Perfect Sunday afternoon?

[ratzz]

What a great Sunday afternoon!

Big (with Tom Hanks and that Defender PB), followed by "Return of the Jedi" + a few beers at home.

Fantastic!

[polaris]

Not bad, not bad at all....

yesterday, I chopped wood, watched football, ate BBQ, went boot shopping, and ate a steak for dinner.

Today.. I'm recovering. 

but you couldnt top the day off with antiques roadshow and a bath , a classic british sunday.

thats a joke for ratzz really jim, it probably dont mean much to you

[grantspain]

Not bad, not bad at all....

yesterday, I chopped wood, watched football, ate BBQ, went boot shopping, and ate a steak for dinner.

Today.. I'm recovering. 

but you couldnt top the day off with antiques roadshow and a bath , a classic british sunday.

thats a joke for ratzz really jim, it probably dont mean much to you

what about bloody songs of praise

[polaris]

all heathens in my family so fortunately i wasnt subjected to that, but the evening was always topped off with Thats Life before bed.

[grantspain]

telly was so crap when we were kid's,i just remembered the dread of a sunday night -BATH NIGHT

[boykster]

I had a good sunday as well....late breakfast with the wife, a walk with the dog, and an afternoon playing Call of Duty 4 on Xbox LIVE!

 

[ArcadeMaze]

X

[danny_galaga]

i did a little bit of work on my cp, killed the joypad hack and then spent the rest of the day at my neighbours checking out his flight sim with 4 monitors ( i now know how to crash a large variety of planes  ) . i also installed mame on his pc...

[ratzz]

Not bad, not bad at all....

yesterday, I chopped wood, watched football, ate BBQ, went boot shopping, and ate a steak for dinner.

Today.. I'm recovering. 

but you couldnt top the day off with antiques roadshow and a bath , a classic british sunday.

thats a joke for ratzz really jim, it probably dont mean much to you

What's an "antiques roadshow"?

[Franco]

Not bad, not bad at all....

yesterday, I chopped wood, watched football, ate BBQ, went boot shopping, and ate a steak for dinner.

Today.. I'm recovering. 

but you couldnt top the day off with antiques roadshow and a bath , a classic british sunday.

thats a joke for ratzz really jim, it probably dont mean much to you

Dont forget Heartbeat! 

[cdbrown]

What a great Sunday afternoon!

Big (with Tom Hanks and that Defender PB), followed by "Return of the Jedi" + a few beers at home.

Fantastic!

Oh man - didn't realise Big was on.  Caught the end of Return of the Jedi though.  Definitely a good day to be spent indoors considering the temperature drop we've had over the last day or so.

[shardian]

I spent the day cleaning out the garage and working on various ongoing house projects. Only 1,843,836 more house projects to do until I can resume arcade work.

[polaris]

Not bad, not bad at all....

yesterday, I chopped wood, watched football, ate BBQ, went boot shopping, and ate a steak for dinner.

Today.. I'm recovering. 

but you couldnt top the day off with antiques roadshow and a bath , a classic british sunday.

thats a joke for ratzz really jim, it probably dont mean much to you

What's an "antiques roadshow"?

you are joking me, right?  how long have you lived in britain

[mr.Curmudgeon]

I spent 14 hours (total) over the weekend cleaning encapsulated asbestos out of my basement.   
I heard it was beautiful outside, but I think we freaked the neighbors out when, in order to cool off, me and the missus came crawling out of our basement bulkhead carrying heavy-duty garbage bags, while wearing chemical masks and body protection.   

[shardian]

I spent 14 hours (total) over the weekend cleaning encapsulated asbestos out of my basement.   
I heard it was beautiful outside, but I think we freaked the neighbors out when, in order to cool off, me and the missus came crawling out of our basement bulkhead carrying heavy-duty garbage bags, while wearing chemical masks and body protection.   

When you quit posting, we'll know why.  There is a reason asbestos abatement workers get paid mucho grande cash.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

We didn't have quite enough to worry about. It was mostly removed by the previous owner, they just did a really crappy job. The pipe coverings were gone, we just have to encapsulate and scrap away stuck on asbestos around the pipe elbows.

Professionals get paid so much, and use such extreme protection because they're exposed to it in much greater quantities, much more consistently.

That's not to say I'd ever want to have to deal with the stuff ever again. Ever. Ever.   

[ratzz]

Not bad, not bad at all....

yesterday, I chopped wood, watched football, ate BBQ, went boot shopping, and ate a steak for dinner.

Today.. I'm recovering. 

but you couldnt top the day off with antiques roadshow and a bath , a classic british sunday.

thats a joke for ratzz really jim, it probably dont mean much to you

What's an "antiques roadshow"?

you are joking me, right?  how long have you lived in britain

You mean like a `car-boot` sale or something?

Always seemed like buying someone elses crap is a bit pointless - but hey, each to their own! 

[polaris]

its a tv program thats been on bbc1 on sundays for 23 years. im quite surprised its passed you by

[jbox]

We didn't have quite enough to worry about. It was mostly removed by the previous owner, they just did a really crappy job. The pipe coverings were gone, we just have to encapsulate and scrap away stuck on asbestos around the pipe elbows.

Professionals get paid so much, and use such extreme protection because they're exposed to it in much greater quantities, much more consistently.

That's not to say I'd ever want to have to deal with the stuff ever again. Ever. Ever.   

Uhhh, for the record - asbestoses is a pretty big deal, because you only need one fibre to lodge in your lung and sit there for ten years until your body can no longer cope with a foreign particulate it can neither dislodge or dissolve. Whatever risks you want to take are up to you, but if I caught my neighbours doing amateur asbestos removal I'd report them pretty damn quickly. 

(and I know that different forms of asbestos have different levels of danger, but I don't like the idea of anyone reading this thread and walking away with even the slightest thought that they don't need to pay for some 'dumb trades-person' to do the work when they've got a cheap face-mask and a knife - please at least say you used proper high-level particulate-trapping masks and professional quality sealant before you tell people 'it's easy to do yourself'   )



edit: not to mention if you'd done that two weeks ago you could have just tossed a few splashes of red paint on each other and gone straight over asking for candy as well!

[danny_galaga]

its a tv program thats been on bbc1 on sundays for 23 years. im quite surprised its passed you by

 

[ChadTower]

From what I've been told by a couple of building inspectors, if asbestos was disturbed and dispersed in an enclosed area in the past, it's not even safe to spend any time in there, nevermind go back in and further disturb the stuff.  All of that incompetently moved asbestos is still up there, on the rafters, in the floorboards, in the dust ready to be kicked up into the air and tracked down into your home.  The danger is more the abestos you don't see than it is the chunks that are still visible.

Not sure how much of that is scare tactic but that's what I was told more than once when I was buying my house and seeking advice because it has old asbestos shingles underneath the vinyl siding.

[shardian]

If asbestos is completely undisturbed and sealed up, it is not a danger...supposedly. My college was full of the stuff. All of our thermodynamics test equipment was wrapped in the stuff, but we weren't supposed to know or realize that.

If it is tore up, then it is a hazard. I remember the guys who cleared out Davis hall on our campus - they wore complete HAZMAT suits. The day I saw them coming out of the auditorium of that building, I swore I'd never go in there again.

[ChadTower]

And back on topic, Sunday I chilled and watched football all day... yesterday was the better day.  Took the sons to the local zoo, played on the monkeybars with them, went for hot dogs at the local diner, then took turns playing Super Mario 64.

[SithMaster]

Seriously thought this was going to be something about the movie hot fuzz.

My perfect sunday was me playing dawn of war with my friends and arguing about who should send who reinforcements (rts game).  The game can be fun but it mostly pisses me off when the AI does something crazy, then i swear i will never play it again, then i realize its a warhammer 40k theme game and i forgive it.

i should maybe try and beat abadox (spelling?) for nes sometime (finally got to the second level a while ago).