Questions and comments

[wellinghall]

Why do adaese's new slippers say they should be washed at 38 C? What happens if you try to wash them at 40 C?

Why does my medicine come in packets of 4, 5 or 10 sachets? Small packets (containing, say, 5 sachets) and large packets (10) I can understand; but why 4?

And why does it say you should consult your pharmacist if you suffer from " ...; kidney or liver problems; non-cirrhotic liver disease; ... " (a) Is non-cirrhotic liver disease not covered by "liver problems"? (b) Is cirrhotic liver disease not a "liver problem"?

Things I never expected to see, #281: a panelist on Never Mind the Buzzcocks wearing a tweed three-piece suit. Even I don't have a tweed three-piece suit. (My father does, though. Several. In fact, he probably has some four-piece suits).

Have you read Dianna Wynne Jones' The Game? Did you enjoy it? Did you get all the references?

There should be a word for picking up a milk bottle, only to find you've put your thumb on a slug. "Yuck" just doesn't hack it.

Comments

[segh.livejournal.com]

I have read "The Game". Yes, I got it, and no, I didn't enjoy it - it's the only one of her books I don't like!

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Not enough people have tweed three piece suits...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7443442.stm


Who was the panellist on NMTB?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

If I'm not mistaken, it was Mark Ronson.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Oh I saw that one. He seemed a little over-awed. I do like NMTB, and it's much better with Simon Amstell as host.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I wasn't keen on Simon Amstell at first, but he is growing on me.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

There should be a word for picking up a milk bottle, only to find you've put your thumb on a slug. "Yuck" just doesn't hack it.

When I was a small child, I stepped on a huge slug in my bare feet. I thought this was the most horrid thing ever.

As an adult, I disovered it was worse to step on one whilst wearing socks.

And then a year or to later, I found it was worse still to step on one on a carpet and have to try to get the mark out...

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Have you read Dianna Wynne Jones' The Game?
Yes.

Did you enjoy it?
Yes - not my very favorite, but I found it entertaining.

Did you get all the references?
I understood *some* of the references. I think assuming you got *all* the references in a DWJ is a somewhat perilous claim!

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

I don't have a tweed three-piece suit, but now I wish I did. However, I did read The Game, think I got all the references, but found it vaguely unsatisfying, as if the good idea at the core hadn't quite been given enough time and space to develop.

EWWWW!

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

One the stoopid medicine question - if one may take 2 sachets of the medicine then 4 would be two doses, a convenient number to carry around. And frankly it depends on what can fit in one's pocketses.
Haven't read The Game yet. Just got Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and looking forward to that one.
And I've lived in Banana Slug country. They are even bigger than the standard garden slug, but being Bright Yellow much easier to spot and thus not touch or step on. Banana Slugs are the mascots of my alma mater UC Santa Cruz, but we are a bit strange over there. :D

[malaheed.livejournal.com]

38c=100f so they've just converted the old value without thinking

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Ah, of course.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

Why do adaese's new slippers say they should be washed at 38 C?

I'm wondering why one would wash slippers.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Because something that's been in direct contact with feet over a long period might get a bit dirty?

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

Would you wash shoes? Wipe down with a damp cloth, yes; wash, no. I can't see any reason to wash slippers either. *still puzzled*

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

No, but I always wear socks with shoes; I don't always do so with slippers.

[romancinger.livejournal.com]

Slug - my word would be "Eeeeeeeeeeeargh!" After which, I'd need a lie down until I stopped wobbling.

And - you still have milk bottles?

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

So that's where I got my childhood horror of slugs from? (Shouldn't you have stuck up for me a little more when I got told off by someone else for "unreasonably" refusing to walk across the grass which was absolutely covered in them & their slime?! But no hard feelings anyway.)

I'm now not remotely bothered by them, and although the unexpected slime would make me say "ew" it would not bother me further than that.

Like you, what impresses me is that wellinghall still HAS a milk delivery. We don't (although we were probably a little involved in its downfall as we were only buying some of our milk from it, a pint a day, for reasons of finance and working-near-the-shopsness).

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Are milk deliveries really that rare? We don't get street lights, or mains gas or any shops within walking distance, but even we get a milk delivery.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

We get them here (village of 2,500 people), but I don't think we did in Rochester.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Our village has two different milkmen, each of whom deliver three days a week (the same three days, unfortunately!)

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised by anything I see on NMTB (you like that too, huh? Shame BB's not on it anymore IMO though)...especially fashionwise. He wore it well.

I don't think there is much to say on whatever number of sachets come in a pack, ie. why is 4 stranger than 5 or 7 or 11, when you analyse it - it's just because of what we are used to that some seem more reasonable than others? I've got no idea on the other bit, there're probably obscure reasons why these things are categorised differently (which liver and kidney patients might be routinely aware of, or not), or it might just be stupidity on the writers' part?

Maybe some glue or something used in the slippers doesn't tolerate over 38C?. malaheed's answer is probably the correct one though, or one might go further and suppose they are made in a country where 38C/100F is just a standard setting on a washing machine while it isn't here.

Never heard of The Game, doubt I'd get "references" so might as well give it a miss.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Our village has two different milkmen, each of whom deliver three days a week (the same three days, unfortunately!)

[mrkinch.livejournal.com]

I, too, would like to know.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

A four-piece suit has jacket, waistcoat, trousers, and breeches / plus fours. You can wear it with either the trousers or the breeches.

My father is (was) a gamekeeper; it's what he wears (wore) for his job.

[mrkinch.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I've seen suits with two pair of pants but not in different styles. Very sensible.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

A four-piece suit has jacket, waistcoat, trousers, and breeches / plus fours. You can wear it with either the trousers or the breeches.

My father is (was) a gamekeeper; it's what he wears (wore) for his job.