The Off Topic Topic

[DGuller]

Don't know if it would work as a movie. Track suits isn't a great look.

[The Brain]

Don't know if it would work as a movie. Track suits isn't a great look.

You may as well hear it from Languish.

[Duque de Bragança]

Movie idea: a ship from Yugoslavia, sailing the oceans since before the country's dissolution. The crew represent all ethnicities of the country and refuse to recognize the end of their home country, seemingly forever voyaging on the sea as a symbol of unity.

Probably already imagined by Emir Kusturica.

[Josquius]

The movie needs an inciting incident to get them all turning on each other and acting out a microsm of the breakup wars.


Incidentally where was the original IT screw up spotted? It still live?

After a few months of mattress on the floor my bed is reassembled. It's just so much better and I don't get why.

The floor.

The Japanese, for example, have different types of futons depending on the floor surface they are being used on. Your mattress works better with the slats (if that is what you have) than with the hard floor.

More "give" I would assume.

Yes, makes a lot of sense. My girlfriend denies it and says its all in my mind, purely that I like being high ()

[Admiral Yi]

Just saw someone carrying their laundry in from their car to their apartment.  Brought back some terrible memories and made me appreciate the profound luxury of having a washing machine in the house.

[Sheilbh]

Just saw someone carrying their laundry in from their car to their apartment.  Brought back some terrible memories and made me appreciate the profound luxury of having a washing machine in the house.

This is up there with no kettles in American culture shock moments for a Brit

[Josquius]

Americans don't have kettles?

[celedhring]

Pretty sure they do? 

[Sheilbh]

Americans don't have kettles?

I think they sometimes have stovetop kettles, but they don't have electric kettles

At least according to friend in New York - along with the no washing machine in flats as standard.

[celedhring]

Yeah, electric kettles are rare (they aren't that common in Spain either). Stovetop ones I recall being reasonably common in households.

[garbon]

Americans don't have kettles?

I think they sometimes have stovetop kettles, but they don't have electric kettles

At least according to friend in New York - along with the no washing machine in flats as standard.

It is true but do recall that New York standards are not the same as American standards.

I don't know why though British people think it is a great idea to have washing machines but not dryers (and I don't mean that horrible combination called a washer-dryer). After all it seems like hanging one's clothes on a line/airer is a lot more work (both hanging and with ironing) and bit of hopeful measure in a wet/humid country.

[Valmy]

New York is really different from anywhere else in the US, which is kind of odd since it is also the most famous place. So the United States many foreigners see is the exception and not the rule.

But yes I use a stovetop kettle all the time.

[Grey Fox]

I once read a guide about Americans moving to Canada & there was a tip about how Canadians have electric kettles & don't use microwaves to boil water.

Pretty sure the author was from NYC.

[Barrister]

I was kind of gobsmacked by the notion that we (well in Canada) don't have kettles.  Of course we do.  Electric ones even - they're much faster than trying to boil water on the stove.

You can even use them even if you don't make tea very often.

[PDH]

Yeah, oddly enough we have such amazing machines as electric kettles here in California.  Truly this is an amazing land.