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Wish me luck I'm going where most 'men' fear to tread...

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TumbleflumpDancingBum · 13/12/2004 11:16

I think I will need it..Grin

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NomDePlumPudding · 13/12/2004 11:21

Where ?

spacedonkey · 13/12/2004 11:22

?

The annual convention of the League Against Transvestites?

Mum2girls · 13/12/2004 11:24

Obviously to the bathroom armed with cleaner - IME a man-free area if ever there was one

Kaysleighbells · 13/12/2004 11:24

IKEA ???????????

MariNativityPlay · 13/12/2004 11:25

The perfume counter at Selfridges?
A decent quality jewellers?

MariNativityPlay · 13/12/2004 11:25

Kaysleighbells Grin

5goldendillydallys · 13/12/2004 11:25

A craft shop?
asking for directions from a stranger?

spacedonkey · 13/12/2004 11:27

Oh we're talking about men, not 'men'

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TumbleflumpDancingBum · 13/12/2004 11:29

I am actually tackling a flat pack.... a computer hideaway, its been on the dining room floor for two weeks and I keep stubbing my toes on it..so this week I am off and I will put it together Grin so far I have set everything out on the floor and screwed in some knobs and am pondering the next step Grin

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JoolsTide · 13/12/2004 11:30

Ballet lessons?

Kaysleighbells · 13/12/2004 11:30

I was very close then Grin

Kaysleighbells · 13/12/2004 11:32

Shall we start taking bets on how many screws you will be missing at the end ?!

MariNativityPlay · 13/12/2004 11:32

If were you I'd assemble it with me and a bottle of rum on the inside and not come out til Jan 2nd. Happy knob twiddling!

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TumbleflumpDancingBum · 13/12/2004 11:35

Done the next bit, this is easy, why do men make a fuss [runs for cover as she will probably be eating her words at the end] only 10 pages to go...Wink

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5goldendillydallys · 13/12/2004 11:37

Because they never follow the instructions and do everything in the wrong order and then find a key bolt that should have been inserted in hole 6B
I think.

spacedonkey · 13/12/2004 11:37

they seem to think that following instructions is somehow emasculating

my colleague and i had a race to see who could assemble their ikea office chair the fastest

he was beating me and about to start crowing when it transpired he'd put the seat on back to front so when he tilted the seat it tipped him on the floor

Grin
DoesntChristmasDragOn · 13/12/2004 11:38

Flat packs are a Pink Job in the Dragon household. Unless it gets to the stage where brute force is needed.

TheHollyAndTheTwiglett · 13/12/2004 11:39

women are good at flat pack because we tend to follow instructions one at a time

men on the other hand just get out all there electric tools and think the instructions are for sissys Smile

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TumbleflumpDancingBum · 13/12/2004 11:44

I think I need an octopus....Its hard to make it stay up right whilst I'm putting the screws in....that sounds dirty!....Blush

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DoesntChristmasDragOn · 13/12/2004 11:45

Do you have an automatic screwing device*? They're useful.

*electric screwdriver that is.

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TumbleflumpDancingBum · 13/12/2004 11:49

No Sad it's all by hand Grin

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spacedonkey · 13/12/2004 11:50

aha a hand job - they're always hard work Grin

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TumbleflumpDancingBum · 13/12/2004 11:59

My Hands are sore now, wish I did have a electric screw driver....its looking ok but I'm not sure I'm doing it right..

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spacedonkey · 13/12/2004 12:01

does your drill have a screwdriver attachment?

Mine does, but it's so bulky I usually just do it by hand anyway

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TumbleflumpDancingBum · 13/12/2004 12:06

This stupid instructions must have been written by a man two panel almost identical but one has more holes than another, (top)+(bottom) one picture shows one on the top another picture shows it at the bottom, which one....fgs must be a man drawing..

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