What odd things have you started doing since moving here?
Jul 20th 2014, 12:55 am
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Re: What odd things have you started doing since moving here?
I think the weirdest thing I do is smile at strangers and expect them to smile back. I also slow down for people crossing the road, and sometimes I let people turn left in front of me. The old me would have mentally calculated the points I could get for each of those.
Jul 20th 2014, 1:36 am
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Re: What odd things have you started doing since moving here?
All of the above. ..... But collecting tools and equipment generally has taken more room than I would ever imaged possible. I believe I have nine functioning appliances than have petrol engines (three mowers, a generator, a chipper, a tiller, a chain saw, a blower, and a strimmer), plus another mower that I intend to get a new engine for, and a hand-held blower plus two strimmers that are non functioning but I haven't bothered to get them down from the rafters in the shed.
Then I have three "full size" tool boxes of various hand tools, plus a 12" mitre saw, small table(top) saw, a sander, a drill press, and a hand held wood plane, a drill, a deck screwdriver, and a plasterboard screwdriver. Then I have a compressor and finish nailer, a staple gun, and a flooring nailer. Then I have a bunch of garden tools: two garden rakes, two leaf rakes, two forks, a square-edge spade, 3-4 long handled American spades, two square shovels, a pick axe, a full size axe, a ditch hook (a giant billhook on a long handle), a ditch (very narrow) spade, a hand tamper, five bow saws, and perhaps my favourite the "garden dragon" (a propane weed burner).
Pretty much all of the above are either used regularly, and/or were purchased for one or more specific tasks when they more than paid for themselves, in time or contractors' fees saved. Still they take up a good amount of room.
Then I have three "full size" tool boxes of various hand tools, plus a 12" mitre saw, small table(top) saw, a sander, a drill press, and a hand held wood plane, a drill, a deck screwdriver, and a plasterboard screwdriver. Then I have a compressor and finish nailer, a staple gun, and a flooring nailer. Then I have a bunch of garden tools: two garden rakes, two leaf rakes, two forks, a square-edge spade, 3-4 long handled American spades, two square shovels, a pick axe, a full size axe, a ditch hook (a giant billhook on a long handle), a ditch (very narrow) spade, a hand tamper, five bow saws, and perhaps my favourite the "garden dragon" (a propane weed burner).
Pretty much all of the above are either used regularly, and/or were purchased for one or more specific tasks when they more than paid for themselves, in time or contractors' fees saved. Still they take up a good amount of room.
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Jul 20th 2014, 3:49 am
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Re: What odd things have you started doing since moving here?
..... And my collection of ladders: a 6' step ladder, a 6' step/ sliding extension ladder, a 24' extension ladder, and a 40' extension ladder. 
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Jul 20th 2014, 4:19 pm
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Re: What odd things have you started doing since moving here?
Buying Slurpees.
Jul 20th 2014, 6:34 pm
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I've started drinking cappuccinos and espressos as normal coffee, not Starbucks, as most coffee here is just coloured water. I now know why they have flavoured coffees and flavoured creamers, is just to give coffee some sort of taste. Yuck.
Jul 20th 2014, 8:49 pm
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Using mayo in all sarnies...and not bothering with butter...
Jul 20th 2014, 10:35 pm
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Re: What odd things have you started doing since moving here?
Sitting in the rain, eating a hot dog and watching little league baseball.
Jul 22nd 2014, 11:32 pm
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I didn't use much butter in the UK to begin with, couldn't be bothered with it...but using the mayo has definitely been a US thing.
Jul 23rd 2014, 1:10 pm
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Re: What odd things have you started doing since moving here?
While struggling to come up with something I do here that is 'odd' I realised that I effectively do the same things I did back in the UK for the most part.
As far as 'out of the ordinary' (or more specifically, things I couldn't regularly do back then), I suppose that would be eating Mexican food and watching live Premiership football on the TV ...
Your husband is a smart bloke. Hipsters are a ridiculous bunch of twats who all need slapping around the face with dead fish. It's bloody made it to the UK as well, when we were there recently, the place is full of ridiculous looking weirdos with crap hair and those ****ing stupid black things in their ears.
They all need pilloried. Christ, I miss the 90s.
As far as 'out of the ordinary' (or more specifically, things I couldn't regularly do back then), I suppose that would be eating Mexican food and watching live Premiership football on the TV ...
They all need pilloried. Christ, I miss the 90s.
Jul 23rd 2014, 1:21 pm
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Hipsters are a ridiculous bunch of twats who all need slapping around the face with dead fish. It's bloody made it to the UK as well, when we were there recently, the place is full of ridiculous looking weirdos with crap hair and those ****ing stupid black things in their ears.
They all need pilloried. Christ, I miss the 90s.
Jul 23rd 2014, 1:21 pm
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Re: What odd things have you started doing since moving here?
We go to an Indian restaurant in Brunswick and their description of the chefs say they're from "a small town just outside of London called Solihull".
