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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 2, 2018 20:15:19 GMT
Why is something that wasn't taboo 200 years ago so distasteful now? And they were asking those questions because there were worms and god knows what writhing in their output.
I am bracing myself for pushing the button on my remote in a few minutes to turn off the TV. What will happen?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 2, 2018 20:57:58 GMT
I am bracing myself for pushing the button on my remote in a few minutes to turn off the TV. What will happen? Your toilet will turn into the shelf kind.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 2, 2018 22:39:12 GMT
:-D
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Post by mossie on Jul 3, 2018 7:02:23 GMT
Now! Now! Children, this is what really counts as lavatory humour
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 14, 2018 20:03:48 GMT
I am never comfortable when I order something from Amazon for £0.03 even though I am obviously paying for the shipping fees on top of that. They should at least charge £1, no?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 15, 2018 13:23:04 GMT
I have a small leak in the kitchen and trying to tighten the nut with a wrench only seems to make things worse. So I just turned the water main off. I turn it back on when I need to flush the toilet or do dishes. A little basin catches the drops at that time. I'll worry about it tomorrow.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 15, 2018 13:55:49 GMT
Plumbing problems are anything but petty!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 15, 2018 18:59:28 GMT
I agree. But since it is a slow drip and I can easily turn the water supply on and off as needed, it is not nearly as traumatic as flooding situations that many of us have experienced at one time or another.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 16, 2018 8:07:31 GMT
I also had to live with shelf loos in Amsterdam; they are also common in Germany. Although I doubt the anus in chief thinks of those as shithole countries.
What I utterly hated decades ago was so-called Turkish toilets. Fortunately they are rare nowadays.
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Post by patricklondon on Jul 16, 2018 11:13:14 GMT
I sort of have kerouac's problem: the tap in my kitchen has worked loose - there's no leak, but the base moves if ever I try to swivel the tap. And what's really annoying is that I can just about touch the nut holding it in place, but there's no way to get a spanner anywhere near it without dismantling the cabinets and taking out the dishwasher, as far as I can see. Having had two expensive plumbing problems in the last couple of years, I'm loth to call in the plumbers again, but I suppose I shall have to. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 16, 2018 11:35:25 GMT
I sent a text message to the person who changed all of my taps a few years ago. He does unofficial plumbing for quite a few buildings on my street. No reply, though -- I suspect he is away on holiday.
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Post by questa on Jul 16, 2018 13:39:09 GMT
Probably gone to the Caymans to visit his wealth.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 21, 2018 12:37:21 GMT
Just after viewing a few of the 20,000 slides my parents left behind, the bulb in the projector exploded and melted into the projector. As the slides are encased in special aluminum sleeves and ensconced in magazines that only work in this type of ancient projector (AirEquipt), I will now be shopping EBay for a replacement projector.
Fortunately, I had just finished taking photos of the images of a lovely woman and family friend who passed away last week at 92. My sister will put them in an album to give to their only surviving daughter and present them to her at the funeral on Monday. A large portrait my Dad took will be on display at the memorial gathering.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 21, 2018 20:10:06 GMT
A shame that happened, but thank goodness the slides were spared. That's a lovely thing you and your sister are doing. As for me ~ OhmygodwhatwasIthinking?! I went to the tourist heart of Amsterdam today -- today, Saturday at the height of tourist season. In terms of crowding think Mardi Gras, but not fun.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 21, 2018 21:21:01 GMT
I was young and in love with a charming fellow from the Saguenay - Lac-St-Jean region, a long way north of Québec City. Not what we'd call the "far north" - that would be the taïga and semi-tundra of our northern third - but pretty remote. I had to change buses in Québec City and found myself in the midst of an unruly crowd of revellers trying to fight of the cold via very hard drinks and rowdy behaviour.
Not fun at all. And cold!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 30, 2018 15:57:33 GMT
I sent the YouTube link to my storm video to all of my neighbours, so if they do a web search for Kerouac2, I am done for.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 30, 2018 16:55:52 GMT
Let's hope their pitchforks and flaming brands got washed away in the flood.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 30, 2018 19:59:27 GMT
This young man was very sweet and thoughtful, but ultimately, the old story of city mouse and country mouse (or cats?) I don't like to live more than 10 minutes' walk from a métro station, and for me the great outdoors is when there are mature trees outside a nearby café. He read historians as much as I did, and philosophers much more, but liked being in the woods.
He was one of 13 children. I have aunts like that, who had 12, and 14. Also living in the countryside. I have always lived in cities.
And no, that wasn't really a trauma. Others were, but he never mistreated me in any way. Just was not to be.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 31, 2018 10:33:12 GMT
*furious* Just checked in for my flight tonight. I'm flying Aeromexico, but this flight is through KLM -- first I knew of this. When I booked the flight months ago I paid extra for a bulkhead seat. So now it turns out that KLM's seat map is radically different from the one I chose from at the Aeromexico site and I have a totally crappy, regular seat.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2018 11:10:36 GMT
You'll get a refund for the extra amount you paid, no?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 31, 2018 12:10:21 GMT
F*ck the refund ~ I want to be as comfortable as I can possibly be in my economic bracket for the many hours I will be trapped in the metal death tube. Also, I am fairly claustrophobic, so even looking at the computer graphic of the Bridge Over the River Kwai box they've assigned me made me start gasping for air.
I'll take it up at the desk when I get to airport. They should be able to figure something out.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2018 12:30:00 GMT
You are an old, old lady now and they must obey! Actually, British Airways upgraded my grandmother to business class at some time during the flight between London and Tampa. I accompanied her to London because the retirement home had put her on drugs and she was no longer normal (she became normal again once my mother threw away the drugs in Florida). I'm not sure what happened on the flight, but they needed to get her to a better place. That was not the end of the problem, though. My grandmother refused to get off the plane because she said "my daughter is supposed to come and get me!" After considerable anguish by the security and immigration services about breaking every rule in the book, my mother actually got on the plane to get her off. (I do understand rules about this sort of thing, but really -- what could they have possibly been afraid that might happen?) Meanwhile, my father was furious with me at first because "how could he possibly send her on an airplane in this condition?" The whole point of the trip was when I had informed my parents (without knowing about the drugs) that my grandmother was going downhill fast and that her only obsession had become to go and see them again "before the end." Anyway, my grandmother lived just fine for several more years. Just a few ideas for fine tuning your behaviour at the airport, Bixa.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 31, 2018 14:50:25 GMT
A cane might also work. Stomp it too.
I was once on a plane with a colleague who is just short of 2 metres tall... On a shitty budget airline. Poor bugger. I have short legs (and an average torso)and I find there is not enough legroom! How can taller people survive unless they are in a bulkhead?
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Post by Kimby on Jul 31, 2018 15:54:52 GMT
If you protest sweetly and reasonably, as opposed to stamping your feet and making a scene, mightn’t you get upgraded to first class?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2018 16:18:48 GMT
Bixa, you look so old and decrepit that I'm sure they will want to move you to the infirmary section of the plane. I'm sure it will be quite comfortable.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 31, 2018 16:23:34 GMT
You are an old, old lady now and they must obey! And you are enough past whippersnapperhood to know that you'd better watch your ass! .. British Airways upgraded my grandmother to business class ... she was no longer normal ... ... they needed to get her to a better place. ... Just a few ideas for fine tuning your behaviour at the airport, Bixa. Don't laugh. I'm capable of major whoredom if it means luxury flying. How can taller people survive unless they are in a bulkhead? As I was boarding a plane once, I passed a poor guy who was easily professional football player size. He had that miserably resigned look of "why is this happening to me" that dogs get when you bathe them. What ticks me off is that in bulkhead you have to store all your stuff overhead. I get around that a little bit by using a fanny pack (no deadly projectile purses allowed, even if you wear them cross-body). But the seats are so damned narrow, that you struggle to even stuff the sweater or (inadequate) airline blanket next to you when not needed. If you protest sweetly and reasonably, as opposed to stamping your feet and making a scene, mightn’t you get upgraded to first class? Well, 1st is too much too hope for. But I'm always nice to the airline desk people, as they take all the crap for situations they had no part in creating. It's been my experience that if they can help you, they will.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 31, 2018 16:25:20 GMT
Bixa, you look so old and decrepit that I'm sure they will want to move you to the infirmary section of the plane. I'm sure it will be quite comfortable. Christ -- you don't let up, do you?! Has it occurred to you that I am presently on the same continent you are, thus easily capable of getting to Paris and dealing with you.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2018 16:34:09 GMT
Oddly enough, I have always survived on all airlines, no matter how shitty the plane or the seating configuration in spite of my 1m87. I think that the main reason is that once I have found my position, I don't move for hours. I have noticed how unusual this seems to be even waiting for the metro in Paris. I find the place where I want to stand and don't move anymore while observing everybody else shifting their feet, pacing, basically writhing around even if we are all waiting only five minutes. The only time I truly suffered was on a bus from Vientiane to Luang Prabang in Laos. It was made for extremely miniature people and had been filled to at least double its capacity with people standing in the aisle or sitting on other people. Keep in mind that this bus ride was about eight hours. There was a moment when I had a burst of claustrophobia and nearly went amok. But since there was no room to even go amok, I managed to squirm to a different position and then sat quietly for another three or four hours. So I am not at all impressed by you airplane wimps.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 31, 2018 16:43:41 GMT
I have observed you on public transit and have come to the conclusion that, even though you appear to be a tall person of European descent, you are actually a Mexican.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 31, 2018 16:58:35 GMT
You’re in fine fettle today, K2! Let Bixa seethe in Peace!
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