British Expats - Pet Peeves?

Then just sit back and wait for a visit from the postal inspector, because the USPS takes a dim view of sending noxious substances through the mail, and unidentified chemical powders is fairly high up the list of things they disapprove of. :nod:

1)Would
Wood
come under those categories?

2)How wood ;) they even know there was anything "additive" enclosed?

3)I take "a dim view" of receiving this kind of mail, don't you?

Pulaski

Mar 18th 2014 10:58 am

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad (Post 11179468)

I wish I hadn't....:(

With 3 kids in school, and a no cash, no credit card policy on a lot of things, I go through check books like crazy, especially around the beginning of the school year. Also, I leave checks for the lawn guy, pool guy, cleaner etc...I could pay cash, but at least with the check, you have proof you paid them!

I get through way more checks here than I ever did in the UK, although I have never used one at a supermarket checkout!

On the plus note, I do like the style of checks here, with the carbon copy below the check you tear out....I was always useless at moving my pen 3 inches to the left and filling out the stub...

Agreed, they have their place in the range of payment alternatives, though I have noticed that even tradesmen, such as the heating/ AC service guy, and the plumber (I used for replacing water heater thermocouple - I don't mess with natural gas lines) are equipped to take credit card payments these days.

Hotscot

Mar 18th 2014 11:01 am

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For things like that I use Wells Fargo bill pay online...it's a doddle.

MMcD	Mar 18th 2014 11:01 am

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Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad (Post 11179471)

Oops....I always thought you were a bloke! Your user name brings up an image of a certain famous football player in a black and white shirt....:o

Ha ha Yorkieabroad - nope a fellow female....oops...that doesn't sound right..I mean just another woman .....(I'm assuming you're: Yorkie: a broad???)

Pulaski

Mar 18th 2014 11:05 am

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Originally Posted by MMcD (Post 11179481)

1)Would wood come under those categories? ....

I don't believe so. Wood pieces, or even fibres are fairly recognizable.

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2)How wood ;) they even know there was anything "additive" enclosed?

Ash is virtually impossible to identify, and could easily be confused with acidic or caustic, or otherwise noxious, substances. The concern is going to be the fact that it can't be readily determined that the powder is relatively benign, when it could be highly dangerous. In fact wood ash does contain caustic potassium hydroxide, useable for making soap by caustic hydrolysis of fats or oils.

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3)I take "a dim view" of receiving this kind of mail, don't you?

I hate all junk mail. :nod:

Pulaski

Mar 18th 2014 11:07 am

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Originally Posted by MMcD (Post 11179492)

.....(I'm assuming you're: Yorkie: a broad???)

Also a bad guess! :rofl:

MMcD	Mar 18th 2014 11:16 am

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Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 11179498)

Also a bad guess! :rofl:

Is "she" a he?
Does it really matter?

Actually, I find (at least for me).... it kind of does....seems to change the way we intuitively relate to each other - at least at the start - when we know nothing else about the person whose posts we read.

PS....okay....found your 1st post....now I know: Yorkieabroad, you're not "Yorkie, a broad" but "Yorkie abroad". But that's likely wrong as well.

MMcD	Mar 18th 2014 12:00 pm

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Originally Posted by MMcD (Post 11179461)

Pet Peeve Super Gripe:

so....as I was saying re: Invitation to your Cremation, junk mail......and tho the point of cartoon is probably she killed her husband (?) - I prefer to think of it as my Pet Peeve flight of fancy retaliation against a creepy nuisance......

http://pyrotechnics.no-ip.org/files/...%20cartoon.jpg Cremation junk mail......

Sally Redux

Mar 18th 2014 12:23 pm

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Neptune society? Shouldn't it be pre-paid drownings? :blink:

SultanOfSwing

Mar 18th 2014 12:26 pm

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Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 11179580)

Neptune society? Shouldn't it be pre-paid drownings? :blink:

Or the Uranus Society. As in stuff it up ...

Sally Redux

Mar 18th 2014 12:28 pm

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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 11179584)

Or the Uranus Society. As in stuff it up ...

:lol:

Mars...Marianne Faithfull...

Pulaski

Mar 18th 2014 12:29 pm

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Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 11179580)

Neptune society? Shouldn't it be pre-paid drownings? .....

I think they're offering to assist with your final resting place not to help you prematurely shuffle off this mortal coil. Perhaps it should be burial at sea? :lol: .... or interplanetary scattering. :nod:

SultanOfSwing

Mar 18th 2014 12:39 pm

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Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 11179589)

:lol:

Mars...Marianne Faithfull...

I wonder if that's what the play part of 'a mars a day helps you work, rest and play' was intended to be ... :lol:

Sally Redux

Mar 18th 2014 12:42 pm

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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 11179604)