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Post by questa on Mar 23, 2019 0:55:41 GMT
If it is not too deep, tooth paste (not gel) can polish out minor paint scratches. Mid range and under cars are built of much thinner metal now so don't try to tap out small dents...they only get worse.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 23, 2019 1:29:52 GMT
Mr Kimby has also used toothpaste (at my suggestion - to successfully scrub away the evidence of a too-close encounter between a rented camper van and a wooden parking barrier in Australia....
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 23, 2019 7:45:30 GMT
If it is not too deep, tooth paste (not gel) can polish out minor paint scratches. Mid range and under cars are built of much thinner metal now so don't try to tap out small dents...they only get worse. I shall give it a go! Thanks questa.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 23, 2019 11:37:22 GMT
You all made me remember those hideous decals they used to sell to cover dents or rust. Of course, they were only used on things like a 2CV or a VW Beetle as it neared the end of its career.
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Post by questa on Mar 23, 2019 11:59:31 GMT
Ahh! the bumper stickers they had in the 60s and 70s. Some cars, VWs specially, would be covered in them, My son #2 bought a clapped out Kombi to tour the East Coast. It was borderline roadworthy so the first stickers, neatly aligned below the windows called for "Pay Justice for our Police" My other son summed it all up with "Land Rights for Gay Whales". I just confused people with "Eschew Obfuscation" and "Subvert the Dominant Paradigm "
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 25, 2019 15:48:59 GMT
I'm a bit peeved at how easy it has been for me to lose painting and drawing skills. After months of just sewing I got out my paints and coloured pencils only to find that my hands don't want to draw what I want them to...
I'm reasonably confident that any ability will return with practice ...but it's taking too long. I keep on ripping up drawings and paintings in frustration. Jeff keeps saying "have you got your mojo back yet?" as I glower at the latest ham fisted mess I've produced after hours of work...*sigh*
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 25, 2019 17:36:11 GMT
Think of something not too complicated that you can draw in a minute or two. Close your eyes and imagine it, then whilst still closed, draw it.
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Post by questa on Mar 25, 2019 23:14:07 GMT
Hey, Mark...that's how I cook!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 26, 2019 9:05:17 GMT
Think of something not too complicated that you can draw in a minute or two. Close your eyes and imagine it, then whilst still closed, draw it. Yes...but I'll still be dissatisfied with it >she said grumpily< Thank you dearie x
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 28, 2019 17:22:23 GMT
Hotels with wifi that does not allow you to upload anything.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 7, 2019 22:34:28 GMT
+*&^%#@!°¡?=()/~<{> European washing machines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I could have dragged my dirty duds down to the fiume and beat them on the rocks and maybe have a fighting chance of getting clean DRY clothes, but nooooooooooo. My third country of "we take your clothes, we wet your clothes, we don't spin or give back the clothes". My kingdom for a Whirlpool! *hate*
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Post by bjd on May 8, 2019 4:53:43 GMT
Whatsa matter, Bixa? Did you go to a laundromat or take your clothes to a laundry service?
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Post by kerouac2 on May 8, 2019 5:03:05 GMT
I don't understand how anything can be dirty yet. Bixa has only been on the road for about 9 days.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 8, 2019 7:12:16 GMT
Bjd, this really nice airbnb apartment has a washing machine, but no instructions to go with it. In order to even get it to turn on I had to get on my knees so I could read the faded sticker affixed to the front of the washer,four inches from the floor. The first thing it did was to busily tumble the clothes, then spin them furiously ... but without having wet them first. Nothing daunted, I tried again.That started two hours of wetting, rewetting, tumbling, gurgling, sighing, & false periods of calm before the rinse/spin cycle, but without ever delivering said cycle. Finally, after multiple attempts, I got it to spin. Now it's morning and the still very damp clothes are dispersed around the bathroom, where I'd like to be taking a shower. This apartment is beautifully, even exquisitely appointed, but devoid of any of the simple instructions routinely provided to the short-term renter.
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Post by questa on May 8, 2019 8:59:38 GMT
Ingredients :- fair size light plastic bag with a zip or use string (?knitting wool) to tie it. detergent or free shampoo. spare bath towel
Method :- 2/3 fill plastic bag and plop it over the bath or shower plug holes, as water deepens add clothes and mixed up detergent. If using a shower, now is as good a time as any to have your shower and swish the clothes around with fresh water to rinse. Ditto the bath tub. Squeeze as much from the clothes as you can then spread out the towel and arrange the clothes flat on the towel. Roll the towel length wise, like a long sausage. Place one end on the floor and stand on it, start twisting it from the top. As it tightens it will roll into extra curls. Gently pull on the towel roll end and the towel takes the wetness. Careful for fragile clothes. Drape them in moving air and they should be dry by morning
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Post by bjd on May 8, 2019 9:35:31 GMT
Here I thought all these machines had symbols on them so that they can be used with no written instructions. European washing machines heat the water, so you set the temperature to what you want (30, 40, 60) and press the start button. This should work! They do take much longer than N American machines because they heat the water. In my experience, a cycle at 40° takes about an hour and a half. You can also sometimes choose how fast the spin cycle goes, depending on the clothes.
Or you go knock on a neighbour's door and ask how to use the machine.
This reminds me of some Canadian friends who rented an Airbnb in Paris. When I went to see them, one was heating water for tea in a pot and using a dishtowel to hold the hot pot and pour out the water. I showed her the clip-on handle that adapts to various pots. She had never seen one before and had no idea what it was for.
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Post by mich64 on May 8, 2019 11:16:35 GMT
The morning we departed for our vacation, we noticed there was not much hot water. We always unplug the hot water tank when we go on holiday so we plugged it back in when we arrived home yesterday, no hot water this morning. Mr. M. is talking to hydro right now. Hopefully they will come and replace it today.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 8, 2019 11:32:39 GMT
Most washing machines built this century have online instruction manuals when you don't have the paper one.
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Post by mich64 on May 8, 2019 15:30:16 GMT
Most washing machines built this century have online instruction manuals when you don't have the paper one. Agree, we have looked up many manuals on line. When in Venice 2 years ago our apartment had a washer and dryer and my friend and I struggled a bit to get understand how to operate it, but we were very pleased to have them in our unit half way through our holiday. The contractor for Hydro that looks after the water tanks called back within minutes and was here within the hour. Thankfully it was just a relay switch which they replaced and all is repaired!
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Post by kerouac2 on May 8, 2019 15:33:19 GMT
Ah, that's a little thing that means a lot!
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Post by mich64 on May 8, 2019 18:58:57 GMT
Ah, that's a little thing that means a lot! Indeed! I will post it there too!
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Post by bixaorellana on May 8, 2019 20:58:11 GMT
What a pain to come back to no hot water, Mich. Thank goodness it got fixed quickly!
Re: manuals ~ Of course I checked the stooopid Zappas online. And yes, the machine has symbols, even some quite clever ones, such as a stylized boll for cotton. What it also has is a mind of its own. I guess that first dry spin was because the dial was set in just that spot. But what came after was sullen stubbornness on the machine's part, I suppose because I refused to just be happy with detergent centrifuged through my dry, unwashed clothes.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 8, 2019 21:21:24 GMT
Thank you, Huckle! I'd like to say it's a gift, but it's really more like a curse delivered by some fairy godmother who noticed my budding baby biliousness even in the cradle.
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Post by questa on May 9, 2019 0:03:53 GMT
As I have observed elsewhere in this forum, Bixa's use of the English language is a joy to behold when her ire is raised. Her choice of words and imagery when a subject like Trump comes up is poetry for the 21st century.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 9, 2019 5:45:17 GMT
Aw, shucks. Thank you, Questa!
Oh lord! Those are brilliant, Huckle. I agree with your choices, but have to give the crown to Pockets. Let's hope the wordsmith-in-chief is worriedly using the last sentence in the last poem as his mantra right now.
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Post by lagatta on May 9, 2019 13:49:48 GMT
I thought that they were hilarious, but also pathetic to think that a country with so many Nobel Prize winners could elect such a cretin to high office.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 10, 2019 15:06:17 GMT
I'm not sure that I approve of the fact that the delivery person from Amazon opened my package to be able to stuff the contents into my mailbox individually. What if I had been ordering pornography?
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Post by whatagain on May 11, 2019 12:06:58 GMT
Kerouac. You would had some missing material ...
My neighbour has been taken again to psychiatric hospital. Won't help him that much since follow up is not superb in Belgium but was no other solution. Threatens his mother and when cops calerolx them she wasn't jus mother but Michele martin. The bitch who lived with Dutroux.
And I thought I had problems.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 11, 2019 12:26:18 GMT
It's because we've been eating all of that fish full of plastic. (And to think we used to worry about fish full of mercury...)
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Post by lagatta on May 11, 2019 16:03:37 GMT
Yecch, I'd forgotten about her, probably because it was such a generic name.
The Canadian version were Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. Not something I like to remember.
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