First-World Problems.

[Jaded]

I buy bigger socks.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Is that because you have bigger feet?

[Jaded]

Then when they shrink, they are the right size

[Cudzoziemiec]

If your feet are shrinking, you might be washing them too hot.

[Diver300]

Today the car chargers at work will only give out 2 kW

[Flite]

The new larger size Andrex toilet rolls (300 sheets per roll) don't fit on the loo roll holders

[hellymedic]

The new larger size Andrex toilet rolls (300 sheets per roll) don't fit on the loo roll holders

We've had similar issues with Sainsbury's 'double length' rolls; it's a tight fit!

I *think* toilet rolls used to have 300 sheets but these reduced over the years with progressive shrinkflation. There were certainly more sheets per roll in the SEEKRIT SUPPLY I unearthed in the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020...

Reinstatement of the 300 sheet roll is now trumpeted.

[TheLurker]

No YACF for *five* minutes!  Oh my paws and whiskers!

[Giraffe]

There was an article about Cushelle (IIRC) going to core-less rolls with 400 sheets and the adverse effect this would have on Blue Peter's projects (third world?). No idea how big those would be.
In mid-90s Tescrot had a roll wth 400 sheets, but they were thin (but not flimsy-thin - think Izal but like present paper) and that was very good. Didn't last, of course.

[hellymedic]

Sainsbury's standard 'double rolls now have 440 sheets per roll.

[Giraffe]

What size are the sheets and are they of goodly strength?

I looked at Andrex a couple of years ago, 'cos it's long and strong: 170 sheets, no bigger than Waitrose's, and use 3 or 4 sheets. Oh, cost a lot more than W's TAAAW.

[road-runner]

Jigsaw puzzles come in boxes way too large.

[Kim]

That's so they're big enough for the cat to sit in while you do the jigsaw.  Stops them trying to 'help' as much.

[Jaded]

Mansion house Tube Station is closed because of shortage of staff.


I had to walk to a different station!

[Beardy]

As you may have gathered, I’ve been decorating the bathroom of late, and as the task nears completion Dr Beardy has decided that a bit,of colour might not be a bad thing. However, having spent a small fortune on expensive sample pots she’s now deciding that white might be the best solution after all.

[T42]

Photoshop is your friend.

[Kim]

RGB LEDs...

[Moleman76]

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.

Here in Washington, at the upper-left corner of the map of the contiguous USofA, composting is now in vogue:
https://earthfuneral.com/ and several others

[Moleman76]

The new larger size Andrex toilet rolls (300 sheets per roll) don't fit on the loo roll holders

On the continent bordering the west shore of the North Atlantic, a number of the toilet tissue roll purveyors have been slyly making the rolls narrower.  I'd say they're at least a half-inch narrower than in days of yore.  Price didn't go down, of course.

[The Family Cyclist]

Was going to put this in grumble but think fits here better

Due to the time difference the lunch interval for for the cricket coincides with my drive to work so not getting actual cricket on my commute

[Beardy]

Why can’t my ‘smart’ TV just select the HD version of a channel whenever one is available for my selection. It’d help if it’d let me programme it to pick the HD channel when press 1, 2 or whatever, but it shouldn’t be to difficult for the makers to have programmed it in.

[Kim]

There was a point (around the time I last paid much attention to broadcast TV) when the HD channels occasionally showed different content.  Is that no longer the case?

If not, then it's to facilitate the visual equivalent of the "why are you listening to the radio with the tone control all the way down?" "sounds fine to me" parental argument.

[Tim Hall]

My TV allows me to sort the channels into the Right Order.
1 is BBC1 HD
2 is BBC 2 HD
Followed by other BBC channels, then ITV1-4, Ch4 etc. Bin the shopping channels and so on.
Does anyone else do this?

[Mr Larrington]

There was a point (around the time I last paid much attention to broadcast TV) when the HD channels occasionally showed different content.  Is that no longer the case?

If not, then it's to facilitate the visual equivalent of the "why are you listening to the radio with the tone control all the way down?" "sounds fine to me" parental argument.

The BBC switches to soothing background noises and trailers on HD when local news is being broadcast on SD.

[ElyDave]

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.

Here in Washington, at the upper-left corner of the map of the contiguous USofA, composting is now in vogue:
https://earthfuneral.com/ and several others

I've put something like this in my will