Any question answered...

Also, since your hypothesis is very easily falsifiable (you just have to find one man who doesn't believe he can build a shed), it will never become a theory, and you will never get OBE/Nobel/Fame/Money/Bitches

I'd rather just build a shed and have the bitches personally

I reckon the only women who believe they cannot build a shed are ones who have been trained to believe so.

I can't build a shed.

Hang on, I've built one.

I believe I could build a shed.

Nothing spurns me into action more than someone telling me 'its a mans job'.

Ive been like that as long as I can remember.
I always used to say
Men are only good for three things
Playing football
Paying the mortgage
Making babies

And two of those I've done for myself.

I'm a straight female. Guess I've just realised why I'm single.

So, it's wider reaching than I thought.
Even vegans and misandrists can build sheds.

I feel a new approach coming on. Instead of science this could be a universal philosophical truth. I could start a religion and be the new L Ron Hubbard.
"Cogito ergo potest aedificare tugurio"

I would not say I am a misandrist. I love men (perhaps a little too much) but I take objection to some things being classed as 'a mans job'.

This has been bugging me since it happened today.

Why has the frame gone yet there is remarkably little damage to the wheel and forks?

Magnets.

are there any men on the forum who do not believe themselves capable of building a shed?

I can think of at least one.

Can I put a door hinge on with just a screwdriver and some elbow grease? Or should I really do with a drill?

^ I don't know the specifics of what your attempting ( type of door/hinge/frame, etc ), but timber has a habit of splitting when you try and force things into it.

Drill some pilot holes first. It'll makes things so much easier :-)

You can also shear the head off of screws if you force them too much, which will leave you with half a screw that you can't get out.

Not fun.

Why can'y I post a new thread in the current projects page? I want to share my 1956 Holdsworth restoration on the site.

...Men are only good for three things
Playing football
Paying the mortgage
Making babies...
I hate football; I rent; I'm a Jaffa.

Epic failures thread>>>>>>>>>>

Imagine the uproar if someone were to post something along the lines of "Women are only good for three things"...

Especially if one of those things was building sheds.

Nothing spurns me into action more than someone telling me 'its a mans job'

Oddly, this construction works, in a way, although it is more conventional to use the metaphor of being impelled to act by the physical impulse of the heel spike than the psychological one of disdainful rejection.

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Cogito ergo tugurium aedificare posso

I think that's how Virgil might have done it, at least.

^ I don't know the specifics of what your attempting ( type of door/hinge/frame, etc ), but timber has a habit of splitting when you try and force things into it.

Drill some pilot holes first. It'll makes things so much easier :-)

Drill it is then. I just don't have a drill and was thinking if I could get away with not borrowing one that would be easier. So are you suggesting the best way to do is the mark the holes drill it and then put the screws in with a manual screwdriver? Coz I was thinking of putting a screwing bit onto the drill and put the screws on that way.

Oddly, this construction works, in a way, although it is more conventional to use the metaphor of being impelled to act by the physical impulse of the heel spike than the psychological one of disdainful rejection.

You knew what I meant though.

I blame autocorrect.

Drill it is then. I just don't have a drill and was thinking if I could get away with not borrowing one that would be easier. So are you suggesting the best way to do is the mark the holes drill it and then put the screws in with a manual screwdriver? Coz I was thinking of putting a screwing bit onto the drill and put the screws on that way.
A screwdriver bit in the drill will be fine, provided you don't over-tighten the screw: being both ham-fisted and lazy, I use a drill/electric screwdriver to get the screw nearly home, then a screwdriver to finish the job.

I use a drill/electric screwdriver to get the screw nearly home, then a screwdriver to finish the job.

Top tip - then you can get all the screw heads lined up the same for added OCD effect.

^ I do this. It makes me really happy.

Thanks guys!

How "big" is one line for a document with a 12 point font? I have a number of block quotes which I need to set the line space after. 0.2" looks about right. Maybe a tad big. Is there a way of discovering what it should be?