things i don't understand

[Paul]

After doing dirty jobs my fingernails get dirt underneath so I clean them with any convenient pointy object. What I don't understand is why, despite not doing any further dirty work, they turn black again within hours.

The only way to clean my fingernails properly is to wash my hair I have found. Or an old fashioned nail brush but that's painful !

Washing dishes by hand is quite effective.
Muck will build up under the nails if you scratch your head, back or elsewhere...

My mum used to tell me off for scratching my elsewhere.

[hellymedic]

Only your elsewhere? Lucky lad! I was chided for scratching anywhere!

[ElyDave]

I'll make a site report from Belgium in June, let you know if it's improved at all.

[Legs]

After doing dirty jobs my fingernails get dirt underneath so I clean them with any convenient pointy object. What I don't understand is why, despite not doing any further dirty work, they turn black again within hours.

The only way to clean my fingernails properly is to wash my hair I have found. Or an old fashioned nail brush but that's painful !

It's also the best way of smoothing off the sharp snaggy bits you get left with when you've just cut your nails.  Either that, or rubbing them against jeans.

[T42]

After doing dirty jobs my fingernails get dirt underneath so I clean them with any convenient pointy object. What I don't understand is why, despite not doing any further dirty work, they turn black again within hours.

The only way to clean my fingernails properly is to wash my hair I have found. Or an old fashioned nail brush but that's painful !

Kneading pastry does it quite efficiently. It's also good for removing the stains left by Sugru.

[caerau]

Remind me to not eat one of your pies or pastries.

[mrcharly-YHT]

How do cat hairs end up on my desk at work?

[hellymedic]

Hairs, hairs are everywhere!

Transferred from your shoes, bags or clothing, probably baggage.

[caerau]

Judging by our Moggie's ability to get hers everywhere, I'm sure you'll probably find them lurking in inter-galactic space.  Your desk is peanuts in comparison

[T42]

How do cat hairs end up on my desk at work?

Same way as dog-hairs end up in my lunch.

[Kim]

How do cat hairs end up on my desk at work?

Same way as dog-hairs end up in my lunch.

And the Kim-hairs in rower40's pedal bearings.

[spesh]

Judging by our Moggie's ability to get hers everywhere, I'm sure you'll probably find them lurking in inter-galactic space.  Your desk is peanuts in comparison

So what you are saying is that cosmic strings are actually pet hairs, then? 

[Jurek]

How do cat hairs end up on my desk at work?

Magnets.

[caerau]

Judging by our Moggie's ability to get hers everywhere, I'm sure you'll probably find them lurking in inter-galactic space.  Your desk is peanuts in comparison

So what you are saying is that cosmic strings are actually pet hairs, then? 

Perhaps, as a grand unified theory of everything.  I think pet hair escape physics, alongside bistromathematics will be the next challenge after getting  quantum electrodynamics to function properly in a gravitational field.

[nicknack]

I don't understand why anyone invented Belgium. And, before you say beer and chocolate I'd like to point out that they were invented elsewhere but brought to a reasonable point of perfection out of boredom.

I thought it was invented by the British to annoy the French.

If you didn't have Belgium, you wouldn't have the saxophone (Nicknack otp may have something to say about that) or Rene Magritte, or Eddy Merxxcxxcxx.

Well, of course. It's the sort of place that I might consider moving to if the prospect of moving didn't fill me with horror. The small country next door would be fine also (not Luxetc. in case you were wondering). The beer is possibly not the main attraction but it certainly helps.

[caerau]

By a weird coincidence I seem to be currently watching a film in Flemish. That’s a first for me 

[caerau]

Not so much beer going down - they seem to prefer coke in Antwerp 

[Mrs Pingu]

Not so much beer going down - they seem to prefer coke in Antwerp 

I've observed plenty of Belgians with no taste....

[eckagain]

You know those wee sachets of mayo, ketchup whatever you get in upmarket (to me) eateries like Beefeater etc? Why do they have (seemingly) random numbers printed beside the serrated bit where you're meant to tear them open?
And no, I don't think it's meant to estimate the number of attempts you would need to open them.
What does The Team think?

[Kim]

Batch number so they know which minimum-wage oik to blame when you die of ketchup poisoning.

[Jaded]

By a weird coincidence I seem to be currently watching a film in Flemish. That’s a first for me 

Always wanted to got to Flemish. What's it like?


(OK, I'm a good liar..)

[caerau]

It’s very Belgian, in a Dutch-ish way

[T42]

Look behind the URL.

Another thought is that without Belgium we wouldn't have Bond James Bond.

[Ham]

And come to think of it, we wouldn't have had "In Bruges" either.

A great day this has turned out to be. I'm suicidal, me mate tries to kill me, me gun gets nicked and we're still in fucking Bruges.

[Pingu]

Or a Paul Simon song.