First-World Problems.

[ian]

Whilst cleansing myself in the shower on Saturday evening I had reason to discover that a power shower needs power as everything went dark. I had to soapily tip-toe across the bathroom and use the non-power shower above the bath. It's so weak. I don't know how people in poor countries without rainfall showers survive. It must be terrible for them, like shopping at Lidl.

[L CC]

The cafe on the ferry for my 5th foreign excursion this year has no Apricot jam for my continental breakfast. I might as well have had a full English.

[Cudzoziemiec]

From this BBC article about living in a space that is under 33 square metres (350 square feet): If you’re buying a tiny home or apartment, you’ll need at least six months to downsize your possessions.

How many possessions is one meant to acquire so that it takes at least six months to get rid of the excess?

Living in Slovakia, I'm sure you know plenty of some people living in less than 33 square metres. I can quite easily imagine it taking six months to get rid of all the possessions I've seen in some such places, let alone what you could have when moving from a larger place. Unless, of course, you simply dump most of it on the pavement for the council to collect in six months' time, which seems to be the First World Student way. (Cue discussion on the geographical and other frontiers of the First World.)

[hellymedic]

The cafe on the ferry for my 5th foreign excursion this year has no Apricot jam for my continental breakfast. I might as well have had a full English.

I have a cousin who holidayed in Phuket at the end of 2004.
He, his wife and 2 tiny kids had a miraculous escape from the tsunami, about which he blogged.
There was no marmalade available for breakfast immediately after the event.

Somebody complained.

[hellymedic]

Emails to my Elderly Father are bouncing or getting lost in the ether.
I have phoned him to tell him and he is Not Happy.
Dad is a month off 85.

[Luke]

So many nachos, but only so much salsa. 

[Ruthie]

I've got some of that nice goopy Arla blue cheese dip here if you want it Luke?

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

The bakery had sold out of sourdough loaves so I had to make do with a white bloomer.

[Andrij]

My bicycle is locked up at the opposite end of the train from my first class seat.

[Cudzoziemiec]

The station porter will bring it to your carriage door on arrival at your destination. A small tip is appropriate for this service; more if he also attaches your luggage to the rack, less if he shifts the derailleurs.

[Andrij]

My bicycle is locked up at the opposite end of the train from my first class seat.

Philistines! Serving wine in a water glass?!? Perhaps I should be grateful the cutlery is not plastic...

[Efrogwr]

The Waitrose branch at the motorway services didn't have any fresh tagliatelle.

[Kim]

A megahal bot just turned off my desk lamp.

[Mrs Pingu]

A megahal bot just turned off my desk lamp.

How did it do that?

[Kim]

A megahal bot just turned off my desk lamp.

How did it do that?

Code: [Select]

-!- lamp [~arduino@dyn5.ductilebiscuit.net] has joined #27ps 
<eoin> lamp: all@0
-!- mode/#27ps [+v lamp] by ChanServ
<lamp> Ch1 set to: 0
<lamp> Ch2 set to: 0   
<kim> thanks, eoin
<eoin> Weirdly barakta can print from open orifice again
<kim> lamp: ch2@80
<lamp> Ch2 set to: 80
I'd overlooked eoin learning the lamp commands.  Need to change the code so they're ignored.   

[Mrs Pingu]

Um, I'm sorry I asked.... intrigued by ductilebiscuit tho

[Jurek]

Um, I'm sorry I asked.... intrigued by ductilebiscuit tho

Ductile biscuit is good IME 

[Kim]

Um, I'm sorry I asked.... intrigued by ductilebiscuit tho

A long time ago in a university far far away, I once did a seminar on high-temperature superconductors.  The problem with these materials is that they're ceramics, which makes them about as ductile as....

[Jurek]

My bicycle is locked up at the opposite end of the train from my first class seat.

Philistines! Serving wine in a water glass?!? Perhaps I should be grateful the cutlery is not plastic...

What was the material the 'glass' was made of.
I dunno, you go for these cut-price travel options and then have the temerity, nay, the unmitigated audacity to complain about that which you haven't paid for 
 

[barakta]

A megahal bot just turned off my desk lamp.

How did it do that?

Code: [Select]

-!- lamp [~arduino@dyn5.ductilebiscuit.net] has joined #27ps 
<eoin> lamp: all@0
-!- mode/#27ps [+v lamp] by ChanServ
<lamp> Ch1 set to: 0
<lamp> Ch2 set to: 0   
<kim> thanks, eoin
<eoin> Weirdly barakta can print from open orifice again
<kim> lamp: ch2@80
<lamp> Ch2 set to: 80
I'd overlooked eoin learning the lamp commands.  Need to change the code so they're ignored.   

HAHAHAHAHA!

[Andrij]

My bicycle is locked up at the opposite end of the train from my first class seat.

Philistines! Serving wine in a water glass?!? Perhaps I should be grateful the cutlery is not plastic...

What was the material the 'glass' was made of.

Thankfully it was actually glass.

I dunno, you go for these cut-price travel options and then have the temerity, nay, the unmitigated audacity to complain about that which you haven't paid for 
 

As I wasn't on the Orient Express or some other international/Continental service I should have lowered my expectations.

[ian]

As it's regularly scheduled tube strike time, I hope we're all braced for those terrible, heartbreaking stories of commuters forced to walk for sometimes up to twenty minutes on a warm summer's day. I just heard on the radio that one person had to watch three full buses go by. Such anguish so early in the day. It can only get worse.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

There is so much stuff in my freezer it's difficult to shut the door.

[Kim]

There is so much stuff in my freezer it's difficult to shut the door.

Have you checked there isn't a long-forgotten pair of trousers embedded in the iceberg at the back?  That happened to me once^[1]...


_{[1] Admittedly in a student house.  None of the current housemates claimed the trousers, and there wasn't any chewing gum, mysterious stain or other sensible reason for them being there.  It remains an unsolved mystery.}

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Pretty sure. 

I did a lot of cooking last weekend and froze it in batches, plus there's chicken legs for Pete and a chopped up ox heart too.