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12 hours ago, BFTD said:

 

Do the press still run stories about how we've run out of cod/haddock and we'll all be eating the fabled Japanese farting dungfish soon? They've been banging on about that since I was a wee boy.

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mmm... Japanese farting dungfish... 

4 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

Is it just me, or are products that say 'peel here' or 'tear here' getting more and more difficult to open?

 

I'm disappointed by the "peel here" sticker. Because he isn't. He's deid. I have to put up with Tony Blackburn being here instead. 

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18 minutes ago, tamthebam said:

I'm disappointed by the "peel here" sticker. Because he isn't. He's deid. I have to put up with Tony Blackburn being here instead. 

I'm surprised Tony Blackburn's still with us - I'm sure I remember him dying a while back.

Unlike Peel, I don't think he's been Yewtree'd either.

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1 hour ago, BFTD said:

I'm surprised Tony Blackburn's still with us - I'm sure I remember him dying a while back.

Unlike Peel, I don't think he's been Yewtree'd either.

For 81 he still puts in a good shift travelling for radio shows and currently doing a theatre tour.

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16 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:

For 81 he still puts in a good shift travelling for radio shows and currently doing a theatre tour.

Some of the auld boys can't face the idea of retirement.

Ken Dodd was in his Nineties and still playing to auld ladies well past the point that they'd all nodded off.

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6 minutes ago, Craig fae the Vale said:

There's a fly buzzing around my living room that won't sit still long enough for me to kill. It is driving me nuts.

Keep flies out the living room

 

 

 

Shit in the hall 

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In A-ha's 'Take On Me' video, they make it out that the young wifey couldn't pay her bill because she was trapped in the comic, but when she reappears out of the comic she does a runner anyway.  Major pie kicking required.

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9 hours ago, Craig fae the Vale said:

There's a fly buzzing around my living room that won't sit still long enough for me to kill. It is driving me nuts.

Get a cat, flys and spiders will never bother your household again. 

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19 minutes ago, The Moonster said:

Get a cat, flys and spiders will never bother your household again. 

What does he get to deal with the cat when it starts buzzing around the living room?

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1 minute ago, The Moonster said:

A life of happiness.

If you enjoy scaping shite and pasty pish-reeking clay out of a litter tray, sure!

Incidentally, we have a cat who sits on spiders until they die, so I keep finding squished arachnids around the place. Not sure that's a lot better for arachnophobes.

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Just now, BFTD said:

If you enjoy scaping shite and pasty pish-reeking clay out of a litter tray, sure!

Incidentally, we have a cat who sits on spiders until they die, so I keep finding squished arachnids around the place. Not sure that's a lot better for arachnophobes.

You can buy self cleaning trays these days if that's not your thing, but now I've spent the last 2 years changing my weans nappies, picking up a tiny wee cat shite in a bag is a cake walk.

My cat also does that, gets her paws on top of it and just sits down. Sometimes if she's feeling playful she'll slightly lift a paw until it tries to scuttle away before she pounces again. 

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2 minutes ago, The Moonster said:

You can buy self cleaning trays these days if that's not your thing, but now I've spent the last 2 years changing my weans nappies, picking up a tiny wee cat shite in a bag is a cake walk.

My cat also does that, gets her paws on top of it and just sits down. Sometimes if she's feeling playful she'll slightly lift a paw until it tries to scuttle away before she pounces again. 

Really? I found nappies easy compared to litter trays. Cat effluent is vile. Wood litter is a big improvement on the clay stuff. For the cat, obviously.

One of ours is a longhair, and has reached the point in life that comes to us all eventually - she's not flexible enough to lick her own arse these days. Dragging her into the shower for a wee wash has become a monthly endeavour  :shutup

Thankfully she's fairly easy-going. I've had cats who'd have ripped my face off.

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9 minutes ago, BFTD said:

Really? I found nappies easy compared to litter trays. Cat effluent is vile. Wood litter is a big improvement on the clay stuff. For the cat, obviously.

One of ours is a longhair, and has reached the point in life that comes to us all eventually - she's not flexible enough to lick her own arse these days. Dragging her into the shower for a wee wash has become a monthly endeavour  :shutup

Thankfully she's fairly easy-going. I've had cats who'd have ripped my face off.

If a litter tray is bad you just dump the whole lot into the bin and put fresh litter in. If a nappy is bad I'm usually cleaning shite of various body parts for a number of minutes. 

Our cat is long haired too, she has perfected the art of dragging her arse across every floor in the house to try and free herself of the bit of jobby that has stuck to her arse hair. I suppose that is a bit worse than a nappy.

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On 16/05/2024 at 09:25, coprolite said:

Getting food home to find the packaging is damaged and open is a pain in the arse and seems to be on the increase too. 

Cheap cuts of chicken and coleslaw are the worst offenders. 

Tubs of yoghurt with 0.4 micron thick film lids are 100x worse than either, both in frequency of bursting and the absolute bomb site they create. 

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13 hours ago, The Moonster said:

Get a cat, flys and spiders will never bother your household again. 

It's meant to be a bird first!
 

13 hours ago, BFTD said:

What does he get to deal with the cat when it starts buzzing around the living room?

He needs a cow. That deals with the goat after the goat deals with the dog, supposing the dog has dealt with the cat first and that only after the cat has caught the bird which should've been the first step after seeing the spider.

Personally I just chill with the spiders in this house. There's at least 5 or 6 that I know of. No flies though.

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1 minute ago, AnderooMFC said:

It's meant to be a bird first!
 

He needs a cow. That deals with the goat after the goat deals with the dog, supposing the dog has dealt with the cat first and that only after the cat has caught the bird which should've been the first step after seeing the spider.

Personally I just chill with the spiders in this house. There's at least 5 or 6 that I know of. No flies though.

Aye, if you can keep arachnophobia at bay, leave the spiders alone to do their thing and flying beasties stop being much of a problem.

I started leaving a "ladder" of cloth out of the bath at night, as we had one particularly dippit spider that I kept having to rescue in the mornings. I'd like to think I'd learn the lesson after the sixth or seventh time falling into a pit from which I couldn't escape, but spiders are a breed unto themselves.

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25 minutes ago, BFTD said:

I started leaving a "ladder" of cloth out of the bath at night, as we had one particularly dippit spider that I kept having to rescue in the mornings. I'd like to think I'd learn the lesson after the sixth or seventh time falling into a pit from which I couldn't escape, but spiders are a breed unto themselves.

How do you know it was the same one?

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