So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[Trenchfriend]

Half and half is quite popular in Canada, we have two cartons in our fridge as I type!

Every German knows it, since "The Big Lebowski" and his "White Russian"-drink. But not available on german supermarkets. THAT'S, where condensed-milk can be used to substitute! Works. And coffee-liqueur is relatively easy to get.

 

[Trenchfriend]

A curious thing, which is still in production:
The east-german crepe-(recycling)toiletpaper! Single-ply, hard, rough, right for klingons.

Everybody. Get down!
https://www.google.de/search?q=werr...ed=0ahUKEwjD38DSv4DLAhXBbxQKHZjkCbkQ_AUIBigB#

 

[MisterCairo]

Patterned toilet paper? The very flag of the decadent bourgeoisie.

I didn't say I supported it, only that it exists (it does) and if one chooses to exercise free will and buy it, it is designed to be displayed on the outside.

I had no political connotations in mind. Certainly not communist ones.

 

[dh66]

A curious thing, which is still in production:
The east-german crepe-(recycling)toiletpaper! Single-ply, hard, rough, right for klingons.

Everybody. Get down!
https://www.google.de/search?q=werr...ed=0ahUKEwjD38DSv4DLAhXBbxQKHZjkCbkQ_AUIBigB#

I'm familiar with this product from living in Ukraine. Bumaga or something to that effect they called it. A little scary looking at first, I found it to be slightly better than the cheap 'John Wayne' kind of paper one finds here in gas stations or other commercial settings. It could, of course, be that after a few weeks things became calloused enough for it to not make a difference. And it DEFINATELY beat the option I encountered in some of the little villages I passed through. That certainly made the over/under argument seem frivolous.

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[GHT]

Every single sheet was stamped: "Property of H.M. Government"!

That was common in all public lavatories up until the early 1970's, or was it when soft toilet tissue became common. I bet you had to use that, course sand paper that was easy to print on but took half your skin off with every wipe. Made by Izal, it can still be bought to this day, evil stuff.
I've no idea about the thinking behind the printing of HM Government, but it's such an official looking heading that it makes you think you should hand it back after use. On reflection, that title is wrong, it might only be toilet tissue but along with the myriad of other millions of government purchases it's actually taxpayers property.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I could do without tea bags where the tag end of the string is stapled to the top of the bag so when you tear off the wrapper you end up ripping the bag open and have to scotch-tape it closed before you can have your cup of tea. Especially when all this happens before you've gotten your eyes in focus.

 

[Hercule]

I could do without tea bags where the tag end of the string is stapled to the top of the bag so when you tear off the wrapper you end up ripping the bag open and have to scotch-tape it closed before you can have your cup of tea. Especially when all this happens before you've gotten your eyes in focus.

So you're saying you find scotch tape flavor in your tea preferable to paper tag flavor. Do you know what goes into making scotch tape?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Nothing that isn't already in my tap water.

 

[GHT]

Do you know what goes into making scotch tape?

milled natural rubber 100 parts, beta-pinene resin 75 parts and petroleum oil 5 parts. The ingredients are then mixed with cyclohexane to form a viscoelastic mass. You can get high on it a lot quicker than water.

 

[Hercule]

Nothing that isn't already in my tap water.

milled natural rubber 100 parts, beta-pinene resin 75 parts and petroleum oil 5 parts. The ingredients are then mixed with cyclohexane to form a viscoelastic mass. You can get high on it a lot quicker than water.

Yum Yum! You must have some sort of weird pica. At least with the tag attached, there's a remote chance you might get some fiber out of it.

 

[BobHufford]

milled natural rubber 100 parts, beta-pinene resin 75 parts and petroleum oil 5 parts. The ingredients are then mixed with cyclohexane to form a viscoelastic mass. You can get high on it a lot quicker than water.

There is a 3M adhesives plant close to here. When the wind is just right you can get that Scotch tape high ...

 

[LizzieMaine]

The problem isn't the tag. It's the way the string is stapled to the top of the bag in a double loop. When I tried to pull the loop out this morning to extend the full length of the string the whole staple came out, ripping the bag itself apart.

Anyway, tea is about the second-to-last thing on earth I'd drink for the taste. (Coffee, a vile, disgusting slurry of oil and burnt cellulose, is the last.) I only drink it to force my eyes to come into focus.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Ah, the "accommodation"...

 

[2jakes]

10 Things That Can Wake You Up Better Than Coffee - Oddee

 

[Trenchfriend]

@2jakes
"10 Things That Can Wake You Up Better Than Coffee - Oddee"

 

[2jakes]

^^^^
Polo has the manual !

 

[ChiTownScion]

This little scoundrel! Casey James. Gets us (two other dogs and two humans) up every morning @ 5:30 AM. By the time I hit the main floor I need that coffee.

 

[GHT]

This little scoundrel! Casey James. Gets us (two other dogs and two humans) up every morning @ 5:30 AM.

And there you were thinking that this retirement malarkey would be a cinch. Ha!

 

[Stearmen]

Waiting tell 7:00PM for the UPS driver, only to find out the package did not need a signature like their web sight said!

 

[2jakes]

This “bugs” me.

Notes on my windshield.

I placed a “Not for Sale” sign.
And it draws more attention than before.