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Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 12:15 am
by Mark Deeks
A coat.

A comb.

Pyjamas.

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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 12:20 am
by Johnny Canuck
A car.

Social skills.

A pizza cutter.

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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 12:49 am
by Toby McDonald
A life.

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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 1:28 am
by Mark James
Are pyjamas that universal? I would have thought it's more normal to just wear undies and maybe a t-shirt (if not nothing at all). They certainly seem to be more of a female thing. Can't think of any men I know who wear them.

I did get myself a dressing gown for the first time ever about a year ago though. One of the best purchases I've ever made.

Haven't gone as far as getting slippers though. There's something very "old man" about them.

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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 8:12 am
by Matt Morrison
Can highly recommend slippers, even though I only ever seem to wear mine when I go for a sleepover (cute) at my mate's house who has a dirty "outside-y" floor. They are super cool.

I usually sleep with my tits and bits on display but I do have a pair of loungewear-type shorts and (separate) t-shirt which I use solely for sleeping (and hanging around until I get dressed the following morning) so I guess they would count as pyjamas, I don't think they need to be a matching set with hedgehogs on.

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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 8:12 am
by Matt Morrison
A food processor (this will separate the grown ups and the children).

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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 9:47 am
by Gavin Chipper
I'm not impressed by comb. Do most people really have combs? It's just a poor man's hairbrush. Lots of people don't even drive so not having a car is no big deal. Social skills and life - well certainly on a Countdown forum it's no big deal. Pizza cutter? Ridiculous suggestion.

I've had slippers since I was quite young actually. Really useful. Going round in just socks is a bit annoying and sometimes liquid could get spilt on the floor which would ruin your day.

Not got a microwave though.

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 9:57 am
by Marc Meakin
No Comb, because I'm bald.
No wallet , although I do keep my credit / debit cards etc in a tin.
No toolbox, though I do have an electric drill.
No shoe polish

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 9:59 am
by Marc Meakin
Also no CD player.
Do people still have those though.
No Alexa./Siri.
No Apple products.
No Games Console.

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 2:42 pm
by Jennifer Steadman
'Normal' tea bags. Jeans (been a decade since I last owned any). A hoodie.

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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 3:42 pm
by Mark Deeks
Widen "pyjamas" out to mean anything put on to sleep, then. Even a t-shirt and shorts. I just wear what I wore the day before.

Also widen "comb" out to include hairbrushes, and obviously bald people are exempt. I either don't style mine or use my fingers.

Will also claim jeans, food processor, dressing gown and slippers from the above list.

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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:35 pm
by Marc Meakin
I want to add Jewellery of any sort.
Also no tattoos, not sure if you 'own ' them though

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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 6:46 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Marc Meakin wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:35 pm I want to add Jewellery of any sort.
Also no tattoos, not sure if you 'own ' them though
I don't think either of these is rare. Certainly most people don't have tattoos. And it might depend on how you define jewellery. E.g. I have medals from running events. Do I therefore own jewellery?

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 8:56 pm
by Marc Meakin
Maybe the tattoo question should have its own thread because in the last twenty years or so it's becoming quite common

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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:04 pm
by Matt Morrison
Gavin Chipper wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 9:47 amPizza cutter? Ridiculous suggestion.
I think this was a really good suggestion, and I daresay nearly everyone here has a pizza wheel or a dedicated pizza cutter in a different geometric shape. You're the dick here.
Gavin Chipper wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 9:47 amNot got a microwave though.
Not a bad shout. Though I still think not as ubiquitous as the pizza cutter.

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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:06 pm
by Matt Morrison
Marc Meakin wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 9:57 amNo wallet , although I do keep my credit / debit cards etc in a tin.
This made me chuckle since the word "although" doesn't work at all here.

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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:07 pm
by Matt Morrison
Mark Deeks wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 3:42 pmI just wear what I wore the day before.
STOOOOOOOOOOOOODENT.
Mark Deeks wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 3:42 pmbald people are exempt
Wow. I have a comb and a brush. Wow.

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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:08 pm
by Matt Morrison
Marc Meakin wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 8:56 pm Maybe the tattoo question should have its own thread because in the last twenty years or so it's becoming quite common
Agree with Gevin it's not a good suggestion for this thread. Hang your head in shame. But then raise your head again because this is a great new thread. I bet there are some interesting hidden tattoos around apterous and C4C that not many people know about.

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:31 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Matt Morrison wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:08 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 8:56 pm Maybe the tattoo question should have its own thread because in the last twenty years or so it's becoming quite common
Agree with Gevin it's not a good suggestion for this thread. Hang your head in shame. But then raise your head again because this is a great new thread. I bet there are some interesting hidden tattoos around apterous and C4C that not many people know about.
I think Reams started a thread on it ages ago if you want to resurrect that.

Edit - This.

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:39 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Matt Morrison wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:04 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 9:47 amPizza cutter? Ridiculous suggestion.
I think this was a really good suggestion, and I daresay nearly everyone here has a pizza wheel or a dedicated pizza cutter in a different geometric shape. You're the dick here.
I'm not having this. What do you even mean by a dedicated pizza cutter in a different geometric shape? If you don't cut it with a wheel, you cut it with a knife, and that is a different shape from a wheel, correct. But no-one has a knife dedicated to cutting pizza.

I know where you live, and I'm coming there tomorrow.

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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 2:29 am
by Mark Deeks
I don't have a pizza cutting device in any form despite being a bumper crop but I'm not sure being on the same side as Gevin is on the same side as "normal people" so I'll stay quiet.

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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 2:30 am
by Mark Deeks
Matt Morrison wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:07 pm
Mark Deeks wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 3:42 pmI just wear what I wore the day before.
STOOOOOOOOOOOOODENT.
More like MAN WITH LITTLE SELF RESPECT LEFT. Actually, same sort of thing I guess.
Mark Deeks wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 3:42 pmbald people are exempt
Wow. I have a comb and a brush. Wow.
Yeah but you have a long flowing beard, you probably have a room in your house devoted purely to its maintenance.

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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 2:20 pm
by Peter Mabey
I've never even thought of getting a pizza cutter, as I don't buy pizza.

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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 2:30 pm
by Mark James
Mark Deeks wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 3:42 pm Widen "pyjamas" out to mean anything put on to sleep, then. Even a t-shirt and shorts. I just wear what I wore the day before.
I know dictionary definition pedants can be tiresome but this is a Countdown forum after all. Pyjamas are a specific type of clothing. There's even a current trend of wearing pyjamas outdoors so they're not just for sleeping in anymore. I even know of girls who change out of one pair of pyjamas to another pair for going outside in.

I get where from you're coming from though. I just sleep in the underwear I wore during the day but if I changed into a specific pair that I only used for sleeping in could they be classed as pyjamas? I guess so. But again I would question that that's a normal thing normal people have. If it is a thing I think it's more of a women thing.

I reckon most men are more inclined to do what you do and sleep in whatever they were wearing or take off some amount of the clothes they wore during the day before getting into bed rather than put on something specific for bed. In fairness though I am judging that on a fairly small sample size of blokes I've been on holidays with and have seen what they wear in bed. Maybe it's more common than I think.

Also I'm with Gev on the pizza cutting thing. No way are the things most people would recognize as pizza cutters a normal thing most normal people have. Personally I cut my pizza with a pair of scissors.

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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 3:01 pm
by Zarte Siempre
There is no need for a pizza cutter. You just need a big mezzaluna and then you can use it for that AND other things.

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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 3:31 pm
by Tom S
Anything less than a PJ shirt and bottoms and I'll get cold :P

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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:18 pm
by Marc Meakin
I wear what my partner lovingly calls 'Night Knickers'
Long shorts for lounging .
I do have a dressing gown for when it gets cold.
Too tight to leave the heating on

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:23 pm
by Marc Meakin
Zarte Siempre wrote: Fri Nov 16, 2018 3:01 pm There is no need for a pizza cutter. You just need a big mezzaluna and then you can use it for that AND other things.
Had to look that up.
Embarrassingly I work for John Lewis and a customer couldn't remember the name and I kept thinking of Mandolin.
Needless to say she went to Lakeland

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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2018 7:51 am
by Matt Morrison
Marc Meakin wrote: Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:18 pmI wear what my partner lovingly calls 'Night Knickers
This is wonderful. Gevin would like a photo for clarification.

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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2018 10:15 am
by David Williams
Matt Morrison wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 8:12 am A food processor (this will separate the grown ups and the children).
I'd love to have one of these. Ours just chops stuff up.

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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2018 10:24 am
by David Williams
Marc Meakin wrote: Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:23 pm Embarrassingly I work for John Lewis
A lot more embarrassing for them, I would think.

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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2018 2:03 pm
by Marc Meakin
David Williams wrote: Sat Nov 17, 2018 10:24 am
Marc Meakin wrote: Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:23 pm Embarrassingly I work for John Lewis
A lot more embarrassing for them, I would think.
I'll have you know that I have been partner of the month twice ( in 5 years )

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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2018 4:27 pm
by Paul Worsley
A pair of chopsticks.

I think the knife and fork is a better invention, and don't feel my oriental meals are any less authentic without them.

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2018 6:27 pm
by Fred Mumford
Marc Meakin wrote: Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:23 pm I'll have you know that I have been partner of the month twice ( in 5 years )
That's a 3% max rate.

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2018 7:27 pm
by Marc Meakin
Paul Worsley wrote: Sat Nov 17, 2018 4:27 pm A pair of chopsticks.

I think the knife and fork is a better invention, and don't feel my oriental meals are any less authentic without them.
A pair, now you tell me, I've only got the one 😁.
All joking aside John Lewis (other pretentious middle class department stores are available ) do a rookie chopstick, looks like thin tongs, they are ok

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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2018 7:28 pm
by Marc Meakin
Fred Mumford wrote: Sat Nov 17, 2018 6:27 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:23 pm I'll have you know that I have been partner of the month twice ( in 5 years )
That's a 3% max rate.
I'll take that in a store of 100 staff who are biased towards front of house staff

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2018 11:08 pm
by Paul Worsley
Marc Meakin wrote: Sat Nov 17, 2018 7:27 pm
Paul Worsley wrote: Sat Nov 17, 2018 4:27 pm A pair of chopsticks.

I think the knife and fork is a better invention, and don't feel my oriental meals are any less authentic without them.
A pair, now you tell me, I've only got the one 😁.
All joking aside John Lewis (other pretentious middle class department stores are available ) do a rookie chopstick, looks like thin tongs, they are ok
This is like telling me that M&S do a nice range of chamber pots.

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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2018 1:20 am
by Matt Bayfield
I have never owned an umbrella.

An umbrella is a device which deflects rain coming only from directly above you. This, together with its tendency to flip inside out and/or act as a sail, makes it largely useless in even a moderate wind. (Funnily enough, wind and rain often go together.) Even when it's not windy, you still need a hand free to carry an umbrella.

Apart from doubling as a walking stick, an umbrella has no functional advantages over a cheap pac-a-mac with a hood. (In wet conditions with moisture in the air, your hair is going to get just as messed up underneath an umbrella as underneath a hood. Compact umbrellas take up about the same space in your bag, as a pac-a-mac.)

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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2018 7:54 am
by Marc Meakin
Paul Worsley wrote: Sat Nov 17, 2018 11:08 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: Sat Nov 17, 2018 7:27 pm
Paul Worsley wrote: Sat Nov 17, 2018 4:27 pm A pair of chopsticks.

I think the knife and fork is a better invention, and don't feel my oriental meals are any less authentic without them.
A pair, now you tell me, I've only got the one 😁.
All joking aside John Lewis (other pretentious middle class department stores are available ) do a rookie chopstick, looks like thin tongs, they are ok
This is like telling me that M&S do a nice range of chamber pots.
I wouldn't recommend eating your Chinese meal out of a chamber pot

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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2018 7:56 am
by Marc Meakin
Matt Bayfield wrote: Sun Nov 18, 2018 1:20 am I have never owned an umbrella.

An umbrella is a device which deflects rain coming only from directly above you. This, together with its tendency to flip inside out and/or act as a sail, makes it largely useless in even a moderate wind. (Funnily enough, wind and rain often go together.) Even when it's not windy, you still need a hand free to carry an umbrella.

Apart from doubling as a walking stick, an umbrella has no functional advantages over a cheap pac-a-mac with a hood. (In wet conditions with moisture in the air, your hair is going to get just as messed up underneath an umbrella as underneath a hood. Compact umbrellas take up about the same space in your bag, as a pac-a-mac.)
I feel the same about wearing a waterproof jacket without the requisite waterproof trousers

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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2018 9:42 am
by Elliott Mellor
Matt Bayfield wrote: Sun Nov 18, 2018 1:20 am I have never owned an umbrella.

An umbrella is a device which deflects rain coming only from directly above you. This, together with its tendency to flip inside out and/or act as a sail, makes it largely useless in even a moderate wind. (Funnily enough, wind and rain often go together.) Even when it's not windy, you still need a hand free to carry an umbrella.

Apart from doubling as a walking stick, an umbrella has no functional advantages over a cheap pac-a-mac with a hood. (In wet conditions with moisture in the air, your hair is going to get just as messed up underneath an umbrella as underneath a hood. Compact umbrellas take up about the same space in your bag, as a pac-a-mac.)
Actually agree with you here, I don't own one either.

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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2018 10:12 am
by Phil Reynolds
Mark James wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 1:28 am Are pyjamas that universal? I would have thought it's more normal to just wear undies and maybe a t-shirt (if not nothing at all). They certainly seem to be more of a female thing. Can't think of any men I know who wear them.
Haven't owned a pair of pyjamas since I was about 15. Generally sleep in the buff apart from a phase I went through in my 20s of wearing nightshirts, which I liked in principle for freedom of movement but found uncomfortable to actually sleep in due to their tendency to ride up during the night and end up bunched under the armpits.

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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2018 1:07 pm
by Ian Volante
I've only ever worn pyjamas to go swimming in. Bollock-naked is the way to sleep, and if you're cold like that, you need a better quilt. I've only once worn clothes in bed that I can remember (apart from when sharing rooms, when I think general decorum suggests at least keeping my pants on), and that was in a flat with no heating with a summer duvet where it was cold enough to freeze the condensation.

Otherwise, I don't have an Android or Apple phone, an ironing board, or an Instagram account.

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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2018 1:26 pm
by Jennifer Steadman
Pyjamas are significantly comfier than anything else to lounge around the house in and sleep in, so I can only imagine all you nudey freaks have a fetish for rubbing your balls on things.

I think my house has an ironing board in it (it isn't mine), but I don't think we actually have an iron. What items even need ironing? Shirts I understand, but anything else...?

I don't have any proper trainers, because they're all ugly and uncomfortable. More comfortable than 5-inch heels, but there's not that much in it. [Disclaimer: I have very wide feet]

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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2018 1:42 pm
by Zarte Siempre
Jennifer Steadman wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 1:26 pmso I can only imagine all you nudey freaks have a fetish for rubbing your balls on things.
8-)

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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2018 3:04 pm
by Jennifer Steadman
Zarte Siempre wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 1:42 pm
Jennifer Steadman wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 1:26 pmso I can only imagine all you nudey freaks have a fetish for rubbing your balls on things.
8-)
Fuming.

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2018 6:39 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Marc Meakin wrote: Sun Nov 18, 2018 7:56 am
Matt Bayfield wrote: Sun Nov 18, 2018 1:20 am I have never owned an umbrella.

An umbrella is a device which deflects rain coming only from directly above you. This, together with its tendency to flip inside out and/or act as a sail, makes it largely useless in even a moderate wind. (Funnily enough, wind and rain often go together.) Even when it's not windy, you still need a hand free to carry an umbrella.

Apart from doubling as a walking stick, an umbrella has no functional advantages over a cheap pac-a-mac with a hood. (In wet conditions with moisture in the air, your hair is going to get just as messed up underneath an umbrella as underneath a hood. Compact umbrellas take up about the same space in your bag, as a pac-a-mac.)
I feel the same about wearing a waterproof jacket without the requisite waterproof trousers
While I agree that umbrellas are pretty rubbish, if the rain is remotely substantial or you're going to be in in for any amount of time, a rain jacket is not enough - you do need to wear waterproof trousers as well, and they can be quite awkward and fiddly.

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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2018 6:41 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Gavin Chipper wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:39 pm
Matt Morrison wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:04 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 9:47 amPizza cutter? Ridiculous suggestion.
I think this was a really good suggestion, and I daresay nearly everyone here has a pizza wheel or a dedicated pizza cutter in a different geometric shape. You're the dick here.
I'm not having this. What do you even mean by a dedicated pizza cutter in a different geometric shape? If you don't cut it with a wheel, you cut it with a knife, and that is a different shape from a wheel, correct. But no-one has a knife dedicated to cutting pizza.

I know where you live, and I'm coming there tomorrow.
It was nice to see you the other day, and your pizza cutter.

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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2018 7:52 pm
by Matt Morrison
Two pizza cutters, in a variety of geometric shapes.

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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2018 10:01 pm
by JimBentley
Everyone else I know has a proper mobile phone (by which I mean a smartphone), but I still don't have one. I've never really felt the need to get one as whether at work or at home, I'm in front of a computer anyway and there's nothing a smartphone can do that I can't do on a computer. I do have an old Nokia dumbphone though, but that's only in case I break down in the middle of nowhere. But I honestly can't think of anything else.

However, I bet I have loads of stupid crap that nobody else has, partly due to my hobby of buying cheap shit from China.

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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 4:55 am
by Marc Meakin
Some more from me
Teapot.
Tumble Drier
Dishwasher
Onion Goggles
Garlic press

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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 7:41 am
by Thomas Carey
Marc Meakin wrote: Wed Nov 21, 2018 4:55 am
Teapot.
I mean yeah most people on this forum are gonna have one of them

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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 8:43 am
by Gavin Chipper
Marc Meakin wrote: Wed Nov 21, 2018 4:55 am Some more from me
Teapot.
Tumble Drier
Dishwasher
Onion Goggles
Garlic press
Cos onion goggles are a thing.

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:31 am
by Tim Down
Ian Volante wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 1:07 pm I've only ever worn pyjamas to go swimming in. Bollock-naked is the way to sleep, and if you're cold like that, you need a better quilt. I've only once worn clothes in bed that I can remember (apart from when sharing rooms, when I think general decorum suggests at least keeping my pants on), and that was in a flat with no heating with a summer duvet where it was cold enough to freeze the condensation.
That's all very well when you have the bed to yourself and don't share it, say, with someone who gets hot in the night and therefore insists on a paper-thin duvet.

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 10:23 am
by Marc Meakin
Gavin Chipper wrote: Wed Nov 21, 2018 8:43 am
Marc Meakin wrote: Wed Nov 21, 2018 4:55 am Some more from me
Teapot.
Tumble Drier
Dishwasher
Onion Goggles
Garlic press
Cos onion goggles are a thing.
Yeah six quid from John Lewis .
I save money and wear swimming goggles

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 12:57 pm
by Ian Volante
Tim Down wrote: Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:31 am
Ian Volante wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 1:07 pm I've only ever worn pyjamas to go swimming in. Bollock-naked is the way to sleep, and if you're cold like that, you need a better quilt. I've only once worn clothes in bed that I can remember (apart from when sharing rooms, when I think general decorum suggests at least keeping my pants on), and that was in a flat with no heating with a summer duvet where it was cold enough to freeze the condensation.
That's all very well when you have the bed to yourself and don't share it, say, with someone who gets hot in the night and therefore insists on a paper-thin duvet.
Two words. Spare room. From memory, I think Charlie has such an arrangement.

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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 1:00 pm
by Ian Volante
Jennifer Steadman wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 1:26 pm Pyjamas are significantly comfier than anything else to lounge around the house in and sleep in, so I can only imagine all you nudey freaks have a fetish for rubbing your balls on things.
I don't think I can position myself in such a way to both sleep and have my scrotum in contact with anything but my legs or biffer. Unless I've just had a hot bath of course.

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 3:06 pm
by Zarte Siempre
Gavin Chipper wrote: Wed Nov 21, 2018 8:43 amCos onion goggles are a thing.
We have some here. Jen has some. That's at least 3 of us.

Will you please just begin to accept that it's you that are the fundamental outlier of society and that you shouldn't speak as the voice of reason ;)

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 3:48 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Zarte Siempre wrote: Thu Nov 22, 2018 3:06 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: Wed Nov 21, 2018 8:43 amCos onion goggles are a thing.
We have some here. Jen has some. That's at least 3 of us.

Will you please just begin to accept that it's you that are the fundamental outlier of society and that you shouldn't speak as the voice of reason ;)
Haha, maybe you're right, but I certainly don't think onion goggles belong in this thread even if quite a few people have them. I think working at John Lewis has skewed Meakin's perceptions.

Re: Things normal people normally own but you don't own for some reason

Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 11:33 pm
by Tom S
A belt.