COGH Safe Zone for Nice Talk and a Cup of Tea

Things are getting pretty hectic out there in the ol' ILX, I think we all need to calm down and talk about nice things.

Let's talk about nice things here.

Like, I dunno, dogs? Dogs are pretty good.

Dogs are great

What about lovely media outlets that write stories about local heroic sporting people who have never been in a sexual or financial scandal?

what a lovely thread

aaaaaaAAAAaaaa!

!!! gidday

not to dwell on matters outside this delightful tea party but your summary of events was a work of art fwiw

Dogs are illegal

The miraculous return of AA, now that's the good news story we need for ILX.

<3

http://i.imgur.com/4LW9Yue.png

Thinking of getting noise cancelling wireless headphones or maybe a new laptop or maybe a power washer

I only need the first on that list but I only want the last the middle tbh is a compromise candidate

i don’t know what a power washer is but it sounds delightful

Spent all Christmas break '16 powerwashing the driveway.

AA It's hard to describe beyond naming it tbh

PP otm

NB I have nothing to powerwash

that kind of defeatist attitude tells me u are not yet ready to own a powerwasher tbh

it sounded like a very fast washing machine until pp threw outdoor use into the mix

I think you should enjoy what yr imagination suggests for another while yet

https://i.imgur.com/gHBMGry.jpg

One of those things you didn't think you needed until you saw what it could do.

I prefer the colour on the right tho

In the five years we were between dogs, the dog crate sat in the garage and become a home to a few spiders.

It's one of those cage-type crates, so when I laid it down in the driveway and powerwashed all the webs and eggs off of it, it created this cool chessboard design on the concrete.

Just one of the many ways a power washer (and a dog) can still offer surprises.

the_spider_genocider has logged on

Eight legs to swim with, imo.

SPOILER ALERT RE: POWER WASHERS!

A power washer is an electric or gasoline-powered pump attached to a wand with a spray tip, connected to a garden hose for its water supply, capable of spewing out water at high pressure. It can dislodge stuff like dirt or moss from hard surfaces like pavement or the siding of a house by blasting it off. Much like leaf blowers, they can be mesmerizing to use, unless the water is blowing back on you from a wall or eaves and soaking you, then they are unpleasant.

Some of them mix the soap in for u

stfu, amiless.

you aren't my ami?

Feel free to google it and then post the definition for everyone as a public service.

washing concrete is a crime imo. Water is not for watering your driveway dammit :P

Not everyone as short of it as ye are tbf

As an aside, shotcrete is really cool

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YanHEgfepC0

aimless, you had me at “wand”

Bought those headphones

good choice

I purchased Bose noise cancelling headphone and I have never looked back

and the good people at Bose replaced them free of charge last year when they stopped working properly

(Cape of Good Hope, proudly brought to you by Bose, for sound quality that you can hear)

Sterling testimonial

fucking buying a bose next, thanks kbp

NB did not get bose just wanna see how it works so got the Amazon choice thirty quid pair

If it seems a worthwhile venture then bose or similar

bose are... er, more expensive than thirty quid (I purchased em with a end of year prize voucher from work btw)

great quality but

I wouldn't mind that if I know I'll use em over a few years

Also she can have the thirty quid pair in the above scenario

the good thing about wireless is you don’t catch the cord on a door handle and tear them off yer cocking head every 45 seconds

That is literally the thing about them yep

yep

Surely.

I don't need a laptop the old laptop is a decade old but I don't use it and I threw in new memory and an ssd a year or two back which keeps it running for the purposes

But would I use it for other, newer, life-changing purposes if I had a shit hot new one

The question is a troubling one.

other, newer, life-changing purposes

My phone handles that thks

what else could you buy with laptop money?

i mean the capacity for a laptop to change a life extends to dating sites and amazon sales

Ahem

Laptop money *that I do not have* excuse me

i'm getting into healthy fermented drinks, the supermarket has plenty of them

i am considering buying the nice talk and a cup of tea of bicycles

I went to Singapore for work recently and my colleagues said that you have to get tea from this chain of tea shops, it is really good tea

They had one of the tea shops and the airport and got the tea and was not disappointed by the tea