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Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ November 22 2009, 6:21 PM GMT

But is it literally soap with sugar in it? :$

No it's some fiendish concoction of chemicals and they don't tell you on the packet.

It comes as fine crystals a bit like salt.I got mine at B&Q.

It's traditional stuff used by builders & decorators for many decades and it is FAR FAR more effective than these poncy cleaning fluids that come in modern spray bottles etc.

It's best to wear rubber gloves while using it but it isn't drastically dangerous to skin & is not covered in warning signs for poison etc, though it would not be at all wise to ingest any or get it in your eyes.

Errr

And now I have painted the walls that I cleaned and am waiting for the paint to dry.

Wikipedia says:
Sugar soap is a cleaning material, commonly composed of sodium carbonate, sodium phosphate, and sometimes sodium silicate as an abrasive; other chemicals might be added to modify the performance or preserve the product. The dry powder looks like table sugar, which gives it its name. The term is used mainly in Commonwealth countries.

The solution is alkaline and its uses include cleaning paintwork in preparation for repainting.

The similar compound trisodium phosphate is sometimes described as sugar soap in the USA..

Well, I called the cable company this weekend and talked to them about the situation and they aren't turning off the cable. I just have to do a payment arrangement with them. Yay!

Quote: AndreaLynne @ November 23 2009, 1:15 AM GMT

Well, I called the cable company this weekend and talked to them about the situation and they aren't turning off the cable.

Excellent!

Quote: DaButt @ November 23 2009, 1:17 AM GMT

Excellent!

Yeah, no kidding. :)

Where is everybody? This is weird.

Quote: AndreaLynne @ November 23 2009, 1:18 AM GMT

Where is everybody? This is weird.

Probably lamenting the passing of another weekend. This one flew by.

Quote: AndreaLynne @ November 23 2009, 1:15 AM GMT

Well, I called the cable company this weekend and talked to them about the situation and they aren't turning off the cable. I just have to do a payment arrangement with them. Yay!

Yay! Great news. :) And you won't have all the hassle of reconnection now either!

Quote: Scottidog @ November 22 2009, 8:34 PM GMT

Scotti played pictionary today with Miss Scottidog's family. Quite arkward.

She made her own game and came up with Film, television and book titles of her own that she made into card form. We played on a big A1 Flip chart with a little egg timer.

It was me, her, her mum and step dad, sister and nan and grandad.

It was going well, I had 'Goldfinger' which was easy.

Up gets old Grandad, who plods to the board with his walking stick looks at the card, slowly draws a rubbish circle on the paper and proceeds to just stare at the egg timer for the remaining 30 seconds.

'Argh, Grandad what was it..you ok?' she says.

He doesn't speak and just turns the card around and 'The curious case of Benjamin Button' is revealed.

'Oh, ok..don't worry, have another go'.

He takes another card and looks at it for what seemed an age, and then continues to draw a sun..and then stares around the room for a bit and then looks at the egg timer.

'Oh, Grandad, what was it..you alright?'

He turns the card around and we read 'The Day after Tommorow'.

How can he draw that..he doesn't even know which f**king day it is in reality!!!

Wondeful story, but I am quite fascinated by why you have an A1 flipchart in your home?

Are your family get togethers quite formal affairs with minutes, agendas and logod free pens?

I'm sad and a little horrified to see on facebook that a young and very pretty cousin has had a huge tattoo inked on her chest.

Chipolata's just found a dead (still warm) squirrel on the road. Rather than leave it to be squished he through it over a fence into a clump of muddy bushes. It's what the squirrel would have wanted.

You pick up roadkill?

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 23 2009, 9:43 AM GMT

I'm sad and a little horrified to see on facebook that a young and very pretty cousin has had a huge tattoo inked on her chest.

She deserves to get Hepatitis B. That'll learn her.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 23 2009, 10:02 AM GMT

You pick up roadkill?

Yes. I actually used a radio script as a scoop.

Quote: chipolata @ November 23 2009, 10:02 AM GMT

She deserves to get Hepatitis B. That'll learn her.

Angry

I think she'll just regret it in the future.

Quote: chipolata @ November 23 2009, 10:03 AM GMT

Yes. I actually used a radio script as a scoop.

BBC Radio are sending you my scripts, eh?

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 23 2009, 10:04 AM GMT

BBC Radio are sending you my scripts, eh?

:)

Although if I was reading one of your scripts, I'd be queing up to join the squirrel as roadkill. Unimpressed

Just found out my company is sending me to Nuremberg!

Quote: Sammy @ November 23 2009, 10:09 AM GMT

Just found out my company is sending me to Nuremberg!

To be put on trial as a Nazi?

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