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#76
07.02.2008, 21:49
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rf10 (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
> >A DIY alternative: > >- [..] > > ilsmihcf[*] > >[*] i larfed so much i had a coughing fit. > -- Not my reaction, but then piercings of all sorts, even for earrings squick me. 73, doug |
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#77
07.02.2008, 21:51
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On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:19:38 GMT, Chris J Dixon <chris>
wrote: >Niles wrote: > >>Don't you spend your life pushing your specs back up your nose no matter >>what shape they are? >> >Many years ago, I had the misfortune to select a pair of glasses >with a plastic frame and integral nose pads. They kept slipping >down, which a moment's application of basic physics showed to be >inevitable when the contact surfaces were as near vertical as >makes no difference. > >Ever since, I have insisted upon adjustable nose pads, which, >whilst gravity still sucks, at least gives me a fighting chance. > You could always tied them round the back of your head, or use a rubber band that goes round. lff |
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#78
07.02.2008, 22:25
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Plusnet <not> writes:
>clothandclay28 says... >> You write in the past tense as if they don't do this any more. I am >> about to have window and door replacements and my chosen door style (as >> similar as possible to the current, original one) has a ground-level >> letterbox. Luckily, one can request something different. > >Are these doors are mainly glass & hence there ain't many places where >one could stick the letterbox? our front door is wood, but there really isn't anywhere to put a letter box than where it is (at bottom, as lff said) or at the top. i've devoted some thought to sorting out a better arrangement, but i really can't see how, without replacing the door itself. |
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#79
07.02.2008, 23:08
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While spitting out some home-made cheese, I heard rf10
(Robin Fairbairns) say > Plusnet <not> writes: > >our front door is wood, but there really isn't anywhere to put a >letter box than where it is (at bottom, as lff said) or at the top. > >i've devoted some thought to sorting out a better arrangement, but i >really can't see how, without replacing the door itself. You could seal off the letter box and have a stand-alone mailbox, like they have in the States. When we moved into our new house we were surprised to find that there was no letter-box. We eventually realised that this was because we have a high-security solid steel front door, and it isn't easy to fit a letter box into one of those. Perforce, we've fitted a separate letter box, fastened to the wall near the front door. |
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#80
07.02.2008, 23:22
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invalidlid (Tony Gardner) writes:
>While spitting out some home-made cheese, i hope you have a proper spittoon. i'm increasingly worried about your keyboard and mouse... >I heard rf10 >(Robin Fairbairns) say >>You could seal off the letter box and have a stand-alone mailbox, like >they have in the States. i did think about this, but have rejected it. i guess we will, eventually, replace the door. there are other, even more pressing, things to deal with first, though. >When we moved into our new house we were surprised to find that there >was no letter-box. We eventually realised that this was because we >have a high-security solid steel front door, and it isn't easy to fit >a letter box into one of those. Perforce, we've fitted a separate >letter box, fastened to the wall near the front door. whatever sort of neighbourhood do you live in? or did you buy your house from a paranoiac? |
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#81
07.02.2008, 23:47
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While spitting out some home-made cheese, I heard rf10
(Robin Fairbairns) say > invalidlid (Tony Gardner) writes: > >i hope you have a proper spittoon. i'm increasingly worried about >your keyboard and mouse... >>i did think about this, but have rejected it. i guess we will, >eventually, replace the door. there are other, even more pressing, >things to deal with first, though. >>whatever sort of neighbourhood do you live in? > >or did you buy your house from a paranoiac? We actually live in a very nice, quiet part of rural Hampshire [1], with virtually no crime that I know of. However, the house was brand new when we bought it, and was built to a very high specification. The builder obviously had the same attitude to security that I have - i.e. design security in from the beginning, don't try to bolt it on as an extra when most of the work has already been done. [1] I knew we'd made the right move the morning I woke up and, looking out through the bedroom window as I lay in bed, saw a buzzard circling over our back garden. |
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#82
07.02.2008, 23:52
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Plusnet <not> wrote:
|Perhaps the solution would be to have plastic surgery in order to |engineer a horizontal surface on the bridge of my nose. If you were going to have surgery wouldn't it make more sense to have your eyes fixed than your nose?! n |
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#83
07.02.2008, 23:57
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On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:47:24 GMT, invalidlid (Tony
Gardner) wrote: >Hampshire welcome from another hamprat. |
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#84
08.02.2008, 08:42
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Niles <alex.foster> writes:
>Plusnet <not> wrote: > >|Perhaps the solution would be to have plastic surgery in order to >|engineer a horizontal surface on the bridge of my nose. > >If you were going to have surgery wouldn't it make more sense to have your >eyes fixed than your nose?! eye surgery tends not to dispense with glasses (or in lff's case, lenses). there _is_ the "cosmetic" laser surgery, for those whose eyes are basically ok, but people like the mctoodleses, my mother[*], or lff have surgery (if at all) to ensure that their eyes continue to work at all. i imagine that something like 95+% of eye surgery is to remove cataracts; most people continue to need glasses after that. |
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#85
08.02.2008, 09:10
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While spitting out some home-made cheese, I heard Paul Herber
<SubstituteMyFirstNameHere> say >On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:47:24 GMT, invalidlid (Tony >Gardner) wrote: > >>Hampshire > >welcome from another hamprat. > Thanks. I think there's a bit of a paradox here. I think I know where you live, and if I'm right, then my recent house move actually moved me farther away from you, even though we were in different counties before, and are in the same county now. I used to live in Surrey (Farnham), very close to the Surrey-Hants border. I'm now well into Hampshire (a few miles from Alton) but, I think, further from you than I was before. |
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#86
08.02.2008, 09:13
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Just changing the subject for how I keep misreading it.
Let us give praise to the penis! Let us sing a song for the schlong! For all the simple pleasures mine has provided me, I thank you my wee friend! |
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#87
08.02.2008, 09:32
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* Tony Gardner wrote, On 08/02/2008 09:10:
> While spitting out some home-made cheese, I heard Paul Herber > <SubstituteMyFirstNameHere> say > > Thanks. I think there's a bit of a paradox here. I think I know > where you live, and if I'm right, then my recent house move actually > moved me farther away from you, even though we were in different > counties before, and are in the same county now. > > I used to live in Surrey (Farnham), very close to the Surrey-Hants > border. I'm now well into Hampshire (a few miles from Alton) but, I > think, further from you than I was before. How about a welcome to another Meon Valleyrat then :) |
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#88
08.02.2008, 09:58
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Plusnet wrote:
> In article <611439F1s8sa3U1>, clothandclay28 > says... > >> You write in the past tense as if they don't do this any more. I am >> about to have window and door replacements and my chosen door style (as >> similar as possible to the current, original one) has a ground-level >> letterbox. Luckily, one can request something different. >> >> > Are these doors are mainly glass & hence there ain't many places where > one could stick the letterbox? > No. It only has a small oval glass window inset into the top. There are plenty of other places one can stick the letterbox, including horizontally at waist/chest height where they are sticking mine ;) |
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#89
08.02.2008, 10:02
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Plusnet wrote:
> In article <9julq39n20fhoec16p82qefi2qc8rigpsn>, > alex.foster says... >> Plusnet <not> wrote: >> >> |If the lenses are so tiny in the heighth* dimension, they only have to >> |slip down one's nose by one or two millimeters & you're looking over >> |them & not through them. >> >> Don't you spend your life pushing your specs back up your nose no matter >> what shape they are? >> > As I have a shiney nose (TMI?) - Yes. I'm sorry, but I shall henceforth be thinking of you as Bunny. This is because of the verse that somebody wrote in my autograph book some 45 years ago: Bunny had a shiny nose, A fault he could not mend Because his little powder puff Was at the other end. Those autograph books were all the rage in my childhood/adolescence. They weren't really for famous people, though it was great if you managed to get some of those, but we asked all our friends and relations to sign. I'm sure I wont' be AOU in this one. |
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#90
08.02.2008, 10:47
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On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:57:59 +0000, Paul Herber
<SubstituteMyFirstNameHere> wrote: >On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:47:24 GMT, invalidlid (Tony >Gardner) wrote: > >>Hampshire > >welcome from another hamprat. And another. |
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