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#2976196 2-Oct-2022 10:54

Tellicherry or Malabar pepper from a ceramic grinder is really one of the best things that can happen to a kitchen.

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#2976458 2-Oct-2022 20:38

Friend's Delonghi dehumidifer would no longer run because the tank-full sensor has failed. They contacted Delonghi about getting it fixed but never got any reply, and if they did it'd probably cost a small fortune.

Or $4 for a microswitch and a bit of work with a Dremel:

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#2976484 3-Oct-2022 00:21

neb: Friend's Delonghi dehumidifer would no longer run because the tank-full sensor has failed. They contacted Delonghi about getting it fixed but never got any reply, and if they did it'd probably cost a small fortune. Or $4 for a microswitch and a bit of work with a Dremel:

In the past, you wouldn't have been sold something like that. There was a spare parts list and/or a circuit diagram with every unit.

Because people no longer ask for them, the manufacturers have secretly and quietly abolished first the documentation, then the spare parts service and now the repair service.

We customers are so stupid to go along with this (actually, I should now switch to the "annoying" department).

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#2977368 4-Oct-2022 15:48

An iPad downloading a 500MB iOS update over 5G in an eye blink.

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#2977964 5-Oct-2022 20:39

Nice to see that large corporations also have a sense of humour:

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#2977984 5-Oct-2022 21:31

I was copied into an email to our GM today, in which I was called out for doing an exceptional job.

I thought I’d just done my job and did not expect to get any recognition for it.

It’s nice.

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#2978000 5-Oct-2022 23:23

Snow arriving in Wellington. So far mix of sleet and snow together. Hope by morning all will be white.

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#2978051 6-Oct-2022 08:10

Eva888: Snow arriving in Wellington. So far mix of sleet and snow together. Hope by morning all will be white.

It is not. Sorry but it did not settle. It won't.

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#2978052 6-Oct-2022 08:13

freitasm:
Eva888: Snow arriving in Wellington. So far mix of sleet and snow together. Hope by morning all will be white.

It is not. Sorry but it did not settle. It won't.

There is around 120mm settled on the Remutaka Hill as we drove over this morning.

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#2978054 6-Oct-2022 08:22

Ge0rge:
freitasm:
Eva888: Snow arriving in Wellington. So far mix of sleet and snow together. Hope by morning all will be white.

It is not. Sorry but it did not settle. It won't.

There is around 120mm settled on the Remutaka Hill as we drove over this morning.

Remutaka Hill is about 60 Km from Wellington and very high so not surprised. But Wellington city? It haven't arrived and we have blue skies now.

This is what snow looked like in Johnsonville, Aug 2011. We live at 200m. Our road was closed for two days, with a police line - cars and a bus abandoned because they couldn't go uphill anymore.

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#2978114 6-Oct-2022 09:45

A light dusting of snow on the eastern hills above Te Awakairangi. Nothing like 2011.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#2978159 6-Oct-2022 11:05

Lots of snow this morning at seaside Waikouaiti north of Dunedin!

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#2979208 8-Oct-2022 19:54

The fact that if you're serving the gumboot tea brigade something like ten-year-aged [*] pu-erh tea, it's a good idea not to tell them you're brewing them up some genuine aged poo-err.

[*] Hard to give an exact date because the tag pressed into the brick has partly disintegrated, but around that age.

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#2979793 9-Oct-2022 17:36

Just signed my new employment contract for a position I was offered last week. I'm smiling as its a company that has a reputation as a great place to work and a role that I'm super excited about.

My first job tomorrow now will be to submit my resignation.

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#2979796 9-Oct-2022 17:46

Senecio:

Just signed my new employment contract for a position I was offered last week. I'm smiling as its a company that has a reputation as a great place to work and a role that I'm super excited about.

My first job tomorrow now will be to submit my resignation.

Already! 🤣

Well done.

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