fade. Everyone wants to be a hedge fund manager.

looby [Member] in response to: Cherry picking

Tue, 09 Jul 2013 08:42:03 +0000

I thought for one minute the telephone engineer was going to come back with a clafouti.

David Oliver [Visitor] in response to: Cherry picking

Tue, 09 Jul 2013 08:07:27 +0000

I think we all do that - try to fit out talk to the level of the person we’re talking to. I mean we do it automatically… Looks like you did as good a job of it as anyone, certainly better than some of us.

When someone says cherry picker to me I expect some kind of contraption with a long arm, either mechanical or human.

About the other stuff, sorry my mind wandered…