Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 32)

Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 32)

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DickyC

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49,539 posts

197 months

Friday 13th December 2019
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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.

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 13th December 2019
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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.

Scrump

21,886 posts

157 months

Friday 13th December 2019
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Trivton

Twinned with Brigadoon

Bobberoo99

38,362 posts

97 months

Friday 13th December 2019
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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.
yes
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!!!

Scrump

21,886 posts

157 months

Friday 13th December 2019
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I was a winner in the charity tombola at work today.
The prizes included some very good claret, plenty of decent Australian Shiraz and many bottles of tasty beer.

I won a bottle of Tropical Lychee wine rolleyes

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 13th December 2019
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In my moment of need yesterday I happened upon a new facility in the local town - ‘POOING STATION’. I dashed in but the paper was a bit mean and precut sheets and the kharzi more of a slot.

Anyway needs must I thought.

Bobberoo99

38,362 posts

97 months

Friday 13th December 2019
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Kind of them to supply a special area just for such instances!!!

P5BNij

15,764 posts

105 months

Friday 13th December 2019
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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. wink

Never mind, at least you managed to hang on to it longer than I did. frown

weeping

paperbag
Duly noted Glenners wink. Alas any resemblance to being in possession of an upright noble character was demolished by having several blemishes about my person or persons caused by a semi-legendary DIY based accident. Possibly. It says here...

P5BNij

15,764 posts

105 months

Friday 13th December 2019
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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. smile

Nij, Have you ever considered selling your Maidenhead to the highest bidder?


Edited by glenrobbo on Friday 13th December 16:12
Bit of a family connection for Mrs.P5B so it's not for sale Glenners - her folks hale from Maidenhead and her Dad spent many an hour on the platforms there photographing steam trains in the '50s and '60s, at the time he worked at nearby White Waltham airfield. We bought the sign several years ago from a chap who rescued it from a skip on the station forecourt back in 1970.
This little number came from the Walden branch waiting room when it was decommissioned. If I leant out of my window I could stub a fag out on the platform.

Ooh nice a proper BR / ER one, lovely. Whatever happened to Audley's end, sis she ever find it...?

{ Apologies for consecutive postings, my clockwork Fisher Price PC won't let me multi-task! }

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 13th December 2019
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P5BNij said:
Ooh nice a proper BR / ER one, lovely. Whatever happened to Audley's end, sis she ever find it...?

{ Apologies for consecutive postings, my clockwork Fisher Price PC won't let me multi-task! }
The totem was on the centre of the canopy - just the shadow remaining in this 1970 pic


DickyC

Original Poster:

49,539 posts

197 months

Friday 13th December 2019
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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.

Bobberoo99

38,362 posts

97 months

Friday 13th December 2019
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CAD= Cardboard Aided Design!! yes

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 13th December 2019
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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


P5BNij

15,764 posts

105 months

Friday 13th December 2019
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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.
The childish joys of trying to 'draw' a perfect curve, then dropping it on the carpet making all those funny iron filings go haywire... ''Dad, I'm bored with this, can we play Kerplunk now...?''.

Bobberoo99

38,362 posts

97 months

Friday 13th December 2019
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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 you doth protest too much!!!

glenrobbo

35,061 posts

149 months

Friday 13th December 2019
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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!

Pericoloso

44,044 posts

162 months

Saturday 14th December 2019
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I failed in my quest to avoid the election results.
Epic fail !


glenrobbo

35,061 posts

149 months

Saturday 14th December 2019
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Pericoloso said:
I failed in my quest to avoid the election results.
Epic fail !
Will this epic fail have any effect on your application for a green card for Fabio, Peri?

magooagain

9,908 posts

169 months

Saturday 14th December 2019
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Good morning trivial sleepy heads.
I'm sure you all haven't laid in simutainiously unless you altogether!

Altogether in your alltogethers!

No I think the reply button was playing up. Shirley?

Bobberoo99

38,362 posts

97 months

Saturday 14th December 2019
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Morning chaps wavey
I've only just woken up!!! Twas a jolly good nights sleep too!!!
Usual Saturday shenanigans here, with the added bonus of trying to figure out how to use a Vax carpet cleaner at the MIL's too!!!!
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