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L CC

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2750 on: 20 December, 2021, 12:45:05 pm »
You can start the bidding at £20 for my pack.
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ElyDave

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2751 on: 20 December, 2021, 01:40:37 pm »
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Mr Larrington

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2752 on: 20 December, 2021, 02:51:24 pm »
They’re on special offer in Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles right now, and if I'd seen ED's post before going shopping I'd have taken both panniers and possibly the trailer as well.
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ElyDave

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2753 on: 22 January, 2022, 07:39:19 am »
Nothing here since before Christmas!

Messrs Wait and Rose are unable to deliver me my chorizo this morning, not even attempting a substitution. The horror is unimaginable.
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andyoxon

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2754 on: 24 January, 2022, 10:55:19 am »
When you leave your brain inside the house, and go & throw the contents of a waste paper basket full of all sorts of small bits of rubbish into... the green recycling wheely bin.  Then have to empty said bin, and in the process break a glass bottle on the path, and have to sweep and package that for disposal...  :facepalm:
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Beardy

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2755 on: 24 January, 2022, 01:30:47 pm »
There's no YACF icon on my bookmarks page on Safari when I use my iMac. its there on my phone and my fondleslab, but its just a letter Y on the iMac. It's most frustrating because I have to look carefully for the shortcut.
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Kim

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2756 on: 24 January, 2022, 02:58:32 pm »
That's not the first time I've seen someone complain about Safari being bad at favicons.  There's probably a cache you can clear somewhere...
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Beardy

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2757 on: 25 January, 2022, 11:43:05 am »
I have a little addiction which Dr Beardy (Mrs) indulges me in once a year, usually at Christmas. Because we were away over the Yuletide, my indulgence was not satisfied and Dr B has very kindly allowed me to carry its delivery forward.

Last week, I managed to remember to order the final ingredient only for it to turn up as the wrong viscosity. That was returned. I reordered this week, the delivery arrived 20 minutes ago. I went downstairs to check that they had sent the right one this week, only to discover Dr B and Ms B the younger cleaning the kitchen floor. On enquiry, it would seem that although the correct substance was indeed delivered, one of them had dropped the pot on the floor and I whipped whipping cream was spilled everywhere.

I’m desire for trifle is looking like it might not be sated this year.  >:(
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T42

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2758 on: 31 January, 2022, 10:20:09 am »
Ours bounce.

What always annoys me about whipped cream is that the pot is cold when it comes out of the fridge but once whipped it's at room temperature.  Maybe we should put the beaters and a bowl in the freezer for an hour or two in advance.
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PhilO

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2759 on: 02 February, 2022, 09:38:12 am »
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:
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andrewc

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2760 on: 02 February, 2022, 11:14:19 am »
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/02/rotterdam-bridge-to-be-dismantled-so-jeff-bezos-yacht-can-pass-through/



Bezos’ three-masted yacht is being built by the Oceano shipyard in Alblasserdam but is too big to pass under the bridge when the central section is raised to its full height. Now Oceano and Bezos have approached the council about temporarily dismantling the bridge at their cost.


First world problem, first world solution .
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Canardly

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2761 on: 12 March, 2022, 09:33:23 am »
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?
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hellymedic

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2762 on: 12 March, 2022, 02:35:47 pm »
Quote from: PhilO on 02 February, 2022, 09:38:12 am
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?

Suspect your cream needs to be at 2C at the start if you want cold whipped cream.

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Beardy

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2763 on: 12 March, 2022, 04:12:58 pm »
Quote from: Canardly on 12 March, 2022, 09:33:23 am
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.
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Giraffe

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2764 on: 13 March, 2022, 09:25:31 am »
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!
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Beardy

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2765 on: 13 March, 2022, 12:04:01 pm »
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.
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rafletcher

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2766 on: 13 March, 2022, 01:15:10 pm »
Quote from: Beardy on 13 March, 2022, 12:04:01 pm
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.
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SteveC

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2767 on: 13 March, 2022, 01:20:57 pm »
Quote from: rafletcher on 13 March, 2022, 01:15:10 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 13 March, 2022, 12:04:01 pm
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.
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.
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T42

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2768 on: 13 March, 2022, 02:06:01 pm »
Quote from: Giraffe on 13 March, 2022, 09:25:31 am
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!

My son used to buy bumper packs of dead cheap socks, wear them once and throw them out, since they wouldn't stand up to even one wash.  Mind you, 'once' could be a surprisingly long time: he was a student, after all.

I knew a bloke at uni who did that with quite decent shirts.  Wore them once and left them in a heap on the floor, just telling his char-person to get rid of them. He was a rich bastard, though.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2769 on: 14 March, 2022, 08:45:20 am »
My son wears deliberately mismatched pairs on a complicated schedule. If it's the second Monday, then the left foot has Sock C and the right foot has Sock K, that kind of thing.
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ElyDave

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2770 on: 14 March, 2022, 09:00:34 am »
my daughter bought a blue and a yellow pair of converse boots "you've got four pairs for the price of two" I told her.
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Tim Hall

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2771 on: 14 March, 2022, 11:33:12 am »
My Young Lady wears socks as they come out of the pile, resulting in mostly unmatched pairs. I commented on this, so she bought me half a dozen unpaired socks in bright colours on a cycling theme. One birthday later my son in law bought me a set of the same unpaired socks. Hurrah! I can now wear unpaired socks in pairs.   
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Kim

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2772 on: 14 March, 2022, 11:57:35 am »
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.
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Jurek

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2773 on: 14 March, 2022, 12:06:13 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 14 March, 2022, 11:57:35 am
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.
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ElyDave

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #2774 on: 14 March, 2022, 12:43:02 pm »
I share that view re Christmas socks before 1st Dec  :demon:
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