Quote from: TheLurker on 10 October, 2023, 08:29:26 pmQuote from: ian Solve the Dyson problem by getting a cleaner...cordless Vax blade thing that, from my occasional forays into cleaning ...certainly gets a lot more stuff out of the carpet than the cleaner and her Henry.Ermm. That rather suggests the whole, "Get a cleaner" thing isn't quite working as you might expect?I'm guessing the "my occasional forays" bit may be key to understanding why the cleaner is more satisfying and effective, even if they don't suck quite as hard.
Quote from: ian Solve the Dyson problem by getting a cleaner...cordless Vax blade thing that, from my occasional forays into cleaning ...certainly gets a lot more stuff out of the carpet than the cleaner and her Henry.Ermm. That rather suggests the whole, "Get a cleaner" thing isn't quite working as you might expect?
Solve the Dyson problem by getting a cleaner...cordless Vax blade thing that, from my occasional forays into cleaning ...certainly gets a lot more stuff out of the carpet than the cleaner and her Henry.
You know you're middle aged when you get that joke I spend a lot of time at work with the youngsters looking confused and pityingly at me and similar aged colleagues when we make comments like that.
When there is a request for "someone young" to lift a heavy object out of a car boot and you realize that, in context, that means you.
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 02 November, 2023, 04:06:36 pmWhen there is a request for "someone young" to lift a heavy object out of a car boot and you realize that, in context, that means you.I think you are middle aged when it is you that is making the request.
Kim, you are very bad!
I seem to find myself asking people to 'do some manly lifting' and/or 'apply a bit of ham-fisted monkey-force to that' a lot more in recent years. I think my arms are getting noodly.
I completely agree with Reg.
I have a VAX model 121, purchased in 1989 that is still going strong.
Quote from: Kim on 02 November, 2023, 05:24:04 pmI seem to find myself asking people to 'do some manly lifting' and/or 'apply a bit of ham-fisted monkey-force to that' a lot more in recent years. I think my arms are getting noodly.Kim has noodly appendages?
Quote from: Kim on 02 November, 2023, 05:24:04 pmI seem to find myself asking people to 'do some manly lifting' and/or 'apply a bit of ham-fisted monkey-force to that' a lot more in recent years. I think my arms are getting noodly.Wait until you buy something that weighs ~5 kg and they offer to carry it out to your car.
Quote from: T42 on 03 November, 2023, 07:15:29 amQuote from: Kim on 02 November, 2023, 05:24:04 pmI seem to find myself asking people to 'do some manly lifting' and/or 'apply a bit of ham-fisted monkey-force to that' a lot more in recent years. I think my arms are getting noodly.Wait until you buy something that weighs ~5 kg and they offer to carry it out to your car. That happened when I bought our (subject of rants passim) microwave. I took great delight in telling them that I'd come by bicycle.
Just a few days before New Year’s Eve in 2019, as a world-altering pandemic was silently brewing, former baseball pitcher Brandon McCarthy tweeted, “this is nonsense but did people in the past look older when they were younger?” The floodgates were opened, with Twitter users sharing old photos of their mature-looking parents accompanied by a shockingly young age. A balding man looking not unlike George W. Bush during his presidency was 23. A woman with a haircut now associated with the elderly is said to be in her 40s. A man hugging a child clearly looks to be in his 70s… but he is only 45 in the photo, and the child is his son.
Middle-aged people in the past looked like old people today.QuoteJust a few days before New Year’s Eve in 2019, as a world-altering pandemic was silently brewing, former baseball pitcher Brandon McCarthy tweeted, “this is nonsense but did people in the past look older when they were younger?” The floodgates were opened, with Twitter users sharing old photos of their mature-looking parents accompanied by a shockingly young age. A balding man looking not unlike George W. Bush during his presidency was 23. A woman with a haircut now associated with the elderly is said to be in her 40s. A man hugging a child clearly looks to be in his 70s… but he is only 45 in the photo, and the child is his son.https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-history-general-science/we-used-look-older
Twenty year-olds in cavalry twill trousers. It really happened. I was there.
