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Post by bjd on Aug 15, 2020 5:47:26 GMT
I obviously don't buy common items enough -- the only thing it reminds me of is tomato concentrate in a tube where you have to turn the cap upside down to perforate the metal seal the first time you want to use it.
On toothpaste, Bixa? Really? No toothpaste here has a seal under the cap. In fact, caps don't screw off so much any more on some brands, they flip open.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 15, 2020 6:07:06 GMT
Yes, the kind I use here flips open. That is weird, and don't products in Mexico also have to be labelled in Spanish?
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Post by questa on Aug 15, 2020 11:47:45 GMT
Just imagine the horror of it all...a less intelligent woman would have gone to bed with furry teeth.
The inner circle does resemble a corona virus, though.
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Post by fumobici on Aug 15, 2020 15:13:32 GMT
I positively detest all these difficult "safety seals", I think a lot of them showed up back in the last century when someone tampered with Tylenol bottles in the shops.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 15, 2020 15:24:50 GMT
It is on the same scale with all of the airports that require passengers to take off their shoes at security because of a grand total of ONE incident (unfortunately at CDG) many years ago.
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Post by fumobici on Aug 15, 2020 15:34:36 GMT
It is on the same scale with all of the airports that require passengers to take off their shoes at security because of a grand total of ONE incident (unfortunately at CDG) many years ago. Sometimes they make you take your shoes off and sometimes not. Not long ago at Sea-Tac I heard one of the security guy's radio tell him that the lines were getting too backed up and they let us all go through without any of that shoes, belt, take out your laptop theater crap. EU airports seem less consistently obsessed than US with shoes.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 15, 2020 15:58:15 GMT
I have not had to take off my shoes for quite some time, but I see lots of passengers doing it automatically (their belts, too). The laptop requirement also seems to be disappearing. Last year in Italy and this year in Portugal, I was pleasantly surprised to find that they did not care about such things.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 15, 2020 19:46:47 GMT
caps don't screw off so much any more on some brands, they flip open. I remember when the flip-open caps were introduced. I was in the tooth hygiene aisle and there was an older lady looking at the toothpaste and making that huffing noise people make when they're getting irritated & angry. She said to me that she was really annoyed because she wanted the regular screw-off cap, not the new flip one. In my infinite goodness I strolled over and demonstrated to her that the new caps were actually the standard screw-off caps, just with the flip thingy on top. She had the grace to laugh at herself and was also graciously grateful. don't products in Mexico also have to be labelled in Spanish? You'd think, right? You'd also think that there would be no earthly reason to import a type of Colgate toothpaste from Brazil. This morning I did notice that the writing on the tube is in both Portuguese and Spanish. a less intelligent woman would have gone to bed with furry teeth. *orp* Naaaah, never! The tube I'd been using still had enough in it for some more brushings, plus there's always hydrogen peroxide or baking soda. Sometimes they make you take your shoes off and sometimes not. A couple of times I've taken trips where I sailed through security without any of the usual annoyances. Once I even asked why I wasn't getting the usual hassles. The agent showed me a code on my ticket indicating that I was the empress of absolutely everything had been given some special status. I never knew why, nor how to get it again.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 15, 2020 19:54:14 GMT
I had to go and look at my tube of toothpaste and it still has a screw top.
The last time I transited thorugh Atlanta, I was awarded the magic no-hassle lane for some reason, so I am pretty sure that I will have to go through one of the annoying lanes for the next 50 times.
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Post by questa on Aug 16, 2020 0:22:26 GMT
a less intelligent woman would have gone to bed with furry teeth. *orp* Naaaah, never! The tube I'd been using still had enough in it for some more brushings, plus there's always hydrogen peroxide or baking soda. Sometimes they make you take your shoes off and sometimes not.
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Post by questa on Aug 16, 2020 0:44:59 GMT
I wanted to share with you the humour of the positioning of Bixa' post about toothpaste followed by Fumobici's comment re shoes.It gave me a chuckle and I tried to put it together to amuse us but as usual it was technology 10, Questa nil.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 16, 2020 9:23:08 GMT
On Tuesday I have an appointment at our GP Surgery with the Practice Nurse for my asthma review. Usually I have one per year but because of covid19 they're seeing all their asthma patients to prepare them for winter, organise flu injections etc. I've put on weight. She is fierce. I am scared.
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Post by monetsmum on Aug 17, 2020 9:56:19 GMT
I think a lot of us have put on weight during the lockdown Cheery. Never in my life have I put cake at the top of my shopping list but I've done it at least 4 times this past few months.
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Post by mossie on Aug 17, 2020 12:32:39 GMT
Don’t worry about it Cheery, she is only doing another tick box exercise to earn her surgery some more cash, be happy you are getting the jab.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 18, 2020 10:50:40 GMT
I was surprised this morning at the hotel when the utensils furnished in the virus-free breakfast bag were plastic. Plastic utensils were outlawed in the EU a year and a half ago. Then I saw that it must be some new kind of authorised plastic when the spoon melted in my coffee cup.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 18, 2020 14:27:52 GMT
It's complicated. I bought this yesterday. It is stuffed with luscious recipes, one of them being a creamy egg custard tart...a family favourite (tend to buy them rather than make them) sooooo 4 egg yolks included. Not a problem, we have lots of eggs...but what to do with the leftover egg whites? Coconut kisses!? Nope...no dessicated coconut...I know! I'll make macaroons...never made them before...how hard can it be? So I lined the baking trays, weighed everything out...made the Italian meringue and folded it into the fine ground almond/icing sugar paste...everything looked lovely...decided not to colour them. Icing bag prepared and duly began icing small circles on the baking parchment lined trays. Only the mixture didn't emerge in a smooth gloopy puddle. Somehow I'd managed to have a fine holed icing nozzle hidden INSIDE the large holed nozzle..so had to force the mixture out in wormy squirts . Gave up in the end and just used a spoon to dot the mixture on the paper. They taste amazing...just look awful.... The egg custard tart is still baking....
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 18, 2020 17:22:32 GMT
The offending macaroon thingies Slightly more successful custard tart...
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Post by mossie on Aug 18, 2020 18:29:31 GMT
They all look extremely edible to me, who is too hamfisted to attempt cooking.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 18, 2020 18:33:09 GMT
Your fail is another person's triumph, cheery.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 18, 2020 18:47:47 GMT
Nice of you to say Mossie and Kerouac. The custard tart IS absolutely lush.... Approx 989,000 calories per slice (guess) so I cant eat again until Christmas.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 18, 2020 18:53:19 GMT
Oh yes, absolutely offensive macaroons and only borderline okay tart. Push that over here to my end of the table, okay?
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Post by htmb on Aug 18, 2020 20:45:25 GMT
There is a rule from the universe stating there are ZERO calories in any foods consumed within a week AFTER a medical checkup.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 19, 2020 0:11:43 GMT
htmb, does that apply to cats as well?
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Post by htmb on Aug 19, 2020 0:49:59 GMT
As you well know, cats are allowed anything they want, whenever they want it. According to cats, that is...
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 19, 2020 1:02:23 GMT
Speaking of which, I think either today or yesterday was supposed to be black cat day. If so, salutations to dear Livia.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 19, 2020 1:59:16 GMT
The asthma review was a breeze...I think that me taking the practice a PPE nurse doll helped (bribery and corruption). When I got on the scales the nurse just said that she herself had put on a stone during the pandemic despite having worked right through. The receptionists were all cooing over the doll so the nurse let them take her into main reception where she is sitting on the desk greeting patients (behind glass of course...everything is behind glass).
So I need not have worried, asthma medication unchanged altho I've been ok-ed to take additional antihistamine (cheap as chips in supermarkets) when my hay fever gets bad and my current meds struggle.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 19, 2020 2:39:16 GMT
And yet you are up in the middle of the night.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 19, 2020 6:33:15 GMT
When I first get a cat we always go through a training period. It only takes a day or two before I'm doing exactly what it wants.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 19, 2020 7:57:43 GMT
it's easier to come downstairs and enjoy a hot chocolate than start the 'you're snoring' battle. I just go downstairs and have a drink, play about on my tablet or read until either it goes quiet upstairs or I'm sleepy enough to fall asleep despite the background noise. Sometimes to be woken by an indignant husband who tells me that my snoring is keeping him awake hmph.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 19, 2020 8:59:43 GMT
Cheery - when he is snoring , record it on your phone so you can play it back for absolute proof. My husband does it to me but not for snoring. To show me I had a violent nightmare which I remember nothing about. I can't believe how blood curdling my screams can be, swearing comes into it occasionally and lots of muttering. I haven't fallen out of bed lately but that has happened. I have tried to think what causes the dreams nearly every night and even stopped taking my medication one pill type at a time. After and entire two weeks of no pills I still have the "attacks" - dreaming - so it's not that. I thought maybe wine with dinner and a glass before as an aperitif but we have been down to very little alcohol as it was banned twice during lockdown. So, get your phone ready dearheart…..
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