DIY Techno-hacksOld hard drive platters make wonderfully good drinks coasters - they look dead smart and expensive and you've stopped people reading your old data into the bargain.
Have you taped all your remotes together, peep-show-style? Have you wired your doorbell to the toilet? What enterprising DIY have you done with technology?
Extra points for using sellotape rather than solder.
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chthonic, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 12:30)
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My Welsh great uncle did your caravan trick......plus a few home lightswitches, bell-wires, etc, to supply his barn. Until the system electrocuted (luckily not TO DEATH) my dad, who then spent a week installing a proper ring main, waterproof sockets, etc, while my great uncle continued to maintain that it was perfectly safe and my dad was a numpty Englishman.
20 years later, my Indian stepmum's uncle's insane home-made electrical wiring put 240 volts through me while I was trying to fix his computer. Given the way I was standing, if it wasn't for my rubber-soled shoes I'd be TEH DEAD. Obviously, myuncle continued to maintain that it was perfectly safe and I was a numpty Englishman.
Conclusion A: eventually, everyone who isn't English will end up electrocuted due to their dodgy wiring
Conclusion B: foreigners deliberately set up their wiring in the hope of killing Englishmen
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