Random stuff - the anything else thread
#5986
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
No, that wouldn't be worse at least not for me! Being of a somewhat hysterical mindset when it comes to Things Going Wrong With Planes, I'd have probably woken up and thought the plane had crashed and I was trapped at the bottom of the ocean. In the dark. All alone. *shudder*
#5987
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
A comment on reddit about high rent costs in Winnipeg amused me, someone posted how a decent apartment would run $1,200 a month, then another posted saying their rent is insane for their 3bed 2 bath house at $1,800 a month, these folks have obviously never lived in Vancouver....lol
Last I looked both Winnipeg and Edmonton had higher or close to same median income as Vancouver does.
Last I looked both Winnipeg and Edmonton had higher or close to same median income as Vancouver does.
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#5988
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I was sitting next to an unknown man once who after half an hour in the sky and all of the “Captain Smith and his team” announcements said to me “ is this plane flying South”? I don’t know one pole from another, but said “We are going to Morocco”. He got in a terrible tizzy, he wanted to go to Rome, how the hell he had gone through all the desks and announcements without realizing I will never know...it didn’t say much about security either...it was post 9/11.
#5989
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I was sitting next to an unknown man once who after half an hour in the sky and all of the “Captain Smith and his team” announcements said to me “ is this plane flying South”? I don’t know one pole from another, but said “We are going to Morocco”. He got in a terrible tizzy, he wanted to go to Rome, how the hell he had gone through all the desks and announcements without realizing I will never know...it didn’t say much about security either...it was post 9/11.
#5990
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I was sitting next to an unknown man once who after half an hour in the sky and all of the “Captain Smith and his team” announcements said to me “ is this plane flying South”? I don’t know one pole from another, but said “We are going to Morocco”. He got in a terrible tizzy, he wanted to go to Rome, how the hell he had gone through all the desks and announcements without realizing I will never know...it didn’t say much about security either...it was post 9/11.
Man (large) approaches and says "I think you're in my seat", I quadruple checked my boarding pass and replied "I think not, baby puppy" showing my boarding pass.
Your man looks at my boarding pass and says "Fine, 'cept that this plane goes to Zurich, not Geneva".
Two flights departing 5 minutes apart, (both running late) adjoining departure gates, I ended up boarding the wrong one...
Spoiler:
#5991
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Heard some yelling outside someone was standing in front a bus and wouldn't let the bus go, went on long enough for 5 other buses to get backed up and not able to move. They are trolley buses and cannot pass one another so if one gets delayed, they tend to bunch up so now there are 5 buses on the same route following each other in a group. (pass in the sense a non-trolley bus can, a trolley bus can pass another, but requires the bus to be disconnected from the wires, pass, then connected back to the wires, so in actual practice day to day operations they don't pass one another.)
Crazy neighborhood, never know whats gonna happen day to day.
Crazy neighborhood, never know whats gonna happen day to day.
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#5992
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I'm up quite late tonight, have been doing some cooking. I've just sat down for a cuppa before bed, and a mouse has appeared out of nowhere and is now hiding behind the sideboard
I have to walk past the sideboard to get to the bedroom, so it looks like I'll be sleeping in this chair tonight.
I have to walk past the sideboard to get to the bedroom, so it looks like I'll be sleeping in this chair tonight.
After throwing magazines at the spot where I last saw the bloody thing, with no result, I finally worked up the courage to dash to the bedroom. Just in case Scouse was awake I lay there muttering about a moose being loose in the hoose. Which woke him up
He got up, as I knew he would. I lay in bed laughing for the next five minutes, couldn't help it because every light in the place was switched on and there was much banging, thumping and crashing. I thought he'd found the mouse and was chasing it, but when he came back to bed he said he was just moving furniture looking for it
He fixed the problem today, there is a small gap either side of our garage door where they can get in, and some sort of automatic locking strip at the bottom on the internal door from garage to house wasn't engaging. No more gaps, no more mice, hopefully.
#5994
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I tried one of those sticky mouse traps and the little bastard got away. In the end I bought a good old fashioned snap trap and that snapped his neck good and proper.
#5995
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
We use cage traps, have found them to be quite effective. Probably wouldn't need them at all if the cats would simply shape up and not bring the bloody things indoors anyway. Anyone who suggests that cats keep rodents out is prime material to become the next UK PM. I lost two (count them, two) packets of cheese and onion crisps last week.
#5996
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I find this lack of compassion for my mouse phobia quite disturbing
After throwing magazines at the spot where I last saw the bloody thing, with no result, I finally worked up the courage to dash to the bedroom. Just in case Scouse was awake I lay there muttering about a moose being loose in the hoose. Which woke him up
He got up, as I knew he would. I lay in bed laughing for the next five minutes, couldn't help it because every light in the place was switched on and there was much banging, thumping and crashing. I thought he'd found the mouse and was chasing it, but when he came back to bed he said he was just moving furniture looking for it
He fixed the problem today, there is a small gap either side of our garage door where they can get in, and some sort of automatic locking strip at the bottom on the internal door from garage to house wasn't engaging. No more gaps, no more mice, hopefully.
After throwing magazines at the spot where I last saw the bloody thing, with no result, I finally worked up the courage to dash to the bedroom. Just in case Scouse was awake I lay there muttering about a moose being loose in the hoose. Which woke him up
He got up, as I knew he would. I lay in bed laughing for the next five minutes, couldn't help it because every light in the place was switched on and there was much banging, thumping and crashing. I thought he'd found the mouse and was chasing it, but when he came back to bed he said he was just moving furniture looking for it
He fixed the problem today, there is a small gap either side of our garage door where they can get in, and some sort of automatic locking strip at the bottom on the internal door from garage to house wasn't engaging. No more gaps, no more mice, hopefully.
Did you know mice can get through a gap as small as 1/4 inch.. so get the sealing gun out! A house I lived in a few years ago was riddled with the things.. despite snap traps, cage traps... and even poison / sticky traps (which I hate - why make them suffer...) the little sods wouldn't be got rid of.. the sad thing was some were obviously escaped domesticated mice as they were multi coloured, not a wild mouse colour.
I like mice, but not what they drop or the diseases they carry
#5997
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I lost two (count them, two) packets of cheese and onion crisps last week.
Peanut butter works.
#5998
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Not for bait - they were Walkers after all, somehow said mouse gained entry to the crisp drawer, I found a packet suspiciously gnawed. Cleaned it all, left it a couple of days, restocked, same again. OH placed the trap, caught the blighter, his case comes up next month...
#5999
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Unless it was preggers
Did you know mice can get through a gap as small as 1/4 inch.. so get the sealing gun out! A house I lived in a few years ago was riddled with the things.. despite snap traps, cage traps... and even poison / sticky traps (which I hate - why make them suffer...) the little sods wouldn't be got rid of.. the sad thing was some were obviously escaped domesticated mice as they were multi coloured, not a wild mouse colour.
I like mice, but not what they drop or the diseases they carry
Did you know mice can get through a gap as small as 1/4 inch.. so get the sealing gun out! A house I lived in a few years ago was riddled with the things.. despite snap traps, cage traps... and even poison / sticky traps (which I hate - why make them suffer...) the little sods wouldn't be got rid of.. the sad thing was some were obviously escaped domesticated mice as they were multi coloured, not a wild mouse colour.
I like mice, but not what they drop or the diseases they carry
Our food loss was granola bars and cookies in the basement.