Qualified nail-hitter to hang picture on the wall

Sh1tbag OToole · 19-12-2013 05:21PM #1

Will we ever see the day that you'll be legally required to employ a qualified nail-hitter if you want to hang a picture on the wall?

As it stands you are already legally required to use qualified installers for many simple DIY jobs so I can see it coming to this. Here's what will most likely happen

1. Statistically, someone will eventually kill themselves hanging a picture on the wall. There will be an article about it in the daily fail.
2. Moral outrage, this must never be allowed to happen again
3. Government, in a desperate bid to create jobs will make a law that requires qualified nail-hitters for hanging pictures on the wall

Tbh I hope it never comes to this and people will eventually see the silliness of this kind of law but that's unlikely so really I should probably be trying to open the first college for people who want to become qualified nail-hitters

ringadingding · 19-12-2013 05:23PM

I sometimes don't know why I keep reading to the end

P_1 · 19-12-2013 05:23PM

This about the regulation of sparks malarkey right?

Call me a cynic but I'd say that was brought in with 1% interest in health and safety and 99% interest in catching out spark doing untaxed nixers.

Sh1tbag OToole · 19-12-2013 05:26PM

P_1 wrote: »

This about the regulation of sparks malarkey right?

Call me a cynic but I'd say that was brought in with 1% interest in health and safety and 99% interest in catching out spark doing untaxed nixers.

Registered gas installer, BER certifier and every other similar career that the Government invented out of thin air and required ordinary people to use them by law.

gobnaitolunacy · 19-12-2013 05:27PM

You're better off drilling and using rawlplugs, neater job.

whiskeyman · 19-12-2013 05:30PM

It'll all be outsourced to India anyway.

kneemos · 19-12-2013 05:31PM

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

You're better off drilling and using rawlplugs, neater job.

Those stick on things even better.

hju6 · 19-12-2013 05:32PM

Just use 'No More Nails'...

gobnaitolunacy · 19-12-2013 05:37PM

kneemos wrote: »

Those stick on things even better.

I wouldn't trust them with holding a full on framed pic with glass.:D

gobnaitolunacy · 19-12-2013 05:40PM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Registered gas installer, BER certifier and every other similar career that the Government invented out of thin air and required ordinary people to use them by law.

I would rather a qualified person went tinkering at my gas than a fly-by-night operator!

Terry1985 · 19-12-2013 05:41PM

Atari Jaguar

Qualified nail-hitter?

They would probably be called hammerers, or domestic fitters.

kneemos · 19-12-2013 05:42PM

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

I wouldn't trust them with holding a full on framed pic with glass.:D

You have trust issues.

TheIrishGrover · 19-12-2013 05:43PM

Yeah...... 'cos registering qualified Gas installers is a waste of time and useless. It'll be grand!

gobnaitolunacy · 19-12-2013 05:44PM

kneemos wrote: »

You have trust issues.

Yes, I don't trust you either.

Archeron · 19-12-2013 05:45PM

P_1 wrote: »

This about the regulation of sparks malarkey right?

Call me a cynic but I'd say that was brought in with 1% interest in health and safety and 99% interest in catching out spark doing untaxed nixers.

Sparks Malarkey would be a really good user name.

Victor · 19-12-2013 05:50PM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Registered gas installer

In fairness, a "Qualified nail-hitter" won't come across many houses blowing up or people dying of carbon monoxide poisoning because of their work.

Baron Kurtz · 19-12-2013 05:50PM

I just love the OP's username. Absolutely vulgar but there's just something so f*ckin wild and matter of fact about it. No messing about, and each word really compliments one other implicitly.

kneemos · 19-12-2013 05:54PM

Baron Kurtz wrote: »

I just love the OP's username. Absolutely vulgar but there's just something so f*ckin wild and matter of fact about it. No messing about, and each word really compliments one other implicitly.

Grabbed my attention as well.

ScumLord · 19-12-2013 05:55PM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Will we ever see the day that you'll be legally required to employ a qualified nail-hitter if you want to hang a picture on the wall?

You probably already have something along the same lines with many labourers in Europe. In any factory you have to do a manual handling course which is basically a picking something up class.

In the UK you have to have certs to use just about any tool and I'd imagine it's the same scandinavian countries. The reason companies make employees do these courses though is to cover their own holes. If you do a course on how to use a hammer and then go out and bust your finger with the hammer, the company can say that they taught you how to use the hammer and it's your fault if you were doing it wrong.

When it comes to the general public inspectors there is an element of covering peoples own laziness and preventing cowboys from putting peoples lives in danger. If a boiler isn't serviced properly it could be a fire hazard which could affect more than the miser that wouldn't pay to have it properly serviced. With proper servicing you can also easily find out what went wrong because there's a paper trail of everything that happened to the boiler up to that point.

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