microwave oven gets old?!
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Michael P Butler wrote: wish I could afford one. (Actually I could afford one but I don't like other people in my house - I have trust issues ) Ok well this is going to come out weird and people are going to put me on the right side of The Nutters because of it... but hey, you asked. My maid is my ex-girlfriend, Janina... She comes once a week (Sunday) and cleans the place for R70 (USD8.75) which takes about an hour to do. So trust wise I have no problems (we broke up on good terms, so unless she is harbouring some deep, dark terrible hatred of me I am pretty sure she is not going to trash the flat.) Plus she knows the place and after having lived with her for 8 months I know that my flat will be exquisitely clean. Neat freaks, go figure. Michael P Butler wrote: You've got a maid! They must be paying you too much LOL, well obviously things are different here in SA to the US. Here maids, servants etc. are not uncommon. When I was growing up we had a permanent live in maid and a garden boy. Up in Zim we had two maids, a garden boy and a cook.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
Paul Watson wrote: My maid is my ex-girlfriend, Janina... She comes once a week (Sunday) and cleans the place for R70 (USD8.75) which takes about an hour to do. As long as that is the only service you are paying for :eek: Michael He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious - Sun Tzu (The Art of War)
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Paul Watson wrote: My maid is my ex-girlfriend, Janina... She comes once a week (Sunday) and cleans the place for R70 (USD8.75) which takes about an hour to do. As long as that is the only service you are paying for :eek: Michael He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious - Sun Tzu (The Art of War)
Michael P Butler wrote: As long as that is the only service you are paying for :rolleyes: When I say ex-girlfriend I mean ex in everything, sex included. She does charge extra for doing windows and ironing though.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
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Your seals are broken and all the microwaves are leaking out. :suss: Nah, magnetrons wear out eventually. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I'm guessing the concept of a 2 hour movie showing two guys eating a meal and talking struck them as 'foreign' Rob Manderson wrote:
Here is a scary story. I used to sell appliances which included microwaves. One day this guy comes in and wants this one model (and model year) of a microwave. We had it and wondering why the model year mattered, I asked him. He then explained to me how he takes out the mag tube and mounts it on a pole above his house. He then uses it to transmit his own TV station on channel 3. Turns out this one model had the right frequency. He found that it is cheaper to buy the microwave than go to a parts store as they burn up after about three months. Good thing he is not my neighbor! :eek:
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Michael P Butler wrote: wish I could afford one. (Actually I could afford one but I don't like other people in my house - I have trust issues ) Ok well this is going to come out weird and people are going to put me on the right side of The Nutters because of it... but hey, you asked. My maid is my ex-girlfriend, Janina... She comes once a week (Sunday) and cleans the place for R70 (USD8.75) which takes about an hour to do. So trust wise I have no problems (we broke up on good terms, so unless she is harbouring some deep, dark terrible hatred of me I am pretty sure she is not going to trash the flat.) Plus she knows the place and after having lived with her for 8 months I know that my flat will be exquisitely clean. Neat freaks, go figure. Michael P Butler wrote: You've got a maid! They must be paying you too much LOL, well obviously things are different here in SA to the US. Here maids, servants etc. are not uncommon. When I was growing up we had a permanent live in maid and a garden boy. Up in Zim we had two maids, a garden boy and a cook.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
Paul Watson wrote: ex-girlfriend, Janina... :wtf: This is news to me! If you don't mind saying, what happened? Jeremy Falcon Imputek
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Kastellanos Nikos wrote: You know a faster way? Faster in this case is not better. If you have to warm up milk, use a pot on a stove or a bowl of milk in hot water. Microwave gives it a funny taste. Not as bad as warming up cold tea in a microgolf though. That is just a sin, Moses should have seen it coming and put it on his clay tablets.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
Oh, i know! It's just terrible what some people will try to get away with! Why, just the other day, i caught my roommate trying to boil water in the microwave! Can you imagine? I told him, "no no! that'll make those water atoms all furred up & tasting like cat piss!" Honestly! *cough* :rolleyes: ok, seriously - unless i'm dealing with more people than just myself, water/milk/tea/apple sauce *all* go in the microwave. i'm not picky what i eat; i'm just picky when i eat it. ---
My whole life I've practiced the art of self-sabotage -- fearing success perhaps even more than fearing failure. I think I have got this flareup resolved, but I'm constantly waiting to see what new and exciting ways I can spoil my chances for a better life. - koreykruse, Compulsive Skin Picking
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Michael P Butler wrote: wish I could afford one. (Actually I could afford one but I don't like other people in my house - I have trust issues ) Ok well this is going to come out weird and people are going to put me on the right side of The Nutters because of it... but hey, you asked. My maid is my ex-girlfriend, Janina... She comes once a week (Sunday) and cleans the place for R70 (USD8.75) which takes about an hour to do. So trust wise I have no problems (we broke up on good terms, so unless she is harbouring some deep, dark terrible hatred of me I am pretty sure she is not going to trash the flat.) Plus she knows the place and after having lived with her for 8 months I know that my flat will be exquisitely clean. Neat freaks, go figure. Michael P Butler wrote: You've got a maid! They must be paying you too much LOL, well obviously things are different here in SA to the US. Here maids, servants etc. are not uncommon. When I was growing up we had a permanent live in maid and a garden boy. Up in Zim we had two maids, a garden boy and a cook.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
Paul Watson wrote: so unless she is harbouring some deep, dark terrible hatred of me I am pretty sure she is not going to trash the flat No hatred, but she need to change the film in the camera every weekend. ;) Paul Watson wrote: a garden boy What is a garden boy? Sounds like a hermit who lives in your shed... :suss:
David Wulff
"David Wulff can't live without me, so you shouldn't either" - Paul Watson
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Paul Watson wrote: ex-girlfriend, Janina... :wtf: This is news to me! If you don't mind saying, what happened? Jeremy Falcon Imputek
Jeremy Falcon wrote: This is news to me! If you don't mind saying, what happened Yeah. All a bit confusing but here goes... Begining of 2002 we moved in together. That lasted 8 months, then she moved back to her dads place. We just could not live together. But we stayed bf and gf. That went on for awhile till three weeks ago when I decided enough was enough and we "officially" broke up. Was one of those mutual, no hard feelings, no tantrums or scratching breaks up. Still friends. Umm and yeah thats it.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
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Paul Watson wrote: so unless she is harbouring some deep, dark terrible hatred of me I am pretty sure she is not going to trash the flat No hatred, but she need to change the film in the camera every weekend. ;) Paul Watson wrote: a garden boy What is a garden boy? Sounds like a hermit who lives in your shed... :suss:
David Wulff
"David Wulff can't live without me, so you shouldn't either" - Paul Watson
David Wulff wrote: What is a garden boy? Sounds like a hermit who lives in your shed... Close but he is not a hermit, cause like he has to take orders from us White Folk on what to do in the garden... :rolleyes: A garden boy is a worker who does your garden. Normally they live on the grounds and are permanent (i.e. garden services are not a bunch of garden boys.) Mows the lawn, prunes the trees, plucks weeds, tends to the vegetables and generally lives out his life at the bottom of your garden. Oh, and they get horribly drunk on Saturday nights because Sunday is their off day and using a mower with a hangover is not good. Also a good garden boy will rebel every few months or so by going a bit nuts and yanking out proper plants because he "thought they were weeds." Like my mums rose expirement, or my dads pomegranite tree. I have a few pot plants these days and not enough space on the balcony for a garden boy. Tis a pity. David Wulff wrote: No hatred, but she need to change the film in the camera every weekend. *scratches noggin* K, I missed that. What on earth do you mean?
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
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Here is a scary story. I used to sell appliances which included microwaves. One day this guy comes in and wants this one model (and model year) of a microwave. We had it and wondering why the model year mattered, I asked him. He then explained to me how he takes out the mag tube and mounts it on a pole above his house. He then uses it to transmit his own TV station on channel 3. Turns out this one model had the right frequency. He found that it is cheaper to buy the microwave than go to a parts store as they burn up after about three months. Good thing he is not my neighbor! :eek:
Todd Hoop wrote: Good thing he is not my neighbor Yeah because with nutters like that you probably would get 24/7 of him butt naked wandering about his house on Channel 3. ;)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: This is news to me! If you don't mind saying, what happened Yeah. All a bit confusing but here goes... Begining of 2002 we moved in together. That lasted 8 months, then she moved back to her dads place. We just could not live together. But we stayed bf and gf. That went on for awhile till three weeks ago when I decided enough was enough and we "officially" broke up. Was one of those mutual, no hard feelings, no tantrums or scratching breaks up. Still friends. Umm and yeah thats it.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
Not to sound cliché, but good bloody-frikkin luck as a single guy! :) Jeremy Falcon Imputek
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David Wulff wrote: What is a garden boy? Sounds like a hermit who lives in your shed... Close but he is not a hermit, cause like he has to take orders from us White Folk on what to do in the garden... :rolleyes: A garden boy is a worker who does your garden. Normally they live on the grounds and are permanent (i.e. garden services are not a bunch of garden boys.) Mows the lawn, prunes the trees, plucks weeds, tends to the vegetables and generally lives out his life at the bottom of your garden. Oh, and they get horribly drunk on Saturday nights because Sunday is their off day and using a mower with a hangover is not good. Also a good garden boy will rebel every few months or so by going a bit nuts and yanking out proper plants because he "thought they were weeds." Like my mums rose expirement, or my dads pomegranite tree. I have a few pot plants these days and not enough space on the balcony for a garden boy. Tis a pity. David Wulff wrote: No hatred, but she need to change the film in the camera every weekend. *scratches noggin* K, I missed that. What on earth do you mean?
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
Paul Watson wrote: K, I missed that. What on earth do you mean? I'm talking about the video camera she has installed in your bedroom ceiling... ;)
David Wulff
"David Wulff can't live without me, so you shouldn't either" - Paul Watson
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Not to sound cliché, but good bloody-frikkin luck as a single guy! :) Jeremy Falcon Imputek
Jeremy Falcon wrote: Not to sound cliché, but good bloody-frikkin luck as a single guy! Thanks Jeremy. I don't have your charm, I don't have a life and I can't snowboard like Chris. So yeah, good bloody-frikkin luck to me... :-D For now though I am happy to lay low. Just me and my pot plants... :rolleyes:
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er David Wulff: yeha, he is more of a cuddly teady bear than a ferocious loin
David Wulff: eak -- lion! :$ -
Jeremy Falcon wrote: Not to sound cliché, but good bloody-frikkin luck as a single guy! Thanks Jeremy. I don't have your charm, I don't have a life and I can't snowboard like Chris. So yeah, good bloody-frikkin luck to me... :-D For now though I am happy to lay low. Just me and my pot plants... :rolleyes:
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er David Wulff: yeha, he is more of a cuddly teady bear than a ferocious loin
David Wulff: eak -- lion! :$"If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you're probably right." - Mark Twain :) Jeremy Falcon Imputek
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"If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you're probably right." - Mark Twain :) Jeremy Falcon Imputek
Jeremy Falcon wrote: "If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you're probably right." - Mark Twain :rolleyes: Easy to think, hard to do. Plus what if I think I can but she thinks "No he can't" :rolleyes: Ugh. I just want to like mind meld with every available female in my area and then the right girl is chosen, we shack up and thats it, like we have been together for years. None of this "So is this seat taken?" nonsense or making lame jokes, buying drinks etc. I am good at the commited, relaxed, loving relationship bit. I am bad at the "Hi, my name is Paul" bit.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: "If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you're probably right." - Mark Twain :rolleyes: Easy to think, hard to do. Plus what if I think I can but she thinks "No he can't" :rolleyes: Ugh. I just want to like mind meld with every available female in my area and then the right girl is chosen, we shack up and thats it, like we have been together for years. None of this "So is this seat taken?" nonsense or making lame jokes, buying drinks etc. I am good at the commited, relaxed, loving relationship bit. I am bad at the "Hi, my name is Paul" bit.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
Paul Watson wrote: I am good at the commited, relaxed, loving relationship bit. I am bad at the "Hi, my name is Paul" bit. I hear ya man. Well, I do know that you only get better at it with experience. Plenty of people say they understand that, but they don't fully. I mean, if you really think about it, with an analogy perhaps, it makes sense. Look back at when you starting doing web development, do you think you could code a data-driven site easier back then or now? Obviously, it's now because you have invaluable experience. Same thing with the "pick-up". It's just most guys don't like to do it for fear of rejection and it's a blow to the ego if you are turned down. Ego blow or not, the more you do it (and learn from any mistakes), and look at it objectively, the better you get at it. Then, once you get comfortable with it, you'll increase your success because chicks can spot someone who's nervous a mile away. Just pretend they are guys or on CP or something you're comfortable with and take it from there. Then, get them home and use your newfound photography skills to take nudy pics of them. :) Jeremy Falcon Imputek