Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you
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Geoff Lealand, in reply to
I hang the socks out on the line in pairs for the same reason
And use matching pegs for each pair? I know it could be considered obsessive…!
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Paul Campbell, in reply to
Magnets: friends of mine had this problem - she kept destroying credit cards, ATM cards, BART tickets, ... she'd borrow his, a few days later they'd be cut up by some imperious shop assistant ... they came close to divorce over this ... one day we're we're sitting at the movies and I asked "you don't have any magnets in your purse do you?" .... she pulls out a hand full of refrigerator magnets ....
We also used magnets on the brand new brushed steel dish washer ... to help the kids remember who's job it was to empty it .... "if the light is on and the magnet is on your side you have to empty it right away, turn it off and move the magnet carefully to the other side" - sadly the "carefully" bit didn't register (well to be the rest didn't register most of the time either) .... that rule lasted 2 weeks now there's a great big ugly scratch across or nice new dishwasher and the magnet has been banished back to the 'fridge ....
how do they work?
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Kotuku -just eat.
(Do /nt ask us locals about happens with reguard to a largish eel or especially feathery leetle birds.)
Those are our fun memories.
We'd share them if you live here.
I'm sure you have city memories too.
I do know that we'd love to share that kind of stuff sometime in - o, 3000AD?
Or, some when.
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Lilith __, in reply to
I forget which brilliant NZ nature photographer described watching a heron in a West Coast lake spending 20 minutes unsuccessfully trying to swallow a flounder it had caught. :-)
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Copyright. Privilege. Dishwashers. Asshats. Cisgender. Ablist. Ablelist. Abelist....Shit... the speling.
I'll stick to dishwashers. Thanks for the tip about magnets. Separate the bloody knives, forks and spoons into their separate cubbyholes so that the d/washer emptier has an easier life FY.
I'm privileged. I'm alive. I do try and let others live theirs......honest.
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Martin Lindberg, in reply to
.... she pulls out a hand full of refrigerator magnets ....
Just out of curiosity, why was she routinely carrying around refrigerator magnets? Where they the flat adware ones that she handed out as promotional items?
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
We also used magnets on the brand new brushed steel dish washer
My apartment has appliances that are either aluminum anodised to look like stainless steel, or an austenitic steel that isn't magnetic, due to nickel content.
So fridge magnets don't work (bit like fridge magnates, who spend their time on yachts).
how do they work?
Pertubation of the electromagnetic quantum vacuum, bro.
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recordari, in reply to
Copyright. Privilege. Dishwashers. Asshats. Cisgender. Ablist. Ablelist. Abelist….Shit… the speling.
You forgot The Cars.
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Paul Campbell, in reply to
Just out of curiosity, why was she routinely carrying around refrigerator magnets? Where they the flat adware ones that she handed out as promotional items?
She was a preschool teacher who had been gifted them by a small child
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Lilith __, in reply to
She was a preschool teacher who had been gifted them by a small child
Beware children bearing gifts.
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Martin Lindberg, in reply to
She was a preschool teacher who had been gifted them by a small child
Damn those pesky kids and their magnets!
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Andre Alessi, in reply to
Beware children bearing gifts.
Beware children generally. Evil things in deceptive packaging.
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Sacha, in reply to
pesky kids
how do they work?
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well as mentioned in my dishwasher story above - not as much as parents might want .....
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recordari, in reply to
how do they work?
IME, they don't, unless you pay them the minimum hourly wage of two lollipops, free access to TV and Nintendo and Icecream on both weekend days. And that's just to finish their breakfast. You want them to put their clothes away and make their beds, you'll be needing to mortgage the house and take them to Disneyland.
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I've found that "when I was a child, we didn't have dishwashers, we had to wash and dry the dishes by hand if we want our allowance" has no absolutely effect - apparently their on to us when we're making it up (even if we're not)
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That's weird, mine loves helping load and unload the dishwasher. That being said, she's not quite two and the price of her help is the occasional investigative slurping of the clean dishes. Saves me doing half the bending down, and she's short enough to fit in the lower cupboards without banging her head on the bench.
Back to magnets, Miss Nearly Two also likes moving the weak bendy advert fridge magnets onto the dishwasher, where they seem neither to affect the electronics or the surface.
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Lilith __, in reply to
IME, they don't, unless you pay them the minimum hourly wage of two lollipops, free access to TV and Nintendo and Icecream
I have a friend whose 4-year-old can be got to do all manner of tasks (unloading the dishwasher, making her bed, picking salad greens for dinner, etc.) by the cash payment of 10c per task, which she carefully saves up for awful bits of tat she wants from the Warehouse. I'm guessing she is perhaps unusually industrious. I reckon she'll be a millionaire before she's 20, providing she gets some pay rises along the way. :-)
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
Small children are very useful as slaves. Really. I can get most kids to do what I want. But then I'm not afraid of using a vaguely scary face.
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recordari, in reply to
I'm not afraid of using a vaguely scary face.
And when that doesn't work, I usually resort to my 'Mad Comic' face. Laughing children seem to require less cajoling.
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
Well yes. Best strategy ever to clean up the sandpit? On yer marks, get set, go!
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recordari, in reply to
Well yes. Best strategy ever to clean up the sandpit? On yer marks, get set, go!
That's soooo true. Stop Watch Parenting. I might write a book.
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Any inducement to do housework wore off my kids long ago; they're both cultivating, in their own ways, a really exquisite devil-may-care laziness, where all that matters is books, the Internet, and cats. No idea where they got that from.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
I reckon she'll be a millionaire before she's 20, providing she gets some pay rises along the way. :-)
And they would have to be substantial ones at that.
Inflation might help but then the million will be worth less. In fact....
If you were on the average wage, here in NZ and not taking inflation into account, you would have to work your entire working life of 50 yrs to net that amount after minimal expenses like food and little else.
Kinda makes you look sideways at them millionaires don't it?. -
My Mother, bless her, told me that her favorite party game she invented was "Carpet Picking". She would give all the kids at the party a brown paper bag and instruct us to fill the bags with anything we could find on the carpet, usually bits of cake or some-such Birthday detritus. The person to fill the bag first got a lolly. The game would progress by round after round with empty bags until...
She got a clean carpet.
;-)
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