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Salami meatballs...

Going to the supermarket deli to buy some nice sliced hot salami (220gms) to make some homemade pizza for tea that night...always nicely sliced and stacked at their deli with a price sticker in front of the loverly inviting and tempting stack! Buy me! Buy me please!!!

Arriving home, unpacking the groceries only to find that  the cretin behind the deli counter has tightly wrapped the sliced salami into a red cricket ball over and over with their massive sheets of folded white deli paper like a demented origami novice...thank you, anything else?!?!... have a nice day!...

Find you need the skills of a plastic surgeon with a knife and fork to pick open this meaty chinese puzzle...****, ****, ****!!!!...into salami slices that now resemble tattered thin red tissue paper with gaping holes...ready for tonight's pizza!

I tell you what cretin if I wanted salami meatballs i would have brought the deli sliced salami home placed the wrapped sliced hot salami in a sock gone outside and thrown the whole lot against my garage brick wall for 10 minutes or so till I tired...then played footy ala Jack Reiwoldt kicking for goal for another 10 minutes then brought the sock containing salami inside to the kitchen then slammed/thumped like a sumo wrestler going at it for another 10 minute with our dear departed mama's wooden rolling pin...removed the mess from the sock...rolled the lot into a tight ball...taken a photo of it and taken it back to the cretin behind the deli counter and said in a very loud voice for all to hear...see this pic?!?!...now that's what I call a salami meatball not the mess you served earlier this morning!

 

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13 minutes ago, oztheatre said:

knee height microwave oven nooks in kitchens.

 

great for toddlers and hobbits though

Oh yes.... and conventional oven down there too.

Got a new house. Features for giants and hobbits. ...also no towel rail in the bathroom...and no where to put one !!?

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Silly signs.

 

'In Case Of Fire Do Not Use Lift'   Better not use the lift then , just in case there is a fire.

 

'This Door Is Alarmed'   Why? What is it afraid of?

 

Also those yellow 'Caution Wet Floor' signs that regularly pop up in shopping centres. The floor is never wet and the sign should really say 'Caution This Sign Is  A Trip Hazard'.

 

And this one I spotted at the entrance to a garden centre a few years ago (pretty sure I've posted this before).

 

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Actually, none of this really cheeses me off, it just amuses me.

 

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On 23/08/2020 at 4:02 AM, muon* said:

Foodies

 

Eat to live, not live to eat. 

Both is better!

Sometimes you gotta eat 'n' run. Sometimes you gotta take 7 hours to chew through a meal!

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On 25/08/2020 at 10:23 AM, Cloth Ears said:

Both is better!

Sometimes you gotta eat 'n' run. Sometimes you gotta take 7 hours to chew through a meal!

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Sometimes it takes 7 hours to make it. 

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Pretty plate food....certainly would not take me hours to demolish that lot...sometimes I spend that long on the Wine list deciding what vintage, type... :) 

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21 hours ago, BLAH BLAH said:

Pretty plate food....certainly would not take me hours to demolish that lot...sometimes I spend that long on the Wine list deciding what vintage, type... :) 

14 courses...it took that long as I was getting pretty full on a couple of occasions. I'd already chosen the wines from the wine list - I think we had 5 bottles between 4 of us - it was available on their website (with up-to-date changes). Plus the sommelier gave us a nice digestif to go with our coffee.

Some of the dishes were surprisingly filling (snail porridge, bacon and egg ice-cream, the Mad Hatters' Tea Party were the main culprits) and 14 of anything builds up...

21 hours ago, emesbee said:

My compliments to the designer, but where's the food?

Some people think that a digital cable or a power cable makes a difference. Others like to try food that's taken a lifetime to design and cook. This meal made a more lasting impression (on me and the others at the table) than any piece of kit I've heard (or not heard ?).

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When you go to plug in a usb cable and get it round the wrong way more than 50% of the time.

I'm at about 80% haha

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35 minutes ago, oztheatre said:

When you go to plug in a usb cable and get it round the wrong way more than 50% of the time.

I'm at about 80% haha

 

Even worse................when you use enough force to make it go in the wrong way round!

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9 hours ago, oztheatre said:

When you go to plug in a usb cable and get it round the wrong way more than 50% of the time.

I'm at about 80% haha

What I don't get is I go to put a USB cable in and get it wrong. Then turn it over and still get it wrong. Then when I go back to the position I had it the first time it fits. I reckon in the bazzilion times I've inserted a USB cable this has happened every bloody time. Why can't it be colour coded? The right way has black to the top, the wrong way has white. Left and right rca sockets have been colour coded forever.

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If you view both sides of the USB connector one side will be blocked in the two square perforations and the other side they will be open showing through to the contacts, just remember what side faces what direction in correct orientation.

I do this now, as the frustration from the same as what you describe above, @Hergest was too much for me :D

 

 

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4 minutes ago, muon* said:

If you view both sides of the USB connector one side will be blocked in the two square perforations and the other side they will be open showing through to the contacts, just remember what side faces what direction in correct orientation.

Or use the the USB symbol on the cable connector as an indicator of this way is up

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1 minute ago, awayward said:

Or use the the USB symbol on the cable connector as an indicator of this way is up

That's another way :thumb:

But on some connectors occasionally a connector may be devoid of the symbol, hit this a few times.

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9 hours ago, awayward said:

Or use the the USB symbol on the cable connector as an indicator of this way is up

On some applications the symbol has to go down. USB seems to have a lack of standardisation in this regard. 

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42 minutes ago, t_mike said:

On some applications the symbol has to go down. USB seems to have a lack of standardisation in this regard. 

And in some cases the USB socket is mounted vertically so the symbol is on the side. (I've lost count of the number of times I've fumbled around the back of my blu-ray player trying to fit the cable.)

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14 hours ago, Hergest said:

What I don't get is I go to put a USB cable in and get it wrong. Then turn it over and still get it wrong. Then when I go back to the position I had it the first time it fits. I reckon in the bazzilion times I've inserted a USB cable this has happened every bloody time. Why can't it be colour coded? The right way has black to the top, the wrong way has white. Left and right rca sockets have been colour coded forever.

I've  learned to be gentle with these USB connections. Have you ever noticed that this issue (of turning it over twice or more) only occurs when you cannot actually see the inlet?

 

The newer USB-C (I think it is) is much nicer. Plugs in which-ever way you try it.

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On 30/08/2020 at 8:54 AM, LogicprObe said:

 

Even worse................when you use enough force to make it go in the wrong way round!

ha yes I forgot to factor that in, still puts me at 75% wrong though.

 

The law of averages says the tide has to change at some point and give me a good 50/50 split lol 

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Coming home from the Supermarket with two loaves of bread...with the surname of a previous Australian PM and it's definitely not Helga's!!!!

Only to find the slices have consistently got holes in them some as large as your thumb!

Mate if I wanted to pay for holes in my bread slices I would just bring that dammed loaf of bread home rip the guts out of them leaving the crusts and then proceed to butter them and make my dagwood sandwich out of it...or even better toast them!

Stop making holes in your bread...I dislike paying for bread holes...

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On 30/08/2020 at 7:53 PM, muon* said:

If you view both sides of the USB connector one side will be blocked in the two square perforations and the other side they will be open showing through to the contacts, just remember what side faces what direction in correct orientation.

I do this now, as the frustration from the same as what you describe above, @Hergest was too much for me :D

 

 

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I just had a look at some of my connectors. A few of them don't conform to that rule, although the majority do. Might be just as easy to take a quick look at the end of the plug first to see which way the plastic lug is oriented.

 

Otherwise one falls back on the principle that there are two ways to do something. The first way, and the right way. ;)

 

 

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