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Start here => Games => Topic started by: 'andersom' on November 20, 2010, 05:12:01 PM
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Here's the thread for the things you should have bought.
Things I had wanted to buy.... and should not forget for too long from now on.
Black shoe polish
Honey
Toilet paper.
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Here's the thread for the things you should have bought.
Things I had wanted to buy.... and should not forget for too long from now on.
Black shoe polish
Honey
Toilet paper.
Corrected for importance
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Mouthwash and that special ribbon-like dental floss that doesn't get caught between teeth. :nerdy:
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Here's the thread for the things you should have bought.
Things I had wanted to buy.... and should not forget for too long from now on.
Black shoe polish
Honey
Toilet paper.
Corrected for importance
Thank you.
I had made a habit of having lots of that in store. But, some ill health of the youngest had a big impact on what I have left. Still enough to last for a while, but, having more at home feels safer indeed.
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I must remember to get paper towels! I hate being without them! :GA:
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I need paper towels too...
and now napkins, because I'm using them because I ran out of paper towels.
Other than that, I forget what I have forgotten :laugh:
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I need paper towels too...
and now napkins, because I'm using them because I ran out of paper towels.
Other than that, I forget what I have forgotten :laugh:
You'll remember it the minute you need it! :laugh:
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I need paper towels too...
and now napkins, because I'm using them because I ran out of paper towels.
Other than that, I forget what I have forgotten :laugh:
You'll remember it the minute you need it! :laugh:
How fucking true is that! lmao
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Button cell batteries
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That nice ribbonlike dental floss that doesn't shred between the teeth. I keep forgetting that. :duh:
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Salt, vinegar, and brown sauce
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Coffee, didn't realise it had decreased so fast this week. I did not drink a single cup.
Over a pound of coffee used without me noticing this week. :zombiefuck: Just found out when I packed the groceries in the cupboard.
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Coffee, didn't realise it had decreased so fast this week. I did not drink a single cup.
Over a pound of coffee used without me noticing this week. :zombiefuck: Just found out when I packed the groceries in the cupboard.
Your daughters drank it all then? :orly:
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I must get more multivitamins tomorrow! I only have one left! :GA:
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I seem to have forgotten just about everything that tastes good. i cant afford nutrious food! :facepalm2:
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I seem to have forgotten just about everything that tastes good. i cant afford nutrious food! :facepalm2:
Get pasta! Pasta is cheap! :2thumbsup:
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Cousin, i'll get as big as a fucking house if i eat pasta everyday.
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Cousin, i'll get as big as a fucking house if i eat pasta everyday.
What kinds of foods do you have now? :orly:
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sandwich fixings, jalepenos, half a pumkin pie, 2 bags of chips and like two fucking cases of top ramen.
i ate all of my moms thanksgiving leftovers so now i'm back to feeling like a godamn scavenger in my own home.
my ribs are showing ffs!
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sandwich fixings, jalepenos, half a pumkin pie, 2 bags of chips and like two fucking cases of top ramen.
i ate all of my moms thanksgiving leftovers so now i'm back to feeling like a godamn scavenger in my own home.
my ribs are showing ffs!
There must be a better way to budget! Are you low on food money because you are saving for fire agates? :orly:
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I'm saving money for a custom made fire agate ring. I want very mind relaxing $5,000, I have about $800 saved and by next month i should have $1,000! i'm soo fucking happy. but I guess nothing is earned without sacrifice
sacrifice is fucking awful i tell you!
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I'm saving money for a custom made fire agate ring. I want very mind relaxing $5,000, I have about $800 saved and by next month i should have $1,000! i'm soo fucking happy. but I guess nothing is earned without sacrifice
sacrifice is fucking awful i tell you!
Well, if you are saving $200 a month for the ring, I guess that explains why your food budget is so tight!
Are you studying the supermarket fliers to see what's on sale? :orly:
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Need to buy AA batteries.
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Need to buy AA batteries.
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Coffee, didn't realise it had decreased so fast this week. I did not drink a single cup.
Over a pound of coffee used without me noticing this week. :zombiefuck: Just found out when I packed the groceries in the cupboard.
Your daughters drank it all then? :orly:
Nope, my ex. He came by twice without notice, and this Saturday according to schedule. I know he drinks his coffee strong, but this is absurd. Two visits in the evening and one day, using over a pound of grounded coffee? I really did two and a half packages left last Monday morning.
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Coffee, didn't realise it had decreased so fast this week. I did not drink a single cup.
Over a pound of coffee used without me noticing this week. :zombiefuck: Just found out when I packed the groceries in the cupboard.
Your daughters drank it all then? :orly:
Nope, my ex. He came by twice without notice, and this Saturday according to schedule. I know he drinks his coffee strong, but this is absurd. Two visits in the evening and one day, using over a pound of grounded coffee? I really did two and a half packages left last Monday morning.
Maybe your ex took some coffee home with him as well! Time to rig your coffee supply with an exploding dye pack! :police:
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I forgot to get mayonnaise twice, but remembered before I could put it on here. Tuna salad isn't bad with the last of the mayonnaise and some Bacon Ranch salad dressing.
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Coffee, didn't realise it had decreased so fast this week. I did not drink a single cup.
Over a pound of coffee used without me noticing this week. :zombiefuck: Just found out when I packed the groceries in the cupboard.
Your daughters drank it all then? :orly:
Nope, my ex. He came by twice without notice, and this Saturday according to schedule. I know he drinks his coffee strong, but this is absurd. Two visits in the evening and one day, using over a pound of grounded coffee? I really did two and a half packages left last Monday morning.
Maybe your ex took some coffee home with him as well! Time to rig your coffee supply with an exploding dye pack! :police:
:rofl:
And a surveillance camera in the kitchen too, so that I will have footage when I open the coffee with a sleepy head in the morning, not thinking about the exploding dye pack.
Would liven up the "what made you laugh thread"
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I forgot to get mayonnaise twice, but remembered before I could put it on here. Tuna salad isn't bad with the last of the mayonnaise and some Bacon Ranch salad dressing.
OMG, you should cross-post this in your Recipes thread! It sounds delicious! :drool:
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Lowfat beans, Fresh jalepenos, cole slaw, squirt and blueberry juice
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Powerball tickets going out now to fix that it's close to 100 million tonight
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7 grain bread from La Madeleine
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Rusk, had wanted to give my sauerkraut dish a crusty layer of grilled rusk-crumbs and cheese.
It tasted good without that too, but, would have been lots and lots better with.
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I still need a 9V battery so I can put that smoke detector back up! :duh:
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An optical cable for the Jag. :grrr:
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Train tickets to Lincoln for next Thursday.
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After buying over $90 of groceries this weekend I'd better not have forgotten anything.
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More paper goods! I'm always running out of them! :mad:
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A gasket for my truck
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Bumped for Odeon's sake: L-Lysine.
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Milk
Bread
Vinegar
arthritis supplement
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Bumped for Odeon's sake: L-Lysine.
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Dishwashing sponges.
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Cable straps.
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Sugar. Writing it down here helps me remember what to get at the shops.
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Fork crimp connectors.
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An AA battery. Time stands still in my kitchen, very confusing.
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Deodorant. Both the aintiperspirant and the body spray I use (yes I spray on 2 deodorants every morning :P)
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Drywall screws
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Deodorant. Both the aintiperspirant and the body spray I use (yes I spray on 2 deodorants every morning :P)
Why so much of that?
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Deodorant. Both the aintiperspirant and the body spray I use (yes I spray on 2 deodorants every morning :P)
Why so much of that?
She stinks. :P
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Deodorant. Both the aintiperspirant and the body spray I use (yes I spray on 2 deodorants every morning :P)
Why so much of that?
She stinks. :P
I dunno how I came about doing it. I used to just use the antiperspirant. Then one day at the supermarket I saw this women's version of Lynx men's bodyspray and I bought it to try. That and I guess the scent of the antiperspirant is too mild.
Despite all that I'm still a little stinky by home time 5pm :P
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L-Lysine.
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Deodorant. Both the aintiperspirant and the body spray I use (yes I spray on 2 deodorants every morning :P)
Why so much of that?
She stinks. :P
I dunno how I came about doing it. I used to just use the antiperspirant. Then one day at the supermarket I saw this women's version of Lynx men's bodyspray and I bought it to try. That and I guess the scent of the antiperspirant is too mild.
Despite all that I'm still a little stinky by home time 5pm :P
Add a third deodorant. :P
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I'm going through paper towels very fast lately, with all the cleaning. I will also need ...
some more antiperspirant very soon. And, let's see ... some more Sensodyne toothpaste. And salad
to eat at work when I resume dieting. I'll buy a fresh one each day. No more hoarding or waste! :viking:
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apple pie
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Onions. Kayleigh said she would make enchiladas tonight but changed her mind when she found that we had no onions. So I will walk to the shops to buy some onions as enchiladas are my favourite.
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I keep neglecting to buy new T-shirts. All of mine are developing holes under the arms.
The work ones are, anyway. The ones I wear outside of work are ugly hand-me-downs.
It's time to buy shirts in colors of my choosing, like a grown-up lady, instead of wearing
old leftover work shirts or whatever T-shirts my friends don't want anymore. :cheer:
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Do you know where you want to buy new t-shirts from?
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Do you know where you want to buy new t-shirts from?
I'll go somewhere cheap, either Walmart or Savers, a secondhand store in my area. 8)
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Toilet paper :tp:
Tissues will suffice if I run out by tomorrow.
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Toilet paper :tp:
Tissues will suffice if I run out by tomorrow.
A friend of mine is careful never to run out of toilet paper! :tp:
*sends you some* :tp: :tp: :tp:
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Do you know where you want to buy new t-shirts from?
I'll go somewhere cheap, either Walmart or Savers, a secondhand store in my area. 8)
i miss savers. here they have value village, same company but prices for used clothes are no different that new retail. sometimes more expensive. if there is an image on a tshirt it can go as high as $12CDN.
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Sugar. Didn't forget Stevia though, which is strange.
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cucumbers though i wouldn't be able to eat them for a few days.
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cucumbers though i wouldn't be able to eat them for a few days.
Why not? Do they continue to ripen on the table? :orly:
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I need refills for my fancy girly shaving kit. :blonde:
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A memory card for the camera.
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cucumbers though i wouldn't be able to eat them for a few days.
Why not? Do they continue to ripen on the table? :orly:
having problems with salad right now. don't want to waste the cucumbers.
sigh, but now i have a craving. back soon.
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crossed cucumbers off the list. feeling like i can try salad today.
but should have remembered to put onions on.
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sigh, where is the list for actually remembered both the cucumber and the onion that i thought i had forgotten and they have been sitting on the floor in a shopping bag thought to have only one thing in it? it's been there since sunday or monday, i think.
to my surprise, both the cucumber and the onion are good, having survived +32C temps in the house.
edit: date on the receipt is july 5....
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That is an amazing cucumber. Onions do well, when stored dry. Cucumbers are way harder to keep fresh and tasty.
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A can of window and door foam didn't make it in the van today I did buy it though it just stayed in the trailer so I have to go back in the morning
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That is an amazing cucumber. Onions do well, when stored dry. Cucumbers are way harder to keep fresh and tasty.
the cucumber is delicious. the onion didn't do so well since it was in a plastic bag.
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A Displayport adapter.
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1.) expectorant/suppresssant cough syrup :beer:
2.) cream or half-and-half :coffee:
3.) paper towels and toilet paper :tp:
4.) another paper bag for recyclable paper and cardboard 8)
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Butyric anhydride, cinnamyl chloride, or some cinnamic anhydride and a little diisopropylamine or pyridine. Probably go with diisopropylamine, or maybe Hunig's base, diisopropylethylamine. The diisopropylamine though I won't have to buy, since commercial glyphosate weedkiller, comes often as the diisopropylamine salt. A quick acid-base and workup, and another project gestating, which makes for a happy, flappy Lestat :autism:
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I need all kinds of cleaners with an ammonia base, for rodent repulsion purposes! :pirate:
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Socks. Underwear. :P
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Bacon
(((THE HORROR!!!)))
I decided to get windshield wiper blades for my son's Traverse as well. I drive it a lot; he is still learning.
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CBC-get ammonium phosphate or sulfate fertilizer, and a bottle of caustic soda. The latter, being a stronger base, will displace ammonia from its salts, ammonia being the weaker base. Cool the solution in an ice bath to help it absorb as much as possible and bubble the resultant gas through water. Or better, through OTC dilute NH3 (aqueous ammonia water) not the sudsy crap, just plain NH3(aq). Using a hose and aquaculture airstone will help diffuse the ammonia into the water and give you as strong a liquor ammonia as you wish up until its saturation limits.
If you want ANHYDROUS ammonia, generate it using calcium oxide (quicklime) as the base, since it generates no hydroxide ions, and just a ml or so of H2O, or even less.and an ammonium salt. I mention the phosphate and sulfate mainly because they are obtainable in a muckyish grade as fertilizer from hardware stores and even this stuff works fine for NH3 gas generators. Use dry ice to condense anhydrous, if thats what you want. For anhydrous, a gas mask and blast shield over the face is mandatory. I nearly lost an eye due to an ammonia generator producing annie. Albeit I didn't know it was an NH3 generator. Long story, and one best not told.
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Bollocks. Just realized, I need some acetonitrile (methyl cyanide). I'm fresh outa MeCN. Need more non-ketonic polar aprotic solvents generally, DMSO, DMF, N-methylpyrrolidone as well albeit that has a carbonyl group, hexamethylphosphoramide (ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew)
And I really want some propylene and ethylene carbonates. Ionic liquid solvents generally, I want to experiment with some, for, rather than inert-gas shielded, solvent-based and shielded electrolysis of salts of the alkali and alkaline earth metals. Plus the lanthanides, doing the electrolysis of solutions of the salts of the former two at least in propylene or ethylene carbonate, depending on whatever has the better solubility of the two for alkali metal salts.
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Hair fasteners to put The PR's hair in a small pony tail on top, bottom flowing free.
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Sounds really pretty.
I think that would look good on her :)
I need some tanks of inert gas, and fresh polyvalent filter cartridges for my gas mask. Could do with picking up a tinted full face welding visor for working with electric arcs as well, because otherwise exposure can cause what is known as 'arc eye', due to the intense UV radiation given off by a powerful and sustained electric arc and it is meant to be excruciatingly painful. And my eyes are already oversensitive. Can't think of anything else, other than spending my lab equipment and chemical budget on, surprise surprise, lab equipment and chemicals. Going to really treat myself as I've saved up for a significant time, months in order that I may have a large fat wad of £££ in my bank and wallet ready for such treating of self.
Oh, and I need to get myself some glass to metal connection-soldering solder as well. Lots of goodies for the lab and for engineering projects related to such endeavors as I get up to whilst I am 'doing my thing' so to speak :) Such as for example, an electrolytic cell designed for a certain, specific dedicated use and purpose custom-built for the job by yours truly. And I'll enjoy every minute of it too :autism:
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New underwear :bra: :underwear: and T-shirts.
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Hair fasteners to put The PR's hair in a small pony tail on top, bottom flowing free.
Scratch from list. She found a mess of cheap large ones that will do nicely. All bright colours, thin and easily twistable.
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I find the really thin ones unreliable. They snap too easily when your hair is as long as line is.
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I find the really thin ones unreliable. They snap too easily when your hair is as long as line is.
The snapping problem is easily solved. They're good for one use. Then she loses them.
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Lol she sounds like me there.
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I'm going to make a list :chores: at work today, and shop afterwards!
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More PTFE (teflon) tape.
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I'm going to make a list :chores: at work today, and shop afterwards!
Lists are BRAVE! :viking:
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I'm going to make a list :chores: at work today, and shop afterwards!
Lists are BRAVE! :viking:
They also prevent screwing up and forgetting things! :tard: :tp:
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I could have bought some ice while I was at the petrol station today. Forgot.
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I'm going to make a list :chores: at work today, and shop afterwards!
Lists are BRAVE! :viking:
They also prevent screwing up and forgetting things! :tard: :tp:
What she means is that they are great for organizing tasks so they're easier to forget.
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I'm going to make a list :chores: at work today, and shop afterwards!
Lists are BRAVE! :viking:
They also prevent screwing up and forgetting things! :tard: :tp:
What she means is that they are great for organizing tasks so they're easier to forget.
At least they are forgotten in an organised manner.
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I meant to buy an eyeglass repair kit. I think I have a tiny screwdriver around here somewhere. :apondering:
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Q-tips
Toiletpaper
Frozen spinach
Catfood
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Q-tips
Toiletpaper
Frozen spinach
Catfood
In the colonies the toilet paper found in business loos keeps getting skinnier and skinnier (width). Soon we'll be wiping with dental floss.
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Cleaning the crack thoroughly.
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You could always put some on ebay QV, advertised as a thong. Hell, someone on a porn site might even buy it used, if you sell it as anal floss...ahem...thong.
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You could always put some on ebay QV, advertised as a thong. Hell, someone on a porn site might even buy it used, if you sell it as anal floss...ahem...thong.
What is this thing called thong?
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Anal floss.
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I meant to buy cereal yesterday at the shops but just walked straight past it without a thought. Idiot. I shall buy some tomorrow on the way home from college.
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Stopped by the grocery store to fetch home some potatoes after a tough day at work.
Did so, but forgot that I was out of peanuts. I have recently become a big fan of "ball park" style peanuts. They are boiled raw in brine, then baked until they are hot and dry and crystallized salt is showing on the hulls. I do not peal them; I just pop them hull and all.
Love them. Never tried it as a kid, but now, to me, it is THE best way to enjoy peanuts.
Potatoes will go into the slow cooker in a couple of hours where a beautiful pork loin is cooking overnight.
YUM!
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Stopped by the grocery store to fetch home some potatoes after a tough day at work.
Did so, but forgot that I was out of peanuts. I have recently become a big fan of "ball park" style peanuts. They are boiled raw in brine, then baked until they are hot and dry and crystallized salt is showing on the hulls. I do not peal them; I just pop them hull and all.
Love them. Never tried it as a kid, but now, to me, it is THE best way to enjoy peanuts.
Potatoes will go into the slow cooker in a couple of hours where a beautiful pork loin is cooking overnight.
YUM!
*hangs out in DirtDawg's yard hoping to smell the lovely roast pork* :puppy:
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Still need that eyeglass repair kit, dammit. Also would like to get some eggs to scramble at home. :chicken:
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I've got some eggs for you, if you want.
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Cashew nuts. Have to go to the "supermarket" again. It's essential in my broccoli quiche.
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Dental floss, paper towels, definitely :tp: :tp: :tp:
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pickles
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Heating pad, adjustable chair for my computer desk, front-closing :bra: :bra: :bra: to avoid arm strain.
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Cashew nuts. Have to go to the "supermarket" again. It's essential in my broccoli quiche.
Why the quotes? Is your supermarket sub-par?
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I worked in a "supermarket" once, that occupied the ground floor of a decaying art deco building, since demolished, that had once been a cinema. Sometimes I'd be tidying up a shelf, and I'd find things that had been shoved to the back that were several years out of date. The manager had allowed the stock room to get so full that the fire escape was blocked, and the loading bay was partially blocked by a pile of trolleys and rotting leaves that was probably infested with rats. Also, it was next door to the former doctors' surgery where Harold Shipman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman) started his medical career.
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Whilst I don't have, obviously, and if I did it wouldn't be my place to stick it online, my own dr..he could be shipman's twin if he had a bit more grey hair.
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He's the one prescribing you opiates? Definitely a twin. :green: ;)
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Not a list of things forgotten, but a list to buy on the first (retirement check day)
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Bread. Can't believe I forgot it when I went shopping on Friday :facepalm2:
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Well he is my 'assigned' dr. The scripts for my meds are done automatically and just handed to the quickest available doctor to sign, if they haven't been signed and all I need to do is come to the counter, pick them up and go collect the script when the place opens at 8am. And in person he seems like a decent guy,and unlike most drs he hasn't, post-shipman incident, adopted a policy of under-prescribing. Which can be as bad as overprescribing. Say your in pain, and of a kind thats intense enough that antiinflammatories/paracetamol just won't do anything whatsoever, it certainly to me seems as bad to send them away in screaming agony as it would be to overdo it, worse, assuming the case of overly large dosage is non-fatal and merely has side effects, makes the person puke (not difficult, I have a few times when getting adjusted to different pain meds like when I switched from dihydrocodeine XR (I'd been on the IR version but it is too short acting and takes time to work, being a prodrug so it became effectively impossible to avoid withdrawal each and every day, several times a day, and wake up several times at night sweating bullets and feeling like my adrenal glands are on fire, about to burst, heart rate shooting up etc) which quite plainly isn't acceptable. And besides it didn't control my pain. Going straight to an oxycodone 80mg dose (either XR, twice a day, or extracted and shot although oxy doesn't really have that much going for it in terms of abuse potential really unless massive doses for the level of tolerance a patient has are used) was probably case of overprescribing somewhat because certainly I threw up pretty hard the first few doses taken and had to get a few replacements now and then at first. Although its a lot easier than something like a hangover-puke or food poisoning where you just feel 'oh.my...Chthulhu...I want to die now please' or 'is this going to kill me' respectively?
(actually did think I was going to bite it one time after some serious food poisoning, from food served at a motorway cafe after a funeral, ate a burrito and the day after I was in the ER projectile vomiting green, corrosive stuff that didn't even resemble barf at all, just green, highly acidic slime that would irritate and burn skin if trying to clean it up, blood and bile)
After discharge, next day was readmitted and ended up collapsing in the toilets. I thought I was for it then. Had food poisoning before but jesus, that was a bad one, the kind where you're way past the 'just finish me off already and make it clean and quick' and come right round to 'for fucks sake don't make this the day I end up in a body bag'.
At least though in the case of the oxy he rx'd me (actually the only reason I need to see him currently is to get back one of my books I lent him, a medical treatise from the late 1700s, since he's had it for a while and there is the other volume for him to read (he's done stuff for me too like giving me old copies he didn't need of GP prescribing manuals and might have been him that I got my book on clinical genetics, immunology, immunochemical assay techniques and cytology from although not sure on that) And perhaps he is undercautious at times such as giving me nitrazepam, a strong as hell, very long acting strongly hypnotic-type benzodiazepine tranq, whilst I needed it temporarily for anxiety due to a vexatious pig harassment case, and putting it on permanent RX rather than me coming in as I needed some. Although at least, I'm saying nothing. I know what I can take and how much for how long without coming to trouble and how to taper, so I'm just not going to be the one that turns off the tap, and stockpile the things (they are the somewhat less weight-potent but still real wall-banger type brother of flunitrazepam (rohypnol/roofies), was originally offered diazepam (valium) but I find it too weak and I don't like the benzos that metabolize to oxazepam, which seems to sometimes at least cause paradoxical effects (anxiety, shaking) some time after taking a dose, presumably when the oxazepam has had time to be produced in-vivo) so gave me the one I favour, nitrazepam (I prefer benzos with a strong hypnotic and myorelaxant profile generally, and nitrobenzodiazepines in particular or with at least some other highly electron-withdrawing substituent in place of the nitro moiety in nitrazepam. Its just personal preference, but they are strong for their kind, very much so, and I'm already taking (off license, for seizure prophylaxis) chlormethiazole, another sedative-hypnotic usually used for alcoholic in-patient detox since it has some unique effects on alcohol metabolism not shared by any other sedative-hypnotic/anticonvulsant. Not listed at all for seizure here in the UK in the BNF, only short term as a sedative, and for alcohol withdrawal treatment. I just far prefer it to benzos for several reasons-
mainly, I've been able to take it at first twice daily then thrice daily without any withdrawal effects or even discomfort if I forget, or even skip days (its short acting to intermediate duration, about 5-6 hours), quite surprisingly so, that I've taken it for years without a physical dependency forming. I'd DEFINITELY not get away with that on a benzodiazepine.
Also, its selective for the barbiturate-binding site at GABAa receptors, the same as benzos target, at the benzodiazepine allosteric sites but, unsurprisingly closer to barbiturates in action whilst lacking their mentally dulling effects induced by glutamate receptor blockade of AMPA receptors (its quite different from barbs subjectively, much cleaner headed, and I've had the chance to try some of the proper ones, not just crappy phenobarbital, which is one of the only ones in use other than for surgical anaesthesia induction where ultrashort duration ones like thiopental are used, or methohexital sometimes. Tried 5,5-diethylbarbituric acid, veronal the very first of the barbs to be discovered although it hasn't been used medically for maybe a century or so, give or take a bit. Got that through a genetics lab where its used as a PH buffer)
And it (chlormethiazole) both packs the necessary kick to it to stop an oncoming seizure dead in its tracks, and being highly lipophilic it does so within minutes. As capsules by mouth its likely at least as fast acting as emergency IM shots of diazepam/valium and if the things are opened and the liquid contents emulsified in water and RAPIDLY filled into a syringe without a needle, to stuff it where the sun don't shine, if incapacitated and unable to reach for a bottle of pills etc or to physically take one then that has brought me out of a full blown ictal clusterfuck in about 30 seconds or so to a minute at most, less probably) Speed of onset is insanely fast, which is pretty valuable IMO when a seizure is trying to start and needs to be kicked in the nuts, quickly. Its the F1 motorcar of the anticonvulsant world. Bloody quick but dangerous, an overdose, unlike with benzos (and both opioids and benzos along with it make it more likely, and create more respiratory depression) is likely to kill you. It did for Kieth Moon, from the band 'the who', who'd taken 30-something caps of it, but only 5 had opened and released their contents. Very, very steep dose response curve.
But at the same time, I am certain he (my doc) factors in that I know enough about pharmacology to make an educated decision if one is needed rather than require one be made for me. (actually he's told me on quite a few times where I've backed things up with papers from journals to support being on or off something that I'm WAY beyond his level in terms of pharmacology, kinetics and pharmacodynamics:P not something I rub in his face, he's a decent guy and I have no wish to embarrass him, but it was kinda funny him telling me that I'd been the one teaching HIM tricks he had no idea about (like using cimetidine, an anti-ulcer drug and taken for stomach issues of other kinds) to block two live enzymes that break down morphine, oxycodone and others but that rather than potentiating these, as well as doing so for benzodiazepines never to try it with codeine or tramadol because it'll likely inactivate them, and probably also dihydrocodeine to an incomplete but all the same major extent.
Got a few things not exactly forgotten as such, but I need more nitromethane, nitroethane, debating on more methanol since I've only 5 liters left, I want some 4-dimethylaminopyridine and a new vacuum pump and gauge if I can afford it all. Certainly will be able to afford the nitroparaffins, MeOH if I choose to buy any more just yet, should have enough to last me until next payday and delivery time if I redistill what I use, and afford the para-DMAP plus some pyridine itself (4-DMAP is a quite toxic but extremely effective catalyst for acylation reactions used as an acid scavenger when using acid anhydrides or as I usually prefer, acid halides (E.g acetyl chloride would for many purposes be chosen rather than acetic anhydride, although there are instances when the lower reactivity of an anhydride is more suitable, plus they fume less noxious acid gases than acid chlorides, less volatile and less sensitive to water.
Got a bit over £300 to spend so I hopefully should be able to snag me a new vac pump off ebay if I'm lucky. I want one of those big wide chest freezers too for storing volatile chemicals because I'm running out of space in the chemical fridge.
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Forgot the heating pad again. :tard:
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Oh and I did forget...I need some N-bromosuccinimide, or succinimide and do the bromination or an iodination myself, as well as some tosic acid (toluenesulfonic acid, although that might well be cheaper to make via sulfonation of toluene, which I have in my solvent repertoire, and concentrated sulfuric acid) Plus going to stock up on H2SO4 in case those fucked up acid attacks trigger a knee-jerk reaction by that bitch theresa may, making it more difficult to get, and more expensive since I'd have to to chemical suppliers and order it, if its banned in OTC drain cleaners (some of them are up to 98% sulfuric, and for many purposes can be used even as is, with the dye in there added as a warning, for things like drying gases, making ethers etc.) and somebody clued me in on a deal online somewhere for a 3 for 1 offer, on liter bottles, 3 for the price of what I'd pay for one until now :) Might just get something like 12-15 liters to make sure I've a nice little stockpile of sulfuric in case of government-issue psychotic bitchery.
Lol if theresa may were to throw some in her OWN face..that would probably actually improve her looks. Christ...what a frightful creature, it looks like a fossilized turd that just crawled out of a ruptured indian sewer in the middle of the dry season, bathed in the accumulating, fermenting stagnant filth for a month or two then sat on a shotgun and pulled the trigger whilst lying in a bath full of putrefied vomit. Only with not a trace of any redeeming features. She needs to bugger off back to R'lyeh:P
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@ Lestat - or you could buy a new mattress.
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No I couldn't. I need that vac pump and I need it weeks ago. What is to be vacuum-distilled is itself worth (not that it can simply be purchased) much more than a mattress would be. And it has not got an infinite shelf life either. It needs to be stripped of solvent, and purified carefully and either derivatized for storage (lossy probably unless one prepares a direct intermediate to an end desired compound AS the derivative and it happens to be more stable) or uses it right away its shelf life is not indefinite. So not to put too fine a point on it, I'm staying on the sofa for now. Its comfortable enough. And the vac pump comes first. As do some more pieces of glassware and other supplies.
I just don't see the competition here. Makes about as much sense as comparing the risk of being born non-autistic/aspie vs asking how many people in australia pick their nose and wipe of on a dead badger. And because of those acid attacks there is the risk of not being ABLE to buy it unless I act now without having to order through chemical supply houses, the chinese etc. when I want some sulfuric acid for something that a bottle of 98% conc. drain cleaner grade sulfuric would give perfectly equal results for. I don't, for some reason, even if there happens sometime soon to be a spate of people being garotted with stretched out mattress strings, or little old ladies having their eyes put out by psychotic thugs armed with superglue-soaked, sharpened mattress-shivs for their pension money and the chance to expose themselves to the family cat, resulting in a knee-jerk ban (and given the current PM, by a jerk who ought to be knee-ed, yet whom nobody needs and no sentient organism whatsoever, of any kind for any reason would knead without the threat of death by slow torture With red hot mattress springs used in various creative and most likely quite unthinkably unpleasant ways. So, concentrated sulfuric acid and vacuum pump come first. As do my other requirements. The sofa will still be here next year, or the year after, it'll still be made of leather and I can still fall asleep with a portable CD player and some Otep, or Kittie playing, or in a pinch, freeview TV tuned to the kerrang radio station, albeit with its pissy soft rock anal floss excuse for metal. (I.e faggotry on an inconceivably immense scale such as green-day or good chalotte and other such verminous bird-turglars)
It'll be equally comfy as unlike a mattress the leather cushions are not sprung to begin with. And a new mattress would be expensive. I couldn't have it AND my vacuum pump, my 17-20 liters of at a minimum, 95% concentrated sulfuric acid. And I want one of those dry ice makers too, the kind you can buy or build, connect to a CO2 tank and turn CO2 gas into dry ice bricks, because that, dry ice on tap, would be immensely useful. Otherwise, as things stand I have to order it, or at least buy a CO2 fire extinguisher and fire it upside down through a container filled with densely packed wads of tightly woven fabric then compact the dry 'ice' (more like snow and as such evaporates much faster than desired) with whatever form of blunt force trauma and heavy objects happen to be most readily at hand and best suited for the job. I want to be able to not have to plan my experiments weeks in advance and try to time everything to within days, and then have next-day rush delivery and courier charges to pay for it to be sent me, but to be able to do it myself when I want it.
You know what they say about giving african men a fish, vs giving them the means TO fish for themselves, and the man having a full stomach for a day vs him and his family having a full stomach for the rest of their lives? its the same principle. Only I'm english and its solid CO2 for work involving cryogenic temperatures that is desired.
Also. Who is to say that Theresa May-be but really, really shouldn't have ever been, will set her sights solely on concentrated H2SO4? what if she/he/it starts going after caustic alkali bases, ammonia, formic acid, hydrochloric, phosphoric acid? I don't want to have to be stuck in a world where I need to make and distill weak hydrochloric acid brick cleaner into NITRIC acid from a nitrate salt and then distill to get fuming nitric acid and use THAT with a sulfate like epsom salts just to get friggin' H2SO4! the thought of a waste like that of perfectly good nitric acid or/and nitrates (nitric acid isn't over the counter but it is easily made, typically by addition of a metal nitrate, or ammonium nitrate and sulfuric acid then distillation. To actually do the reverse, to obtain the much less valued (by hobbyist scientists) sulfuric acid from the (FAR more precious to hobbyists) WFNA or RFNA (white/red fuming nitric acid respectively, the latter being HNO3 with extra nitrogen dioxide dissolved in it. Sort of like the nitric acid version of oleum, or fuming sulfuric acid, anhydrous H2SO4 with additional quantities of the anhydride of sulfuric acid, SO3, sulfur trioxide, oleum being well described as 'virulent in the extreme' meaning of course the likes of hazmat fees on top of just regular prices too. I don't to pay through the nose just because somebody has to hold theirs :P)
Could do with some large size (liter, half liter etc.) heavy-duty, thick-walled borosillicate glass with teflon caps and teflon or other similar polymer compression-seals impervious to strong oxidizers and some more rolls of teflon tape, since I'm fresh out of teflon tape, and I will be wanting it so as to produce and distill some chromyl chloride, CrO2Cl2, a volatile although relatively high-boiling at 1 atm pressure, reddish, toxic, carcinogenic, powerfully oxidizing (likes to set lots of solvents on fire, most are incompatible but freakily, will oxidize alcohols to sensitive aldehydes, as well as toluene to benzaldehyde without carrying on all the way to the corresponding carboxylic acid. Which is quite a surprise considering aldehydes generally are really sensitive to oxidation and should be kept cool, in the dark and ideallly with bottle headspace topped off by some argon or nitrogen to exclude atmospheric O2. Yet CrO2Cl2 will allow the oxidation of a hydrocarbon like toluene (methylbenzene) to proceed to benzaldehyde for example without oxidizing it to benzoic acid or simply causing it to ignite spontaneously on contact)
And I of course, need something to store the reagent in when it is not being used. So its the special pig-bottles the cretin squad left behind or my buying some bigger ones of a proper size. Reacts violently with water as well, hydrolyzing to hexavalent chromium leftovers (not pleasant at all), toxic, mutagenic, carcinogenic, Cr(VI) is really quite a nasty species in mos of its incanations as wekk as giving off hydrogen chloride gas/forming HCl as aqueous hydrochloric (muriatic) acid while it does.
And the preparation of it isn't exactly very friendly, material-wise either. It involves addition of very concentrated sulfuric acid to a mixture of common salt (I.e NaCl) and a dichromate salt (got everything I need, just want something to store the stuff in and more teflon tape) and then distilling off the chromyl chloride, boils at 120-something 'C. So as imaginable, a mixture of salt and an oxidizing agent like dichromates are, the HCl generated from reaction of H2SO4/NaCl, and a searing hot pot full of brutally corrosive mixture with plenty added oxidizing agent in it, along with the powerfully dehydrating effect of concentrated sulfuric acid is going to be (and is, I've made and distilled CrO2Cl2 in the past and I've seen what a spill of the mixture being distilled, after a flask failure, did to a lab bench. It seared it to ashes anywhere it hit, and anything it touched ended up as Cr(VI) impregnated charcoal or something like it, I had to cut out the entire section of bench-top with a saw and implant a new piece of of bench into/over the gap. Was fortunate that my reactions were quick, because there is only so much protective clothing is going to do for you when its 98% sulfuric acid, already a strong acid but at such concentrations its bloody powerful as a dehydrating agent and generates a lot of heat when it hydrates as it sucks the water out of other molecules [sugar for example is burnt to inorganic carbon ash, and swells up to produce a big long column of porous carbon if a little conc. sulfuric is poured on it, accompanied by sufficient heat that ordinary glass could possibly crack, and the sugar starts to smoke and stink as the sulfuric acid rips the -OH groups from the sugar] and that at a temperature of at minimum 117 'C if using atmospheric pressure to do the distillation, full of fairly strongly oxidizing sodium/potassium etc. dichromate, salt, and chromyl chloride already formed....lets just say that whilst I've never actually SEEN what that mixture at that temperature does to flesh, if I ever do see it, I most certainly want the flesh to be a piece of raw meat, not a piece of ME. a spill big enough I could see chewing down to, or maybe even through bones, and even adding the water to dilute it, and hydrolyze the chromyl chloride and as best possible remedy the injury and try and arrest the progress, is going to heat it up like crazy and release the fumes from perdition's own bowels after a pus-soaked malignant cock-end cancer vindaloo curry cooked by satan himself on the coals made from the skulls of the damned being burnt alive and liberally laced with politician, ground up in old nick's own spice grinder and using human eyeballs in place of kidney beans. And then the morning after, all that stored up hellfire pus-curry flatus released in one huge arse-belch:P
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@ Lestat - or you could buy a new mattress.
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And how long have you needed a mattress? You'll miss the mattress as your back gives out from sleeping on inadequate furniture.