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PostPosted: 13:18 - 24 Jan 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bluetooth. Mostly fine, but that first pairing of devices always seems difficult. If I try again tomorrow I expect it’ll work straight away. Why!?
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PostPosted: 13:51 - 24 Jan 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
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The British obsession with positioning the kitchen sink under a window even if that totally bolloxes the work flow ergonomics of the entire kitchen.


Window = outside wall = easy to take the sink drain outside and the water pipe inside* via the shortest possible route.

Same reason the toilet usually has its back to the window.

*In older designs, houses had a header tank in the loft but the kitchen tap was fed direct from the rising main so you weren't drinking water with dead rats floating in it
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PostPosted: 15:57 - 24 Jan 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
stinkwheel wrote:


Window = outside wall = easy to take the sink drain outside and the water pipe inside* via the shortest possible route.

Same reason the toilet usually has its back to the window.

*In older designs, houses had a header tank in the loft but the kitchen tap was fed direct from the rising main so you weren't drinking water with dead rats floating in it


That's a poor explanation and no excuse and doesn't explain why we're so obsessed with placing the sink under a window when other countries don't do it.
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PostPosted: 16:11 - 24 Jan 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ribenapigeon wrote:
stinkwheel wrote:


Window = outside wall = easy to take the sink drain outside and the water pipe inside* via the shortest possible route.

Same reason the toilet usually has its back to the window.

*In older designs, houses had a header tank in the loft but the kitchen tap was fed direct from the rising main so you weren't drinking water with dead rats floating in it


That's a poor explanation and no excuse and doesn't explain why we're so obsessed with placing the sink under a window when other countries don't do it.


I always thought it was for the women to have a view while washing the pots!
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PostPosted: 16:22 - 24 Jan 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
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You're that bloke in the pub who buts into others conversations saying "Should have asked me I can get it you cheaper"

If you can get it for others cheaper, advertise the fact. Otherwise fuck off you dull cunt.


I hate to join in with an, all pile on fest but I agree "that guy down the pub" is a bona-fide gear trasher. Bought it cheaper, bought the better model with lower milage, didn't have to pay anything, never paid for a telly licence, doesn't pay cooncil tax etc, etc. The twats start young as well, if you got a Brontosaurus in your Cornflake packet he got a Tyrannosaurus Rex, if Joanne Smith let you feel her up down the end of the playing field he got her pregnant last summer and she had twins at Christmas. Imagine what a bastard he's going to be in the old folks home Shocked
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PostPosted: 16:29 - 24 Jan 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I always thought it was for the women to have a view while washing the pots!


So what? Surely having a well functioning kitchen is the priority over being able to watch the neighbours cat have a s#it in the back garden?
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PostPosted: 18:39 - 24 Jan 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ribenapigeon wrote:
I hate to join in with an, all pile on fest but I agree "that guy down the pub" is a bona-fide gear trasher. Bought it cheaper, bought the better model with lower milage, didn't have to pay anything, never paid for a telly licence, doesn't pay cooncil tax etc, etc. The twats start young as well, if you got a Brontosaurus in your Cornflake packet he got a Tyrannosaurus Rex, if Joanne Smith let you feel her up down the end of the playing field he got her pregnant last summer and she had twins at Christmas. Imagine what a bastard he's going to be in the old folks home Shocked


I recall this as an early lesson from my obnoxious teenage years. Some fellow Amiga/ST enthusiast was breathlessly fingering their recently purchased external 3.5" drive. "HOW much?!" I exclaimed, "but PC drives are only xyz pounds and they're essentially the same thing!" That went down like a lead balloon.

Since then I've tried* to operate a policy of show, don't tell or actions speak louder than words and if someone asks "...that's nice, must have set you back a pretty penny?" only then will I explain how brilliant I am Wink

*and failed, the desire for validation is a powerful force
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PostPosted: 18:39 - 24 Jan 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ribenapigeon wrote:
BigTim wrote:


I always thought it was for the women to have a view while washing the pots!


So what? Surely having a well functioning kitchen is the priority over being able to watch the neighbours cat have a s#it in the back garden?


I seem to do a lot of washing up and I like having it against a big window overlooking teh back garden - also helps to see that you've got the stuff properly clean.. Johnny Foreigner can do what he likes..
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PostPosted: 18:51 - 24 Jan 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ribenapigeon wrote:
other countries don't do it.


Other countries sometimes have such crappy plumbing you have to put your used bog roll in a little paper bag in a bin so you don't block the pipes.

Other countries are wrong.
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PostPosted: 19:47 - 24 Jan 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
A100man wrote:


I seem to do a lot of washing up and I like having it against a big window overlooking teh back garden - also helps to see that you've got the stuff properly clean.. Johnny Foreigner can do what he likes..


What I deduce from this statement is that (a) your cooking technique is inefficient therefore creating a lot of washing up, and (b) your husband is either too tight to buy you a dishwasher or has spent the money on treats for his secretary. Laughing
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PostPosted: 19:53 - 24 Jan 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
stinkwheel wrote:
Ribenapigeon wrote:
other countries don't do it.


Other countries sometimes have such crappy plumbing you have to put your used bog roll in a little paper bag in a bin so you don't block the pipes.

Other countries are wrong.


Well certainly one's where you have to take a shit in the kitchen are. Where the hell have you been going on your holidays? Laughing
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Questions 'bout how to do things when it's entirely unclear what the questioner actually wants to do, to what.
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Riejufixing wrote:
Questions 'bout how to do things when it's entirely unclear what the questioner actually wants to do, to what.


Can we have an example?
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TikTok actually can ban your device for what they deem inappropriate comments. Not just the account they ban but the actual device. That pissed me off.
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PostPosted: 22:12 - 24 Jan 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
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TikTok actually can ban your device for what they deem inappropriate comments. Not just the account they ban but the actual device. That pissed me off.


Oh the lulz you could have with a virtual machine...
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stinkwheel wrote:
King29 wrote:
TikTok actually can ban your device for what they deem inappropriate comments. Not just the account they ban but the actual device. That pissed me off.


Oh the lulz you could have with a virtual machine...


I only tend to TikTok whilst at work on my phone, good idea though.
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PostPosted: 00:52 - 25 Jan 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
stinkwheel wrote:
Other countries sometimes have such crappy plumbing you have to put your used bog roll in a little paper bag in a bin so you don't block the pipes.


You get used to it. We’ve got two chod bin bins. I empty them every other day. 300 year old pipes weren’t designed for toilet paper.

It’s not as bad as you think, in hot weather it dries out instantly. Mind you, it’s one thing emptying your own wiping material, what about the poor sods who have to empty public ones? Sick

I find it odd when back in the UK I find myself looking for the chod bin bin, forgetting that I can actually flush it away!
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PostPosted: 00:59 - 25 Jan 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tracey Suntan-King wrote:
stinkwheel wrote:
Other countries sometimes have such crappy plumbing you have to put your used bog roll in a little paper bag in a bin so you don't block the pipes.


You get used to it. We’ve got two chod bin bins. I empty them every other day. 300 year old pipes weren’t designed for toilet paper.

It’s not as bad as you think, in hot weather it dries out instantly. Mind you, it’s one thing emptying your own wiping material, what about the poor sods who have to empty public ones? Sick

I find it odd when back in the UK I find myself looking for the chod bin bin, forgetting that I can actually flush it away!



Europe, nuff said.
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I only tend to TikTok whilst at work on my phone

...and you are how old?
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Freddyfruitbat wrote:
King29 wrote:
I only tend to TikTok whilst at work on my phone

...and you are how old?


Mentally and physically are very different things.
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Poppy seeds, the little feckers in bread. Still got a large hole from the tooth coming out and it's now jammed full of the little things.
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Fucking aresholes too fucking stupid or lazy to clean the snow off the roof of their cars. crash and burn motherfuckers!
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People who pay to have their car ‘detailed’. Paying a fortune for someone to Hoover my car seems pointless. I’m more than capable of operating a vacuum cleaner to rid MY car of MY dead skin cells, flicked bogies, greying hairs and other delights, and the local car wash folk do a decent job on the exterior. Yes, they’ll do a better job but at this time of year in particular any car that ventures out on the road will be filth against n in minutes.
I just don’t get it!
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PostPosted: 22:13 - 25 Jan 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote
BigTim wrote:
I always thought it was for the women to have a view while washing the pots!

Actually, it is.
I always put nice flowers where I can see them, when I have a kitchen with a garden view.
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In my youth I used to live in a basement flat in Kings Cross where there was no window to place the frikkin sink.

I don't remember much of that era but I do remember it feeling weird when washing up.
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