The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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Our cats are currently eating this. It was "prescribed" for the older Black cat when he had kidney problems. However, because they both eat biscuits from the same bowl the young one has to have it also (but doesn't appear to mind).

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Reduced from £7.20/kg to £5.80/kg.
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One of my old cats was prescribed that. It ended up in the bin because neither she nor the other three cats I had at the time would go anywhere near it or the wet equivalent. I ended up having to cook for them all.
 
Yesterday afternoon my handphone failed to access the internet through our wi-fi. It required the password to be re-entered which I did and it told me that the entered password was incorrect. It wasn't incorrect - I know the password! The phone must be buggered, I thought (the laptop was still connected). What with the football and the French Grand Prix, it slipped my mind and it wasn't until this morning that I mentioned it to my wife.

She picked up the phone and entered the password (in UPPER CASE) and everything was hunky dory again.

Doh!

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Yorky said:
Yesterday afternoon my handphone failed to access the internet through our wi-fi. It required the password to be re-entered which I did and it told me that the entered password was incorrect. It wasn't incorrect - I know the password! The phone must be buggered, I thought (the laptop was still connected). What with the football and the French Grand Prix, it slipped my mind and it wasn't until this morning that I mentioned it to my wife.

She picked up the phone and entered the password (in UPPER CASE) and everything was hunky dory again.

Doh!

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I did something similar to my husband not long after we purchased our Australian laptop. He had to type in one of the passwords for something. I forget what now but it involved both an underscore and the at sign as well as capital letters and lower case as numbers (don't go there please, it's not our choice). Anyhow I even wrote it down for him to confirm it. He still couldn't get it to work. I entered it for him worked fine. He tried to put it in, it failed everyone. Note is at times like this that I do the IT engineer thing and check what I'm typing is what is going in. He's been married to me for long enough to know this. We used to run an it company in the south of England etc and I taught him everything he knew.

What I failed totally to tell him was to look by the time to see what keyboard the computer was actually typing in... His work laptop is an identical machine to our home laptop right down to the keyboard. But I built ours not his company (built as in software) and I touch type. He looks at the symbols and assumes that what is shown on that little picture is what symbol comes up behind the star, I don't from using many Asian, middle eastern, Russian, polish, etc laptops when I worked in a boarding school.

Ours has an Australian keyboard but types in an English UK keyboard... I took me 2 weeks to realise why he couldn't type the darn password in!

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My wife went to the supermarket today for, amongst other items, egg noodles for a dish that I intend to prepare tomorrow. She rang me from the shop to say they only had "green" egg noodles. Apparently they are "bah mee yok" (Japanese?). So it will my first experience of cooking (and eating hopefully) green noodles tomorrow.

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Yorky said:
My wife went to the supermarket today for, amongst other items, egg noodles for a dish that I intend to prepare tomorrow. She rang me from the shop to say they only had "green" egg noodles. Apparently they are "bah mee yok" (Japanese?). So it will my first experience of cooking (and eating hopefully) green noodles tomorrow.

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They look really pretty. Are they made green with spinach?
 
sidevalve said:
TBH the only use for diet coke I can think of is as a rust remover :sick:
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It must be 50+ years ago that I once tasted Coca Cola (I don't think they had diet coke then) and I've not had any since. Not only is it far too sweet for me I don't like the taste. It's excellent for cleaning the toilet I hear.
 
Yorky said:
It must be 50+ years ago that I once tasted Coca Cola (I don't think they had diet coke then) and I've not had any since. Not only is it far too sweet for me I don't like the taste. It's excellent for cleaning the toilet I hear.
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Its also good for cooking ham (really).
 
I am told that I need further instructions cooking bai mee yok. It was a bit "stuck together".

Anyway, this is it with pork loin stir fried with soy sauce, honey, ginger, shallots, fresh chillis and peas.

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I've officially had my head removed, my neck lengthened by 5mm and my head put back on. C5-C6 and C6-C7 have been fused and one of those 3 vertebrae has been completely removed, deconstruction and reconstructed then put back in I can't comment on the order it all happened in, but I have the bruises on my shoulder to prove it!

Oh well. Decapitating me didn't kill me, he'll just have to try harder next time.
 
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