The Grand Cafe

We are all of us in the gutter
But some of us are looking at the stars…

Chrissie Hynde or Oscar Wilde depending on your preference.

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That’s a shame but the way of the world unfortunately.
We had a couple of Miele lab glassware washers in the lab I’ve just retired from, they’d been in use for quite some time, the programmes were on plastic punch cards, they were still going strong 6 months ago.

Really sorry to hear about this Pete, I guess it could have been worse… Keep smiling :vulcan_salute:

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We bought a new tumble dryer a couple of months back. I wanted one that was much more efficient than our still working but old Bosch. So we did end up buying Miele and I chose the model by checking in reports on line and then seeing what Miele themselves were selling from their own website. Stocks were obviously low because models would come into stock and go out again within a couple of hours. They seemed to not be available from the usual online suppliers.

So I started checking the Miele UK website every hour or so and pounced when the one I wanted came into stock. Miele delivered it, installed it (plugged in the mains plug!) and took the old one away a week later.

Nice photo editing.
For a moment there I thought. Holy sh*t, both legs!!

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Our Miele washing machine developed a fault 8 years into its 10 year warranty. The very nice Miele technician who fixed it told me that he had just repaired a 35 year old washing machine and that the spare parts he needed were all in stock still.

Our problem turned out to be electronic brain failure and I was very impressed that he looked up the part (a £600 replacement processing card) on his PC and said “Oh I seem to have one of those in my van!” And indeed he did. It was all fixed free under the warranty.
Best

David

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Pete, sorry to hear about your mis-step and tumble. Hope to hear you are back out on the dance floor soon.

btw: In the US when you end up in the emergency room you would want to tell the doctor you fell off the curb.

A curb, or kerb, is the edge where a raised sidewalk or road median/central reservation meets a street or other roadway.

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Mm - and at the bottom of that kerb is the gutter.

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…absolutely, when you arrive at the hospital you tell the good folks, “while returning home from the pub I fell off the curb and landed in the gutter!”

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The most successful urban myth of all time!

Although the moon is upside-down in Australia.

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I was going to say no wonder I fell I’ve got 2 left feet but you’ve even manage to turn the toes around. Don’t think I’ll ever trust a photo again.

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No - Australia is upside down, surely?

And there’s kangaroos in George St (Sydney). :grin:

I was walking with Diesel and Mrs Pete, and we were talking about who’s going to drop off the twig first (jokingly of course) when I fell she and Diesel both kept walking, with Mrs Pete still talking.

I think she pushed me but she’s denying that. I’ve asked for witnesses to come forward. :grin:

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If it’s any comfort, if Mrs Pete had been eyeing up the insurance policies she would have pushed you off something higher than a kerb. :joy:
However just to be on the safe side avoid multi level car parks🤣

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Well anyway I hope you heal well Pete and all our best wishes to you, Mrs apparent assailant and Diesel…

Best

David

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We must all have seen the video from (I think, Brasil), years ago where, to prove the theory, they pour a bucket of water into a portable sink placed just North of the equator.

The water drains with a clockwise motion.

They then move the sink 100 yds. South of the meridian and repeat.

Lo, as if by magic, the water now drains anti-clockwise … case proven.

Nah, different sink, which wasn’t picked up in the cut / edit.

errr, Dave … following Mike-S’s pedantic reference to kerbs and gutters …
… meridians are aligned North-South.

It’s Parallels of Latitude that run East-West. The Equator is one of these. A rather special one, yes. But not a meridian. :sunglasses:

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One of the most widely held nonsense beliefs, to the degree that it has even been printed in so-called ‘science’ text-books.

There’s a lesson in it somewhere…

I would have thought the one about us being upside down was. :grin: