Minor Strangeness

[escargot]

When Techy gets up early for a wet shave and I'm in bed, I can hear him swishing the razor in the basin. It sounds as if it's next to my ear'ole.

 

[Min Bannister]

What a lovely phrase.

Makes a fantastic 'double entendre' as well

Matron!

 

[pandacracker]

Matron!

Oh, stop mucking about!

I note that both myself and @escargot posted our replies at the same time

 

[gordonrutter]

Matron!

She wanted a double entendre so I gave her one.

 

[catseye]

That is strange, but I discovered several years ago that sound can travel in strange ways. I also live in a very small house with houses attached on either side, but I’d lived here for many years without ever once hearing my neighbors talking. Then very early one morning I heard muffled voices coming from the house on my right and it kept happening. Since my neighbor lives alone I asked him if he’d mind moving his TV away from our shared wall since I could hear it at night, only for him to tell me his only TV was downstairs.

So, we tested it by him turning the volume up and down with me informing him whether I could hear it or not until we reached a satisfactory solution. It was really strange because I can’t even hear my own downstairs TV when I’m upstairs and it’s not as if he has a hearing problem and had his volume turned up high. But we’d been (equally quiet) neighbors for over 10 years before this happened.

Had he had any pipes removed/changed/lagged or unlagged? I know sometimes sound can travel up pipes. In my old (enormous) house, the TV was downstairs in a corner of the living room but you could hear it as clearly as if it were in front of you if you sat on the loo in the little upstairs bathroom., because behind the TV was a cupboard that contained all the water pipes.

I'm still not sure what my voices were. I've not heard them again since, my next door neighbours don't get up until six and their TV is quite a long way from the connecting wall, over the other side of their living room. They are 'music' people, not Radio 4 people, so I've ruled out radio and this sounded more like two men having a sotto voce discussion about something, when they are a man and a woman.

 

[Trevp666]

Now, I know Phil the Greek is in the hospital, and he's 99, so even sitting too close to an open window can be lethal at that age, but I'm sure he is receiving expert medical care.

But the thing that is troubling me is this - I'm absolutely certain that a short while before I went to bed last night, maybe around 1130, I was clicking through the channels and when I got to the BBC News channel, the female newscaster (who I couldn't really say seemed too familiar - one of those ones that 'usually works on Christmas day when no one else will' types) sombrely reported "Prince Phillip has passed away after a short illness, at the age of 99".
"Oh" I thought, "still he was 99, so I kind of thought he was going to cark it!".
And yet, no mention of it today. So I'm guessing he's still with us.
But also no mention of him now on the BBC news website, unless you dig around a bit, and the most recent item from yesterday about Charlie visiting him.

 

[pandacracker]

Maybe they accidentally broadcast a rehearsal.

 

[Souleater]

Now, I know Phil the Greek is in the hospital, and he's 99, so even sitting too close to an open window can be lethal at that age, but I'm sure he is receiving expert medical care.

But the thing that is troubling me is this - I'm absolutely certain that a short while before I went to bed last night, maybe around 1130, I was clicking through the channels and when I got to the BBC News channel, the female newscaster (who I couldn't really say seemed too familiar - one of those ones that 'usually works on Christmas day when no one else will' types) sombrely reported "Prince Phillip has passed away after a short illness, at the age of 99".
"Oh" I thought, "still he was 99, so I kind of thought he was going to cark it!".
And yet, no mention of it today. So I'm guessing he's still with us.
But also no mention of him now on the BBC news website, unless you dig around a bit, and the most recent item from yesterday about Charlie visiting him.

Definately nothing on tje news or interweb about it, although they seem to be prepared.
From google:
Once it comes to laying his body to rest, his body will be buried in the grounds of Windsor Castle in Frogmore Gardens. This is a very personal place for the Queen and Prince Philip as it's closed off to the public and is often where she walks her dogs.3 days ago

 

[escargot]

Now, I know Phil the Greek is in the hospital, and he's 99, so even sitting too close to an open window can be lethal at that age, but I'm sure he is receiving expert medical care.

But the thing that is troubling me is this - I'm absolutely certain that a short while before I went to bed last night, maybe around 1130, I was clicking through the channels and when I got to the BBC News channel, the female newscaster (who I couldn't really say seemed too familiar - one of those ones that 'usually works on Christmas day when no one else will' types) sombrely reported "Prince Phillip has passed away after a short illness, at the age of 99".
"Oh" I thought, "still he was 99, so I kind of thought he was going to cark it!".
And yet, no mention of it today. So I'm guessing he's still with us.
But also no mention of him now on the BBC news website, unless you dig around a bit, and the most recent item from yesterday about Charlie visiting him.

Was that TV or radio? We need to track it down.

 

[Souleater]

Was that TV or radio? We need to track it down.

Im guessing tv, bbc news channel is a tv station

 

[escargot]

Im guessing tv, bbc news channel is a tv station

Doesn't say TV. Also, radio is available as 'channels'.

 

[Mythopoeika]

Now, I know Phil the Greek is in the hospital, and he's 99, so even sitting too close to an open window can be lethal at that age, but I'm sure he is receiving expert medical care.

But the thing that is troubling me is this - I'm absolutely certain that a short while before I went to bed last night, maybe around 1130, I was clicking through the channels and when I got to the BBC News channel, the female newscaster (who I couldn't really say seemed too familiar - one of those ones that 'usually works on Christmas day when no one else will' types) sombrely reported "Prince Phillip has passed away after a short illness, at the age of 99".
"Oh" I thought, "still he was 99, so I kind of thought he was going to cark it!".
And yet, no mention of it today. So I'm guessing he's still with us.
But also no mention of him now on the BBC news website, unless you dig around a bit, and the most recent item from yesterday about Charlie visiting him.

Maybe the timeline of this reality changed.

 

[Trevp666]

Was that TV or radio? We need to track it down.

On the tellybox.
Unless they've managed to make a big flat, square radio with moving pictures on it, I mean, it is an alternate reality after all.

 

[escargot]

On the tellybox.
Unless they've managed to make a big flat, square radio with moving pictures on it, I mean, it is an alternate reality after all.

I can scroll through radio stations on my TV.

 

[Trevp666]

I can scroll through radio stations on my TV.

So can I.

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(Is it just me or is scargs unusually pendantic currently?)

 

[pandacracker]

I can scroll through radio stations on my TV.

So can I.

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(Is it just me or is scargs unusually pendantic currently?)

Show offs!

 

[uair01]

They now have chocolate eggs with "pretzel flavored" filling in the supermarket. I have no idea what that means.

Wikipedia:
Salt is the most common seasoning for pretzels, complementing the washing soda or lye treatment that gives pretzels their traditional skin and flavor acquired through the Maillard reaction.

 

[Souleater]

They now have chocolate eggs with "pretzel flavored" filling in the supermarket. I have no idea what that means.

Wikipedia:
Salt is the most common seasoning for pretzels, complementing the washing soda or lye treatment that gives pretzels their traditional skin and flavor acquired through the Maillard reaction.

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You've been able to get pretzel M&Ms for a while, described as:

M&M's Pretzel Candy is crunchy, salty, sweet. Pretzel chocolate flavour sweets in a crisp coloured shell.

 

[GNC]

I suppose it's like salted caramel.

 

[Souleater]

I suppose it's like salted caramel.

Same idea i imagine

 

[escargot]

I suppose it's like salted caramel.

He told me that too.

 

[Mythopoeika]

What does salted camel taste like?

 

[Souleater]

What does salted camel taste like?

My mom made some milloinare shortbread with salted caramel, it was very nice, the salt takes the sicklyness away from the caramel slightly. She was given a box of catering size bags of salted caramel (10 x 1kg bags) by her friend who works for Sainsburys in the bakery, which has now stopped making cakes and pastries on site.

 

[Mythopoeika]

My mom made some milloinare shortbread with salted caramel, it was very nice, the salt takes the sicklyness away from the caramel slightly. She was given a box of catering size bags of salted caramel (10 x 1kg bags) by her friend who works for Sainsburys in the bakery, which has now stopped making cakes and pastries on site.

Oh, caramel! I misread it as camel...

 

[Fluttermoth]

What does salted camel taste like?

It's really nice; it's not very salty, just a bit of a tang that cuts through the sweetness, like Souleater says

Well worth trying, there's so much salted caramel stuff around, it's been trendy for a good few years now, I'm a bit surprised you've not tried it in anything!

Edit; Oh, I thought that was a typo

 

[pandacracker]

Lindor now do salted caramel chocolates

I thought I'd lost my glasses so consoled myself by scoffing a whole box in one evening.

The glasses were later found behind my mates sofa.

 

[Mythopoeika]

Edit; Oh, I thought that was a typo

Typo? Moi?

 

[Souleater]

Oh, caramel! I misread it as camel...

Id imagine salted camel tastes a bit like salted alpaca, which i ate when i was in Peru, it is very nice indeed, tatses like fillet steak, also ate guinea pig which wasnt very pleasent, tasted like greasy chicken, a friend of mine lives in Somalia and they regularly have camel stew.

 

[GNC]

He told me that too.

You're getting mixed up with salted pineapple. Whatever that is.

 

[gordonrutter]

Id imagine salted camel tastes a bit like salted alpaca, which i ate when i was in Peru, it is very nice indeed, tatses like fillet steak, also ate guinea pig which wasnt very pleasent, tasted like greasy chicken, a friend of mine lives in Somalia and they regularly have camel stew.

The guinea pig is just run over by a steam roller and then deep fried. At least that’s what it looked like when I was in Ecuador.