Never let your wife see what you can make

[AJB Temple]

Mrs AJBT has observed me making lots of large custom drawers lately (for kitchen and utility and larder). She now thinks this is both easy and quick. (To be fair, it is). She has just brought her laptop along with "good news". When she says good news, it is never good news and is time to look busy.

On "sale" discounted to only £149 each :lol: , are some oak veneered boxes on cheap castors that go under beds. Four per bed. These apparently "won't take long for you to make".

I said "I am busy. Plus I don't have any spare sheets, nor do I have any wheels". "Don't worry" she said (I was not worried, I was appalled as I had no idea we needed these) "I will get those organised". "Oh and I need you to make lids as well please".

This is what you get for not keeping everyone occupied properly over Christmas. :?

 

[Mike G]

"Oh, I see. These under-bed boxes are more important than a new kitchen, then. No problem, I'll do the kitchen another time". :lol:

Seriously, I'm delighted when my list gets longer. My wife is now starting to hanker after the new dining suite I have been drawing for the last couple of years. This is great news.

 

[Woodbloke]

"Oh, I see. These under-bed boxes are more important than a new kitchen, then. No problem, I'll do the kitchen another time". :lol:

Seriously, I'm delighted when my list gets longer. My wife is now starting to hanker after the new dining suite I have been drawing for the last couple of years. This is great news.

I made under-bed storage units a few years ago, our teak dining room suite bought nearly forty years ago is still going strong (and used every day) and sadly my list is getting shorter This is bad news (until I conjure up some more projects ) - Rob

 

[AJB Temple]

My wife doesn't give a toss about the kitchen Mike. I am the cook!
List is: finish kitchen, start and finish utility room, make a timber framed new room, lay floor in dressing room, and master bedroom, open up attic above master bedroom, install new bathroom, complete planning for new extension, and now make flipping under bed boxes as a priority.

 

[AJB Temple]

Rob. Brilliant idea. Come and help me!!

 

[Nelsun]

Just bite the bullet and do them. Badly.

 

[Cabinetman]

Just bite the bullet and do them. Badly.

No and I bet you couldn’t either Nelsun, lol, I know I couldn’t.
Adrian, it sounds like you’ve got quite a lot —-no, a hell of a lot of work on. I think it’s time, even though I hesitate to say it, to have a serious man to mam talk with your thoroughly wonderful wife.
I’m trying hard not to sound patronising,
So, In my experience – and it’s very hard won – never ever use the word but, and always try and see things through her eyes and from her point of view, (It’s frightening actually that we aren’t always quite as wonderful as we think we are) and even when it isn’t totally appropriate acknowledge your faults, and agree with her timetable to see this through, once you have done that, and after a reasonable period when you are working to her timetable, you can then mention the faults in the timetable and come up with a solution which is more to your benefit.
You must of course at the same time make her feel that she is the most important thing in the world to you, - well you are superhuman aren’t you? – No problem. Ian

 

[Nelsun]

Just bite the bullet and do them. Badly.

No and I bet you couldn’t either Nelsun, lol, I know I couldn’t.

Absolutely Ian. She has, however, come to learn to ask for things and expect them to take "a while" as her "just" is my "oh my lord, it has to be perfect". It never is and yet she does keep asking, so I must be doing something right. That, or she likes me out of the house...

 

[John Brown]

To quote Ogden Nash
"To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up."

Or, as my son in law in Hawaii put it.
"Happy wife, happy life"

 

[Pete Maddex]

I have made some underbed draws using wheels made from mdf disks that come out from slots in the draw bottom and complete enclosed on the in side, that way the wheels don’t catch each other.

Pete

 

[Mike G]

Rob. Brilliant idea. Come and help me!!

Oh, for the good old days when you could give a mate a hand.......

 

[Cabinetman]

I have made some underbed draws using wheels made from mdf disks that come out from slots in the draw bottom and complete enclosed on the in side, that way the wheels don’t catch each other.

Pete

Thanks Pete, I shall remember that – filed away for future use. Ian

 

[Rod]

My wife is so impatient that she won’t let me make anything for her “as I take too long”.
Most things I make were for my two daughters.

Rod

 

[RogerS]

My wife doesn't give a toss about the kitchen Mike. I am the cook!
List is: finish kitchen, start and finish utility room, make a timber framed new room, lay floor in dressing room, and master bedroom, open up attic above master bedroom, install new bathroom, complete planning for new extension, and now make flipping under bed boxes as a priority.

And after lunch ?

 

[Cabinetman]

Just sent you a PM Adrian. Ian

 

[AJB Temple]

Well, this is bizarre, Ian and Robert and a couple of others have notified me that I have undergone a name change. Apparently I have become Keith Gamble. For reasons known only to my alter ego, my original post has been copied and pasted verbatim from here to another woodwork forum that many of us used to frequent much more. He is too lazy to change the text so Mr Keith Gamble refer to my wife as Mrs AJBT in "his thread". Of course plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery. :lol:

Thanks fellas for letting me know.

Adrian (my real name and the only one I use on the internet).

 

[Trevanion]

Not saying this thread is meaningless Adrian, but what's worth re-posting about this post in particular? It's not like they've stolen a detailed WIP or guide and posted it as their own over there for kudos, it was just a random personal life post.

Thoroughly unusual.

 

[Mike G]

Is it legal to do that? I presume the Keith Gamble we are talking about is the guy who now owns UKW. Is that right? If so, it could be said that he seems to expect one standard of behaviour from posters on his forum, but plays fast and loose with the law, and with norms of decent behaviour, when it suits him.

 

[Cabinetman]

The same thought occurred to me, but of course I was too much of a gentleman to mention it. Ha ha
The only other two posts that he made were both about metalwork, and from one it would appear that he is a sailor, make of that what you will. Ian

 

[Cabinetman]

Is it legal to do that? I presume the Keith Gamble we are talking about is the guy who now owns UKW. Is that right? If so, it could be said that he seems to expect one standard of behaviour from posters on his forum, but plays fast and loose with the law, and with norms of decent behaviour, when it suits him.

Well we don’t know it’s him of course Mike, but yes I am of the same opinion, and he always signs himself Noel

 

[Trevanion]

Is it legal to do that? I presume the Keith Gamble we are talking about is the guy who now owns UKW. Is that right?

No, that's Keith Ubben that owns "Group Builder" / "7 Global Community Solutions" that now owns UKW and a plethora of other really varied sites.

 

[Mike G]

Ah, OK. Thanks for the clarification. So this is just some random bloke who thinks it's OK to copy and paste other people's content.

 

[novocaine]

I saw that. I read it, assumed it was you and figured it made little sense but just ignored it.

How odd.

 

[Cabinetman]

My posts seem to be disappearing, so if this is a repeat sorry, it was 815 in the morning when he posted the duplicate on the other place, I was thinking it might have been a drunken stupidity, but then again you never know with some people.

 

[Trevanion]

Ah, OK. Thanks for the clarification.

I've actually done a bit of research (read sleuthing) into the company because I'm a complete saddo with far too much time on my hands :eusa-shifty:

So far I've identified 45 forums (covering such interesting topics as Homesteading, Soapmaking, Golden Retrievers in Germany, and Heart Valve Replacement to name a few) that they own for certain with donation links like on the other place taking you to a PayPal page requesting you to pay directly to "7 Global Community Solutions".

Judging from posts in other forums, their receptions to the new overlords were quite similar to the way it went in the other place. What's quite interesting is that the owner seems to actively go around emailing forum owners offering sums of cash for the domain and data, which is how I assume the other place ended up getting sold.

 

[AJB Temple]

Well, Keith the plagiarist has been deep sixed over there.

What I find interesting is the harvesting from here to post there.

But Trevanion put me properly in my place by basically saying he couldn't understand why my boring ramblings had been pinched and scattered around the internet :lol: . The man clearly can't recognise top notch prose when he sees it :eusa-dance:

 

[Trevanion]

It's a post of a man moaning about his wife's demands, what more is there to it!?

:lol:

 

[AJB Temple]

Well I was expecting useful input about what essential new tools I would need to do this very difficult and demanding job. But you lot were useless. No creativity at all.

 

[Tiresias]

Well I was expecting useful input about what essential new tools I would need to do this very difficult and demanding job. But you lot were useless. No creativity at all.

I can offer you this pot of snake oil.

 

[novocaine]

A hamper and 12 red roses should do the trick.

 

[Doug]

What's quite interesting is that the owner seems to actively go around emailing forum owners offering sums of cash for the domain and data, which is how I assume the other place ended up getting sold.

I posted on here a while ago when UKW was down for a few days during the take over that whilst googling the site I came across a company that values forums & UKW was on their site with a valuation figure of around $17,000 if memory serves.
So clearly there is an “estate agent” to purchase forums from if that’s your bag

 

[Phil]

I did some small wood work for the neighbour (his wifes table) and my wife then asked me "what colour are her eyes that she takes preference?" :lol:

It was safer to rather not reply and make a start on refurbishing her small tables.

 

[Mike G]

........I posted on here a while ago when UKW was down for a few days during the take over that whilst googling the site I came across a company that values forums & UKW was on their site with a valuation figure of around $17,000 if memory serves......

DaveL of this parish reckoned he saw a figure of $30,000+ for UKW.

 

[Trevanion]

It would be interesting to know what he got for it in the end, and how much it was costing to run vs the income produced from adverts. Obviously there must be some monetary incentive to gobble up all these forums otherwise they wouldn't be doing it, definitely not "out of the good of their hearts" as they would like you to believe...

"Group Builder is an online media company focused exclusively since 2001 on online discussion forum communities.

Since 2001 Group Builder has been active in the development and acquisition of online discussion forums. Group Builder has successfully owned and operated communities in a variety of verticals such as automotive, aviation, beer & wine, pets, outdoor sports, firearms, agriculture and hobby. We have acquired over 80 online discussion forum communities and currently manage over 30 including Homebrew Talk, Amtrak Trains, Soapmaking Forum, Rocketry Forum. These have ranged from 100k posts to 10M posts. In 2012 we did an exit of our automotive vertical, in 2014 we did an exit of our outdoor, firearm and agriculture verticals.

After our exit in 2014 we changed ownership then ceased buying forums. With the rapid decline of forums and the buyer pool drying up their future became hard to predict. However, starting in 2018 we began to acquire forums again with a completely new outlook. Instead of focusing on revenue and growth, our focus shifted to the preservation of knowledge. Forums are not dead, they have declined but there are still communities to foster and there is knowledge that needs to be saved. Every single forum has countless hours of knowledge invested into them by the community. So often we see forums just vanish, we have a list of over 1500 forums that are now offline that once had over 200,000 posts. Our goal is to acquire and preserve as many forums as possible, all the while doing our best to foster new growth all with limited ads and privacy intrusion. We find the addition of ads, Javascript and the like, can be the final death blow to a community. The sites we acquire have a good track record of slowing the decline in posts.

If you own a forum, we would be glad to speak with you about it. We will even acquire inactive forums or forums you have taken offline but saved the data."

 

[Doug]

........I posted on here a while ago when UKW was down for a few days during the take over that whilst googling the site I came across a company that values forums & UKW was on their site with a valuation figure of around $17,000 if memory serves......

DaveL of this parish reckoned he saw a figure of $30,000+ for UKW.

I just looked back at my original post, the thread has been locked so I can’t post a link but this is what I put back them when I found the valuation


Re: Missed my fix.
Postby Doug » 11 Aug 2020, 09:43

Just tried googling UKW on my phone one result was from cutestat .com giving web analysis apparently it says ukw’s income per day is $33.00 & it’s estimated worth is $17,820.00 if true I can see why Charlie is keen on hanging on to it, nice little earner from something he does practically nothing with.


I guess there are other companies out there doing similar things so am not surprised by differing valuations.

 

[novocaine]

The "wheres mikeg" thread is amusing me at the moment. childish i know.

 

[9fingers]

Mod Hat on

If you want to discuss UKW, please do it on UKW not here!

Bob

 

[novocaine]

Sorry 9 fingers. Couldnt resist and didnt think there was any harm in mentioning it, certainly wasnt said with any derision or negativity.

 

[9fingers]

Sorry 9 fingers. Couldnt resist and didnt think there was any harm in mentioning it, certainly wasnt said with any derision or negativity.

Understood - its not particularly you just the thread was heading in that sort of direction and not benefitting anyone.

Bob