Be Excellent To Each Other

Minidisc still comes along to the skatepark with me, it's put up with a fair amount of beating & it's still going strong. I'd like to see my ipod takehalf of that

ftfy with my pedant hat on.

Sorry dad.

Talking about paying off debts, as of this week's pay-check I have officially paid off 10K of debt since I moved to Manchester 2 1/2 years ago! Still another 6.5K to go but this feels like a significant milestone and I'm pretty chuffed with myself for getting this far

Also, Supersonic festival in Birmingham last week was brilliant, and then getting to see Swans (my favourite band ever) play another 2 times in Leeds and Manchester was also fantastic... and catching throughsilver at the Leeds gig was Yay too

Those who've met me know I'm pretty Yay most of the time anyway, but these are special Yays for this month

Sky fund part of that so there's no chance of it appearing on Freesat unfortunately.

If you've got the Humax Foxsat PVR then you can patch it into your router then get iPlayer through teletext at pretty good resolutions. Probably works on other boxes as well but deffo in the Foxsat.

Despite my still being An Massive Mental, Hel's shortened the timescales and I'm giving up my rented house mid-December. We ordered a new fridge-freezer for a mere £1760 last week. And are buying a sofa tonight. And are off to Belgium for 6 days, on Wednesday. And I'm hoping to get onto the books of Manchester Institute of Psychotherapy before we go, for an assessment after we return.

Good things are good.

What the fucking fuck?!

That's a fuckton of money. Mine is a huge american double-door effort and I only paid £750.

I know. It turns out that we're both a bit... challenged... when it comes to considering cost when all other criteria are met, and the 20+ alternatives we've considered are very unsuitable.

It's a huge side-by-side, but only 63cm deep. All the others are at least 73cm deep, too tall, lacking in volume, have an ice-maker, or don't have boxes in the freezer or enough shelves in the fridge and/or freezer.

I would like to add my Fuck to the two Fucks above.

I hope that Fridge come with another 3 fridges for that price

I can only assume it dismembers as well as stores bodies for you for that price.

She has been joking about locking me in it.

As a consolation, though, that's a bloody sexy fridge.

No ice maker!

For that money I'd want it to make a fucking snow man to pass me my drinks.

Don't drink the yellow drinks.

Good lord, you could store a whole pig in that thing.

I think you should go buy a whole pig, quick! Craster will send you pulled pork recipes!

Why... why would someone not want an ice-maker in their fridge if they can clearly afford to buy one that has one? Ice makers am bestest!

Do they take up a fair whack of space? I'd love an ice-maker in mine, as I always forget to make (or buy) my own.

I deliberately didn't have one, too. They take up far too much freezer space for the use I would ever get from them.

They do take up a bit of room, to be fair. My parents have one in theirs and my dad ends up storing stuff actually in the ice reservoir!

That said, my Dad is a crazy man who buys more food in the weekly shop than can ever possibly be consumed.

Ice makers piss us off; you buy what should be a huge freezer that is half-useless because it only has a few shelves, then they fill half of it with a non-removable water cooler/ice maker as well. It's absurd in a country like ours. Especially in a piss-wet-through place like Manchester.

Buying a pulled-pork-maker is still on my list, once the integrated fridge-freezer is ripped out to give storage for such things.

This thread has gone right off the rails. Sorry everyone.

Good Frozen Christ Almighty!

Fairly amused to see that the Energy Saving Trust "recommend" this behemoth, and it somehow merits an A+ energy rating, despite consuming more than 3 times the amount of energy than my basic £130 Electrolux larder fridge with freezer compartment.

Which does the same job. (it also doesn't make ice)

Your freezer doesn't store 5+ kilos of fruit from the allotment. Also pies made from some of that fruit. Nor does Hel's current freezer, which has spilled over into half of my freezer, and it wasn't even all that good a year.

We're going to combat the energy issue by digging a hole in the kitchen floor and lying the new one in it, so the cold doesn't keep falling out (okay, we're not, but having all those freezer drawers should help).

For that money I'd expect wooden doors and be able to step through to Narnia.

I'd want a cold fusion dispenser, never mind ice!

(Yeah, my fruit crop wasn't great either. Got a few pies and crumbles eated, still have some apples stored in the shed, nothing I need to freeze).

While we're on the subject of refridgeration, can someone please explain to me why my gf insists on putting fresh fruit in the fridge whilst leaving the butter out on the side and then looking at me like I'm the weird one when I question this behaviour?

Apparently it's what her parents have always done. My protestations of butter being a dairy product and thus needing to be kept in the fridge fall on deaf ears.

Please Beex, am I the nuts one or is my missus?

Not got rid of it on Ebay yet? How about the camera?

That's so you can spread it though.

They all went, much to my surprise. Set a high starting price on the camera and was going to send it to you if it didn't go.. but it did, sorry

My GF leaves the butter out, I have decided to just put it away rather than say anything each time I notice.
This is opposed to my initial internal reaction, which is to go mental

Don't even get me started on the toothpaste lid...

Have you tried spreading fridged butter? Even Lurpak spreadable really isn't good enough if your bread is fresh.

Butter will last a decent amount of time out on the side. It'll last longer in the fridge though.

The butter with olive oil in spreads just fine direct from the fridge. It still gets left out on the side though...

I don't like butter*, and really cold fruit not only tastes horrible, it hurts my teeth.

*I'll use low-fat spread very, very occasionally.

You're dead to me.

You can take the butter, then. I'll take Felicia Day.

I'm reasonably sure I win that battle.

Thanks anyway.

Capitalist Hippy!

I know I felt quite bad about it
Will make it up to you another time x

*stabs cauliflower with lentil scented jostick.*

Nah. Because as soon as she comes over, she'll want some toast. And you won't have any butter, and she'll leave you.

Nah, she'd want a different, more human type of butter. And I'm primed.

Is this the single most annoying thing ever? A close second would be filling the basin with soapy water and dirty dishes, then leaving it to get cold and scummy just in time for me to come and wash the dishes

My good news this week is that my girlfriends mum seems to be on the mend after being struck down by a serious auto immune disease. Spent the weekend in Fife visiting the family and going back this weekend when we're hoping she might have been let out of hospital.

Also started working with the site services department at work and spent a very interesting day working in a construction area in the pouring rain laying cables and stuff. Was freezing cold and soaking wet when one of the Italian contractors came over and gave me an espresso he'd just made It was the nicest espresso ever although this may have been due to the weather conditions and the act of kindness.

Final yay...hometime!

Separate toothpaste tubes, it was the only solution...

Not squeezing the toothpaste from the bottom.

People still use toothpaste in tubes?

That stuff is shite.

Your face is shite.

Your teeth are shite.

It's true.