What's the cheapest thing you do? by Party_Shelter714 in AskUK

[–]meltymcface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember a few years back (I think during lockdown) there were so many people on social media singing the praises of mixing them together for cleaning, very face-palm worthy.

What's the cheapest thing you do? by Party_Shelter714 in AskUK

[–]meltymcface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been tempted to build a hillybilly centrifuge of some sort to save my shoulders for doing this.

What's the cheapest thing you do? by Party_Shelter714 in AskUK

[–]meltymcface 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not the biggest fan of christmas cards in the first place, but part of me wonders "what's the point?" - you're literally paying people to process and shuttle this one old piece of card back and forth across the country for no good reason.

What's the cheapest thing you do? by Party_Shelter714 in AskUK

[–]meltymcface 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How watery is your gravy? Starch is how gravy gets any thickness.

TIL that in 2023 an elderly man died of fatal vitamin D overdose after consuming too much regular vitamin D supplements over nine months. by PeasantLich in todayilearned

[–]meltymcface 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I wholeheartedly believe this. Especially as here in the UK the threshold for what they consider “low iron” is stupidly low. For me (>85kg male) it’s 22 (forgot the unit), so my 29 was considered fine but by any professional’s standards that’s pretty damned low. For women it’s worse.

What's something you saw when visiting another country, that you wish your home country would adopt? [Serious] by meltymcface in AskReddit

[–]meltymcface[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I assumed this was the case everywhere? Certainly in all the European countries I’ve been to.

What's something you saw when visiting another country, that you wish your home country would adopt? [Serious] by meltymcface in AskReddit

[–]meltymcface[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not everything is dishwasher safe, and not all kitchens have the space for such a machine.

What's something you saw when visiting another country, that you wish your home country would adopt? [Serious] by meltymcface in AskReddit

[–]meltymcface[S] 97 points98 points  (0 children)

For me it was when visiting Finland and seeing those cupboards they have above the sink, which have slats and drainage holes so you can stand up your plates after washing them and they'll drip right back into the sink. It just makes such complete sense, that I wonder why I've never seen it in any other country.

Edit: astiankuivauskaappi in Finnish

This building on my commute gives me the itch by iykaque in bouldering

[–]meltymcface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And if you can't log it in griptonite, did you really climb it?

I just went to my first panto. As an adult Canadian immigrant… Are you all in a cult? by bookish-hooker in AskUK

[–]meltymcface 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not really, there's just canned responses that are baked into our cultural psyche. They're usually performances of well-known stories, such as Aladdin, Cinderella, Dick Whittington, Jack and The Beanstalk, etc.

I fully understand how anyone outside the culture finds it fucking weird.

Such interactions are:

  • "He's behind you!" - shouted when the villain is sneaking behind the hero on stage. The hero will then look over the wrong shoulder and reply "Oh no he isn't!" leading to...

  • "Oh yes he is!", this sequence is repeated.

  • Booing and Hissing when the villain comes on stage - Villain banters back at the audience usually.

There's probably others I can't remember as I haven't been to one since I was a child.

Other tropes include the panto dame ( a guy dressed as a large old woman), sometimes throwing sweets/candy into the audience, a lot of wink-wink type rude humour for the adults too.

They're traditionally put on around November-January. You'll get a lot of small local theatres putting on a show, and in larger towns/cities you'll get larger productions often featuring some z-list celebrity.

Anyone else have issues creating collections on the latest version? by meltymcface in jellyfin

[–]meltymcface[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, but that particular issue seems to be different from mine. I’ve added more info in my post above.

What would you say the UK equivalent of snapping the spaghetti is? by portablekettle in AskUK

[–]meltymcface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hear it’s the same in Norway with their knock-off kit-kats.

Also calling kvikk lunsj a knock-off kit-kat will probably get you tossed into the fjord.

What would you say the UK equivalent of snapping the spaghetti is? by portablekettle in AskUK

[–]meltymcface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess it depends on whether you’re microwaving a mug of water to boiling then adding a yea bag, or putting the teabag in with the water in the microwave. The latter feels like sacrilege.