Nightmare!!!! I'll be singing the damn song all night now....again!Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
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Nightmare!!!! I'll be singing the damn song all night now....again!Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Vacuuming... this is the song which jumps to my mind:
Queen - I want to break FREE
Freddie in a mini and with a tache is great. I still remember the first time I saw the video.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
:lol: Me too. I just sat there in front of the TV, wondering what the hell was going on :rofl: And humming along, for I knew the song long before I ever saw the music video :nod:
Ahahah! I've never seen that before. That's perfect.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
This would make vacuuming so much more epic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
Apparently, you SHOULD sing/dance/listen to music while vacuuming...
Electrolux Lab Test
Somehow I think this might work for me, but not for my neighbours... I would have to crack up the volume of the radio so much that they would not be amused :blush:
Oh, I only found out about this commercial after watching "Top 100 TV Commercials" (Channel 4). Agree with Paul that it stays with you.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
When I watched this video for the first time, I did not understand spoken English that well so I was VERY confused (but loved the song regardless).Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
Brilliant! I usually listen to my Ipod while doing housework. Should pick livelier songs from now on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
How many cappuccinos a day are too many?
I cooked today and I forgot to turn off the oven, it was on for a good 3 hours before I walked in the kitchen and wondered why it was so hot. :blush2:
:eek: I have done that too :banghead: Several times actually: the cost of multitasking :p.
I even have done that with food still in the oven :redface: Not 3 hours though, but the food was spoiled and the burned smell stayed in the house for another 2 days ...
In the shake and vac ad the woman has accepted her domestic role, she makes the best of it, finding hidden joy in such unlikely places as a packet of carpet de-odourizer. She understands the satisfaction of a job well done, and finds it a cause for celebration. She is at one with the role she has chosen. She a has positive mental attitude. The result is happiness.
On the other hand Freddie sees the act of hoovering as a burden and a symbol of womens servitude. Its a chore, drudgery, a job that is never done with - next day it will need doing again. His solution is to run from it, leave it behind and search for something else. But he knows he won't, its just a dream . A dream he relies on to keep going.
Ever tried vacuuming your sheep, Mick? :smilewinkgrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Which nozzle would you recommend?
:brow:Quote:
Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
I almost walked out of the house this morning with red shoes and a green handbag.:eek6:
:shocked:Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
And how was a disaster of such magnitude averted???
One of my favorite color combinations ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
You should only wear red with green during Christmas, is my opinion. Then there are some color combinations that are never, ever to be tolerated - like purple and red. Just don't.
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Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
Like that:
http://image59.webshots.com/659/3/86...9ioLxJw_ph.jpg
I don't really mind purple and red so much, I really dislike purple and yellow but that has more to do with a college football team.
I switched to a gray bag. The real issue is a good travel bag. I need something to fit my airplane essentials* but still be mildly cute.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
* airplane essentials include at least one book, one puzzle book, one pen, two cell phones, 2 mp3s(you never know when one might give up), a bottle of water, and a small snack.
Luckily, all my bags are more or less big enough to carry those listed on daily basis (throw in a Eee PC and a very large pencil case too). I have never had a gray bag, though; mildly intrigued now.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
PS: And you promised not to share that photo of ours with anyone!!!! :mad:
Well if you wouldn't have spilled the beans nobody would have known it was us!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Well, the link you posted said "photobucket/papaya.scherandpapayawearingredandpurple".Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Yeah, I always forget that part.
Anyone interested in cup of coffee? :D
http://i533.photobucket.com/albums/e...Copyoflady.jpg
I don't think I'll ever order "art-coffee". It seems like such a destruction to drink it :)
A song to go with that: I alone I really like that cover :D
I wouldn't like a cup of cappuccino right now but that face reminds me too much of Morgan Fairchild's somehow so find it a little creepy.
Hmmm I don't know. I think it looks kind of cool. I wouldn't drink it, though...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
Though it got me curious...
Amazing, isn't it :D I myself really like to drink coffee, but I've never visited a place where they serve it like this :nonod: I guess it is not that big where I live :lol: I wonder whether there are special bars for this kind of art, or "just" an extra service at some restaurants...
Probably both.
I discovered the greatness of a new instant coffee recently. And surprisingly enough its a nescafe! Parisien Blend. Smooth like a filter coffee.
instant coffee, yuk :sick:.
At home, we drink Polish coffee since we visited Poland a year ago. Coffee and sugar (if wanted) in the bottom of the cup and put boiling water on it. A little like Turkish coffee (don't say that too loudly ;)), but less strong. It stays hot for a very long time due to the boiling water and it has a different taste to normal filter coffee. Though you do have to remember not to stir too vigourously just before drinking and not to drink too deep or you have a mouth full of ground coffee. For the rest, though, it is great. Never anything else. :)
I do like instant coffee :nod: I do drink less of it than of normal coffee - but then again I drink a lot of "normal" coffee :lol: Not sure why... I think I just don't like instant coffee that much - though I don't think it's "yuk" :wink5:
Then it is probably because I need a proper strength in coffee to be satisfied. Instant coffee is always too weak for me. It must be that. ;)
Then why don't you just put more powder in the cup? That makes it stronger... Not sure what the saturation point is though...
I do think there is a difference in taste :nod: not just in strength :wink5: But then again, every brand is different :crazy: I don't always taste that difference though :blush:. Expensive coffee isn't really something I can appreciate...
Instant coffee? Ugh, it's like drinking dirty water.
I'm sadly one of those people who stops by Starbucks 2-3 times a day, I'm obviously addicted, and too lazy to brew my own.
Oh, believe me, I have tried to put more powder in the cup. Still came out too weak, and I put in nearly half a cup! :crazy: Just didn't want to become any serious coffee...
Starbucks :sick:. Ugh.
The secret to cheap, good coffee, is looking whether it is 100% Arabica. That is the same as those Italian brands like Lavazza, but from a house label it is about a third of the price, yet totally the same. You wouldn't know it was any different. And then they pretend to sell some coffees that are essentially mixed crap for double the price. For the people that have access to Kaufland in Germany or Eastern Europe: Kaufland coffee Classic is very nice. And it is only 1,49€ for 500g. (sorry, am I allowed to say that here? :redface:)
Starbucks... They've recently opened some shops here (I think there are about 5 in our country) and I ain't crazy about their coffee. I did like to put shots in it (hazelnutsyrup for instance), but for some reason they've taken that of the signs?! You know, those signs above the counter where they list all the coffees you can choose from? Now there is just a choice of standard coffees (latte, cappucino) and if you want to customize your own you just have to know what they have. I do not understand why they do not list their syrups anymore :crazy: So since they've changed that, I'm boycotting Starbucks :p. Plenty of other coffee shops here, with better tasting "regular" coffee :D
Just out of curiosity: where is 'here'?
In Belgium, my native country and coffee country, Starbucks recently (I am thinking about 1 year ago) opened a shop in Antwerp. I read a hilarious article about it. The journalist admitted to going there to meet friends and to surf the net (free hot spot), but admitted also that he absolutely loathed the coffee. Yet he went there for hours, afternoons sometimes. Living in a coffee country, he wondered why then he went there. He in the end admitted that is was just the brand 'Starbucks' that attracted him and not the coffee, i.e. the free hot spot, the 'trendy' stamp it has, friends you run into who are also Starbuck people, the cups you get your coffee in, the fact you can customise your coffee, the fact that you can get Starbucks cakes (muffins and what-not), but in the end he sad, 'I always ask myself, after a few hours of Starbucks why I always give in to this temptation.' :lol:
Still, Starbucks is great in countries where most coffee is crap. Like Germany or England. You can always go to Starbucks where you are sure the coffee is that tad better than anywhere else.
Coffee rubbish in England?? But...but... but... our coffee's not rubbish, it's DREADFUL. Please can I go back to Germany. Aaahhh!! Tchibo!
Well, that's right next door :) 'Here' to me is the Netherlands :wink5: I much rather go to a Kaldi or a Coffee Company when I want a good cup of coffee. I also like the coffee we get at the train stations (Kiosk), I know untill recently it was the Douwe Egberts brand - but I think they've changed that... Not too sure... They're using different cups and I think the taste has become a bit more bitter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiki1982
As for "coffee country", here's an interesting list:
Coffee cunsumption per country
I learned/started to drink coffee while I lived in Norway :) Notice how Belgium and the Netherlands are in the top 10 and THE Starbuck country (United States) "only" on number 26 - while the UK is number 48.
I once asked for coffee on the ferry from Calais to Dover. I got some brown liquid, 1/2 coffeeish, 1/2 milkish. Taking a nip of that is not an experience I'd like to repeat :lol:
oh, hello! I didn't know that you were Dutch!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
In Belgium, Panos coffee is quite alright actually.
I see what you mean about the 'coffee' on the ferry... I always drink tea in that country. You never know what you're going to get, unless you are in such a typical Starbucks-like coffee house... And still... In Germany, when we moved here, we started to drink coffee like we did in Belgium, i.e. any time we fancied a 'cuppa' (it could be a little weaker or a little stronger, but generally alright). Bad idea... Half of the time it was undrinkable. They still have that percolator coffee would you believe it! So, our strategy has changed. We now know a few places where the coffee is nice and we go there to have a cup of coffee. We remember which one is good and which one is crap and then we don't get a very bad cup of coffee. Sometimes, though, we are wrong ;). I generally am not prepared to try in an unknown establishment unless they are Italians. Though in bigger cities the coffee tends to be better... (We live in the Trier area, really godforsaken place of Germany. Not even foreign food apart from a very odd Thai and a few pizza places have got here...)
At any rate, my experiences in Poland are quite good, as you have read, I suppose... It is a strange way of drinking it, but it's got such a nice taste and is very economical! Try it once.
:wave: Yes, born and bred :D That's why my profile says "below the sea surface".
I've been in Belgium quite a couple of times, but I can not remember Panos. But then again, I hardly ever remember the name of a restaurant cafe :blush: Your idea of "just try the coffee and remember where it is good" would only work for me if I kept a diary of some sort :rofl:
Percolator coffee... From what I read on wiki about it, I think my sister has such a machine: it is "see through" - which is quite cool :) Gives you something to look at while it is being brewed :wink5: She never drinks coffee so she hardly ever remembers to have some when I visit, but from the last time I remember the taste was quite alright :nod:.
I've never been to Poland, but if the coffee is good that's one great reason to go there :p.