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  1. 3 hours ago, ca_gere said:

    Things have evolved slightly... kettles are fairly widespread now. The stove top ones that whistle though. Electric kettles on the other hand are some buck rogers shit they don't even know about. I felt like I was on Tomorrow's World when I showed my wife some on amazon.

    I just got an electric kettle this weekend in my part of Poland and the Polish wife is just amazed by it. 

    3 hours ago, colb said:

    I'd have thought that the lower voltages in American power supplies would make boiling water in an electric kettle take a long time? 

    I timed mine (2 litre kettle) and takes exactly 5 mins for full boil. Which is incredibly slow for U.K. standard, but if I was heating up a huge pan of water here on the stove it would take about 30 fucking minutes to boil.

     

  2. 1 hour ago, Lemonade said:

    I know! The most upsetting thing is that once or twice its randomly started working again. And I quickly scramble to switch on my XBox One so it can update and I can actually use it, it gets about 60% through the update then it goes off again. Infuriating. If you don't work then just don't work, but don't give me false hope. I have a lot of useless tech in my house right now. 

    First the potato famine, now this. Poland is destitute. 

  3. 1 hour ago, ca_gere said:

    Pet hate right now is saying words here in Poland, not knowing that it doesn't exist and therefore people don't understand what I mean.

    a few recent examples:

    I made a joke about heroin being 'moreish' - got blank stares. Turns out moreish isn't a word in Polish English

    Neither is 'Squint' - as in 'move that picture on the wall, it's squint'.

    It was assumed when I said 'Kitchen Roll' that i wanted some sort of sandwich

    Every time it happens I reflect on all of the occasions i've gotten a blank stare and wonder what they thought I was saying.

    I've been in your Polish nation for last couple of months, albeit in the lower regions. And while I'm with you on polish to polish translations, my main pet hate here is still toilets with 2 inch gaps all around the door, the door which is also barely chest height, so if crack peeping isn't enough, just pop your head over for a good look. 

  4. 4 hours ago, kirsten said:


    It's usually my go-to site and I've also gone straight to the airline through it (same with hotels and Expedia), but I seem to remember there being a website where you typed in your destination and it showed you which cities you can fly to there from that were cheapest. So it saved you looking up flights from your local airport and then just guessing nearby airports that it might be cheaper to fly from. 
    I don't feel like I've just invented this, but maybe I didn't see someone on here mention it... If it is just some mental dream I've had, though, I'm going to make it a reality and become a billionaire.

    It's probably just google flights you're after. 

  5. 40 minutes ago, Gypsum_Fantastic said:

     

    This is getting silly. Geniunley thought you were referring to ROI there.

    I was referring to the colloquial Poland, which in this case was the ROI and a fucking clever as fuck remark as Poland also qualified. A comment worthy of staggering accolades  

    And obviously a triple banger as he meant Scotland.

     

  6. On 7 April 2016 at 1:45 PM, Richard Pictures said:

    This belter from last year.

    If that anecjoke had a couple of racially motivated slurs sprinkled in, it would be absolutely perfect. 

     

    (if anecjoke has never been coined, I'm claiming it)

    (I googled and some other cunts already have it as part of their lexicon, but not attached to something TRULY worthy of its use)

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