| Lochalsh
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Honey, take a photo of your brown beauties and I'll add it to my albumen!
Reply #1741. Nov 07 10, 11:23 AM
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| veronikkamarrz
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I think I would have had the last one 'dippy!' Lots of groaners here. I love it!
Reply #1742. Nov 07 10, 11:25 AM
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| Lochalsh
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I'm going to back off. It's difficult for me to come out of my shell. :(
Reply #1743. Nov 07 10, 11:26 AM
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| lesley153
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Sod's law says, if you want a dippy egg, and you've only got one egg left, you'll break the yolk. Always works for me. I made an omelette because I thought it would be quicker to eat too, so I could get to the shops in good time. Anyway, dippy eggs need to cooked slowly, and savoured. It's sacrilege to hurry them - isn't it?
Nothing to groan at anywhere in this post - sorry - must try harder. |
Reply #1744. Nov 07 10, 11:31 AM
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honeybee4 
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I sure am glad that I can take a yoke.
Reply #1745. Nov 07 10, 11:31 AM
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Rowena8482
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With one egg, I'd have a fried egg sarnie, in toast, with a cheese single (oh vile processed plastic nastiness of delight) and a small dollop of Heinz tomato ketchup. Unless I had Velveeta in the house, in which case it would be that - my lovely american friends the "Cave Girls" send food parcels to the poor benighted Brit from time to time and always include a block or two of Velveeta :-D
Reply #1746. Nov 07 10, 11:56 AM
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Rowena8482
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Lesley, come the Glorious Day when I persuade you to come and visit me, I shall introduce you to the delights of "a parmo", which is about the closest thing Hartlepool has to a local delicacy :-D We shall daringly damn the cholesterol and saturated trans-crap and everything else, and flinging caution to the wind, tuck in until the cheese and garlic sauce runs down our chins with wild abandon :-D
Reply #1747. Nov 07 10, 11:58 AM
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bionic4ever
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So nice to have some eggstra chuckles with our blogging this morning!
Reply #1748. Nov 07 10, 12:02 PM
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| lesley153
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Isn't it just, Beth?
And Rowena, that is the best offer I've had for many a long year. I shall remember to pack a bib. :D |
Reply #1749. Nov 07 10, 12:20 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Would that be "cluckles" rather than "chuckles"?
(Sorry, guess I should mind my own biddiness.)
Lesley, an aunt-by-marriage who grew up in a large Arkansas family during the Depression told me that, for cheap entertainment, she and her siblings would go out to sing to their chickens until the birds fell asleep, and off their roosts. The kids, of course, had bundles of laughs from that.
These days, we pay $10 for a movie, hoping for the same result.
Reply #1750. Nov 07 10, 12:37 PM
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| lesley153
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| What's that - hoping that the film will put us to sleep? Depends who's in it! |
Reply #1751. Nov 07 10, 5:06 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Did I make a mess of it? I meant to say that we pay to have bundles of laughs.
Reply #1752. Nov 07 10, 5:51 PM
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| lesley153
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| No, I misunderstood "result": you have to pay $10 to get a laugh. How silly do I feel? (Reply optional.) |
Reply #1753. Nov 07 10, 5:58 PM
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| lesley153
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Woken up horribly early by intermittent beeping. Surely it's not builders, hammering metal at crack of dawn - surely the new house at the bottom of the garden is finished by now? Perhaps it's the dawn chorus brought to us today by a bird with "hammer" in its name. No, wrong both times. I stumbled downstairs, to find the carbon monoxide detector on the fridge facing the deceased gas boiler, beeping its nasty little plastic head off.
There's a sticker on it which says replace unit October 2010, but I have no gas appliances for the time being, so I didn't take any notice, and eventually forgot about it.
Open out front of of unit. There's a company phone number, and what looks like a battery cover, with the warning that this cover doesn't come off. I can't put it in the bin. It's loud, and will frighten the dustbinmen. (It's hard enough to get Bedford dustbinmen to do their job properly at the best of times. This will not help.) Or I could drown it, but it'll probably just beep louder.
Give up thinking - it doesn't help - and phone the company.
"Oh dear - it's the end-of-life alarm."
(I thought it might be.) How long does the beeping go on for?
"Quite a long time, I'm afraid."
How can I make it stop, other than binning it or drowning it?
"See the bit marked CAUTION? That's the battery cover."
I saw that, but it says this cover cannot be removed, so I didn't even try.
"We put that to stop people replacing the battery instead of getting a new unit. Get a screwdriver..."
... and the thingy continued to beep all through the conversation.
Resist temptation to get hammer. Search for screwdriver that doesn't have a Phillips head. Jemmy cover off, disconnect batteries, sigh with relief. Blissful silence.
Isn't communication a wonderful thing?
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My CO detector is five years old and has (had) a five-year shelf life. The new model lasts for six years, and there's a switch so you can switch it off, pack it to take on holiday with you, switch on again where you get there. Genius.
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To the hospital for my Warfarin check. Last one was on the second, and the newest entry says repeat in one week = the eighth. Must be the new maths: 2 + 7 = 8 therefore 7 = 6.
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To the surgery to collect a prescription for more Warfarin (ugh) and to Sainsburys to get it made up. Walk in. First time in years I've been able to walk in without a trolley to lean on. Feels good - I like it.
Go straight to pharmacy and wander about while I'm waiting for the pills. Spot some hair products I've never seen before. "Happy hair days" - that's nice. Made in UK - that's nice too. On the front of the bottle, it announces no parabens, no sulphates, no mineral oils. What a good discovery. I want one!
Read back of packaging. No sodium laureth suphate. Well, it did say no sulphates. Read ingredients. Aqua, ammonium lauryl sulfate... huh? that's not supposed to be there. Are we supposed to see "no sulphates" and "no sodium laureth suphate" and then trust them enough not to read the ingredients? Grrr. Would they say they hadn't lied - they use sulfates but they only said no sulphates? How stupid do they think we are? GRRR!
Take it to customer service.
"That doesn't look right, does it? And there's no careline, no email, no website. Just a PO box in Teddington. But the pharmacy need to know about it; it's one of their lines. I'll tell them."
I'll take it - I've got to go back there anyway.
Take it to pharmacy. (Pills are ready - good!) Explain why I found fault with the words on the packaging. Sales assistant squints at it. Says she doesn't understand these things and she'll need to ask her pharmacist.
What's to understand? Sulphate is our traditional spelling, and sulfate is the American equivalent which America wishes we would all use. The pharmacist, who looks all of 14, grins a lot but doesn't comment. They say it's not a pharmacy item, it's Health and Beauty, so customer service needs to deal with it. I'll take it there - I pass it on my way out anyway.
Return it to Customer Service.
"I see what you mean. Happy Hair Days of Teddington are in big trouble."
Leave her with it. Gratefully get in the car. Get petrol, get home, make a large mug of tea and sit in a quiet room. Nice.
It'll be interesting to know what the buyers and the manufacturers say, but I don't suppose I shall find out. |
Reply #1754. Nov 08 10, 1:04 PM
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Rowena8482
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Lauryl and laureth are different. If you really really want chapter, verse, and lovely molecular diagrams, ask Jonno lol, that's not my chemistry degree, I bought it on eBay and have had several children since so my brain has rotted too much to explain. They are different enough that the packaging is "true" in a trading standards sense of the word though.
Reply #1755. Nov 08 10, 2:03 PM
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bionic4ever
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That's strange that the CO detector's battery cover doesn't come off! My CO detector needs batteries replaced once a year (which it recently rudely reminded me at 3am), but it also doesn't have an expiration date.
Reply #1756. Nov 08 10, 3:04 PM
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| lesley153
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Rowena, I hadn't got that far. I was still stuck on sulphate/sulfate: whether or not the marketing people thought they might pull the wool over consumers' eyes by saying that the product was free of English spelling but still contained American spelling.
But I shall ask Jonno - thank you for the suggestion - and I may even ask Snopes when I have a minute.
Beth, I assumed it wouldn't come off, but it seems that people try to change the batteries when they really should be changing the unit. Still, it yielded to a little screwdriver plus a bit of adrenalin for depriving me of sleep.
The battery lasted five years. Why can't over-the-counter batteries last that long? |
Reply #1757. Nov 08 10, 5:00 PM
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bionic4ever
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EverReady and Duracell would never make any money if their batteries lasted five years. :)
Reply #1758. Nov 08 10, 5:20 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Yes, let's hear it for the OLD BATterieS. :)
Reply #1759. Nov 08 10, 5:28 PM
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| lesley153
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No they wouldn't. :(
Yay Bats! :) |
Reply #1760. Nov 08 10, 5:42 PM
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