Smiths, you are what is known as a "troll"... one who enters an internet forum and tries to cause trouble. Now, about me being "jack of all trades, master of none". I am not a jack or master of any trade. I am not a plumber, an electrician, a joiner, a bricklayer, a plasterer, a roofer or any other trade that you would find building a house, office block, swimming pool, lunatic asylum. I never said I was.
I have just reviewed your "contributions":
When people are discussing brass screws: "Slotted head are rubbish"... Oh, and then someone points out that you can't get phillips brass screws.
A window blind: "Can you drop your holes to where the trim(architrave) is?" The poster then tells you "no architrave here". No-one mentioned any window architrave... In fact I am yet to see a modern kitchen window with architraves.
Then when someone mentions knackering their thumbnail with a still-spinning screwdriver bit, what gem do you supply us with? "That's got to hurt, mate." What is your trade? Stating the bleeding obvious?!
When someone asks "What mass of tiles can I put on plasterboard?" you say "I'm sure pitt dan can quote a BS standard after he's spoken to his buddy paul." You obviously don't know anything about tiles or plasterboards either... Yet you still give someone a quote of £400 to do some tiling. Blind leading the blind...
Looking at your posts I can only imagine you fancy yourself as a tiler, but I would be surprised if you are indeed a real tradesman... I suspect you are someone who has decided that you "can do" tiling. So you do it for a living, and you leave a trail of bodged and badly finished tiling behind you.
Now, whilst it isn't really any of your business, I studied Physics at university... And my knowledge of physics has provided more benefit to this forum than your knowledge of tiling... If, as I suspect, your IQ is insufficient to grasp this concept, what I am saying is that physics provides
zero benefit here, but your posts serve only to reduce the credibility of the forum.
Now if I were to analyse, I would put money on you having been the kid at school who was so ashamed of their lack of intellect that they would pick on the bright kids in class to try and bring them down to your level.
From what you have said in your many musings, I suspect that you are in your 40s, single (possibly divorced), harbour evermore disturbing sexual fantasies, and pretend that you are happy. Yet deep down you despair of the hollow existance you lead and the fact that you can't see any way out of it due to your lack of education and social skills. For your own sake, get some help.
You obviously have no desire to contribute constructively... You haven't done so yet and I doubt you ever will. So why don't you just leave those of us who have a passion for DIY to our own lives? If at any time you need to ask a question to a real tradesman, there are plenty here who will help you.
Regards,
Dr Adam W. BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD
P.S. To paraphrase you, I don't know "everything" yet smiths, but as you can see I'm not far off
