Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 32)
Discussion
A colleague treated himself to a bag of monkey nuts. As he and his wife sat down to watch telly he produced the bag and asked her if she would like some. She refused saying she didn't like them, which he though a bit odd. As he started to shell them and eat them she demanded to know what he was doing, which might explain why she wasn't keen.
PMacanGTS said:
Today I bought 3 x 260g tubs of roasted and salted pistachios (shell on) from Marks & Spencer’s for our Christmas bridge and buffet evening. Once home, I unsealed each tub, and weighed the contents.
Tub 1 = 262g
Tub 2 = 256g
Tub 3 = 267g
I was a little dismayed after weighing tub 2. However, after weighing tub 3 I decided the fairest thing to do would be to average the weight across the three tubs. This gave me a weight per tub of 261.7g. Phew, I thought. That’s saved me a trip back to the store.
Or that’s what I thought. Once I’d sorted the nuts and removed both the unopened and the empty shells, the contents were reweighed, with the following results:
Tub 1 = 254g
Tub 2 = 244g
Tub 3 = 262g
Using the same method I’d used previously, the weight was now only 253.3g per tub.
Now, here’s my dilemma. Do I tell the wife and be summarily lambasted about my nut selection, before being sent back to the store to complain? Or do I keep shtum, and hope I don’t blurt this out in my sleep?
This could make or break Christmas.
For Christ sake that’s a nightmare. To prevent her using your own nuts to make up weights, why not paint up some rabbit droppings with Humbrol Khaki, wait until dry and then a quick coat of Semi Matt Varnish. I reckon for under a tenner and half a day you’ll be square and can relax.Tub 1 = 262g
Tub 2 = 256g
Tub 3 = 267g
I was a little dismayed after weighing tub 2. However, after weighing tub 3 I decided the fairest thing to do would be to average the weight across the three tubs. This gave me a weight per tub of 261.7g. Phew, I thought. That’s saved me a trip back to the store.
Or that’s what I thought. Once I’d sorted the nuts and removed both the unopened and the empty shells, the contents were reweighed, with the following results:
Tub 1 = 254g
Tub 2 = 244g
Tub 3 = 262g
Using the same method I’d used previously, the weight was now only 253.3g per tub.
Now, here’s my dilemma. Do I tell the wife and be summarily lambasted about my nut selection, before being sent back to the store to complain? Or do I keep shtum, and hope I don’t blurt this out in my sleep?
This could make or break Christmas.
V6 Pushfit said:
For Christ sake that’s a nightmare. To prevent her using your own nuts to make up weights, why not paint up some rabbit droppings with Humbrol Khaki, wait until dry and then a quick coat of Semi Matt Varnish. I reckon for under a tenner and half a day you’ll be square and can relax.
A stonking, out of the box, bluesky thinking, alternate reality check, let's run it up the flagpole and see who salutes it approach there Pushfit!!!
glenrobbo said:
P5BNij said:
My Maidenhead is not for sale Glenners - I lost it several years ago to a bin dipper chap behind a skip on the station forecourt back in 1970.
I wasn't offering to buy it, Nij, I was merely trying to establish whether you were of upright noble and unblemished character. Never mind, at least you managed to hang on to it longer than I did.
V6 Pushfit said:
P5BNij said:
glenrobbo said:
P5BNij said:
Shuffling various domestic items just now (accumulated rubbish more like) round chez P5B to enable yet more DIY malarkey to take place I found this British Railways enamel totem sign gathering dust, I'd forgotten all about it having stashed it away when we had the plastering done a while back - it got me thinking, knowing that replicas can now be bought with any name you fancy it would be nice to have one made up with something like 'Trivton Parva' on it for the garage wall. Then it got me thinking some more - when these signs were fitted on stations up and down the country in the '50s, each region of BR had its own colour scheme, ie : brown for the Western Region, green for the Southern Region, light blue for the Scottish Region, dark blue for the Eastern Region, tangerine for the North Eastern Region and maroon for the London Midland Region, so gentleman of TT, in which part of these glorious isles would Trivton be if it were a real place.....?
Trivton Parvo.Region? Dunno. Most likely not far from the South Coast.
Colour? Definitely purple.
Nij, Have you ever considered selling your Maidenhead to the highest bidder?
Edited by glenrobbo on Friday 13th December 16:12
{ Apologies for consecutive postings, my clockwork Fisher Price PC won't let me multi-task! }
DickyC said:
When I was CAD draughting, irrespective of which CAD pakage we were using, detractors claimed we were on Etch-A-Sketch.
Drawings??? Pfffttt - I was just discussing today that leaning over a drawing board fit 15 years is what caused my little problem. Neck. It’s the neck. Not the drug abuse or the voyeurism - not them nonono
DickyC said:
P5BNij said:
{ Apologies for consecutive postings, my clockwork Fisher Price PC won't let me multi-task! }
When I was CAD draughting, irrespective of which CAD pakage we were using, detractors claimed we were on Etch-A-Sketch. V6 Pushfit said:
DickyC said:
When I was CAD draughting, irrespective of which CAD pakage we were using, detractors claimed we were on Etch-A-Sketch.
Drawings??? Pfffttt - I was just discussing today that leaning over a drawing board fit 15 years is what caused my little problem. Neck. It’s the neck. Not the drug abuse or the voyeurism - not them nonono
I think it's about time we moved with the times and upgraded to the new-fangled Spirograph.
I realise it would make a huge dent in the TT finances, but surely it must be tax-deductible?
It would make a big difference to our future output. Just think of all that usually non-productive twiddling and twirling, harnessed and put to good use!
I realise it would make a huge dent in the TT finances, but surely it must be tax-deductible?
It would make a big difference to our future output. Just think of all that usually non-productive twiddling and twirling, harnessed and put to good use!
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