Random musings and general banter.

[Muttley]

I was merely on about Fanny's cakes.

Of course you were...

 

[Battiola73]

Is the IW target younger people though?

I don't wear a watch every day, usually only when eating out or similar. Not sure how many I have tbh, I would guess 10 or 12, none of which I paid more than £50 or so for. I don't own any jewellery apart from silver chains with St Christophers on.

The rest of the time I wear a Mi Band 2 tracker on one wrist, it has great battery life and stores data for weeks at a time and on the other a Huawei Watch Fit 2, has a bigger brighter more customizable screen, but battery life under a week and data stored about the same length of time. I don't like using phone with bluetooth turned on all the time in case anyone wonders.



First part is great and such a nice part of your life.

I assume you mean you ended up with weird blisters around the wrist from the strap. I got that from my Huawei, a common problem it seems and can be solved by wearing it more loosely. Something to do with the strap and moisture/sweat on the skin.

I did have a problem with the silicon strap making my wrist sweat. The blisters/burns were under the Fitbit casing not the strap, I had to put dressings on them and they took about a week to heal up. It was ok measuring steps but crazy for climbing stairs. Some days it said I hadn’t been upstairs all day (my loo and bedroom are upstairs). Other times, especially if we had strong winds, it showed I went up stairs anything up to 30 times a day.

 

[Wanderer]

I did have a problem with the silicon strap making my wrist sweat. The blisters/burns were under the Fitbit casing not the strap, I had to put dressings on them and they took about a week to heal up. It was ok measuring steps but crazy for climbing stairs. Some days it said I hadn’t been upstairs all day (my loo and bedroom are upstairs). Other times, especially if we had strong winds, it showed I went up stairs anything up to 30 times a day.

Under the casing, only thing I can think of would be an allergy to the metal charging contacts if they were underneath.

 

[HughTwo]

Looks like we're getting an hour of Dirty Peter selling a ceramic heater as Pick of the Day tonight.

Any chance he'll be suggesting "It's to get cold next week, so cold, it will be bitterly cold and, as I say, these radiate the heat, have them in a bedroom, in a hallway, in a downstairs loo.
"But, if like me, you don't want to use the old central heating and live in one room, this will bring you not only warmth, not only comfort....
"How many Charley? Go to the phones, this is a price to clear, alright..............and repeat.....and repeat.....

 

[Wanderer]

Looks like we're getting an hour of Dirty Peter selling a ceramic heater as Pick of the Day tonight.

Any chance he'll be suggesting "It's to get cold next week, so cold, it will be bitterly cold and, as I say, these radiate the heat, have them in a bedroom, in a hallway, in a downstairs loo.
"But, if like me, you don't want to use the old central heating and live in one room, this will bring you not only warmth, not only comfort....
"How many Charley? Go to the phones, this is a price to clear, alright..............and repeat.....and repeat.....

Its a special one because its solar powered, no need for the power of the grid.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Drives her in then gets a couple of hundred quid, a box of canes, and a Duchumpiato clock, while he hangs out round the back waiting to play an expert in sucking up Uncle Ben’s (other rice is available) rice on screen…Is it 90% of experts are unemployed and 10% of actors? Or is it the other way round? Okay, though, for him. He can be an unemployed actor and an employed pseudo expert combined. Genuinely- I never saw the point of him on the real Ideal World. He was a very poor tech ‘expert’ there succeeding a very capable one. Anybody with the remotest knowledge on the subject could see he was bluffing his way through it so many times. You wonder how he got the expert gig there in the first place? Erm…

 

[HughTwo]

Drives her in then gets a couple of hundred quid, a box of canes, and a Duchumpiato clock, while he hangs out round the back waiting to play an expert in sucking up Uncle Ben’s (other rice is available) rice on screen…Is it 90% of experts are unemployed and 10% of actors? Or is it the other way round? Okay, though, for him. He can be an unemployed actor and an employed pseudo expert combined.

Can we believe they really pay him cash for that?

I always imagined people like him and Captain Knowles had other jobs at the studios - emptying the bins, changing the bog roll, ironing Pedro's showaddywaddy jackets - and just appeared as pretend experts occasionally in exchange for a pot of Emu Balm or some Gammon.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Either in kind (free products for their skip)…all the Chef Mark and Chef Joe food he can eat without projectile vomiting, or an actual cash fee for standing there like a tit for an hour. I always thought the set-up there was jobs for the boys/girls in the extreme.

 

[Ant7t]

Tracey from Trumpton just texted in....

If I hadn't heard it with my own ears, I'dathunk you were joking. Surely, unless he's on auto pilot, he must realise it's a kid's show. My mother is 84 and she's heard of it 'as a kid's show', so silly fool, ent 'e?

 

[Jazzydrury]

I see Tomorrow Olivia whoever she is is on at 2pm, then Joe and Alex at 6pm

 

[galesgal57]

Torchy said last night he will be seeing the New Year in with us, woo hoo! What a dilemma, Jools Holland or Ideal World?

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Captain Knowles….Are the men prepared for what is to come this evening? Has Colour Sergeant Simon taken the men up the back passage to the front and worked his retail magic on them, or are they totally UNSOLD on his ideas? Captain Knowles, I want you to deploy cuddle blanket cover as your strategy. Take Colour Sergeant Simon, Trumpet Boy Mason and ten of your finest men from the 2nd Karaoke Brigade and storm the QVC position..Take no prisoners, and demobilise that simpering Technology Officer of theirs. Don’t let him walk and talk himself away - Do you understand, Knowles?…Take fresh supplies of Gammon for the men, and canes for any wounded. Secure the QVC trenches and bring back any tablets you can find for us to utilise at Shopping HQ…Any men refusing to go over the presentational top, have Chef Mark from the Flame Thrower Catering Corps set fire to them immediately..Dismissed, Knowles…

 

[galesgal57]

Pedro has the damp proof undercrackers tonight. Imagine what he will have to say about his spillages.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Get a Sagcock? Is that what he said? Zinc pants all the young boys behind the scenes have bought? ‘Mans’ underwear the graphic says. Hope any mans out there will buy…Bombay blankets next, he says. What gravy browning overload has Josh put on his head? Least, I hope it was gravy browning mix. That bloke on the box seems pleased to have his Simon’s hands on him.

 

[galesgal57]

Get a Sagcock? Is that what he said? Zinc pants all the young boys behind the scenes have bought? ‘Mans’ underwear the graphic says. Hope any mans out there will buy…Bombay blankets next, he says. What gravy browning overload has Josh put on his head? Least, I hope it was gravy browning mix.

Sagcock! That's what he gets for drinking too much mulled wine.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Probably also a side-effect of one of his recent ‘procedures’…Possibly the rear end skin being moved to the cheek bones… Upper cheek.

 

[Jazzydrury]

I’m watching Bullseye

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Great…smashing..super…

 

[Jazzydrury]

Shock Horror, it has Luke Littler on it. The oldest looking teen going

 

[Jazzydrury]

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