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Very funny - maybe that should tell you something about what you get out of it these days!

=D> Spot on Roger (&Baldhead) - if anybody knows sawdust1's identity please out him/her as a petty fraudster, better yet send Ebay the details.

Conjures up a whole new image for carving the Sunday joint...

I've just received my first copy of 'British Woodworking', I haven't read it in detail from cover to cover yet, my ritual with magazines is to skim for articles of interest and go back to read those that interest me. My first impression is: it's a keeper. My main points of comparison are all UK...

I've used one of those pop-up gazebo jobs for occasional outside space, they're quite useful for taking particularly messy or smelly stuff outside. Should have prefixed this with: I do most of my work in a 1.5 length single garage, primarily hand tools, my only machinery is a bandsaw and big...

I don't miss your point - I simply reject it as self-justifying rot, there's a difference. You choose to disregard those laws that you find inconvenient, stop whining about it and crack on! All too common around here I'm afraid, and all too frequently accompanied by mangled cars and bikes...

Clearly you've never seen a tractor shoot onto the road from a field without warning. Also, quite clearly, the graph doesn't apply to uberdrivers, just the poor schmoes they're forced to share a road with.

And clearly as a "superbrilliant driver" you scale this up to the recommended 24 car lengths at 70 mph, or never exceed 20mph? Source: http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg ... 188029.pdf

I'd love to believe that successive governments could manage things well enough to sustain a conspiracy of that fiendish complexity but sadly I think it's all in the stats, a lot of folk hold a lot of bonds.

I made my decision based on intended use cases. I wanted something OK, but that I could countenance losing or breaking - it's a portable thing that travels with me, this pretty much set my price range. I also didn't want to sign up for a new digital ecosystem, I use an Android phone, so I...

Interesting, so you're relying on their judgement to make your driving decisions, sounds like you might make an ideal candidate for a self-driving car.

How do you find yourself in the middle of a group of cars doing 85 in fog, unless your judgement is faulty? I thought the 'uberdrivers' among us were omniscient and could perfectly judge events and conditions, and thus would never find themselves driving inappropriately. If a driver can't...

Good, pleased to hear it. I've got a few saws I've picked up recently in pretty sorry condition, 1 Disston and a couple of S&J that I'm hoping to refurbish. Kev

Billy, thanks - that's an interesting perspective. Sounds like you've had your money's worth, or is it like Trigger's broom: 5 handles and 6 blades - finest saw I ever owned. Kev

I'm looking forward to your account, there's a lot of dross on the market now, but I suspect there always was. Some of the defects with older tools are overlooked through misty eyed sentimentality, some older tools exude quality. I was shocked to see a contemporary Record 52 1/2 vice and...

Wind the clock back a few years, substitute drink for speed, and the same arguments and opinions were rife. Drink drivers are now rightly seen as scum of the Earth.

Irony alert. The point is we all believe ourselves to be endowed with better than average skills and judgement, it's all the other nutters that are the problem...

Hands up, who's an above average driver? I know I am. :roll:

I didn't glue mine, I wanted the (theoretical!) future option of flipping the boards over to refresh the surface when they get too beaten up. As for the tool well at the back, I think that discussion is right up there with some of the epics that erupt from time to time when people ask the...

Problem? Maybe not, worse than UK, yes. For road fatalities in 2010 Germany had more fatalities by all three measures used in the RAC report "Road Safety: A review of UK and European data", January 2013 45% higher per million inhabitants 38% higher per 10 billion passenger km 33% higher per...