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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things
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lostinrates wrote: »I love how guys are setting puzzles a tthe same time as I'm trying to work out timings for staged precooking, daily cooking, defrosting etc.
i always thought there should be an app for that. I.e. it works out the times, then beeps at the appropriate points, and if it could also make coffee or tea with cakes that would also be good.
Not as good as hot and cold running servants, but almost...“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
lostinrates wrote: »I love how guys are setting puzzles a tthe same time as I'm trying to work out timings for staged precooking, daily cooking, defrosting etc.
Oh dear. I am obviously not a real woman.
Although I am just about to go shopping - mostly for food. Need to make enormous list.The puzzle was in an episode of a TV Mystery Movie series in the 70s. McMillan and Wife/McCloud/Columbo etc.- that sort of thing
I was around in the 70s, but we didn't have a TV. I must have either read it in a book or heard it from one of my brothers.
Here's one for you, zagubov....
You have 6 sacks of coins. Each contains the same number of coins. 5 of the sacks contain real ones and the other contains forged ones. The forged ones are a different weight, but you don't know whether they're heavier or lighter. You have no weighing machine, but you do have a balance scale. All its standard weights are missing, so you can only use it to compare things against each other. You are allowed three weighings to find out which sack has the forged ones, and whether they are heavier or lighter than the real ones.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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I would say Chanukiah:p
Anyone who has been amused/ irritated by the pedantic ness (is that a word?) of the laws regarding Jewish rituals will be amused by this:
What Xmas would be like if it were a Jewish holiday.
http://holidays.juda.com/xmas-gamora.shtml
I especially like the bit about the tree having to be decorated "tastefully" and "tasteful" being defined by the youngest member of the household. That's definitely true in my house.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Off to buy a Christmas tree. Will ponder this one! Sounds a bit familiar, too...I especially like the bit about the tree having to be decorated "tastefully" and "tasteful" being defined by the youngest member of the household. That's definitely true in my house.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Some places are notorious. I don't travel the A377 more than twice a week max, and it's not a very busy A road, but I've seen three accidents in the same place in 2.4 years. How many do they have when I'm not there?
None apparantly.
Not sure what the common link is though :eek:'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'0 -
Got the tree (75% offf at B&Q!. Feel very MSE about that!
Picked up DD from her dental appintment where she got a tooth drilled and filled. She's not a patient patient and didn't give enough time for the anaesthetic to take effect.:eek:
A hard lesson to learn!There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Oh dear. I am obviously not a real woman. Although I am just about to go shopping - mostly for food. Need to make enormous list.
I was around in the 70s, but we didn't have a TV. I must have either read it in a book or heard it from one of my brothers.
Here's one for you, zagubov....
You have 6 sacks of coins. Each contains the same number of coins. 5 of the sacks contain real ones and the other contains forged ones. The forged ones are a different weight, but you don't know whether they're heavier or lighter. You have no weighing machine, but you do have a balance scale. All its standard weights are missing, so you can only use it to compare things against each other. You are allowed three weighings to find out which sack has the forged ones, and whether they are heavier or lighter than the real ones.
put a coin from each bag into a vending machine, the one that it actually accepts is the forgery.0 -
hrms...been at work expecting a delivery of a precious patient sample. But DHL has just decided that my office was closed instead of actually attempting to deliver.
Who's going to explain to the Human Tissue Authority we had a sample destroyed because DHL was too lazy too deliver?0 -
hrms...been at work expecting a delivery of a precious patient sample. But DHL has just decided that my office was closed instead of actually attempting to deliver.
Who's going to explain to the Human Tissue Authority we had a sample destroyed because DHL was too lazy too deliver?
It's entirely believable. No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Who's going to explain to the Human Tissue Authority we had a sample destroyed because DHL was too lazy too deliver?
Just be thankful you weren't having something delivered by FEDEX
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-viral-video-fedex-delivery,0,7908564.htmlstory0
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