Author Topic: First-World Problems. (Read 336598 times)

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #700 on:** 02 February, 2015, 11:07:03 am »

I've run out of Pukka teabags

Oaky · « **Reply #701 on:** 02 February, 2015, 11:24:33 am »

Quote from: ian on 02 February, 2015, 11:06:07 am

Quote from: Oaky on 02 February, 2015, 11:02:12 am
The ice buckets in the BA First class lounge champagne bar are running perilously close to having no ice in them. My Taittinger could get WARM if nothing is done about this !

It's time to switch to the Port.

Good thinking, but by the time my liner arrived in the colonies I'd need to be on my way home already. ;-)

Riggers · « **Reply #702 on:** 02 February, 2015, 11:29:30 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2015, 10:43:10 pm

Christmas Pudding will ~~keep~~ be better if thrown in bin.

Mince pies can be ~~frozen~~ stuffed up yer jacksie.

Can ~~they not be distributed amongst~~ you not make lovely Brownies and Lemon Drizzle cake for the YACFers who drift across of your Spaziergang later in the year?

Corrected that for you Wowser.

Oaky · « **Reply #703 on:** 02 February, 2015, 11:43:41 am »

Quote from: ian on 02 February, 2015, 11:06:07 am

Quote from: Oaky on 02 February, 2015, 11:02:12 am
The ice buckets in the BA First class lounge champagne bar are running perilously close to having no ice in them. My Taittinger could get WARM if nothing is done about this !

It's time to switch to the Port.

Also, I neglected to pack my smoking jacket, so I'd only have to send my man home to fetch it!

ian · « **Reply #704 on:** 02 February, 2015, 11:48:57 am »

Quote from: Oaky on 02 February, 2015, 11:43:41 am

Quote from: ian on 02 February, 2015, 11:06:07 am
Quote from: Oaky on 02 February, 2015, 11:02:12 am
The ice buckets in the BA First class lounge champagne bar are running perilously close to having no ice in them. My Taittinger could get WARM if nothing is done about this !

It's time to switch to the Port.

Also, I neglected to pack my smoking jacket, so I'd only have to send my man home to fetch it!

Surely they have an in-lounge tailor on-hand for such eventualities. Are you sure you're not in the business class lounge?

Oaky · « **Reply #705 on:** 02 February, 2015, 12:29:49 pm »

With the business class plebs, silver card holders and associated hangers-on? Not bloody likely!

Anyway, unless my free upgrade hurries the fuck up, I'm going to be sitting with them for 8 hours anyway so I'm not about to volunteer for any extra duty TVM!

Could this day get any worse?

Oaky · « **Reply #706 on:** 02 February, 2015, 12:44:23 pm »

Quote from: Oaky on 02 February, 2015, 12:29:49 pm

Could this day get any worse?

Apparently so! They just asked if I wanted a newspaper then offered a Daily Mail!

Luckily, I took the precaution of popping a Times and a Telegraph in my bag for just such ayn eventuality. Just need to get somebody to iron them.

ian · « **Reply #707 on:** 15 February, 2015, 07:05:32 pm »

Amazon is down and I need a new Kindle book for my Sunday evening soak. The bath is filling and their page remains stubbornly unresponsive. There's now an epic battle between bath and internet behemoth, who will win...

Ham · « **Reply #708 on:** 15 February, 2015, 07:06:48 pm »

Amazon.com seems to be up thobut

Andrij · « **Reply #709 on:** 15 February, 2015, 07:49:00 pm »

Quote from: ian on 15 February, 2015, 07:05:32 pm

Amazon is down and I need a new Kindle book for my Sunday evening soak. The bath is filling and their page remains stubbornly unresponsive. There's now an epic battle between bath and internet behemoth, who will win...

It's not just you.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #710 on:** 15 March, 2015, 07:15:17 pm »

The cat completely destroyed the relaxing bit of my relaxing bath by perching on the side, meowing and tapping me on the arm, and then trying to pounce on my toes.

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #711 on:** 15 March, 2015, 07:18:07 pm »

Quote from: ian on 15 February, 2015, 07:05:32 pm

Amazon is down and I need a new Kindle book for my Sunday evening soak. The bath is filling and their page remains stubbornly unresponsive. There's now an epic battle between bath and internet behemoth, who will win...

Are Kindles waterproof? I'd love to take mine in the bath, but I'm scared of getting electrocuted.

mcshroom · « **Reply #712 on:** 15 March, 2015, 07:23:00 pm »

Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 15 March, 2015, 07:18:07 pm

Quote from: ian on 15 February, 2015, 07:05:32 pm
Amazon is down and I need a new Kindle book for my Sunday evening soak. The bath is filling and their page remains stubbornly unresponsive. There's now an epic battle between bath and internet behemoth, who will win...

Are Kindles waterproof? I'd love to take mine in the bath, but I'm scared of getting electrocuted.

I don't think so, but they work through sealed plastic bags I believe

ian · « **Reply #713 on:** 15 March, 2015, 07:47:51 pm »

Quote from: mcshroom on 15 March, 2015, 07:23:00 pm

Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 15 March, 2015, 07:18:07 pm
Quote from: ian on 15 February, 2015, 07:05:32 pm
Amazon is down and I need a new Kindle book for my Sunday evening soak. The bath is filling and their page remains stubbornly unresponsive. There's now an epic battle between bath and internet behemoth, who will win...

Are Kindles waterproof? I'd love to take mine in the bath, but I'm scared of getting electrocuted.
I don't think so, but they work through sealed plastic bags I believe

I put mine in a sealable sandwich bag (I'm not that cheap, it's a Waitrose sandwich bag). Works fine. Unless you undo the thing to jiggle it into position while in the bath, one of those things that with hindsight could only have had one outcome (after a week in the airing cupboard it worked fine, and as a boon smells of Badedas now). There are proper waterproof cases but a medium sandwich bag does the same job at a fraction of the cost. Reading a good book in a hot bath with a bottle of fine beer on the side is why the first world was invented.

Dibdib · « **Reply #714 on:** 27 March, 2015, 09:45:44 pm »

FWP #1 - An evening of car woes, ending in an AA rescue truck, mean I need a stiff drink. (I'm home now, and fine, but still.)

FWP #2 - I'm all out of whiskey.

FWP #3 - The little shop at the top of the road doesn't sell Jim Beam. It only has Jack Daniels, which ISN'T EVEN REAL BOURBON!

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #715 on:** 28 March, 2015, 01:33:50 am »

ALL bourbon is made in bathtubs. By gangsters.

Trufax.

Andrij · « **Reply #716 on:** 28 March, 2015, 07:51:16 am »

When it comes to bourbon one can do much better than Jim Beam, though the little shop at the top of the road may not oblige.

Pingu · « **Reply #717 on:** 28 March, 2015, 01:39:53 pm »

Quote from: Dibdib on 27 March, 2015, 09:45:44 pm

FWP #1 - An evening of car woes, ending in an AA rescue truck, mean I need a stiff drink. (I'm home now, and fine, but still.)

FWP #2 - I'm all out of whiskey.

FWP #3 - The little shop at the top of the road doesn't sell Jim Beam. It only has Jack Daniels, which ISN'T EVEN REAL BOURBON!

So, is FWP #4, nae whisky?

Dibdib · « **Reply #718 on:** 28 March, 2015, 02:13:31 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 28 March, 2015, 01:39:53 pm

Quote from: Dibdib on 27 March, 2015, 09:45:44 pm
FWP #1 - An evening of car woes, ending in an AA rescue truck, mean I need a stiff drink. (I'm home now, and fine, but still.)

FWP #2 - I'm all out of whiskey.

FWP #3 - The little shop at the top of the road doesn't sell Jim Beam. It only has Jack Daniels, which ISN'T EVEN REAL BOURBON!

So, is FWP #4, nae whisky?

No, I decided the least worst course of action was to slum it with a bottle of JD. It's not that bad.

And yes, I'm sure there's plenty of better bourbons than Jim Beam but it's what I usually keep in the house. The "black label" stuff, if it's there. It's reasonably priced, fairly easy to get in supermarkets, and (IMO) a lot better than Jack Daniels.

jsabine · « **Reply #719 on:** 28 March, 2015, 02:36:01 pm »

I concur with the honourable member for Northlandshire.

Whiskey /= whisky.

Canardly · « **Reply #720 on:** 28 March, 2015, 02:44:28 pm »

I thought Whiskey was Irish Whisky IUSWIM?

jsabine · « **Reply #721 on:** 28 March, 2015, 02:47:03 pm »

Whiskey=Irish or American.
Whisky=Scotch (or Scotch-a-likes, like Japanese or Welsh).

hellymedic · « **Reply #722 on:** 28 March, 2015, 10:37:04 pm »

I can't book a mini-cab online for tomorrow's outing because their website won't accept my credentials, which I have used successfully previously used and have rechecked.
Their website is refusing to send me my 'forgotten' password.
I cannot phone the cab firm because that would disturb partner, who is listening to a recording of the Mendelssohn he was practicing on our grand piano earlier.

I'll have to phone them tomorrow.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #723 on:** 29 March, 2015, 01:59:28 pm »

My stupid watch is supposed to change gear automagically at the start of BST and hasn't. I have had to tell the wretched thing that I'm in Paris

Andrij · « **Reply #724 on:** 29 March, 2015, 02:50:12 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 29 March, 2015, 01:59:28 pm

My stupid watch is supposed to change gear automagically at the start of BST and hasn't. I have had to tell the wretched thing that I'm in Paris

Surely Mortagne-au-Perche!