The Vent and Rant Thread

[Sparrow]

Why, oh why, oh why is posh chocolate impossible to break into neat squares - what you get are inconvenient shards, and a carpetful of crumbs .

At least the cheap stuff snaps where it's supposed to!

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

Why, oh why, oh why is posh chocolate impossible to break into neat squares - what you get are inconvenient shards, and a carpetful of crumbs .

At least the cheap stuff snaps where it's supposed to!

And your problem, is?

If it's easy, it's not worth it ....

[BookishDreamer]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

Why, oh why, oh why is posh chocolate impossible to break into neat squares - what you get are inconvenient shards, and a carpetful of crumbs .

But look at it in another way...you've created a personal stash of chocolate sprinkles!

Dreamer

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by BookishDreamer

But look at it in another way...you've created a personal stash of chocolate sprinkles!

But you daren't offer to share your chocolate because you have no control, and might snap off a big bit for them by accident.

(I wonder if a glass cutter would work .)

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

But you daren't offer to share your chocolate because you have no control, and might snap off a big bit for them by accident.

(I wonder if a glass cutter would work .)

or a diamond ring ? (you've probably got one lying around somewhere, right ?)

[GeoffC]

a laser beam is good .... you get the scent of melted chocolate as well ...

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

that would be the updated, more accurate version (technically, it's my personal version, but sartre gets more respect. so far.). sartre clearly was lucky enough to have found an appartment in a building with only old people, the bastard.


tons, several within one métro station of my house (i live near the smaller, dirtier, less potentially glamourous Chinatown (there are two in paris, although the other one is not very glamourous either, just a few of the shops are more expensive), thus the comparatively high percentage of chinese families in the building. jelly cups you say ? what are those exactly ? might they be those strange desserts in metal, thimble-shaped capsules that (according to the friend who tried to make me eat one, once) you must suck out of the package as if you were sucking an egg, and which have the strange gelatinous texture of soft flan ? i may try that. on the other hand, i worry about the effect on my sanity and eardrums of those children with added sugar.


oh god, yappy dogs. i had a picnic in a park last night with a friend of mine and there was a yappy dog nearby. when it first started it made my hair stand right on end because it sounded as if it were in extreme pain, but in fact it was just standing there, on the end of its leash, yipping away at the park bench, apparently.


oh my god, that is PERFECT !!!!! how can we do this ? do you know any mercenary biologists ??? does ANYONE around here ? there must be at least one... i bet madam broshkina has contacts like that... maybe we should start with helium ; i believe it makes your voice go funny because it temporarily paralyses the vocal cords a bit (i could be wrong of course, but whatever) ; we should see about amplifying this effect. oh, and if we could make the voices become so high-pitched that only dogs could hear them, we might be able to make two hits with one stone, and take out even more noise-making elements than those within the radius of the grenade's action.

seriously, *why* has no-one thought of this before ????

Nah .... Helium just causes your vocal cords to vibrate at a different frequency. Now .... if you could find a way to get some diffenbachia into their little systems without actually killing them ... that would paralyze their vocal cords. That's why they call it "dumb cane."

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by UncleDuke

i like naples, best food in italy, i like food

Naples ... the armpit of the universe. I suppose they need to have good food, because there's not much reason otherwise to get near the place.

Originally Posted by UncleDuke

small children should be leashed and what's wrong with cigar smoke?

Nothing ... except for the smell and the smoke.

[zelda_pinwheel]

note to self : if soap foam begins to seep out of the washing machine through the joint around the trapdoor of the soap receptacle and pour down the front of it, it probably means you have used too much laundry soap. next time, try using a bit less.

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

note to self : if soap foam begins to seep out of the washing machine through the joint around the trapdoor of the soap receptacle and pour down the front of it, it probably means you have used too much laundry soap. next time, try using a bit less.

Oh dear! Not too disastrous I hope.

That's the sort of thing that would get anyone in a lather!

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

Oh dear! Not too disastrous I hope.

That's the sort of thing that would get anyone in a lather!

no, luckily i saw it rather early and cleaned it up, and when i turned the machine back on no more foam seeped out. ouf. those soap-foam disco nights have never appealed to me ; i'd prefer to avoid replicating them in my own home.

[slayda]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Nah .... Helium just causes your vocal cords to vibrate at a different frequency. Now .... if you could find a way to get some diffenbachia into their little systems without actually killing them ... that would paralyze their vocal cords. That's why they call it "dumb cane."

Are you offering your for experimentation?

[Mindy]

How random, someone on the bus was talking about Ibiza Foam Parties just yesterday. I always quite enjoyed them, and it always added to the conversation on the 3am bus home: on the one hand you didn't have to worry about getting your make-up off at the end of the night as it was long gone, but on the other you pretty much had to shower before you went to bed because the alternative is just, well..... sticky.
Still, 3am was one of the few times you could be guaranteed not to have queue for the showers.
Ah, 1st year Uni and student Halls of Res.....

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by Mindy

How random, someone on the bus was talking about Ibiza Foam Parties just yesterday. I always quite enjoyed them, and it always added to the conversation on the 3am bus home: on the one hand you didn't have to worry about getting your make-up off at the end of the night as it was long gone, but on the other you pretty much had to shower before you went to bed because the alternative is just, well..... sticky.
Still, 3am was one of the few times you could be guaranteed not to have queue for the showers.
Ah, 1st year Uni and student Halls of Res.....

gosh - and how do you clean up your wing cases ....

[Mindy]

From the gent who commented on toilette overshare elsewhere? How wude!