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When my old hacked Aiwa from Singapore conked out, I bought one from J-List. Even shipping across the Pacific, the price was still reasonable (though it took about a month to arrive), and for a no-name brand it’s worked just fine for the year and change that I’ve been using it.
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YesAsia.com has region-free DVD players for $99. I’ve been planning to get one so that I can purchase and watch my favorite J-Pop singer’s live concert videos. I’m tired of watching short, low-quality clips on YouTube :mad:
It makes hexagonal water, an essential health ingredient that no one ever noticed before. And it’s only $500!
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I can make hexagonal water too. I simply use a six-sided ice-cube tray.
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Actually yes, I have tried it and it works.
It’s just not very convenient for our needs, and it would be better if it was less brittle, but I think we may end up using the industrial version in production.
For a laugh, look at this: http://www.allsealsinc.com/pdfs/3M_Scotch_Weld_Structural_Adhesives_Selection_Guide.pdf
It’s a grid of all the combinations of materials that one might want to glue together, and what glues might work. What’s the one square that’s empty? Nylon + Polypropylene!
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M’kay, let’s think outside the box – how about something you can put between the two materials, that will bond to each? Say, a teflon washer or sleeve that you glue to the nylon, then glue that to the polypropylene.
[QUOTE=OpalCat]
Or they get clogged with that gross little waxy hardened blob and then when it goes the lotion squirts out in some totally random direction. :mad:
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[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi]
Potato chips flavored with Old Bay Seasoning. They do not taste like chips. They do not taste like crabs.
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Yeah, I don’t get these. It’s been years since I had them, but got-DAMN, they were horrifying! I’ve never had “Old Bay” seasoning outside the context of these chips, and when I live in the NE, people LOVED Old Bay, but I actually had to stop eating after about 3 chips. Blargh!
On the other hand… I had some Steak Flavored Chips from (I think) Lays - if I closed my eyes and opened my mind, they actually tasted like steak, with steak sauce!
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Oh my god. I have to deal with this utterly insane, maze-like rotten piece of software every day at work. It’s the only mail client we are allowed to have. I hate it. Hate it more than comic sans, bullies who steal your lunch money and slow drivers… combined.
I am a big hater of Lotus Notes. I heard that some of the people who wrote it got together to write an open source set of tools that would be an “MS Office killer.” They failed miserably. IMO the only thing that surprises me about the story is that they thought they were qualified to write such a tool - given how badly Lotus sucks.
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Or they get clogged with that gross little waxy hardened blob and then when it goes the lotion squirts out in some totally random direction. :mad:
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I was in the living room lotioning up after a shower and gave the bottle a pump and it squirted out sideways and got my cat in the side of her face. She yelped and bolted so fast you would have thought she saw satan appearing to claim her soul. I was laughing so hard. I went after her to wipe it off and she was hiding in one of the hard places to get her out of but I did and wiped it off still laughing. Poor thing.
I was confused for a second when I went to your link and saw the product labelled “Buttonhole Napkin”. For a second or two I thought it said, “Butthole Napkin” and I thought to myself, “Well that actually sounds like a perfectly sound produ…Oooooh ‘Buttonhole Napkin’ nevermind.”
[QUOTE=Danalan]
M’kay, let’s think outside the box – how about something you can put between the two materials, that will bond to each? Say, a teflon washer or sleeve that you glue to the nylon, then glue that to the polypropylene.
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yo go online and get rubitex r3, and use that to glue them together.
[QUOTE=brendon_small]
Apologies if this was cleared up later in the thread, but are you talking about something like this?
I’m curious because I actually never heard of them marketed as a cleaning tool other than here and on Amazon a few minutes ago. I thought they were for removing wallpaper (?) (It did this well, but I have no idea if it was supposed to).
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We have one, and it was definitely marketed for cleaning, not wallpaper removal. It does work fairly well to steam things from floors and other non-tub surfaces - doesn’t work for tubs! - but the one we have is supposed to be carried (no wheels like the one in your link) and it’s damn heavy.
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Those things never work. It’s so freakin’ annoying too. All I want is a soap dish that sticks to the fucking wall. Is that too much to ask?
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If you dab a bit of cooking oil onto the suction thing before adhering it, it will stick twice as long IME. I don’t remember where I read that tip, but it actually works. Just dab some on your finger and rub it onto the suction cup.
As for fogless mirrors…they always fog if left to themselves. But if you swipe soap or shampoo foam over them while you’re in the shower, they don’t fog at all. Fog doesn’t “stick” for some reason.
That Dawn Dishwashing Foaming Liquid that they advertise as “one pump can do a sinkload of dishes!” is crap. More like ten pumps. That foam just dissipates within seconds. Damn foam.
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I live in the UK, but like many US films and TV shows.
So I bought a multi-region DVD player from Phlps. The advert said ‘multi-region’. the manual said ‘multi-region’.
It only plays DVDs for region 2 (UK). :smack:
I contacted Phlps. They haven’t replied.
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Some Philips DVD players (at least the one we had) need to be unlocked before they will be properly multi-region. Don’t ask me why, but I know that we did what we were told to do, and it worked. It’s an arcane combination of things to enter on the remote control, and is model-specific, so Google might help here.
[QUOTE=Sierra Indigo]
Don’t know about you personally, but hair conditioner helps me detangle my hair without tearing/snapping it.
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I could never get my hair to do anything I wanted it to - my bad hair was the stuff of legend - until I started using conditioner. Now it’s at least partially manageable.
That’s exactly what I was going to say. The fogless mirror fogged, like, instantly, as soon as I put it in.
This was perhaps not the phrasing I would have used. Unless we were talking about coprophagy.
I usually buy the thousand-foot commercial-size rolls. They usually have a good cuter on the box – in fact, the ones I’ve bought are capable of making copious amounts of knuckle cheese if you’re not careful.
You SnotBrains will know hell for ignoring the HexaGon. You are educated stupid - and you have no inkling to just how EVIL you think. Hexagonal water is Omnific, Infinite, Ineffable and on Harmonic duty today. THE ENTITY YOU SEEK IS DEATH. NON-HEXAGONAL WATER IS EVIL. YOU ARE EVIL.
I find that stuff works very well – but only if you’re adhering two pieces together that will never experience any angular stress or torsion. Then it’s just useless.
For me, it’s those Tide laundry pens. You’re supposed to press down on the tip to let some of the solution flow, then rub the pen over a stain for a minute or two, then the stain is supposed to disappear, or at least diminish significantly. In practice, you could rub that damn pen over the whole garment like you were redacting declassified Gitmo documents until you developed carpal tunnel and the stain would still be there.
I developed a theory about those. The idea is to rub them on the garment until you’ve worn a hole straight through. Voila! The stain is gone.
Oh, and Snyder’s ranch-flavoured sourdough pretzel pieces. They are neither pretzels, nor ranch-flavoured. They are ancient mineral deposits, and they taste like concentrated dill.
