tonedeaf
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Post by tonedeaf on May 15, 2021 13:21:23 GMT
I never sell anything of value on eBay. Prefer using forums or gumtree
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Post by Slinger on May 15, 2021 15:00:15 GMT
So far this afternoon, in the space of a couple of hours, I have... Dropped a half-full jar of olives which smashed on the kitchen tiles. Knocked over a glass spray bottle one quarter full with Avocado oil, which fell onto the kitchen tiles and smashed Remembered I'd forgotten to buy any cable managemenmt solution for the power leads on my new pedal board as I (so I thought) put the finishing touches to it. I'd go back to bed but one of the legs would probably fall off. A bed-leg that is, not one of mine, although the way things are going...
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Post by MikeMusic on May 15, 2021 15:12:04 GMT
I have become quite good at catching jars and others on my foot. Can be painful sometimes and doesn't always work, especially when you try to soften the blow to the foot by catching as high as possible and lowering.
If not the dogs can help - or not if loads of glass !
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Post by Slinger on May 15, 2021 18:13:09 GMT
Now weird shit is starting to happen. Two or three weeks ago I *lost* one of my home, land-line phones. I turned the place upside down and all I could think of was that I'd somehow knocked it into a bag of recycling and tossed it out. I bought a replacement (and a spare) and carried on. I've just sat down, in my usual seat, where I sit every day and put my hand straight on the "missing" phone. It wasn't even shoved down between the arm and the seat, it was almost just resting in the space. Spooky!
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Post by MikeMusic on May 15, 2021 18:15:50 GMT
Quantum !
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Post by MartinT on May 15, 2021 18:58:16 GMT
Doesn't your base station have the facility to make the handsets ring?
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tonedeaf
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Post by tonedeaf on May 15, 2021 19:45:52 GMT
Now weird shit is starting to happen. Two or three weeks ago I * lost* one of my home, land-line phones. I turned the place upside down and all I could think of was that I'd somehow knocked it into a bag of recycling and tossed it out. I bought a replacement (and a spare) and carried on. I've just sat down, in my usual seat, where I sit every day and put my hand straight on the " missing" phone. It wasn't even shoved down between the arm and the seat, it was almost just resting in the space. Spooky! That happens to me quite too often I lost my remote for my caravan motor mover so bought another at £65 only to find the other lost one in the drawer where it had been for the last 6 months due to lockdown....
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Post by Slinger on May 15, 2021 20:04:25 GMT
Doesn't your base station have the facility to make the handsets ring? Not only the base station, but one can call one handset from another, and I took the handset from the kitchen, sat in the very seat where I found the phone, and rang it. I rang it from every room in fact, and didn't hear a peep from it. Told you it was spooky. It must be my late wife, messing with my head. It would have been her Birthday this coming Monday, and our Wedding Anniversary on Thursday. I dread to think what else she's got in store for me berween than and now.
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tonedeaf
Rank: Trio
Oldies are Goldies
Posts: 168
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Post by tonedeaf on May 15, 2021 20:14:29 GMT
When you see adverts for 'Retro Vintage'!!
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Post by Slinger on Jun 5, 2021 16:46:55 GMT
If a plastic tub towrds the bottom of a crate-full of shopping splits, and leaks, you really don't want it to be the one with the sauerkraut in. Especially when your shopping is 2 hours late anyawy. At least I got to keep and re-house the 'kraut, along with having the £4.50 it cost refunded.
I'm now eating the remains of a tub of vanilla ice cream that refused to fit back in the freezer.
Message ends.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 5, 2021 17:18:57 GMT
I'm now eating the remains of a tub of vanilla ice cream that refused to fit back in the freezer. LOL, that happens surprisingly often!
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Post by rfan8312 on Jun 6, 2021 0:50:13 GMT
I'll often give a cursory stab at the freezer with the tub and one eye on the game. If it doesn't go in it doesn't go in it wasn't meant to be.
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Post by Slinger on Jun 17, 2021 16:37:59 GMT
A long timne ago I bough into the Dyson "hype" and bought one of their bladeless tower fans. It's still going, and I have no complaints at all about the fan itself. I think it was probably actually worth the premium for the Dyson name. The remote, however, has developed the ability to create a mini wormhole and disappeard down it. It's magnetic. It stickes to the to pof the fan. Except it isn't. After much searching, and becuse it's an old model, replacing the remote left me with two options (three if you incliude buying a completely new fan). Let's deal wioth option three. I cannot afford, nor justify, £450-500 for a new Dyson. So, remotes. I could either get a looky-not-much-likey version via hong Kong for just under £15.00, or get a pukka "new other" remote from eBay at £118.00. Seriously, one-hundred-and-eighteen of my hard earned pounds, for this? It'll probably take trhe best part of a month for the looky-not-much-likey to get here from Hong Kong, by which time "Summer" will, no doubt, have been and gone. Until then I'm relegated to torturing my back to operate my fan as the manual controls are almost literally at floor level.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 17, 2021 18:00:56 GMT
All in one remote ? Could you put the fan up higher, pointing down or similar so controls much higher ?
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Post by Slinger on Jun 17, 2021 18:11:27 GMT
All in one remote ? Could you put the fan up higher, pointing down or similar so controls much higher ? There's not really any way for me to do that unfortunately, Mike. The fan stands about 40" high as it is, and that's pretty much the optimal height for the telly-watching-and-almost-everything-else chair.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 17, 2021 19:28:05 GMT
Goods from Hong Kong only take a couple of weeks these days, sometimes only one. That's what I'd go for.
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Post by petea on Jun 17, 2021 21:29:07 GMT
Have you tried looking for it on the carpet, Paul?
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 18, 2021 19:20:01 GMT
Cruel Pete, so cruel !
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Post by Slinger on Jun 21, 2021 18:13:59 GMT
That bloody yodeling Domino's Pizza advert on TV.
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Post by Slinger on Jun 26, 2021 20:15:57 GMT
One of the oldest phrases in the book to indicate disdain must be "There's always one," which is sometimes expanded to "There's always f*cking one," and the ultimate variation on the expression "There's always some **** who ruins it for everyone else."
It does seem to be true though, because there does always seem to be "one" in any group large enough to support one.
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