I often wonder if influencers and YouTubers get so used to talking in that specific, irritating way that it creeps into their daily life? That and their overly expressive faces and wild gesticulations.
Hey, I'm just back from Tesco and YOU WON'T BELIEVE what deal I got on cheese!
I'm away for a poo. IS TWO PLY ENOUGH?
(follow up...) It wasn't. WE HAVE A PROBLEM!!!
That cuppa you just made me? THE HONEST TRUTH!
(walks up to a random person someone struggling with boxes) WHY YOU'RE CARRYING LOADS ALL WRONG!
What have you got that isn't worth a specific thread on the subject?
On a related note - the headlines I keep seeing along the lines of "My honest review of the new superplop fandangle". So, you've been doing dishonest reviews previously?
The older I get the more I like onions.
I only found out the other day people make videos of themselves unboxing stuff and sharing their reactions?
" Here are the latest daps from Adinike only £600 let's just get them out of the box " 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Do they even try them on for fit and comfort etc ?
What evolutionary advantage does a sneeze have?
sneezing is one of those defence mechanism that you can actually trace back to pretty basic lifeforms like sponges and so on expelling waste. Need to get rid of something in a hurry? Sneezing is evolution's answer to that.
Random musing: There's been a recent discovery in the desert (I forget where, somewhere in Arabia) of one of the many pre-Islamic carvings made by prehistoric polytheist tribes-people, having a direct reference to Allah as a God who's worthy of worship, and seems to have something to do with Light and Dark. It's long been supposed that Allah (like the God in the Hebrew scriptures) was once part of a pantheon, and there's subtle references to this fact in both the Old Testament and Quran. This seemingly otherwise dull bit of rock directly references this as a fact.
How do you choose colours to have your walls painted? I've got a painter coming to my house while I'm away. Just to do the spare room and hall/stairs/landing, which are currently (and have been for 10 goddam years) a vile state of magnolia... I'm buggered if I know what colours I want/like/need. It's stressing me out.
Why do I see lovely roses growing on the rose bushes outside, as nature intended, but MrsMC sees a flower that needs cutting off, bringing inside and putting in a vase in the window?
I'm buggered if I know what colours I want/like/need. It's stressing me out.
Clue - it's really not that important. If you can't decide, let your other half, or the decorator do that.
Walls don't need to be seen IMO, let the furnishings and stuff do the talking.
Costco toilet paper is the best. FACT!
How do you choose colours to have your walls painted? I've got a painter coming to my house while I'm away. Just to do the spare room and hall/stairs/landing, which are currently (and have been for 10 goddam years) a vile state of magnolia... I'm buggered if I know what colours I want/like/need. It's stressing me out.
You get a load of paint samples from B&Q, paint a little square of each on the wall and then ultimately decide to paint everything magnolia again.
When I see out of date stuff in the supermarket, why can't I just be allowed to take it away?
Has there ever been an investigation into the virtual monopoly that Gillette have on the shaving market? Gillette the only one a man can get.
When I shower, I think about the poster on this forum who said he spends a minimum of 20 minutes in the shower. I still think about that every single day, but not by choice.
On time related bathroom musings, I always do the full 2 min brush routine on my electric toothbrush. This means 4 minutes every day. 28 mins per week, nearly 2 hours per month, slightly more than one day per year spent brushing my teeth.
I don't want to think about these things every day, but i can't help it.
You get a load of paint samples from B&Q, paint a little square of each on the wall and then ultimately decide to paint everything magnolia again.
Yeah, I was going to say that as well. Ypou spend all this time stressing about the various shades of white, or something "warming" on the yellow/orange of the spectrum and then realise that Magnolia is probably Good Enough(tm).
Or something like oatmeal. Or another off-white colour.
But not white. Never white. Unless you really want to hate your life when the slightest spec of dust, food, dog hair or ANYTHING just appears in your field of view EVERY time that you walk in the room.
God, I thought I had got over that particular bit of PTSD. Apparently not. So, NEVER white.
If you can't decide, let your other half
She lives in a different house, so doesn't care. I did try to ask her for some input and she laughed at me.
I had some paint swatches on the wall of my living room for 8 years, greens, blues, yellows,.. 8 years. Then I painted it (myself!) grey. I like the grey. But, as B&bastardQ says, there are way more than 50 shades.
sneezing is one of those defence mechanism that you can actually trace back to pretty basic lifeforms like sponges and so on expelling waste. Need to get rid of something in a hurry? Sneezing is evolution's answer to that.
More random musings then - do sponges sneeze and has anyone ever seen one give a big AATACHHOO!?
(Btw Nick, giving explanations for these things spoils the wide eyed wonder! 😀 )
The older I get the more I like onions.
The taste ?, the smell ?
Or the feel of them rolled across your body ?
The older I get the more I like onions.
The taste ?, the smell ?
Or the feel of them rolled across your body ?
Hadn't considered the 3rd option, but now you mention it...
The older I get the more I like onions.
The taste ?, the smell ?
Or the feel of them rolled across your body ?
Hadn't considered the 3rd option, but now you mention it...
ooh, you remind me of hot dogs, let me have a nibble! 😀
I had some paint swatches on the wall of my living room for 8 years, greens, blues, yellows,.. 8 years.
Oh my! You sound like my mother in law, analysis paralysis. She looked at sofas most weekends for 3 years straight, (my father in law is the most patient bloke I know) and then got the one they saw on the first trip.
My missis is entirely the opposite, I think it's as a reaction to her mum's indecisiveness. Last time we moved house, carpets, curtains and wall colors all chosen in an hour. Boosh, done. No regrets.
When and why did all this boomer, Millennial,Gen Z rubbish start .How did such simplistic nonsense replace class analysis?
What evolutionary advantage does a sneeze have?
It almost the first evolutionary step in life - living things need to be able to move towards and embrace good things (light/food/sexy time) and recoil, flee from or expell bad things (preditors, disease and poison)
So sneezing and vomiting as a way of getting bad things and irritants out are some of the most fundimental drives we have (which is probably why sneezing in particular feels quite good) as dealing with those fundimental threats is of greater importance than missing out on one meal in your hunting scenario
Its also why in our social media age theres a drive towards polarisation and radicalisation and the algoryths increase engagement by appealing to those very primal urges such as 'disgust' - when you look at those extra little reaction buttons that were added in addtion to 'like' those button have values attached to them and 'sad' and 'angry' have the highest value - facebook and X in particualr are much more interested in the things you hate than the things you like and you'll be fed more content that makes you sad and angry
I'm away for a poo. IS TWO PLY ENOUGH?
(follow up...) It wasn't. WE HAVE A PROBLEM!!!
I use to imagine something similar in the offices of MBR
Tescos own brand bog roll. Can this compete with the big brands? Picking up the roll it felt get good, it comes in great range of colours too. The 16 pack is particularly good value.
In action the paper felt just fractionally more fragile than the class leading Andrex. But I’m 15 tip rolls in and I’ve still yet to put a finger through. Friction is also solid and i felt acceptably clean after each use
If you’re on a budget this is the paper to buy. But if you can afford it stick with class leading Andrex
8/10 recommended
You get a load of paint samples from B&Q, paint a little square of each on the wall and then ultimately decide to paint everything magnolia again.
Whats joyful is ..... quite often the ready-mixed sample pots in B&Q don't actually accurately reflect the colour in the full size pots. Had a whole bunch of yellows and pale oranges to agree with a client agreed on one particular yellow sample pot and one particular orange one which was for a contrasting stripe. Bought full size pots of each and the real paints were practically the same bloody colour
When I see out of date stuff in the supermarket, why can't I just be allowed to take it away?
This is something thats sort of puzzling me this week in the contexct I'm on a forklift truck course but decided to train with a foodbank charity as they had a slot available right away and it seemed like a nice thing for my money to go towards (and actually its just been a lovely place to spend time)
They've been having an issue recently with supermarkets giving them food too close to the expiry date as theres not enough time get the food out to anyone before the stuff is out of date. Basically the supermarkets are fiddling their waste handling numbers by 'donating' goods that they should really be throwing away (at a fincancial and reputational cost) which in turn means the charity is having to throw them away instead -at their own effort and cost and also the waste goes on their audit
So the goods they are receiving should be at least 3 days before their useby date - which I guess means the decision that stuff is surplus and to be donated is being made before a lot of stuff even gets into a shelf. If we see close dated/discounted food thats not the stuff that goes on to foodbanks/soup kitchens etc - it would seem that stuff is diverted before it even goes out on display
What evolutionary advantage does a sneeze have?
Depends whether you’re asking from the perspective of the host or the pathogen. From the perspective of the pathogen, it’s a good way of helping to spread genetic material.
When and why did all this boomer, Millennial,Gen Z rubbish start .How did such simplistic nonsense replace class analysis?
In the late 1800s - early 1900s.
Was it not enough for you to make a fool of yourself in just the one thread?
Classy 🙄
Why do people advertise on the classifieds and then not reply to messages. It's all rather shoddy.
How come the sofa is irresistible for a snooze but so uncomfortable when I wake up?
sneezing is one of those defence mechanism that you can actually trace back to pretty basic lifeforms like sponges and so on expelling waste. Need to get rid of something in a hurry? Sneezing is evolution's answer to that.
More random musings then - do sponges sneeze and has anyone ever seen one give a big AATACHHOO!?
(Btw Nick, giving explanations for these things spoils the wide eyed wonder! 😀 )
But what's the reason for the photic sneeze reflex (or Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst (ACHOO Syndrome))?
Why do I see lovely roses growing on the rose bushes outside, as nature intended, but MrsMC sees a flower that needs cutting off, bringing inside and putting in a vase in the window?
Why not? There’s plenty more on the bush, and roses were cultivated for that purpose. I have a rose outside that was given to me in memory of my late partner, Jo, or Joey as she always referred to herself. The rose is called ‘Just Joey’, and it produces beautiful scented orange flowers, and I’ll often cut one and put it into a small vase of hers and have it on the coffee table. I can’t see the flowers outside, so it’s just nice to have one indoors. Particularly as the vase sits next to a ceramic jar with her ashes in.
@cougar,have you not read the simplistic rubbish Bruce we is spouting about older people.He is the fool not me.
To much attention from you thanks
Motorbikers with Predator helmets with the big dreadlocks or at the other end of the scale, furry teddy bear type helmets with the ears etc. I get they're trying to be "different" but to me it just says that they're wired wrongly.
Why was someone flying a drone outside my bathroom window last night, while I was in there having a nice relaxing soak in the bath? Have peeping toms gone hi-tech? And who the hell would want to see my middle-aged dad bod anyway?
Potentially a money-savings scheme from the NHS - saves you going in and scaring other patients as you undress to be observed.
The drone captures all they need to see in real-time and that video reel is then reviewed when the apprentices clock back in the next day.
This not only saves time and money, it helps review more patients as well as hardening the young reviewers to seeing this kind of wanton damage that can be done to the human body and it means they have less risk of PTSD in later life.
(I appear to be projecting my own physical failings on the whole population with the comments above!)
Bite sized/smaller/mini versions of snacks/sweets etc often taste better than their full sized counterpart.
Notable examples:
Mini Jaffa Cakes
Mini Mars Bars
Mini Party Rings
What to do when I 'age out' of certain exercises/pastimes, i.e. I've only got into climbing in my mid-late 40's, I can feel that it'll probably reach a point where I'm hurting more than helping myself with it and I already seem to be one of the elders of the climbing wall. Running, I'm a heavy person, is there a time when I will get more injuries than runs in. Skiing, do I care about life after the point my knees won't take ski slopes any more.
What to do when I 'age out' of certain exercises/pastimes, i.e. I've only got into climbing in my mid-late 40's, I can feel that it'll probably reach a point where I'm hurting more than helping myself with it and I already seem to be one of the elders of the climbing wall
Join a birdwatching group. At 57 I seem to be about half the age of 2/3rds of the other members. But they all appear to be significantly younger than the audience of Gower Society talks who must have been born at the same time as the glacial ice sheets retreated from Gower!
You can only buy 500mg paracetamol in 16s, albeit off the shelf in Tesco, so you can't buy enough to really harm you.
I went in for a top up of Co-codamol, containing 500mg paracetamol and 8mg codeine - do i want a small pack of 32 or a bigger one of 64? Albeit this is the in store pharmacy but given you are only supposed to take for 2-3 days, they seemed perfectly happy to sell me 8 days worth and plenty to do myself a load of damage if that was the purpose.
Bite sized/smaller/mini versions of snacks/sweets etc often taste better than their full sized counterpart.
Notable examples:
Mini Jaffa Cakes
Mini Mars Bars
Mini Party Rings
The first two - smaller volume means proportionally greater surface area, hence a higher proportion of chocolate, which is good. No idea about the party rings
