I swore by my toaster over for over 20 years. Loved it so much is buy the same one from places like Goodwill just to have a spare.

Then Ninja came along with their convection ovens that actually work… Game over.

Wait, they have a combo device doing both convection and pressure cooker? What black magic is this??

Haha, fine, I’ll give you that one

Because bonnet means “any of various hoods, covers, or protective devices”.

The etymology of which:

bonnet(n.) early 15c., “kind of cap or bonnet worn by men and women,” from Old French bonet, short for chapel de bonet, a cap made from bonet “kind of cloth used as a headdress” (12c., Modern French bonnet), from Medieval Latin bonitum, bonetum “material for hats,” which is perhaps a shortening of Late Latin abonnis “a kind of cap” (7c.), which is perhaps from a Germanic source. (If that is correct, a chapel de bonet would be etymologically a “cap made of cap”).

So bonnet as a cover for the forward part of a vehicle originated with bonnet as a cover for one’s head.

I’ve never heard of a fruck

And trunk originates with the trunk that was literally strapped to the back of a carriage to transport your stuff.

HP has been up and down.

Years ago they were great, then they were shit, then they were good again for a short while.

I wouldn’t touch 'em today, but I’m a laptop snob and only go for the pro lines in Dell or Lenovo anymore. I have friends who spec systems for companies, and those have the least issues and are more maintainable than others.

Take apart some laptops, and you’ll come to appreciate the pro lines from Dell and Lenovo. I inherited an HP laptop, it was challenging to open without breaking stuff, and little is replaceable - the opposite of my Dell and Lenovos.

486sx…man,brinfing back some memories

So making people pay more to leave will decrease tourism?

This is some next level logic.

Sounds more like an accountant realised they could charge more on this tax, and a PR team devised this as they way to sell it.

Fabuloso mixed at 1 Oz per gallon of water. Great for getting the scum off the tub, cleans everything but glass. It’s cheap as hell.

Vinegar & water for glass cleaner (with a drop of dish soap). Cleans better than store bought.

Occasionally I’ll use a specific toilet bowl cleaner when minerals start building up. I get the bottle that squirts up under the rim because that’s where mineral buildup starts.

But really, just about any light cleaner works for a bathroom, I’ve used everything. Just don’t use abrasives until you know exactly what you have for materials. Many baths are plastics these days, which are easily scratched by abrasives.

I just use vinegar and water with a drop of dish detergent in the spray bottle for mirrors. Learned it from my grandparents, and it works better than any “blue” glass cleaner for pennies.

Sounds like a masochist

Hahahaha, dammit this deserves more upvotes

I think you meant this for Unpopular Opinions

Not really much of a shower thought. Pretty sure Clark or Niven wrote entire books on this concept (I forget, just know I read these books 40 years ago, and they weren’t new then).

Dictionaries are tough, I know.

Hahaha, damn, nice.

I like describing behaviours as effective or ineffective. “Bad” is tying judgment to it.

Being direct is generally more effective than passive/aggressive, if one’s intent is to build on a relationship, but passive/aggressive may fit the bill if you no longer give a shit and want to simply get your digs in before leaving (say a shitty boss).

I think the first example works better by leaving off the “when are you leaving” question.

But it’s still fits the definition.

And it runs fine in a VM.

I have 3 external DVD drives - VM’s were the only way to use all 3 on a single machine. Really reduces rip times when I have a stack of discs.

You got this from your hippie great-grandma’s diary when she wrote it 50 years ago.

All those same hippies in the US are those Boomers ya’ll keep crying about, with 3 houses and 2 cars, or is it 3 cars and 2 houses?

Apparently that shtick sounded good to them right up until they needed cars to do what they wanted to do.