| Author | Message | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1684 Registered: 11-2003 |
"I say! You can use them for that as well?" | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8523 Registered: 4-2010 |
Speaker - H? A? M? True story? FYOI? FSEI? "Them" - physical objects? Cleaning something relevant? Repairing something? Food relevant? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 1582 Registered: 9-2010 |
Maybe it's just me, but the comment makes the speaker sound British, and possibly rather old-fashioned...or at least like someone out of a Sherlock Holmes story. *grin* Was that the intention? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1688 Registered: 11-2003 |
Speaker - H? A? M? HAF. In fact, it's me, not spoken out loud, I was thinking it True story? Yes FYOI? FSEI? "Them" - physical objects? Yes Cleaning something relevant? Yes Repairing something? No Food relevant? Yes, for most of them. | ||
| Firesparx (Firesparx)
New member Username: Firesparx Post Number: 10 Registered: 11-2010 |
Liquid? Solid? Semisolid? Frozen? Hot? Room-temp? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1690 Registered: 11-2003 |
Liquid? Some this Solid? and some this Semisolid? Frozen? Hot? In the course of using them for 'this', some have to be heated Room-temp? but temperature is mostly room-temp. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8535 Registered: 4-2010 |
Are "they" used for cleaning something? Removing stains? Are "they" ordinary household objects? Are the solids heated? The liquids? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1694 Registered: 11-2003 |
Are "they" used for cleaning something? Not normally, but sometimes Removing stains? Sometimes Are "they" ordinary household objects? Yes, very much so, found in more or less every kitchen. Are the solids heated? The liquids? Mostly the liquids | ||
| Firesparx (Firesparx)
New member Username: Firesparx Post Number: 12 Registered: 11-2010 |
Are the solids and liquids simply two different states of the same subsance(s)? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8538 Registered: 4-2010 |
Are "they" food items? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1700 Registered: 11-2003 |
Firesparx (Firesparx) Are the solids and liquids simply two different states of the same subsance(s)? No, they are different things. Balin (Balin) Are "they" food items? Mostly, yes | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8546 Registered: 4-2010 |
Are any of the solids food items? All of them? Any of the liquids? All of them? | ||
| Firesparx (Firesparx)
New member Username: Firesparx Post Number: 24 Registered: 11-2010 |
Were the items commonly used for cleaning before the advent of SC Johnson Wax and other companies that produce a rainbow of cleaning products (iow, in the same way that a common liquid consumable used to be the usual fluid used to clean windows?) | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1703 Registered: 11-2003 |
Balin (Balin) Are any of the solids food items? Most of the are All of them? Any of the liquids? All of them? As far as I remember all of the liquids are food related items. Firesparx (Firesparx) Were the items commonly used for cleaning before the advent of SC Johnson Wax and other companies that produce a rainbow of cleaning products (iow, in the same way that a common liquid consumable used to be the usual fluid used to clean windows?) Spot on! That is one of the things I discovered. But where did I learn all this? | ||
| Firesparx (Firesparx)
New member Username: Firesparx Post Number: 30 Registered: 11-2010 |
Internet? Grandparent? Historical novel/fanfic? Old advertisement? One of the walls in a Cracker Barrel? "How to be a Good Wife?" The original issue of Good Housekeeping? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1709 Registered: 11-2003 |
Internet? Grandparent? Historical novel/fanfic? Old advertisement? One of the walls in a Cracker Barrel? "How to be a Good Wife?" The original issue of Good Housekeeping? Neither of these. The source is newer than any of these publication. | ||
| Firesparx (Firesparx)
New member Username: Firesparx Post Number: 33 Registered: 11-2010 |
The back of the Arm&Hammer box and the vinegar bottle? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1712 Registered: 11-2003 |
The back of the Arm&Hammer box and the vinegar bottle? Nope. Try to find what type of media I got this information from. | ||
| Firesparx (Firesparx)
New member Username: Firesparx Post Number: 35 Registered: 11-2010 |
YouTube? Facebook? Podcast? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1713 Registered: 11-2003 |
YouTube? Facebook? Podcast? No to all. It's a fairly common type of media actually. | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 299 Registered: 7-2010 |
Book? Magazine? Newspaper? TV? Internet? Radio? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1714 Registered: 11-2003 |
Book? Magazine? Newspaper? TV? This, no to rest. Can you pinpoint what it was? Internet? Radio? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8607 Registered: 4-2010 |
Was it a news station? A kids' show? Bill Nye the Science Guy? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1717 Registered: 11-2003 |
Was it a news station? A kids' show? Bill Nye the Science Guy? No to all. I'll give you a hint. It's a reality series, originating in the UK, but I just checked it, and it was sold to appr 20 other countries. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8632 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is it a talent show? A competition? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1723 Registered: 11-2003 |
Is it a talent show? A competition? Neither, it's more like a "documentary" sort of reality. Think along the lines of Supernanny and similar. | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1733 Registered: 11-2003 |
Might close this off soon if there is no more interest in it. But to give one last kick, here's a hint. The program series is hosted by two middle-aged women in the UK, the same two women seem to have done the US version (with a slightly different title), while other countries have bought the concept and made their own versions. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8732 Registered: 4-2010 |
Well, I'm no expert in reality shows; in fact, I'm not even a novice when it comes to those. Was the series about the two women? About families? About certain people? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1735 Registered: 11-2003 |
Was the series about the two women? About families? About certain people? This. Families as well, but there is something all of them had in common. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8743 Registered: 4-2010 |
Families in "unfortunate circumstances"? Single-parent families? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1740 Registered: 11-2003 |
Families in "unfortunate circumstances"? Depends on how you define 'unfortunate circumstances' Single-parent families? No, it was one-parent families, two-parent families, singles, couples, students. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8749 Registered: 4-2010 |
Income of the families relevant? Housing? Occupation? Education? Living environment? Upbringing? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1744 Registered: 11-2003 |
Income of the families relevant? Housing? Occupation? Education? Living environment? This, no to rest Upbringing? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8763 Registered: 4-2010 |
Crime in the area relevant? Violence? Living in the ghetto? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1747 Registered: 11-2003 |
Crime in the area relevant? Violence? Living in the ghetto? Nothing at all like that, I'm afraid. I would say that more so than 'living environment', 'living conditions' might be a better description. The thing they have in common is, what most people would call, a character flaw. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8775 Registered: 4-2010 |
Job relevant? Means of living? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1750 Registered: 11-2003 |
Job relevant? Means of living? No to both. | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1754 Registered: 11-2003 |
HINT: The character flaw that unites these people is laziness, manifesting in a particular way. Explore. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8874 Registered: 4-2010 |
Laziness - sleeping relevant? Job searching relevant? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1756 Registered: 11-2003 |
Laziness - sleeping relevant? Job searching relevant? No to both | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 8911 Registered: 4-2010 |
Laziness...when it comes to doing something? Finding something? Looking for something? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1760 Registered: 11-2003 |
Laziness...when it comes to doing something? Definitely this Finding something? Looking for something? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9230 Registered: 4-2010 |
When it comes to...cleaning? Providing for oneself? For the family? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9231 Registered: 4-2010 |
When it comes to...cleaning? Providing for oneself? For the family? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1761 Registered: 11-2003 |
When it comes to...cleaning? This. Anyone know what programme I was watching? Providing for oneself? For the family? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 9258 Registered: 4-2010 |
How Clean is Your House? | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1763 Registered: 11-2003 |
How Clean is Your House? That's the one. And then it's time for a ***********SPOILER************** One day I stumbled across an episode of this programme series. And for anyone not knowing what it's about, it's two middle-aged women, Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie, cleaning up people's dirty houses. And those houses were really discustingly dirty, one man wouldn't even use his own bathroom, that's how dirty it was. During the process of cleaning they would also give hints and tips to the residents, often using everyday objects you would find in your cupboard or bathroom shelf. Like weak tea in a spray bottle to clean glass, or how to use vinegar to get rid of limescale, or toothpaste to remove stains from walls and switches, or a glass bowl with a sliced orange and lemon cleans the microwave if you run in on full power for at least 5 minutes. One of my definite favourites is using salt to get tea stains out of mugs, and also mixing lemon juice and olive oil to treat wooden furniture. So I discovered that ordinary food items could be used for a lot of different things!! |
