Author Topic: First-World Problems.  (Read 333612 times)

tiermat

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #50 on: 10 December, 2013, 12:31:43 pm »
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!
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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #51 on: 10 December, 2013, 12:54:44 pm »
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!

There aren't any where she lives!

mattc

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #52 on: 10 December, 2013, 06:15:13 pm »
I am really quite cross about this. The Times2 Crossword:
"Pleasantly low temperature" (6)

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What?!? Who has ever heard of this word. I feel a letter to the Editor coming on ...
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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #53 on: 10 December, 2013, 06:37:57 pm »
I am really quite cross about this. The Times2 Crossword:
"Pleasantly low temperature" (6)
What?!? Who has ever heard of this word. I feel a letter to the Editor coming on ...
I've heard of it. I've even used it. Mind, I've never been sure whether it was 'real' or not.
Quote from: www.oxforddictionaries.com
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
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/coolth
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Wowbagger

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #54 on: 10 December, 2013, 07:10:38 pm »
I have heard, and used, the word "coolth" but only expected it to exist in the same lexicon as "molish".
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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #55 on: 10 December, 2013, 11:09:00 pm »
My smartphone, that sits about 3 feet away, tells me I have mail. Should I a) switch off the phone or b) check my inbox. What a dilemma. Oh, and my XL onesies that arrived today are nothing but XL and I have to return them.

Slightly OT, I just watched Dubya get booed, so all is not totally unwell.
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contango

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #56 on: 11 December, 2013, 02:14:53 pm »
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.

... and that, Your Honour, concludes the case for the defence ...
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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #57 on: 11 December, 2013, 02:41:04 pm »
I have run out of caramelised red onion chutney.
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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #58 on: 11 December, 2013, 02:41:29 pm »
I have Danish Blue in the fridge, but far prefer Stilton or St Agur; so I'll just have to leave off the port for a bit.   :-\ 

Who's the current 'leader'   ;)
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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #59 on: 11 December, 2013, 03:05:29 pm »
I am really quite cross about this. The Times2 Crossword:
"Pleasantly low temperature" (6)

Further Hint:
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Answer:
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What?!? Who has ever heard of this word. I feel a letter to the Editor coming on ...

mid 16th century (but rare before the 20th century):  ::-)
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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #60 on: 11 December, 2013, 03:15:52 pm »
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.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. Oh, the humanity!

Thor

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #61 on: 13 December, 2013, 10:59:25 am »
Mrs Thor bought so much wine in Sainsburys recent 25% off offer that I haven't room to stash it all in the cellar*

* the cupboard under the stairs
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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #62 on: 13 December, 2013, 07:08:44 pm »
I've got a BOGOF:

1. Schweppes and Sainsbury's - thanks to your respectively very similar livery and inattention, I am in possession of 3 bottles of slim line tonic. I think I'd rather drink the devil's piss.

2. Stupid fridge. I was going to make a great fishy dinner for tea, but you appear to have par-frozen the fish and made ice-cream out of the cream for the sauce.
Better sort yourself out cos if I have to go fridge freezer shopping in the new year it'll be the frying pan of spang for you.

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #63 on: 13 December, 2013, 07:38:06 pm »
Bugger.  No cheap chicken breast in the butchers this evening so I've had to use organic chicken breast forthe rogan josh.

hellymedic

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #64 on: 13 December, 2013, 07:38:31 pm »
I am really quite cross about this. The Times2 Crossword:
"Pleasantly low temperature" (6)

Further Hint:
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Answer:
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What?!? Who has ever heard of this word. I feel a letter to the Editor coming on ...

We used it frequently in uk.rec.sheds...

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #65 on: 13 December, 2013, 07:40:36 pm »
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.

Someone is using food words wrongly on the internet - First World Problem!
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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #66 on: 13 December, 2013, 07:57:24 pm »
No, it was not buttered chicken.   

Clare

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #67 on: 13 December, 2013, 08:04:10 pm »
I have a cold and somebody is working late.

How the hell am I supposed to get my glass recharged with the medicinal port?


hellymedic

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #68 on: 13 December, 2013, 08:04:38 pm »
Isn't rogan josh a 'red meat' dish?

rogerzilla

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #69 on: 13 December, 2013, 08:12:16 pm »
Some of the LEDs on the Christmas lights have died.  Chinese shite again.
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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #70 on: 13 December, 2013, 08:13:20 pm »
Isn't rogan josh a 'red meat' dish?

Oh how first world ...   ;D

PaulF

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #71 on: 14 December, 2013, 01:31:00 pm »
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.


Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #72 on: 14 December, 2013, 03:50:56 pm »
Run out of instant coffee! Looks like I'll have to brew some proper coffee. Oh what to do, Columbian or Kenyan?

TimC

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #73 on: 14 December, 2013, 03:54:14 pm »
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.



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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #74 on: 14 December, 2013, 04:25:17 pm »
I now have more logs and kindling than I have room for in the store.
Oh the problems!  We're going to have to have several unnecessary fires.
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