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#off-topic 2026-01-11

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  • power_cut_pia — i told my mother it was for the cat. the cat is fine and my mother is confused, n of 1 obviously strangest place was a hotel minibar, inside a sock. it survived and i… 14:27
  • meniscus_mel — unrelated but my sharps bin has a name as well and i am not typing it in here, i have it written down somewhere 16:49
  • orfor_watch — sorry to jump in somebody wrote mcg instead of mg again, do we have a counter for that 18:57
PC

the fridge thermometer has become a personality trait and i am at peace with that

PC

i told my mother it was for the cat. the cat is fine and my mother is confused, n of 1 obviously
strangest place was a hotel minibar, inside a sock. it survived and i am still proud of it

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CO

it is 4 degrees and horizontal out there, which is at least good weather for a parcel
i miss coffee more than beer, and the coffee is still there, it just does not like me anymore

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update from 7 months ago: the cat is still banned from the counter and still on the counter

for the archive i made a spreadsheet nobody asked for, is there a channel for that or does it go here

RR

i keep the swabs in a biscuit tin, which is a decision i will defend

HH

the jewellery scale gets used for coffee beans more than anything else and it was still a good purchase

FT

quick one does anyone elses dog know the fridge sound means nothing for him

swab drawer

the cat took out a tray. two survived. i have named them, n of 1 obviously

HH

cat got onto the counter and took out a whole tray, anyone want to guess how many survived

RR

the fridge is called colin and colin has never once let me down, from memory

MM

swirl dont shake is on a magnet on my fridge and it has now outlived two fridges

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DD

the smugness is the prize. there has never been another prize
cooking a curry i will eat a third of and enjoy every bite of. that is the deal now

MM

unrelated but my sharps bin has a name as well and i am not typing it in here, i have it written down somewhere

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DD

we absolutely counted the cat incident as a cold chain event and the pinned table has a footnote about it

not mcg again

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raining here for the ninth day, is it doing that everywhere

RR

36 degrees today, which is a weather problem and also a shipping problem, happy to be corrected

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the smugness is the prize

wheres the standing bet at, which oral actually ships first

did the football go the way anyone expected

RR

i have the spreadsheet nobody asked for, it has seven tabs, and one of them is called cats

raining here too

OW

is there a sharps bin that doesnt look like a sharps bin, my mother in law is visiting

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OW

i have a photograph of a cat sitting on a cool box and it is the only illustration this channel needs

still nothing shipped

OW

raining here too. it has been raining here since approximately the founding of this channel

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OW

i miss coffee more than beer, and the coffee is still there, it just does not like me anymore

i was awake for it

sorry to jump in somebody wrote mcg instead of mg again, do we have a counter for that

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MN

update on the earlier thing we are three years into the standing bet and the goalposts have moved twice

VB

Inter-lab diff for lot F-1330: 98.1% vs 96.8%. Within expected range.

FT

somebody will correct the mcg thing before i finish typing this and honestly good, thats just me