h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

PH: Shopping, went yesterday, do folk know something I don’t, you would have thought the world was going to end

Jeans makers who fit a zip with a small slider so that one in three or four uses, you have to squirm around to find the far end of the damn' thing.

Word to the above.

My issue with zips is that on some jeans the teeth come apart for no reason. I then have to force the fastener thing in the wrong direction to make the teeth join together so I can take the jeans off. This in turn can make some of the teeth fall out. Its embarrassing when the teeth come apart in a public place too.

Oh yes. the zips come apart on my jeans too. And the buttons seem to pull and the waistbands seem to shrink too. I do hate that!



PP.

Buy some more jeans that fit you, pointless going around in some faded things that you had when you left school, don’t you know, waistlines increase with age

"you could tie a bit of string through the free end"

Yes, but all the girls cried "now is not the time"

Blows a big fat raspberry at those who implied I'm a lard-ass My vice is not eating too many pies but buying cheap jeans.

PH: Jeans that state they stretch and don’t, I was in the car a lot yesterday and boy was it good to get out and walk about a bit, not out of my jeans,the car

PH: On that programme, Sewing Bee, the way one contestant is frequently referred to as "81 year-old Ann", while none of the others are pigeon-holed in this way.

What will they think of next, “The Great British bathe off”, were contestants have to demonstrate their ability to navigate various showers and unusually small baths.

Ooh, looking forward to the celebrity version!



Deb

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not the whole show though that does annoy me
but one of the designers said
"I did research it and it wasn't how i imagined it so I'm going to build it how I imagined it"

so not how it actually is then...
*frustrated *

That's like a scientist saying, "I did research and the results didn't match my theory, so I'm discarding the facts until I find some to fit my theory". Or a policeman ignoring any evidence that doesn't prove his/her favoured suspect is guilty - and that would never happen, would it?

Sort of like a theist then?

philosophy. argh.

Saucepan lids. They're up there with coat hangers. Terrible to store, do not stack, slide all over the place. I keep my saucepans in a carousel cupboard under the work surface. There's no space for the lids and they are always sliding down under the carousel bit and then I have to grovel on the floor for them. None of my cupboards have enough space for one of those saucepan lid holders to go on the inside of them. Gaaaaaaaaaah

I hang mine on hooks on the wall next to the stove, but after many years of loving my cottage kitchen, I wish I could sweep all this clutter away and have bare walls and surfaces, as a proper kichen clean means taking everything down and washing it (housework generally is a more than petty hate)

That's why I love our kitchen units. Getting to the back of a floor unit is always a pain, particularly the bottom shelf. With my problem hips, it's literally a pain. So when we had our kitchen done, we picked units with deep drawers. Now everything is accessible, even the things that would be at the back of the bottom shelf. The drawers are deep enough for saucepans to be stored with their lids on, or we could stack the saucepans two-deep and have the lids at the side. The only cupboard unit is under the sink, and that doesn't have a shelf so everything is accessible.(<- that's a smug, self-satisfied smiley!)

I originally wanted drawers throughout for that very reason, and had to make concessions in a couple of units because of the cost. I need something I can stand the saucepan lids in, but they're all different kinds, so it would have to be tailor-made. A rack on the wall I am trying to avoid.