You know these “big beast” characters you meet at work, colleagues and clients, not just run of the mill partners or other senior people, I mean we’re most of us senior these days eh, but the real bellyachers, the so-called “rain makers” and so forth

How good do you reckon any of these guys are with flat pack furniture?

How long do you reckon it would take the average member of the top quartile of The Lawyer’s Hot 100 to fit four ISOFIX Group 1/2/3 child seats, the four-fixing-point ones with the tether and all the tools and toys, to two late-model Volkswagen Group family cars? Because I just did it in half an hour which, take it from me m88s, is seriously nudging world record territory.

And the thing is, reader, I make it rain as well! Renaissance man me.

good man

i smash the flat pack furniture too

ps i eemed u the other day

I built a kallax this evening. Piece of piss

wtaf is a kallax

what were the dimensions of the matrix, risky? We’ve got a five by five Kallax. It’s a big fooker but not complicated I agree.

I'm terribly m7

Always get a man in

Saucy

Handyman was trying to persuade me to get a kallax instead of bespoke floor-to-ceiling bookshelves.

Just basic 2x2. For Risky jr to keep stuff

oh googled it

yeah ok so anything ikea is not proper flat pack furniture

and definitely not empty cubes

proper flat pack furniture comes in at least eight differently sized pieces with a sticker marking them alphabetically, plus at least 10 packets of different bolts, screws etc and instructions which say it requires 2 ppl and takes 1.5 hours plus

nething else is really just glorified lego

We’ve got a chest of drawers like that. Me and my dad built the frame on Sunday in about 2h. Tomorrow when I get time I’m going to glare at the drawers until they just assemble themselves out of sheer fear.

I hope you went bespoke dux

I shall be, yes.

Good lad

I'm having bespoke wardrobe and chest of drawers made atm

bespoke furniture is good, we’ve got some bespoke korean style cabinets and a big sideboard that was made to measure for us

HK was great for good value bespoke anything

Super impressive. I single handedly made a mess of a Kallax which many thought was impossible.

It is probably the most straightforward thing they make.

I know. I won’t be taking on a kitchen!

Well yesterday I managed successfully to drain down a radiator, insert a funnel, add an inhibitor to dissolve sludge, re-pressurise the system and now we have super hot radiators again.

So I fooking rock in the Real Men stakes.

I can do 2 non-isofix with tethers into a Toyota LandCruiser in ten minutes and that includes getting all of the shit out of the boot so I can reach the anchor points. U can do better sun.

what is “non-isofix”?

do u live in 1975? kudos if so

I’m getting seriously in to How to be a Donesric God stuff. It’s starting to feel unwise that I’ve taken a paid job.

Yeah. Why not just buy a new car

I managed to fix a loose toilet handle. That must count for something ...

I wondered where this was going.

Congrats on the new job Laz (if new)

You called?

Until a few years ago the legal minimum standard in Australia and NZ did not recognise Isofix. Even cars that had it were supposed to rely on strap and tether.

All car seats still have to have be tethered by the top to an anchor point on the back of the seat, the roof, or the floor of the boot.

It's a stupid system because although it is very safe if used properly, for rear facing seats it makes it very difficult to get the baby in so many seats are either not tethered properly or rotated before the baby is big enough. Because the safety of the design is reliant on the tether being properly anchored, my point is the result is that many seats are providing less safety than an untethered Isofix seat.