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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?
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Pinch Flat wrote: »Due to my trusty idiot proof wine bottle opener falling apart last night, I learned how use a waiters wine opener. Like one of these.
http://m.wineenthusiast.com/le-capitano-waiter-style-corkscrew.asp
It’s got 2 stages - you screw in the cork screw, lever up the cork then use the next step to lever it out further. Magic.
I once found myself, many years ago, at a late-night impromptu party in a London newspaper office. We had lots of wine, but no bottle opener. A young female reporter opened 3 bottles of wine, using only her shoe, almost as fast as I could open one with a bottle opener. It remains to this day, one of the most impressive things I've ever seen.0 -
Pinch Flat wrote: »Due to my trusty idiot proof wine bottle opener falling apart last night, I learned how use a waiters wine opener. Like one of these.
While impressive you survived that long, there's a shocker
. No self-respecting server would call it a waiter's opener...
Such thing is...
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While impressive you survived that long, there's a shocker. No self-respecting server would call it a waiter's opener...
Such thing is...
The one that Pinch Flat linked to is called a waiters friend so not far off. the one you pictured is not called a waiters wine opener. Unless you are going to a restaurant with really old bottles of wine (and hence old corks) the waiter will not have the opener you pictured. They will have the one that Pinch Flat linked to.0 -
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illdoit2morrow wrote: »Not quite 'just realised', but pretty recently.
Football scores on a TV screen during a match, the home team is listed to the left, away team to the right.
I'm 44.
Yep but wait until you watch American sports. They don't use versus, they use the venue
Dublin vs Cork becomes Cork @ Dublin for an example. 0 -
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Myself and the Mrs had a eureka moment the other day in traffic after work.
I never realized I didn't understand what "Pot calling the Kettle Black" meant.
I always assumed it meant someone had a black pot and a black kettle, so calling the other one balck was hypocritical.
Where they actually are both used for heating water.
Felt like a right pair of Eejits mixed with amazement
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No, that's still not it. How does "calling the kettle black" == heating water?
It comes from when food was cooked over open fires, your steel pot and kettles would be blackened with soot over time. Thus criticising the state of the kettle for being dirty and sooty is ignoring the fact that you too are also dirty and sooty.0 -
No, that's still not it. How does "calling the kettle black" == heating water?
It comes from when food was cooked over open fires, your steel pot and kettles would be blackened with soot over time. Thus criticising the state of the kettle for being dirty and sooty is ignoring the fact that you too are also dirty and sooty.
How do you do it Seamus, 60k posts and every one of them on the nail.
Boards legend..
By the way is there a ‘Boards Hall of Fame’..... shoo in .. might start a thread on that.....0 -
No, that's still not it. How does "calling the kettle black" == heating water?
It comes from when food was cooked over open fires, your steel pot and kettles would be blackened with soot over time. Thus criticising the state of the kettle for being dirty and sooty is ignoring the fact that you too are also dirty and sooty.
It's also where the term blackguard comes from; people who used to look after all the dirty/black cooking utensils.0 -
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No, that's still not it. How does "calling the kettle black" == heating water?
It comes from when food was cooked over open fires, your steel pot and kettles would be blackened with soot over time. Thus criticising the state of the kettle for being dirty and sooty is ignoring the fact that you too are also dirty and sooty.
For fcks sake hahaha. I'll tell the Mrs on Monday...0
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