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🐫CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 7. If you have a dose of the cameelious hump🐪

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I though Facebook were supposed to be shutting down all the nonsense like that? This whole situation is revealing a lot about society.
    Does anyone know why the increase in the contactless card payment limit can't be brought in sooner than next Wednesday? It seems like they could prioritise something like that in the situation. :/
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    B3 said:
    That'll really p*** o** @Fairygirl @Hostafan1 😉 ☔
    He's a right b*gger that @Hostafan1 :D

    Hosta - They won't let you back into Greenock you know....
    Mind you - would you want to go back?  :D
      
    Same weather again here today, but I shall content myself with moaning, and drinking tea. While I still have milk and teabags of course....
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    @Fairygirl. No desire to ever go back to Greenock.
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I once worked with a bloke who was so mean, he used his teabags several times. When they split, hed staple them back together. He also reused his sliver of lemon
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Hostafan1 said:
    @Fairygirl. No desire to ever go back to Greenock.
    Understandable..... :D
    Was his name Mr E. Scrooge @B3?
    I seem to remember my sister telling me her MIL used to hang them up with pegs so that she could reuse them.

    Now- there's thrifty, and there's just downright tight....
    Every penny a prisoner.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I can see his face and his shiny-seated trousers, but I can't remember his name
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    There's a name for the practice of keeping a teabag to make a second (or third) cup: it's called greeping.  The name originated in a game of nonsense Scrabble.  In this delightful game, the usual grounds of challenge are reversed: if it's in the dictionary, it's not allowed.  You have to invent all the words, and they have to be pronounceable, not just a random assortment of letters.  To add interest, players may be required to define the words they create.

    We were playing at my mother's house, where, as a drinker of weak black tea, I kept an old mug with no handle as a receptacle for my half-used teabags.  I had just laid the word "greep" and was trying to think what it might mean, when someone brought me a cup of tea and said "It's a broken mug for keeping a teabag you want to re-use."  Henceforth, any receptacle used for the purpose is known as a greep, the practice is greeping; I'm not sure whether the practitioners should be greepers or greepists.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Or just plain greepy!
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've got to play that game! Thanks @josusa47. I think a small 🍷 will help creativity
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    @josusa47 Brilliant!
    I have a friend who drinks weak black tea. I will inform her she's a potential greeper/greepist  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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