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Today I left my calculator at home. A Casio scientific jobby from about 15 years ago. It has travelled the world with me and done some very big sums. I have been reduced to using one of our corporate branded promotional freebees that has sticking buttons, a crap display and is so light that it skates around the desk.
I miss my calculator.
What mundane items do you take for granted?
Hora
women
Light bulbs
The ability to breath without bubbles of snot forming
tea bag
underwear
Youth.
a pipe into the downstairs bathroom that isn't frozen 🙁
the crap summer weather
snow
My rab jacket, my on-one ss , my fisher rig and my grandfather not in that particular order
My maid and gardener
Summer 😥
A job
Air in your tires?
Sleep.
the internet.
money.
Central heating combi boiler.
Toilet roll.
Pubic hair.
😯
Xt thumb shifters
Visa versa's
Sorry, H the S, but a Casio isn't a real calculator. To suffer real loss you need to use a Casio after 30 years of using HP's
All of my ex girlfriends. This new one is rubbish.
I can sympathise with the loss of pubic hair in petesgaff's case particularly, but do you really miss it? On rare occasions when beer, boredom and a razor have been in close proximity I've been tempted (and have succumbed on the sack :oops:) and frankly it was quite nice feeling.
Being bored.
Liberty
Heinz Tomato Sauce
Your Twenties
Why MY twenties?
the ability to regenerate adenosine triphosphate
TheSwede - MemberAll of my ex girlfriends. This new one is rubbish.
The grass is always greener 😉
Hair. Head freezes in this weather.
Bumgun and/or electronic toilet seats with drier and washer built in.
Dusty trails.
Money.
Easy jobs.
A size 32" weist.
wtf is a bumgun?
My Dad.
Fitness.
My Hair.
wtf is a bumgun?
You haven't lived.
One of the most amazing Asian inventions is the toilet hose or 'bum gun'. This is a small hose with a spray nozzle on the end that's attached to the wall in practically every toilet in Thailand and is used
after you've been to the loo, to spray your nether regions to get them clean. It's a wonderful invention as, unlike in the US and England, where we tend to just wipe around with some toilet paper, smearing urine and feces all over our delicate private area, in Thailand Thai men and women use the bum gun. They use the toilet hose or 'bum gun' to spray water on themselves, use soap that they bring with them to make sure they're completely clean, and then use the toilet hose again to rinse off. A quick dry with some toilet paper, and they're just as clean as when they left the house that morning. The toilet hose or bum gun in Thailand really is a wonderful invention but, if you haven't been faced with one before, how do you use it?Testing the Toilet Hose or Bum Gun - First things first, test the water pressure before you use it. The British call the toilet hose the 'bum gun' and for good reason. The nozzle on the end of the hose is shaped a bit like a gun, with a trigger that you press to release the water. The secret to using the bum gun or toilet hose correctly is this - every one of them has a different pressure so, before you start spraying around your nether regions, make sure you test the pressure first by spraying some water into the toilet. Some bum guns have very high pressure and you could, literally, just about shoot yourself off the toilet if you use it with too much force.
Family......end of topic
White dog poo.
stw
Not gone yet, but, the Forest-Cafe in Edinburgh, spent the best part of the last 5 years sneaking in booze and avoiding paying their corkage. Only now am I seeing the value in the place which has always been free to all for arts and music, which unless they raise enough money may soon be dissapearing.
Teeth 😛
The labour government
My right hip
1. my 2002 matt black cannondale f800 lefty bike (sold to fund a guitar amp.i so loved that bike) 2.a 1996 gibson les paul classic premium plus trans amber guitar (i went up to chandler guitars with my grandfather (who was putting the finances in his name) on the train to see the guitar.a great day out) working in a rubbish sandwitch factory for 6 months to pay for said guitar.then in a feat of major stupidity p/x'ing said guitar for a synth!!! then around a few months later selling synth. what a big idiot i feel 😳 i cannot afford a guitar at the moment (have a borrowed one) i do not think that i will ever be able to afford a guitar like that again .sorry to have droned on but the memory still burns of my stupidity. DOH!!!
allthepies - +1, this has truly vexed me.
Yup, hard to overstate the importance of a good, trusted calculator. Mine's been going for... 15 years now, I think. Solar powered; come the apocalypse it'll probably one of my small collection of battered items, of no use to anyone.
"I need water, clean water" "no, first you have to tell me the inverse sine of 0.75, in radians"
Another one - squash. And sausages. The former is totally unavailable except as expensive imports, here in the wildlands of North America. The latter is available, but it's really not like British sausages. Boooo
My Mum
and my Dad
😥
My FX-992 is still with me but i miss its ability to work in anything other than bright sunlight.
