"The innate hostility of inanimate objects"

[Anna]

A lightweight cheap ironing-board

Who, actually irons these days? Certainly I do not have neither an iron nor a board, Gosh saly, you reminded me of people who actually ironed sheets and tea towels!

[salymap]

Who, actually irons these days? Certainly I do not have neither an iron nor a board, Gosh saly, you reminded me of people who actually ironed sheets and tea towels!

Most of my clothes are so old that they look creased when washed Anna. Jumpers specially need a bit of an iron.
Sheets and tea towels, you cannot be serious.:smile:

[amateur51]

any kind of folding frame to dry washing on


i don't need the spoons to get a soaked midriff when washing up ... it just happens ...

Not just when washing up - I go to the urinal in a pub, expertly negotiate getting the wet stuff into the bowl and not down my light-coloured strides, put everything away & turn to wash my hands (such a well brought up boy) and press the tap thing down to get some water which emerges in a sudden gush, successfully soaking your strides and revealing you to be Mr Incontinence.

And to cap it all, no-one believes you when you return to your friends

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Who, actually irons these days?

I do.

[Anna]

Not just when washing up - I go to the urinal in a pub, expertly negotiate getting the wet stuff into the bowl and not down my light-coloured strides, put everything away & turn to wash my hands (such a well brought up boy) and press the tap thing down to get some water which emerges in a sudden gush, successfully soaking your strides and revealing you to be Mr Incontinence.

And to cap it all, no-one believes you when you return to your friends

Gosh, I'm everso glad I don't have a Willy (actually, if I did have one, I would play with it all day, just to see what it could do)

[EdgeleyRob]

Gosh, I'm everso glad I don't have a Willy (actually, if I did have one, I would play with it all day, just to see what it could do)

There's got to be a joke in there somewhere dying to get out.

Cling film seems to have a life of it's own whenever I try to use it.

[umslopogaas]

Ah, April, spring is in the air. Just remembered, its that time of year when I launder the sheets. The winter of discontent does show up a bit in the strengthening light. Must dig out the instruction book for the washing machine.

And what the hell is detergent? These white man's inventions will never catch on.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And what the hell is detergent?

"Detergent. n: man-stop; from 'deter' and 'gent'." (The OED, IIRC).

[Extended Play]

Extracting CD liner notes from the jewel case.....

Returning LPs to their covers when those folded-down corners on the sleeves just won't stay flat.....

[Nick Armstrong]

Extracting CD liner notes from the jewel case.....

Spot on with your début post, EP

(Especially vexing if it's a CD one might want to return... the booklet emerges from one's scrabbling attempts to extricate it, looking second-hand first time out )

Some unseemly things have been going on up-thread in my absence involving Anna and willies. I'm not going back to look...

[Ferretfancy]

Trying to pull a bit of clingfilm from the dispenser. Nine times out of ten it gets stuck inside.
Jars of jam which were turned in a vice when on the production line.
Those little labels on packets of biscuits that say 'tear here to open'

[french frank]

Trying to pull a bit of clingfilm from the dispenser. Nine times out of ten it gets stuck inside.
Jars of jam which were turned in a vice when on the production line.
Those little labels on packets of biscuits that say 'tear here to open'

Shouldn't this thread be on the new Techie Forum?

[Nick Armstrong]

Shouldn't this thread be on the new Techie Forum?

I didn't think my OP about coat hangers was about technology...

Isn't that more for the HiFi brigade to swap valve and tweeter info???

[french frank]

I didn't think my OP about coat hangers was about technology...

It was more Ferret's struggles with the cling film that provoked the thought

Isn't that more for the HiFi brigade to swap valve and tweeter info???

Yes, indeed, I think that was the Kernel's intention.

[Serial_Apologist]

To erect the new one I have to put it flat on the floor and pull the legs into place.I usually trap my fingers in the works. Then it has to be lifted and turned over.

I had a girlfriend like that once.

I always iron sheets and shirts from the spin dryer in winter. In summer they dry on the line and I don't bother. Fresh ironed sheets feel so much nicer to crawl between than crumpled.