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Post by Zoot on Sept 7, 2009 20:18:43 GMT
Reminds me of a Michael McIntyre routine:
(if you don't want to watch all of it, start from around 1.40)
;D
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Post by Stan Butler on Sept 8, 2009 22:31:06 GMT
Liking the 'man drawer' routine. I thought it was just me with one of those!
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Post by Mr Levity on Sept 10, 2009 19:30:15 GMT
That's amazing ! He's been looking in MY drawer too !
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Post by Master Shake on Sept 16, 2009 14:16:14 GMT
I know Halloween is around the corner, and they do this in town here every year, but it always strikes me as odd, but the local council (or the Minnesotan equivalent) has wrapped the bottoms of the lamp posts in leaves and twigs, to make them look olde-world and rustic. To me they always look like broomsticks, which I suppose is appropriate, but the odd(er) thing?
They have very real-looking cobs of sweetcorn stuck into them, poking out into the street.
Weird.
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Post by Master Shake on Oct 12, 2009 13:10:35 GMT
This one falls under the category of there being "Nowt as funny as folk," as my mum used to say. Yes, it's typically Shake-long, but amusing, I think.
Okay. After having lived here for almost two weeks now, we love it. That said, given the nature of the building, there are some slightly weird neighbours. One in particular who lives at the end of this side of the building has to walk past our windows to get to the stairs. The first three days we were here she'd actually stop and pause and try to look into the apartment, which I thought was damn rude. One more time, I decided, and I was going to say something. Then, I went down to the public computer, and she was using it. She talked to me briefly, in very heavily accented broken English. When I went back to the computer later, my landlady was complaining that she's a klutz and has broken and jammed the printer. Apparently this tenant really gets on my landlady's nerves. I fixed the printer for her and life ticked on. Then the landlady told Renee that this tenant has recognised her; apparently they briefly worked together at Target and I remember the horror stories Renee told me about this woman. Apparently in her country they don't even have coffee pots! She doesn't quite 'get' Western culture. But it was because she knew Renee she was trying to get a look to see if we really were in the apartment.
Anyway, to make a long story slightly longer (hehe) the landlady (so she tells Renee) had called on her for some reason, yesterday, in October, when the temperature never got above freezing. This tenant had the air conditioning running. Now it's her prerogative to do that. Technically there's no reason she can't, since she pays her rent and it's included in the price, but my landlady was baffled. WHY, she wondered, would someone be running forced air COOLING on a day when it was below 0C outside...?
Apparently this tenant was going somewhere, had just showered, and was running the air conditioner to........
DRY HER HAIR!
Yep, there really is, nowt as funny as folk.
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Post by Zoot on Oct 13, 2009 12:15:21 GMT
That's the weirdest hairdrier I've ever heard of!  |
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Post by Reneekittycat on Oct 13, 2009 19:10:56 GMT
Well, I know for a fact that she ain't the brightest color in the box. I was given the task of training her at Food Ave (Target Cafe) a few months ago. I was giving her the run down on the things to do at opening and I was showing her the coffee maker. It's quite simple really, just put a paper filter in the grounds holder and pour in a pre-measured packet of coffee, easy peasy right? Oh no, she looks at the thing and says "We don't have things like that where I come from." I look at her and say, "What!? Where is that?" She tells me she comes from Malaysia, Polynesia, and Korea, in fact she is a Korean refugee. Now I know those places are a LONG way from Minnesota, but I really thought that things like coffee makers were available even there. She's a nice person, no doubt about that and I have no problem with foreigners coming to America to better their lives, BUT learn the language. She can barely string two sentences together that can be understood.
I haven't actually spoken to her since we moved in and I'm kind of hoping that I don't run into her. We've seen her at Walmart a few times and she always treats me like her long lost best friend. That would be fine if she had learned English since we last spoke but according to Lorna (our landlady) she hasn't. If I see her I will be nice, because well that's what I am, but I don't think we'll be getting very chummy. I hope that doesn't make me sound mean.
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Post by Zoot on Oct 14, 2009 12:23:47 GMT
We all have neighbours we'd rather avoid!  |
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Post by Master Shake on Jan 23, 2010 19:08:43 GMT
Said neighbour is apparently leaving tomorrow. After letting it be known around the building the last few weeks she wants to join her brother in California and asking anyone who'll listen (including me, Renee, and Lorna) what the best way is to get to the MSP airport, apparently she's arranged the airport shuttle for tomorrow and is hoping to fall on someone's mercy for the price of an airline ticket to Cali when she arrives.
Yeah, good luck with that one, methinks. Not long after we moved in, we coined a phrase for her which is the most accurate thing I've ever said about someone:
"That girl ain't right."
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Post by Zoot on Jan 24, 2010 15:11:48 GMT
Ahhh, will you miss her? |
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Post by Master Shake on Jan 24, 2010 21:58:56 GMT
No, LOL, although she did leave, at about nine o'clock this morning. I was heading to the office to pick up yesterday's mail (snow was so bad I didn't bother yesterday) and she was heading back to the apartment and she waved at me. On my way back (being neighbourly, not nosey(!) ) I saw her at her door, bags packed, and went to say goodbye, good luck, etc, and actually chatted to her properly for the first time since we moved in. Apparently, her brother, who she's going to stay with, has paid for her ticket etc, and she's off to Cali, saying she'll miss the winter and the snow.
Yeah. Suuuuure you will. Honestly, call me cynical, but I wouldn't be surprised to see her turn back up here sometime next week and beg Lorna for her old apartment back.
I said so to Lorna. After she'd finished laughing hysterically, she said she thought that if that happened, it would be more than likely the place would be fully booked and sold out just before Christina got back.
Coz we all know here, that girl ain't right.
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Post by Reneekittycat on Jan 25, 2010 4:31:58 GMT
Not that anyone here will care, but the Vikings missed out again on going to the Super Bowl. I said they were going to lose and they did. That's what happens when you pin all your hopes on one aging quarterback. Brett Farve is too old to be playing football, he should have retired years ago.
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Post by Master Shake on Feb 26, 2010 16:32:42 GMT
This one doesn't really fit here, but, I'm thoroughly fed up of the snow and ice. It should be a lot warmer by now than it is, and our car park here is still like the secondary rink they've got prepared for the skating in the Olympics!
Mind you, it's supposed to get as warm as -4C today, so I might actually make it out for a walk!
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Post by Master Shake on Mar 6, 2010 22:02:04 GMT
Now that the ice is FINALLY starting to melt, there's been so much of it around our building (and specifically on the sloped roof) that as it comes down in drips, its sounded like it's raining here for three days.
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Post by DaleJr Fan on Mar 10, 2010 0:32:18 GMT
Yikes! That's a lot of water!
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