The totally off-topic thread

[blackcat20]

This is today's effort.

 

[Flashback]

I saw Daniel was driving a hired Volvo and we are driving a "poverty pack" Hyundai that has no sensors and no reversing camera. Still I cannot really complain as it is $30 US a day with comprehensive insurance included. It has made me wish that more road repairs were being made as we feel all the bumps.Driving in California is always a bit challenging.

£22/day for me so well looked after with booking Group A and getting something like a Group E car. Picking another one up tomorrow for a quick ride from LHR to home, then back to LHR in the morning to start our jaunt over your way for a well needed break!

 

[Quickstatus]

Looks Ok actually
Ours at work sometimes have semi liquids dripping off the topside and the turntable has dried stuff on it from last month

 

[blackcat20]

Looks Ok actually
Ours at work sometimes have semi liquids dripping off the topside and the turntable has dried stuff on it from last month

That's because someone already wiped the pubes out yesterday :evil:
There is also a layer of red sauce on the roof.

 

[Denali]

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This is today's effort.

FFS. Im afraid to look in our microwave, havent checked it since 2003.

Maybe each of us should go photograph our workplace microwave and come back and report.

 

[GarrettM]

That's because someone already wiped the pubes out yesterday :evil:
There is also a layer of red sauce on the roof.

Honestly if the work microwave had any sort of offending hair like that I would rip it off the shelf and throw the whole thing in the bin.

 

[Quickstatus]

just dont set off the fire alarm with the toaster.

at the hospital last year there were 13 calls (firealarm at hospital = mandatory fire brigade callout. all were at /around 0700 in the morning.

Also not including 2 call outs where the fire alarm originated in one of the toilets - supposedly due to over/aggressive use of bodyspray

 

[blackcat20]

Honestly if the work microwave had any sort of offending hair like that I would rip it off the shelf and throw the whole thing in the bin.

It's a new one that I worked hard to convince the boss to let us buy, so Im pretty disappointed that people are treating it like that. I am tempted to unplug it and lock it away for a while....

 

[Denali]

just dont set off the fire alarm with the toaster.

at the hospital last year there were 13 calls (firealarm at hospital = mandatory fire brigade callout. all were at /around 0700 in the morning.

We are always evac'ing here - either dodgy wiring or burnt toast.

Yesterday, this was across the road - which had me remind staff that our building was built to the lowest tender so we always evac when the alarms activate.

 

[blackcat20]

We are always evac'ing here - either dodgy wiring or burnt toast.

Yesterday, this was across the road - which had me remind staff that our building was built to the lowest tender so we always evac when the alarms activate.

We've had fire trucks on campus twice today, no idea why.

 

[JohnK]

Other overpriced trendies - acai, wheatgrass, chia, quinoa.
Ill have chia and quinoa for its variety but superfood?. Not likely...

Tendy superfoods. What a load of rubbish. Acai berri was getting a lot of air time a few years ago. Don't see it mentioned much these days. Lots of people get fooled/scammed.

With the condition that if you dont reach adulthood by the age of 50, you are then exempt....

Oh thank God for the exemption....

 

[Denali]

Tendy superfoods. What a load of rubbish. Acai berri was getting a lot of air time a few years ago. Don't see it mentioned much these days. Lots of people get fooled/scammed.

My husbands trainer told him he should add a particular Mayan Superfood to his daily protein drinks... that he happened to sell for $58 a packet.

Me: The Mayans died out so Im guessing it wasnt much of a "super" food for them.

 

[whatmeworry]

We are always evac'ing here - either dodgy wiring or burnt toast.

Yesterday, this was across the road - which had me remind staff that our building was built to the lowest tender so we always evac when the alarms activate.

Lowest tender? Reminds me of the docklands apartment building fitted with highly flammable illegal cladding.

A smouldering cigarette on a sixth-floor balcony sparked a fire in the early hours of November 25, 2014, which raced up 13 floors of the building in only 11 minutes. An investigation by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade found that the cladding material, imported from China, does not meet Australian standards and should never have been used on a high rise apartment.

Lacrosse tower builder refuses to replace illegal flammable cladding, challenges owners to court battle

 

[wazza888]

Debbie does Bowen ..... Channel 7 live cross to reporter interviewing some residents about Cyclone Debbie .... oops.


https://au.be.yahoo.com/lifestyle/r...d-by-aussie-larrikin-s-gaffe-yahoo7-be/#page1

 

[JohnK]

My husbands trainer told him he should add a particular Mayan Superfood to his daily protein drinks... that he happened to sell for $58 a packet.

Me: The Mayans died out so Im guessing it wasnt much of a "super" food for them.

I purchased the Acai berri with all the hype surrounding it. Clever spam marketing. Does nothing for the person using it. Just like eating more celery doesn't cure arthritis.

 

[Flying mermaid]

My mother in law (bless her soul) hated onions, so my wife would cook a fried rice and hide chopped onions in it and say there are no onions. MIL always say wife's fried rice was very nice

unless of course you have a taste detector like Ms FM. When the kids were at home I always used to make freshly squeezed juice in winter. I once juiced 4 oranges and 5 apples and had a 1/2 grapefruit left over from breakfast and decided to throw it in, as noone could possibly detect it. Later on Ms FM drank her glass of juice and immediately wrinkled her nose and said "there is a funny taste". Of course I deviously lied and said she was imagining things.....

 

[Denali]

unless of course you have a taste detector like Ms FM. When the kids were at home I always used to make freshly squeezed juice in winter. I once juiced 4 oranges and 5 apples and had a 1/2 grapefruit left over from breakfast and decided to throw it in, as noone could possibly detect it. Later on Ms FM drank her glass of juice and immediately wrinkled her nose and said "there is a funny taste". Of course I deviously lied and said she was imagining things.....

My husband swears he doesnt eat pork... unless we are at a restaurant and its on my plate.

Oh, and if its bacon. Then he eats pork.

 

[anat0l]

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This is today's effort.

Your office must be a bunch of pigs. That's not even hard baked stuff which some might be reluctant to touch because it'll take elbow grease to get out. That's plain sight visible and able to be picked up.

People can live like pigs in their own sty; work is not their sty so show some respect. Ah, why bother......

 

[JohnK]

Oh anat0l, why bother.

Had a hospital appointment today and got into office at 12:30pm. No chair at my desk. Again. Looked around and see someone sitting on a chair near my desk.

"Is that my chair?"
"Oh, yes. Sorry."
"Thanks." Taking the chair back to my desk.

The creep (is it ok to call him that?) had adjusted the chair arms and height of chair. :shock: Seriously? You "borrow" someone's chair and you adjust that chair to your needs. I'm not sure it is possible to be any more selfish. Creep....

 

[Quickstatus]

one time when I was in operating theatre and had my own operating theatre specific shoes.

Came in one morning to find them missing. They were Birkenstock superbirkies lemon yellow ones. so easy to spot
Went around the operating theatres and sure enough someone was wearing them.

"Can I have my shoes back"

"Oh sorry I didnt know they were yours"
....thought to self: well they are not yours

"I give them back to you once Ive finished this operation.":evil:

These are really good "clogs" I have several pairs around the house.



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unless of course you have a taste detector like Ms FM. When the kids were at home I always used to make freshly squeezed juice in winter. I once juiced 4 oranges and 5 apples and had a 1/2 grapefruit left over from breakfast and decided to throw it in, as noone could possibly detect it. Later on Ms FM drank her glass of juice and immediately wrinkled her nose and said "there is a funny taste". Of course I deviously lied and said she was imagining things.....

But the point is that they ate it!!