Is there a RIGHT and a WRONG way to put the toilet paper roll in its holder? Never again will this problem plague the households of Earth. The debate has raged ever since the invention of the toilet paper roll holder, a time when it was no longer considered "decent' to simply tuck it under your arm or set it on a shelf. A better solution was demanded by the people and they were answered. Thousands of years later we still use toilet paper roll holders, now available in plastic, metal and other various ...
How to throw birdseed at ducks.
WARNING : It's not good to throw bread at the ducks. If they are wild ducks, you shouldn't be feeding them at all. If you must, then phone a bird feed store or the local wildlife people and find out what would be good to feed them. Birdseed is not expensive, and whatever you don't throw at the ducks, you can take home to put in a bird feeder. This article was originally written with bread being fed to the ducks, and has now (as of Jan 2017) updated to birdseed. Hopefully this will stop the angry emails ...
Hello – I have a coffee addiction
Hello - I have a coffee addiction. It’s not as bad as it used to be but still, I’m addicted. At one point I was drinking up to almost two pots of coffee a day – MYSELF. Now I have two cups a day, maybe four or five cups in one day on the weekend. To an outside observer, it looks like I drink way more than that. The ugly truth is that usually I have a half-empty cup in front of me, the other half filled with barely lukewarm coffee. I will reheat my coffee numerous times throughout the day, but rarely ...
FORCED COLLECTING.
Have you ever made the mistake of telling a family member that you like something? Maybe you said, "I like penguins." For the rest of your life, you become the 'penguin' person, and you get all sorts of 'penguin' presents from everyone you know. Penguin mugs, penguin mirrors, penguin pictures, penguin magnets, penguin sweaters, penguin notepaper, penguin pattern stuffed pillows, penguin garden figures, penguin tshirts, penguin ornaments, penguin stickers, penguin posters, penguin candle holders, penguin ...
Time warping
This is a little thing I’ve noticed almost everyone I know does. Most people have a clock that is the REAL time. The time that appears on the TV, the computer if synced with world time or whatever, but the one they consider REAL. Then there are the tampered time clocks. The one in the bedroom is usually in a world of its own. I’ve seen differences in time in bedrooms from 10 to even 70 minutes. Why? It seems that most of us set our bedroom/alarm clock ahead of the actual time so we can trick ourselves ...