Author Topic: First-World Problems. (Read 338215 times)

Jurek · « **Reply #1175 on:** 18 February, 2016, 08:58:25 pm »

Fairy snuff.

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #1176 on:** 19 February, 2016, 07:50:09 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 18 February, 2016, 05:58:11 pm

Quote from: fboab on 18 February, 2016, 08:45:45 am
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.thedailymash.co.uk/news/health/massive-sickly-drink-with-shitloads-of-marshmallows-found-to-contain-sugar-20160217106334

hellymedic · « **Reply #1177 on:** 19 February, 2016, 04:44:41 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 17 February, 2016, 07:37:14 pm

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.

Just had one from Beefeater, again not specifying the date for Mothers' Day...

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #1178 on:** 19 February, 2016, 10:39:42 pm »

I've "earned" a discount of 40% off BA flights anywhere in Europe (mostly by cycling a lot).

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?

Polar Bear · « **Reply #1179 on:** 19 February, 2016, 10:42:50 pm »

I appear to have run out of camomile tea.

Torslanda · « **Reply #1180 on:** 19 February, 2016, 11:15:28 pm »

Do we need to arrange an air drop or alert the UNHCR?

citoyen · « **Reply #1181 on:** 23 February, 2016, 12:27:42 pm »

Quote from: Pickled Onion on 19 February, 2016, 10:39:42 pm

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?

Are budget flights really any cheaper when you take those allowances into account? You pay less up front for no frills but then end up paying extra for a lot of necessary "frills" like luggage anyway.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1182 on:** 23 February, 2016, 12:50:19 pm »

Budget flights tend to serve regional airports which saves you the most difficult and expensive part of the whole journey – getting to Heathrow or Gatwick. This is where BA and its cousins suck.

Canardly · « **Reply #1183 on:** 23 February, 2016, 01:31:28 pm »

Rail has the same access issues.

ian · « **Reply #1184 on:** 01 March, 2016, 10:55:25 am »

Apparently the Heathrow Express trains have been withdrawn and replaced with the Heathrow Connect trains. There was someone on radiogram complaining that they have no power sockets for their laptops. Imagine, an entire fifteen (twenty to terminal 5) without electricity. It's a horror I can't comprehend. The person on the radio sounded quite annoyed. Personally, I'd have punched them with a bear.

mcshroom · « **Reply #1185 on:** 01 March, 2016, 11:53:27 am »

I've lost my Co-op card. They have a lost card section on their website, but you need to know the entire 16 digit number on the card to use it!

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #1186 on:** 01 March, 2016, 12:52:20 pm »

The chickpeas in my dhal are undercooked.

hellymedic · « **Reply #1187 on:** 01 March, 2016, 05:24:06 pm »

Thought you knew chick-peas took forever to cook!

My Sainsbury's delivery seems to have lacked a bag of produce; the oyster mushrooms, plums, Basics strawberries, oranges and cherry tomatoes are missing.

Kim · « **Reply #1188 on:** 06 March, 2016, 07:53:35 pm »

I've just injured my finger trying to open a tube of lactose-free ice cream.

Blade · « **Reply #1189 on:** 06 March, 2016, 11:16:22 pm »

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?

Kim · « **Reply #1190 on:** 06 March, 2016, 11:25:34 pm »

Quote from: Blade on 06 March, 2016, 11:16:22 pm

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?

Something like:

Quote from: Blade on 27 March, 2016, 11:34:16 pm

The new kitchen fit is going well, but we've just run out of paper plates

ian · « **Reply #1191 on:** 07 March, 2016, 10:27:28 am »

Quote from: Blade on 06 March, 2016, 11:16:22 pm

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?

Bacon bowls?

Diver300 · « **Reply #1192 on:** 09 March, 2016, 08:09:51 pm »

I didn't get a flight in a private jet today. It was only a private twin engine turbo-prop. The power sockets on it were 110 V American ones and I hadn't brought the correct adaptor.

caerau · « **Reply #1193 on:** 09 March, 2016, 08:31:02 pm »

Quote from: Blade on 06 March, 2016, 11:16:22 pm

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?

Bane of my childhood was my mother making us help with the washing up. Washing or drying hmmm - I preferred washing, but I didn't always get to choose.

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.

Then.... in the 2000s my mum gave us her old one and the wife seemed semi-keen so now we have one again.

Any different? No. Ho hum.

trekker12 · « **Reply #1194 on:** 10 March, 2016, 02:17:10 pm »

I quite like the fact we don't have a dishwasher.

Andrij · « **Reply #1195 on:** 19 March, 2016, 11:58:10 am »

The bag of 'Lightly Salted Tortilla Chips' I just opened is mis-labelled. It should read "Hardly Salted At All Tortilla Chips".

Bledlow · « **Reply #1196 on:** 21 March, 2016, 12:20:18 am »

Quote from: caerau on 09 March, 2016, 08:31:02 pm

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.

Why I've never got one.

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #1197 on:** 25 March, 2016, 02:15:07 pm »

Dishwashers have changed massively since the 1980s, everything comes out sparkling - and dry! I really miss mine, and I seem to be spending more in gloves and hand cream than the cost of running one...

Canardly · « **Reply #1198 on:** 25 March, 2016, 03:13:18 pm »

Great place to hide the dirty pots

Polar Bear · « **Reply #1199 on:** 25 March, 2016, 03:36:31 pm »

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.

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