Recent content by MrJay

If you haven't got yours yet, it might be my fault. It could turn out to be more of a new years gift...

Yeah, I reckon a #7 is a good all round bench plane. It's certainly the most picked up thing in my shed.

Oh I beg to differ. Which bit of 'your wasting your time here what with all the left wing do gooders hurr hurr hurr' wasn't baiting? I can tell you right now that, on merit, it was a spectacularly twatish sentiment. I'd like to use a phrase such as 'ill-considered' or 'misplaced', but I suspect...

For the love of God, it's you're. Well, we're sorry you think you're wasting your time here. You could always... well, you know...

Also it gives us authority over you, even if you're right about something.

Just to be clear - I am not really the head of the HSE :wink:

I'm struggling to see why taking steps to protect the hearing of performers is 'rot'. It occurs to me that a proportion people are so bent in their fervor to attack the health and safety 'brigade' and the EU ad-nauseam that they will gladly abandon reason - that orchestra musicians face a...

I'm pretty sure I have visitors that weekend, which may affect my ability to show up. Next time though...

Depends how far away you measure from of course. Guiness has stopped maintaining a record for loudest musical performance for fear of encouraging stupid people, but when it did the record was 126dB - which was measured ~30m from source. Apparently orchestras have been recorded peaking at 137dB...

A heady concoction of marketing and aspiration will make people do the silliest things.

This is what happens when Terry Wogan is taken seriously. 130 db is generally regarded as pain threshold. Rock concerts are normally capped at 115db, pneumatic drills come in at around 125 db at 4" away. Short term exposure to 140db (about twice as loud as 130db) can cause permanent damage...

I doubt 'not guilty' applies to anyone here; it certainly doesn't me.

I'm sure you do. It's always easier to blame someone else.

whoa - who'd have thunk!?!

I got back from the Climate Camp a couple of weeks back. One of the things that really struck upon leaving, after a week in a field with a few thousand hippies, compost toilets and home-brew grey-water system; was just how damn dirty the outside world is. It's not just the litter - though it is...