The Code of Practice

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Hmmm... yeah... both in WA... more fuel for my suspicions!

It'd be nice to have something in the Code banning these fairies from our sheds, but I'm not sure whether they can read. They certainly ignore the plans I leave next to my pieces when I lock up for the day!

[Driver]

Lemme guess.. you're doing temp work as the futch-up fairy, running around visiting various woodies' sheds in the wee hours, loosening screws on equipment, changing the clamping positions on overnight glue-ups and shortening one leg out of every four?

G'day,

If that's what's been goin' on, then no wonder Dingo has been having all this grief over his thicknesser. Damn Stuff-up Fairies.

Hmmm... yeah... both in WA... more fuel for my suspicions!

It'd be nice to have something in the Code banning these fairies from our sheds, but I'm not sure whether they can read. They certainly ignore the plans I leave next to my pieces when I lock up for the day!

You blokes need to read the Code again and stop believing in fairies!

Cock-ups are not just unavoidable, they're compulsory. A bloke doesn't need fairies to help him create a cock-up, he's perfectly capable of getting there all on his own.

[Cliff Rogers]

You blokes need to read the Code again and stop believing in fairies!
..... A bloke doesn't need fairies to help him create a cock-up, he's perfectly capable of getting there all on his own.

Pizz fairies on the other hand, are a different story.

[RufflyRustic]

Please could the Code be updated to include allowance for the use of 'internal security window covers' as this would mean curtains are definitely never allowed in sheds.

Thanks
Wendy
Inventor of the Internal Security Window Cover trend

[echnidna]

Nope, can't do that.
But yer can hang cleaning rags over the windows

[wheelinround]

I am amazed where did you guys get the time to creat the worlds best CODE this is exceptionally a one off document

I only had time to skim WOW

I have created a PDF and willing to forward it to anyone if they'd prefer or if there is an area it can be permenantly posted to its just 175kb

or should i just attache it

[Groggy]

Nope, can't do that.
But yer can hang cleaning rags over the windows

Perhaps if they were cleaning rags that had been cleaned and hung to dry ready for re-use. You couldn't call 'em curtains though, that wouldn't be right.

[Driver]

Please could the Code be updated to include allowance for the use of 'internal security window covers' as this would mean curtains are definitely never allowed in sheds.

Thanks
Wendy
Inventor of the Internal Security Window Cover trend

Nope, can't do that.
But yer can hang cleaning rags over the windows

Perhaps if they were cleaning rags that had been cleaned and hung to dry ready for re-use. You couldn't call 'em curtains though, that wouldn't be right.

Curtains!?!???! Did someone mention curtains? Surely not!

Wendy, you can't mean those french polishing rubber cloths that you have hanging down the RH side of your new shed, can you? I mean, they're not curtains. They can't be because it's an immutable Law of Shed Physics, as you know, that any piece of cloth present in the shed, unless it forms part of a bloke's blokely attire, can and will be taken down and used to wipe up stuff, apply stuff, clean up stuff, smear stuff around, soak up stuff and generally play a part in stuff - including stuff-ups.

Curtains, I mean to say! Per-lease!!!

[echnidna]

Theres no rule about cleanin cloths not being frilly an lacey

[RufflyRustic]

just don't tell anyone there yours, Right Echnida?



Carn Guys - but they're there to keep prying eyes out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Surely under shed security they'd be allowed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


mumble, mumble.......

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

I dunno, You people.

Surely everybody knows they're really tack cloths? They're ideally positioned and all! You just take the piece you want to clean over into the better light by the window and there they are... all ready to remove those last few offending specks of dust.

[Driver]

I dunno, You people.

Surely everybody knows they're really tack cloths? They're ideally positioned and all! You just take the piece you want to clean over into the better light by the window and there they are... all ready to remove those last few offending specks of dust.

'Swhat I was sayin'. See, Wendy. We knew they weren't curtains.

Curtains! C'mon.....!

[Groggy]

just don't tell anyone there yours, Right Echnida?



Carn Guys - but they're there to keep prying eyes out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Surely under shed security they'd be allowed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


mumble, mumble.......

Security blinds! That's not bad, ya can't have ya tools being perved on by the great unwashed out there. Now you're getting the idea.

[Burnsy]

I think all glass coatings/covers/security should only be as applied by the friendly shed spiders collecting dust and creating a lovely non see through haze or that mud/slobber and fresh blood mix as applied by a large black dog trying to look through the window but not realising his nose really is that long.

[Honorary Bloke]

Ruffly,

The pieces of fabric in question are not, in my opinion, Code violations as such. To whit:

5.4 Decoration. Decoration of a shed is very important as it expresses a bloke’s personality and character. Decoration of the shed can include but shall not be limited to: old number plates, tin signs, tool stickers, calendars, charts, photos, posters, drawings, coasters, cobwebs (see para 5.4 Cobwebs) old bottles, old cans, old jars, old footballs and other superannuated sporting paraphernalia (no self-respecting shed is entirely complete without a bent and twisted wooden-framed tennis or squash racquet with busted real-gut strings) & information leaflets on every conceivable subject known to Man.

This leaves a lot of leeway for personal decisions. I believe we may safely posit that fabric hung on a wall (whether or not a window is present) is well within the rights of the bloke as it is his shed (please substitute sheila and gender-specific pronouns as necessary). Therefore, I submit to Driver (who is, after all the final arbiter in disputes of this sort) that so long as the fabric in question is not openly referred to as a "curtain" or as "lacy" but simply as part of the decoration of the shed (or perhaps as a safety device to protect your tools), that you are on safe ground.