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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you

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  • Geoff Lealand, in reply to Paul Campbell,

    I hang the socks out on the line in pairs for the same reason

    And use matching pegs for each pair? I know it could be considered obsessive…!

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report Reply

  • Paul Campbell, in reply to nzlemming,

    Magnets: friends of mine had this problem - she kept destroying credit cards, ATM cards, BART tickets, ... she'd borrow his, a few days later they'd be cut up by some imperious shop assistant ... they came close to divorce over this ... one day we're we're sitting at the movies and I asked "you don't have any magnets in your purse do you?" .... she pulls out a hand full of refrigerator magnets ....

    We also used magnets on the brand new brushed steel dish washer ... to help the kids remember who's job it was to empty it .... "if the light is on and the magnet is on your side you have to empty it right away, turn it off and move the magnet carefully to the other side" - sadly the "carefully" bit didn't register (well to be the rest didn't register most of the time either) .... that rule lasted 2 weeks now there's a great big ugly scratch across or nice new dishwasher and the magnet has been banished back to the 'fridge ....

    how do they work?

    Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 2623 posts Report Reply

  • Islander,

    Kotuku -just eat.

    (Do /nt ask us locals about happens with reguard to a largish eel or especially feathery leetle birds.)

    Those are our fun memories.

    We'd share them if you live here.

    I'm sure you have city memories too.

    I do know that we'd love to share that kind of stuff sometime in - o, 3000AD?

    Or, some when.

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Lilith __, in reply to Islander,

    I forget which brilliant NZ nature photographer described watching a heron in a West Coast lake spending 20 minutes unsuccessfully trying to swallow a flounder it had caught. :-)

    Dunedin • Since Jul 2010 • 3895 posts Report Reply

  • Ross Mason,

    Copyright. Privilege. Dishwashers. Asshats. Cisgender. Ablist. Ablelist. Abelist....Shit... the speling.

    I'll stick to dishwashers. Thanks for the tip about magnets. Separate the bloody knives, forks and spoons into their separate cubbyholes so that the d/washer emptier has an easier life FY.

    I'm privileged. I'm alive. I do try and let others live theirs......honest.

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report Reply

  • Martin Lindberg, in reply to Paul Campbell,

    .... she pulls out a hand full of refrigerator magnets ....

    Just out of curiosity, why was she routinely carrying around refrigerator magnets? Where they the flat adware ones that she handed out as promotional items?

    Stockholm • Since Jul 2009 • 802 posts Report Reply

  • Rich of Observationz, in reply to Paul Campbell,

    We also used magnets on the brand new brushed steel dish washer

    My apartment has appliances that are either aluminum anodised to look like stainless steel, or an austenitic steel that isn't magnetic, due to nickel content.

    So fridge magnets don't work (bit like fridge magnates, who spend their time on yachts).

    how do they work?

    Pertubation of the electromagnetic quantum vacuum, bro.

    Back in Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 5550 posts Report Reply

  • recordari, in reply to Ross Mason,

    Copyright. Privilege. Dishwashers. Asshats. Cisgender. Ablist. Ablelist. Abelist….Shit… the speling.

    You forgot The Cars.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • Paul Campbell, in reply to Martin Lindberg,

    Just out of curiosity, why was she routinely carrying around refrigerator magnets? Where they the flat adware ones that she handed out as promotional items?

    She was a preschool teacher who had been gifted them by a small child

    Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 2623 posts Report Reply

  • Lilith __, in reply to Paul Campbell,

    She was a preschool teacher who had been gifted them by a small child

    Beware children bearing gifts.

    Dunedin • Since Jul 2010 • 3895 posts Report Reply

  • Martin Lindberg, in reply to Paul Campbell,

    She was a preschool teacher who had been gifted them by a small child

    Damn those pesky kids and their magnets!

    Stockholm • Since Jul 2009 • 802 posts Report Reply

  • Andre Alessi, in reply to Lilith __,

    Beware children bearing gifts.

    Beware children generally. Evil things in deceptive packaging.

    Devonport, New Zealand • Since Nov 2006 • 864 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to Martin Lindberg,

    pesky kids

    how do they work?

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Paul Campbell,

    well as mentioned in my dishwasher story above - not as much as parents might want .....

    Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 2623 posts Report Reply

  • recordari, in reply to Sacha,

    how do they work?

    IME, they don't, unless you pay them the minimum hourly wage of two lollipops, free access to TV and Nintendo and Icecream on both weekend days. And that's just to finish their breakfast. You want them to put their clothes away and make their beds, you'll be needing to mortgage the house and take them to Disneyland.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • Paul Campbell,

    I've found that "when I was a child, we didn't have dishwashers, we had to wash and dry the dishes by hand if we want our allowance" has no absolutely effect - apparently their on to us when we're making it up (even if we're not)

    Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 2623 posts Report Reply

  • B Jones,

    That's weird, mine loves helping load and unload the dishwasher. That being said, she's not quite two and the price of her help is the occasional investigative slurping of the clean dishes. Saves me doing half the bending down, and she's short enough to fit in the lower cupboards without banging her head on the bench.

    Back to magnets, Miss Nearly Two also likes moving the weak bendy advert fridge magnets onto the dishwasher, where they seem neither to affect the electronics or the surface.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 976 posts Report Reply

  • Lilith __, in reply to recordari,

    IME, they don't, unless you pay them the minimum hourly wage of two lollipops, free access to TV and Nintendo and Icecream

    I have a friend whose 4-year-old can be got to do all manner of tasks (unloading the dishwasher, making her bed, picking salad greens for dinner, etc.) by the cash payment of 10c per task, which she carefully saves up for awful bits of tat she wants from the Warehouse. I'm guessing she is perhaps unusually industrious. I reckon she'll be a millionaire before she's 20, providing she gets some pay rises along the way. :-)

    Dunedin • Since Jul 2010 • 3895 posts Report Reply

  • Jackie Clark, in reply to Lilith __,

    Small children are very useful as slaves. Really. I can get most kids to do what I want. But then I'm not afraid of using a vaguely scary face.

    Mt Eden, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 3136 posts Report Reply

  • recordari, in reply to Jackie Clark,

    I'm not afraid of using a vaguely scary face.

    And when that doesn't work, I usually resort to my 'Mad Comic' face. Laughing children seem to require less cajoling.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • Jackie Clark, in reply to recordari,

    Well yes. Best strategy ever to clean up the sandpit? On yer marks, get set, go!

    Mt Eden, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 3136 posts Report Reply

  • recordari, in reply to Jackie Clark,

    Well yes. Best strategy ever to clean up the sandpit? On yer marks, get set, go!

    That's soooo true. Stop Watch Parenting. I might write a book.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • James Butler,

    Any inducement to do housework wore off my kids long ago; they're both cultivating, in their own ways, a really exquisite devil-may-care laziness, where all that matters is books, the Internet, and cats. No idea where they got that from.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2009 • 856 posts Report Reply

  • Steve Barnes, in reply to Lilith __,

    I reckon she'll be a millionaire before she's 20, providing she gets some pay rises along the way. :-)

    And they would have to be substantial ones at that.
    Inflation might help but then the million will be worth less. In fact....
    If you were on the average wage, here in NZ and not taking inflation into account, you would have to work your entire working life of 50 yrs to net that amount after minimal expenses like food and little else.
    Kinda makes you look sideways at them millionaires don't it?.

    Peria • Since Dec 2006 • 5521 posts Report Reply

  • Steve Barnes,

    My Mother, bless her, told me that her favorite party game she invented was "Carpet Picking". She would give all the kids at the party a brown paper bag and instruct us to fill the bags with anything we could find on the carpet, usually bits of cake or some-such Birthday detritus. The person to fill the bag first got a lolly. The game would progress by round after round with empty bags until...
    She got a clean carpet.
    ;-)

    Peria • Since Dec 2006 • 5521 posts Report Reply

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