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#off-topic 2025-10-11

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Highlights from this day
  • sharps_bin_sid — ok so swirl dont shake is on a magnet on my fridge and it has now outlived two fridges 19:48
  • sharps_bin_sid — i own four thermometers and i can explain three of them 19:51
  • meal_prep_mick — coming back to this does a cat knocking things over count as a cold chain incident 21:06
  • tenpence — anyone else have a drawer thats 90 percent alcohol swabs 21:54
SB

ok so swirl dont shake is on a magnet on my fridge and it has now outlived two fridges

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i own four thermometers and i can explain three of them

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the dog has learned the fridge sound and is furious every single week that it is not for him

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recipe that works in four bites: anything at all on a smaller plate. the plate is the recipe

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i miss coffee more than beer, and the coffee is still there, it just does not like me anymore

NT

unrelated but somebody wrote mcg instead of mg again, do we have a counter for that

i keep the swabs in a biscuit tin, which is a decision i will defend

sport went the way sport always goes, which is badly and late

who else bought a fridge thermometer for the vials and now checks the milk with it

IT

the mcg thing has happened four times this year and somebody catches it inside ninety seconds every time

seven tabs

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the cat did it

i have a photograph of a cat sitting on a cool box and it is the only illustration this channel needs

*VendorInvestigate not the other one

SV

wheres the standing bet at, which oral actually ships first

TW

update from 23 months ago: the cat is still banned from the counter and still on the counter

quick one i checked the milk with the vial thermometer and now i am cross about the milk

unrelated but whats the record for most fridge thermometers owned by one person

swab drawer

for the archive the fridge is called colin and colin has never once let me down

36 and rising

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TW

raining here too. it has been raining here since approximately the founding of this channel

sharps bin by the kettle

what do you tell visitors the little thermometer in the fridge is for

MP

coming back to this does a cat knocking things over count as a cold chain incident

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HH

is there a sharps bin that doesnt look like a sharps bin, my mother in law is visiting

somebody shared a spreadsheet, then somebody shared a better spreadsheet, and that is how this channel works

MP

sorry to jump in strangest place was a hotel minibar, inside a sock. it survived and i am still proud of it, ymmv

OS

quick one cooking a curry i will eat a third of and enjoy every bite of. that is the deal now

the jewellery scale gets used for coffee beans more than anything else and it was still a good purchase

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right so whats the strangest place anyone has kept a vial while travelling

OS

is swirl dont shake going on a t shirt or are we just going to say it forever

PN

we have a running joke about the fridge and a serious pinned table about the fridge, and both are load bearing

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TE

anyone else have a drawer thats 90 percent alcohol swabs

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the smugness is the prize

PN

alcohol free lager has got genuinely good, which is the single most useful thing i have learned in here, ask me again in a month

raining here for the ninth day, is it doing that everywhere
alcohol free lager has got genuinely good, which is the single most useful thing i have learned in here

the sharps bin lives next to the kettle and visitors have opinions about it, ill dig out the number

TW

sorry to jump in the cat took out a tray. two survived. i have named them

SV

quick one the fridge thermometer has become a personality trait and i am at peace with that

SV

while im here whats everyone cooking, i can look at it even if i cant finish it

PN

i have the spreadsheet nobody asked for, it has seven tabs, and one of them is called cats

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LT

star mg not mcg. the correction is faster than the mistake at this point

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