The General Chat Thread (2024)

[TastyReuben]

Not a lot happening lately in the food department since I'm doing a course on crime fiction and that occupies all my evenings. On Sundays I batch cook for the entire week and that is it.

Soon, your posts will be like:

Daylight sliced through the blinds in my bedroom like the cold grey steel of a knife looking for its first meal of the day…and it was hungry.

I rubbed last night’s cigarette smoke from my still-red peepers, cast around for my cleanest dirty shirt, then stumbled into the kitchen, hoping for two fingers of baby juice, just to calm down the hurricane going on in my stomach.

I opened the cold chest, and said “Hey, how’s tricks?” to this:

That new Tupperware’s paying me back like a Las Vegas slot machine with diarrhea. Now scram before fill ya full o’ lead!

 

[LissaC]

Soon, your posts will be like:

Daylight sliced through the blinds in my bedroom like the cold grey steel of a knife looking for its first meal of the day…and it was hungry.

I rubbed last night’s cigarette smoke from my still-red peepers, cast around for my cleanest dirty shirt, then stumbled into the kitchen, hoping for two fingers of baby juice, just to calm down the hurricane going on in my stomach.

I opened the cold chest, and said “Hey, how’s tricks?” to this:

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That new Tupperware’s paying me back like a Las Vegas slot machine with diarrhea. Now scram before fill ya full o’ lead!

I swear I cried laughing! The world doesn't know what an amazing writer they lost!

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Loved watching Poirot, David Suchet was spot on.

Yes he was.
Perter Ustinov wasn’t bad but unfortunately for him David Suchet embodied him perfectly.

 

[TastyReuben]

Holy moly, am I bored:

I came down to the Hard Rock casino with MrsT so she could attend an event I have zero interest in (charlatan psychic), so I have until 9:30PM on my own, and it’s only 7:45PM.

I have no interest in gambling. Zilch. Zero. Nada. I can’t drink very much because of of a very bad report from my regular doc, and I’m due a follow up in a couple of weeks and I have to be reasonably well-behaved, so I’m sat here listening to really bad generic country music piped over the PA, competing with the bing-bing-zing of electronic gambling machines, in what is basically a cavernous room full of, quite literally, losers.

 

[karadekoolaid]

I came down to the Hard Rock casino with MrsT so she could attend an event

So you were in Cinci? Near P&G?
Know the place - never been there.
We keep saying we're going to spend an evening in the casino, but never do. When I go, I sit on the blackjack machines, put in $20 and keep going all night. Win some, but never very much. I get bored too.

 

[rascal]

So you were in Cinci? Near P&G?
Know the place - never been there.
We keep saying we're going to spend an evening in the casino, but never do. When I go, I sit on the blackjack machines, put in $20 and keep going all night. Win some, but never very much. I get bored too.

We did too prior to quakes regularly. After quakes I dint think weve been since

Russ

 

[TastyReuben]

So you were in Cinci? Near P&G?

Yep, still sitting here.

 

[TastyReuben]

Lullabelle & SatNavSaysStraightOn - how are you both feeling today? Any improvement?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Lullabelle & SatNavSaysStraightOn - how are you both feeling today? Any improvement?

Until last night, I was feeling slightly better but hubby is coughing badly again (but tests negative) and every time he coughs it's like an electric shock going through my body. When I got up last night because he was annoying the hell out of me, and he got to with me!

Bad day so far today. Going back to bed whilst it's still cool enough (25°C) to sleep. They've forecast 38°C for today followed by 40-80mm of rain tomorrow. Neither is going to aid getting well.

 

[LissaC]

It's that time of the year again. The time when one of the biggest supermarket brands in Portugal has a campaign where you earn a stamp for every 20€ you spent shopping and you can then exchange your stamps for products from brands that they partner with. They've had ovenware by KitchenAid, cuttlery from Rosenthal, and knife sets from Smeg.

You can exchange stamps with others so people go crazy and they go on social media asking random strangers to give them stamps. I may or may not have joined the craze. The fact that I have a brand new set of vacuum containers from Zwilling speaks nothing about this matter.

 

[TastyReuben]

It's that time of the year again. The time when one of the biggest supermarket brands in Portugal has a campaign where you earn a stamp for every 20€ you spent shopping and you can then exchange your stamps for products from brands that they partner with. They've had ovenware by KitchenAid, cuttlery from Rosenthal, and knife sets from Smeg.

They used to do that year-round when I was a kid, called Green Stamps, but I don’t remember the items being that nice.

 

[LissaC]

They used to do that year-round when I was a kid, called Green Stamps, but I don’t remember the items being that nice.

They're usually very nice. T
Most items do cost something though, they're just priced much cheaper because you pay a portion with stamps. I paid 21€ for all these boxes + the vacuum pump, down to 16€ because I had 5€ on my loyalty card.

I need to come clean about this. I did ask people on social media to give me their stamps. I started the day with 16 stamps, and by the end of the day I had 117. People must really like me I believe. Either that or they pity me for rolling along with this stuff

 

[TastyReuben]

People must really like me I believe. Either that or they pity me for rolling along with the is stuff

I’m sure it’s the former!

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

They're usually very nice. T
Most items do cost something though, they're just priced much cheaper because you pay a portion with stamps. I paid 21€ all these boxes + the vacuum pump, down to 16€ because I had 5€ on my loyalty card.

I need to come clean about this. I did ask people on social media to give me their stamps. I started the day with 16 stamps, and by the end of the day I had 117. People must really like me I believe. Either that or they pity me for rolling along with this stuff

It’s a savvy use for the few useless stamps folk have hanging about. I’d gladly donate mine (if we had any such system) to see someone get something worthwhile like that.

Nice choice btw!

 

[medtran49]

They used to do that year-round when I was a kid, called Green Stamps, but I don’t remember the items being that nice.

Some things were pretty nice. I remember filling the stamp books and going to the green stamp store in Coral Gables, FL, when I was in mid teens with my mother after we moved. Don't remember before that so our little town must not have had one.