I think the worst tin to open ever is a Fray Bentos pie tin
.Tried one a few months ago, battery tin opener would,nt touch it,ordinary tin opener would make a tiny cut and then jam,spent ages trying to get the tiny cuts to join up.Eventually opened it and found the cooking instructions were on the bottom of the tin which you could not turn over.Not a nice pie anyway,won,t bother again,homemade much better.
I do not believe I am reading this MMP and Gilly, opening tins??? You can get Corned Beef in pre-packed slices, normal, less salt and less fat so plenty of choice. Fray bentos pie well the army ration packs cured me of those. Bang all the ingredients into a casserole on 150 for three hours while you shop do the washing top up your tan in the garden, then in the fridge to mature. Next day cover with Jus-rol pop in the oven and one lovely home made pie, some frozen peas with mint and Jersey Royals a feast for a King or Queen. I bought chicken for my dog and a pill stuffed into the chicken vanished.
My day of collecting waste paper did not end this morning, the evening paper was full of leaflets and then the local adverts paper dropped noisily through the letter box so my filling the waste paper holder in on day nearly came true, what a waste of time money and "well" paper.
ahhhh .. the junk mail.. well i asked my postie how i stop it.. and he told me to ring my main sorting office and ask them to stop it for me.. though cant stopped named stuff..
and told me they make money on ach of those delivered adn that is why they put prices up so high.. they dont want our mail. they make too much with amazon direct mail company and all that crap..
so we should all sign up to stop it.. i get fed up with it all time.. especially as here they are thinking of bringing in fines if you have more than one green recycle wheelie full of stuff or 2 recycle bags full.. it is mad.. oh and it all has to be washed and clean before going in.. i have never had such clean rubbish before..only allowed one black bag of non recyclable. then the one small food waste bin (which is emptied each week here).. the recyclable and black bag is every other week.. so soon fills up with all that rubbish that comes through.
WHen i go shopping now.. if there is packing that is not required then i leave it at the till.. they moan like hell but i say it is yr rubbish..i dont need it, the food dont need it.. i also never take bags for my fruit etc.. and they moan about it rolling about at the till.. just say same.. i dont what the plastic bags thanks.. if they were paper i would take them and stick in my composter.. but not those ones at mo, thanks!
oh and to add to that.. all material and batteries and ink cartridges and shoes anythign like that can not go in our black bag.. we have to trudge to recycling centre to dispose of ourselves..
thou most of our materials go to the air ambulance box in shop car park.. as do old shoes etc.. as much as possible on those we can.. closer than the recycle centre.
Gfantic- I know what you mean. It's like having another sodding job by the time you clean it and sort it! The recycling here is quite poor because of the number of different bins, bags, boxes etc and what you can and can't recycle, yet the neighbouring county for example has bins you can put all plastic in and they obviously sort it at other end. If they want people to recycle they need to make it simple otherwise people just won't. What I do wonder though- with all the different lorries they send for it...just how green is it?
We can recycle batteries at supermarket but they keep moving the b****y bin!!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Maybe the old ways of dealing with perverts are best. My mum lived in a mining village in the 40's. Someone had been kiddy fiddling. The local women sorted him out. The local bobby didn't see anything. No one knew anything. The pervert never did it again.
A notorious kidnapper and rapist was caught a few years ago. He fell down every step in the local police station (twice). When he first appeared in court, the magistrate queried why he was covered in bruises. Resisting arrest. fair enough. Next.
These days the police would be had up for it. Infringing the criminals human rights. What about my human rights? Don't I have the right to live in my own home and country without being scared to leave the house in case it gets burgled by druggies?. How many old people won't answer the door after dark?
It's time we adopted zero tolerance to minor crime so the little thugs don't progress to major crime. For crimes like burglary they should always be locked up, and the sentence get increased every time they reoffend. I've been burgled twice. The first time the house was ransacked and £12, 000 of contents stolen. the second time I had a burglar alarm and the neighbours came running. Four youths were seen in the house. Four ran away, and got into a car. registration number noted. The police dog found the computer stashed under a tree for later retrieval. It had blood on it . ( the garden brambles fight back) SOCO came and got swabs, and DNA identified the culprit. bang to rights you might think. No, he was only done with handling stolen goods. he says someone handed it to him and he put it down. Neighbours were not asked to give evidence. He got a three month rehabilitation order(not his fault, he's an addict, no father etc etc. )This means he went on a methadone programme which are useless, and got to talk to the social workers once a week.
I got to pay £1200 for a new reinforced back door (NOT covered by the insurance because it's classed as "Betterment") Call that justice?
If they try coming in the house when I am on my own, I will probably end up locked up, because believe me I will defend myself and what I have worked hard for.
The large lump of coral at the top of the stairs will make a useful weapon.
A few years ago I went to Christmas Island (Australian owned , now used mainly as a camp for illegal asylum seekers.) When we went out diving, the dive school owner not only does not lock his house doors, or car doors, he usually leaves his wallet and car keys in the car. No crime at all on the island. everyone knows everyone. We did get stopped by the police. I had forgotten to put my seat belt on in the back seat of the landcruiser. Me,I'm so paranoid, I lock everything and hide all valuables.
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I think the worst tin to open ever is a Fray Bentos pie tin
.Tried one a few months ago, battery tin opener would,nt touch it,ordinary tin opener would make a tiny cut and then jam,spent ages trying to get the tiny cuts to join up.Eventually opened it and found the cooking instructions were on the bottom of the tin which you could not turn over
.Not a nice pie anyway,won,t bother again,homemade much better.
I do not believe I am reading this MMP and Gilly, opening tins???
You can get Corned Beef in pre-packed slices, normal, less salt and less fat so plenty of choice.
Fray bentos pie well the army ration packs cured me of those.
Bang all the ingredients into a casserole on 150 for three hours while you shop do the washing top up your tan in the garden, then in the fridge to mature. Next day cover with Jus-rol pop in the oven and one lovely home made pie, some frozen peas with mint and Jersey Royals a feast for a King or Queen.
I bought chicken for my dog and a pill stuffed into the chicken vanished.
My day of collecting waste paper did not end this morning, the evening paper was full of leaflets and then the local adverts paper dropped noisily through the letter box so my filling the waste paper holder in on day nearly came true, what a waste of time money and "well" paper.
Frank.
ahhhh .. the junk mail.. well i asked my postie how i stop it.. and he told me to ring my main sorting office and ask them to stop it for me.. though cant stopped named stuff..
and told me they make money on ach of those delivered adn that is why they put prices up so high.. they dont want our mail. they make too much with amazon direct mail company and all that crap..
so we should all sign up to stop it.. i get fed up with it all time.. especially as here they are thinking of bringing in fines if you have more than one green recycle wheelie full of stuff or 2 recycle bags full.. it is mad.. oh and it all has to be washed and clean before going in.. i have never had such clean rubbish before..only allowed one black bag of non recyclable. then the one small food waste bin (which is emptied each week here).. the recyclable and black bag is every other week.. so soon fills up with all that rubbish that comes through.
WHen i go shopping now.. if there is packing that is not required then i leave it at the till.. they moan like hell but i say it is yr rubbish..i dont need it, the food dont need it.. i also never take bags for my fruit etc.. and they moan about it rolling about at the till.. just say same.. i dont what the plastic bags thanks.. if they were paper i would take them and stick in my composter.. but not those ones at mo, thanks!
oh and to add to that.. all material and batteries and ink cartridges and shoes anythign like that can not go in our black bag.. we have to trudge to recycling centre to dispose of ourselves..
thou most of our materials go to the air ambulance box in shop car park.. as do old shoes etc.. as much as possible on those we can.. closer than the recycle centre.
mmp.. yeah i know and we have to wash ours out before binning them.. not good. have cut mu hands 7 times on tins that needed cleaning out first..
No sense of humour Charlie.
Gfantic- I know what you mean. It's like having another sodding job by the time you clean it and sort it! The recycling here is quite poor because of the number of different bins, bags, boxes etc and what you can and can't recycle, yet the neighbouring county for example has bins you can put all plastic in and they obviously sort it at other end. If they want people to recycle they need to make it simple otherwise people just won't. What I do wonder though- with all the different lorries they send for it...just how green is it?
We can recycle batteries at supermarket but they keep moving the b****y bin!!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Maybe the old ways of dealing with perverts are best. My mum lived in a mining village in the 40's. Someone had been kiddy fiddling. The local women sorted him out. The local bobby didn't see anything. No one knew anything. The pervert never did it again.
A notorious kidnapper and rapist was caught a few years ago. He fell down every step in the local police station (twice). When he first appeared in court, the magistrate queried why he was covered in bruises. Resisting arrest. fair enough. Next.
These days the police would be had up for it. Infringing the criminals human rights. What about my human rights? Don't I have the right to live in my own home and country without being scared to leave the house in case it gets burgled by druggies?. How many old people won't answer the door after dark?
It's time we adopted zero tolerance to minor crime so the little thugs don't progress to major crime. For crimes like burglary they should always be locked up, and the sentence get increased every time they reoffend. I've been burgled twice. The first time the house was ransacked and £12, 000 of contents stolen. the second time I had a burglar alarm and the neighbours came running. Four youths were seen in the house. Four ran away, and got into a car. registration number noted. The police dog found the computer stashed under a tree for later retrieval. It had blood on it . ( the garden brambles fight back) SOCO came and got swabs, and DNA identified the culprit. bang to rights you might think. No, he was only done with handling stolen goods. he says someone handed it to him and he put it down. Neighbours were not asked to give evidence. He got a three month rehabilitation order(not his fault, he's an addict, no father etc etc. )This means he went on a methadone programme which are useless, and got to talk to the social workers once a week.
I got to pay £1200 for a new reinforced back door (NOT covered by the insurance because it's classed as "Betterment") Call that justice?
In my opinion thieves should have their hand chopped off, like they do in some arabian countries!
If they try coming in the house when I am on my own, I will probably end up locked up, because believe me I will defend myself and what I have worked hard for.
The large lump of coral at the top of the stairs will make a useful weapon.
A few years ago I went to Christmas Island (Australian owned , now used mainly as a camp for illegal asylum seekers.) When we went out diving, the dive school owner not only does not lock his house doors, or car doors, he usually leaves his wallet and car keys in the car. No crime at all on the island. everyone knows everyone. We did get stopped by the police. I had forgotten to put my seat belt on in the back seat of the landcruiser. Me,I'm so paranoid, I lock everything and hide all valuables.