Little things that bring a smile to your face

[noobish hat]

Mice will come into a building to get food. If you have food or crumbs lying around, that is a big problem. You probably won't have just one mouse btw. If you bait a trap, use chocolate and/or peanuts/peanut butter, not cheese (unless you live in a cartoon).

A good trap: cut the spout end off a 2 litre coke bottle and put peanut butter in the bottom. Put a cardboard box on the floor (open end upwards) and make a staircase for the mouse out of books. Balance the coke bottle on the edge of the box, with the mouth on the top of the books. You can balance it by taping pennies to the bottle until it's weighted perfectly. The mouse will go for the bait and as he strolls into the far end of the bottle, his weight will tip it into the box, and he'll be trapped at the bottom. Now the thing is, you need to take him outside quickly, because, little known fact about mice, they can jump really ****ing high. They CAN jump out of a 2 litre coke bottle from the bottom, but when he first falls in he will probably be too terrified to try, so you need to listen for when he disturbs the trap, and then jump on the bastard.

[QualityChimp]

Mice will come into a building to get food. If you have food or crumbs lying around, that is a big problem. You probably won't have just one mouse btw. If you bait a trap, use chocolate and/or peanuts/peanut butter, not cheese (unless you live in a cartoon).

A good trap: cut the spout end off a 2 litre coke bottle and put peanut butter in the bottom. Put a cardboard box on the floor (open end upwards) and make a staircase for the mouse out of books. Balance the coke bottle on the edge of the box, with the mouth on the top of the books. You can balance it by taping pennies to the bottle until it's weighted perfectly. The mouse will go for the bait and as he strolls into the far end of the bottle, his weight will tip it into the box, and he'll be trapped at the bottom. Now the thing is, you need to take him outside quickly, because, little known fact about mice, they can jump really ****ing high. They CAN jump out of a 2 litre coke bottle from the bottom, but when he first falls in he will probably be too terrified to try, so you need to listen for when he disturbs the trap, and then jump on the bastard.

That sounds like a lot of effort!

May I suggest billy turns the crank, which rotates a vertical gear, connected to a horizontal gear. As that gear turns, it pushes an elastic-loaded lever until it snaps back in place, hitting a swinging boot. This causes the boot to kick over a bucket, sending a marble down a zig-zagging incline which feeds into a chute. This leads the marble to hit a vertical pole, at the top of which is an open hand, palm-up, which is supporting a larger ball. The movement of the pole knocks the ball free to fall through a hole in its platform into a bathtub, and then through a hole in the tub onto one end of a seesaw. This launches a diver on the other end into a tub which is on the same base as the barbed pole supporting the mouse cage. The movement of the tub shakes the cage free from the top of the pole and allows it to fall.

[noobish hat]

Then what do you do about the other 3 mice?

[BaronSqwelch]

That sounds like a lot of effort!

May I suggest billy turns the crank, which rotates a vertical gear, connected to a horizontal gear. As that gear turns, it pushes an elastic-loaded lever until it snaps back in place, hitting a swinging boot. This causes the boot to kick over a bucket, sending a marble down a zig-zagging incline which feeds into a chute. This leads the marble to hit a vertical pole, at the top of which is an open hand, palm-up, which is supporting a larger ball. The movement of the pole knocks the ball free to fall through a hole in its platform into a bathtub, and then through a hole in the tub onto one end of a seesaw. This launches a diver on the other end into a tub which is on the same base as the barbed pole supporting the mouse cage. The movement of the tub shakes the cage free from the top of the pole and allows it to fall.

2xLOL from me! Perfect for the 'Smile' thread....

I once caught a mouse in the garden, took it inside to show my dad this amazing find...then watched as he twisted its head 360 degrees and threw it in the bin whilst swearing at me! So I recommend him as a mouse trap, tho he will bore you talking about his car for a million hours.

[randombs]

Maintenance guy at work gave me some hardcorps rat poison that they use in the hotel. Might give that a go although I'm worried he'll eat it, go walkies and die somewhere terribly inconvenient and I'd have to locate him through sense of smell...

@noobish: The place is spotless, especially the kitchen. No open food anywhere, nor crumbs. I'll give the place another good rogering this weekend. Bottle idea is great.

@QC: I'll definitely give that a go.

[Kit]

That sounds like a lot of effort!

May I suggest billy turns the crank, which rotates a vertical gear, connected to a horizontal gear. As that gear turns, it pushes an elastic-loaded lever until it snaps back in place, hitting a swinging boot. This causes the boot to kick over a bucket, sending a marble down a zig-zagging incline which feeds into a chute. This leads the marble to hit a vertical pole, at the top of which is an open hand, palm-up, which is supporting a larger ball. The movement of the pole knocks the ball free to fall through a hole in its platform into a bathtub, and then through a hole in the tub onto one end of a seesaw. This launches a diver on the other end into a tub which is on the same base as the barbed pole supporting the mouse cage. The movement of the tub shakes the cage free from the top of the pole and allows it to fall.

Post of the day!

[randombs]

I got a micro hifi from eBay cheap a few months back cos the cd player didn't work. Decided to open it today to find out why and the problem was this Phil Collins CD stuck inside!



It's being ripped right now for my walk to work tomorrow.

Su-su-sudio

[speedlolita]

Ripped?

I bet that's been burnt using 128kbps MP3 files..

I've a flac rip of that from the original source.

[noobish hat]

That is a problem.

[kryss]

He should get some flac for that (...)

[noobish hat]

I heard there's a special medicine you can drink that makes you forget you ever heard Phil Collins.




IT'S CALLED BLEACH!

[JSR]

That joke was funnier when Plinkett said it.


Anyhoo, I just got back from the dentist. Did pretty much everything on their menu. Pulled 2 teeth, fixed 5 cavities, broke a tooth in two, put some glass on one of them. I was mentally prepared for it cost upwards of 2000 quids, was therefore very happy when the price ended on 700. Still alot of money which I don't really have (my Mastercard is still warm), but much less than I thought it would be. So now my mouth is hopefully normal for a few more years.

[Skull Commander]

I have the dentist today and friday for some treatment. Why is this in the smiles thread? NHS so under ?50 for everything

[randombs]

Good point regarding its possibly being ripped from mp3s. Sounded fine to me, although I was outside and it was noisy and I didn't have it too loud because my ears were cold

CDDB picked the CD up but I think it bases that purely on track numbers and timings so that most likely means squat.

Speaking of ripping, that Breakbot album I bought has 2s pre-gaps for each track and everything I've tried it on(PC at work, Macbook, PS3, Phil Collins hifi) plays the gaps which is really annoying. Luckily I found an OSX program that ripped it without them and didn't have to fire up XP and EAC or whatever.

I wonder if it's a mastering cock-up? Not sure what the need for the pre-gaps is, considering the whole CD is meant to be continuous.

[ETC]

Loving the fact that Billy's new hifi is now called "phil Collins hifi"