Need to remove this pipe? help
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I'm doing it on Saturday morning, I know the suspense is all killing you. Ill use a hacksaw, with the water on and ill stand on a rubber mat
Its kinda fun!
yeah, start cutting from the underside with the water on,
when you get to about half way turn the water off, put a couple of cement blocks 50cm away on either side of the cut and then step on it with all your weight.
It will snap and it will be fun...
It's not far from my place. 'll go along to watch and report back in case Kris doesn't make it through the operation.
The local SES, firies and police aren't far from that house. I'll drop in and tip them off on my way.
Scott
The local SES, firies and police aren't far from that house. I'll drop in and tip them off on my way.
Scott
Can someone film it?
Make sure you upload to youtube!
Make sure you upload to youtube!
Can someone film it?
Make sure you upload to youtube!
Yeah, like that twat who did the streak and knocked himself out cold.
OK, am waiting with baited breathe.....
In that case we will have to pay him a visit and drink his beer...Whatta you guys gunna do when Saturday comes and........ silence!!! No comment or follow up at all
Pud
At the risk of taking this thread off-topic (until we find out on Saturday), the correct term is "bated".
Now, I am ready for the flames but I have references
NY times said:
Phrases said:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bated-breath.htmlAmerican Hertiage Dictionary said:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01EFDE1731F936A35756C0A9649C8B63
http://grammar.about.com/od/alightersideofwriting/a/baitedgloss.htm
This ends the English lesson for today
Now lets discuss phased vs fazed!
At the risk of taking this thread off-topic (until we find out on Saturday), the correct term is "bated". Now, I am ready for the flames but I have references
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bated-breath.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01EFDE1731F936A35756C0A9649C8B63
http://grammar.about.com/od/alightersideofwriting/a/baitedgloss.htm
This ends the English lesson for today
So, for the conservative yo yo ma
:BATED BREATH
[Q] From Steve Gearhart: “Where does the term baited breath come from, as in: ‘I am waiting with baited breath for your answer’?”
[A] The correct spelling is actually bated breath but it’s so common these days to see it written as baited breath that there’s every chance that it will soon become the usual form, to the disgust of conservative speakers and the confusion of dictionary writers. Examples in newspapers and magazines are legion; this one appeared in the Daily Mirror on 12 April 2003: “She hasn’t responded yet but Michael is waiting with baited breath”.
It’s easy to mock, but there’s a real problem here. Bated and baited sound the same and we no longer use bated (let alone the verb to bate), outside this one set phrase, which has become an idiom. Confusion is almost inevitable. Bated here is a contraction of abated through loss of the unstressed first vowel (a process called aphesis); it means “reduced, lessened, lowered in force”. So bated breath refers to a state in which you almost stop breathing as a result of some strong emotion, such as terror or awe.
Shakespeare is the first writer known to use it, in The Merchant of Venice, in which Shylock says to Antonio: “Shall I bend low and, in a bondman’s key, / With bated breath and whisp’ring humbleness, / Say this ...”. Nearly three centuries later, Mark Twain employed it in Tom Sawyer: “Every eye fixed itself upon him; with parted lips and bated breath the audience hung upon his words, taking no note of time, rapt in the ghastly fascinations of the tale”.
For those who know the older spelling or who stop to consider the matter, baited breath evokes an incongruous image; Geoffrey Taylor humorously (and consciously) captured it in verse in his poem Cruel Clever Cat:
Sally, having swallowed cheese,
Directs down holes the scented breeze,
Enticing thus with baited breath
Nice mice to an untimely death.
[I’m indebted to Rainer Thonnes for telling me about this little ditty, which appears in an anthology called Catscript, edited by Marie Angel. However, it was first published in 1933 in a limited edition of Geoffrey Taylor’s poems entitled A Dash of Garlic.]
CUT CUT CUT CUT!!!
Bugga Saturday, just get out there and cut the bl@@dy thing!
And I do want a video. Set the camera up on a tripod, a fair distance away so even if you have a massive explosion it doesn't destroy the camera and trash the evidence. If its really pyrotechnic then you'll probably make $500 by sending it to funniest home videos too!
Shame I'm the wrong side of the harbour or I'd come round for the show. Should be fun.
Cheers,
Michael
Bugga Saturday, just get out there and cut the bl@@dy thing!
And I do want a video. Set the camera up on a tripod, a fair distance away so even if you have a massive explosion it doesn't destroy the camera and trash the evidence. If its really pyrotechnic then you'll probably make $500 by sending it to funniest home videos too!
Shame I'm the wrong side of the harbour or I'd come round for the show. Should be fun.
Cheers,
Michael
