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following on from these cracking egg tips.
To remove shell from your omelette mix after trying both TF and Joshvegas's tips, another piece of shell will attract the bit and make it easy to remove, whereas a spoon seems to repel it.
As an individual you can decide whether to ignore the date, but what you’re saying is wrong to give as guidance. It’s exactly how people get food poisoning
Technically of course you're right. But I do wonder what happens at midnight on the Use By date that turns my sausage from a delightful delicacy to a deathtrap.
In a similar vein; bottled water. It's taken this glacial melt water millions of years to filter down through miles of rock, how lucky are we that it arrived at the bottling plant exactly a year before it goes bad.
Cycle maintenance tips I have picked up over the years
#1 Always remove the valve core when first inflating a tubeless tyre on installation. It will allow vastly more air into the system in one go and will help seat the tyre. If you have a compressor this works every time.
#2 Right tighty, lefty loosy. Works on everything EXCEPT pedals and bottom brackets hey? However, if you ALWAYS work from the drive side when doing pedals then regardless of whether you use a pedal spanner or an allen key on the rear of the pedal then the saying is still correct. Turn it left to loosen it and right to tighten it. Won't matter which pedal or which method you use. Always the same. Just remember to stand on the drive side (reaching through the frame to work on the NDS)!
Car drivers.
Let people know which direction you intend to move in by using the factory fitted indicator light system available at your fingertips.
In a similar vein; bottled water. It’s taken this glacial melt water millions of years to filter down through miles of rock, how lucky are we that it arrived at the bottling plant exactly a year before it goes bad.
I believe thats to do with the plastic leaching into the water? could be a urban myth
Always buy 'the best you can afford'. It's often a false economy to scrimp.
Young ones - get yourself Paying into some kind of pension pot asap.
Save on ⚡ no need for a washing machine or powder, take your manky clothes down to the local thrift shop.
They wash and iron them, hang them on the rails for you and buy them back cheap as chips
Blame it on Viz again
Wash clothes at 20C, all detergents are now designed to work well at that temperature.
No bottle opener needed. Open bottle caps with a spoon, fork/knife handle etc. Grip the neck of the bottle and lever against your knuckle/hand. Works every time. Try it.
You can't tell how hot or cold it is outside when you're inside looking out through the window.
… unless you’re looking at a thermometer outside the window.
Right tighty, lefty loosy
Never understood that statement. Whichever way you turn a bolt one side of it is always going left and one side is always going right.
When renewing sealant, use a meat baster sucky thing, preferably one with liquid measurements on it. No need to take the whole tyre off and next to zero mess.
Just don't put it back in the kitchen drawer afterwards.......
Whichever way you turn a bolt one side of it is always going left and one side is always going right.
Do you often undo bolts from the threaded end?
Wouldn’t mind knowing how to remove my track pumps extension without letting some air out.
I suggest that the air you can hear escaping is mostly coming from the pump and hose rather than out of the tyre. In which case, it doesn't matter.
In which case, it doesn’t matter.
If the hose remained pressurised it would save me at least two or three stokes of the pump next time though.
If the hose remained pressurised it would save me at least two or three stokes of the pump
We've all been there.
If the hose remained pressurised it would save me at least two or three stokes of the pump next time though.
But then you'd need a valve of some sort to retain the pressure in the pump, when the downstream pressure was lower. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to get the air from the pump to the tyre when you wanted. And if you wanted to have a handy reservoir of air which you could supply on demand to the tyre, you might as well pump up a large chamber with an electric motor, so that it is always available. I think you might have just invented the air compressor.
Right tighty, lefty loosy
Never understood that statement. Whichever way you turn a bolt one side of it is always going left and one side is always going right.
Yeah, depends on your point of view and whether 'righty' means the direction in which you move your hand holding the spanner or if its something to do with the nut or bolt itself.
Is 'right' hand/spanner movement or to do with rotation?
The nut or bolt cannot move right or left. It can only rotate clockwise or anti clockwise.
Righty loosey here (taking your hands rightwards) Or are we looking at the very top section of the bolt and rotating that right?
If you gave a spanner to that apprentice above there and said, right, put that spanner on that nut and remove it, and remember, it's lefty loosey! He might put it on the bolt, move his hands left, but be tightening the bolt.
Even more confusing when left hand threads come up, or in the case of a bike, things can get more confused when it's upsidedown, spanner pointing upwards or downwards, or you're leaning over an upturned bike and removing the pedal on the other side.
Might be over analysing this 😊
EasyJet and Ryanair's free small cabin bag is usually big enough for all the clothes you need on a typical 3-4 day business trip.
The full fat paid for cabin bag is big enough for most folk for a 2 week summer holiday of you pack carefully.
(Pity I've not worked out how to only manage cabin baggage when going skiing and taking boots 🤔 )
In a similar vein; bottled water. It’s taken this glacial melt water millions of years to filter down through miles of rock, how lucky are we that it arrived at the bottling plant exactly a year before it goes bad.
Theres no requirement for bottled water to have an expiration date of any kind on it. I think its a shame that 'use by', 'sell by' and 'best before' dates are printed in a vary similar manor on packaging it leads the obvious confusion where people imagining they all mean the same thing - as ones quite safety critical for the consumer and very much requires their attention the others are really of use and interest only for the retailer and manufacturer. 'Best before' is an educated guess at how long the contents will still look/taste pretty much as it did when it left the factory - they can't guarantee exactly what a tin of beans will be like in 100 years time but they're confident it'll be consistent in look, taste and texture over a shorter time span. Sell-by dates can often have nothing to do with the contents - theyre a stock control tool.
Breakfast cereal doesnt go off. But cereal manufacturers sell advertising space on the packets. The 'sell by' date relates to the advertising, not whats inside the box. It the date they want it off the shelves because they will have sold the next tranche of advertising and need to get it on view. Its more important the shelves are cleared of the older stock - whether thats by selling at a loss or simply throwing it all in a skip becuase the advertising is where the money is.
You can’t tell how hot or cold it is outside when you’re inside looking out through the window.
But you can hear whether water is hot or cold
Edit - ooh thats weird YouTube videos seem to play sound only in safari (perfectly apt for this link) but work fine in chrome. Any other safari users not seeing that
Right tighty, lefty loosy
Forgive me if I read this on here, but in Spanish, its said that:
la derecha oprime y la izquierda libera
Which translates as:
the right oppresses and the left liberates
Switch your current account as often as possible to hoover up the joining bonuses. It's piss-easy and I've made literal thousands doing it over the years. Just make sure that you keep a record of switch dates and bonuses received so that you're able to readily discern whether you're eligible for future bonuses if returning to bank you've been with previously.
Also, "stoozing" - do all your everyday spending on a 0% interest credit card and put the corresponding amount in a high interest savings account, pocketing the interest. You just need to be disciplined and make sure the savings are accessible in time to pay off the balance at the end of the 0% period.
👆 This is why I'll never be rich.
I couldn't even begin to imagine being arsed to do any of that 😂
👆 This is why I’ll never be rich. I couldn’t even begin to imagine being arsed to do any of that 😂
Mate, honestly, it's so easy. For switching current accounts it's 15 minutes filling in an on-line form. If I told you that an ATM 15 minutes walk away would dispense a free £200, would you be lacing up your shoes?
Stoozing takes a bit more ongoing effort, but it's only 5-10 minutes oversight a month to make sure that your spending and savings match up. With the number of instant access savings accounts paying decent interest at the minute, you can make hundreds over the course of a year.
From nothing.
Loads of stuff on both on Money Saving Expert.
Teach your kids to prepare their kit/bag etc for school or activity as young as possible.
Also let them have to deal with the fallout when they forget to pack pants when they go swimming and have to cycle home in shorts pantless (this was post Covid when you had to turn up for swimming lessons with your swimming costume/trunks already on).
I've now got him changing his own tyres ahead of bike training/races. Can't wait for him to be 17 so he will be able to pick me up from the pub, he's currently 10. 😂
Right tighty, lefty loosy
I've taught my son that that to tighten a bolt/screw clockwise as you look at it. And counter clockwise to slacken a bolt/screw.
Throw a tea towel in the dishwasher once it stops it's cycle and close the door.
The masses of tupperware my wife seems to get through comes out much drier.
Right tighty, lefty loosy
This work for Props.
Never twigged that - I played in the backs and up front was a terrible mystery, thank goodness.
Might give the tea towel in the dishwasher trick a go.
When replacing damaged snooker balls don't attempt to save money by purchasing ping pong balls. They're rubbish.
I just open the door of the dishwasher when it finishes.
When replacing damaged ping pong balls don’t attempt to increase longevity by purchasing snooker balls. They’re more painful when they hit you in the face and don't bounce so well.
When navigating at sea just remember the long words and short words go together on the same side
So RIGHT = STARBOARD = Green (lights)
and LEFT = PORT = Red (lights)
When navigating at sea ...
Better tip is to just stay the **** away from the sea. Anytime anything bad happens, some clown pipes up with, "Worse things have happened at sea." Let's face it, the sea is a horrorshow of atrocities, no idea why anyone would want to go there.
Don't discard your nail clippings. Collect them up and deposit them in a pop sock, tie a knot and shazzam! you have a DIY pan scourer. (Viz)
I used to get a weird disconnection thing when walking or running with Bluetooth earphones in. When I turned my head they'd cut out. Not a deal breaker but annoying.
Then I discovered that with the ones I have, the first one you take out of the charger doofer connects to the phone; the other connects to the first one. Following so far?
I always used to take out the left one first, but my phone goes in a right-hand side pocket.
See where this is going?
I threw the bastards away and got some wired ones instead.
Just kidding. I take the right-hand side one out first now. Et voila, no more cutting out.
If cutting wood by chisel or plane or by router, think of your wood like how you stroke a cat or dog.
Wood is made up of fibres, just like how you make a cat... kind of.
If possible, you will generally get better, cleaner results by cutting in the direction that the grain lies.
If you stroke a cat bum to face, you are going against the natural 'lie ' of the fur and the cat will most likely scratch your eyes out and watch you bleed out with a satisfied purring.
It's similar when planing or chiseling wood.
Notice how in the image below the plane travels in the 'uphill' direction of the lie of the grain that you can see on the edge of the wood. It's lie is being smoothed down by the plane, not ripped up, as it might be if you planed in the opposite direction.
It's not always possible to follow this rule of thumb religiously, but it's a good thing to bear in mind.
Sometimes you might get a bit of wood where the lie of the grain is in both directions similar to below.
Often in this situation it can be a case of trying and seeing which way you get a cleaner result with.
Think about it when routing. The direction of cutter rotation should cut the grain uphill if possible. Think about it when planing/thicknessing. Think about it when using a chisel or really any cutting tool.
Be the cat.
Stop buying expensive toilet descaler and use your toilet to remind you to descale your espresso machine! Simply use the descaler water flushed through the espresso machine for descaling the toilet! When the toilet next needs descaling ding!ding! Time to descale the espresso machine!
Or better still ... move to an area where you don't need to descale anything!
