Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

LydiaJ

It only seems to give me options for full size or thumbnail, but actually thumbnail is quite a good size for this particular pic. Thanks lir.

lostinrates wrote: »

very sweet Lydiaj. I think your daughter will make a very excellent pet owner she's very enthusiastic and caring. While its not a good idea to drop animals....like children..they bounce surprisingly often.

Aww thanks. Those are her hands in the pic - holding her very carefully, only a few inches above a safe place for her to jump to if she tries to escape.

michaels

We love our ice and water dispenser and wouldn't be without one now.

Something about creatures with red eyes that just doesn't do it for me.

I've seen your picture PN on the not-to-be-repeated avatar night.

DNs tomatoes make me feel hungry, I used to love the home grown (and even shop bought) tomatoes when I was younger but now they just seem to taste of nothing. A few weeks one summer working in an industrial greenhouse picking and side-shooting also took some of the romance away - they grew in liquid rather than soil (looked like effluent but we were assured it wasn't and on wires which gradually moved along and down as the plants reached the ceiling, the bottom leaves were removed (so the plants didn't waste energy on them and so by the end of the summer they consisted of 10 foot high plants with 20 foot stems winding across the floor from where their roots were in the 'nutrient ditch'.

Davesnave

michaels wrote: »

Something about creatures with red eyes that just doesn't do it for me.

I've seen your picture PN on the not-to-be-repeated avatar night.

DNs tomatoes make me feel hungry, I used to love the home grown (and even shop bought) tomatoes when I was younger but now they just seem to taste of nothing..

The red eye thing is partially why I didn't fancy DD2 owning a white ferret.

I missed PN on that night, but I caught some others. You see, you never know who's lurking! ;)

My toms are in very large plastic sack type planters and they run on a mixture of whatever manure I have + pelleted chicken poo + a chemical feed with trace elements just in case somethings still missing!

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

wow. I thought things were built to last five years now? Bar the top brands?

I think that's the figure a lot of people quote at you as a rule-of-thumb when you ask how long is reasonable to expect equipment (well, white goods) to last under the Sale of Goods Act

I heard that improving reliability of goods was giving Which? a headache as people were now buying more on "fashion" criteria/aesthetics and straightforward price, so less need to research reliability.

michaels

I tend to expect cheap toasters, kettles etc to last just over 12 months and washing machines to last their price divided by 100 years - eg £150 machine will last about 1.5 years. I always expect fridges/freezers to go on for ever I guess just based on personal experience, cosmetic things like plastic bits breaking and door seals failing and general mankiness tending to be the reason for discarding them.

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

I tend to expect cheap toasters, kettles etc to last just over 12 months and washing machines to last their price divided by 100 years - eg £150 machine will last about 1.5 years. I always expect fridges/freezers to go on for ever I guess just based on personal experience, cosmetic things like plastic bits breaking and door seals failing and general mankiness tending to be the reason for discarding them.

You're right about that; the cheap items you can buy in many high street stores are great value for money but never seem to last- they're so shoddily built they seem to fall to bits in your hands eventually.

I'm always dismayed how the manufacturers are keen to keep us buying new stuff needlessly. If they could kid us on we need to buy a new car as soon as the ashtrays in the old one are full, they'd be happy to do it!

I'm always ranting on on other threads about how unnecessary (and wasteful) planned obsolescence is. :mad: I seriously need to learn enjoy shopping more.

vivatifosi

That reminds me of that Michael McIntyre sketch about the fridge michaels. You can trust the fridge...

Short version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ERjQ7uYeA0

misskool

zagubov wrote: »

You're right about that; the cheap items you can buy in many high street stores are great value for money but never seem to last- they're so shoddily built they seem to fall to bits in your hands eventually.

I dunno. our £5 argos kettle is still going strong after 2.5 years. we bought it when we moved in until we did the kitchen up. But it still works so I won't replace it...:rotfl:

misskool

oh, for those that watch dexter, I was peeling beetroot earlier while watching dexter. quite funny.

any tips on how to peel roasted beetroot? I stopped as I got bored and I'm guessing it's not that difficult???

zagubov

misskool wrote: »

I dunno. our £5 argos kettle is still going strong after 2.5 years. we bought it when we moved in until we did the kitchen up. But it still works so I won't replace it...:rotfl:

It's the things with moving parts doors, turntables, springs etc like toasters and microwaves that seem to break the fastest.

The thing that puzzles me is why our kind of kettles powered through a mains lead are so rare in the US. Is their gas supply cheaper than their leccy?