nb, other than feeling a bit sick, I've not had too much of a reaction.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 31 July 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
Milk freezes really well, we Canadians have the luxury of milk bags of course but theoretically you could freeze small amounts in ziplock bags or similar to have a constant unspoiled source
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 31 July 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
Somebody was saying that milk had been frozen without telling the customers which lead to milk going off faster when it was thawed presale. Which apparently contributed to its going off so frequently. I've tended to buy 2 litres then find a large part of it has gone off either because the fridge door had not been closed properly or despite it actually being closed. But did seem like a good opportunity to check out if going milk free did clear up things that had been bothering me. Sore throats etc
So freezing milk again is a bit too much effort.
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 August 2022 08:34 (one year ago) link
my fridge (and local supermarket fridges according to a note on the door!) couldn't really cope with the recent high temperatures. i've switched to 2 pints at a time so it's not hanging around so much.
― koogs, Monday, 1 August 2022 11:27 (one year ago) link
Eyedrops up the nose, hayfever nose spritzer in the eyes
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 5 August 2022 08:31 (one year ago) link
First socks, then shoes
― calstars, Friday, 5 August 2022 11:28 (one year ago) link
Chuck reminds me of that story about the guy reaching in the medicine cabinet for hemorrhoid ointment and choosing the superglue by accident
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 5 August 2022 11:35 (one year ago) link
i mean it could solve the main problem
― mark s, Friday, 5 August 2022 12:10 (one year ago) link
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 5 August 2022 12:23 (one year ago) link
argh sorry
Unless you're John Rambo or something, who keeps superglue in their medicine cabinet?
― groovypanda, Monday, 8 August 2022 07:47 (one year ago) link
It's an urban legend.
― pplains, Monday, 8 August 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
Last month we got off a train in Edinburgh with two children, two suitcases, two tote bags, a small rucksack and a buggy. Totally forgot about the large rucksack, with raincoats for Scottish Highland weather and my good camera and sunglasses, until an hour later. Luckily got it back the same day after two bus rides to the station and back, 20 mins each way. Today we(*) left a rucksack with my wife's wallet in on the luggage rack of a train in London. Just on the way to pick it up from the terminating station one hour away.(*) I, obviously.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Friday, 12 August 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
And today I lost my wallet in a supermarket car park. Found it later well hidden in the car boot but not before cancelling all my cards - which meant we couldn't pay for anything as my wife had cancelled hers after rhe bag incident above (and her google pay was linked to my card!!) and we didn't have any cash, luckily her dad was there to buy ice creams and parking.Honestly I know looking after kids can max out your mental capacity at the best of times but I am getting worried about my brain.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
as rain threatened i carefully closed the window that open in the sitting, entirely igoring the other window, literally right beside it, which was also wide open
enjoyed the downpour outside for a while sat on the other side of my flat, went back into the sitting room to discover plenty of it inside and half the floor awash
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
Last time we were in SF, I left the car open with a suitcase in it, which was stolen. This time I drove my family crazy by asking "did I lock the car?" every single time we walked away from it.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
make toast, spread peanut butter / martmite on toast, put knife in washing up bowl. two uncut rounds of toast, have to dirty another knife to get them into mouth-sized pieces. every single time.
― koogs, Sunday, 4 September 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
oh god same
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 September 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
san marmite bcz yuk
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 September 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
I haven’t cut up my toast in 20 years!
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 4 September 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
such a grownup wow ;)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 September 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link
I have been using kitchen towel to wipe the knife between uses, would recommend (though have been really going through a lot of kitchen towel)
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 4 September 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
xp you should see the big boy bites I can take out of that whole piece, I am very clever
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 5 September 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
i continue to treasure my tiny child-squares
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 September 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
I have a hierarchy of kitchen towel now. The good, expensive stuff for when it's really needed, and 'blue roll' like what builders use that I buy in bulk for high-volume needs.
― kinder, Monday, 5 September 2022 08:34 (one year ago) link
i: took a smug moment as i poured the water into my second air-press coffee of the morning, to self-congratulate for remembering to put the filter in (this time!) ii: realised as the cup filled with hot grounds that i had NOT in fact put the filter in iii: realised that i had confused "actually putting the filter in" with "carefully reminding myself to put the filter in"
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 10:07 (one year ago) link
I go through that all the time. "Oh, that credit card bill is due today! So glad I thought of that!"
*Starts next mission of Red Dead Redemption 2*
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
B got the hardest lesson with that recently. The cat's rego was due, $30, literally chump change. He TOLD me he'd paid it (I usually pay all the bills, I dont know why I left that one up to him).
Next thing we know we have a $380 fine in the mail because he didnt pay it. grrr.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link
lol i’m assuming car not cat?
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
No, cat!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 23:41 (one year ago) link
They gotta be registered/chipped with the local council.
I am liking the idea of Lazslo on wheels though.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 23:42 (one year ago) link
How do they know if the cat's not chipped? Does your city have cat catchers?
― pplains, Thursday, 8 September 2022 02:37 (one year ago) link
Our cats never leave the house, so they're off the grid.
If we'd neve registered him to start with? yeah theyd have no idea, and thats what I did with my last cat.
But if he ever ended up in the pound they'd likely just put him down so its a good idea.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 8 September 2022 03:53 (one year ago) link
But yeah this lads a 90% indoor cat (10% monitored backyard funs)
for the 3rd time in little over a year i went to the supermarket with no money - i usually go for a walk in the mornings and take only the essentials - sunglasses, phone and keys. this morning the walk ended up in the supermarket and unfortunately they don't take any of those things as payment and i only realised at the till. worse, it was a big shop and a supermarket twice as far away as the last twice, 20 minutes from home.
the last time i did this i hid some paper money in my key-fob as a fall-back, figuring i'd always have that with me. but i'd spent it getting change for the launderette and didn't replace it.
(and will investigate google pay...)
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 09:47 (one year ago) link
It’s horrible but occasionally helpful that my phone gas a 3 card but teeny wallet door in its back— and i lose/forget/forego my phone the least of my important objects.
― i'm intentionally vague, intending to front multitudes (Hunt3r), Thursday, 15 September 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
i set up Google pay, then checked the lock button and turned off nfc so if i want to ever use it I'll need to turn that back on but...
i hope it doesn't need connectivity because my phone always losses signal in ever supermarket. which i'm sure is illegal if they are actively blocking
― koogs, Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
making lunch the other day. put the bread back in the freezer. then i wrapped up a leftover onion for the fridge to use later…that evening i went to the fridge to use it up for dinner & couldn’t find it. figured i had imagined it or accidentally binned it by mistake. oh well. cut to many day later Mr Veg was rummaging through the freezer & pulled out a wrapped up hunk of frozen onion & says with a bemused smile “Is this yours?”lol facepalm well at least i can use it now!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 September 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
Can you still use a frozen onion once it's thawed? LOL
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 17 September 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
when my gran moved in with my aunt in the 70s mum and dad inherited her freezer and found it full of frozen onions and lemons
― mark s, Saturday, 17 September 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
yeah it seemed to thaw out ok! plus you can buy bags of frozen pearl onions at the supermarket so freezing certainly doesn’t hurt them i don’t know that i’d do it on the regular tho
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 September 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
It just seems like you'd lose a ton of water, but what do I know
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 17 September 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
i have tomorrow's date in my head for some reason but can't think why. is it a deadline? do i have somewhere to be? or was it just the expiry date on a random grocery item?
(it's not the milk, that was the 1st and the 6th)
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 05:04 (one year ago) link
oh, it's the new season of Taskmaster!
I’m watching taskmaster (s3; just learned about it) right now!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 30 September 2022 01:52 (one year ago) link
i just started taskmaster for the first time & am loving the stupid hilarity
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 September 2022 02:41 (one year ago) link
i think this is series 11 or 12. it was quite a slow burner here having started on a minor tv channel. since it got picked up by proper TV around series 8 there have been daily repeats of the earlier series.
and after all that i noticed halfway through the first episode that i hadn't set a recording for it (but caught the +1 repeat)
(i don't know if that's common but our 'freeview' free to air digital service has a lot of +1 channels which are copies of other channels delayed by an hour)
― koogs, Friday, 30 September 2022 05:22 (one year ago) link
One our teens loves that show!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 30 September 2022 08:24 (one year ago) link