Why cigarettes are still sold all over the world in 2022, causing 7+ million deaths a year.
Why cigarettes are still sold all over the world in 2022, causing 7+ million deaths a year.
Why am I always perfectly between holes on a strap, no matter what watch or strap?
Maybe a metric strap and an imperial wrist could be the issue.
Thanks guys, I'll try an converter
How on earth have we ordered 920 Nespresso capsules since October?!
Going to have to start just offering tea when people come over!
Self service checkouts. Not so much the tills themselves as I use them, more so those who have a rammed basket, take an absolute age to scan each item and then, and only then, bag it all.
"Unexpected d!psh!t in the bagging area"
Why people put an item for sale on ebay at say £105 buy it now or best offer, you offer £100 and its instantly rejected. What's the point of the best offer?
It depends.
What it depends on largely is the quality of weight calibration of the tills and the procedures of the shop.
For example...
In my local Co-op I bag at the same time as scanning. This seems to be most efficient.
In my local Iceland (yes, shock, I shop in Iceland) I bag only after finishing scanning. The reason is that the weighing mechanism does not seem to be well calibrated and adding my own bags to the process seems to cause it repeated confusion and seriously slows down the process.
So someone who seems like a "d!psh!t" may just be experienced and has worked out the most efficient way of working.
Within this, it can also depend on one's profile of purchases. Some types of item seem to cause more problems than others, as do reduced items (depending on shop procedures).
This is the downside of not drinking tea and making sure your in-laws and aunt have a machine so you have something to drink when you’re there. My mum refuses to accept one so I’m stuck with water at hers. I bring my own capsules to my sister in laws.
I think tea would be easier…
I’m now feeling validated for packing the Nespresso machine when we went to stay in a cottage in Wales for a few days last year. The grief I got was unreal.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
The caffeine addiction is strong in this thread!
Last edited by markrlondon; 24th May 2022 at 15:04.
I personally choose to keep my capsules.
When I travel, this will keep boiling water hot enough for hours.
This will make a mean espresso, as creamy as with a new machine (the Nespresso capsule holder is an add on)
The last piece of the puzzle was the capsule wallet. It only holds 8, but if I need more I can take the sleeve(s).
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'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
Jeez.
I seriously need to up my coffee game.
I feel a tight philistine reading this. I bung a cup of milk in the microwave for two minutes and then add instant coffee and some honey.
I don't drink coffee, I take tea, my dear
I like my toast done on one side
And you can hear it in my accent when I talk
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Why people quote all the photos in a post - to add just one line of their own................
Why is E5 petrol cheaper than diesel?
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
i) They get more of it out of a barrel of oil than petrol maybe?
ii) The demand is higher?
iii) It's a filthy polluting fuel.
iv) To discourage people from spilling it all over the petrol nozzles and the forecourt.
Dates on watches piss me off. Mrs wanted a Datejust for her 40th and I duly obliged. She doesn't wear it everyday (Apple Watch on gym days) so once or twice week I'm asked to set the time and date, using that fiddly little crown. And more often than not she tells me midway through the afternoon the date's wrong.
Dates on watches are stupid and pointless, excluding perpetual calendars of course.
Schools that suspend pupils who have been caught playing truant.
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True, except Diesel is a by-product of making petrol. You cannot make petrol without making diesel.
Given that Diesel is used by Lorries, tractors, trains, surely it help reduces the cost of transporting goods and services, thus would reduce inflation pressures on other stuff if it was cheaper.
Whilst a disgusting fuel, it still less polluting that petrol. Which makes petrol more disgusting.
Never encountered the nozzle problem, but still not a reason why it is more expensive.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Talking of fuel, why do all UK forecourt pumps have the trigger catch/hold disabled?
I've never encountered such a nanny-state measure in any other country.
I've got some arthritis in my thumb joints so I use a large paperclip through the hole where the trigger catch should sit and let the auto-cut-off work as it should.