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Post by lagatta on Jun 24, 2019 9:23:27 GMT
I hate wasting things but would throw that out immediately. Unless you can catch mice with it.
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Post by bjd on Jun 24, 2019 10:53:26 GMT
I had some of that blue toothpaste too. It left little blue specks in the sink when I spat it out. Fortunately, your teeth do not turn blue.
Maybe your mice are nesting in the nice, new insulation, kerouac?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 24, 2019 11:23:55 GMT
In any case, the whole building would have to be treated for mice to be effective... and then the building next door, and so on.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 24, 2019 15:49:13 GMT
I have no mice in the house. 8 cats are a good I insurance against Mice. Do mouses exist by the way ?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 24, 2019 17:14:49 GMT
No, but houses do.
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Post by questa on Jun 24, 2019 22:59:05 GMT
Can someone tell me what the plural of computer type mouse is...mice, mouses, meece?
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Post by lagatta on Jun 24, 2019 23:27:04 GMT
I'd call them mice. But why aren't houses hice?
Livia is a killer queen. Funny, as she seems so wee and darling.
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Post by lugg on Jun 30, 2019 17:32:42 GMT
I am missing not having a cat and keep contemplating getting another. No mice here though. On another note my trauma is "Why are all modern toasters crap?" - yet another one bit the dust this morning.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 30, 2019 18:38:19 GMT
Ahhh. You don't need an excuse to get a kitty, though, do you? Anyway, apparently all cats are not mousers. Some dogs are.
re: toasters ~ I don't make so much toast that I want to give counter space to one and always make toast in a skillet if I want some. Every time my dad would visit me he would run out and buy me a toaster, not being able to believe that was living without one.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 30, 2019 19:09:39 GMT
😄❤️
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Post by lagatta on Jun 30, 2019 22:06:38 GMT
I've had two supposedly advanced wok/slow-cookers die on me. There were insurmountable objections to the warranty, despite the fact that I had kept the warranty and the invoice, and I had none nothing whatsoever counter to the instructions (such as run it on high for a long time).
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Post by Kimby on Jun 30, 2019 22:28:33 GMT
Lagatta, tell them you will post your dissatisfaction with their product on social media if you don’t get satisfaction.
Also (maybe first) ask to speak with someone who CAN help you.
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Post by questa on Jul 1, 2019 0:00:25 GMT
Once upon a time manafacturers employed "quality inspection staff" who checked all the products before they hit the shops. Then they realised it was far cheaper to get the consumer to do the inspection. 12 month warranties sounded good, so if there was a fault it was cheaper to replace than repair. Then the manafacturers decided to make it harder for people to get a replacement, as Lagata has found.
Once you could see a product like a dishwasher or microwave oven out of its box, and do a check yourself, now all you know is "It is just like the drawing on the box". Now I am stuck with an oven that has a door which clangs when the door is used and beeps loudly enough to wake my neighbour. The rotating plate is half a centimetre bigger than specs on the box which means my casserole dish can't rotate. My dishwasher has so many removable racks but it can't get the dishes clean.
Ah, well. Another first world problem.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 5, 2019 22:16:39 GMT
We shan't talk about what is wrong with my laptop. Let grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr be my final word on the subject. A more recent trauma: My landlady called me this morning. As we are friends, I am always happy to hear from her. So, "how are you / fine how are you", etc. And I ask her what's up. She said, "Don't you always pay rent at the beginning of July?" (I pay my rent in increments, not monthly.) I was so shocked that for a moment I couldn't speak. Then of course I started apologizing profusely, as my only excuse is that I totally, totally forgot. I asked her why she didn't remind me on Sunday, when we went out to eat together, especially as she was also going to collect from the neighbor on that day. She said she completely forgot as well, besides which I always pay early & usually remind her that my rent is due. She added that the only reason she remembered was because she had a bill she had to pay and was mulling about money. She laughed about it and told me to take my time and not to be upset. I'm in my sixth year of living in this house and this is the only time I've screwed up, but still .........
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Post by patricklondon on Jul 6, 2019 6:29:18 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 6, 2019 7:02:47 GMT
Probably. I once deposited cash directly in her account because she couldn't come get the rent, but she's never wanted to do that again. Why rock the boat?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 20, 2019 13:05:47 GMT
My Accor Hotels account was hacked in China where an attempt was made to use thousands of my loyalty points. Luckily the operation did not go through but it took me about 25 minutes with customer service to get my identity back and convince them that my email account was not really ztprbd@sina.com (yes, that is really the email that they used).
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Post by questa on Jul 20, 2019 14:27:04 GMT
It is a horrible, sick in the gut feeling you get when this happens, isn't it? Yours sounded like you had things in hand fairly quickly. I was not so fortunate.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 20, 2019 14:40:28 GMT
It's the 3rd time I've been hacked over the years and each time has been less serious that the previous one, but still. I actually should have been on top of this even sooner, because I received one of the new internet threats recently that should have tipped me off. I had already received two other of the new threats which run along the lines of "I am a hacker, and I have access to your webcam. I know you have been visiting pornographic sites and I have recorded what you did while watching them. Send $500 in bitcoins to the following address within 48 hours or I will release what I recorded to every person in your address list."
This must totally freak out a lot of people, but not me (even though, yes, I do visit pornographic websites from time to time) because my main computer uses a separate screen from the attached Sony Vaio laptop (which is folded closed at all times) and there is no webcam. Therefore: hollow and inaccurate threat.
But recently I received a 3rd threat of the same sort, but this one started with "I know that one of your passwords is x......" before going on to the rest of the story. And it was true -- it was the password that I used for Accor Hotels (and only Accor Hotels, thank god, because some of the other passwords that I use are valid for 10 or 20 sites). I should have checked that account immediately but didn't and it was only today when I was making a reservation for the end of the month that I found out that something was wrong.
It was much nicer when all of the spam was for penis enlargement.
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Post by questa on Jul 20, 2019 15:09:09 GMT
I am really a gentle, peace-loving hippy but if I met up with a scammer I would tear their hearts out with my own hands. The grief and life destroying results of the bastards' activities have caused elderly people to lose their homes and savings at a time when they should have been settled and safe. Small family businesses have become bankrupt with staff laid off as well. Being international makes it hard to catch the perps. No-one has the political will to go after the thieves. It is all too hard.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 29, 2019 7:32:35 GMT
THERE IS A CRICKET SOMEWHERE IN THIS BEDROOM.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 29, 2019 11:26:41 GMT
That's already better than a deathwatch beetle. I stayed in a country house in Cancale once and they were tick-tock-ticking away all night inside the beams all weekend.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 29, 2019 14:18:14 GMT
THERE IS A CRICKET SOMEWHERE IN THIS BEDROOM. What do you reckon questa? A bat 🦇 and a bowl 🍲 perhaps?
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Post by Kimby on Jul 29, 2019 15:20:15 GMT
THERE IS A CRICKET SOMEWHERE IN THIS BEDROOM. Reminds me of when my parents were on vacation in Hawaii and were waiting in their Hilo hotel room for the mother of a Hawaiian-American friend of theirs to come get them for a personal guided tour of the Island. As the appointed meeting time slipped by, my parents noticed a cricket chirping somewhere in the room. It would chirp for a minute or so, then be silent for 5 minutes before chirping again. While they waited for their tardy friend, Dad started trying to track down the annoying insect, eventually looking behind the nightstand where he discovered...a phone cable leading to the chirping telephone on their nightstand! Their guide had been waiting in the lobby, calling their room every 5 minutes! After abject apologies and lots of laughter, they had a delightful tour of the island.
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Post by questa on Jul 30, 2019 0:19:03 GMT
What do you reckon questa? A bat 🦇 and a bowl 🍲 perhaps? mmm, the ground is small so expect lots of boundaries,.wicket dead and flat...bowlers will have to work hard. No team photo at the end, room not big enough.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 30, 2019 11:17:31 GMT
Had a message from my dead BiL's fb account this morning...that freaked me out. A scam.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 30, 2019 11:23:56 GMT
The chuffing freezer is down went on the blink yesterday. Jeff spoke to an engineer...going through the 'symptoms' and we were advised to empty it, defrost it and leave it empty for 3 days with the door open to thoroughly dry it out...then try running it for 24 hours to see if it recovers. Everything crammed into small freezer...eating what we cant fit in...gave some stuff to the neighbours... So that's the third thing...1. Rod passing away 2. Eldest son's marriage almost ending (don't ask) and 3. Freezer broken down. In the great scheme of things a broken freezer isnt the end if the world
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Post by mossie on Jul 30, 2019 11:49:27 GMT
Pleased to see you looking on the bright side, which is the right way to approach these calamities. They say things come in threes so hopefully you will have abetter time now.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 30, 2019 12:11:14 GMT
Since things come in threes, you're entitled to some time off now, Cheery.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 30, 2019 15:56:02 GMT
I think one of my front tooth crowns is disintegrating.
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