Be Excellent To Each Other

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.

Bahaahah! Use proper toothpaste instead of the horrible foamy mouth soap crap. Blurgh! Seriously though, I just don't like the way that blue stuff foams up. Prefer good old fashioned Colgate in a tube.

I'd have thought you'd love how it foams in your mouth.

You're probably not enjoying it because it's too hard to use.

AGA?

Na, only if it's spunk.

You're confusing me with your mother and her vagina. AM I RIGHT? HAHAHAAHAHAH! etc.

Fucking hell, I feel bad about that.

Ketchup - cupboard or fridge?

Seriously, people. This is a yay! thread. Can we avoid butter-bitching in it? Thanks! ^_^


Top stuff dude. I mentioned the awesomeness of the gig too.

New yay!: tax rebate for 2008-09 is on its way. That'll do nicely!

Hooray for tax rebates! Take that, Government cuts!

My kitchen is almost, finally, finished. which is a mini-yay now, but might be worth a full-on super-YAY! in a few more weeks.

[quote="superdupergill"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.[/quote]

Was it lupus?

Glad things are getting better

My girlfriend's parents are visiting at the moment. That's a yay, as they are generally pleasant, despite speaking no English whatsoever, bring goodies like German sweets and chocolate, and help out my g.f. with a bit of cash (in, err, Euros).

Just bought a secondhand copy of Super Mario Advance 2. That's a yay, as Super Mario World is still amazing even after twenty years (on the 21st).

Sorry Throughsilver. Yay! For the very existence of butter!

Butter is pure cack and a double

My sister in law has Lupus. It fucking sucks.

1) not yay
2) not lupus.

Yay for the free 16GB USB stick and copy of Office 2010 from Microsoft today

My 22 month old daughter sang me Miss Hoolie's song from Balamory today.

Malc

I was at the game as well and the people in the row next to us sound very like the ones Mr Dave is describing , you wernt in section 217 were you ?

I also had haggis for dinner tonight which is a definite yah !

Yay! I got a cat!

ECS?