Scrap Metal

Scrap Metal Buyers vs Other Dodgy Scrap Dealers

Posted on 15, Jul

Scrap Metal

Do you remember the time scrap metal buyers and dealers used to charge you to take away your crap scrap? (I’m thinking more along the lines of scrap car dealers to be fair, but one did tell me a few years ago (’95) when prices weren’t quite as keen as they are today that it [...]

Scrapping Ships at Harland and Wolff

Posted on 14, Apr

Harland & Wolff Ship Broken for Scrap The linked photoset from this weekend’s Guardian: April 12 2008: Belfast, UK: The MSC Napoli cargo ship lies in a dry dock at Harland and Wolff ship builders as it is dismantled for recycling. The ship was grounded off the English coast after getting into difficulties during bad [...]

Dear Time Warner……

Posted on 22, Jan

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Currently, there’s a commercial doing the rounds for Time Warner Cable’s Road Runner internet service celebrating their tenth birthday. It just so happens that it’s mine and Stephanie’s most cringeworthy and hated commercial of the year so far. Apologies for my inability to post a video of the abomination, but here’s a description instead: The [...]

Sheet Metal Band

Posted on 18, Jan

Maybe you’re a tinbasher with a secret hankering to create a futuristic musical mash-up along the lines of Blade Runner vs Deliverance. Or, perhaps you’re at a loss what to do with that mouldy galvanised sheeting at the back of your steel rack. Any pig-squealing city boys in the house? Then again, you could be [...]

“I’m Luke, I’m Five……

Posted on 24, Aug

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……and my Dad’s Bruce Lee. He drives me round in his JCB.“ Not one of these bad boys he doesn’t.

Pan-Fried Jesus

Posted on 20, Jun

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“It isn’t Jesus, it’s just some fella.” Charlie Bostock Jesus Pan I hope Breville and George Foreman have seen an opportunity to diversify. [via]

Time To Raid The Whisky Bottle

Posted on 11, May

The Guardian has one of those terribly interesting (well I think so) slightly off-the-rail economic indicator articles for dummies. It mentions quite a few different things, but this bit caught my eye in particular: Yesterday the price of copper hit an all-time record of $8,000 a tonne, driven by frantic buying and selling by commodity [...]