Unskrew? And I’m currently typing for a living? :eek:
If you want a change of occupation, I can suggest one where people don’t know how badly you spell…provided you can pronounce their names of course!!
Well, here in California we have lots of people who are into their auras. Apparently, auras come in different colors. If you’re adept at like, being in touch with your aura, then like, you can control your aura, and like, if you meet someone with a bad aura, you can like, extend your good aura so like, their aura is better. Or something. Like.
Hey, who am I to refuse someone extending their friendly-colored aura my way?
If I don’t like it, I just erect my mental force-shields and reflect it back at them.
Posted by TheLoadedDog:
Ah, we’ve got those. In fact I’ve got one, somewhere. Don’t need to use it at this point because we’ve got on of those Polar Water dispensers that has both a hot as well as a cold spout for making tea. Won’t need that much longer either; bought a new fridge with water and ice (the one we’ve got now has it, but no filter, so it tastes like crap), so I’ve just bought this for the hot water:
Yes, I bought it just for the hot water spout, I don’t drink coffee
Well, the old woman can use it for coffee if she wants. (that’s my good karma)
Just once, I’d like to be interviewing someone for a job and pull out the Karma Conduit and test them.
I think that would be excellent.
A more well-known American substitute is an appliance more commonly thought of as being a college student’s item, a “hot pot”. Similar idea except a wide open top with a lid, typically plastic walls and top, big wide hotplate-style burner in the bottom. I bought one myself just to boil water rapidly.
I’m still trying to get my head around these Aussies calling electric jugs “kettles”. Bizarre. “Electric kettles” here are the Russell Hobbs kind, metal and usually plug-in (and evil ones don’t turn off once boiled). Ya learn summat every day 'bout folks and their different ways.
Huh. I have a little $20 electric kettle I bought at Target, and while it only holds four cups (which, living alone, is all that I need), it brings the water to a full boil in less than 2 minutes. Maybe my fellow Americans are just buying crappy kettles.
A word of advice: you will never get good (black) tea by using water from a hot water dispenser. The water simply isn’t hot enough – you need to use boiling.
I find it mental that some Yanks have never heard of electric kettles. Everywhere else in the world has had them for about forty years, if not longer. However, my American ex girlfriend called my kettle “that jug thing that makes water hot”.
Forget “some Yanks”; we’ve had the things for over 20 years here on the East Coast. We got our first electric kettle when my brilliant electrical engineer father would try to make tea on our electric range and somehow manage to turn on the wrong burner. In other words, yes, he has set off the smoke detector trying to boil water. :eek:
kambuckta, that last line, “Hey, no worries lady. Everybody says I’m a little bit out-there” is a classic!
CJ
But he’s really a Brit living in the States, so that doesn’t count.
There have been a few episodes of people appearing on the couch in the main room without my being informed. I live with 4 other guys, so in theory it should happen a fair bit with so many people friends of friends - but in truth the other guys aren’t that social offline. However when it does happen I try not to disturb the person and just go about my morning routine.
No karma circuit checker though. I’ll have to keep an eye out for one of those though.
Mr. Rilch and I had a guy living with us for most of 2005. One Saturday night he came home from a party with two other guys, one of whom we only knew through him, the other of whom we’d never seen before. We had no problem letting them crash on our living room floor until daylight, but that’s when we knew the wheels had to start turning for him to get his own place. When your sidekick has sidekicks, it’s gone far enough.
Whatever you do, don’t laugh when you see one. It fucks up the conductive properties apparently.
Never a truer word etc Rilchiam.
I’m from Canada, and was shocked (shocked!) when I moved here to the US and nobody knew what the hell I was talking about. My husband was sweet enough to try, but we ended up with a tin kettle for the oven. This past Christmas, my mother, pitying me and the backwater ways I must put up with here in Seattle ( ), sent me a proper electric kettle. If my hands are wet, I don’t need a karma circuit. I *see * my karma. All the way up my arm. It usually hurts a bit, but is worth it to know my aura is a fine, healthy shade of electric blue.
Those things are handy, though. We always had an electric kettle in our factory warehouses back home, wherever we weren’t able to have a stove for boiling water. Which is pretty much everywhere. Who has a stove in the warehouse unless you’ve got a warehouse made for storing stoves? And how else are we supposed to have tea?
When the handle broke off our stovetop kettle about a month ago, Mr. Neville got an electric kettle to replace it.
He used to have a one-piece electric kettle (no separate base- the whole kettle plugs in) which was a pain, because you had to unplug it to pour the water (or bring whatever you wanted to pour the water into over to the kettle). That had kind of soured me on electric kettles.
But this new one is a two-piece model- you can take the kettle off the base, so you don’t have those issues to deal with. Plus, it’s got a window in the side, and glows blue while it’s heating. It looks a little like one of those lava lamps with blue water and white “lava”.
I have no sense of time whatsoever, but I think it boils water faster than our stovetop kettle did.
We’ve always had electric kettles here (in Upstate NY). Mom always used that for boiling water. She always had an electric stove though, so I think it was more efficient than the stove for heating water.
I use mine at least once a day to make tea. You definitely can’t use the “hot” water from the coffee maker at work to make tea. It’s no where near boiling and just doesn’t get the right flavor out of the leaves.
I’ve never horked hot coffee out my nose.
That’s hardcore.
I would think it would cause the caff buzz to hit that much faster while clearing out the sinuses. I think there may be some kind of marketing product in this: SinsusBuzz or BuzzClear.
I have horked root beer and ginger ale ( not at the same time) though. Chicken soup was the worst.
I do own an electric tea kettle, though.
We call them “microwaves.”