Our new cooker has plenty of stupid features, but my "favourite" is that Zanussi appear to have forgotten how to use a button to make electrical sparks for the purpose of igniting gas burners. My parents' cooker (and every other appliance I've used since) had no problem with this thirty years ago! Now every time we ignite the grill the room ends up smellling slightly of gas and occasionally we're treated to a miniature fireball.
As for clothes pegs, the wooden sort with metal springs in are great not only for pegging clothes to washing lines, but also for holding the tops of bags closed and any number of other things (including making excellent toy catapults). This hasn't stopped retailers across the last 20 years repeatedly offering plastic things for sale which are more specialised, less effective for their particular task than a clothes peg and (to add insult to injury) more expensive.
I prefer plastic pegs to wooden ones - the rounded edges are gentler on my clothes. They do need to be the ones with metal springs though, rather than those weird triple pronged monstrosities.
Well obviously I know the tune! Why you chose it... well I didn't spot this, but now that you mention it the album title pretty much has to be the reason. And IIRC it's the first track on the album, which could be deliberate. :-)
Gosh, you should be writing cryptic crosswords or something!
(PS. I also spotted your Debbie Harry lyric the other day, which I think might be the first one I've got that wasn't 80s heavy rock!)
There is usually (but not quite always) a reason for the subject line I choose. The reasons are sometimes a bit opaque, so it's really more a game that I play with myself :)
* Clothes pegs.
* Cookers.
Yes, you can still buy old-style (working!) versions of both of these... but only if you know where to find them!
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I've never bought a cooker, and have judiciously ignored anything plastic that didn't look like a proper clothes peg to me.
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As for clothes pegs, the wooden sort with metal springs in are great not only for pegging clothes to washing lines, but also for holding the tops of bags closed and any number of other things (including making excellent toy catapults). This hasn't stopped retailers across the last 20 years repeatedly offering plastic things for sale which are more specialised, less effective for their particular task than a clothes peg and (to add insult to injury) more expensive.
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Gosh, you should be writing cryptic crosswords or something!
(PS. I also spotted your Debbie Harry lyric the other day, which I think might be the first one I've got that wasn't 80s heavy rock!)
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There is usually (but not quite always) a reason for the subject line I choose. The reasons are sometimes a bit opaque, so it's really more a game that I play with myself :)
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