But it's cold out and the car takes ages to heat up and the shop is a mile away.
That's how to score a Hat-Trick of First World problems.
But it's cold out and the car takes ages to heat up and the shop is a mile away.
I think we may be running out of dishwasher tablets.
I think we may be running out of dishwasher tablets.
Perfect. Is Geldof aware? I sense a Benefit Concert in the making.
I think we may be running out of dishwasher tablets.
This thread is moving me to the point of tears. I cannot imagine how some of you brave, brave people are coping.
The McDonalds closest to my office has closed.
I'm being taken to court for non payment of council tax.
(I haven't really got this thread, have I?)
I'm being taken to court for non payment of council tax.
(I haven't really got this thread, have I?)
I'm being taken to court for non payment of council tax.
(I haven't really got this thread, have I?)
My sister has run out of suet for making Christmas grub and I've got to find a quick way of sending some to Italy.
My sister has run out of suet for making Christmas grub and I've got to find a quick way of sending some to Italy.
Tell he to go out and grate a cow!
I am really quite cross about this. The Times2 Crossword:I've heard of it. I've even used it. Mind, I've never been sure whether it was 'real' or not.
"Pleasantly low temperature" (6)
What?!? Who has ever heard of this word. I feel a letter to the Editor coming on ...
coolthhttp://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/coolth (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/coolth)
Pronunciation: /kuːlθ/
noun
[mass noun]
1pleasantly low temperature:
the coolth of the evening
2 informal the quality of being fashionable:
the pinnacle of 1960s coolth
Origin:
mid 16th century (but rare before the 20th century): from cool + -th2
My delivery of Spiced Abyss hot chocolate arrived, but 2 of the containers had popped in transit.
I now smell of chocolate, vanilla, cardomon & chilli and have brown stains all over me.
I am really quite cross about this. The Times2 Crossword:
"Pleasantly low temperature" (6)
Further Hint:(click to show/hide)
Answer:(click to show/hide)
What?!? Who has ever heard of this word. I feel a letter to the Editor coming on ...
The booze fridge is full so I've had to start stashing stuff in the garage. That means I have to go OUTSIDE to get it.
I am really quite cross about this. The Times2 Crossword:
"Pleasantly low temperature" (6)
Further Hint:(click to show/hide)
Answer:(click to show/hide)
What?!? Who has ever heard of this word. I feel a letter to the Editor coming on ...
Bugger. No cheap chicken breast in the butchers this evening so I've had to use organic chicken breast forthe rogan josh.Surely that makes it rogan murgh.
Isn't rogan josh a 'red meat' dish?
Have to travel to South Africa in the New Year to visit a client. Requested BA Premium Economy. Unfortunately that violated the client's (who's picking up the tab) travel policy so I have to go Virgin Upper Class instead.
Have to travel to South Africa in the New Year to visit a client. Requested BA Premium Economy. Unfortunately that violated the client's (who's picking up the tab) travel policy so I have to go Virgin Upper Class instead.
Could be me flying you!
Do you need counselling?I think so, as the sea salt has run out as well...
Have to travel to South Africa in the New Year to visit a client. Requested BA Premium Economy. Unfortunately that violated the client's (who's picking up the tab) travel policy so I have to go Virgin Upper Class instead.
How can anyone endure? :o
Toilet paper layers separating for the whole roll.
Toilet paper layers separating for the whole roll.
They're out of sync. Flip the outer layer round the roll and they should meet up again.
For some reason, neither of my local supermarkets stock Fettucine any longer, leaving me in the unenviable position of having to decide whether to buy Linguine or Tagliatelle for my Ragú.
I've only gone and run out of bloody gin.
bah!
I've only gone and run out of bloody gin.
bah!
that's a universal and not just first world problem :(
I've only gone and run out of bloody gin.
bah!
that's a universal and not just first world problem :(
But I had to crack open the Burgundy I was saving for Wednesday!
Does nobody understand the trauma!
I've only gone and run out of bloody gin.
bah!
that's a universal and not just first world problem :(
But I had to crack open the Burgundy I was saving for Wednesday!
Does nobody understand the trauma!
You forgot to mention that; It's a disaster
I've only gone and run out of bloody gin.
bah!
I've only gone and run out of bloody gin.
bah!
I'm down to my last 60 bottles. And those are in boxes and I have no idea which one contains my favourite bottles of cream gin. The suffering, it's inhuman.
*Looks for a pretence to visit Ian's house and taste all his gin....*
*Looks for a pretence to visit Ian's house and taste all his gin....*
Aren't you a world authority on bear control, Mrs P?
*Looks for a pretence to visit Ian's house and taste all his gin....*
Aren't you a world authority on bear control, Mrs P?
My mother has lost the Christmas pudding!
We have just used the last of the fresh coffee, and will be restricted to instant after we have finished this pot.
Also we have no fresh milk and are using UHT.
We have just used the last of the fresh coffee, and will be restricted to instant after we have finished this pot.
Also we have no fresh milk and are using UHT.
Too late now but why don't you keep some milk in the freezer? My freezer is full of 'emergency milk'. It's much nicer than stringy UHT.
Kim calls UHT "plastic milk" and we retain a stash for her drinkings. I never used it even when I could digest the lactose in it *shudder* 'orrible stuff.
Can't you make coffee in a pan and use a tea strainer when pouring into mugs, that's how my gran taught me to make freshly ground coffee...
Kim calls UHT "plastic milk" and we retain a stash for her drinkings. I never used it even when I could digest the lactose in it *shudder* 'orrible stuff.
Can't you make coffee in a pan and use a tea strainer when pouring into mugs, that's how my gran taught me to make freshly ground coffee...
The bloody outlaws have no coffee making apparatus. Not even a cafetiere.
Traditionaly, Father C. brings me a decent bottle of single malt in my stocking. Problem is, I really fancy a night cap and pressies aren't for several hours yet. So, (imagine the horror) I'm having a Famous Grouse and coke.
Even worse, I'm enjoying it.
I definately need counciling.
I have a week off over Christmas and I'm ruining it by being ill in my own time. :(Urgh!
I have a week off over Christmas and I'm ruining it by being ill in my own time. :(This happens so often. The first 5 years MrsC and I were an item, she was ill over Christmas. It wasn't until we learned to deliberately slow down in the previous weeks (not accepting invitations to every event for instance) that we had a healthy break. And we're neither of us too bright this year! :-\
I have a week off over Christmas and I'm ruining it by being ill in my own time. :(
I have a week off over Christmas and I'm ruining it by being ill in my own time. :(
We have no oregano...Pencil shavings are the traditional stand-in, I believe
I can report that cheap white rum and coke goes down fine when you have a cold, and may hasten recovery (or at least you'll be so gratified that you somehow staggered back through 6 miles of chav-infested Swindon streets on autopilot and woke up in your own bed, you'll forget about the cold).I have a week off over Christmas and I'm ruining it by being ill in my own time. :(
Sucks doesn't it? I spent Christmas day dispensing snot like broken water fountain. Today, I've combined the runny nose with a sore throat and now, in the latest turn, a tickly annoying cough that feels like spiders disco dancing in my throat. My wife is terrified that I have the flu (owing to the fact that when I did have the flu she didn't believe me, and she got told off by the hospital for not calling an ambulance, so yeah ladies, manflu is real), but this is just a stupid bog-standard cold. It's guaranteed to cure itself just in time for a far worse ailment to arrive: the inlaws at the weekend.
I fear this is stopping my full appreciation of my Christmas pressie gin bounty (another three bottles for the bar). Come on Bob, where's my charity concert and record?
We have no oregano...
We have no oregano...
Bloody hell, Paul. Are you OK?
Paul?
Paul?
Shit. Does anyone live near by?
Paul. Try your nearest food bank. It's what they're there for.
I thought echinacea was the Latin name for a hedgehog.
Can you whizz the golden caster sugar in a food professor?
There is so much food in this flat I am struggling to fit it into the fridge and freezer.
I've been back to the Sainsbury's website. It appears they do have Silver Spoon Caster Sugar.Why on earth would you use caster sugar in tea or coffee? Tea requires white lumps and coffee needs demerara.
It's listed under 'Baking Ingredients' but not under 'Sugar' in the Tea, Coffee and Sugar' listing...
I've been back to the Sainsbury's website. It appears they do have Silver Spoon Caster Sugar.Why on earth would you use caster sugar in tea or coffee? Tea requires white lumps and coffee needs demerara.
It's listed under 'Baking Ingredients' but not under 'Sugar' in the Tea, Coffee and Sugar' listing...
Silly me thought that 'Tea, Coffee & Sugar' would include all the sugar they sold in the 'All sugar' sub sublist of Tea, Coffee & Sugar.
It didn't.
Don't most home deliveries come from warehouses rather than actual shops these days?
How do the pickers who collect online orders manage? Are they expected to learn where every last one of their n million product lines is located in the shop, or do their little handheld devices tell them where to find stuff as they progress round, clogging up the aisles with those stupid enormous trollies? If the latter, why can't I get an app that does the same for me?They are shown what item to pick next, in which aisle it is, and on which shelf in that given location. The item's barcode is then scanned and that confirms (or not) that it's the right thing. The computer then tells the picker in which tote (box) to place it. Pretty tedious work, but better than doing the actual delivering. DAHIKT.
They are shown what item to pick next, in which aisle it is, and on which shelf in that given location.
I want this as an iPhone app. Preferably one that will tell me where to find any item on my shopping list in any of the various local stores I use.
I really don't think that is asking too much.
;)
It gets more efficient to use warehouses as home delivery gets more popular. Tesco in my area is planning to switch to a warehouse system, if I heard correctly.We live nearer to the Tesco depot than to our nearest store. But I bet they won't give us a delivery discount, oh no! >:( #fwp
They are shown what item to pick next, in which aisle it is, and on which shelf in that given location.
I want this as an iPhone app. Preferably one that will tell me where to find any item on my shopping list in any of the various local stores I use.
I really don't think that is asking too much.
;)
... If the latter, why can't I get an app that does the same for me?
Supermarkets also have a vested interest in having people wandering around their stores.
Because my cleaner comes on Wednesdays and doesn't work Christmas Day or NYD, nobody has stolen the dirt around here for 2 weeks!
Just download it then ;)
There were 6 people in front of me in the supermarket line, and they would not open another line. I had to wait a full 8 minutes before I could pay and get out..That's a "Falling Down" moment really.
My nook ran out of battery power on the tube this morning so I couldn't find out what happens next in Game of Thrones and (worse) was reduced to reading the Metro.
My nook ran out of battery power on the tube this morning so I couldn't find out what happens next in Game of Thrones and (worse) was reduced to reading the Metro.
Carry a portable charger!
Carry a portable charger!
Whitstable fish market has no native oysters. The fishmonger says he's refusing to stock them at the moment because they're crap and overpriced.
I had to settle for rock oysters instead!
You can't buy fresh root ginger in the M&S Simply Food near the office.
That made oi larf! ;DYou can't buy fresh root ginger in the M&S Simply Food near the office.
A cow-orker from Geordie-land once went into a supermarket in Newcastle, and in amongst his basket of items was some root ginger.
At the checkout, the assistant swiped through all the other items, but picked up the root ginger, looked at it, and put it in a bin under the desk. When asked "Can I have that, please?" the assistant said: "The stick? You want this stick?"
That made oi larf! ;DYou can't buy fresh root ginger in the M&S Simply Food near the office.
A cow-orker from Geordie-land once went into a supermarket in Newcastle, and in amongst his basket of items was some root ginger.
At the checkout, the assistant swiped through all the other items, but picked up the root ginger, looked at it, and put it in a bin under the desk. When asked "Can I have that, please?" the assistant said: "The stick? You want this stick?"
And me.I have been known to be buying apples, then when they're obviously trying to figure out which variety of apples they are, look at them like they're stupid and say "err...they're *apples*?!"
I've had to help checkout staff with product recognition on occasion but never had one do that. Priceless.
I had to tell the checkout guy what peas in the pod were once, and ended up splitting a pod to show him.
A cow-orker from Geordie-land once went into a supermarket in Newcastle, and in amongst his basket of items was some root ginger.
At the checkout, the assistant swiped through all the other items, but picked up the root ginger, looked at it, and put it in a bin under the desk. When asked "Can I have that, please?" the assistant said: "The stick? You want this stick?"
A cow-orker from Geordie-land once went into a supermarket in Newcastle, and in amongst his basket of items was some root ginger.
At the checkout, the assistant swiped through all the other items, but picked up the root ginger, looked at it, and put it in a bin under the desk. When asked "Can I have that, please?" the assistant said: "The stick? You want this stick?"
It just goes to show that all that anti-ginger prejudice is really just borne out of ignorance.
Those who have never experienced it can only imagine the extra mainenance required when a red setter occupies the same living space as a couple of Rohloff hubs.
Those who have never experienced it can only imagine the extra mainenance required when a red setter occupies the same living space as a couple of Rohloff hubs.
Is this like a doggy version of the long-haired lesbians problem?
(I fished a spectacular oily hairball out of one of my bike's chain tubes yesterday. It reminded me of owning a Dyson.)
What has being a lesbian to do with hair balls? I get hairballs all over the place...
What has being a lesbian to do with hair balls? I get hairballs all over the place...
People tend to ask you what you "do". To which the canonical reply is "spend a lot of time unclogging the hoover".
What has being a lesbian to do with hair balls? I get hairballs all over the place...
People tend to ask you what you "do". To which the canonical reply is "spend a lot of time unclogging the hoover".
That's why it is a good idea to get a dyson. Untroubled by long hair in large quantities (unlike the bathroom shower drain).
Unfortunately, when I came to eat it today, the reusable 0.33l Addis screw-top pot that she'd selected for the carrot sticks was so deep that I couldn't effectively dip them in the hummus that she'd also put in there.
My beautiful cohab lovingly prepared lunch for me last night - a dressed puy lentil salad, with lamb's leaf lettuce, cherry tomatoes and mozzerella pearls. On the side was a little pot of carrot sticks and hummus.
Unfortunately, when I came to eat it today, the reusable 0.33l Addis screw-top pot that she'd selected for the carrot sticks was so deep that I couldn't effectively dip them in the hummus that she'd also put in there.
Utter torment, I tell you.
That's a genuine FWP. Anywhere else, you'd have a maid do it for you.What has being a lesbian to do with hair balls? I get hairballs all over the place...
People tend to ask you what you "do". To which the canonical reply is "spend a lot of time unclogging the hoover".
That's why it is a good idea to get a dyson. Untroubled by long hair in large quantities (unlike the bathroom shower drain).
*sporfle*
They're only untroubled because the suction is crap from the outset.
(Former owner of about 4 different Dysons, all hopeless. How's that for a first-world problem?)
Also the reference to long-haired lesbians is
1) to differentiate from the short-haired variety of lesbian...
2) two people in a partnership with long hair which is unusual as it's more uncommon to have a male-female partnership where both people have long hair...
So not exclusive to "lesbians"...
My ISP has upgraded me to PHP 5.4 which has stopped me from adding to or editing my WordPress blog. I wanted to write a nice long post about my new Velomobile to share with the world but I can't. And I haven't got a clue how to fix it (apart from emailing 1&1 tech support to ask for them to change me back to PHP 5.2 - some chance!)
My beautiful cohab lovingly prepared lunch for me last night - a dressed puy lentil salad, with lamb's leaf lettuce, cherry tomatoes and mozzerella pearls. On the side was a little pot of carrot sticks and hummus.I rang Blue Peter about this and they're dusting off the totaliser and starting an appeal.
Unfortunately, when I came to eat it today, the reusable 0.33l Addis screw-top pot that she'd selected for the carrot sticks was so deep that I couldn't effectively dip them in the hummus that she'd also put in there.
Utter torment, I tell you.
My ISP has upgraded me to PHP 5.4 which has stopped me from adding to or editing my WordPress blog.
I may need your Rohloff experience, Wow, now I have bought a machine with one. Although it was serviced 1000km ago so I guess it doesn't need anything for a while.I'm always pleased to help, but this hub is currently in Rotterdam, is it not? THe only thing you are likely to need when you have your year in Germany is an oil-change kit. I have oil so you could pack a couple of small bottles in your luggage.
My nook ran out of battery power on the tube this morning so I couldn't find out what happens next in Game of Thrones and (worse) was reduced to reading the Metro.
There surely must be a support group for those who have this most unfortunate experience.
Yes the hub is currently in Rotterdam and not needing a service, I assume, seeing as it was last done 1000km ago. However, I'm not sure of the service interval on Rohloffs so I might need to do it next year. Perhaps you'll have to come over for a visit with Mrs Wow!!I may need your Rohloff experience, Wow, now I have bought a machine with one. Although it was serviced 1000km ago so I guess it doesn't need anything for a while.I'm always pleased to help, but this hub is currently in Rotterdam, is it not? THe only thing you are likely to need when you have your year in Germany is an oil-change kit. I have oil so you could pack a couple of small bottles in your luggage.
I had to wear a pair of underpants two days running as the washing isn't drying in this ghastly weather.
And it's a FORRIN kezboard lazout.
In Slovakia the keyboard layout is the same as a standard qwerty keyboard except the y and z have been swapped, exactly as you typed. This may be the layout of many central European countries.
And it's a FORRIN kezboard lazout.
In Slovakia the keyboard layout is the same as a standard qwerty keyboard except the y and z have been swapped, exactly as you typed. This may be the layout of many central European countries.
Yeah - this was in Germany. After a few days I got used to it (although not the parentheses, which had moved a key to the left), but I left the 'z's in for comic effect.
I can't get the online appointments system at my GPs surgery to work. I may have to telephone them.
I typed the wrong number into the vending machine and got a kitKat instead of a Twix :(
I typed the wrong number into the vending machine and got a kitKat instead of a Twix :(
That sort of thing mars your day.
Dealing with vending machines is no Picnic.I typed the wrong number into the vending machine and got a kitKat instead of a Twix :(
That sort of thing mars your day.
Indeed. Bounty frustrate you.
Why the f..k is the sound volume during the ads double the normal level? Sooo much effort to hit the mute button while the ads are on. ;D
The website that will allow me to renew my professional registration isn't working and I might have to remember to do it tomorrow.
And now... it's really hard to watch a subtitled movie *and* keep an eye on twitter.Only in the 1st World would people call their cat "twitter". ::-)
My day gets harder and harder.
I've got some brand new vegan walking boots, and I wore them to work before they were broken in. Now I've had to walk across the road to buy a blister plaster.I'd take the boots back. They were obviously trying to eat your foot and therefore most certainly not vegans.
My train this morning arrived the wrong way round. Yes, it was back to front. No-one knew where the doors would be and we all had to change places on the platform.
I'm going to feel out of sorts all day now! Who can I complain to?
My train this morning arrived the wrong way round. Yes, it was back to front. No-one knew where the doors would be and we all had to change places on the platform.
I'm going to feel out of sorts all day now! Who can I complain to?
It could be worse, imagine it arrived on time. :o
Fancied an after-dinner drink, but the only port in the house needs filtering and decanting. :'(I find that this weather I'm not fussy - any port in a storm.
Ah, lunch! Falafel, home-made hummous with chives, halloumi, and sweet peppery leaf salad. Excellent!
But, oh! No wholemeal pittas :o I had to settle for white.
My day is spoiled. :( :( :(
Is this a reference to stupormarket arson?!!!Ah, lunch! Falafel, home-made hummous with chives, halloumi, and sweet peppery leaf salad. Excellent!
But, oh! No wholemeal pittas :o I had to settle for white.
My day is spoiled. :( :( :(
:o No Waitrose within two miles of work!
But alumming it in Tescos, I managed to get wholemeal pittas this morning.
The little bottles of basil-infused olive oil included with our Finest range oven-ready pizzas tonight were almost solid, having been in a chiller cabinet.
Julian had to hold them both under the hot tap whilst the pizzas were in the oven so that she could drizzle the oil as per the serving suggestion.
The little bottles of basil-infused olive oil included with our Finest range oven-ready pizzas tonight were almost solid, having been in a chiller cabinet.I'm keeping you both in my thoughts.
Julian had to hold them both under the hot tap whilst the pizzas were in the oven so that she could drizzle the oil as per the serving suggestion.
The newsagent had mistakenly put the Telegraph magazine inside my copy of the Saturday Guardian instead of Guardian Weekend. I'm now worried I might go a little bit right wing.
I'm keeping you both in my thoughts.
I'm keeping you both in my thoughts.
You're very kind - that means a lot to us at this difficult time.
I'm just sorry you have to shop at Tescos
Is there a book of condolence that I can sign?
We're bearing up as best we can. Julian suggested a night at the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, followed by a light supper at Wagamama ...Slumming?
Your plight has really touched me. If it's not too presumptuous, and not triggering for you, I think I'd like to organise a vigil to honour your suffering.
I know money isn't the solution but I hope it can a go a little way towards making things better in these darkened hours.
I think the only real solution is some kind of mini olive oil bottle heater.
I raised some money on C & J's behalf today, too. They'll be heartened to know I spent it on a bottle of la Motte Shiraz 2009. It was jolly splendid and helped me no end in empathising with their plight.
I lit a candle for you, C & J, you're in our thoughts. I hate the feeling of helplessness, I wish there was more I could do.
I know it's not really any compensation, but I hope you have claimed?
We're bearing up as best we can. Julian suggested a night at the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, followed by a light supper at Wagamama ...Slumming?
Solidified drizzling products can happen to anyone, across all strata of our society.Into each life some hail must fall.
Oh Wunja, you're so wonderful - that would be really a very special thing.I think she got tired of pretending to like his whiny dull music.
Julian and I were holding it together quite well until we read the news this morning about Gwyneth and Chris's split. Such awful, terrible news - it's just one thing after another and at this rate, I'm not sure how we're going to keep going.
My name is Charlotte and I am Not A Proper QUILTBAG :-[
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Door opening etiquette: it's easier to hold a door open for somebody when it opens towards you.
Approaching a door that opens away from me, I can see a woman coming the other way on the other side. I'm going to get there slightly before her. Do I:
a) Try to hold it open with one arm raised and awkwardly stand back as she ducks through while being forced to smell my armpit
b) Stand there like a lemon giving her no option but to hold it open for me, or
c) Just barge through apologising?
After Saturday's tumble I need to replace my bar tape, but I can't get any in Celeste.http://www.evanscycles.com/products/bianchi/celeste-bar-tape-ec012112 (http://www.evanscycles.com/products/bianchi/celeste-bar-tape-ec012112)
They had no creme eggs at the shop.
Just dropped my bircher muesli on the floor of Stansted airport.
Oh rr, that is truly appalling. You're not alone though sweetie. We had to call a little man out to ours last week.
I have no garlic and therefore cannot temper the daal correctly.How the Daal was Tempered, by Ekksentrika Gallumbovska (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Steel_Was_Tempered)
Trip to London. Do I leave the shoe-trees in the brogues or not? They add extra weight, but what the hell – there's more than enough room in the car.Wait a minute!
Teh Julian wins teh thread!
It's going to be a hard struggle but I'm going to strive to find a suitable bubble bath for my future adventures in cleanliness. Hopefully someone will send me a pleasantly fragranced care package and a nice bottle of wine to help make bath time that bit more bearable.
Related: first world anarchists (http://www.boredpanda.com/funny-first-world-anarchists-rebels/).
It's raining and I commuted in on my best bike this morning - might have to hitch a lift home so it doesn't get wet
Wash up commando. With suitable organic, hypo-allegergenic, eco-friendly washing up liquid you shouldn't need Marigolds.If you can get your hands into the water without Marigolds, the water isn't hot enough.
Wash up commando. With suitable organic, hypo-allegergenic, eco-friendly washing up liquid you shouldn't need Marigolds.If you can get your hands into the water without Marigolds, the water isn't hot enough.
What is a man to do?
Wash up commando. With suitable organic, hypo-allegergenic, eco-friendly washing up liquid you shouldn't need Marigolds.If you can get your hands into the water without Marigolds, the water isn't hot enough.
Not quite true.
For most people that is the case, but, as people on this forum will testify, I have a) asbestos hands and b) a higher than normal pain threshold...
I run very hot water into the washing-up bowl with Fairy in it, sloosh it around to make bubbles, wash the glasses and rinse them with the water as it runs, then wash everything else in the hot soapy water, in this order: mugs, bowls, plates, cutlery, pans and stack them on the drainer so the water runs off them and they dry.Wash up commando. With suitable organic, hypo-allegergenic, eco-friendly washing up liquid you shouldn't need Marigolds.If you can get your hands into the water without Marigolds, the water isn't hot enough.
Not quite true.
For most people that is the case, but, as people on this forum will testify, I have a) asbestos hands and b) a higher than normal pain threshold...
I think this statement is technique-dependent.
I apply detergent with a warm scourer and scrub if necessary. The dishes then get rinsed in very hot water, which seldom touches my paws.
I don't leave my dishes wallowing in tepid soapy water and drain them unrinsed. :sick:
Mrs O, Japanese, has always been horrified by the apparently common English habit of not rinsing crockery and cutlery. (Lemon flavoured washing up liquid? :facepalm:).
Rinse under tap, open door, place dirty things on shelves and press button.......... ;D
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/10812086/I-make-120000-but-I-cant-recall-the-last-time-we-went-out-for-dinner.html
The boys are flexi-boarders, so they stay at school on various nights of the week,” says Jackson. “Annually it’s costing £45,000 after tax, which is a considerable outlay, but I’m happy to pay because I want them to have the best start.Fuck me. That's 4 times my annual salary. Gross.
Jackson’s tone is matter-of-fact. Like the rest of the Squeezed Middle, he is keenly aware that his situation evokes little sympathy. “I know if I were to have a conversation with someone on a council estate, they would think I was mad,” says Jackson, wryly.Erm... not just on council estates.
In the olden days if I searched for my name (with Alta-Vista) I would find myself in the first few entries. I googled myself and I did not appear until page thirteen.I just googled "CommuteTooFar" and you filled the first page.
The supermarket had no cocktail sticks :o How am I going to make sure that my free range, juniper smoked bacon stays neatly wrapped around my organic asparus spears, whilst they are under the grill ???
I had a spoke replaced at the LBS. My Velox rim tape has been replaced by ugly red stuff!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/10812086/I-make-120000-but-I-cant-recall-the-last-time-we-went-out-for-dinner.htmlQuoteThe boys are flexi-boarders, so they stay at school on various nights of the week,” says Jackson. “Annually it’s costing £45,000 after tax, which is a considerable outlay, but I’m happy to pay because I want them to have the best start.Fuck me. That's 4 times my annual salary. Gross.QuoteJackson’s tone is matter-of-fact. Like the rest of the Squeezed Middle, he is keenly aware that his situation evokes little sympathy. “I know if I were to have a conversation with someone on a council estate, they would think I was mad,” says Jackson, wryly.Erm... not just on council estates.
Last night I had to book a table at Pizza Express. 5min on the phone, working my way through the most hideous automated booking system on earth. After I'd ranted about how crap it was for 10 min, my wife pointed out I could have booked via a web page with 3 clicks.
Feeling extra stressed because I can't get the little bit of plastic wrapping off the top of my bottle of Bach Rescue Remedy. :-[Bach Rescue Remedy; letting people drink brandy for medicinal purposes since 1930. :thumbsup:
Amazon.co.uk's website was very briefly down.
City gave Toure a birthday cake as they flew to Abu Dhabi and tweeted their congratulations after he turned 31.
But Dimitri Seluk says Toure is "very upset" the club's owners failed to acknowledge him personally and says he may leave over their lack of respect.
"None of them shook his hand on his birthday. It's really sick," he said.
When I went out for dinner on Saturday with the Wowbaggers, I struggled to pick a dessert because the two things I wanted were flourless chocolate cake with beetroot sorbet, but I don't like beetroot, or poached pear in a brandysnap basket with apple sorbet and green tea syrup, but I don't like tea.
The AV amp stopped working yesterday, we had to watch a whole film with sound through the TV's built in speakers. It was truly horrible.
The AV amp stopped working yesterday, we had to watch a whole film with sound through the TV's built in speakers. It was truly horrible.
The man in the shop insisted on lending us an ex-display amp while it's away being mended - it might take two or three weeks, and it was unthinkable for someone to have to listen to tinny TV speakers for that length of time.
The AV amp stopped working yesterday, we had to watch a whole film with sound through the TV's built in speakers. It was truly horrible.
The man in the shop insisted on lending us an ex-display amp while it's away being mended - it might take two or three weeks, and it was unthinkable for someone to have to listen to tinny TV speakers for that length of time.
There wasn't enough milk for cereals this morning so I had to have toast.
There wasn't any Rose's lemon and lime marmalade, so I had to have supermarket own-brand strawberry jam.
There wasn't enough milk for cereals this morning so I had to have toast.
There wasn't any Rose's lemon and lime marmalade, so I had to have supermarket own-brand strawberry jam.
We've got plenty here 'cause I picked up the wrong jar.I wanted Ginger marmalade.
It was too cold for an ice cream, so I had to order a slice of cake instead.
It was too cold for an ice cream, so I had to order a slice of cake instead.
Do you live at the South Pole? It's never too cold for an ice cream.
It was too cold for an ice cream, so I had to order a slice of cake instead.
Do you live at the South Pole? It's never too cold for an ice cream.
I am now anointed with fragrant oil....
I drizzled too much basil infused olive oil on my sliced tomatoes, it pooled on the plate. I managed to drop a slice of tomato into the pool. I am now anointed with fragrant oil.... :facepalm:
Luckily I wasn't wearing a shirt....
I drizzled too much basil infused olive oil on my sliced tomatoes, it pooled on the plate. I managed to drop a slice of tomato into the pool. I am now anointed with fragrant oil.... :facepalm:
Luckily I wasn't wearing a shirt....
I always eat naked too. As I explain to guests, I'm wipe clean but my shirts are not.
The artisan baker in town was closed when I went past this morning :( will have to settle for biscuits instead of a pastry with my coffee this morning.
I need to buy some scones to take back to Germany on Sunday (with the Little Scarlet and clotted cream of course). Do you have a recommended Scone supplier?
I need to buy some scones to take back to Germany on Sunday (with the Little Scarlet and clotted cream of course). Do you have a recommended Scone supplier?
My mother and I went to the Royal Academy last Monday to see the Summer Exhibition.
It was CLOSED for the day so we had to go to Fortnum & Mason.
My mother and I went to the Royal Academy last Monday to see the Summer Exhibition.
It was CLOSED for the day so we had to go to Fortnum & Mason.
Substitute "the Carlsberg brewery" and "the Tivoli Gardens" and you have my day in Copenhagen in 1993 ;D
Sat on the M25 for 2.5 hours on Friday evening last whilst attempting to travel the few miles around to the M3, the thought occurred to me upon gazing at the 8 lanes of static machinery (or is it 10?) with countless thousands of vehicles in both directions, do we not comprehend how barking mad this really is?
Sat on the M25 for 2.5 hours on Friday evening last whilst attempting to travel the few miles around to the M3, the thought occurred to me upon gazing at the 8 lanes of static machinery (or is it 10?) with countless thousands of vehicles in both directions, do we not comprehend how barking mad this really is?
Sat on the M25 for 2.5 hours on Friday evening last whilst attempting to travel the few miles around to the M3, the thought occurred to me upon gazing at the 8 lanes of static machinery (or is it 10?) with countless thousands of vehicles in both directions, do we not comprehend how barking mad this really is?
The turmeric I put in with my rice has stained my wooden spoon yellow. It now doesn't match the other wooden serving implements.
Make more rice with turmeric, using different implements, until they are all the same colour again.The turmeric I put in with my rice has stained my wooden spoon yellow. It now doesn't match the other wooden serving implements.
Buy a chocolate fountain?
Our local branch of Morrisons has stopped stocking their Signature Series Normandy butter so I've had to go to T***o. I don't think I was spotted, though.I believe there are branches in Ramsgate and Canterbury :P
It would be so much easier if they built a Waitrose somewhere close by.
http://youtu.be/bwvlbJ0h35A:D
I cannot read the display on my iPod when it's connected to the hi-fi, as it's too far away. And I doubt my binoculars will be any use at that range :(What would happen if you taped your reading specs to the far end of your binoculars?
We just got given a vitamix but now the other half wants a thermomix
Anyone want to hang my washing outside? Socks, I hate hanging them up.
Believe it not, it's not actually raining outside. Though it is a bit meh and not drying out so I've hung up in the wash hoose.Anyone want to hang my washing outside? Socks, I hate hanging them up.
Won't they get wet?
http://vegadventure.weebly.com/
British Airways started using the above website as promotion, and releasing press releases linking back to the blog. Basically some "random" guy decides to fly some pointless convoluted route for 45 hrs to get Gold Status. Gold status means you get to use the first class lounge and hammer the free booze. On the blog he shows his Gold Status card which is valid for 2 years. For most people, Gold statuses have to renew from year to year, and BA are normally very strict, miss the quota, and you lose your status. So some "freeloader" getting a guaranteed 2 years has upset quite a few business travellers.
There are more than a few PAs being told to draft angry emails to BA right now to complain about the inequity in the system right now.
I'm pretty sure when I was doing some work for the CAA at Gatwick one of the check in desks said "upper class". I wondered if you had to show a documented ancestry going back to some Norman chancer to use it.
Some places have a special lounge to keep proper First Class free from the off-the-peg salarymen that have scrambled into business class. Last year, travelling on a business ticket, I took the wrong corridor from the lounge reception to frantic cries of 'sir, sir, SIR!' I'll confess I ran and hid in the first class lounge toilet until it was safe for to come out and get cracking on the champagne. Eating from a buffet is so proletarian. They have table-service in First and everyone calls you 'sir.' It's a world where a Viscount isn't just a biscuit.
Oh, it's rumoured there's a lounge for those elevated above and beyond the usual choirs of traveller. Those of God-like status like Bono and Tony Blair hang out there being served canapes by supermodels while bathing in warmed Bollinger. The only way in is through a hidden door in terminal 5. I could tell you where it is, but then I'd have to kill you.
I have sat on my bag of Sainsburys Assorted Toffees and now the wrappers are very hard to remove.
http://vegadventure.weebly.com/
British Airways started using the above website as promotion, and releasing press releases linking back to the blog. Basically some "random" guy decides to fly some pointless convoluted route for 45 hrs to get Gold Status. Gold status means you get to use the first class lounge and hammer the free booze. On the blog he shows his Gold Status card which is valid for 2 years. For most people, Gold statuses have to renew from year to year, and BA are normally very strict, miss the quota, and you lose your status. So some "freeloader" getting a guaranteed 2 years has upset quite a few business travellers.
There are more than a few PAs being told to draft angry emails to BA right now to complain about the inequity in the system right now.
Still in their bag :)I have sat on my bag of Sainsburys Assorted Toffees and now the wrappers are very hard to remove.
Where did they end up? :o
It's exact as Oaky said. One year I renewed my Gold card within a month of getting it so it lasted for almost 2 years
I'm pretty sure when I was doing some work for the CAA at Gatwick one of the check in desks said "upper class". I wondered if you had to show a documented ancestry going back to some Norman chancer to use it.
Probably for RyanAir - you get to sit on the roof.
I'm pretty sure when I was doing some work for the CAA at Gatwick one of the check in desks said "upper class". I wondered if you had to show a documented ancestry going back to some Norman chancer to use it.
Probably for RyanAir - you get to sit on the roof.
Upper Class is ours. No riff-raff allowed. Except to LA.
Yep, seen your name on The List. That Ian, it says, is not to be allowed near the front of a Virgin plane even if he's on a lead.
PS. It's FSM. CSD is a Birdseed thing.
Yep, seen your name on The List. That Ian, it says, is not to be allowed near the front of a Virgin plane even if he's on a lead.
PS. It's FSM. CSD is a Birdseed thing.
You have the FSM on your payroll? :o
Fly Virgin Atlantic and touched by His Noodly Appendage... ;D
Yep, seen your name on The List. That Ian, it says, is not to be allowed near the front of a Virgin plane even if he's on a lead.
PS. It's FSM. CSD is a Birdseed thing.
As I was having a shit day at work I went to the vending machine to buy a Galaxy Caramel of happiness.
Yep, seen your name on The List. That Ian, it says, is not to be allowed near the front of a Virgin plane even if he's on a lead.
PS. It's FSM. CSD is a Birdseed thing.
<Description of a typical Birdseed customer experience, capped with: At some point over the midwest my bags evidently divorced me and moved to Denver.>
#bendgate
Stop wearing skinny jeans and get a sense of perspective!
#bendgate
Stop wearing skinny jeans and get a sense of perspective!
Or perhaps people could ask themselves whether they actually need to upgrade to the latest piece of shiny from the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation Of Cupertino, USAnia©...
© Copyright Mr Larrington.
#bendgate
Stop wearing skinny jeans and get a sense of perspective!
At some point over the midwest my bags evidently divorced me and moved to Denver.
At some point over the midwest my bags evidently divorced me and moved to Denver.
I'm flying back from Denver tonight. Shall I look for them?
What's the deal with speedy boarding? It just means you sit in an uncomfortable aeroplane seat for longer instead of an uncomfortable departure lounge seat.
What's the deal with overhead luggage space? It's much easier and less disruptive to get what you need out of your bag, put it in the seat pocket, and stick the bag under the seat in front. Aeroplanewankers.
Small day bags are great for in-flight nicknacks under the space in front.
Small day bags are great for in-flight nicknacks under the space in front.
6' 5" and 17 stone - I don't think so.
Small day bags are great for in-flight nicknacks under the space in front.
6' 5" and 17 stone - I don't think so.
What if we put the sax in the hold?
Small day bags are great for in-flight nicknacks under the space in front.
6' 5" and 17 stone - I don't think so.
What if we put the sax in the hold?
A gentle cup, or something a bit tighter...?
Lee, thank you for highlighting these terrible modern tragedies - I feel overcome with empathy and kindness for people dealing with such awful times.
Just about to order my Karsten Tent (http://www.campingtravelstore.co.uk/karstentents.html), but will have to wait until March for it :o (not for cycle touring obviously ;))
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20141022_205235_zps0c96e482.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20141022_205235_zps0c96e482.jpg.html)
Just about to order my Karsten Tent (http://www.campingtravelstore.co.uk/karstentents.html), but will have to wait until March for it :o (not for cycle touring obviously ;))
I just found what looks like a moth hole in one of my favourite cashmere jumpers
I just found what looks like a moth hole in one of my favourite cashmere jumpers
I misjudged how long it would take to get to the top of the waiting list for a reserved book and now I have three library books to be read and I'm not sure I'll get them all finished before they're due back.
I misjudged how long it would take to get to the top of the waiting list for a reserved book and now I have three library books to be read and I'm not sure I'll get them all finished before they're due back.
I thought you'd just been bitten by a radioactive librarian and acquired library-fine-dodging superpowers?
I have, but there's a long waiting list for one of the books so I feel an obligation to read and return.I misjudged how long it would take to get to the top of the waiting list for a reserved book and now I have three library books to be read and I'm not sure I'll get them all finished before they're due back.
I thought you'd just been bitten by a radioactive librarian and acquired library-fine-dodging superpowers?
I misjudged how long it would take to get to the top of the waiting list for a reserved book and now I have three library books to be read and I'm not sure I'll get them all finished before they're due back.
I thought you'd just been bitten by a radioactive librarian and acquired library-fine-dodging superpowers?
New glarses needed here. I read that as library dogging superpowers.
My mother can't watch a BBC video to which I've sent her the link because my father won't allow the latest version of Flash to get installed over the web on their computer.
Gosh. That's most harsh. When I can't get the BBC I have my man recruit a troupe of out-of-work actors and get a copy of the script so they can perform the programme live in my drawing room.
Ok, not many riff-raff. And only a few x-listers. And a smattering of random upgrades.I once wangled an upgrade on SAS by asking for a downgrade. The last flight back from London to Oslo and I was travelling business as that is the only way to do a 24 hour trip for a job interview. My colleague, the penniless student, was travelling cargo back from a meeting so I was going to be sociable and asked if I could change seats to economy. Instead they upgraded him to business with whihc he was mightily pleased. The food is much better even if there is no other difference..
Yes.;D
Laphroaig
GlenlivetPenderynHighland Park
Talisker
Can you find some friendly Germans willing to sample British Xmas fare?Have already fed puds and mince pies to various Germans. They seemed to offer guarded approval but find a lot of our Christmas food over-sweet. Which is a bit bizarre knowing what i know about cakes over here.
The ice buckets in the BA First class lounge champagne bar are running perilously close to having no ice in them. My Taittinger could get WARM if nothing is done about this !
The ice buckets in the BA First class lounge champagne bar are running perilously close to having no ice in them. My Taittinger could get WARM if nothing is done about this !
It's time to switch to the Port.
Christmas Pudding willkeepbe better if thrown in bin.
Mince pies can befrozenstuffed up yer jacksie.
Canthey not be distributed amongstyou not make lovely Brownies and Lemon Drizzle cake for the YACFers who drift across of your Spaziergang later in the year?
The ice buckets in the BA First class lounge champagne bar are running perilously close to having no ice in them. My Taittinger could get WARM if nothing is done about this !
It's time to switch to the Port.
The ice buckets in the BA First class lounge champagne bar are running perilously close to having no ice in them. My Taittinger could get WARM if nothing is done about this !
It's time to switch to the Port.
Also, I neglected to pack my smoking jacket, so I'd only have to send my man home to fetch it!
Could this day get any worse?
Amazon is down and I need a new Kindle book for my Sunday evening soak. The bath is filling and their page remains stubbornly unresponsive. There's now an epic battle between bath and internet behemoth, who will win...
Amazon is down and I need a new Kindle book for my Sunday evening soak. The bath is filling and their page remains stubbornly unresponsive. There's now an epic battle between bath and internet behemoth, who will win...
I don't think so, but they work through sealed plastic bags I believe :)Amazon is down and I need a new Kindle book for my Sunday evening soak. The bath is filling and their page remains stubbornly unresponsive. There's now an epic battle between bath and internet behemoth, who will win...
Are Kindles waterproof? I'd love to take mine in the bath, but I'm scared of getting electrocuted.
I don't think so, but they work through sealed plastic bags I believe :)Amazon is down and I need a new Kindle book for my Sunday evening soak. The bath is filling and their page remains stubbornly unresponsive. There's now an epic battle between bath and internet behemoth, who will win...
Are Kindles waterproof? I'd love to take mine in the bath, but I'm scared of getting electrocuted.
FWP #1 - An evening of car woes, ending in an AA rescue truck, mean I need a stiff drink. (I'm home now, and fine, but still.)
FWP #2 - I'm all out of whiskey.
FWP #3 - The little shop at the top of the road doesn't sell Jim Beam. It only has Jack Daniels, which ISN'T EVEN REAL BOURBON!
FWP #1 - An evening of car woes, ending in an AA rescue truck, mean I need a stiff drink. (I'm home now, and fine, but still.)
FWP #2 - I'm all out of whiskey.
FWP #3 - The little shop at the top of the road doesn't sell Jim Beam. It only has Jack Daniels, which ISN'T EVEN REAL BOURBON!
So, is FWP #4, nae whisky?
My stupid watch is supposed to change gear automagically at the start of BST and hasn't. I have had to tell the wretched thing that I'm in Paris :(
My stupid watch is supposed to change gear automagically at the start of BST and hasn't. I have had to tell the wretched thing that I'm in Paris :(My radio alarm clock magically changes to BST. Unfortunately it uses DAB to do so, with the resulting hilarity of the alarm firing an hour late, quickly followed by the time changing and the clock deciding I've had an hour to wake up and switching off again.
The bottle of tonic that was in the fridge had a loose cap and was flat. We therefore have warm tonic in our G&T.
Also, there's slim line tonic in the cupboard, how on earth did that get there?
The bottle of tonic that was in the fridge had a loose cap and was flat. We therefore have warm tonic in our G&T.Chr!$t! That's two really serious things which appear to have gone awry in short succession.
Also, there's slim line tonic in the cupboard, how on earth did that get there?
Whiskey=Irish or American.
Whisky=Scotch (or Scotch-a-likes, like Japanese or Welsh).
The Gin wasn't in the fridge. >:( >:( >:(
Trying to persuade myself not to buy an Apple watch
Trying to persuade myself not to buy an Apple watch
The waiting list is now many months.
The other Helen has a bigger chocolate and pudding mountain and is trying to lose weight.
At current rates of consumption the next Solstice will pass and another great niece/nephew will emerge before this mountain is consumed.
Trying to persuade myself not to buy an Apple watch
Trying to persuade myself not to buy an Apple watch
I definitely didn't want an Apple watch. So why am I checking out all the different models? :-\
If the heart rate could talk to my Garmin then I would simply have to have one .....
The dog has lost her "good" frisbee. Fortunately she still has her less good, chewed one.
Trying to persuade myself not to buy an Apple watch
The waiting list is now many months.
They quoted June to me :(
Trying to persuade myself not to buy an Apple watch
The waiting list is now many months.
They quoted June to me :(
And it seems they won't keep to that either!
I've just had the e-mail that it's due tomorrow!
Riding the beautiful fixte mixte to town in the sun was bloody lovely. So was riding it home again.
I had to set up my new AV receiver this morning, it took a whole hour!
The dog has lost her "good" frisbee. Fortunately she still has her less good, chewed one.
The less good frisbee doesn't fly as well
I had to set up my new AV receiver this morning, it took a whole hour!
Blimey, that's quick! It took me that long just to identify all the bits of string :o
Only two weeks after my coffee machine died, my kettle is now deceased as well.
You have no idea.
Only two weeks after my coffee machine died, my kettle is now deceased as well.
You have no idea.
Denon very kindly supply stickers to identify the bits that plug into other bits. It was just a matter of labelling them up prior to removing then from the old one.
Now the issue is that I need to RTFM to work out how to get it to start at a decent volume and the manual is on a CD. I don't have a CD drive for the laptop any more! Looks like I will have to find it and download it instead. Ah, the pain!
Denon very kindly supply stickers to identify the bits that plug into other bits. It was just a matter of labelling them up prior to removing then from the old one.
They do for the squeakers but there's almost as much non-squeaker string in there. Plus there is a non-zero probability of the squeaker setup telling you that the phase of at least one squeaker is 180 degrees out :demon:Now the issue is that I need to RTFM to work out how to get it to start at a decent volume and the manual is on a CD. I don't have a CD drive for the laptop any more! Looks like I will have to find it and download it instead. Ah, the pain!
What model is yours? I have the manual for mine (AVR-X2000) already on the Babbage-Engine...
Getting a new stove the day I get back from a camping trip is just mean.
I might go pack a rucksack full of camping kit, walk up to the forest (half hour or so away), brew up, and walk back again.
Getting a new stove the day I get back from a camping trip is just mean.Sounds like an excellent plan.
I might go pack a rucksack full of camping kit, walk up to the forest (half hour or so away), brew up, and walk back again.
I'm surely not the only person here who has tried (and timed) several stoves in the back garden?Getting a new stove the day I get back from a camping trip is just mean.
I might go pack a rucksack full of camping kit, walk up to the forest (half hour or so away), brew up, and walk back again.
And so it came to pass that the 'nanoadventure' was invented.
I have to take my Apple Watch off to let the scanner read my boarding pass as the reader is too narrow for a wrist
I have to take my Apple Watch off to let the scanner read my boarding pass as the reader is too narrow for a wristWouldn't it just be easier to Chip & PIN yourself now ?
I have to take my Apple Watch off to let the scanner read my boarding pass as the reader is too narrow for a wrist
Outrageous!
I have to take my Apple Watch off to let the scanner read my boarding pass as the reader is too narrow for a wristWouldn't it just be easier to Chip & PIN yourself now ?
:-)
EMERGENCY
My kettle has broken :o :o :o
EMERGENCY
My kettle has broken :o :o :o
Kettles are now so cheap that having a spare in case of kettle death makes sense. I was glad I had one for when my cleaning lady killed my 35 year old Russell-Hobbs.
We have gas and could also use the little hob kettle I bought from Poundstretcher a decade ago...
EMERGENCY
My kettle has broken :o :o :o
Kettles are now so cheap that having a spare in case of kettle death makes sense. I was glad I had one for when my cleaning lady killed my 35 year old Russell-Hobbs.
We have gas and could also use the little hob kettle I bought from Poundstretcher a decade ago...
EMERGENCY
My kettle has broken :o :o :o
Kettles are now so cheap that having a spare in case of kettle death makes sense. I was glad I had one for when my cleaning lady killed my 35 year old Russell-Hobbs.
We have gas and could also use the little hob kettle I bought from Poundstretcher a decade ago...
Keeping 2 spare kettles in case your working one breaks (after 35 years) seems extreme.
If nothing else the warranty on your backup may be 34 years out of date.
I live 2 minutes from CURRYS and next-day delivery is rife. A pan will suffice for a day.
My 5 yr. old daughter wants her towels 'fluffy' ie dried in a dryer (££) as opposed to air dried on the line.
How about with some nice cheese and a glass of white wine?
If a work day, you may wish to replace wine with espresso. Or maybe not.
Go on, Kirst. Live a little. Go out and get those crisps! Plug that sucker in!I was worried it might come to life and eat me.
If it 'splodes run away and deny all knowledge.
The washer could have been stopped before the cycle had ended. Try another wash using a cleaning capsule.
The washer could have been stopped before the cycle had ended. Try another wash using a cleaning capsule.
It had but the filter is clogged. It's stupid, it's a really fine mesh filter, jeez, just send that shit down the drain. We used to have fearsome Teutonic dishwasher that never seemed to need to cleaning other than an occasional empty cycle, then we moved house and got an Italian one. It's exactly what you'd expect from an Italian appliance. I only bought it because it was stainless steel.
I tried going near the filter again, but I swear the green stuff was moving.
The washer could have been stopped before the cycle had ended. Try another wash using a cleaning capsule.
It had but the filter is clogged. It's stupid, it's a really fine mesh filter, jeez, just send that shit down the drain.
The washer could have been stopped before the cycle had ended. Try another wash using a cleaning capsule.
It had but the filter is clogged. It's stupid, it's a really fine mesh filter, jeez, just send that shit down the drain. We used to have fearsome Teutonic dishwasher that never seemed to need to cleaning other than an occasional empty cycle, then we moved house and got an Italian one. It's exactly what you'd expect from an Italian appliance. I only bought it because it was stainless steel.
I tried going near the filter again, but I swear the green stuff was moving.
Oh you great wimp. Plastic bag on the hand, lift out the filter, enclose it in plastic bag ASAP before it runs away, give it a good bang to get some solids out then dunk it in a bowl of bleach water to kill it. Hold it down with a wooden spoon till it stops struggling.
Go on ian, you can do it.
From this BBC article (http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20150626-a-new-status-symbol-less-space) about living in a space that is under 33 square metres (350 square feet): If you’re buying a tiny home or apartment, you’ll need at least six months to downsize your possessions.Living in Slovakia, I'm sure you know
How many possessions is one meant to acquire so that it takes at least six months to get rid of the excess?
The cafe on the ferry for my 5th foreign excursion this year has no Apricot jam for my continental breakfast. I might as well have had a full English.
My bicycle is locked up at the opposite end of the train from my first class seat.
A megahal bot just turned off my desk lamp.
A megahal bot just turned off my desk lamp.
How did it do that?
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<kim> thanks, eoin
<eoin> Weirdly barakta can print from open orifice again
<kim> lamp: ch2@80
<lamp> Ch2 set to: 80
Um, I'm sorry I asked.... intrigued by ductilebiscuit tho ;)Ductile biscuit is good IME :thumbsup:
Um, I'm sorry I asked.... intrigued by ductilebiscuit tho ;)
What was the material the 'glass' was made of.My bicycle is locked up at the opposite end of the train from my first class seat.
Philistines! Serving wine in a water glass?!? Perhaps I should be grateful the cutlery is not plastic...
A megahal bot just turned off my desk lamp.
How did it do that?Code: [Select]-!- lamp [~arduino@dyn5.ductilebiscuit.net] has joined #27ps
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<kim> thanks, eoin
<eoin> Weirdly barakta can print from open orifice again
<kim> lamp: ch2@80
<lamp> Ch2 set to: 80
I'd overlooked eoin learning the lamp commands. Need to change the code so they're ignored. :facepalm:
Thankfully it was actually glass.What was the material the 'glass' was made of.My bicycle is locked up at the opposite end of the train from my first class seat.
Philistines! Serving wine in a water glass?!? Perhaps I should be grateful the cutlery is not plastic...
I dunno, you go for these cut-price travel options and then have the temerity, nay, the unmitigated audacity to complain about that which you haven't paid for ::-)As I wasn't on the Orient Express or some other international/Continental service I should have lowered my expectations.
;)
There is so much stuff in my freezer it's difficult to shut the door.
Pretty sure. ;D
I did a lot of cooking last weekend and froze it in batches, plus there's chicken legs for Pete and a chopped up ox heart too.
She has at least got rid of his trousers!Pretty sure. ;D
I did a lot of cooking last weekend and froze it in batches, plus there's chicken legs for Pete and a chopped up ox heart too.
So did you murder Mr Van Vliet or are you just concealing the evidence ;D
Whilst cleansing myself in the shower on Saturday evening I had reason to discover that a power shower needs power as everything went dark. I had to soapily tip-toe across the bathroom and use the non-power shower above the bath. It's so weak. I don't know how people in poor countries without rainfall showers survive. It must be terrible for them, like shopping at Lidl.
One of the benefits of a combi boiler is mains pressure hot water...
Ever since The Man replaced the Victorian water mains around here the water pressure went all to pot and the difference between being frozen utterly to DETH under the shower and being boiled alive is about 0.00001 degrees of cold tap rotation.
One of the benefits of a combi boiler is mains pressure hot water...
... at a rather modest flowrate.
Mains pressure in a stored HW cylinder FTW!
( google megaflo, and similar. )
Oh, and as mentioned already, you could lose the HW cylinder totally, and go with a combi heat-on-demand thing, which also gives mains pressure HW.
The story I've heard is that Thames Water have turned down the pressure so that they can look you in the eye and say 'We're losing x-amount of water less through leaks in the system, than we were last year'.
Whilst cleansing myself in the shower on Saturday evening I had reason to discover that a power shower needs power as everything went dark. I had to soapily tip-toe across the bathroom and use the non-power shower above the bath. It's so weak. I don't know how people in poor countries without rainfall showers survive. It must be terrible for them, like shopping at Lidl.
One of the benefits of a combi boiler is mains pressure hot water.
Of course, modern boilers still need power for the CPU that makes them work. :facepalm:
Likewise newfangled electrical button-operated bath taps.
No lemon for my gin and tonic earlier. I toughed it out.
I went to make a cup of tea in the kitchen next door to our office. All the crockery and cutlery was clean and put away, so no problem there.
I used one of the pyramidal one-cup teabags
If you like your tea where you stand the spoon and it dissolves in the tea before your very eyes, I recommend Barry's Tea.
Otherwise a secret stash of those cheap bags of sweepings that pass for tea that you buy in Wilkinsons named after some insignificant place in the north of England should suffice... :demon:
Back on showers - there should be a special circle of hell for the people who install those showers, which are controlled by a lever which goes left and right for hot & cold, and up and down for on/off, into compact and bijjou shower cubicles (just right for you to whack with your elbows etc while in the middle of ablutions).Add to that any water control do dah with confusing and/or illegible symbols to show hot and cold.
My son discovered the latest 1st world problem at dinner time: Saving the best 'til last and then being too full to eat it;D
Back on showers - there should be a special circle of hell for the people who install those showers, which are controlled by a lever which goes left and right for hot & cold, and up and down for on/off, into compact and bijjou shower cubicles (just right for you to whack with your elbows etc while in the middle of ablutions).Add to that any water control do dah with confusing and/or illegible symbols to show hot and cold.
Back on showers - there should be a special circle of hell for the people who install those showers, which are controlled by a lever which goes left and right for hot & cold, and up and down for on/off, into compact and bijjou shower cubicles (just right for you to whack with your elbows etc while in the middle of ablutions).Add to that any water control do dah with confusing and/or illegible symbols to show hot and cold.
^ I was just reading about digital shower controls and wondered why... apart from pissing money up the wall.
On the grounds that Her Highness, Princess of the Asbestos Palace and High Priestess of the Kingdom of a Poorly Executed DIY forbid me a magical computerized Japanese robo-toilet during the dark era of what has come to be known as The Refurbishment, our shower does have a digital temperature input and a on-off switch that cannot be elbow actuated. It also has an awesome blue light and, as is known, blue LEDs are better than any other colour.
We have no cold water header tank. Cold is straight from the mains. Hot water is one floor up from the shower.Ever since The Man replaced the Victorian water mains around here the water pressure went all to pot and the difference between being frozen utterly to DETH under the shower and being boiled alive is about 0.00001 degrees of cold tap rotation.
If your shower mixer is getting mains-pressure cold on one side, and gravity-pressure HW from a loft tank on t'other side, this is never going to end well.
Even a thermostatic mixer will struggle to deal with this.
Tesco just delivered frozen peas instead of barakta-friendly ice cream. Disappointing bastards.
I have run out of filters for the coffee machine and have left my Aeropress at my Mum and Dads. I may have to drink instant coffee unless I can find a cafeteria I stashed at the back of one of the cupboards.
I have run out of filters for the coffee machine and have left my Aeropress at my Mum and Dads. I may have to drink instant coffee unless I can find a cafeteria I stashed at the back of one of the cupboards.
Having a cafeteria in your cupboards seems excessive.
I have run out of filters for the coffee machine and have left my Aeropress at my Mum and Dads. I may have to drink instant coffee unless I can find a cafeteria I stashed at the back of one of the cupboards.
Having a cafeteria in your cupboards seems excessive.
I have run out of filters for the coffee machine and have left my Aeropress at my Mum and Dads. I may have to drink instant coffee unless I can find a cafeteria I stashed at the back of one of the cupboards.
Having a cafeteria in your cupboards seems excessive.
Quite. This place is bad enough in that the fridge, the safe and the ironing board are all concealed in the wardrobe...
I have run out of filters for the coffee machine and have left my Aeropress at my Mum and Dads. I may have to drink instant coffee unless I can find a cafeteria I stashed at the back of one of the cupboards.
Having a cafeteria in your cupboards seems excessive.
Quite. This place is bad enough in that the fridge, the safe and the ironing board are all concealed in the wardrobe...
...leaving no space for the Hugo Boss, Armani, Burberry and Gieves & Hawkes collections...
Last week I took an Aston Martin out for a spin. It was some perk through my wife's company, I have no interest in cars, I just wanted to have a go in one. Today I received the following email from Aston Martin
"I understand that following your drive in the new DB9 GT you would like to explore possible purchase options, I therefore extend an invitation to visit our showroom on Park Lane to discuss your requirements further so we can begin to source the perfect Aston Martin for you. When would be convenient for you to visit?"
How does a fiver a week sound to you as a purchase option?
Not only do I have the same room as last year - south-facing so it gets screamingly hot and the interstate is a stone's throw away - but they STILL haven't fixed the power socket next to the desk, so I have to run an extension lead across the room. And then the housekeeping staff unplug it to hoover the place, which makes my laptop go "wibble".
AND I've just been loomed over by a mad Dutchman with a torque wrench :o
Not only do I have the same room as last year - south-facing so it gets screamingly hot and the interstate is a stone's throw away - but they STILL haven't fixed the power socket next to the desk, so I have to run an extension lead across the room. And then the housekeeping staff unplug it to hoover the place, which makes my laptop go "wibble".
AND I've just been loomed over by a mad Dutchman with a torque wrench :o
The Ski Hut?Not only do I have the same room as last year - south-facing so it gets screamingly hot and the interstate is a stone's throw away - but they STILL haven't fixed the power socket next to the desk, so I have to run an extension lead across the room. And then the housekeeping staff unplug it to hoover the place, which makes my laptop go "wibble".
AND I've just been loomed over by a mad Dutchman with a torque wrench :o
Ah - that was a night to remember in Rotterdam....
I don't like our new washing up liquid.I should think not! Dragonfruit? Pah! Even Idris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_the_Engine#Idris_the_Dragon) didn't eat fruit!
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b187/vicechair/Washingupliq_zpsazz45rmc.jpg)
Indeed. On a similar theme, there was more deep shower trauma this morning. No licorice shower gel left, only enough mango for a single wash and even boys need two so I had to use the cherry and nettle which isn't nearly my favourite.You'd get bubbles in your farts.
Fortunately there's another bottle of licorice in the cupboard so hopefully tomorrow morning won't be quite so traumatic. We're fortunate that we have someone to talk to these issues about. I hate to think what happens if you bottle it up inside.
Are all Dutchmen with torque wrenches mad?
I thought mousemats were a 20th century problem; I haven't seen one in years.
The meece that my current-nearly-former employer provide just don't seem to work on our desks; thankfully they're just about OK on our (hard plastic) branded mouse mats.
I've run out of halloumi.
Might as well be dead.
... more Sensible strategy of turning the toaster up to 'Nuke it from space' setting...
Rush around opening door and windows and much flapping of tea towels at alarm...
The aroma of burned toast this morning was such that I could find the breakfast room by smell alone.
I didn't have quite enough coffee left for a whole cup at work this morning. That and I nearly forgot my towel this morning and had to cycle 2k home to get it. A man should always know where his towel is...
The bread machine drive spigot failed. It's under guarantee, but rather than a straight replacement, John Lewis are going to fix it. But we'll starve in the 10 working days it will take to get it back to us.
Best car insurance renewal quote: £188Now go and see what it would cost once he has passed his test......
Best car insurance renewal quote if I add my just-turned-17 son as a named driver: £498
:sick: as a parrot
Best car insurance renewal quote: £188
Best car insurance renewal quote if I add my just-turned-17 son as a named driver: £498
:sick: as a parrot
Best car insurance quote (just me with no claims for over 5 years): £200
Best car insurance quote (with Mrs Cyclist and her no-blame accident last year): £185 - and she won't drive my car anyway.
Mystified.
Best car insurance quote (just me with no claims for over 5 years): £200
Best car insurance quote (with Mrs Cyclist and her no-blame accident last year): £185 - and she won't drive my car anyway.
Mystified.
Same here - it's about £30 more expensive for me to get car insurance on my own than with my wife as a named driver.
Car insurance is a dark art and no mistake.
I like the grown up colouring books but sometimes the boxes are too small so you can't colour it in unless you've got really really good pens and that just makes it stressful rather than relaxing
Tell her to colour outside of the boxes.Quote from: No1DaughterI like the grown up colouring books but sometimes the boxes are too small so you can't colour it in unless you've got really really good pens and that just makes it stressful rather than relaxing
Best car insurance renewal quote: £188
Best car insurance renewal quote if I add my just-turned-17 son as a named driver: £498
:sick: as a parrot
At least your plane had a cockpit door. Dr Larrington was once on an internal flight in Burma, on a plane which had had one once. She describe the antics of the crew prior to landing as "interesting".
Oi! DWP. Where's my bloody Winter Fuel Payment then? I'd had it well before now last year.Update.
Oi! DWP. Where's my bloody Winter Fuel Payment then? I'd had it well before now last year.Update.
Thank you very much, UK tax payers. Much appreciated. As usual, I will be spending it on keeping warm. At 1 Raddlebarn Road. :demon:
*stands by to receive hate mail*
Great Auk; Dodo; Passenger Pigeon.
HTH
Meanwhile, the CTC are on offer at Sainsbury's.Great Auk; Dodo; Passenger Pigeon.
HTH
They were all on offer at Waitrose the other day.
I am stuck in the dilemma of which three bird roast to get, between ginger pig, adlington, another fancy butcher, or halve the price at M&S. Plus which three birds?
Great Auk; Dodo; Passenger Pigeon.pterodactyl; hakawai melvillei; night parrot
HTH
Great Auk; Dodo; Passenger Pigeon.
HTH
They were all on offer at Waitrose the other day.
Ostrich is soooo last season! This year, it's all about the red-necked phalarope.Would make a very small Christmas dinner though.
The battery in my tooth brush was flat this morning, so I had to operate it manually.
Mine got so shagged it couldn't complete a two minute brush on one charge. I briefly toyed with following a YouTube guide and fitting a new one but in the end CBA. I suspect this option is out for you TAAW.The battery in my tooth brush was flat this morning, so I had to operate it manually.
I don't have the hand power to use this option.
It's find a working leccy toothbrush or furry teeth for me.
My leccy toothbrush battery is dying.
There are no voles in our bathroom so our toothbrushes have their night on a charger in my study.
I haz a spare electric toothbrush and might get another in the post-Christmas bargainfest.
I have too much whisky. What am I to do?
I have too much whisky. What am I to do?
I have too much whisky. What am I to do?
I have too much whisky. What am I to do?
I have too much whisky.
I have too much whisky. What am I to do?
I have too much whisky. What am I to do?
I have too much whisky. What am I to do?
I haven't bought any this week. I did, however, win a bottle in the choir Christmas raffle on Tues. Johnny Walker 12yo blended...
Having used, so far, only half of the sloes I picked to create my first ever stab at sloe gin, I am faced with the quandary of which four litres of spirit I should purchase to macerate the rest. I'm minded to only do half as gin, with perhaps a litre of rum and one of whisky for the sake of variety¦experimentation.Sloe vodka is ace, prefer it to gin but that's just my palate, not sure about sake as low alcohol content may not allow full maceration of the fruit. (prepares to be shot down in flames)
Um, sake?
You have perfectly articulated the argument for open carry in UK restaurants.
MrsC decided we needed another light-thing to go in the window. Very little available.
Must make a note to go and look in early November next year (I know (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=94226.0))
MrsC decided we needed another light-thing to go in the window. Very little available.
Must make a note to go and look in early November next year (I know (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=94226.0))
WHSmith in Darlo have got masses of tat left.
As I don't much like or eat chocolate, Christmas has now gifted me about fifteen kilos of the stuff, two bottles of red wine, and one solitary bottle of gin.
The Smiths were right, the world won't listen. The ratio is wrong.
As I don't much like or eat chocolate, Christmas has now gifted me about fifteen kilos of the stuff, two bottles of red wine, and one solitary bottle of gin.
The Smiths were right, the world won't listen. The ratio is wrong.
I'm sure any number of forumites would gladly relieve you of your problem. I'll make the sacrifice and take at least a kilo of chocolate and one bottle of red off your hands, because I'm nice like that. O:-)
As I don't much like or eat chocolate, Christmas has now gifted me about fifteen kilos of the stuff, two bottles of red wine, and one solitary bottle of gin.
The Smiths were right, the world won't listen. The ratio is wrong.
Hmmm. Cream sherry or port...
This panetonne is too crumbly to slice easily.
This panetonne is too crumbly to slice easily.
We are having the same trouble with pancotta.
My ex-cleaner just posted on Facebook that she desperately needs to have her mink coat taken in. And can anyone recommend somewhere to have it done.
No I'm not joking, And neither is she.
The cat has knocked over the ps2 (play station 2).In the style of that Jack Black movie, you could re-enact classic games. I'm sure the boys would join in once they get the idea.
It doesn't work any more. The disk something has stopt working, the config stuf is still fine. ie it's now useless. sob.
either that or I have to pretend I know what I am doing and try to mend it (ha ha ha ha ha)
Next week I'm going to a mothership shindig in Florida. Every evening there's a free bar till 2am. Consulting my calendar, it seems every morning someone has scheduled a breakfast meeting with me at 7am. I'm no good at 7am when I've nothing stronger than a cup of tea the evening before.
Breakfast meetings. What kind of diabolical magics are these?
Next week I'm going to a mothership shindig in Florida. Every evening there's a free bar till 2am. Consulting my calendar, it seems every morning someone has scheduled a breakfast meeting with me at 7am. I'm no good at 7am when I've nothing stronger than a cup of tea the evening before.
Breakfast meetings. What kind of diabolical magics are these?
Just assume that they meant UK time. I'm sure that, like me, you've suffered enough from leftpondians who don't understand the concept of time zones that you deserve some kind of payback
Next week I'm going to a mothership shindig in Florida. Every evening there's a free bar till 2am. Consulting my calendar, it seems every morning someone has scheduled a breakfast meeting with me at 7am. I'm no good at 7am when I've nothing stronger than a cup of tea the evening before.
Breakfast meetings. What kind of diabolical magics are these?
Just assume that they meant UK time. I'm sure that, like me, you've suffered enough from leftpondians who don't understand the concept of time zones that you deserve some kind of payback
UK time? So you start the 7am (UK) meeting as the free bar closes? That'll go well...
Just heard someone on the beeb complaining about the snow in USania " there was no organic milk"
Just heard someone on the beeb complaining about the snow in USania " there was no organic milk"
Just heard someone on the beeb complaining about the snow in USania " there was no organic milk"
Just heard someone on the beeb complaining about the snow in USania " there was no organic milk"
Miami duty free also disappointed.
I grabbed a bottle of Citadelle gun because it was a modestly cheap (and I'm trying to deplete an old US bank account) and I thought I was running out. Turns out I didn't have even have Citadelle (hell, I should catalogue the cupboards), I have a Citadelle Oak-aged gin, so inadvertent score for me.
Miami duty free also disappointed.
I grabbed a bottle of Citadelle gun because it was a modestly cheap (and I'm trying to deplete an old US bank account) and I thought I was running out. Turns out I didn't have even have Citadelle (hell, I should catalogue the cupboards), I have a Citadelle Oak-aged gin, so inadvertent score for me.
"Cummerbund - Yes or No?". Does this count?
We woke up before the alarm, so it didn't get to play Sonny & Cher at us. As such, I didn't realise it was groundhog day until lunch time.I'm sure this is OT, but I have to share it anyway:
Chris Evans on R2 had a psychologist who had fixed his life as a result of the lessons from Groundhog day (well he's written a book which presumably fixed his life) and completely missed the opportunity to play Sonny and Cher afterwards
You won't do that again, will you? Once bittern, twice shy.
The shiny black cloak with the fake fur collar, please.
You won't do that again, will you? Once bittern, twice shy.Boom, boom (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky5IYXhraMg)!
The shiny black cloak with the fake fur collar, please.
No matter how subtly I hint that my coffee be made "weak and milky", our admin lady always makes it so that the spoon stands upright.
Whoa, before the Coffee Brigade start rounding on me as if I'm some kind of Philistine, I just want to make it clear that I just wanted something like thisNo matter how subtly I hint that my coffee be made "weak and milky", our admin lady always makes it so that the spoon stands upright.Quite right too. "Weak & Milky Coffee" ?? Lucky the Admin lady doesn't spank you just for asking.
I'm a bit nervous because I'm going to a different yoga class tonight for the first time.
I am in a much worse situation- I am having my first ever banjo lesson!And you think that's bad for you?
I am in a much worse situation- I am having my first ever banjo lesson!And you think that's bad for you?
I'm a bit nervous because I'm going to a different yoga class tonight for the first time.
I am in a much worse situation- I am having my first ever banjo lesson!
I am in a much worse situation- I am having my first ever banjo lesson!And you think that's bad for you?
At least it's not the fiddle or trumpet!
So slow at work today I've ended up posting a bunch of rubbish on YACF
So slow at work today I've ended up posting a bunch of rubbish on YACF
And this is a problem how, exactly?
It's Friday, so I treated myself to some nice Rioja, but I smashed the last of my good red wine glasses last week (and have been toobusylazy to get the spares out of the loft.)
I'm having to drink it out of one of the chunky recycled green glass goblets I use for white.... :o
What barbaric service on this train - my wine has been served in a water glass!
Marks and Spencer didn't have any blocks of Red Leicester. I had to buy sliced instead.
First world maths problem:Humus without extra virgin olive oil, yuck!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Br43bgpIYAEdHb3.jpg:large)
And that tick is back to front!
And that tick is back to front!Not for a left-hander it isn't. And as ane fule kno, left-handers are best at sums. Look at sigismund arbuthnot the mad maths master. he hav a cane that land accross rong side of fearless BOYS tender backside hem-hem.
Germans all seem to do their ticks back to front, and often on the wrong side of the paper. It's very weird!And that tick is back to front!
Left-handed teacher?
I am right-handed but it strikes me that making a tick is a very highly unnatural movement for a left-hander, more than normal writing.
Any lefties care to comment?
I just bought a new case of beer but there's so much beer already in the chiller I can't fit any of it in.There's plenty of room in mine if you're really stuck.
First world maths problem:Humus without extra virgin olive oil, yuck!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Br43bgpIYAEdHb3.jpg:large)
And no Tahini!
The point about cups as a measuring device is built in proportionality. You can use any cup.
That's about right for dried chickpeas, surely.
You'd need to soak and boil them for days mind.
The point about cups as a measuring device is built in proportionality. You can use any cup.
'Cup' in recipes is a standard measure.
'Cup' in recipes is a standard measure.It's still a stupid unit for solids though. Half a cup of grated carrot? Packed down firm? Left loose and airy? Chopped carrot jammed into the measuring cup and then grated?
In the US it's 8 fluid ounces (so half of one of their pints) (note for the pedantic, the US fl.oz. is not quite the same as an Imperial one)
In New Zealand it's 250ml.
(Mr Google says the US cup is 236.59ml)
Cue the 'nice thing about standards quote'
It's still a stupid unit for solids though. Half a cup of grated carrot? Packed down firm? Left loose and airy? Chopped carrot jammed into the measuring cup and then grated?
I much prefer cups. Not many recipes require absolute accuracy. If you're the sort of cook who 'bungs stuff in the bowl' rather than measuring everything to the nth degree and garnishing stuff, cups are good.
'Cup' in recipes is a standard measure.It's still a stupid unit for solids though. Half a cup of grated carrot? Packed down firm? Left loose and airy? Chopped carrot jammed into the measuring cup and then grated?
In the US it's 8 fluid ounces (so half of one of their pints) (note for the pedantic, the US fl.oz. is not quite the same as an Imperial one)
In New Zealand it's 250ml.
(Mr Google says the US cup is 236.59ml)
Cue the 'nice thing about standards quote'
I much prefer cups. Not many recipes require absolute accuracy. If you're the sort of cook who 'bungs stuff in the bowl' rather than measuring everything to the nth degree and garnishing stuff, cups are good.
'Cup' in recipes is a standard measure.
Surely it depends on who's bra you are borrowing to do the measuring?
*leaves thread in disgrace*
What's a gish party? Is it fun?
We have no instant coffee so I had to make the removal man a caramel latte from the Tassimo. We also have no standard tea so the other two got Earl Grey.
(I can't believe I actually typed that, or that it's truly true)
What is 'hummus dip' & how does it differ from hummus?
In other FWP news, I've had to turn down a free cycling trip to Majorca.TBH, I'm struggling to summon up
Suspect cityoen's Real LifeTM is interfering with the the cycling habit.
We have no instant coffee so I had to make the removal man a caramel latte from the Tassimo. We also have no standard tea so the other two got Earl Grey.
(I can't believe I actually typed that, or that it's truly true)
Caramel latte? Are you trying to kill the poor fellow? (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35593007)
Dear Whitbread,
Thank you for your email suggesting U book a table to celebrate Mothers' Day at your table table restaurant.
Don't you think it might be useful to remind me of the date of this auspicious occasion cos I can't remember.
I await further emails from Brewers Fayre and Beefeater.
Where can I go that the BA flight will be cheaper than a budget airline, taking into account the discount and their free bike baggage allowance?
We move house in a weeks time.
For the first time in 25 years we will be without a dishwasher :(
How will we cope for the six weeks it will take to fit a new kitchen and dishwasher in our new house?
The new kitchen fit is going well, but we've just run out of paper plates :(
We move house in a weeks time.
For the first time in 25 years we will be without a dishwasher :(
How will we cope for the six weeks it will take to fit a new kitchen and dishwasher in our new house?
We move house in a weeks time.
For the first time in 25 years we will be without a dishwasher :(
How will we cope for the six weeks it will take to fit a new kitchen and dishwasher in our new house?
Why I've never got one.
Then we got a dishwasher in the 1980s - yay.
Result? Not really, doing the dishes was replaced was 'EMPTY THE DISHWASHER GRRRRR!' which seemed no different or less work than doing the dishes. Indeed, often as not it seemed to required - particularly with mugs - rewashing the dishwasher induced ick off the bottom followed by drying them anyway.
Upon leaving home I decided I'd never bother. Met my wife and she'd never had one and didn't want one.
I had a dishwasher in the nineties. In the noughties I reverted back to washing up in the sink by hand. I like doing the washing up. :thumbsup:
Staff.
What you need is staff.
Unfortunately, these days ....... ;)
;DStaff.
What you need is staff.
Unfortunately, these days ....... ;)
I am staff...
I had a dishwasher in the nineties. In the noughties I reverted back to washing up in the sink by hand. I like doing the washing up. :thumbsup:
So do I!
My dishwasher seals failed and machine has not been replaced.
These machine don't fill or empty themselves, do they?
Really sorry to hear about this, PaulF. One never really knows what lies around the corner in life.
Have you considered counselling?
I want a dishwashing seal.
The ideal is to have two dishwashers. Then you don't even need a kitchen cupboard.
I have to take the car in for a service tomorrow.
We had that happen back in January. According to one of our neighbours, a van/lorry/truck (her terminology varied) had got stuck at about 45 degrees (probably a considerable exaggeration) and had threatened to topple over into our hedge, all the while trashing our verge. They reportedly blocked the road for 3 hours, and got pulled out shortly before either my wife or I got home to witness the spectacle. Ba5t@rd$. :demon:
Having the nice grass verge outside your houseplowedploughed up by a large lorry delivering stuff to the house opposite.
What were they delivering? Turf for their new lawn.
Chardonnay.
HTF did that end up in my shopping basket?
:sick:
Chardonnay.
HTF did that end up in my shopping basket?
:sick:
Just buy Chablis, and pretend you don't know about varietals
You don't want a psychopathic killer in your shopping basket, do you!Just buy Chablis, and pretend you don't know about varietals
Or Mersault.
Chardonnay.
HTF did that end up in my shopping basket?
:sick:
More importantly, I bought some prepared veg on Saturday (because I'm on my own and feel lazy, and for added First World points, it was broccoli and cauliflower 'couscous'). I was preparing dinner last night and, well, it's nowhere to be found. So I either neglected to put it in my shopping bag or I've put it somewhere that is curiously not the fridge. The perils of going shopping with jetlag.
Chardonnay.
HTF did that end up in my shopping basket?
:sick:
More importantly, I bought some prepared veg on Saturday (because I'm on my own and feel lazy, and for added First World points, it was broccoli and cauliflower 'couscous'). I was preparing dinner last night and, well, it's nowhere to be found. So I either neglected to put it in my shopping bag or I've put it somewhere that is curiously not the fridge. The perils of going shopping with jetlag.
Does this qualify as 'First World' given that you appear to have gone shopping (as opposed to having it delivered)?
Does that count?
Chardonnay.
HTF did that end up in my shopping basket?
:sick:
More importantly, I bought some prepared veg on Saturday (because I'm on my own and feel lazy, and for added First World points, it was broccoli and cauliflower 'couscous'). I was preparing dinner last night and, well, it's nowhere to be found. So I either neglected to put it in my shopping bag or I've put it somewhere that is curiously not the fridge. The perils of going shopping with jetlag.
Does this qualify as 'First World' given that you appear to have gone shopping (as opposed to having it delivered)?
Does that count?
I surely get some points for buying prepared vegetables and, ye gads, faux couscous made from scrambled up broccoli and cauliflower. I also bought some 'courgette noodles' and successfully didn't manage to lose those.
I can make my own courgette 'noodles' but I admit 'couscous' is more of a problem since I'm typically too lazy to mess with a food processor.
I may have to get a little vacuum cleaner to clean my robot vacuum cleaner that appears to be a magnet for dustHave you considered applying some of the anti-static stuff for use on VDUs to your robo-vac?
Isn't a vacuum cleaner *supposed* to be a dust magnet, thobut?My interpretation, which could be wrong, is that it is the outside of Gerald's robo-vac which is attracting dust.
I may have to get a little vacuum cleaner to clean my robot vacuum cleaner that appears to be a magnet for dust
My nail varnish is chipping terribly.Two pack (http://www.paints4trade.com/2-pack-epoxy-top-coat-boat-paint-2215-p.asp?v=0&variantid=2739&fo_c=888&fo_k=d6123440ba4601f8ade7fcf24a8493df&fo_s=gplauk&gclid=CL2nme-8k8wCFYcp0wodBbwOjA) is your friend.
I may have to get a little vacuum cleaner to clean my robot vacuum cleaner that appears to be a magnet for dust
And how will you keep the little one clean
My nail varnish is chipping terribly.Two pack (http://www.paints4trade.com/2-pack-epoxy-top-coat-boat-paint-2215-p.asp?v=0&variantid=2739&fo_c=888&fo_k=d6123440ba4601f8ade7fcf24a8493df&fo_s=gplauk&gclid=CL2nme-8k8wCFYcp0wodBbwOjA) is your friend.
Reverse gear on my Logitech G27 has stopped working :'(
I treated myself to a packet of Basset's Liquorice Allsorts and was very dissappointed to find that the liquorice sandwiches are an austerity version, being truncated to rectangles instead of the traditional squares.
When I tried using Strava to record runs, I didn't realise you have to set the activity type in your profile. So it recorded my runs as bike rides. So now I've uploaded two truly lightning fast bike rides that won't get added to my total running distance (which is pitiful anyway).
When I tried using Strava to record runs, I didn't realise you have to set the activity type in your profile. So it recorded my runs as bike rides. So now I've uploaded two truly lightning fast bike rides that won't get added to my total running distance (which is pitiful anyway).
You can change it using the edit function surely.
Ah - not possible from Android - but possible from a PC. Thank you for that.
I was going to suggest goats, but they'd only end up as yeti/bear food.
The Yeti does not have much problem in obtaining food since it is rather strong and fast. It is primarily carnivorous, but will consume plants if necessary. In a dire situation, it is not very picky about its meal. For a meat course, the Yeti will typically feed on non-predator animals, such as the Argali sheep, the Bharal, the Markhor, which are both either in sheep or goat families. If meat is scarce, the Yeti will usually turn to any bamboo that's around, but little else due to lack of availability. The Yeti has no predators and is at the top of its food chain.
The average annual temperature for the Himalayan mountains is 47 degrees Fahrenheit. Although this may not sound too cold, the temperature in this mountain range is constantly changing according to the elevation. The lower the elevation, the lower the temperature will be. This constant variation of temperature is something the Yeti has evolved to with its thick fur coat.(My bold)
I can't find a new gardener. Seriously, I've written to five companies and they say they're too busy.
Or possibly my garden has a rep. I've not seen a yeti for days and the bears are OK if you don't make eye contact and slowly back away. There may be ancient ruins in there somewhere.
pasty geeks...
I can't find a new gardener. Seriously, I've written to five companies and they say they're too busy.
Or possibly my garden has a rep. I've not seen a yeti for days and the bears are OK if you don't make eye contact and slowly back away. There may be ancient ruins in there somewhere.
What's it like for pokemon? You might be able to recruit some pasty geeks...
There seems to be insufficient bandwidth in my office for me to keep; an eye on C Froome and G Thomas in the time trial.
There seems to be insufficient bandwidth in my office for me to keep; an eye on C Froome and G Thomas in the time trial.
Ph3ar n0t, little loony lad, for has been watching the TT so you don't have to.
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Ph3ar n0t, little loony lad, for P@nd3m1c® Pr0duct10nz™ (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=98903.msg2065991#msg2065991) has been watching the TT so you don't have to.
Fondleslab...stubby peasant fingers...bah!
Shaky geriatric fingers, cretinaceous thing thinks I'm trying to move the page when I'm poking a link.
Friend Facebooked next MacBookPro will replace keyboard with touch screen.
DON NOT WANT!
Grossly inappropriate for silver surfers and crips like me!!!
S'true. The people responsible for fruitphone have deemed the next one will be too thin to accommodate a 3.5mm jack socket.Friend Facebooked next MacBookPro will replace keyboard with touch screen.
DON NOT WANT!
Grossly inappropriate for silver surfers and crips like me!!!
Not a chance in hell.
However, it's very strongly rumoured that the next generation of fruitphones will do away with the headphone port, switching to either Lightning-based earphones or Bluetooth only.
S'true. The people responsible for fruitphone have deemed the next one will be too thin to accommodate a 3.5mm jack socket.Friend Facebooked next MacBookPro will replace keyboard with touch screen.
DON NOT WANT!
Grossly inappropriate for silver surfers and crips like me!!!
Not a chance in hell.
However, it's very strongly rumoured that the next generation of fruitphones will do away with the headphone port, switching to either Lightning-based earphones or Bluetooth only.
It is no coincidence that they have also recently acquired a very popular headphone brand. Begins with a 'b'
Otherwise, have you considered using a stylus? You can get them for capacitive touchscreens. Have a blob on the end that simulates a very small finger. They're a good compromise between the frustration of finger input and faffing about driving a fondleslab with a mouse (and as a bonus, keep the screen smudge-free).
Otherwise, have you considered using a stylus?
I have one for use with my phone since my stubby peasant fingers can scarcely cope with a fondleslab, never mind the titchy "keys" on the phone (I am not one of those people who believes in mobile phones the size of car number plates, y'see). The only problem with is it this: where do you put it when you're not using it?
I imagine that ten minutes after the next-gen Jesusphone hits the shelves some clever bugger in China will be flogging Lightning->3.5mm headphone adaptors, which the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia will then replicate at five times the price.
Tis a cruel irony of modern life that the teensy headphone jack is about to become too big. Bring back my old skool Sony Walkman and sponge headphones, I say, and let's get wired for sound. I'm sure that thing ate no fewer than four AA batteries every two hours and was the size of a small hatchback car.Did you pay the extra tenner for the rewind button?
I thought the rumour was that the next iteration of Macbooks would have touchscreens (of course they won't replace the keyboard, otherwise they'd just be iPad Pros). Personally, while I'm happy to prod my iPad and iPhone screens, I've never wanted to jab my Macbook screen with my grubby fingers, but then I'm getting old.
Tis a cruel irony of modern life that the teensy headphone jack is about to become too big. Bring back my old skool Sony Walkman and sponge headphones, I say, and let's get wired for sound. I'm sure that thing ate no fewer than four AA batteries every two hours and was the size of a small hatchback car.Did you pay the extra tenner for the rewind button?
I thought the rumour was that the next iteration of Macbooks would have touchscreens (of course they won't replace the keyboard, otherwise they'd just be iPad Pros). Personally, while I'm happy to prod my iPad and iPhone screens, I've never wanted to jab my Macbook screen with my grubby fingers, but then I'm getting old.
And then there was the gradual battery decline as the music slowed down to the point you couldn't bear it.
That's how The Bristol Sound was created; students lost on the Downs unable to find a shop for new batteries (cos it was past midnight and they'd been hiding in the bushes for weeeeeeeeeeed and badgering (dogging having yet to be invented)) were trying to recreate that sound ten years later. Yes, Beth, we mean you.And then there was the gradual battery decline as the music slowed down to the point you couldn't bear it.
Interestingly, just last night I was wondering whether someone's written a hipster music player app that simulates this. It could also have a 90s mode where the playback skips in response to the accelerometer.
Otherwise, have you considered using a stylus? You can get them for capacitive touchscreens. Have a blob on the end that simulates a very small finger. They're a good compromise between the frustration of finger input and faffing about driving a fondleslab with a mouse (and as a bonus, keep the screen smudge-free).
I have one for use with my phone since my stubby peasant fingers can scarcely cope with a fondleslab, never mind the titchy "keys" on the phone (I am not one of those people who believes in mobile phones the size of car number plates, y'see). The only problem with is it this: where do you put it when you're not using it? ATM it lives in my wallet which, more often than not, is in a different room from the phone.
I imagine that ten minutes after the next-gen Jesusphone hits the shelves some clever bugger in China will be flogging Lightning->3.5mm headphone adaptors, which the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia will then replicate at five times the price.
The only problem with is it this: where do you put it when you're not using it? ATM it lives in my wallet which, more often than not, is in a different room from the phone.
The only problem with is it this: where do you put it when you're not using it? ATM it lives in my wallet which, more often than not, is in a different room from the phone.
Mother Dibdib has one on a little string with - ironically - a headphone jack on the end, so it lives attached to her phone (like so (http://www.tomtop.com/other-tablet-accessories-62/p-pa1271.html?currency=GBP&lang=en&aid=gplagb&gclid=CI-1-paMvs4CFdIV0wodxpsHiA)).
The only problem with is it this: where do you put it when you're not using it? ATM it lives in my wallet which, more often than not, is in a different room from the phone.
Mother Dibdib has one on a little string with - ironically - a headphone jack on the end, so it lives attached to her phone (like so (http://www.tomtop.com/other-tablet-accessories-62/p-pa1271.html?currency=GBP&lang=en&aid=gplagb&gclid=CI-1-paMvs4CFdIV0wodxpsHiA)).
Otherwise, have you considered using a stylus? You can get them for capacitive touchscreens. Have a blob on the end that simulates a very small finger. They're a good compromise between the frustration of finger input and faffing about driving a fondleslab with a mouse (and as a bonus, keep the screen smudge-free).
I have one for use with my phone since my stubby peasant fingers can scarcely cope with a fondleslab, never mind the titchy "keys" on the phone (I am not one of those people who believes in mobile phones the size of car number plates, y'see). The only problem with is it this: where do you put it when you're not using it? ATM it lives in my wallet which, more often than not, is in a different room from the phone.
I imagine that ten minutes after the next-gen Jesusphone hits the shelves some clever bugger in China will be flogging Lightning->3.5mm headphone adaptors, which the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia will then replicate at five times the price.
Like so (https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8025/28843732722_a4eecaf570_b.jpg)?
The acquisition of Beat headphones is no rumour. It has already happened.
I still have one of these:
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And it works.
Only I don't have any cassettes.
The only problem with is it this: where do you put it when you're not using it? ATM it lives in my wallet which, more often than not, is in a different room from the phone.
Mother Dibdib has one on a little string with - ironically - a headphone jack on the end, so it lives attached to her phone (like so (http://www.tomtop.com/other-tablet-accessories-62/p-pa1271.html?currency=GBP&lang=en&aid=gplagb&gclid=CI-1-paMvs4CFdIV0wodxpsHiA)).
That's wrong on so many levels. And not just because it looks like a cyberpunk Tampax.
The only problem with is it this: where do you put it when you're not using it? ATM it lives in my wallet which, more often than not, is in a different room from the phone.
Mother Dibdib has one on a little string with - ironically - a headphone jack on the end, so it lives attached to her phone (like so (http://www.tomtop.com/other-tablet-accessories-62/p-pa1271.html?currency=GBP&lang=en&aid=gplagb&gclid=CI-1-paMvs4CFdIV0wodxpsHiA)).
That's wrong on so many levels. And not just because it looks like a cyberpunk Tampax.
I thought it looked like a buttplug... Can I blame having been at BiCon in the last week?
The only problem with is it this: where do you put it when you're not using it? ATM it lives in my wallet which, more often than not, is in a different room from the phone.
Mother Dibdib has one on a little string with - ironically - a headphone jack on the end, so it lives attached to her phone (like so (http://www.tomtop.com/other-tablet-accessories-62/p-pa1271.html?currency=GBP&lang=en&aid=gplagb&gclid=CI-1-paMvs4CFdIV0wodxpsHiA)).
That's wrong on so many levels. And not just because it looks like a cyberpunk Tampax.
I thought it looked like a buttplug... Can I blame having been at BiCon in the last week?
Heh, if only you knew ;)
Admittedly my friends are all a lot more boring than they were 10 years ago when young.
I have however always been square and boring, even at BiCons.
Not only is it 104 deg F outside but the Burlington, Northern & Santa Fe appear to be sending a giant economy size goods train, complete with up to five diesel locos, past the window every ten minutes >:(
There was one yesterday morning with six locos. And very squeaky brakes >:(
I rather like railway sounds, having grown up with a railway at the bottom of the garden. Trains on that line were about one every hour though.
When we first moved to London, our ground floor flat in West Ealing had the west coast mainline at the bottom of the garden. And the Heathrow flight path overhead. After a time, we stopped noticing it, even though we'd automatically pause conversations each time an outbound Intercity 125 accelerated past.
In the pub this evening I am being subjected yo MTV.So down wit da yoof, Andrij. :)
*makes mental note to check Human Rights legislation as well as the Geneva Convention*
My doctor sends me one espresso every day, to keep me happy in hospital. It is always from Starbucks.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/21/missed-flight-easyjet-apple-icalendar
Deciding which of 8 watches to wear....Choose the one that will make you arrive at work on time. :thumbsup:
Deciding which of 8 watches to wear....Choose the one that will make you arrive at work on time. :thumbsup:
Deciding which of 8 watches to wear....
On this visit to our colonial estates I'm driving quite a bit - but do not have exclusive use of any of the familial motorcars. I'm not sure how many more times I can cope with having to adjust mirrors when I get behind the wheel.
Deciding which of 8 watches to wear....
(http://www.godhaven.org.uk/blogimages/spiv.jpg)
When?
Have alerted the UNHCR and the Yanks have gone to DefCon II.
They've promised to take it back to 4 if you can score a decent Americano by lunchtime . . .
The soft close on the new toilet seat is a little slow.
...
Imagine that, if Whitney Houston possessed your bog. Actually, I just did. It's a not a good place.
...
Imagine that, if Whitney Houston possessed your bog. Actually, I just did. It's a not a good place.
Definitely a 1st World Problem!
the spotlight above the toilet
The soft close on the new toilet seat is a little slow.
Partner detested new soft close seat in bathroom so much that we swapped it to downstairs loo, which he seldom uses.
Why is the bathroom the only part of an hotel bedroom that has a tolerable level of illumination?
I do not do dim!
Holiday Inn: your rooms are just too gloomy!
I stayed in a place in Joburg where the chap who showed me to my room offered to show me where everything was.
Any hotel room offers ten minutes of delight figuring out which combination of switches turn on the right lights. Sometimes I just give up and go to the bar.
Why is the bathroom the only part of an hotel bedroom that has a tolerable level of illumination?I found ours about right. That may be because at home I am constantly maddened by the low-energy bulbs (that result in me squinting at everything for 2 minutes) - so "normal" lighting seems a wonderous invention!
I do not do dim!
Holiday Inn: your rooms are just too gloomy!
Any hotel room offers ten minutes of delight figuring out which combination of switches turn on the right lights. Sometimes I just give up and go to the bar.It just had bedside lights [with their own switches] and a sort-of-Standard-Lamp, with a nice foot-switch! So everything made sense.
I stayed in a place in Joburg where the chap who showed me to my room offered to show me where everything was.
Any hotel room offers ten minutes of delight figuring out which combination of switches turn on the right lights. Sometimes I just give up and go to the bar.
It can't be that complicated I thought.
The button to rise the telly out of its box was hidden behind a curtain at the head of the bed.
I'm afraid to say that I manually lifted the thing out of its box and perched it, precariously, diagonally across the top of the box.
When I finally worked out where the button was, it wasn't working. Not sure if I buggered it or not.
Room-mate was very good about operating the light switches.So basically, you're complaining about having a room much bigger than the rest of us had. ;)
A standard lamp with a foot-operated switch in the only wheelchair accessible room shows typical lack of joined-up thinking.
The room was BIG. There was a ceiling light in the room entrance, the dim standard lamp, a small flexible desk lap and the bedside lights.
Any hotel room offers ten minutes of delight figuring out which combination of switches turn on the right lights. Sometimes I just give up and go to the bar.
Room-mate was very good about operating the light switches.So basically, you're complaining about having a room much bigger than the rest of us had. ;)
A standard lamp with a foot-operated switch in the only wheelchair accessible room shows typical lack of joined-up thinking.
The room was BIG. There was a ceiling light in the room entrance, the dim standard lamp, a small flexible desk lap and the bedside lights.
(I did think about wheelchairs just after posting that comment about the foot-switch :facepalm: )
The Dakota in South Queensferry was the same.
It was so dark, you couldn't find any of the controls on the wall for heating or lighting without a torch.
Whatever happened to gravy browning?Um, did it magically migrate out of the bottle and drip down onto the bottom of the cupboard, despite there not being any discernible spillage when you used it?
... at home I am constantly maddened by the low-energy bulbs (that result in me squinting at everything for 2 minutes) ...
... at home I am constantly maddened by the low-energy bulbs (that result in me squinting at everything for 2 minutes) ...
Could you replace your low energy bulbs at home with ones of higher rating? The idea of low energy is of course to use less energy to get a similar result, not to take you back to the dark ages. :)
... at home I am constantly maddened by the low-energy bulbs (that result in me squinting at everything for 2 minutes) ...
Could you replace your low energy bulbs at home with ones of higher rating? The idea of low energy is of course to use less energy to get a similar result, not to take you back to the dark ages. :)
It's quality of light, not just quantity. The grey drear emitted by CFLs is thankfully being replaced by LED lamps (which might be too bright and blue for some).
CFLs are SAD in a box...
Incandescent lamps might have used much energy but the light quality was better.
Yeah, but you are supposed to have more than one, y'know.
An email chain with me in it contained over 5000 instances of ">" as so many emails had been replied to.
Yet another box of assorted chocolates has the 'key' on the bottom of the box.
Yet another box of assorted chocolates has the 'key' on the bottom of the box.
Do you have a scanner so you can image this onto a phone or computer?
Why on earth would you delete it???Yet another box of assorted chocolates has the 'key' on the bottom of the box.
Do you have a scanner so you can image this onto a phone or computer?
I guess I could photograph the bottom of the box with my phone or tablet, then use that for reference. But then I'm cluttering up my devices with photos which are useful for only a very short time and will need to be deleted. Obviously yet another first world problem.
Yet another box of assorted chocolates has the 'key' on the bottom of the box.
Do you have a scanner so you can image this onto a phone or computer?
I guess I could photograph the bottom of the box with my phone or tablet, then use that for reference. But then I'm cluttering up my devices with photos which are useful for only a very short time and will need to be deleted. Obviously yet another first world problem.
Yet another box of assorted chocolates has the 'key' on the bottom of the box.
Do you have a scanner so you can image this onto a phone or computer?
I guess I could photograph the bottom of the box with my phone or tablet, then use that for reference. But then I'm cluttering up my devices with photos which are useful for only a very short time and will need to be deleted. Obviously yet another first world problem.
You need one of those transparent tables with a mirror at 45° underneath that doctors make you stand on when they want to examine the contact areas of your feet.
Lobster tails were rubbery!
Spinach, aubergine, and courgettes are all supposed to be in short supply after poor harvests in Spain aren't they?
Spinach, aubergine, and courgettes are all supposed to be in short supply after poor harvests in Spain aren't they?
Spinach, aubergine, and courgettes are all supposed to be in short supply after poor harvests in Spain aren't they?
and how is this a problem?
Because ratatouille?
There is always the option of eating foods that are actually in season in January but that appears to be a concept lost on supermarkets.
and I don't like sprouts
and I don't like sproutsTry them halved or quartered and fried in butter, very different and very nice. If you're feeing posh grate a bit of nutmeg over them while cooking.
...turnips are a terrible fruit.
The point about living in the first world is that we can what we like when we like. I think there are quite a few hippies wandering into this thread by mistake. This is a thread for Leadbetter type problems, you Good types need to find your own thread.
and I don't like sproutsTry them halved or quartered and fried in butter, very different and very nice. If you're feeing posh grate a bit of nutmeg over them while cooking.
I'm a big fan of all the brassicas, and also the leafy bitter greens, but my OH can't stand them; I think this is a non-supertaster/supertaster divide that won't ever be bridged.
My local Sainsbury's Online appears to have run out of vegetarian haggis and it's not even Burns' Night.
This is only a First World problem becauseposhpeople only eat haggis on special occasions...
I'm a big fan of all the brassicas, and also the leafy bitter greens, but my OH can't stand them; I think this is a non-supertaster/supertaster divide that won't ever be bridged.
I dunno, given advanced gene therapy it might one day be possible for anyone to appreciate the mingingness of sprouts.
FTFbothofYMy local Sainsbury's Online appears to have run out of vegetarian haggis and it's not even Burns' Night.
This is only a First World problem because English people only eat haggis on special occasions...
FTFY...
CRISPR is your friend. I confess to being a brassica addict (and as I spent years disassembling their biochemistry and genetics I can bore anyone about why they taste like they do). Cauliflower wins all vegetables. Brassicas, not even sprouts, don't really make me fart (though I confess the stink of boiling brassicas is unpleasant).Cauliflower is really boring unless curried or smothered in cheesy cheese sauce with all the cheese. But you can stop it stinking while boiling it by adding a splash of milk to the water.
I like risotto, but if I like it better if I put wine in the stock, but I don't really drink much these days so then I have leftover wine that goes off unless I make risotto every other night until it's all gone, so maybe I should try buying those tiny bottles of wine, or maybe a box, but that might be naff.
Good heavens!
To lock or unlock the door on this little rented Fiat van i have to insert the key into the lock.
Then I have to turn it.
Why do people say that sprouts are horrid as if it's the people who love them that are in the wrong?
Good heavens!
To lock or unlock the door on this little rented Fiat van i have to insert the key into the lock.
Then I have to turn it.
I like risotto, but if I like it better if I put wine in the stock, but I don't really drink much these days so then I have leftover wine that goes off unless I make risotto every other night until it's all gone, so maybe I should try buying those tiny bottles of wine, or maybe a box, but that might be naff.
It's one of those things like delayed sleep phase, which is a random biological thing that people can't help, but society - lead by the people who don't have the thing - has attached a negative value judgement to, as if people who can go to sleep early [, or who can't taste the bitter of green veg,] are somehow superior to the others.While not disputing the existence of real DSPD, it is not hard to see that many young people's similar symptoms are brought about by equally unhealthy doses of fecklessness and Monster, poor sleep hygiene and a powerful peer-driven addiction to Call Of Duty.
Good heavens!What is this "key" of which you talk. Is it related to the thing you have to have about your person for the doors to unlock for you that also works for starting the car?
To lock or unlock the door on this little rented Fiat van i have to insert the key into the lock.
Then I have to turn it.
Good heavens!
To lock or unlock the door on this little rented Fiat van i have to insert the key into the lock.
Then I have to turn it.
And
Because the key does not flip shut into the fob, I have just stabbed myself in the scrotum when I sat down for a "coffee" in the services.
It's one of those things like delayed sleep phase, which is a random biological thing that people can't help, but society - lead by the people who don't have the thing - has attached a negative value judgement to, as if people who can go to sleep early [, or who can't taste the bitter of green veg,] are somehow superior to the others.While not disputing the existence of real DSPD, it is not hard to see that many young people's similar symptoms are brought about by equally unhealthy doses of fecklessness and Monster, poor sleep hygiene and a powerful peer-driven addiction to Call Of Duty.
Sorry, I should have added, "In my experience of working with young people in a Further Education establishment in a deprived area,", and I was referring to the vile caffeinated drink Monster rather than the REM album. I did get a good yank on that chain though, didn't I?It's one of those things like delayed sleep phase, which is a random biological thing that people can't help, but society - lead by the people who don't have the thing - has attached a negative value judgement to, as if people who can go to sleep early [, or who can't taste the bitter of green veg,] are somehow superior to the others.While not disputing the existence of real DSPD, it is not hard to see that many young people's similar symptoms are brought about by equally unhealthy doses of fecklessness and Monster, poor sleep hygiene and a powerful peer-driven addiction to Call Of Duty.
I did get a good yank on that chain though, didn't I?
How about mushy peas? Proper farting tackle . . .
Also, my bottle of lemon juice is too tall to fit into the fridge door bit, and my massive jar of artichokes is too tall for the fridge unless I move all the shelves up and down.
BOTH of the peelers are in the dishwasher. There are potatoes, but no means of preparing them. Mrs Tiger has had to go out and buy another, otherwise we can't eat.
Peel them with a knife? Or are all the knives in the dishwasher as well?We didn't lead the world trough the industrial revolution, beat jerry in WW2 and defeat the EU to peel our potatoes with knives like johnny foreigner in places like Spain.
Eat the taters with the skins on? (Life is too short for peeling taters)
These. But if I said that it wouldn't fit in a problem thread.Eat the taters with the skins on? (Life is too short for peeling taters)
We never peel taters.
I do this all the time too. Well, not actually currently as we haven't fitted the dw yet, but Mrs B always complains and say I will bugger the machine and I should switch it off first. I have asked for citation, but none is forthcoming.No. It's probably an urban myth based on a misunderstanding or some 1950s technology that would get upset. See also:-
Anyone else think it's harmful?
Hang on. A 1950s dishwasher would have a fiendishly complicated mechanical time switch thinger to control its sequence of squirting, pumping, heating and whatever, which wouldn't be fazed by the door interlock cutting the power mid-sequence, and the main risk comes from the sudden steaming-up of your glasses. But this is The Future, and if the 20th century has taught us anything it's "moar microcontrollers, moar better". It seems entirely plausible that a modern dishwasher, equipped with regulation Ministry Of Crap Design internet-of-shit firmware, would reset to the beginning of the cycle after opening the door. And then blab about the resulting carbon emissions to all your friends on TwitFace.
Best to play it safe and go to the chippy.
I do this all the time too. Well, not actually currently as we haven't fitted the dw yet, but Mrs B always complains and say I will bugger the machine and I should switch it off first. I have asked for citation, but none is forthcoming.
Anyone else think it's harmful?
Forgot to Add a Dish?It also refers the to DW 'mooing' if the door is left open!
A forgotten dish can be added at any time before the detergent cup opens
1. Open the door a little to stop the washing
2. After the spray arms stop working you can open the door
3. Load the forgotten dishes.
4. Close the door, the dish washer will start running again after 10 seconds
What I don't understand is, why do dishwashers take so frikking long to do the dishes?
It also refers the to DW 'mooing' if the door is left open!
I do this all the time too. Well, not actually currently as we haven't fitted the dw yet, but Mrs B always complains and say I will bugger the machine and I should switch it off first. I have asked for citation, but none is forthcoming.No. It's probably an urban myth based on a misunderstanding or some 1950s technology that would get upset. See also:-
Anyone else think it's harmful?
Needing a header tank on hot water systems
Making sure you use cross-over ethernet cables between computers
Not pushing on the glass when closing the door on a car with frameless windows
Not having more than 3 electrical appliances in one adaptor so it doesn't get overloaded
Having socket protectors for child safety
Not using full throttle on a car at low revs
(reminds me of a charity recipe book asking ' what do you do with leftover red wine after a dinner party?'Leftover red wine? Does not compute. ???
Rising to the challenge, Glenys Kinnock replied ' Why would there be any left over the next day -don't be daft!')
Hence "The freezer's mooing because the house is too cold. #FirstWorldProblems"In Finland cold stores have to be heated in the winter.
My carefully organised box of nuts, bolts and washers fell off the bench and broke. I have exited the garage until a replacement is procured and I am inspired to clear it up.
Completely OT, but what was the thinking behind the rubber mat ?My carefully organised box of nuts, bolts and washers fell off the bench and broke. I have exited the garage until a replacement is procured and I am inspired to clear it up.
I dropped my Bitsa box a while back. I have interlocking rubber floor-mats in my workshop (it's very nice underfoot) which is basically a huge trampoline for M4 nuts and bolts.
I did exactly what you did, walked away. I may have said, "Fuck".
I know I'll never see some of those bits again.
What I don't understand is, why do dishwashers take so frikking long to do the dishes?
What I don't understand is, why do dishwashers take so frikking long to do the dishes?
We only ever use our dishwasher on quick programme (30 minutes). Just have to give each item a quick rinse/light-scrub before it goes in. (If you put anything really dirty in there on the quick program it just spreads all of that mess around onto all of the other items and the hot water ensures it sticks nicely.)
I did clear most of it up, my inspiration being that I didn't want rusty nuts and bolts on the floor (The gully across the garage door once again failed to cope with a rain shower).My carefully organised box of nuts, bolts and washers fell off the bench and broke. I have exited the garage until a replacement is procured and I am inspired to clear it up.
I dropped my Bitsa box a while back. I have interlocking rubber floor-mats in my workshop (it's very nice underfoot) which is basically a huge trampoline for M4 nuts and bolts.
I did exactly what you did, walked away. I may have said, "Fuck".
I know I'll never see some of those bits again.
This morning the Radio 6 breakfast show had a nice example (explicitly stated as a first world problem): James May is selling his Rolls-Royce Corniche because he's developed an allergy to the leather seats.
What I don't understand is, why do dishwashers take so frikking long to do the dishes?
We only ever use our dishwasher on quick programme (30 minutes). Just have to give each item a quick rinse/light-scrub before it goes in. (If you put anything really dirty in there on the quick program it just spreads all of that mess around onto all of the other items and the hot water ensures it sticks nicely.)
At which point I have to say, what's the point in the dishwasher?
What I don't understand is, why do dishwashers take so frikking long to do the dishes?
We only ever use our dishwasher on quick programme (30 minutes). Just have to give each item a quick rinse/light-scrub before it goes in. (If you put anything really dirty in there on the quick program it just spreads all of that mess around onto all of the other items and the hot water ensures it sticks nicely.)
At which point I have to say, what's the point in the dishwasher?
.. all of which are decaf. Deep despair.
Just grind some ProPlus into them :)This works! Not only that but gives an additional hardcore flavour. Proper manly coffee - I bet George Clooney hasn't tried that. In fact it is easier just to eat the tablet and drink the coffee. A happy outcome.
I couldn't find the corkscrew last night, so had to resort to a screw top bottle of wine. What's more it was Muscadet. With steak and kidney pie.Two corkscrews is one corkscrew. One corkscrew is no corkscrew.
GP, WM. The wine I resorted to was "New World", so you could be on to something.I couldn't find the corkscrew last night, so had to resort to a screw top bottle of wine. What's more it was Muscadet. With steak and kidney pie.Two corkscrews is one corkscrew. One corkscrew is no corkscrew.
(With apologies to Kim, I think.)
If you only had one corkscrew, are you sure you're in the first world?
I couldn't find the corkscrew last night, so had to resort to a screw top bottle of wine. What's more it was Muscadet. With steak and kidney pie.
I know: there goes the Empire.I couldn't find the corkscrew last night, so had to resort to a screw top bottle of wine. What's more it was Muscadet. With steak and kidney pie.
Oh for goodness' sake, Tim, whatever next? Red wine with fish?
No matter how many bike tools you have, you always seem to need to buy yet another specialised one :(And this is a problem how? ;)
No matter how many bike tools you have, you always seem to need to buy yet another specialised one :(And this is a problem how? ;)
No matter how many bike tools you have, you always seem to need to buy yet another specialised one :(And this is a problem how? ;)
Because it depletes the new bike fund!
No free booze in BA cattle class.
Thusly civilization ends. It truly was the last bastion. May as well fucking fly Ryanair now.
No free booze in BA cattle class.
Thusly civilization ends. It truly was the last bastion. May as well fucking fly Ryanair now.
No free booze in BA cattle class.
Thusly civilization ends. It truly was the last bastion. May as well fucking fly Ryanair now.
There's no free anything on the domestic flights, even a cup of tea is now an M+S paid for thing, like the budget airlines. No cash, cards only.
The long haul flights to Houston were still the same as ever,as of 1 week ago
No free booze in BA cattle class.
Thusly civilization ends. It truly was the last bastion. May as well fucking fly Ryanair now.
OMG. Thank God I'm not going to USANIA frequently any more.
No free booze in BA cattle class.
Thusly civilization ends. It truly was the last bastion. May as well fucking fly Ryanair now.
No free booze in BA cattle class.
Thusly civilization ends. It truly was the last bastion. May as well fucking fly Ryanair now.
OMG. Thank God I'm not going to USANIA frequently any more.
I think international is still immune (BA/AA and Virgin/Delta codeshares still seem to give out booze). But at least my flights to Berlin and Frankfurt were mitigated with a gin & tonic and ever decreasing snacks. Now it's M&S bullshit. I can expense it (it's work, goddammit), but it's the bloody principle of the matter. Someone has to stand up against this. Otherwise next it's the Ryanair experience and then – oh god – US domestic. Now the only benefit of Berlin on BA is Tegel (best airport ever, every year Brandenburg gets delayed is a happy one).
I'm off to Philadelphia at the weekend on BA and there had better be booze.
(My favourite flights were once on Singapore business where she left me an entire bottle of port and last year flying from Jo'burg to Nairobi when the steward handed me no fewer than six cans of lager – I must have looked thirsty.)
You need booze if you're going to Houston. Anything to soften the blow.Do they have booze in Houston? I've never gotten over been quizzed about my purchase in a wine shop (in New Haven). I think I had two bottles of wine
When I clicked on some thumbnail images of French properties the resultant images that popped up were the same size as the thumbnails.
Is anything more of a let down?
My Sainsbury's delivery today contained three times as much carrot as I ordered and a dozen oranges I hadn't ordered at all.
My fridge is overloaded.
They couldn't supply the steaks I ordered.
Maybe I'll turn ORANGE!
My earthenware Le Creuset oven dish has just snapped in half >:(
I want a BLT. I don't want the posh stuff from the restaurant. In my room. But the hotel doesn't serve the late night menu for another hour.
Why were you underneath the plane during take-off?
Asda has run out of Custard Creams!
I was unaware that people considered Asda to be part of the First World.
It's also sunny and warm and there's a cocktail reception by the pool in a few minutes.Using water colours presumably.
But there's no water in the pool as they're painting it.
(I didn't take a picture, but let's say this (http://www.eskort.co.za/index.cfm?Aid=1885888769) is not dissimilar)They look ace! What's the problem?
Childrens tea party here.
(I didn't take a picture, but let's say this (http://www.eskort.co.za/index.cfm?Aid=1885888769) is not dissimilar)
They were! No problem at all.(I didn't take a picture, but let's say this (http://www.eskort.co.za/index.cfm?Aid=1885888769) is not dissimilar)They look ace! What's the problem?
Sainsbury's have NO own-brand humous 'due to production difficulties'.
Sounds like a whole world problem to me.Sainsbury's have NO own-brand humous 'due to production difficulties'.
Sainsburys don't have a single UK grown apple for sale. I can chose from Chile, New Zealand or South Africa.
Sainsbury's have NO own-brand humous 'due to production difficulties'.
Sainsburys don't have a single UK grown apple for sale. I can chose from Chile, New Zealand or South Africa.
A Wiggle order just arrived, sans Haribo. :'(could be my fault, whenever I send something back for a refund, I always send the Haribos back as well.
A Wiggle order just arrived, sans Haribo. :'(could be my fault, whenever I send something back for a refund, I always send the Haribos back as well.
What's a shopping list?Traditionally, it's the thing you leave on the kitchen table when you go shopping.
What's a shopping list?Traditionally, it's the thing you leave on the kitchen table when you go shopping.
Paper lists are better anyway, as you find them in supermarket trolleys and gain insight into the life of some previous shopper. It's that little human connection. http://www.grocerylists.org/ refers.
If it's in pencil you might get somewhere with grazing illumination.
If it reads
Can kraut
Pound pastrami
6 bagels
it'll be worth a bit.
Waitrose! Waddayamean you haven't got any red Carmargue rice?
*jumps up and down on ethically-sourced bamboo cup purchased at enormous price for the purpose of drinking "free" coffee*
I'm buying a new mandolin and can't decide which one I prefer.
I'm buying a new mandolin and can't decide which one I prefer.
I'm buying a new mandolin and can't decide which one I prefer.
Let’s just say that I’ve managed to resolve that dilemma
Our spaghetti jar has disappeared....
Our spaghetti jar has disappeared....
Have you accidentally re-purposed it for storing cable ties?
Our spaghetti jar has disappeared....
Have you accidentally re-purposed it for storing cable ties?
Cable ties should be stored inside the drops, behind the bar-end plug.
Trufax.
Our spaghetti jar has disappeared....In my experience, missing jars can often be found in the shed with chains/brushes in white spirits.
Our spaghetti jar has disappeared....
Have you accidentally re-purposed it for storing cable ties?
Cable ties should be stored inside the drops, behind the bar-end plug.
Trufax.
Only on one side, though. I'm sure there is an entire generation of cyclists who honestly believe that the rearward-point bit at the bottom of a set of drop bars really is called the "stash".
Nipped to Waitrose this evening, looking for eggs. What's this? Eggs in boxes of four, nine and fifteen. The world has gone mad.
Nipped to Waitrose this evening, looking for eggs. What's this? Eggs in boxes of four, nine and fifteen. The world has gone mad.
Yes, it should be 4, 9, 16.
Eggs are very complicated here in Danish supermarkets :
6, 10, 15, 20 or 30 in a package.
You have to check eggs for size, we have 4 different sizes.
Then you need to decide how you want the chickens life while laying the eggs, I think we are down to 4 types there too.
Only Aldi sells Battery eggs now, all other shops have been persuaded to stop selling them.
I prefer to visit the local farm shop and just buy 15 ecological produced eggs in different sizes but laid the same day. so Tasty :D
How about Fibonacci sizes? Would make for some interesting stacking options...
How about Fibonacci sizes? Would make for some interesting stacking options...A bit of a downer for anyone purchasing the 0 eggs box
How about Fibonacci sizes? Would make for some interesting stacking options...A bit of a downer for anyone purchasing the 0 eggs box
Overheard in Tesco yesterday 'I really hate our champagne glasses, they're far too thick'.
Overheard in Tesco yesterday 'I really hate our champagne glasses, they're far too thick'.
Fake news. Surely that's from the "Overheard in Waitrose" file.
No one in Waitrose would refer to champagne flutes as glasses.Overheard in Tesco yesterday 'I really hate our champagne glasses, they're far too thick'.
Fake news. Surely that's from the "Overheard in Waitrose" file.
No one in Waitrose would refer to champagne flutes as glasses.Overheard in Tesco yesterday 'I really hate our champagne glasses, they're far too thick'.
Fake news. Surely that's from the "Overheard in Waitrose" file.
The bidet waste pipe is frozen and not accessible without ripping tiles off, so the bidet is now unusable until it thaws.
Or wash your swimming trunks?The bidet waste pipe is frozen and not accessible without ripping tiles off, so the bidet is now unusable until it thaws.
Crikey! How are you going to make coffee?
Barakta accidentally put bread in the fridge.I know people who do that on purpose.
Having your Cornish cream tea served with jam on top of the cream. BBC article here. (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-43363435)
Duncan Biscotto posted: "Don't apologise, it still tastes the same - there are worse atrocities in the world."
I don't think it does, bread mould grows fine at lower temperatures, the rate limiting step is relative humidity, which a fridge will increase. Best to store it somewhere dry but not so dry that it goes stale. And then when it does go mouldy, feed it to your inlaws.Hmm...
Bread ends up cold, dry, about as mouldy as it would anyway and tasting faintly of fridge contents.Well, it ends up cold but none of the other things. If it did i wouldn't do it, would i?
You're taking up valuable beer space.I have a separate, larger fridge for essentials.
I have to attend a beer festival on Thursday.
Friday is a work day. This may constrain the number of beers that can be errr ummm tested.I have to attend a beer festival on Thursday.Sorry I fail to see why that, in any way, could be construed as a problem. ;D
Yebbut what's wrong with the fridge?
Yes, I understand that is the case. Our bread isn't in the fridge long enough to go stale but long enough in room temp bread crock to go mouldy.Yebbut what's wrong with the fridge?
Bread goes stale quickest at fridge temperatures; I don't have my copy of McGee to hand, but there is some SCIENCE regarding the starches and such that explains it. Re-heating refreshes it, but obviously dries it out some more.
Yebbut what's wrong with the fridge?Cold bread.
I knew that Debbie was more than just a glamorous assistant!Yebbut what's wrong with the fridge?
Bread goes stale quickest at fridge temperatures; I don't have my copy of McGee to hand...
What about Bobby?!I knew that Debbie was more than just a glamorous assistant!Yebbut what's wrong with the fridge?
Bread goes stale quickest at fridge temperatures; I don't have my copy of McGee to hand...
AEG dishwasher not done its stuff overnight (on Economy 7), showing error code i30. Washed up by hand whilst SWMBO hid under duvet having heard the verbals from the kitchen when the Full English (only on a Sunday) should have been in production.
Googles error code. Anti-flood device triggered. Solutions offered.
Large dog drying towel (towel, not dog) spread on kitchen floor. DW tipped back. Water now all over floor. Reset error code and gave it a test. Seems OK, but having coffee and cake whilst it does its thing.
Or should this be in What have I fettled today.....?
No. Leave it here because it's causing my sax practice to be postponed. And my model aeroplane fettling. Must be a First World problem in that case.
AEG dishwasher not done its stuff overnight (on Economy 7), showing error code i30. Washed up by hand whilst SWMBO hid under duvet having heard the verbals from the kitchen when the Full English (only on a Sunday) should have been in production.
Googles error code. Anti-flood device triggered. Solutions offered.
Large dog drying towel (towel, not dog) spread on kitchen floor. DW tipped back. Water now all over floor. Reset error code and gave it a test. Seems OK, but having coffee and cake whilst it does its thing.
Or should this be in What have I fettled today.....?
No. Leave it here because it's causing my sax practice to be postponed. And my model aeroplane fettling. Must be a First World problem in that case.
AEG: Auspacken. Einschalten. Geht nicht.
Why can't shops sell half a celeriac? Or can't smaller ones be grown?
It's the best soup.Why can't shops sell half a celeriac? Or can't smaller ones be grown?
Learn to like celeriac soup. :demon:
My train was late.I think this also happens in the third world.
Mum does celeriac 'schnitzel' you could freeze these and reheat for part of a quick meal...That sounds yummy, does she have a recipe?
Mum does celeriac 'schnitzel' you could freeze these and reheat for part of a quick meal...That sounds yummy, does she have a recipe?
I thought bottles of wine (still and fizzy) were either full or empty. Are you people trying to tell me there is an intermediate state? :o
Chardonnay rouge exists and is even AOC. And the Californians do it too.
Oh, and the nocks are ugly too!
I've just had an email from the travel company through which I'd booked a family holiday for the half-term asking me for the details of the flights that they were supposed to have arranged. There look to be no flights available to the destination on the days we are supposed to be travelling. >:(
I'll spare you the full details for now, as I'm still arguing with them,
1. As any archer who hasn’t disappeared up his own fundamental will tell the type and colour of your fletchings are the most important element when choosing new arrows.
I wouldn't accept credit, I'd insist on full cash replacement + something for the inconvenience caused.
But yuck to having to sort shit out at short notice cos of their incompetence.
Hoorahy for good customer service. Perhaps,when you get back from your self reorganised holiday a name and fame post would be in order, because even though we should be able to expect it, good customer service after a cock up is far too rare.I wouldn't accept credit, I'd insist on full cash replacement + something for the inconvenience caused.
But yuck to having to sort shit out at short notice cos of their incompetence.
Polite persistence paid off. Apology and full refund. :thumbsup:
Now all I have to do is find somewhere else to go....
(I don't think you'll be seeing much of me on here today ;))
I have run out of garlic.Wrong thread. This is a Transylvanian-World Problem.
I have run out of garlic.Wrong thread. This is a Transylvanian-World Problem.
"That's quite a good price compared with the alternatives!" exclaimed Mr Larrington. "I shall do the pointy-clicky thing and effect a purchase. But soft, what is this? You have to pay extra for a seat? As far as I know they do not allow standing on transatlantic hairyplanes. You are gits, is what you are!"
Yes, Air Canada, I'm talking about you. Thieving toerags.
M$ Exceldoes NOT autofit row height on merged cells. Which, given that the reason you have merged them is probably to put text in there,is quite frankly stupid.
If things go to plan, I'll soon be waving goodbye to whindoze X ...*Cough* The "Things To Be Insanely Cheerful About" thread is that way ----> :)
My electric mandolin was supplied with Phosphor Bronze strings rather than Nickel Steel * :facepalm:
*Phosphor Bronze are "less magnetic" so the vibrations don't get picked up as well
My electric mandolin was supplied with Phosphor Bronze strings rather than Nickel Steel * :facepalm:
*Phosphor Bronze are "less magnetic" so the vibrations don't get picked up as well
Shouldn't worry about it, it won't be in tune long enough . . .
Dear USAnia,
What have you done with my ESTA application? If you don't want my money then say so >:(
Puzzled of E17
Dear USAnia,
What have you done with my ESTA application? If you don't want my money then say so >:(
Puzzled of E17
estaday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in estaday
Poor bloody animals.
The last toilet-roll of our current pack was slightly squashed so that the centre is now elliptical, and it goes bump-bump-bump on the holder rather than unreeling in an orderly manner. Annoying. Between this and Jair Bolsonaro, I don't know what the world is coming to.This is much more preferable to running out altogether.
The last toilet-roll of our current pack was slightly squashed so that the centre is now elliptical, and it goes bump-bump-bump on the holder rather than unreeling in an orderly manner. Annoying. Between this and Jair Bolsonaro, I don't know what the world is coming to.
Perhsps this thread will need renaming "Third world problems" post brexit.
The last toilet-roll of our current pack was slightly squashed so that the centre is now elliptical, and it goes bump-bump-bump on the holder rather than unreeling in an orderly manner. Annoying. Between this and Jair Bolsonaro, I don't know what the world is coming to.
Yeah man, spare a though for us Brexit chumps who are going to have to start using dock leaves in the first week of April...
The last toilet-roll of our current pack was slightly squashed so that the centre is now elliptical, and it goes bump-bump-bump on the holder rather than unreeling in an orderly manner. Annoying. Between this and Jair Bolsonaro, I don't know what the world is coming to.
Yeah man, spare a though for us Brexit chumps who are going to have to start using dock leaves in the first week of April...
Look on the bright side.
After Brexit we can go back to using Izal Medicated.
The last toilet-roll of our current pack was slightly squashed so that the centre is now elliptical, and it goes bump-bump-bump on the holder rather than unreeling in an orderly manner. Annoying. Between this and Jair Bolsonaro, I don't know what the world is coming to.
Yeah man, spare a though for us Brexit chumps who are going to have to start using dock leaves in the first week of April...
Look on the bright side.
After Brexit we can go back to using Izal Medicated.
Bring back Bronco ;D :thumbsup:
HOSPITAL PROPERTY
NOW WASH YOUR HANDS PLEASE
I have chips, but I am out ofThat should improve matters no end them. Nasty stuff, ketchup.catsoupcatsupketchup.
I have chips, but I am out ofThat should improve matters no end them. Nasty stuff, ketchup.catsoupcatsupketchup.
That's simple. Just take it off your something shocking.;D ;D
That's simple. Just take it off your something shocking.well you’re a bright spark aren’t you. 😏
The last toilet-roll of our current pack was slightly squashed so that the centre is now elliptical, and it goes bump-bump-bump
possibly a philosophical question, but can you have a rectangular ‘roll’?The last toilet-roll of our current pack was slightly squashed so that the centre is now elliptical, and it goes bump-bump-bump
Over here in USAnia, Amazon will deliver jumbo-sized packages of said product. Someone determined that squashing the rolls to make them more nearly rectangular allowed use of a smaller shipping box. Every roll goes bump-bump-bump. Mrs. Moleman76 does not like the effect - reminds her of 'controlled release' dispensers from days of yore.
possibly a philosophical question, but can you have a rectangular ‘roll’?The last toilet-roll of our current pack was slightly squashed so that the centre is now elliptical, and it goes bump-bump-bump
Over here in USAnia, Amazon will deliver jumbo-sized packages of said product. Someone determined that squashing the rolls to make them more nearly rectangular allowed use of a smaller shipping box. Every roll goes bump-bump-bump. Mrs. Moleman76 does not like the effect - reminds her of 'controlled release' dispensers from days of yore.
Or would that be a bun? Maybe a bap?possibly a philosophical question, but can you have a rectangular ‘roll’?The last toilet-roll of our current pack was slightly squashed so that the centre is now elliptical, and it goes bump-bump-bump
Over here in USAnia, Amazon will deliver jumbo-sized packages of said product. Someone determined that squashing the rolls to make them more nearly rectangular allowed use of a smaller shipping box. Every roll goes bump-bump-bump. Mrs. Moleman76 does not like the effect - reminds her of 'controlled release' dispensers from days of yore.
I sometimes unpack and flatten loo rolls so that they will take up less room in the rucksack. They're to recircularise to only slightly out of kilter before use.The last toilet-roll of our current pack was slightly squashed so that the centre is now elliptical, and it goes bump-bump-bump
Over here in USAnia, Amazon will deliver jumbo-sized packages of said product. Someone determined that squashing the rolls to make them more nearly rectangular allowed use of a smaller shipping box. Every roll goes bump-bump-bump. Mrs. Moleman76 does not like the effect - reminds her of 'controlled release' dispensers from days of yore.
You can buy loo rolls without the cardboard centres for camping and the like.
I found pre-flattened toilet rolls in an Italian supermarket.Are you sure that they weren't just a form of pasta?
I found pre-flattened toilet rolls in an Italian supermarket.Are you sure that they weren't just a form of pasta?
;D ;D ;D potd!I found pre-flattened toilet rolls in an Italian supermarket.Are you sure that they weren't just a form of pasta?
I work for an Italian company and just asked one of my colleagues and she confirmed it's called bogerolli.
I found pre-flattened toilet rolls in an Italian supermarket.Are you sure that they weren't just a form of pasta?
;D ;D ;D potd!I found pre-flattened toilet rolls in an Italian supermarket.Are you sure that they weren't just a form of pasta?
I work for an Italian company and just asked one of my colleagues and she confirmed it's called bogerolli.
I found pre-flattened toilet rolls in an Italian supermarket.Are you sure that they weren't just a form of pasta?
I work for an Italian company and just asked one of my colleagues and she confirmed it's called bogerolli.
I found pre-flattened toilet rolls in an Italian supermarket.Are you sure that they weren't just a form of pasta?
I work for an Italian company and just asked one of my colleagues and she confirmed it's called bogerolli.
That makes me want to ask my Italian colleague now :)
I found pre-flattened toilet rolls in an Italian supermarket.Are you sure that they weren't just a form of pasta?
I work for an Italian company and just asked one of my colleagues and she confirmed it's called bogerolli.
That makes me want to ask my Italian colleague now :)
You mean that you don’t believe me? ;D
Things in jars and bottles keep a long time, plus the containers come in handy later for home brew, rodent traps and molotov cocktails.
Things in jars and bottles keep a long time, plus the containers come in handy later for home brew, rodent traps and molotov cocktails.
Molotov cocktails are fossil fuel powered and bad for the environment. I'm going to be lobbing LiPo batteries instead.
I've been practising building siege weapons, mark 2 ballista is in my head, as is a basic torsion powered catapult.Ballistic devices powered solely by human muscular effort. AUK approved!
I'm building up to the car-flinging scale, after all we won't have the fuel for them
Now the cats have a slippy hardwood floor
broke my sporkOr some proper cutlery.
now have an excuse for a Ti spork
Dishwasher needed rinse aid.And I had to add salt yesterday!
Life ruined.
* Yes, I know you can ask for substitutions but we find they send some really strange stuff it you allow them to![/size]
* Yes, I know you can ask for substitutions but we find they send some really strange stuff it you allow them to![/size]
Maybe you read about the person who ordered one of those fancy birthday cake candles in the shape of a '5' for their child's party. They weren't in stock at the time, so the supermarket sent two '2's and a '1'. ::-)
* Yes, I know you can ask for substitutions but we find they send some really strange stuff it you allow them to![/size]
Maybe you read about the person who ordered one of those fancy birthday cake candles in the shape of a '5' for their child's party. They weren't in stock at the time, so the supermarket sent two '2's and a '1'. ::-)
broke my spork
now have an excuse for a Ti spork
Partner has chopped an onion on my FRUIT chopping board!Botanically, the onion is a fruit.
Partner has chopped an onion on my FRUIT chopping board!Botanically, the onion is a fruit.
</Boris Johnson mode>
The Bath Ales Gem bitter ran out in the Backstage Bar at Womad mid afternoon yesterday.
Partner has chopped an onion on my FRUIT chopping board!Botanically, the onion is a fruit.
</Boris Johnson mode>
Is it really?
Hardly looks like a seed case that develops after the plant has flowered!
This is an onion fruit or capsule.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Allium_oreophilum_ÖBG_2014-05-25_%2804%29.jpg/220px-Allium_oreophilum_ÖBG_2014-05-25_%2804%29.jpg)
The spherical bulbs we consume are not fruit IMHO.
Might be a Trump post-truth fruit...
Is it really?Partner has chopped an onion on my FRUIT chopping board!Botanically, the onion is a fruit.
</Boris Johnson mode>
Hardly looks like a seed case that develops after the plant has flowered!
This is an onion fruit or capsule.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Allium_oreophilum_ÖBG_2014-05-25_%2804%29.jpg/220px-Allium_oreophilum_ÖBG_2014-05-25_%2804%29.jpg)
The spherical bulbs we consume are not fruit IMHO.
Might be a Trump post-truth fruit...
An onion is a true bulb.
Daffodils, tulips etc., on the other hand, are pseudobulbs, so are in actual fact genuine false bulbs.
Onion juice and smell will wash off, I slice fruit and veg on the same board (obviously not at the same time).
My Sonos speakers are “offline”. :-\
ETA: Seems it’s a know issue where Alexa just sort of forgets them. Even deleting all settings, both apps, and factory reset of the speakers only got the non-Alexa enabled Playbase working again. So the kitchen andofficeshed are addressed as “OK Google”.
My Sonos speakers are “offline”. :-\
ETA: Seems it’s a know issue where Alexa just sort of forgets them. Even deleting all settings, both apps, and factory reset of the speakers only got the non-Alexa enabled Playbase working again. So the kitchen andofficeshed are addressed as “OK Google”.
Alexa sometimes forgets her own name, like a gran on her third sherry. A parade of reboots usually works, starting with the devices and then the wifi hub. My Sonos is quite good, the only thing that usually defeats is it my wife who exists in a cloud of coherent bogon condensate that is not only impervious to wifi but also disrupts any electronic device within a few metres.
The Bath Ales Gem bitter ran out in the Backstage Bar at Womad mid afternoon yesterday.
That's not a problem; it's a diaster.
Why don't they make the coin-slot in the screw caps on the battery compartments of gadgets powered by wide flat batteries like the CR2032 wide enough to be unscrewed with e.g. a CR2032?
The Bath Ales Gem bitter ran out in the Backstage Bar at Womad mid afternoon yesterday.
That's not a problem; it's a diaster.
how did you cope? Don't leave us in suspense, this should have made the headlines.
Got back yesterday afternoon to find one of the smoke alarms giving a low battery bleep. No spare battery and I couldn't be arsed going out again so risked fiery deth last night with only one working smoke alarm.
IME CO detectors get through batteries more quickly than toast alarms.
More unhappily, I haz been demoted from first to biziness on the way back because they changed aeroplaneYou should be so lucky! When I was business travelling they wanted us to have the outside seats....
We are having an extension built for a new kitchen so have packed away all non essential kitchen equipment which apparently includes the wine decanter.....That's not a first world problem.
However two cafetières survived the cullPresumably if the claret has thrown some sediment a cafetiere could be pressed into service as decanter/sludge strainer.
There's no wifi in the breakfast room at this place. What kind of a fleapit dosshouse have I ended up in?
Today’s dilemma is to decide whether to just clone my phone when the new one arrives or whether to start afresh and download the apps as I need them.
There's no wifi in the breakfast room at this place. What kind of a fleapit dosshouse have I ended up in?
One in which people talk to each other at breakfast?
There's no wifi in the breakfast room at this place. What kind of a fleapit dosshouse have I ended up in?
One in which people talk to each other at breakfast?
Our Pizza cutter wheel self destructed. How do you cut a pizza with a knife?
Our Pizza cutter wheel self destructed. How do you cut a pizza with a knife?use scissors.
Our Pizza cutter wheel self destructed. How do you cut a pizza with a knife?
The replacement for our previous cranky old grid (a Fabia estate) does not have the covered trough at the back of the parcel shelf which was ideal for the safe transport of balsa sheet, piano wire and (rolled up) plans.;D ;D ;D
The replacement for our previous cranky old grid (a Fabia estate) does not have the covered trough at the back of the parcel shelf which was ideal for the safe transport of balsa sheet, piano wire and (rolled up) plans.
The replacement for our previous cranky old grid (a Fabia estate) does not have the covered trough at the back of the parcel shelf which was ideal for the safe transport of balsa sheet, piano wire and (rolled up) plans.
In similar vein, current Fnord Mustangs do not have the little trough atop the centre of the dash to keep your bag-full-of-lead-shot TwatNav holder in place so you have to use double-sided tape to prevent Emily the TwatNav from cowering in the passenger footwell or your lap every time you negotiate a junction.
What do you use to remove dental floss that's stuck between your teeth? :-\
Mk 1 spiky cocktail stick then, until the tip breaks off & that gets stuck...
An interdental brush.What do you think I was trying to remove with the floss?!! ;D
These come in colour coded sizes, with PINK finest at 0.4mm, followed by orange and red.
You could also try more floss or dental tape.
The gap between teeth tends to ease somewhat after something gets jammed between the teeth so removal might be easier after a delay of 12-24 hours.
We are planning to have a take away for tea...well its my Birthday tomorrow and our wedding adversary but now discover that our favourite take away no longer delivers to our postcode!!!!
We are planning to have a take away for tea...well its my Birthday tomorrow and our wedding adversary but now discover that our favourite take away no longer delivers to our postcode!!!!
Stop whinging, we don't have any takeaways at all that deliver to our postcode.
Mind you thats probably a good thing for my waistline.
We are planning to have a take away for tea...well its my Birthday tomorrow and our wedding adversary but now discover that our favourite take away no longer delivers to our postcode!!!!
Stop whinging, we don't have any takeaways at all that deliver to our postcode.
Mind you thats probably a good thing for my waistline.
Whatever. It seems I don't understand what this thread is for.
We are planning to have a take away for tea...well its my Birthday tomorrow and our wedding adversary but now discover that our favourite take away no longer delivers to our postcode!!!!
Stop whinging, we don't have any takeaways at all that deliver to our postcode.
Mind you thats probably a good thing for my waistline.
The dealer has used yellow (rear) and white (front) capped screws to fix the number plate to my new car. In the middle of the black text ::-). I took one out of the rear plate to check the type, and bought black replacements. The screw on the front is a different type. >:(
The dealer has used yellow (rear) and white (front) capped screws to fix the number plate to my new car. In the middle of the black text ::-). I took one out of the rear plate to check the type, and bought black replacements. The screw on the front is a different type. >:(
An additional first world problem is that security screws for number plates are a Very Good idea and may be available FOC from your local plod. Worth doing before you find yourself in the rant thread.
Point of order m’laud. Number plates are fitted by stealerships, not the manufacturers. 🤓The dealer has used yellow (rear) and white (front) capped screws to fix the number plate to my new car. In the middle of the black text ::-). I took one out of the rear plate to check the type, and bought black replacements. The screw on the front is a different type. >:(
An additional first world problem is that security screws for number plates are a Very Good idea and may be available FOC from your local plod. Worth doing before you find yourself in the rant thread.
An additional FWP is that someone needs to seize motor-car manufacturers warmly by the throat and and, while bouncing their collective heads off the nearest brick wall, shout "DOUBLE-SIDED TAPE IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE METHOD OF SECURING NUMBER PLATES, YOU WITLESS PARSNIPS!" in their ears.
Last time I looked they used pop rivets here.
The replacement for our previous cranky old grid (a Fabia estate) does not have the covered trough at the back of the parcel shelf which was ideal for the safe transport of balsa sheet, piano wire and (rolled up) plans.
In similar vein, current Fnord Mustangs do not have the little trough atop the centre of the dash to keep your bag-full-of-lead-shot TwatNav holder in place so you have to use double-sided tape to prevent Emily the TwatNav from cowering in the passenger footwell or your lap every time you negotiate a junction.
Isn't there a way to open bottles with clipless pedals (I forget which system)?
OK . Which trains? We only get crappy Arriva ones and Virgin whatever (soon to be taken over by Trenitalia; i'm not going to hold my breath waiting for le freccie...)
But not Thameslink class 700. This means I have to be careful in my choice of train leaving the 'Sham, as both Southern and Thameslink run from there. Although one can open a bottle of beer using a second one, inverted, with the knuckle of the index finger acting as a fulcrum. Or, of course,carry a bottle opener on ones keyring.OK . Which trains? We only get crappy Arriva ones and Virgin whatever (soon to be taken over by Trenitalia; i'm not going to hold my breath waiting for le freccie...)
The Southern Electrostar ones. As a hygienic boon, the ceiling is likely the only vaguely clean bit of a Southern train.
Isn't there a way to open bottles with clipless pedals (I forget which system)?
Maybe, but it's a bugger to get the bike into the kitchen.
Kitchen: a workshop equipped with facilities for tea and cake.
1) do try to put it in my hold luggage if I fly but I've not been stopped when I've forgotten.Let's assume that The Man is watching these forums for just this type of admission.
Isn't there a way to open bottles with clipless pedals (I forget which system)?
Maybe, but it's a bugger to get the bike into the kitchen.
Also not computing. I thought kitchens existed as a room in which to fix bikes?
I've forgotten my swiss army knife in hand luggage several times. Had one confiscated in Norway, because of the saw.
On other notes, is there special training given to shoe shop employees in how NOT to lace shoes properly?
I don't need lessons in lacing shoes,it's every fucker in a shoe shop
FasinoI've forgotten my swiss army knife in hand luggage several times. Had one confiscated in Norway, because of the saw.
On other notes, is there special training given to shoe shop employees in how NOT to lace shoes properly?
I acquired a pair of Timberland boots yesterday, with that weird straight lacing pattern you get from shops. Now fixed.
All you ever wanted to know about lacing shoes https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm
True fact, in Hell, the supermarkets have a 'Found in Rubbish Bin' range. Other than that, the supermarkets are pretty much the same as ours, the finest demonic minds worked hard to make a supermarket worse that Tescos on Saturday afternoon and had to admit failure. Diabolical perfection had already been achieved.So Asdal have managed what your finest demonic minds could not!
Can you actually taste the difference? I figure they just put that on a posher designed label and add a £1 to the price tag so you get bragging rights over the slobs forced to consume things out of plain packets labelled 'value.'
I've forgotten my swiss army knife in hand luggage several times. Had one confiscated in Norway, because of the saw.
On other notes, is there special training given to shoe shop employees in how NOT to lace shoes properly?
I acquired a pair of Timberland boots yesterday, with that weird straight lacing pattern you get from shops. Now fixed.
All you ever wanted to know about lacing shoes https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm
Takes a while to get used to doing it but its very effective especially with round cross section laces.
Can you actually taste the difference? I figure they just put that on a posher designed label and add a £1 to the price tag so you get bragging rights over the slobs forced to consume things out of plain packets labelled 'value.'
The not-posh cod fillets I was obliged to buy the other week were not as nice as the TTD ones I usually get, but then again that could be some kind of placebo effect. If Mr Sainsbury would like to fund an exhaustive series of double-blind tests involving the nomming lots of fish the both me and TV's Marcel Kitteh are open to offers.
I've forgotten my swiss army knife in hand luggage several times. Had one confiscated in Norway, because of the saw.
On other notes, is there special training given to shoe shop employees in how NOT to lace shoes properly?
I acquired a pair of Timberland boots yesterday, with that weird straight lacing pattern you get from shops. Now fixed.
All you ever wanted to know about lacing shoes https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm
And you probably are tying your shoe laces wrong. About five years ago I ran across that site an now my shoe laces remain secure and don't work loose.
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm
Takes a while to get used to doing it but its very effective especially with round cross section laces.
Finally, the internet is useful.I've forgotten my swiss army knife in hand luggage several times. Had one confiscated in Norway, because of the saw.
On other notes, is there special training given to shoe shop employees in how NOT to lace shoes properly?
I acquired a pair of Timberland boots yesterday, with that weird straight lacing pattern you get from shops. Now fixed.
All you ever wanted to know about lacing shoes https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm
And you probably are tying your shoe laces wrong. About five years ago I ran across that site an now my shoe laces remain secure and don't work loose.
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm
Takes a while to get used to doing it but its very effective especially with round cross section laces.
My local Sainsburys seems to have stopped stocking 'taste the difference' pain au chocolatGet thee to Lidl, at least as good and half the price.
Lidl have lebkuchen in again as its coming up Christmas. Oh dear, I am weak willed.I like Lebkuchen. Partner does not.
Mashed potato that could be used to fix limpet mines.
Mashed potato that could be used to fix limpet mines.
"This side towards enemy"
I thought you were in Cuba? They have stroopwafels in Cuba? That seems just wrong!
The Torieswon the General Election.
When your answer to the crossword clue “small savoury snacks” is “canapés” when it should have been “nibbles”.
When your answer to the crossword clue “small savoury snacks” is “canapés” when it should have been “nibbles”.
This morning I came across the electronic thermometer we bought when the Inlaw Paw was in decline. The battery was flat, of course, and the operating instructions had gone for a walk. But it has a nice green backlit LCD with ideograms on it so it's got to be better than the IP's clinical thermometer full of mercury that only worked for sixty years, right?
In France they stick the thermometer up your arse.
Fucking savages.
In France they stick the thermometer up your arse.
Electronic thermometers have one and a half redeeming features: They're usable if you don't have the vision to squint at mercury/alcohol (especially if it's a speaking one), and they tell you when the reading has stabilised.Its also much more difficult to cover your newly acquired engagement ring in mercury when you break the thermometer while resetting it. Not that she should have been wearing an engagement ring, newly acquired,or,otherwise while needing to reset a thermometer.
Barakta managed to liberate a surplus alcohol thermometer recently, so we don't have to listen to the chirpy wee bastard.
ETA: It's also much harder to subluxate your wrist/elbow by resetting an electronic thermometer.
At the thick end of three weeks off, I've started watching daytime TV. Charlie Dimmock is still doing her thing, and I'm amazed what old tat rescued from the dump sells forHow did you find out her fee?
At the thick end of three weeks off, I've started watching daytime TV. Charlie Dimmock is still doing her thing, and I'm amazed what old tat rescued from the dump sells forHow did you find out her fee?
Also, free "postage" on a washing machine, wtf?
Over many years I've got used to labels in clothes being sewn in at the back or in the right hand side seam.
I recently bought some underpants that have the label sewn inot the left side.
What's the world coming to?t
The microchip in my debit card no longer talks to contactless payment machines, so I have to push the card into the slot and press buttons.Still using a card in 2020? How delightfully retro! Charming as this olde worlde technology is, it's not the most reliable. Unless you're ready to go the full Boomer retiree with an Apple watch, you should download a banking app and pay by phone. We have heard of people using a technique known to initiates as "cash", but this is only to be recommended for experts.
How ever am I going to cope?
Over many years I've got used to labels in clothes being sewn in at the back or in the right hand side seam.Have you got them on back-to-front?
I recently bought some underpants that have the label sewn inot the left side.
What's the world coming to?t
I hope not, otherwise he’s not going to know whether he’s coming or going.Over many years I've got used to labels in clothes being sewn in at the back or in the right hand side seam.Have you got them on back-to-front?
I recently bought some underpants that have the label sewn inot the left side.
What's the world coming to?t
The microchip in my debit card no longer talks to contactless payment machines, so I have to push the card into the slot and press buttons.Still using a card in 2020? How delightfully retro! Charming as this olde worlde technology is, it's not the most reliable. Unless you're ready to go the full Boomer retiree with an Apple watch, you should download a banking app and pay by phone. We have heard of people using a technique known to initiates as "cash", but this is only to be recommended for experts.
How ever am I going to cope?
That can lead to all sorts of trouble. I once stayed in a B&B in Bratislava where the landlady decided she wanted my services for food and lodging rather than my money. :hand:The microchip in my debit card no longer talks to contactless payment machines, so I have to push the card into the slot and press buttons.Still using a card in 2020? How delightfully retro! Charming as this olde worlde technology is, it's not the most reliable. Unless you're ready to go the full Boomer retiree with an Apple watch, you should download a banking app and pay by phone. We have heard of people using a technique known to initiates as "cash", but this is only to be recommended for experts.
How ever am I going to cope?
I'm going to start carrying around a sheep for barter, or offering my services in exchange for food adn lodging
Now, where did I leave that old joke about C&A underwear?;D
Now, where did I leave that old joke about C&A underwear?
The microchip in my debit card no longer talks to contactless payment machines, so I have to push the card into the slot and press buttons.Still using a card in 2020? How delightfully retro! Charming as this olde worlde technology is, it's not the most reliable. Unless you're ready to go the full Boomer retiree with an Apple watch, you should download a banking app and pay by phone. We have heard of people using a technique known to initiates as "cash", but this is only to be recommended for experts.
How ever am I going to cope?
The machines in Bristol libraries only take cash (to pay for printing, overdue fines, etc). They have card machines built in but these are all 'disabled' or 'not functioning'. I presume this is due to transaction fees but I've never asked. One morning a week I do a volunteer shift in a charity bookshop and about a third of people pay cash, for the others there is some generational difference: almost nobody uses chip and pin, contactless is ageless but young people (lots of students in the area) often use phones and occasionally an old person pays by smartwatch (not sure whether Apple, Google or what). I've yet to see one of these watches used by anyone under about 65.The microchip in my debit card no longer talks to contactless payment machines, so I have to push the card into the slot and press buttons.Still using a card in 2020? How delightfully retro! Charming as this olde worlde technology is, it's not the most reliable. Unless you're ready to go the full Boomer retiree with an Apple watch, you should download a banking app and pay by phone. We have heard of people using a technique known to initiates as "cash", but this is only to be recommended for experts.
How ever am I going to cope?
Some things refuse payment by mobile - Santander hire bikes in London for example. If you don't have their app you need to use a physical card, payment by contactless from a mobile is specifically refused.
(For this example I know you can use their app to avoid having to use a card, my point was that using a card from Apple Wallet or the like is refused, it says "Mobile payments not permitted" or similar.)
My cards are shielded against scanning - might be problems with shielding a 'phone.
My cards are shielded against scanning - might be problems with shielding a 'phone.
BTW, I still have a C&A carrier bag - C&A closed in the UK in 2001.
I've yet to see one of these watches used by anyone under about 65.
I've yet to see one of these watches used by anyone under about 65.
I have, but they're either a) app developer types or b) disabled people using them as assistive technology.
TBH, I suspect it's mostly a younger-people-don't-wear-watches thing. When they do it's nearly always Fitbit type things.
My cards are shielded against scanning - might be problems with shielding a 'phone.
BTW, I still have a C&A carrier bag - C&A closed in the UK in 2001.
A member of yacf visited me yesterday, wearing a C&A jacket...
Over many years I've got used to labels in clothes being sewn in at the back or in the right hand side seam.Have you got them on back-to-front?
I recently bought some underpants that have the label sewn inot the left side.
What's the world coming to?t
Good point, yeah. I'm firmly of the watch-wearing generation. I like to have something to remind myself of the time easily without having to pull a phone out of my pocket.I've yet to see one of these watches used by anyone under about 65.
I have, but they're either a) app developer types or b) disabled people using them as assistive technology.
TBH, I suspect it's mostly a younger-people-don't-wear-watches thing. When they do it's nearly always Fitbit type things.
The machines in Bristol libraries only take cash (to pay for printing, overdue fines, etc). They have card machines built in but these are all 'disabled' or 'not functioning'. I presume this is due to transaction fees but I've never asked. One morning a week I do a volunteer shift in a charity bookshop and about a third of people pay cash, for the others there is some generational difference: almost nobody uses chip and pin, contactless is ageless but young people (lots of students in the area) often use phones and occasionally an old person pays by smartwatch (not sure whether Apple, Google or what). I've yet to see one of these watches used by anyone under about 65.The microchip in my debit card no longer talks to contactless payment machines, so I have to push the card into the slot and press buttons.Still using a card in 2020? How delightfully retro! Charming as this olde worlde technology is, it's not the most reliable. Unless you're ready to go the full Boomer retiree with an Apple watch, you should download a banking app and pay by phone. We have heard of people using a technique known to initiates as "cash", but this is only to be recommended for experts.
How ever am I going to cope?
Some things refuse payment by mobile - Santander hire bikes in London for example. If you don't have their app you need to use a physical card, payment by contactless from a mobile is specifically refused.
(For this example I know you can use their app to avoid having to use a card, my point was that using a card from Apple Wallet or the like is refused, it says "Mobile payments not permitted" or similar.)
I'm definitely still significantly under sixty-five and I use a smartwatch to pay for stuff.Yeahbut you are a geek!
PS I still prefer cash. Should I go back to the Lower Cretaceous and stay there?At a bakery/cafe today where they proffer you a little white ApplePay device (which, disconcertingly, and unlike other types of card payment terminals, doesn't display the amount – they have to swivel their til screen to show you), I paid by cash, for a change. They were genuinely glad to get the change. Or so they said. Electronic payments make the cashing up* easier though!
I had to click my Apple Watch three times to get out the tube barriers today.
There we are, back to First World Problems ;)
I stopped using my smartwatch to pay for things. While a nice idea, I found that with Samsung, I needed to use my other hand to activate it. As I spent most of my time holding a toddler, it was easier to use one arm to hold the baby and the other hand to get a regular contactless card out of my back pocket and tap in and out, rather than fiddle about to activate the watch and risk dropping a toddler.
Why does 'Peel Here' on packaging never ever ever work, resulting in either an impatient attack with a sharp object or a torn packaging cover diametrically opposed to the 'Peel here' point?
I have never heard of a tofu press! Now I need one!
Pah! Call that a First World Problem...
... I couldn't find the tofu press earlier. :o
I stopped using my smartwatch to pay for things. While a nice idea, I found that with Samsung, I needed to use my other hand to activate it. As I spent most of my time holding a toddler, it was easier to use one arm to hold the baby and the other hand to get a regular contactless card out of my back pocket and tap in and out, rather than fiddle about to activate the watch and risk dropping a toddler.
Why does 'Peel Here' on packaging never ever ever work, resulting in either an impatient attack with a sharp object or a torn packaging cover diametrically opposed to the 'Peel here' point?
I have never heard of a tofu press! Now I need one!
Pah! Call that a First World Problem...
... I couldn't find the tofu press earlier. :o
It would be interesting to know how many A&E attendances are due to injury whilst trying to open packaging. Especially those wretched plastic bubble packs. Packaging is the main reason I carry a penknife.
It would be interesting to know how many A&E attendances are due to injury whilst trying to open packaging. Especially those wretched plastic bubble packs. Packaging is the main reason I carry a penknife.
60,000 (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1421698/60000-are-injured-by-opening-packaging.html)
Also;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrap_rage
I stopped using my smartwatch to pay for things. While a nice idea, I found that with Samsung, I needed to use my other hand to activate it. As I spent most of my time holding a toddler, it was easier to use one arm to hold the baby and the other hand to get a regular contactless card out of my back pocket and tap in and out, rather than fiddle about to activate the watch and risk dropping a toddler.
Throw toddler in the air. Use smartwatch. Catch toddler.
I have never heard of a tofu press! Now I need one!
Pah! Call that a First World Problem...
... I couldn't find the tofu press earlier. :o
I hate to say it... but it does make the tofu much easier to cook with. Press it, marinate it, press it again and - bingo - edible tofu.
It would be interesting to know how many A&E attendances are due to injury whilst trying to open packaging. Especially those wretched plastic bubble packs. Packaging is the main reason I carry a penknife.
60,000 (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1421698/60000-are-injured-by-opening-packaging.html)
Also;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrap_rage
We have a great big key somewhere for opening corned-beef tins. It also serves as a bottle-opener.
It would be interesting to know how many A&E attendances are due to injury whilst trying to open packaging. Especially those wretched plastic bubble packs.
I have never heard of a tofu press! Now I need one!
Pah! Call that a First World Problem...
... I couldn't find the tofu press earlier. :o
I hate to say it... but it does make the tofu much easier to cook with. Press it, marinate it, press it again and - bingo - edible tofu.
Don't tell my wife, the fact that tofu is inedible is my only remaining excuse
I have never heard of a tofu press! Now I need one!
Pah! Call that a First World Problem...
... I couldn't find the tofu press earlier. :o
I hate to say it... but it does make the tofu much easier to cook with. Press it, marinate it, press it again and - bingo - edible tofu.
Don't tell my wife, the fact that tofu is inedible is my only remaining excuse
I’m not really sure how pressing tofu renders it edible so I think you can relax about that.
Why does 'Peel Here' on packaging never ever ever work, resulting in either an impatient attack with a sharp object or a torn packaging cover diametrically opposed to the 'Peel here' point?
Good point, yeah. I'm firmly of the watch-wearing generation. I like to have something to remind myself of the time easily without having to pull a phone out of my pocket.I've yet to see one of these watches used by anyone under about 65.
I have, but they're either a) app developer types or b) disabled people using them as assistive technology.
TBH, I suspect it's mostly a younger-people-don't-wear-watches thing. When they do it's nearly always Fitbit type things.
But as you've mentioned disabled people and assistive technology, and this was in the context of teh bookeshoppe, here's a little grumble passim: It's a late Victorian building with one, fairly shallow, step to get in. There's a bell for anyone in a wheelchair to ring to get our attention. So I asked the manager, what do we do if someone rings the bell? I can't see a ramp, looking around the full to the ceiling, small stockroom. Is it at the corner shop (2 doors up, they have two steps)? No. There is no ramp. It would be a case of manhandling the chair up the step (probably not too difficult but... ). Head office provide a bell, not a ramp, there is no fund for a ramp or place to store it. Manager says "It is absurd" and they could get in trouble. If Barakta wants to send one of her wheelchair activist friends round... !!!
...Using phones and watches is passe... anyone who is anyone will be using their ring...
That’s an oxymoron, that is.I have never heard of a tofu press! Now I need one!
Pah! Call that a First World Problem...
... I couldn't find the tofu press earlier. :o
I hate to say it... but it does make the tofu much easier to cook with. Press it, marinate it, press it again and - bingo - edible tofu.
It's such a dilemma when it's coffee time and you haven't yet finished your breakfast tea.
It's such a dilemma when it's coffee time and you haven't yet finished your breakfast tea.
You can tell the retirees.... ;D
I imagined the purpose of the tofu press was similar to those things for compressing empty drink cans.That’s an oxymoron, that is.I have never heard of a tofu press! Now I need one!
Pah! Call that a First World Problem...
... I couldn't find the tofu press earlier. :o
I hate to say it... but it does make the tofu much easier to cook with. Press it, marinate it, press it again and - bingo - edible tofu.
It's such a dilemma when it's coffee time and you haven't yet finished your breakfast tea.
You can tell the retirees.... ;D
And it's great, innit Wow?
This is where hair that's long enough to be Not Annoying is an advantage.
This is where hair that's long enough to be Not Annoying is an advantage.
For me, no such thing. It's been like this since I was about...9. (I had to look up when Like A Virgin came out to decide that)
I'm considering a buzz cut with the clippers.
I'm considering a buzz cut with the clippers.To infinity – and beyond!
Having never set foot in a hairdresser's in my life (I have scissors, I sometimes cut the dead ends!), I don't really get it. ???
Yes, plenty of people seem to be getting concerned about getting their hair cut or dyed or whatever. Having never set foot in a hairdresser's in my life (I have scissors, I sometimes cut the dead ends!), I don't really get it. ???
I'm considering a buzz cut with the clippers.
That too but I think I would regret that (not because I'm that vain, but because it would likely bring me out in a rash).
I got my hair cut just over a week ago. That should see me through the crisis.
I got my hair cut just over a week ago. That should see me through the crisis.
Same here, if you substitute "just over a week ago" with "in 2008" ;D
.. all of which are decaf. Deep despair.
Don't jump off the roof, Tigerrr
You'll make a great hole in the yard
Mother's just planted petunias
The weeding and seeding was hard
If you must end it all, Tigerrr
Won't you please give us a break
Just take a walk in the park, Tigerrr
And there you can jump in the lake
I'm considering a buzz cut with the clippers.
That too but I think I would regret that (not because I'm that vain, but because it would likely bring me out in a rash).
I've had my own clippers for about twenty five years, I'll bring the with me next time I'm up your way.
Number one son due a shearing tomorrow, I'm due fairly soon as well
I also have a Wahl set. Labelled 'Home Cut', I've had them for over 20 years.
The beard gets done about once a fortnight.
https://www.babyliss.co.uk/super-clipper-xtp-hair-clipper-7475DU.html£80! This lockdown's going to have to last a couple of years to make it worth that much!
I had a mains Wahl set for about 25 years, but couldn't get replacement blades for my model. I replaced them with the cordless set above, which do a nice job & are far more convenient.
They seem to be in short supply at the moment. Buy quickly !
https://www.babyliss.co.uk/super-clipper-xtp-hair-clipper-7475DU.html (https://www.babyliss.co.uk/super-clipper-xtp-hair-clipper-7475DU.html)£80! This lockdown's going to have to last a couple of years to make it worth that much!
I had a mains Wahl set for about 25 years, but couldn't get replacement blades for my model. I replaced them with the cordless set above, which do a nice job & are far more convenient.
They seem to be in short supply at the moment. Buy quickly !
I last had a hair cut about 20 years ago. I reckon I'll cope with a bit of quarantine.
Which part of East Africa were you in? :DI last had a hair cut about 20 years ago. I reckon I'll cope with a bit of quarantine.
The last time I went to the hairdressers it cost me 2/-*.
* for people almost young enough to be my children: 2/- is oldspeak for two shillings.
Which part of East Africa were you in? :DI last had a hair cut about 20 years ago. I reckon I'll cope with a bit of quarantine.
The last time I went to the hairdressers it cost me 2/-*.
* for people almost young enough to be my children: 2/- is oldspeak for two shillings.
What I thought were sachets of yeast in cupboard are actually baking powder
Pingu pointed out we were low on rum for tonight's pina colada and I wanted flour and to see if I could get any pasta. So on the way home from our government approved walk we stopped at Lidl being as it was the only shop on the way home. It was dead.Aldi rum is one of my favourites.
I got lots of spaghetti, a huge bag of fusilli but sadly no risotto rice (it was boil in the bag or nothing).
Got a bottle of Lidl rum. Thought it would be fairly cheap & nasty.
Pingu just did a back to back taste test. It was fairly nasty.
Hopefully the coconut milk will hide the taste...
I have a massive quandary this evening.
I have Adnams Broadside in the house.
I have also taken delivery of a case of red wine.
Waitrose pretty much had everything in stock today. The apocalypse has been shelved for the middle classes at least.
Waitrose pretty much had everything in stock today. The apocalypse has been shelved for the middle classes at least.But still no flour or baking powder in the Canary Wharf shop when a kind neighbour went shopping for us yesterday. My ability to make cakes as thank yous for shopping favours is getting rapidly diminished.
Waitrose pretty much had everything in stock today. The apocalypse has been shelved for the middle classes at least.But still no flour or baking powder in the Canary Wharf shop when a kind neighbour went shopping for us yesterday. My ability to make cakes as thank yous for shopping favours is getting rapidly diminished.
We're down to about three loaves' worth of dried yeast. Disaster looms.The science behind this doesn't seem to stack up, or it's explained badly, but here's a way to overcome your yeast shortage.
Hmmm. OK. Better worded as "We only have enough yeast left to make three loaves."We're down to about three loaves' worth of dried yeast. Disaster looms.The science behind this doesn't seem to stack up, or it's explained badly, but here's a way to overcome your yeast shortage.
https://www.leaf.tv/articles/how-to-make-bread-yeast-from-potatoes/ (https://www.leaf.tv/articles/how-to-make-bread-yeast-from-potatoes/)
A quick skim would suggest you're cultivating wild yeast, either floating in the air and/or on the spuds.
I've just opened the last packet of Schipol originated stroopwafels :(
They're not as big as the ones I get at Schipol though.I've just opened the last packet of Schipol originated stroopwafels :(
Sainsbury's do them (in normal times). I like them and I often take them in to work to go on the biscuit mountain.
They're not as big as the ones I get at Schipol though.I've just opened the last packet of Schipol originated stroopwafels :(
Sainsbury's do them (in normal times). I like them and I often take them in to work to go on the biscuit mountain.
Someone had a bonfire near here last night. Due to the lack of wind I think the smoke spread about 1km in all directions at about ground level. Stinky, especially when they started burning plastics (by the smell of it).
They're not as big as the ones I get at Schipol though.I've just opened the last packet of Schipol originated stroopwafels :(
Sainsbury's do them (in normal times). I like them and I often take them in to work to go on the biscuit mountain.
The Grauniad is making people register for free to read its articles. zomg the days of free news-surfing are numbered!Hadn't noticed, but then I do have JavaScript off for all but a handful of whitelisted sites.
Our local co-op have them, although a bit on the small side for balancing on top of the coffee cup.Aldi/Lidl often have good ones
The Grauniad is making people register for free to read its articles. zomg the days of free news-surfing are numbered!
Aha! I hadn't somehow registered that. Ta!The Grauniad is making people register for free to read its articles. zomg the days of free news-surfing are numbered!
Are they? When I saw that banner I saw a "not now" button and it went away.
Lockdown and the recommendation to shop less frequently persuaded us to buy a freezer (70cm chest freezer, in case you were curious). It arrived today but as tomorrow is a public holiday we cannot buy anything to put in it until Saturday.
Lockdown and the recommendation to shop less frequently persuaded us to buy a freezer (70cm chest freezer, in case you were curious). It arrived today but as tomorrow is a public holiday we cannot buy anything to put in it until Saturday.
You normally need to leave to them to stand for 24 hours before you turn them on anyway.
Really? I've used self-scan in Sainsbury's without a Nectar card.
Self-scan in Mr Sainsbury's House Of Toothy Comestibles remains a no-no for this Unit as it requires a Nectar card. And I haven't used mine since they decided to get into bed with the Daily Heil.
tl;dr if you pay with credit/debit cards then you're still giving them the same information that can be linked to you in just the same way. They don't need a nectar card to do this, they just need one (or more) constants such as payment cards. If you've ever used those cards (or previous versions of those cards) with a nectar card then they've already linked them to that other information.
tl;dr if you pay with credit/debit cards then you're still giving them the same information that can be linked to you in just the same way. They don't need a nectar card to do this, they just need one (or more) constants such as payment cards. If you've ever used those cards (or previous versions of those cards) with a nectar card then they've already linked them to that other information.
What then, is the point in a Nectar card?
Watches have been around for yonks (Google tells me 1505). I might as well have a bedside sundial.
............
As I said. What. The.
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Computers Are Really Bad At Being Clocks Episode #3742
tl;dr if you pay with credit/debit cards then you're still giving them the same information that can be linked to you in just the same way. They don't need a nectar card to do this, they just need one (or more) constants such as payment cards. If you've ever used those cards (or previous versions of those cards) with a nectar card then they've already linked them to that other information.
What then, is the point in a Nectar card?
Self-scan in Mr Sainsbury's House Of Toothy Comestibles remains a no-no for this Unit as it requires a Nectar card. And I haven't used mine since they decided to get into bed with the Daily Heil.
tl;dr if you pay with credit/debit cards then you're still giving them the same information that can be linked to you in just the same way. They don't need a nectar card to do this, they just need one (or more) constants such as payment cards. If you've ever used those cards (or previous versions of those cards) with a nectar card then they've already linked them to that other information.
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Neither the Co-op or Tesco had white wine vinegar. How do the local students cook?
Gender reveal scan reveals baby's gender.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/it-devastated-me-bristol-mums-4172602
Just watching the live feed from the Dragon capsule. One of the astronauts appears to be having trouble with the seal on a freezer bag.
Just watching the live feed from the Dragon capsule. One of the astronauts appears to be having trouble with the seal on a freezer bag.
Was it full of poo?
Just watching the live feed from the Dragon capsule. One of the astronauts appears to be having trouble with the seal on a freezer bag.
Was it full of poo?
Another Drosophila is doing backstroke in my beer...
Obligatory Far Side cartoon: https://images.slideplayer.com/5/1557850/slides/slide_4.jpg ;)
I can no longer find cheap* ginger beer made with sugar. Sucralose seems to be bearable, but aspartame leaves a horrid aftertaste. Ick, ick, ick.
* I.e. Not Fentimans and similar over priced middle class nonsense. I'm talking supermarket own-brand (no longer) sugar water, flavourings (probably artificial) and CO2.
I can no longer find cheap* ginger beer made with sugar. Sucralose seems to be bearable, but aspartame leaves a horrid aftertaste. Ick, ick, ick.
* I.e. Not Fentimans and similar over priced middle class nonsense. I'm talking supermarket own-brand (no longer) sugar water, flavourings (probably artificial) and CO2.
And coca cola is still OK...Alas, we are condemned to forever disagree on this. :)
Quote from: baraktaAnd coca cola is still OK...Alas, we are condemned to forever disagree on this. :)
C'mon TL. Coca Cola is OK as a rust-remover................Quote from: baraktaAnd coca cola is still OK...Alas, we are condemned to forever disagree on this. :)
C'mon TL. Coca Cola is OK as a rust-remover................Quote from: baraktaAnd coca cola is still OK...Alas, we are condemned to forever disagree on this. :)
C'mon TL. Coca Cola is OK as a rust-remover................Quote from: baraktaAnd coca cola is still OK...Alas, we are condemned to forever disagree on this. :)
It is also suggested in some quarters for use in dealing with aluminum seatposts stuck in steel frames. The phosphoric acid is said to loosen things up. Didn't work for me, though.C'mon TL. Coca Cola is OK as a rust-remover................Quote from: baraktaAnd coca cola is still OK...Alas, we are condemned to forever disagree on this. :)
Even ‘energy’ drinks are now available in sugar free alternatives which does seem to be missing the point.
Even ‘energy’ drinks are now available in sugar free alternatives which does seem to be missing the point.
Yeah. Not reading the small print on Isostar tablets earned me the worst case of the knock I've ever had. "Zero calorie" it said.
Strictly speaking, any sugar will contain water – you can, as nerdball scientist, remove this or just buy anhydrous sugars.Vague memories of O level (or was it A level?) chemistry demo, involving sugar and H2S2O7, resulting in much activity and ending with a black mass of carbon.
Strictly speaking, any sugar will contain water – you can, as nerdball scientist, remove this or just buy anhydrous sugars.Vague memories of O level (or was it A level?) chemistry demo, involving sugar and H2S2O7, resulting in much activity and ending with a black mass of carbon.
It's tiresomely difficult getting olives out of a jar: they seem to resist the spoon.Does this help? (https://www.amazon.co.uk/BarCraft-Grabber-Pickle-Picker-Stainless/dp/B00309FIIW/ref=asc_df_B00309FIIW/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=294060963592&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=637523820940944203&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045880&hvtargid=pla-478584983492&psc=1&th=1&psc=1)
And don't get me started on anchovies!
It claims to, but I'm not convinced. Maybe as the jar is emptying, but I can't see the grabber grabbing an olive from a fuller jar. Plus getting them out individually isn't the problem - I could do that with a cocktail stick. What's frustrating is the seeming inability to get more than a couple out at a time.It's tiresomely difficult getting olives out of a jar: they seem to resist the spoon.Does this help? (https://www.amazon.co.uk/BarCraft-Grabber-Pickle-Picker-Stainless/dp/B00309FIIW/ref=asc_df_B00309FIIW/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=294060963592&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=637523820940944203&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045880&hvtargid=pla-478584983492&psc=1&th=1&psc=1)
And don't get me started on anchovies!
Tea strainer and a jar with a wide neck is the best advice I can offer you.It claims to, but I'm not convinced. Maybe as the jar is emptying, but I can't see the grabber grabbing an olive from a fuller jar. Plus getting them out individually isn't the problem - I could do that with a cocktail stick. What's frustrating is the seeming inability to get more than a couple out at a time.It's tiresomely difficult getting olives out of a jar: they seem to resist the spoon.Does this help? (https://www.amazon.co.uk/BarCraft-Grabber-Pickle-Picker-Stainless/dp/B00309FIIW/ref=asc_df_B00309FIIW/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=294060963592&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=637523820940944203&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045880&hvtargid=pla-478584983492&psc=1&th=1&psc=1)
And don't get me started on anchovies!
I despair.
Olives in jars?! 🙀🙀🙀I get through a lot of olives (https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tesco.com%2Fgroceries%2Fen-GB%2Fproducts%2F262034518&psig=AOvVaw0NL325li_u0iMidPUjA8rl&ust=1596704964228000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCJD_jNTbg-sCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD).
It's tiresomely difficult getting olives out of a jar: they seem to resist the spoon.
And don't get me started on anchovies!
It claims to, but I'm not convinced. Maybe as the jar is emptying, but I can't see the grabber grabbing an olive from a fuller jar. Plus getting them out individually isn't the problem - I could do that with a cocktail stick. What's frustrating is the seeming inability to get more than a couple out at a time.
I despair.
TV died last night.
Do I replace it with another 32" or go for something larger?
TV died last night.
Do I replace it with another 32" or go for something larger?
TV died last night.
Do I replace it with another 32" or go for something larger?
The size TVs are going, they'll probably be a structural part of the house soon.
The size TVs are going, they'll probably be a structural part of the house soon.
Or at least, wall-sized, as predicted by Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451:
https://www.movieversion.com/fahrenheit-451-predicts-flat-screen-tv
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1281
TV died last night.
Do I replace it with another 32" or go for something larger?
You might struggle to find a decent 32" one now, they;re considered "kitchen" or "bedroom" sized ::-). I know I did, so opted for the next size up that still had decent features, a 43". That's as big as we can go - it sits in the recess between the chimney breast and wall, with about 5mm to spare. We don't want one on the wall, as it's only 9 feet from where we sit.
If you buy from Richer Sounds you get a free 6 years guarantee - effectively a guarantee that matches the reasonably expected working life of modern electronics.
Barakta and I have grumbled about this in Food & Drink before.
Might not have been ginger beer but sometimes we just want full sugar fizzies.
San Pellegrino Limonata/Arenciata have been reformulated with less sugar, which marred our Christmas meals.
We hardly touch alcohol but like a decent sweet pop with special meals.
My 4pm Friday meeting has been put back to 4:30.
Are you fecking kidding me?
You should be so lucky. Before I retired, I was often called on to provide expert opinion on ground engineering matters in construction disputes. One QC whom I worked with regularly called a 'conference' (aka a meeting) for 4pm on Friday, at his Chambers in that Lunnun. I was based in Manchester.............
4pm was when he could get back to his Chambers after a week in court.
When a QC tells you there's a conference, you do not demurr.......
My coffee machine was misconfigured and has just delivered 75% more liquid than required in my espresso. I don’t like watery coffee. >:(Well, what do you expect if you rely upon the magic of the internet to control your coffee machine ? :-)
After a career of 40 years in telecoms, the only mystery of the internet is how some of it actually continues to work given that I was actually responsible for some of the darker corners ;DMy coffee machine was misconfigured and has just delivered 75% more liquid than required in my espresso. I don’t like watery coffee. >:(Well, what do you expect if you rely upon the magic of the internet to control your coffee machine ? :-)
Brown drink is for what passes for mornings round here. Tea is for after dinner. And I ent got none left. Bah!
My coffee machine was misconfigured and has just delivered 75% more liquid than required in my espresso. I don’t like watery coffee. >:(
The Solitaire app on this fondleslab has just served up a shitvert for a 12-seater private jet :o
The problem with overnight oats is that you have to remember to put them on the night before.
I used to eat 'dry' muesli but I got fed up of all the unadsorbed milk floating about. No micro here so it's soggy oats or floaters.I think we're talking about a different sort of dry. I was meaning dry as without milk (or other liquid). A sort of crunchy oaty trail mix.
I guess they're rolled oat flakes, small ones not the big ones usually sold as porridge oats.
Yeurgh! Is that stuff even oats? Anyway, I often ride past Berkeley Magnox site, I've got my own nuclear glow!*I guess they're rolled oat flakes, small ones not the big ones usually sold as porridge oats.
Ready Brek?
Alpen can fuck right off. What do they put in that shit? It's shit, whatever it is.I think it contains huge quantities of powdered milk, which isn't going to go down well with you, and sugar. Along with some dusty sort of oat powder. Maybe reconstituted hazelnuts.
Actual porridge is just warmed up sick eaten by people who truly have no comprehension of their weirdness. And made with water! What foul Hell do you inhabit?
I think it contains huge quantities of powdered milk, which isn't going to go down well with you, and sugar.
An unimpeachable source* maintains that breakfast cereal is made from the little curly wood shavings from pencil sharpeners an who am I to argue.
* Famous chocolatier and squirrel trainer W Wonka
I used to live in Scotland, and not I never got the porridge with water, and good god, salt. Ready Brek with milk and then oodles of golden syrup or a thick crust of brown sugar. I hate to say it, but Scottish food tends towards the terrible.
But I can't do breakfast cereal portions. You can get Alpen in 1kg bags which caters for about three days.
Breakfast cereal in my experience consists of things that taste like cardboard and are supposed to be good for you and things that taste like food but have so much sugar that you may as well get a fat man to use your pancreas as a trampoline. If I recall, Kellogg invented breakfast cereals to stop people masturbating presumably on the basis they'd not have the energy later in the day after a 30g suggested serving size.
I used to live in Scotland, and not I never got the porridge with water, and good god, salt. Ready Brek with milk and then oodles of golden syrup or a thick crust of brown sugar. I hate to say it, but Scottish food tends towards the terrible.
I used to live in Scotland, and not I never got the porridge with water, and good god, salt. Ready Brek with milk and then oodles of golden syrup or a thick crust of brown sugar. I hate to say it, but Scottish food tends towards the terrible.
Did you never sample the delights of a macaroni pie? Probably the best thing about living in Scotland.
I used to live in Scotland, and not I never got the porridge with water, and good god, salt. Ready Brek with milk and then oodles of golden syrup or a thick crust of brown sugar. I hate to say it, but Scottish food tends towards the terrible.
Did you never sample the delights of a macaroni pie? Probably the best thing about living in Scotland.
That's not a pie! Where's the pastry?I used to live in Scotland, and not I never got the porridge with water, and good god, salt. Ready Brek with milk and then oodles of golden syrup or a thick crust of brown sugar. I hate to say it, but Scottish food tends towards the terrible.
Did you never sample the delights of a macaroni pie? Probably the best thing about living in Scotland.
(Consults Mr Google; decides he likes the sound of Makaronilaatikko, wot is the Finnish version)
Banoffee Pie is a pie without pastry.That's not a pie! Where's the pastry?I used to live in Scotland, and not I never got the porridge with water, and good god, salt. Ready Brek with milk and then oodles of golden syrup or a thick crust of brown sugar. I hate to say it, but Scottish food tends towards the terrible.
Did you never sample the delights of a macaroni pie? Probably the best thing about living in Scotland.
(Consults Mr Google; decides he likes the sound of Makaronilaatikko, wot is the Finnish version)
No pastry in a Shepherd's Pie.Shepherd's pie is crook though.
I see what you did there. Bad Cudzo. :)Quote from: BasilNo pastry in a Shepherd's Pie.Shepherd's pie is crook though.
Pies are fully enclosed in pastry.
Discuss.
Pies are fully enclosed in pastry.
Discuss.
Are but when pies are squared are they still a pie?Who knows. However we do know that the volume of a pizza, radius z, thickness a is given by pizza
I dunno, Count Chocula is awesome (better than the Boo-Berry and Fruit Brute, which could be dangerously healthy).
macaroni cheese is an American staple stodge
adding bacon to it is fine by me
adding bacon to it is fine by me
Diced chorizo works even better.
The name "mac'n'cheese" can fuck right off though.
.................. "mac and cheese", which really grates for some reason. ................
macaroni cheese is an American staple stodge
I once had an argument with an Italian who refused to acknowledge that it's an authentic Italian dish. I know it isn't, but she was annoying me, so I took great delight in finding an example of a genuine Italian recipe for pasta in cheese sauce, just to spite her.
Anyway, I'm interested that you refer to it as "macaroni cheese", which is what I have always called it. The Youth Of Today seem to have embraced the Americanism "mac and cheese", which really grates for some reason. But in any case, adding bacon to it is fine by me. Preferably smoked. And there's no such thing as too much cheese in macaroni cheese.
In the Caribbean ... it's made with evaporated milk :oDunno why but this brought to mind the condensed* milk sandwiches which I used to thoroughly enjoy as a very young Lurker.
Quote from: fboabIn the Caribbean ... it's made with evaporated milk :oDunno why but this brought to mind the condensed* milk sandwiches which I used to thoroughly enjoy as a very young Lurker.
*For younger readers. Not the same as evap. A partially dehydrated, tinned milk with a consistency not unlike wallpaper paste and seemingly fortified with enough sugar to bring on instant diabetic coma. Delicious.
Condensed milk can be turned into dulce de leche by boiling the can (though in modern times we probably aren't allowed to boil cans, it's probably up there with using harsh language against plutonium).
The Alexa Echo Dot now has a bilingual capability.
As I am living with a German man it seemed polite to allow her to be bilingual English/Deutsch.
Unfortunately, this is only possible if the English is US English rather than British English. So I now have Alexa talking to me in USAian.
think we found that Google's speech-to-text engine performed better in USAnian than BRITISH, but I'm suspicious that's just because it's had more development.
iPhone app would not connect to the electric blanket so I had to get the old android phone out, connect to the electric blanket and the. They were visible on the iPhone app. Electric blankets now programmed!This thread is now complete.
The Alexa Echo Dot now has a bilingual capability.
As I am living with a German man it seemed polite to allow her to be bilingual English/Deutsch.
Unfortunately, this is only possible if the English is US English rather than British English. So I now have Alexa talking to me in USAian.
The Alexa Echo Dot now has a bilingual capability.
As I am living with a German man it seemed polite to allow her to be bilingual English/Deutsch.
Unfortunately, this is only possible if the English is US English rather than British English. So I now have Alexa talking to me in USAian.
Think that's a problem? Try asking Mr Google to play some music by Maite Hontele.
/ˈhɜːrʃtə/ according to Wikipedia. Whereas my instinct would have been to insert vowel twixt R and S.The Alexa Echo Dot now has a bilingual capability.
As I am living with a German man it seemed polite to allow her to be bilingual English/Deutsch.
Unfortunately, this is only possible if the English is US English rather than British English. So I now have Alexa talking to me in USAian.
Think that's a problem? Try asking Mr Google to play some music by Maite Hontele.
Or HṚṢṬA…
Today I have to dismantle the thermostatic mixer valve in the shower because it’s leaking. However, due to ineptitude or inconvenience at the time of install, the plumber did not fit service valves and I am therefore going to have to turn off the water supply for the whole house. This is a decision that has made me somewhat a persona non grata hereabouts.
Today I have to dismantle the thermostatic mixer valve in the shower because it’s leaking. However, due to ineptitude or inconvenience at the time of install, the plumber did not fit service valves and I am therefore going to have to turn off the water supply for the whole house. This is a decision that has made me somewhat a persona non grata hereabouts.Yup. That boils my piss too. We've got one of those to sort out (for a sink though).
Today I have to dismantle the thermostatic mixer valve in the shower because it’s leaking. However, due to ineptitude or inconvenience at the time of install, the plumber did not fit service valves and I am therefore going to have to turn off the water supply for the whole house. This is a decision that has made me somewhat a persona non grata hereabouts.
We have one of those digital showers. You set the temperature and it blinks until it's ready. There's no danger at all of cold. It's my favourite thing.
Bumping around Africa led to some more interesting showering incidents, of course.
We received a hamper today from work, for our Zoom Christmas lunch tomorrow. I've run out of room in the fridge now... and I have a veg box delivery in the morning.
I honestly don't know why all showers aren't like this (I don't need bed-based activation, it only takes a few seconds). Select temperature, wait, get in. Yet everywhere I go, it's still the random bloody mixer taps, endless jiggery trying to get the right temperature and then, thirty seconds later it goes hot, cold, hot, cold, or you inadvertently activate the scald/freeze feature with your arse because the tap is right there.
Hotels were terrible for this, every new stay came with the first-morning horror of figuring out the shower.
We received a hamper today from work, for our Zoom Christmas lunch tomorrow. I've run out of room in the fridge now... and I have a veg box delivery in the morning.
Anyone else read that as 'hamster' on first view? Only me?
Its pretty cool in a loft at this time of the year.
We have one of those digital showers. You set the temperature and it blinks until it's ready. There's no danger at all of cold. It's my favourite thing.
One of the joys of my old house was a shower which you could turn on from the bed, and it would let you know when it was up to temperature. It was my one demand when I had the en-suite bathroom rebuilt. It'll be on my list of essentials when I rebuild the bathroom in my current house.
Do you have a garage, shed or other outhouse?
A decent hamper is fairly rat-proof...
I honestly don't know why all showers aren't like this (I don't need bed-based activation, it only takes a few seconds). Select temperature, wait, get in. Yet everywhere I go, it's still the random bloody mixer taps, endless jiggery trying to get the right temperature and then, thirty seconds later it goes hot, cold, hot, cold, or you inadvertently activate the scald/freeze feature with your arse because the tap is right there.
Hotels were terrible for this, every new stay came with the first-morning horror of figuring out the shower.
You don't need anything digital. We've got a bog standard thermostatic bar mixer shower, once it has warmed up to the selected temperature (shock horror, an analogue dial) it stays at that temperature. Turn on shower, wait for it to be warm enough to get in, get in. (If the hot water pressure dips then it reduces to cold feed to compensate.)
The temperature dial is separate to the on/off/flow dial.
Less electronics or other plumbing to go wrong too.
mini ao burnt her bagel in the the toaster, and now trying to argue it's the responsibility of the last person (moi) to use said applicance to turn it back down to 'normal', from a crumpet setting of "5". Surely not; check before use isn't it? ;)This reminds me of Kim's ponder on whose responsibility it is to check clothes for tissues before washing. The owner or the launderer.
mini ao burnt her bagel in the the toaster, and now trying to argue it's the responsibility of the last person (moi) to use said applicance to turn it back down to 'normal', from a crumpet setting of "5". Surely not; check before use isn't it? ;)This reminds me of Kim's ponder on whose responsibility it is to check clothes for tissues before washing. The owner or the launderer.
The logical answer to the toilet seat argument is for everyone to put the LID down, then everyone has the same responsibility.mini ao burnt her bagel in the the toaster, and now trying to argue it's the responsibility of the last person (moi) to use said applicance to turn it back down to 'normal', from a crumpet setting of "5". Surely not; check before use isn't it? ;)This reminds me of Kim's ponder on whose responsibility it is to check clothes for tissues before washing. The owner or the launderer.
I was thinking of the toilet seat argument.
The logical answer to the toilet seat argument is for everyone to put the LID down, then everyone has the same responsibility.mini ao burnt her bagel in the the toaster, and now trying to argue it's the responsibility of the last person (moi) to use said applicance to turn it back down to 'normal', from a crumpet setting of "5". Surely not; check before use isn't it? ;)This reminds me of Kim's ponder on whose responsibility it is to check clothes for tissues before washing. The owner or the launderer.
I was thinking of the toilet seat argument.
The lemony stink from our neighbours tumble dryer exhaust is nauseating. God knows (as it appears to be venting into their conservatory) what it smells like to them.
Nah, they've been conditioned by decades of Fairy Liquid etc to think of synthetic lemon as the smell of cleanness. (And having been there, had that, the absence of smell is a sensation in itself – a most strange one.)The lemony stink from our neighbours tumble dryer exhaust is nauseating. God knows (as it appears to be venting into their conservatory) what it smells like to them.
If they're not smokers, they probably ought to get a covid test...
Ah yes, splashing lots of Synthetic Lemon Scented Cleaning Product around is a tired (TBAGO) and tested technique for ensuring you get your deposit back when you move house.
The logical answer to the toilet seat argument is for everyone to put the LID down, then everyone has the same responsibility.I was thinking of the toilet seat argument.mini ao burnt her bagel in the the toaster, and now trying to argue it's the responsibility of the last person (moi) to use said applicance to turn it back down to 'normal', from a crumpet setting of "5". Surely not; check before use isn't it? ;)This reminds me of Kim's ponder on whose responsibility it is to check clothes for tissues before washing. The owner or the launderer.
Nah, the logical answer then would be for everyone to use those stainless steel toilets with built in seats and no lids that are used in public toilets. Of course in other ways this might not be so good.
I believe that special circumstances may apply in some cases Helly, and we clever folk can sure accommodate those situations.The logical answer to the toilet seat argument is for everyone to put the LID down, then everyone has the same responsibility.I was thinking of the toilet seat argument.mini ao burnt her bagel in the the toaster, and now trying to argue it's the responsibility of the last person (moi) to use said applicance to turn it back down to 'normal', from a crumpet setting of "5". Surely not; check before use isn't it? ;)This reminds me of Kim's ponder on whose responsibility it is to check clothes for tissues before washing. The owner or the launderer.
NOOOO! PLEASE NO!!!
I usually reverse onto the seat without looking.
I don't want a closed lid!
Trying to adjust the shifting on the soot bike, presently on the turbo, I find I’ve forgotten the pass key to let me in to the app.
Nah, they've been conditioned by decades of Fairy Liquid etc to think of synthetic lemon as the smell of cleanness. (And having been there, had that, the absence of smell is a sensation in itself – a most strange one.)The lemony stink from our neighbours tumble dryer exhaust is nauseating. God knows (as it appears to be venting into their conservatory) what it smells like to them.
If they're not smokers, they probably ought to get a covid test...
Speaking of unneeded fragrance, Ecover seem to have gone made making all their products super stinky now.I've only been buying this since summer, so I have only known the weird lavender and sandalwood combo. Was it odourless previously?
Sandalwood laundry liquid, seriously? :sick:
Pretty much. They have seems to have massively increased the number of laundry products on their line now, they certainly didn't have all the coloured and dark coloured laundry liquids they have now. https://www.ecover.com/laundry/Speaking of unneeded fragrance, Ecover seem to have gone made making all their products super stinky now.I've only been buying this since summer, so I have only known the weird lavender and sandalwood combo. Was it odourless previously?
Sandalwood laundry liquid, seriously? :sick:
Nah, they've been conditioned by decades of Fairy Liquid etc to think of synthetic lemon as the smell of cleanness. (And having been there, had that, the absence of smell is a sensation in itself – a most strange one.)The lemony stink from our neighbours tumble dryer exhaust is nauseating. God knows (as it appears to be venting into their conservatory) what it smells like to them.
If they're not smokers, they probably ought to get a covid test...
I detest the smell of these synthetic fragrances, to the extent that if the softner has been too liberally applied in the wash (Personally I would not bother using at all), then I just put them back in the wash unworn, I've had stuff so covered in it that it's made my eyes water on several occaisions.
Speaking of unneeded fragrance, Ecover seem to have gone made making all their products super stinky now.Damn hippies.
Sandalwood laundry liquid, seriously? :sick:
). Though, let's face it, if you're in a Wetherspoons (a mistake that announces itself), it's probably better not to sit down, but get someone to hold the doors open and make a ballistic golden arc from your position at the bar.THAT is why the toilets in W/spoons get into such a dreadful state in the first place!
Am I the only man who prefers to sit down (I call it a sittenpissen, not to be confused with a shittenpissen, which is the combo one and two motion, so I suppose it's really a sittenshittenpissen if you're in the mood)?
Speaking of unneeded fragrance, Ecover seem to have gone made making all their products super stinky now.Harder to find, but BioD is basically the same and no stenches. Both are coconut-oil-based soaps (assuming that they haven't changed in the last 25 years), as are the washing-up liquids. Undiluted pH of the WuL is about 5.5.
Sandalwood laundry liquid, seriously? :sick:
German women train men to sit on loos for most purposes.
I took this to mean:German women train men to sit on loos for most purposes.
"Most purposes" ??? ;)
I challenge any bloke, no matter his prowess, to pee from the bar to the bogs in our local Brexitspoons
Actually also for peeing.I took this to mean:German women train men to sit on loos for most purposes.
"Most purposes" ??? ;)
"any purpose except taking a piss."
German women train men to sit on loos for most purposes.
"Most purposes" ??? ;)
I challenge any bloke, no matter his prowess, to pee from the bar to the bogs in our local Brexitspoons
I challenge any bloke, no matter his prowess, to pee from the bar to the bogs in our local Brexitspoons
Challenge accepted. Do I get to shit on the tables if I fail?
What's this, Mr Sainsbury? No one-pints of anyone's semi-skilled milk? No tadka daal? No channa masala? No Taste the Difference quiche? Honestly, it's like living in Nambia, Bongobongoland or Didcot!
I use passata.
I use passata.
Savage
I use passata.
Savage
Why is that in any way worse than tomato puree?
Double concentrated tomato puree is where it's at, all tomato, no flab.Is plain concentrate actually available to buy?
Double concentrated tomato puree is where it's at, all tomato, no flab.Is plain concentrate actually available to buy?
Double concentrated tomato puree is where it's at, all tomato, no flab.Is plain concentrate actually available to buy?
I've never seen it either. They went double and left it at that.
Double concentrated tomato puree is where it's at, all tomato, no flab.Is plain concentrate actually available to buy?
I've never seen it either. They went double and left it at that.
The pedant in me thinks water content must be reduced to make a concentrate.
A 'double concentrate' is the most practical CONCENTRATED product...
...When I cook with actual tomatoes, I don't remove the skin.
I use the Cirio stuff which may be exactly the same as the supermarket badged stuff but makes me feel more accomplished. Seems very tomatoey.
I feel the urge to make a confession. When I cook with actual tomatoes, I don't remove the skin.
I use the Cirio stuff which may be exactly the same as the supermarket badged stuff but makes me feel more accomplished. Seems very tomatoey.
I feel the urge to make a confession. When I cook with actual tomatoes, I don't remove the skin.
The ordinary supermarket tinned tomatoes are fine. Hubbards seems more watery.
Hubbard's=Sainsbury's Basics.But with the added suggestions of poverty and Olde Englishe merriment.
I use the Cirio stuff which may be exactly the same as the supermarket badged stuff but makes me feel more accomplished. Seems very tomatoey.
I feel the urge to make a confession. When I cook with actual tomatoes, I don't remove the skin.
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Oh no, I have used up the last of the mixed herbs I brought with me from the UK last year.
When I asked locally where to get mixed herbs I was told to buy an allotment and herb seeds, grow the herbs, cut them dry them chop them and mix in the ratio of my choosing.
Oh no, I have used up the last of the mixed herbs I brought with me from the UK last year.
When I asked locally where to get mixed herbs I was told to buy an allotment and herb seeds, grow the herbs, cut them dry them chop them and mix in the ratio of my choosing.
This also seems to be the way to get them in the UK, post-brexit.
Investigating the purchase of a new Brompton. I know about Bromptons, so I know exactly what I want - in Brompton terms, it would be designated S2L. But such a thing appears to be no longer part of the standard range, and the Bike Builder has been disabled because they can't keep up with demand. A few retailers still list S2Ls online, but when you click through... well, you can guess the rest. You can get them on eBay, but they're going for more than new prices, and I don't want one that badly.
I could get an M3L but I don't want an M3L.
S1L and an assortment of spare parts? Is it the same hub?
I don’t think single speed Bromptons are a common factory/showroom configuration.
Have you tried Chris Compton in Catford? He boasts of usually having 40 bikes in stock.
Dishwashers are ludicrously simple electrically and likely *all* of the components are on one small board in the box behind the buttons, with wires going off to the handful of bits that actually do stuff.
If you can (find someone to) replace that board it will likely be good as new.
But then I'd be Tharg the Planet Destroyer.
The lovely steam whistle has gone :-( The Dean Forest Railway are using a different locomotive this year & this one has an annoying leftpondian two tone noise maker. Bring back the proper phheeeep!
I'm totally sold on the concept of the dishwasher, it was one of the first things we bought when we got a house, though for no greater reason than I'm really fundamentally lazy*. It's just chucking out the existing appliance when it may only need a small fix. That said, it's about seven years old and has done a lot of washing up, and it is Italian (though probably made in the same factories as all the others).
I'll ring a few people, absolution is that way. I can wash up by hand for a few days, though it'll take a toll. Modern kitchen sinks don't seem big enough to wash up in, when I was a child I used to be bathed in one. That said, I was a bit smaller back then.
*as students, to avoid the toil of washing-up, we went through a stage of cheap paper plates, so cheap you had to eat your beans really quickly before the plate dissolved and you were eating them off the table.
Is an ESR meter one of those things Scientologists have? I suppose I could drive down to their HQ and borrow one. It's possible that my dishwasher is the physical embodiment of an immortal Thetan.
Yes chip. It has a single chip to convert mains to DC right on the control board. No parts budget for any fancy pants transformers. Why pay for galvanic isolation when you don't need it?
Such things have proliferated thanks to engineered-to-a-price LED light bulbs. Stands to reason they'd start to appear elsewhere.
Why do food producers get their packaging designed to enable easy pealing of the top film the insist on using an adhesive that would hold an elephant to the underside of a 747 in flight?
Obviously I can't now find the thread, but the Technoline BL-700 was a forum favourite for AA/AAA Ni-MH cells.^This.
ETA: Some discussion of alternatives here https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=110328.0
How about a loofa for afters?
Also, cellophane packets which are so difficult to open, subsequently change characteristic to tear so easily as to be useless for rewrapping the remaining contents.
I like to compromise and use the bread knife, which is usually closer than the scissors.
Feels much more macho, and often produces a perfectly usable opening.
Re resealing afterwards: hands up if your kitchen cupboards bristle with clothes-pegs.<raises mitts>
Oh yes. I know some disapprove, but to them I say fiddlesticks.Re resealing afterwards: hands up if your kitchen cupboards bristle with clothes-pegs.<raises mitts>
Klippits, the middle-class clothespeg.
https://www.lakeland.co.uk/2894/48-Klippits-Food-Storage-and-Sealing-Bag-Clips---Mixed-Sizes
Klippits, the middle-class clothespeg.
https://www.lakeland.co.uk/2894/48-Klippits-Food-Storage-and-Sealing-Bag-Clips---Mixed-Sizes
Well, they are middle-class clothespegs from the middle-class coach parties' kitchen shop.Klippits, the middle-class clothespeg.
https://www.lakeland.co.uk/2894/48-Klippits-Food-Storage-and-Sealing-Bag-Clips---Mixed-Sizes
HOW MUCH????
Ikea
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/bevara-sealing-clip-set-of-30-mixed-colours-mixed-sizes-10339171/
ps have to say I'm still using some 25+ year old Klippits
Well, they are middle-class clothespegs from the middle-class coach parties' kitchen shop.
We did have some actual clothespegs, which she preferred on account of their mechanical advantage. They've all suffered brittle plastic death. Wood would appear to be the superior material here.How much wood would a clothes peg peg if a.... No, not that. In their clothes pegging use, the plastic ones seem far more liable to pinging into fuckits than the wooden ones.
Re resealing afterwards: hands up if your kitchen cupboards bristle with clothes-pegs.<raises mitts>
I just want to know what makes a clothes peg "middle-class"! ???
I just want to know what makes a clothes peg "middle-class"! ???
I just want to know what makes a clothes peg "middle-class"! ???
Proprietary data stacks.
Why won’t my whittings bathroom scales easily share MY data with the apps of MY choice. In the 21st century I should not need to be manually entering my weight into the diet app and the fitness monitoring app I have chosen to use just because some marketeer wanker thinks by making me do so will force me to by one of their watches a d use their fitness app so they can collect more data about my habits.
</rant>
There are two ot three suggested solutions out there, using intermediary database and the like, but none of them are straightforward and most use Someone Else’s Computer ™ to store the data. I’ve not looked too deeply into it, so I don’t know if it’s a lake of an API to expose the data to third parties or a lack of the second vendor being willing to develop an interface to suck third party data in. I suspect it’s a bit of both.Proprietary data stacks.
Why won’t my whittings bathroom scales easily share MY data with the apps of MY choice. In the 21st century I should not need to be manually entering my weight into the diet app and the fitness monitoring app I have chosen to use just because some marketeer wanker thinks by making me do so will force me to by one of their watches a d use their fitness app so they can collect more data about my habits.
</rant>
In some instances you can use IFTTT to copy data between services. Although last time I tried this it couldn’t cope with the data being stored in stones and pounds, because they hate our beautiful country.
Proprietary data stacks.
Why won’t my whittings bathroom scales easily share MY data with the apps of MY choice. In the 21st century I should not need to be manually entering my weight into the diet app and the fitness monitoring app I have chosen to use just because some marketeer wanker thinks by making me do so will force me to by one of their watches a d use their fitness app so they can collect more data about my habits.
</rant>
In some instances you can use IFTTT to copy data between services. Although last time I tried this it couldn’t cope with the data being stored in stones and pounds, because they hate our beautiful country.
Isn't your weight private data, so not good to have it easily shared across apps?no, because you can’t identify a person from it.
I have no clothes pegs and I swear I'm middle class. I sneer at chavs and the only reason I go to Lidl is for cheap gin, so I must be.
I upgraded to a new mattress.Flat sheets are getting smaller. How can a 150 cm-wide sheet be a "single": 90 cm for the bed+2x25 cm for the sides leaves 10 cm to tuck in to accommodate me. Need to buy a double now.
It is (much) thicker than the old mattress so some of my sheets no longer tuck in (tuck in! I hear you cry. Well yes, flat sheets can be sides-to-middled when the middle wears out, thus getting more wear/less waste)
It is alas also a lot heavier than my old mattress so no idea how I will turn it when required. Presumably with much difficulty as opposed to merely some difficulty.
We’ve given up trying to accommodate both of us in bed with respect to duvet tog value and extra blankets. I am currently sleeping on top of the duvet Dr Beardy (Mrs) is sleeping under and I have a single fleece blanket if i get a bit cool in the night. My night sweats have all but disappeared since we took this approach.I upgraded to a new mattress.Flat sheets are getting smaller. How can a 150 cm-wide sheet be a "single": 90 cm for the bed+2x25 cm for the sides leaves 10 cm to tuck in to accommodate me. Need to buy a double now.
It is (much) thicker than the old mattress so some of my sheets no longer tuck in (tuck in! I hear you cry. Well yes, flat sheets can be sides-to-middled when the middle wears out, thus getting more wear/less waste)
It is alas also a lot heavier than my old mattress so no idea how I will turn it when required. Presumably with much difficulty as opposed to merely some difficulty.
I like a flat sheet on top*, then I can have multiple layers for adjustment without any of them touching me.
* After the disastrous mistake of using a fitted sheet on top!
I would have thought a firm the size of Amazon would be in a position to ‘negotiate’ with Visa over fees, and it seems like a massive own goal for them if they really are stopping to accept Visa CC.
I won’t be changing my payment method though, not least because I don’t anything other than Visa that I’m prepared to use on Amazon. At least the change will force me to look for the cheapest supplier rather than using Amazon because it’s simpler as I’ve got a prime account.
I'm surprised Amazon don't have their own payment system
To be honest, if Amazon do go through with this, it will probably be a good thing for me - it might make me think twice about buying more shit if I have to actually pay for it with ready cash up front.
I've got my Visa card set up as the default for buying Kindle books and paying the Prime sub, so it's a good excuse to swap those, which I probably should do anyway. Not entirely sure why those are on the CC.
I'm surprised Amazon don't have their own payment system
It did cross my mind that this could be a precursory move towards that.
I just want to know what makes a clothes peg "middle-class"! ???Where you buy them from probably.
I’ve started reading up on 2mm finescale, please send help.
I thought this was something to do with typography! Shoulda known better.I’ve started reading up on 2mm finescale, please send help.
I visited the Model Railway Club's Copenhagen Fields layout at their HQ near Kings Cross a few months ago.
There's a new YouTube feature about it, Google youtube copenhagen fields model
Amazon are now in the credit industry as well, as everytime I buy something expensive, they ask me would I like to spread the payments for 3 or 5 months at 0 interest I'm pretty sure it's not official credit that would affect my credit report, as I don't sign anything if I take them up on their offer.
They have an Amazon credit card, which is Mastercard?
Amazon are now in the credit industry as well, as everytime I buy something expensive, they ask me would I like to spread the payments for 3 or 5 months at 0 interest I'm pretty sure it's not official credit that would affect my credit report, as I don't sign anything if I take them up on their offer.
You say you don’t sign anything but you can guarantee there’s something in the t&cs that you blithely clicked ‘accept’ to…
The deferred payment thing makes sense from Amazon‘s point of view - good way of convincing people they can afford to buy things they can’t really afford to buy. And they can afford to give the credit away for free to lure people in.
I’ve started reading up on 2mm finescale, please send help.
I visited the Model Railway Club's Copenhagen Fields layout at their HQ near Kings Cross a few months ago.
There's a new YouTube feature about it, Google youtube copenhagen fields model
,,,,,, importation isssues a la Brexit,I commissioned a (school) friend of mine, who now lives in France, to paint a picture for me.
,,,,,, importation isssues a la Brexit,I commissioned a (school) friend of mine, who now lives in France, to paint a picture for me.
She sent it via the French postal system and declared it's value at £675. UK border force and
HM Customs have asked me to pay £146 to have it released from their possession and posted
to me.
I have declined, and will collect it from Pamela when I visit France next year. I'll be (hopefully)
be travelling by Eurotunnel (to take part in the Semaine Federale). Pamela lives in the region
where the event is taking place.
This feel like it’s got more to do with timely importation isssues a la Brexit, but it really is a first world problem.
I am oft moved to purchase cut flowers for Dr Beardy (Mrs) because, well deep down, I’m a bit of a soppy old romantic. It can be difficult balancing the frequency of purchases between making it a routine thing and avoiding neglect, but mostly I think I manage that.
Of late though, there seems to be a distinct lack of choice in what is available, I mean over and above the seasonal variations. Roses are readily available and are usually well received, but I like to be a little more creative and put more thought1 into it.
Has anyone else noticed this or am I making it up?
1. Spray carnations were also on offer but… when we were first married, funds were tighter and spray carnations and spray chrysanthemums offered much bloom per buck. It wasn’t until we’d been married for 15 years or so that Dr Beardy (Mrs) admitted that she didn’t like spray chrysanthemums and hated carnations of all kinds :facepalm:
When I've travelled by Eurotunnel I've never been stopped, or even seen customs officials. It was just like driving on and off a ferry.
When I've travelled by Eurotunnel I've never been stopped, or even seen customs officials. It was just like driving on and off a ferry.
Unless it looks like a Rembrandt or a Banksy, the responses "my mate painted it" and "no, she didn't charge me for it" are unlikely to raise any suspicions or calls to Sotherby's for a valuation.:thumbsup:
I’ll admit I was surprised by the stops, especially as I only ever got stopped on the way out.Presumably they could be looking for traces of drugs (how sensitive are those sniffer dogs?) which if detected, they would then let you go and mark you for a search on return. Or they were looking for things like suspicious amounts of cash. Or illicit mid-Channel fishing equipment.
Presumably they could be looking for traces of drugs (how sensitive are those sniffer dogs?) which if detected, they would then let you go and mark you for a search on return. Or they were looking for things like suspicious amounts of cash. Or illicit mid-Channel fishing equipment.
How do you objectively value something like that anyway? If she'd declared the value as £385, you wouldn't have got the hit.No, VAT is payable on gifts over £39 and Duty (Where applicable) over £135
But do they get the treat for "detecting" or only when a subsequent search by humans confirms the presence of drugs? Either way, Beardy only reports being searched, not that the dog found anything. Of course he could just be keeping quiet about that part...To be honest, given the state of the car1 and my complete lack of knowledge of its provenance I’m suprised that the dog did find nothing at all. It really was quite a dodgy vehicle. Whilst I watched the most amusing thing to me was when the handler picked the dog up and plonked it on the roof for a good old sniff at the roof bars. :)
Farmdrop?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/17/online-grocer-farmdrop-goes-bust-cancels-christmas-deliveries
Farmdrop?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/17/online-grocer-farmdrop-goes-bust-cancels-christmas-deliveries
Yes. Bugger >:(
Meantime, anyone know where I can find a couple of racks of venison for delivery to London before Monday, or to Edinburgh before Xmas?)https://deerbox.co.uk (https://deerbox.co.uk)
Donald Russell?
Richmond Park tonight?
Meantime, anyone know where I can find a couple of racks of venison for delivery to London before Monday, or to Edinburgh before Xmas?)https://deerbox.co.uk (https://deerbox.co.uk)
They were saying last orders on Wednesday for delivery by Christmas in a recent email
I fear you may have started an expensive habit though.Yeah, there is that side effect. We have managed to limit ourselves to two orders.
(This year, I've been unable to get raisins for MONTHS and there's no mixed dried fruit, though there might be mincemeat.)
(This year, I've been unable to get raisins for MONTHS and there's no mixed dried fruit, though there might be mincemeat.):o
Our local Aldi gets a brand called Trader Joe. They're American so I'd expect the UK to have them. I don't like them, though - they add too much oil. Super U's own brands are much better.
and.....surprisingly enough. Dried peas.Yes, I've been unable to get them too.
You'd still be whipping air at room temperature into it. You need to ask BSJ if you can borrow his walk-in fridge, and do it in there. :thumbsup:Wouldn't the friction/kinetic energy from whisking also warm the cream somewhat?
I always buy socks in multipacks, all the same colour and the same size. Why then do socks appear in my washing which are of non matching colour, odd sizes and with some being uncomfortably small?Becasue retailers such as M&S source their products from a in=umber of different manufactures (to force them to lower their prices) and different manufactures use different materials to meet the specifications. Even though these look ostensibly identical when brand new, they wash differently and thus the dye washes out and the material shrinks at different rates. Also, as every pterry reader knows, L-space. Ego a pile of odd socks that nominally started out as matched pairs.
My son in law just wears any two socks he gets out if the draw and he doesn’t buy the same colour socks. This means he’s always got obviously mismatched socks on. Mind ewe, he Is an artist.
When a teenager, my sister would do the same. I didn't mind until she started to use my socks, so I ended up unable to find pairs.My son in law just wears any two socks he gets out if the draw and he doesn’t buy the same colour socks. This means he’s always got obviously mismatched socks on. Mind ewe, he Is an artist.
In a similar vein, my musician step-son has never been bothered by matching socks.
I hate packs of socks that have 'pairs' in them. I've several that are 4 - 6 'pairs, i.e. the socks look identical but are of differing lengths. Start by getting a 'pair', carry on until 10 socks used then socks 11 and 12 are over an inch out.
I don't want a pack of 6 'pairs', just a pack of 12 socks where any 2 socks match.
Fortunately the socks that I wear most are all the same length - saves sorting 36 socks!
I think it was gerwinium OTP who got a load of abuse from a random drunk woman on a train for wearing socks embroidered with the day of the week on the wrong day.To be fair, that's getting into custodial sentence territory.
Yebbut you sort all your black cable ties in order of blackness.I think it was gerwinium OTP who got a load of abuse from a random drunk woman on a train for wearing socks embroidered with the day of the week on the wrong day.To be fair, that's getting into custodial sentence territory.
And you don’t??? :o ??? :oYebbut you sort all your black cable ties in order of blackness.I think it was gerwinium OTP who got a load of abuse from a random drunk woman on a train for wearing socks embroidered with the day of the week on the wrong day.To be fair, that's getting into custodial sentence territory.
It's nearly as bad as wearing these on the wrong feet:- https://www.force4.co.uk/item/Nauticalia/Port-and-Starboard-Socks/75M (https://www.force4.co.uk/item/Nauticalia/Port-and-Starboard-Socks/75M)I think it was gerwinium OTP who got a load of abuse from a random drunk woman on a train for wearing socks embroidered with the day of the week on the wrong day.To be fair, that's getting into custodial sentence territory.
But you must remember to swap them over if you're coxing rather than rowing.It's nearly as bad as wearing these on the wrong feet:- https://www.force4.co.uk/item/Nauticalia/Port-and-Starboard-Socks/75M (https://www.force4.co.uk/item/Nauticalia/Port-and-Starboard-Socks/75M)I think it was gerwinium OTP who got a load of abuse from a random drunk woman on a train for wearing socks embroidered with the day of the week on the wrong day.To be fair, that's getting into custodial sentence territory.
Shirley, you swap them when rowing rather than coxing?But you must remember to swap them over if you're coxing rather than rowing.It's nearly as bad as wearing these on the wrong feet:- https://www.force4.co.uk/item/Nauticalia/Port-and-Starboard-Socks/75M (https://www.force4.co.uk/item/Nauticalia/Port-and-Starboard-Socks/75M)I think it was gerwinium OTP who got a load of abuse from a random drunk woman on a train for wearing socks embroidered with the day of the week on the wrong day.To be fair, that's getting into custodial sentence territory.
The manufactures of hearing aids have helpfully decided to colour code left and right hearing aids with different colours. Red, is of course for right, and Blue for left.
More rowers than coxes thobut. So the rowers' way of wearing them (red on right foot) is therefore the de-facto standard.But you must remember to swap them over if you're coxing rather than rowing.Shirley, you swap them when rowing rather than coxing?
Or do the odd numbered rowers wear the green ones?
I think barakta tells her hearing aids apart by some combination where she left them and the serial numbers, but she rarely uses two. I don't think the current generation of BAHAs are chiral, other than the programming.
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The manufactures of hearing aids have helpfully decided to colour code left and right hearing aids with different colours. Red, is of course for right, and Blue for left.
Red for right is standard for audio, but you'd normally expect left to be black or white. I think barakta tells her hearing aids apart by some combination where she left them and the serial numbers, but she rarely uses two. I don't think the current generation of BAHAs are chiral, other than the programming.
IIRC navigation lights (which are lights in the distance, and therefore too small to have colour) are the other way round.
Aren't standards great?
Which bits of the hearing aids is that? A hearing aid wearer I know has purple hearing aids – but I presume that's just outward decorative colouring and you're talking about some inner colouring not visible to the external observer.The manufactures of hearing aids have helpfully decided to colour code left and right hearing aids with different colours. Red, is of course for right, and Blue for left.
Red for right is standard for audio, but you'd normally expect left to be black or white. I think barakta tells her hearing aids apart by some combination where she left them and the serial numbers, but she rarely uses two. I don't think the current generation of BAHAs are chiral, other than the programming.
IIRC navigation lights (which are lights in the distance, and therefore too small to have colour) are the other way round.
Aren't standards great?
Champagne has a life to it.Eeeeek !
The last two bottles garnered from my under-sofa stash have produced a damp squib rather than a pop on opening. While the first one was ok to imbibe, the second one made my favourite Aussie somewhat unwell.
I hadn't rotated the stock.
I have two bottles remaining to be poured down the sink.
I have also discovered that it should be stored upright in it's bottle rather than lying flat.
Merde.
Stored for somewhere between 10 and 15 years.
Our supplier has let us know there is a shortage with the Patel de Nata you ordered so unfortunately the driver won't be able to deliver any yesterday
Champagne has a life to it.
The last two bottles garnered from my under-sofa stash have produced a damp squib rather than a pop on opening. While the first one was ok to imbibe, the second one made my favourite Aussie somewhat unwell.
I hadn't rotated the stock.
I have two bottles remaining to be poured down the sink.
I have also discovered that it should be stored upright in it's bottle rather than lying flat.
Merde.
Stored for somewhere between 10 and 15 years.
I knew there was something missing. Email this morning, delivery yesterday:QuoteOur supplier has let us know there is a shortage with the Patel de Nata you ordered so unfortunately the driver won't be able to deliver any yesterday
Yes, I should have written, allegedly, but it is a good memory aid
Champagne has a life to it.
The last two bottles garnered from my under-sofa stash have produced a damp squib rather than a pop on opening. While the first one was ok to imbibe, the second one made my favourite Aussie somewhat unwell.
I hadn't rotated the stock.
I have two bottles remaining to be poured down the sink.
I have also discovered that it should be stored upright in it's bottle rather than lying flat.
Merde.
Stored for somewhere between 10 and 15 years.
To the left, but never with the left hand.
Perhaps this thread will need to be renamed if the current economic meltdown continues.Plenty of first world problems in the third world too.
Plenty of first world problems in the third world too.
Plenty of first world problems in the third world too.
For example, socks. When new they are lovely but after so many washes I sometimes end up with socks where the heel pocket is now under my heel and walking on that is uncomfortable. Too good to throw out but too short to be comfortable.
An important consideration when we have to trek a hundred miles for water and food.Plenty of first world problems in the third world too.
For example, socks. When new they are lovely but after so many washes I sometimes end up with socks where the heel pocket is now under my heel and walking on that is uncomfortable. Too good to throw out but too short to be comfortable.
I do a big Comfort wash of all my socks every 5-6 months which restores their lovely natural stretchiness. Avoids that horrible feeling of hard crinkly socks and saves buying new ones.
Plenty of first world problems in the third world too.
For example, socks. When new they are lovely but after so many washes I sometimes end up with socks where the heel pocket is now under my heel and walking on that is uncomfortable. Too good to throw out but too short to be comfortable.
I do a big Comfort wash of all my socks every 5-6 months which restores their lovely natural stretchiness. Avoids that horrible feeling of hard crinkly socks and saves buying new ones.
I detest softener in all my laundry, both smell and texture,Indeed. I'd rather have slightly crispy towels.
The new larger size Andrex toilet rolls (300 sheets per roll) don't fit on the loo roll holders
Direct disposal is the way to go. Ring the council, pony up the £700 and a man in a van turns up and takes your mortal remains away. I assume they don’t dump the bodies in landfill but to be honest, I’ll be past caring by then so it won’t matter to me what they do.
The new larger size Andrex toilet rolls (300 sheets per roll) don't fit on the loo roll holders
There was a point (around the time I last paid much attention to broadcast TV) when the HD channels occasionally showed different content. Is that no longer the case?
If not, then it's to facilitate the visual equivalent of the "why are you listening to the radio with the tone control all the way down?" "sounds fine to me" parental argument.
Direct disposal is the way to go. Ring the council, pony up the £700 and a man in a van turns up and takes your mortal remains away. I assume they don’t dump the bodies in landfill but to be honest, I’ll be past caring by then so it won’t matter to me what they do.
Here in Washington, at the upper-left corner of the map of the contiguous USofA, composting is now in vogue:
https://earthfuneral.com/ and several others
My TV allows me to sort the channels into the Right Order.Me.
1 is BBC1 HD
2 is BBC 2 HD
Followed by other BBC channels, then ITV1-4, Ch4 etc. Bin the shopping channels and so on.
Does anyone else do this?
I always knew that hatler chap was a good sort.My TV allows me to sort the channels into the Right Order.Me.
1 is BBC1 HD
2 is BBC 2 HD
Followed by other BBC channels, then ITV1-4, Ch4 etc. Bin the shopping channels and so on.
Does anyone else do this?
...never managed to never get past the voodoo stage of SQL programming.*No-one* gets past the voodoo stage of SQL "programming". TruFax.
Friday afternoons at work should be a time to start to slow down for weekend and Fridays are generally quieter
However when I put Gardeners Question Time I tend to get more phone calls or people wanting my attention
And when my work was checking and correcting other people's translations, Friday afternoons were always the busiest time of the week by far. Mondays were busy too, Tuesdays and Thursdays less so, Wednesday afternoons dragged on for ever.Friday afternoons at work should be a time to start to slow down for weekend and Fridays are generally quieter
However when I put Gardeners Question Time I tend to get more phone calls or people wanting my attention
Probably the "oh shit, I'd better get this seen to before the weekend" crowd. When my wife was translating, Friday afternoons were often soul-destroying: "The client is going to London, you can do this for 8am on Monday morning can't you?" followed by an anxious "I already told him your usual rate and they said OK".
I’m fed up! I’ve done my research, I’ve checked and double checked. I’ve made a decision on the make and model. I’ve agreed the spend with the finance department and I’ve even agreed in principle the bigger size with the estates department.55" will be just fine.
But I’ve now decided that I think 55” might be too much of any man and wand something a bit small, say 50” or 52” or their abouts. Do they make my desired product in 52” or even for that matter 50”. No. No they do not. They offer 48” but I’ve already got 48” and had set my heart on something a little bigger. And I think a jump of 7” might just be a bit too much.
So I either start my research all over again or work out how I’m going to convince Dr Besrdy that 55” isn’t too much to accept.
The cricket commentary is on talks sport not TMSSo that's why I can't find it! Many thx.....
Turns out someone drove a bus into the cabinet
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/fife/4374097/freuchie-residents-internet-outage/
Here's a photo I purloined earlier (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230509/3500ae3214c56567df202e06e60a5142.jpg)This from Flatus' home street, where a fibre cabinet has been overloaded by someone downloading .torrents of specialist Danish cinema.
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Could have gone in LEOTP but fits here just as well.While I don’t like that advert one little bit, it would never occur to me to complain about it to the press or the advertising standards people.
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23503896.distressed-swindon-viewer-slams-tesco-advert-disgusting/
:"I'm distressed by a funny face in a TV advert, so I'm contacting the local paper".
While I don’t like that advert one little bit, it would never occur to me to complain about it to the press....She's probably descended from one the twerps that complained about the "scary" Lee Cooper ad. at the fag end of the 1970s.
But but but... Coventry's world famous frame builder didn't start till 1984!Quote from: BeardyWhile I don’t like that advert one little bit, it would never occur to me to complain about it to the press....She's probably descended from one the twerps that complained about the "scary" Lee Cooper ad. at the fag end of the 1970s.
Could have gone in LEOTP but fits here just as well.
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23503896.distressed-swindon-viewer-slams-tesco-advert-disgusting/
:"I'm distressed by a funny face in a TV advert, so I'm contacting the local paper".
Just sheared the bolt for the RH armrest on my Herman Miller Aeron office chair, which pretty much renders the chair useless. ::-)
Hunter wellies has gone bust. Whatever am I going to do?Get some proper posh wellies.
Hunter wellies has gone bust. Whatever am I going to do?Get some proper posh wellies.
Posh wellies. (https://www.lechameau.com/)
I have a pair of Aigles. The French for some reason seem averse to calling them Wellies.Read that. Moved on to next thread. Penny dropped.
I confess the expensive wellies are worth the money – was hiking in them throughout the wet season and they were comfy enough for 20km and show no sign of splitting or other damage. I had some Muck Boots before which were fine, but they eventually started to come apart where the neoprene meets the rubber and the seam at the back started to let in water. Plus they had a tussle with a barbed wire fence.
Why is the countryside filled with barbed wire, what purpose does it serve over just, well, a fence?
we go on holiday tomorrow morning, so the iron decided today was the right time to stop working.
we go on holiday tomorrow morning, so the iron decided today was the right time to stop working.
The shower drain in my b&b room last night was very slow. This meant the shallow tray filled quickly close to overflowing and since I'm not the kind of person who'll flood a bathroom just because it's not mine a submariners/sailors/squaddies/call-it-what-you-like shower was called for. It was a wonderful high flow shower just crying out for an indulgent long soak. Sadly not to be.
(Could have put this in the grumble thread but it feels very first worldy)
The shower drain in my b&b room last night was very slow. This meant the shallow tray filled quickly close to overflowing and since I'm not the kind of person who'll flood a bathroom just because it's not mine a submariners/sailors/squaddies/call-it-what-you-like shower was called for. It was a wonderful high flow shower just crying out for an indulgent long soak. Sadly not to be.
(Could have put this in the grumble thread but it feels very first worldy)
Once upon a time, in a posh Floridian hotel, where the bath was big and was open to the ocean view, I opted for the obvious sudsy soak, filling said bath to the brim so I could lie back with a good book let the gloaming outside settle over the Atlantic. All was well until I pulled the plug at which point the contents of the bath started to fountain out of the drain in the middle of the bathroom floor.
The shower drain in my b&b room last night was very slow. This meant the shallow tray filled quickly close to overflowing and since I'm not the kind of person who'll flood a bathroom just because it's not mine a submariners/sailors/squaddies/call-it-what-you-like shower was called for. It was a wonderful high flow shower just crying out for an indulgent long soak. Sadly not to be.
(Could have put this in the grumble thread but it feels very first worldy)
Once upon a time, in a posh Floridian hotel, where the bath was big and was open to the ocean view, I opted for the obvious sudsy soak, filling said bath to the brim so I could lie back with a good book let the gloaming outside settle over the Atlantic. All was well until I pulled the plug at which point the contents of the bath started to fountain out of the drain in the middle of the bathroom floor.
In my PSO days I used to work summers as a bin man at Butlin's Minehead. The cheaper sections of the camp had two-storey lines of chalets. One day a camper on the upper storey pulled the plug out of his bath and the bath downstairs filled up.
Happy days.
The problem? Since the mid 1970s (when I stopped using books of log and trig tables) I have been accustomed to typing the number followed by the function, i.e. 32 sin. This new calculator (£6.50's worth of W.H. Smith's finest scientific calculator) throws all that out of the window. You have to enter the number, press the, say, sin key and then press the = key. What a sodding palaver.
Has he been banned permanently?It would seem that he’s served his time because the Graun has just published a Martin Rowson cartoon. And complementary of the Government it isn’t. (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/sep/01/martin-rowson-rishi-sunak-pompeii-cartoon)
If they were saved to the card you should be able to recover them on a computer, with the appropriate software.
PhotoRec generally works great in these situations:
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
I like that :)Thank you Jaded. :thumbsup:
(https://i.imgur.com/tET4LKG.jpg)
EVs for young children - is that a first-world problem?
PhotoRec generally works great in these situations:
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
(https://i.imgur.com/tET4LKG.jpg)
EVs for young children - is that a first-world problem?
Ah, a Birmingham Tricycle.
Smalls around here seem as likely to be riding on (usually cheaper, nastier) little electric cars with their charming power-drill motor whine as they would something pedal-powered. I note they're starting to become a regular sighting at campsites (at least the big ones with small-wheel-friendly access roads).
EVs for young children - is that a first-world problem?
I saw a mother pushing a pushchair complete with tablet for the baby to watch the other day. I worry for the future 🙄Have you seen Wall-E? It’s a commentary on the direction of travel of the human race.
I saw a mother pushing a pushchair complete with tablet for the baby to watch the other day. I worry for the future 🙄Have you seen Wall-E? It’s a commentary on the direction of travel of the human race.
Has anybody else noticed this blatant example of 'skimpflation'.
Tanqueray London Dry Gin is now 41.3% alcohol by volume , down from 43.1% If you can find any of the 43.1% stuff still knocking around I advise you to get in quick before it disappears.
Has anybody else noticed this blatant example of 'skimpflation'.
Tanqueray London Dry Gin is now 41.3% alcohol by volume , down from 43.1% If you can find any of the 43.1% stuff still knocking around I advise you to get in quick before it disappears.
Tanqueray is meths anyway.
Has anybody else noticed this blatant example of 'skimpflation'.
Tanqueray London Dry Gin is now 41.3% alcohol by volume , down from 43.1% If you can find any of the 43.1% stuff still knocking around I advise you to get in quick before it disappears.
I think Mr Sainsbury's bog rolls have become narrower of late; there was a distinct difference in height between a couple of rolls on my bathroom windowsill.
Grief, but that woman annoys me when she co-presents Ski Sunday. Mind ewe, her co-host isn’t an awful lot better.
I really like the look,of my beard at the moment because its proportions seem like to be just right. But, my moustache is beginning to irritate me because it has a habit of dipping in my during and then dropping it onto my beard.
Drinks! It should say drinks.I really like the look,of my beard at the moment because its proportions seem like to be just right. But, my moustache is beginning to irritate me because it has a habit of dipping in my during and then dropping it onto my beard.
During?
Microwave it?
Listening to BBC6 Music through just one speaker, as one of the channels on my amp has died.Picked up the amp as planned on Saturday.
Words have been had with Richer Sounds at London Bridge and an acquisitive visit is planned for Saturday.
And now, it's working.Listening to BBC6 Music through just one speaker, as one of the channels on my amp has died.Picked up the amp as planned on Saturday.
Words have been had with Richer Sounds at London Bridge and an acquisitive visit is planned for Saturday.
Connected it all up.
Playing sounds.
Lovely.
Switched it on this morning.
Nothing.
Zilch.
Zero.
Nada.
>:(