Skirting boards

[enismirdal]

Let us all spare a moment to contemplate the many, many merits of these wonderful, yet so simple inventions. Such an obvious idea, and yet how useful they are: the humble skirting board.

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NB tickyboxes not radio buttons - multiple choices allowed and, in fact, encouraged.

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Parents and I are going to see The Vagina Monologues tonight. It seemed like one of those things I need to see at some point in order to have 'experienced life'. This means: 1. we are having dinner at the Dutch Pancake House (always yummy!) and 2. I will be offline and unphonable tonight.

I'm looking forward to it. Also, to bacon and maple syrup pancakes.

Comments

[crazyca.livejournal.com]

1. what IS a skirting board
2. sorry for disappearing on you yesternight, stoopid isp as usual
3. ooohhh. vagina monologues! good for reading, lousy interpretation (mind you, the writer spends most of her time in croatia, so our guys took her and asked her to help with the setting and all... so it was purely as she wanted), me likes the book, and hates the show. show was practically making fun like sex and the city! i mean, laughing when a woman talks how she has been raped and tortured during the war in bosnia?!
4. pancakes? *is jealous*
5. *misses you already* :P

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Isn't the show just people reading the monologues from the book? I'm confused now.

[crazyca.livejournal.com]

nah.
it's like a play, they do all the playing and such... which in the end isn't all that good as a simple reading, lol
the worst was the woman playing that bosnian woman who was raped continuously in a camp! she brought stones to hit as she switched from the nice to the ugly scenes...
i mean hello!?!?

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Aaah. The lady who read the Bosnian bit to us did it beautifully; she just read it sincerely and let the words speak for themselves. I did cry, because I know enough people who I care about who have been raped that it really upsets me, so the monologue really touched me.

[crazyca.livejournal.com]

wowy!
then eve ensler (or however) really sucks at setting up her own plays, lol!
that scene made me cry when i read it, but the play was a pure disappointment!

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I'm still here at the moment!

Skirting boards are the long strips of wood about 10-15cm high that go round the room where the wall meets the floor. You know, with the electrical sockets set in the wall just above them?

[crazyca.livejournal.com]

a-ha...
my father was a guy that put them (and the wood on the floor, walls...)
they're there cause you can't really cut the wood of the floor good enough to match the wall (plus, walls are a bit grumpy sometimes, too, and the wood wouldn't fit properly... actually, it never DOES fit properly), so in the end, they get the skirting board, and always take a board that is about few inches longer than the wall. you nail it on both end and get a big bump over the floor for about few inches. (and if you're a professional) you kick it hard with a hammer and nail it in the middle.
PERFECT FIT! :) walls don't look clumsy anymore. the wood doesn't look funny. the glue doesn't stick on the edges and it seemes as its polished perfectly (while in fact you can NEVER polish an edge perfectly)
plus, the woods of the wooden floor themselves (we call them parket, i don't know how they're called in english) don't fit perfectly, so the guys that place it make a mixture of wooden dust, flour, polish and some other secret ingredients and do a nice rubbing of it into the wood. at the edges it looks horrid! :)

[atreic.livejournal.com]

"experienced life" == "gain more lesbian credentials" ;-)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

:p

:)

[lifes-a-dream.livejournal.com]

Oh dear....someone's obviously even more bored than I am :P

[talullahred.livejournal.com]

I saw the Vagina Monologues a couple of years ago. There was some reading, but she was not really reading.

I loved it. I went from laughing to crying back to laughing but I think this is the kind of play that depends a lot on the ability of the actress to pull it off and this was a veteran actress and a very good one. I loved the interaction with the public too. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. :)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

*smiles* Thank you, and I hope I do. I don't think the actresses doing it are that famous, so I don't know how good they are. But I'll be in a good mood so I'll probably enjoy it whatever.

[pincushions.livejournal.com]

They are an invention worthy of Melkor purely to make painting a room about nine times more difficult. And ensure that whoever's going the painting inhales vast quantities on noxious fumes.

I loathe painting skirting boards especially as ours join onto the door frames and have to be painting in this white, unremovable paint (unless you use BBQ lighter fluid, but that's another post). Which then gets stuck to you. I have some on my foot that's been there a week.

Pancakes!!! :) I love maple syrup!

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Argh! The paint of d00m! That's eeevil of it :(

I can't say I had that much problem. ISTR that we applied masking tape in a cunning and devious manner, allowing us to throw around the fuschia wall-paint and still have white skirting boards.

[pincushions.livejournal.com]

Ah, I used masking tape but it still needed doing. (My parents haven't done any home decoration since they moved in some twenty-five years ago now, and things that were once white are now an entertaining range of colours approximating anything from light-ellow to a pale shade of peagreen.)

Masking tape is very useful. I may add it to my interests...

[melime.livejournal.com]

I was like, "What the hell is a skirting board?" and the first thing my brain came up with was a boogie board. I don't know why. But yes, now I know that skirting boards = baseboards, and knowing is half the battle! And I must agree with the poster above me. Their purpose is simply to piss painters off. *nods* Although I must say, they do look rather nice. I can't imagine a room without baseboards at the bottom. *looks down* Even my apartment has them. Sometimes I've even seen rooms with them at the top. Now that's crazy.

[hermeneut-me.livejournal.com]

Well, make the most of shouting 'cunt' at the top of your voice in front of your parents. I saw VM and loved it-very well done. I have to say though, I would have been rosy cheeked if I had seen it with my folks.

Enjoy!

Skirting boards are only there to torment those that feel they have cleaned adequately by vacuuming.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Hehe...I was too busy giggling at that point to join in! My parents REALLY don't like that word, and even they were amused!

The moaning was the best. It was so funny, because it was so true!

[naath.livejournal.com]

It's about haveing a neat edge to carpet I'm told - the edge is otherwise not so nice. Indeed the edgeing of our wood floor has a special bit between the wood and the wall where there aren't skirting boards (because of expansion due to heat I think) and it looks ugly - thus it is to improve the aesthetic of the floor-wall join.