Dull Men’s Club

[Wretch]

I came home a few weeks ago to find a lovely new curtain pole up in the living room. My wife had the good sense to go behind my back and hire a handyman off of Checkatrade while I was at work.

A wise woman. 

Edited February 1 by Wretch

[SuperBacon]

10 minutes ago, Wretch said:

My wife had the good sense to go behind my back

10 minutes ago, Wretch said:

and hire a handyman off of Checkatrade while I was at work.

[Rossman]

Has noone got wooden battens above their windows for the curtain poles to attach?!  Basically a strip of wood slightly longer than the window, so you can attach it to the wall and not the lintel. Once it's attached. You can screw in the curtain pole brackets directly into the wood.

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

1 hour ago, Rossman said:

Has noone got wooden battens above their windows for the curtain poles to attach?!  Basically a strip of wood slightly longer than the window, so you can attach it to the wall and not the lintel. Once it's attached. You can screw in the curtain pole brackets directly into the wood.

Hark at Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen. 

Spoiler

I've got the same thing. 

 

Edited February 1 by Lion_of_the_Midlands
Fat thumbed idiot

[DavidB6937]

Think this man deserves a space here.

 

 

[JNLister]

On 1/5/2024 at 5:46 PM, JNLister said:

A bit meta, but I spend a lot of time watching YouTube videos of theoretically boring subjects. A few regular channels:

https://www.youtube.com/@AutoShenanigans is mainly a bloke taking a different motorway every week and talking through the different junctions and features. As a non-driver I don't really know why I find a guy droning on about sliproad configurations so fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/@TheWideWorldofStadiums is full on stadium/arena nerdery (plus a dry sense of humour.) Some are genuinely too boring (like indentikit baseball/college football stadiums), but give me a run down of Croatian ice hockey arenas and I'm well in. Probably the best was where he did the Scottish Premier League and then kept promising to do the next league down if he got enough feedback, eventually getting to the Highland League.

https://www.youtube.com/@KentSurvival videos are a bit long and he does nervous laugh too much, but if you want a reliable video of a man putting up a random tent, chopping wood, making dinner and then waking up in the morning to tell you whether the tent leaked, it's your hookup.

https://www.youtube.com/@SoloTravelJapan is basically the same video every time, a first person POV of a Japanese ferry trip, including meticulous room tour, a tour of the ship facilities, and all the meals. There's some variance in the room types (capsule up to full on suite) but it does eventually get repetitive. There's also https://www.youtube.com/@SoloTravelJapan which is a different channel but clearly inspired by the original poster.

https://www.youtube.com/@PedestrianDiversions is mainly Bristol and West Country, with a bloke spending 30 minutes on where's the actual centre of Bristol or why he loves the brutalist architecture of that bit at the end of harbour everyone drives past but ignores. What makes the channel is that he had one video go viral but then openly refused to do any of the things you're meant to do to retain people's interest and build an audience.

And the ultimate is https://www.youtube.com/@just_alex, which is a man who, while not dull as such, is certainly not what you called conventionally charismatic, doing stuff that is not considered conventionally interesting. We're talking beekeeping, brewing, growing veg, living in a remote Swiss hut for a month just because. What makes it work is that he's utterly fascinated by everything, which inherently makes it dull but interesting. My absolute favourite is 25 minutes of him making a knife with a professional, which is just oddly compelling: 

 

Absolute scenes today when I was out in a taproom and saw Alex, of the Just Alex channel, in real life.

By "absolute scenes", I mean "muttered something under my breath to my wife but did nothing else" because I genuinely do not know the etiquette for going up to somebody half your age and saying "I really enjoyed that timelapse video last week of you and your dad laying a patio for 40 minutes."

(Spoiler - he will definitely be doing a video soon about growing hops.)

[SuperBacon]

Got really into truck driving videos recently, this one's probably the best channel.

She drives stage equipment to festivals and gigs, and seems a nice young woman (god I am old)

There is another lad called Trucker Liam, and the content is interesting, but he has zero personality and does that annoying there where people substitute having nothing to say by making words longer or weird or loud.

So he'll say "So we're gonna park heeeereeeeee for the EVENIIIIIIING" etc. Massively annoys me that. 

Shame as he's got a wicked set up in his truck.

Any more recommendations welcome.

[Cousin Jim Bob]

The bbc archive have been uploading a few Kick Start videos.

 

 

 

 

[HandsomeButchIII]

Just played in a Dominos tournament. Fives and Threes. Out first round.

[Mr_Danger]

Didn’t even get to yell “Domino mother fucker” in your best Ice Cube.

Edited July 9 by Mr_Danger

[SuperBacon]

An absolutely superb video on bins.

Really is a great channel.

[gmoney]

https://www.roblox.com/games/8265622251/Croydon-London-Bus-Simulator

I'll be getting stuck into this

[HandsomeButchIII]

I've put my name down for an allotment .

[Jazzy G]

On 8/4/2026 at 4:47 PM, gmoney said:

https://www.roblox.com/games/8265622251/Croydon-London-Bus-Simulator

I'll be getting stuck into this

I've seen a video of a guy who used to drive Croyden buses playing it and he was blown away by how realistic it was. There are some impressive looking rail simulators in Roblox as well.