First-World Problems.

[rafletcher]

I knew there was something missing. Email this morning, delivery yesterday:

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

That’s Priti poor.

[Sergeant Pluck]

  Very good.

[Pedal Castro]

Yes, I should have written, allegedly, but it is a good memory aid

"No red port left" is how I was bought up. 

[Canardly]

To the left, but never with the left hand.

[Mrs Pingu]

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.

White wine is generally supposed to be drunk fairly quickly so I suppose that explains the same with champagne etc

[Pedal Castro]

To the left, but never with the left hand.

Depends on the regiment.

[Beardy]

The only thing we’ve got in the house to satisfy my post pub munchies is chocolate digestives.

[T42]

Super U's cardboard/plastic pack of CR2032 batteries is marked "Sécurité Enfants" and is so fecking sécure that it takes a Stanley knife and a chain-mail glove to open the bastard.  I've opened oyster that were easier.

[Kim]

That reminds me, I need to take a stanley knife to the lid of the new bleach bottles (they changed the cap design).

[Canardly]

All these adverts for people wanting simple cremation plans on the telly. Then who writes the reviews on Trust Pilot?

[Beardy]

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.

[Mr Larrington]

I'm only intending to leave immoral remains.  Will they charge more?

[Beardy]

It depends on whether hazardous substances were involved in the creation of that immorality

[Cudzoziemiec]

"Here lie the moral remains of Mr Larrington, late of Larrington Towers, mayor Mortagne-au-Perche, commander of Panzers, friend of Bethany (age unknown), etc, etc."
"But there's nothing here."
"Precisely."

[SoreTween]

Front of queueue: Transfer security hall, Shithole airport Amsterdam.
Back of queueue: Belgium.

[pcolbeck]

Perhaps this thread will need to be renamed if the current economic meltdown continues.

[Canardly]

Peeling onions. Why, after you have spent ages ensuring that an onion is cleanly peeled of its skin, does a piece always appear, minutes later, in the pan?

[Cudzoziemiec]

Perhaps this thread will need to be renamed if the current economic meltdown continues.

Plenty of first world problems in the third world too.

[road-runner]

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.

[chrisbainbridge]

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.

[Cudzoziemiec]

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.

An important consideration when we have to trek a hundred miles for water and food.

[ElyDave]

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'm the opposite, I detest softener in all my laundry, both smell and texture, towels in particular

[Flite]

I detest softener in all my laundry, both smell and texture,

Indeed. I'd rather have slightly crispy towels.
But I dislike most scented household products. Why do we need scented laundry detergents and washing up liquid at all, but it's almost impossible to buy unscented.
For that matter, why is laundry liquid green, and I am expected to measure it into a dark green cup with black markings?

[chrisbainbridge]

I agree wrt the smell so only socks and the occasional jumper get done and then hey are all bunged into one wash and then thoroughly rinsed.

[Mrs Pingu]

I only put half a cap of softener in otherwise the smell is too strong and I certainly don't let it near towels or bike gear.

On the colour, I have several different bottles of detergent (Ecover, someone else's bio, Sainsbos non bio) and the only coloured one is the non bio which is blue.