Irritations - dump here thread

[stuffy]

This is how we should settle disputes
Naked protest shocks cafe patrons | Northern Territory News | Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia | ntnews.com.au

That's a classic.

Appropriately it happened in Fannie Bay.


When I was living in South Hedland a man stripped off and ran naked through the shopping centre. In a scene reminiscent of "When Harry met Sally" a lady being served at the butcher shop turned to the butcher and said "that reminds me I need some sausages too."

[rsser]

I'm just back off the mountain and there were three vehicles stopped in the middle of their lane going up, to fit their chains.

Clearly they were told to fit them at the resort entry but thought they didn't need to. Talk about idiots.

Hughie, that's p*ss poor. Not fit for purpose?

[rsser]

"that reminds me I need some sausages too."

She didn't specify fat or thin? ;-}

[Chief Tiff]

Hi Hughie, what model Dyson are you using? Mine is a DC07 upright I bought 7 years ago and I wouldn't change brands for the world.

On tiled floors you often find the head is so close to the surface nothing larger than an apple pip can get sucked under. The only way to cure that would be to raise the overal height of the machine somehow. I just tilt it up, although that's the point where you discover that the extra build quality manifests itself into a fairly hefty machine.

WRT your other "bagless" machine, I was informed that Dyson patented the cyclone dust seperation system for vacuum cleaners so well that no other brand can come even close to their efficiency. Every other "bagless" vacuum cleaner uses a paper or foam filter to stop the dust from leaving the machine, which of course clogs up and causes the machine to lose suction.....so basically instead of changing a full bag with the other brands you have to empty the cannister and then either change or clean a filter as well.

I'll stick with my Dyson, although I have to say that SWMBO doesn't like using it because of the weight!

[hughie]

Hughie, that's p*ss poor. Not fit for purpose?

that struck me as well.


Model DC05 not an upright. I have to pick up the head and drop it on the offending piece of rubbish. But it doesn't lose any suction.

WRT your other "bagless" machine, I was informed that Dyson patented the cyclone dust seperation system for vacuum cleaners so well that no other brand can come even close to their efficiency. Every other "bagless" vacuum cleaner uses a paper or foam filter to stop the dust from leaving the machine, which of course clogs up and causes the machine to lose suction.....so basically instead of changing a full bag with the other brands you have to empty the cannister and then either change or clean a filter as well.

Hmm, but there is a few of them on the market. So I suspect the actual cyclone is not patentable, perhaps the method and application is and or design. This then allows for some variation or innovation design improvement/changes etc to get by the examiner.

[kiwigeo]

A new irritation of late. Its annoying when you hand over your EFTPOS card to a smiling shop assistant and you tell them "savings please".....and then they swipe the card and ask you "is that cheque or savings Sir?".

[Frank&Earnest]

For 30 years I have been irritated by the locals who insist adding a -ni to my surname, just seconds after I spell it out for them, because they have an in-built conviction that all Italian names end in -ini. It still happens quite frequently. You would have thought that the next generation would have had enough time to learn...

[Woodwould]

Mmm... tortelini!

[rsser]

What's that ... a pasta in the wrong?

And Frankini .... sounds fine to me ;-}

[Woodwould]

Frankenstini?

[Frank&Earnest]

Ha ha, very funny. I just scanned through the 8th grade education thread. Maybe with multiculturalism the colonials do not have a good grounding in English history anymore. The Poms have no excuse, though. Did they call the early Norman archbishop of Canterbury Lanfrancini?

[Manuka Jock]

Na , I heard they called him the Lombardy frwanker

He kept pushing celibacy at the lads

[rsser]

Well there were married priests in the days of Henry 8 though he hated them.

I'd say celibacy makes sense if as a priest you're divided between going out to administer extreme unction or staying home to wipe bums, appease the missus, lay the maid or sup on some altar wine. Customer focus is what counts in a service organisation ;-}

[Manuka Jock]

From what I can gather, land , wealth , and the destruction of the native culture were more on the roman church's mind than domestic or spiritual concerns

[Frank&Earnest]

Do you count the Government as a service organisation? I know of somebody who could not cope with celibacy but still wants to to run one...