Society & Culture Things you do/did that you probably think no one else does the sequel; More Things

[Chief]

Right now it's directed at all the dickheads whinging or commenting on the cold weather. Same thing every god damn day.

Sometimes I wish I had a gun.

Oh that's so cold, Shell!

 

[Roobs321]

I reckon some kids would get $20 minimum.

I was on 5 or 10 at the most.

yeah same, preteen years y2k era was about $5 a week. Remember I used to save for a couple months if I really had something in mind.

 

[Roobs321]

Isn’t it the same as their age? $10 for age 10, $15 for age 15, etc? Or is that too cheap these days?

$10 is the upper limit (back then), age 15 was more part-time job/no more pocket money (I was 13 when I started earning doing the pamphlet round)

 

[Shell]

yeah same, preteen years y2k era was about $5 a week. Remember I used to save for a couple months if I really had something in mind.

I think birthday presents have changed too

A kid had a birthday in class recently he got a "$1500 mountain bike and cash"

Rightio

 

[Frank Bunn]

I think birthday presents have changed too

A kid had a birthday in class recently he got a "$1500 mountain bike and cash"

Rightio

That wouldn't be typical. Are the kid's parents drug dealers?

 

[JHF1870]

I'll turn down a lane way and say "I'm not supposed to be here" then someone will be be passing the main road and I'll say "**** they got me. I'm so ****ed"

 

[peternorth]

When recycling, put smaller items into larger ones, and larger ones into even larger ones (ie boxes).

 

[JHF1870]

When recycling, put smaller items into larger ones, and larger ones into even larger ones (ie boxes).

I used to do truck deliveries and would put copper pipe in 30mm pipe in 40mm pipe, in 90mm pipe in 100mm pipe.

 

[Cuzz09]

Had a random thought

are there more pants or people?

 

[bok_party]

Had a random thought

are there more pants or people?

I’d say yes. Most people would have more than five pairs of pants. Jeans, track pants, chinos, cargo pants etc

 

[Roobs321]

Had a random thought

are there more pants or people?

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

As I absent-mindedly watch the amount go up at the check out at Woolworths, I catch myself barracking for it to reach another $30, so I can get one more Disney cap. Then I wonder "Am I really that effing stupid?"

 

[the_interloper]

I leave a stubby holder in my sons hockey bag so I can have a beer in comfort while he trains.

 

[Gough]

Hockey is ridiculous. Trying to avoid a cricket ball being whacked around by sticks can't be anyone's idea of fun.

 

[peternorth]

To save water and space, use knife to cut cake, and use knife to eat said cake slice

 

[Billy ray]

To save water and space, use knife to cut cake, and use knife to eat said cake slice

Cake? Utensils? Together?

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

To save water and space, use knife to cut cake, and use knife to eat said cake slice

You eat cake with a knife?

That reminds me of an old rhyme:

“I eat my peas with honey
I’ve done it all my life
It makes the peas taste funny
But it keeps them on the knife.”

 

[the_interloper]

To save water and space, use knife to cut cake, and use knife to eat said cake slice

So what you slice off a bit, balance on the knife and down the hatch?

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

I usually use the same knife as a spatula to get my toastie off the sandwich press (with my kids warning me about "burny hot hot") and then to cut it, instead of dirtying a spatula needlessly, but this cake one sounds like a few steps beyond that.

 

[Billy ray]

I usually use the same knife as a spatula to get my toastie off the sandwich press (with my kids warning me about "burny hot hot") and then to cut it, instead of dirtying a spatula needlessly, but this cake one sounds like a few steps beyond that.

ooh terrible for your non stick surfaces... unless its plastic knife

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

ooh terrible for your non stick surfaces... unless its plastic knife

So I shouldn't be chiselling the baked on cheese off with the same knife, I'm guessing?

 

[Billy ray]

So I shouldn't be chiselling the baked on cheese off with the same knife, I'm guessing?

 

[Billy ray]

bunch of wet paper towel, shove it in for a few minutes and close lid, should all wipe off

 

[peternorth]

So what you slice off a bit, balance on the knife and down the hatch?

Neg. Slice of a bit, position knife in a stabby position, penetrate cake with knife and insert piece into mouth

You eat cake with a knife?

That reminds me of an old rhyme:

“I eat my peas with honey
I’ve done it all my life
It makes the peas taste funny
But it keeps them on the knife.”

I do.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Neg. Slice of a bit, position knife in a stabby position, penetrate cake with knife and insert piece into mouth



I do.

Why confine this method to cake? Have you seen the movie Tom Jones (1963)? Set in 1749. There’s a banquet scene where the diners spear their food - meat, bread - with knives in the manner you describe.

Not sure it’s the done thing three hundred years on though.