Author Topic: First-World Problems.  (Read 333628 times)

Mr Larrington

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #925 on: 15 September, 2015, 05:12:49 am »
Are all Dutchmen with torque wrenches mad?

I don't have a large enough sample size to be certain.
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Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #926 on: 16 September, 2015, 04:21:00 pm »
My mousemat is all bendy and the mouse doesn't travel well on it.
My feminist marxist dialectic brings all the boys to the yard.


Kim

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #927 on: 16 September, 2015, 06:00:53 pm »
I thought mousemats were a 20th century problem; I haven't seen one in years.

Early female mice struggled on desks with black surfaces, requiring a mousemat.  Seems entirely likely that there are plenty of those still kicking around, either due to ergonomic preferences, or organisational upgrade inertia.

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #928 on: 16 September, 2015, 06:09:06 pm »
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.

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #929 on: 17 September, 2015, 09:43:30 am »
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 invested in a Logitech "dark field" cordless mouse for that very reason. Works on any surface it seems, including glass / highly shiny paper, and is nicer to hold (I got an "anatomic" Performance MX one). A single charge (via USB) lasts me a week.
We are making a New World (Paul Nash, 1918)

hellymedic

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #930 on: 17 September, 2015, 02:21:22 pm »
My brother has emailed all us siblings to announce the safe arrival of a son today.
My congratulatory response has met with an 'out of office' email from the proud father and an 'over quota' bounce from my sister.

There seems to have been some delay to my sending SMS texts to the happy parents.
Technology; don't you just love it?!

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #931 on: 24 September, 2015, 03:48:08 pm »
The hot water thingy isn't working and neither is the kettle, so we have to walk approx 50 metres to the other hot water thingy.
My feminist marxist dialectic brings all the boys to the yard.


Mr Larrington

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #932 on: 25 September, 2015, 01:30:41 am »
My room in this benighted tip of an hotel is as far away from the lift as it's possible to be while remaining in the same building >:(
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Basil

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #933 on: 25 September, 2015, 10:12:33 am »
Bought some lovely heavy bread from the lovely heavy bread shop in Newcastle Emlyn.  Only trouble is, its a bugger to toast.
My method was, put in toaster, wander off to do other morning type stuff.  Come back to kitchen and push toast down again for a second cook.
Unbeknown to me, this morning Mrs B employed the probably much more Sensible strategy of turning the toaster up to 'Nuke it from space' setting.  So when I returned from the bathroom, I just pushed the toast down again and wandered of to find out where I'd put my coffee down.

Rush around opening door and windows and much flapping of tea towels at alarm.  That was much too exciting for that time of the morning.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

Kim

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #934 on: 25 September, 2015, 12:21:41 pm »
Ah, the 'student alarm clock'.  I heard that going off somewhere nearby this morning.

Mr Larrington

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #935 on: 25 September, 2015, 04:45:32 pm »
The aroma of burned toast this morning was such that I could find the breakfast room by smell alone.
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Mrs Pingu

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #936 on: 21 October, 2015, 06:40:03 pm »
I'm going to have the cold on my birthday. My bedside lamp broke this morning and Ikea can't bring me a new one til the 28th, and I have no muesli in the house so no birthday breakfast tomorrow. Bleh.
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Andrij

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #937 on: 22 October, 2015, 12:47:08 pm »
I've run out of halloumi. 

Might as well be dead.
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

LEE

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #938 on: 22 October, 2015, 02:46:11 pm »
I've run out of halloumi. 

Might as well be dead.

No Halloumi?

That's a Feta worse than death.
Some people say I'm self-obsessed but that's enough about them.

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #939 on: 22 October, 2015, 02:48:37 pm »
You'd better tread Caerphilly these next few hours.
Rust never sleeps

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #940 on: 22 October, 2015, 07:26:38 pm »
Is that as Gouda's it gets?
I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to grow old disgracefully.

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #941 on: 22 October, 2015, 07:50:26 pm »
Stop laughing, cow.
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fruitcake

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #942 on: 22 October, 2015, 08:10:13 pm »
... 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.

It would appear that, unbeknownst to him, Mr Larrington is staying at Basil's house.

Mr Larrington

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #943 on: 23 October, 2015, 09:59:03 am »
Only if Basil's house had slipped through a wossname in the space-time continuum and fetched up in Canada, where the BEARs come from.
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Satisfying the Bloodlust of the Masses in Peacetime

Basil

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #944 on: 23 October, 2015, 10:12:21 am »
*looks out of window*

As you were.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #945 on: 23 October, 2015, 01:59:27 pm »
The vending machine is out of order.
My feminist marxist dialectic brings all the boys to the yard.


menthel

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #946 on: 26 October, 2015, 11:10:07 am »
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...

Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #947 on: 26 October, 2015, 02:49:31 pm »
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...

Youshould have hitch-hiked.

meddyg

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #948 on: 27 October, 2015, 08:53:07 am »
I've got to take my wife into St Tropez this morning...

(camping on the Cote d'Azur and we're rained off cycling...;)

menthel

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Re: First-World Problems.
« Reply #949 on: 27 October, 2015, 02:54:29 pm »
The RH channel on my #expensive headphones had become intermittent but after some investigation and cleaning all is well. Who knew that these ones had a detachable lead so that contacts could be cleaned???