Questions you'd like answering, regardless of how trivial they may seem

[lazybloke]

I saw this the other day. Why buy what's probably a single wheat biscuit in skimmed milk for what was £1.50, when you could make your own by putting say 2 or 3 from a packet in a drinks bottle, using whatever type of milk you fancy?🤔

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Product diversification is responsible for many monsters.

Mars Bars are sickly enough, but the drink and ice cream versions are revoltingly sweet.

 

[oldwheels]

Delivery standards are shot to pieces.During my eleven years walking the streets.Each walk was in a delivery book,held in the delivery office.you had to be in that street at that time or else.Lord knows what happens now.I am sure some days mail is held back.

Parts of Mull have had no regular delivery of mail for weeks. You are recommended to go to the main post office and collect any for yourself and are encouraged to take any for your neighbours as well.
My own experience of mail delivery is similar to yours but a long time ago.

 

[grldtnr]

I too have walked the street's as a time served postie, but never ever had to at a certain destination at a stipulated time .
The 'book' did set out how long each part of the 'walk', or duty for non postal workers, should take, but was far as I knew ,that was an example of how long it was to take , for example ,the 'book' would state leave office o715 by OMV, arrive to start of delivery XX MINS, Delivery span 2:30 , RTN to Delivery office o945, as an example of how long the walk should take.
In my experience, some days were shorter than others due to work load , weather or f you were on a 'float' duty or not, if you were on a 'float' you were moved around the area so that you learnt different routes ,and which streets went with which 'walks', I hated that, but you learnt the town likee back of your hand.
I miss the camaraderie of the GPO, I retired early , coz i earned good money, especially when I moved to night work .
But now I cringe at what my fellow workers are expected to do , in my day, we started early , sorted by hand ,with far less mechanical help that they have now, and shifted far more mail in less time,

Very much a case of less is more!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Is under arm deodorant necessary if you're not a perspiring type of person? I ask because I'm one of the rarely sweats types. I use it just in case I sweat under my arms, but is 'just in case' a justifiable reason for using the stuff? 🤔

 

[neil_merseyside]

Is under arm deodorant necessary if you're not a perspiring type of person? I ask because I'm one of the rarely sweats types. I use it just in case I sweat under my arms, but is 'just in case' a justifiable reason for using the stuff? 🤔

A very good friend of mine thought he's wasn't sweaty - he bloody well was! He now uses deodorant for others as he now knows he might get smelly (but just can't smell it himself). Wasn't a good conversation to tell him he had a problem, it is something about him as he'd get out of the sea after snorkeling for hours (or a swimming pool), have a shower and within a few hours start to get a bit 'stale'. Happily married, his wife also couldn't detect any niff (natural selection!) but his kids can.

 

[colly]

Is under arm deodorant necessary if you're not a perspiring type of person? I ask because I'm one of the rarely sweats types. I use it just in case I sweat under my arms, but is 'just in case' a justifiable reason for using the stuff? 🤔

It isn't essential no. For some it may be necessary as @neil_merseyside said.
I rarely use it. Shower every day though and if after getting sweaty l feel something is amiss ill have a shower. I can tell if lm getting rank.

 

[Accy cyclist]

A very good friend of mine thought he's wasn't sweaty - he bloody well was! He now uses deodorant for others as he now knows he might get smelly (but just can't smell it himself). Wasn't a good conversation to tell him he had a problem, it is something about him as he'd get out of the sea after snorkeling for hours (or a swimming pool), have a shower and within a few hours start to get a bit 'stale'. Happily married, his wife also couldn't detect any niff (natural selection!) but his kids can.

I'm going to keep using it, for peace of mind and all that.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I always throw my beer bottle tops in the general waste bin. Seeing as they look like they're made from mostly metal, with a slight plastic interior, should I now start putting them in the glass and plastic bottles and metal cans and tins bin? 🤔

 

[Dave7]

I always throw my beer bottle tops in the general waste bin. Seeing as they look like they're made from mostly metal, with a slight plastic interior, should I now start putting them in the glass and plastic bottles and metal cans and tins bin?

The collectors refused (no pun) to empty the recycling bin as I had put some plastic in and they decided it was the "wrong sort of plastic".
So now, anything I am not certain about goes in the general waste......that includes bottle tops.

 

[Alex321]

Bottle tops with us go in the plastic/metal recycling bag.

But every council has different rules about what goes where, and what can actually be put in recycling at all.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

I ask because I'm one of the rarely sweats types.

Are you related to the royal family in any way?

 

[mistyoptic]

Bottle tops with us go in the plastic/metal recycling bag.

But every council has different rules about what goes where, and what can actually be put in recycling at all.

And make it so complicated that, I suspect, many folk can’t be bothered to try

 

[Gillstay]

And make it so complicated that, I suspect, many folk can’t be bothered to try

I suspect a lot of people use that as a cop out to avoid doing a good job. I keep one tin can clean and open and any odd steel like bottle caps, bicycle bits, go into it until its 3/4 full, then bend over the top and lob it into the normal steel recycling.

 

[Donger]

When is a bluebell not a bluebell? For at least 21 years, we have had bluebells coming up among the trees in front of our kitchen. My wife seems to think she recalls us planting them, but I have always thought they had spread under our fence from a former neighbour's garden.

The point is that for the first 10 to 15 years they were exclusively blue. Then a few years back a few pink ones started to emerge each year. I wondered whether this could have been like a sort of litmus paper reaction to the acidity/alkalinity of the soil, but I did read that some foreign (Dutch?) varieties do include pink flowers. They are spreading like mad to other parts of my garden, but all of the ones appearing in new places are blue.

Last year two thirds of the main patch came up pink and one third blue. This year it is more like 50/50, but with one sole white one amongst them. I think a scientist would probably say this is a natural genetic variation, but if pink was becoming dominant then why have some reverted to blue this year? With three different colours, are they still bluebells? Is there another name?

 

[DCBassman]

At a friend's house...