Name and Shame

[classic33]

See!! The picture looks like sunset!!!

Shadows aren't long enough, for either end of day.

 

[hopless500]

Do people here still use loose tea? I'm sure it must work out a lot cheaper per cup than the bagged stuff.

Yes

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Our toaster, well actually it's Mrs 3BM's not the toaster's fault, always takes more than one go because she keeps turning it down to the setting that is 'slightly warm bread', catches me out. Every ****ing time!

 

[PeteXXX]

Mrs PeteXXX just bought a new kettle yesterday as the previous one was going rusty, leaking and was making loud noises when it got above (estimated) 76°C when containing (estimated) 932ml of H2O.
It is an identical dysenteric nappy green item to the previous model and will, no doubt, destroy itself in the same manner quite soon.

 

[Arch]

NT and I stay in a holiday house each October with some YACF friends, and the first year there was the world's slowest kettle. If put on at 8am, it was just about able to make tea at 10ish...

We resorted to pre-heating water in pans, but the Aga wasn't all that hot either!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

[QUOTE 2684741, member: 1314"]Southend, innit.[/quote]

I think that's what he's trying to say about where the sun was!

 

[Genau]

The energy saving light bulbs in the chandelier in our living room. Turn them on so you can read your book. About three chapters later, or 12 if it is a Rebus, and you can finally see.

I think the only energy saving thing about them is that it's often not worthwhile switching them on.

 

[Hill Wimp]

I thought you all had skinny lattes, double de-caff with a half twist in that London, in those cardboard cups permanently welded to your dannies.

Thats only if you are in public. In the office it's back to Nescafe

 

[asterix]

So this Lucinda. Attractive is she? Nice personality

 

[Kies]

[QUOTE 2685618, member: 1314"]We get on. She finds it amusing I have curry for breakfast every morning. South African now residing in Greenwich. Jogs into work and I'm trying persuade her to cycle. She brings in her own filter coffee, with a mini-coffee blender.[/quote]

She FIT innit!

 

[Cheddar George]

My wife recently replaced our essentially fine kettle on account of its stupid pourer-filter had got worn out, by getting a Breville with nectar points. I pointed out that we'd had two Breville kettles before, and both of them had been total crap: over-designed, under-engineered, dead within the year. Sure enough, this one has a fancy (and utterly pointless) light built into the switch ("Blue! Ooooh!") but the spring that pops the lid up is so feeble that it no longer pops the lid up. This within a month of brand new. I give it a year before it stops turning off when it boils. Then it'll doubtless be dumped and replaced with another new one, equally crap. I swear to god....

Our (crap) kettle was marketed as an eco-kettle. If you leave it on its base then it is permanently illuminated by a blue LED, switch it on and it changes to a red LED. Now i know that LEDs don't draw a lot of current but it would have been more "eco" if they did away with them.

Our lid is crap as well.

Modern life is rubbish.

 

[Maz]

Does anyone know where all the office kitchen teaspoons disappear to? You end up stirring your tea with a fork or a the end of a bic biro. What's going on?!

 

[Puddles]

Years ago our kettle did break, Mr Puddles bought another one from Tesco of their basic range, it did not last a year so we got a new one with another whole years guarantee for free, this was a regular occurrence for many years, until this year, when he duly disappeared with the broken kettle (the switches kept breaking) and they stopped making that particular kettle so Mr Puddles chose a worser one a "Value" kettle and came back with £12.01 refund for the price difference.

They both boil equally as quickly and as we constantly have a new kettle every 6 months and they exchange them with no argument it is an arrangement I am quite happy with usually we get warning the switch is about to go as it starts playing up.

 

[martint235]

Does anyone know where all the office kitchen teaspoons disappear to? You end up stirring your tea with a fork or a the end of a bic biro. What's going on?!

I've had the same teaspoon since I started working in the civil service 25 years ago. I even wash it occasionally.

 

[EltonFrog]

We keep our toaster in the cupboard, as soon as I open the cupboard door to get the thing out to make some toast the smoke alarm goes off.

Why is that?