Knives on the LEFT?!?! That is not the way things happen in a rational and orderly universe and I WILL die on this hill if I have to…
Acceptable policies (L-R) are Fork, Knife, Spoon (Best policy) or for mild deviants Spoon, Fork Knife (allowable). The knife does NOT go on the left. Ever.
Inserts like that have a definite chirality:
Blade side of the knife toward the front of the drawer sounds less ideal than the left-side/right-side error…
Silverware doesn’t fit too well on the insert when the insert is upside-down…
Doing both turns means you have all three issues…
Rotations in 4D could solve the chiral insert problem, but so far that’s completely in the realm of sci-fi.
Sir, you forget inversion (ie parity transformation). If the insert happens to be made of soft silicone, such a transformation may even be practical. The stuff of future space tech, possibly *today*
Indeed, Rhennius machines are sadly hard to come by. Or perhaps not so sadly, since it can be argued that such an inversion would turn a faulty knives-on-the-left insert into an attractive, functional, knives-on-the-right insert made out of antimatter. Excluding that, the easiest and cheapest alternatives are to change your insert or, and this is cheaper, change your mind.
Ours is Forks, Spoons, Smaller Forks, Smaller Spoons, and Knives perpendicular to those across the top.
For some reason Angie decided to buy silverware sized much larger than our previous sets, which is fine by me as I use the tablespoons and big forks and she uses the teaspoons and salad forks. The knives are just plain large and don’t fit in any of the lower slots.
Yes. It makes looking for things even more fun. No really. Also there’s a special zone in those kind of drawers where things can disappear and then reappear. We call it going “Utensil blind” like when you spend 10 minutes looking for the potato masher because you know it’s in there but can’t find it. Then your wife reaches in for half a second and pulls it out. “There it is” she says. “Must have gone utensil blind” I say and we all laugh, such fun.
This is a sub-case of my search algorithm for things I have misplaced, which says that things are always exactly where I expect them to be, in the very first place I look; but it will take me five or six times looking both there and then everywhere else I think they might be before I actually find them right where I started looking the very first time
Oh, yeah! I never have any doubt of where anything I have is. Until it’s time to actually get my hands on it and… it’s nowhere to be found! It just baffles me how often that happens.
This is the way. I had a roommate complain about it once and I asked them if they’ve ever had a problem finding anything and they stopped for a second and we never talked about it again.
Claire, NO!!! Lottie doesn’t need a surrogate mother and she would never ousted a friend. Let’s hope Glenn can calm her jealousy and remind her that she was happy to see Lottie in love. The more shaken Claire is, the more I appreciate Glenn’s calmness. They balance perfectly.
I suspect that Claire was excited about the idea of Lottie flirting and then the two of them gossiping about it. But she hadn’t considered at the time that the flirting might lead to Lottie getting into an actual relationship that could pull her away from their friendship, which is what she’s worried about now.
Not necessarily. A LOT of people got into F1 during lockdown because of a Netflix series (Drive to Survive? Something like that). People got hooked, talked their friends and family into watching the show and they got hooked. F1 is probably bigger now than it has been in the last 50 or 60 years.
Fine for me. Claire and Glenn are interesting characters, It could be funny if for once the story is about them and their relationship with Lottie or with each other.
I couldn’t get my partner into F1, but Instagram and Netflix managed to. Once she realised it was handsome millionaire drama first and fast cars second, it thankfully killed much of the Bravoverse in our house. Result!
Gosh that’s a great panel
Record-setting.
Glerm seems to light a fire in Claire.
She is perfectly capable of setting her own fires, though.
This could become a future danger for the whole city.
Fortunately the city is made of steel.
Knives on the LEFT?!?! That is not the way things happen in a rational and orderly universe and I WILL die on this hill if I have to…
Acceptable policies (L-R) are Fork, Knife, Spoon (Best policy) or for mild deviants Spoon, Fork Knife (allowable). The knife does NOT go on the left. Ever.
I’m not going to sleep tonight now…
My silver drawer, enforced by the size and shape of the compartments in the insert, is knives, forks, spoons.
Get a new insert.
Or at least turn the insert around.
Inserts like that have a definite chirality:
Blade side of the knife toward the front of the drawer sounds less ideal than the left-side/right-side error…
Silverware doesn’t fit too well on the insert when the insert is upside-down…
Doing both turns means you have all three issues…
Rotations in 4D could solve the chiral insert problem, but so far that’s completely in the realm of sci-fi.
Sir, you forget inversion (ie parity transformation). If the insert happens to be made of soft silicone, such a transformation may even be practical. The stuff of future space tech, possibly *today*
Indeed, Rhennius machines are sadly hard to come by. Or perhaps not so sadly, since it can be argued that such an inversion would turn a faulty knives-on-the-left insert into an attractive, functional, knives-on-the-right insert made out of antimatter. Excluding that, the easiest and cheapest alternatives are to change your insert or, and this is cheaper, change your mind.
(Antimatter would involve an even more intense rosy glow than that which Claire is so concerned about.)
A left-handed insert is just a right-handed insert traveling backwards in time.
Ours is Forks, Spoons, Smaller Forks, Smaller Spoons, and Knives perpendicular to those across the top.
For some reason Angie decided to buy silverware sized much larger than our previous sets, which is fine by me as I use the tablespoons and big forks and she uses the teaspoons and salad forks. The knives are just plain large and don’t fit in any of the lower slots.
Forever, and ever.
Knives, forks, spoons.
Ya know, one could start Twitter trending with a question of this nature.
Of course, I do not “do” the twitter, though I am content to consume some of it. One of you lot may wish to light this candle, I shall not stop it.
Spoons, forks, knives. In order of increasing potential lethality.
You’ve never tangled with a real master of Spoon-Fu, I see
I’m a big fan of everything in one drawer in a big disorganized pile. No organizer allowed. As the Goddess Anoia intended.
Yes. It makes looking for things even more fun. No really. Also there’s a special zone in those kind of drawers where things can disappear and then reappear. We call it going “Utensil blind” like when you spend 10 minutes looking for the potato masher because you know it’s in there but can’t find it. Then your wife reaches in for half a second and pulls it out. “There it is” she says. “Must have gone utensil blind” I say and we all laugh, such fun.
This is a sub-case of my search algorithm for things I have misplaced, which says that things are always exactly where I expect them to be, in the very first place I look; but it will take me five or six times looking both there and then everywhere else I think they might be before I actually find them right where I started looking the very first time
Oh, yeah! I never have any doubt of where anything I have is. Until it’s time to actually get my hands on it and… it’s nowhere to be found! It just baffles me how often that happens.
This is the way. I had a roommate complain about it once and I asked them if they’ve ever had a problem finding anything and they stopped for a second and we never talked about it again.
Uh-oh. Claire’s fire powers are reawakening.
It was about time.
Claire, NO!!! Lottie doesn’t need a surrogate mother and she would never ousted a friend. Let’s hope Glenn can calm her jealousy and remind her that she was happy to see Lottie in love. The more shaken Claire is, the more I appreciate Glenn’s calmness. They balance perfectly.
Attitudes have changed, I see. https://badmachinery.com/comic/hes-quite-short/
I suspect that Claire was excited about the idea of Lottie flirting and then the two of them gossiping about it. But she hadn’t considered at the time that the flirting might lead to Lottie getting into an actual relationship that could pull her away from their friendship, which is what she’s worried about now.
My favorite incarnation of Lottie’s lips
I know Glerm has those innocent (naive?) baby blues, but in panels 1 and 5 he looks demented.
Love the Marvin Gaye 45!
Now John (and Claire) is speaking my language.
I’m just a fella with a one track mind.
Also what happened to Lottie’s constant steady boyfriend, Mystery? What’s Mystery going to think when it finds out out this?
This is discussed
Don’t worry, not everyone from NZ is that obtuse. Some are though.
Must be from South Island.
There’s also NASCAR, unless the reduced speed there isn’t enough.
I mean, the formula one thing seems… specific. Like… there’s a story there.
Not necessarily. A LOT of people got into F1 during lockdown because of a Netflix series (Drive to Survive? Something like that). People got hooked, talked their friends and family into watching the show and they got hooked. F1 is probably bigger now than it has been in the last 50 or 60 years.
I guess it’s cute because Little Claire but isn’t she just being enormously unreasonable
I’m starting to wonder if this series isn’t *really* going to be all about Little Claire and Gerlm though.
Fine for me. Claire and Glenn are interesting characters, It could be funny if for once the story is about them and their relationship with Lottie or with each other.
I think conflict may be at the heart of successful storytelling but we can try the other way if you like
boom.
that’d be nice! you could introduce a cat’s lovable antics instead
Marmaduke in the streets, Heathcliff in the sheets
I… am not sure how to interpret this. It’s probably better than being Garfield in the sheets, though.
While literally no one was looking, Heathcliff appears to have gone full-bore Dada and is now some kind of messenger from a far stranger world
I just read about 100. Incredible. I am now “ride or die” for Heathcliff.
Heathcliff has been that way since at least the turn of the century. I don’t read it daily .. but I find it fascinatingly baffling, whenever I do.
(copies and pastes into my Evernote “Possible responses to speechwriting client feedback” notebook)
To be fair, Lottie has assumed obligations — to Claire, and moreso to Girb — that she’s been neglecting because of this Nero thing.
The first rule of Gossip Club is you spill everything you know about Gossip Club.
I couldn’t get my partner into F1, but Instagram and Netflix managed to. Once she realised it was handsome millionaire drama first and fast cars second, it thankfully killed much of the Bravoverse in our house. Result!
I have it on good authority that pandas would love a good hot shower and rosy glow on occasion, but… it’s so much effort.
Claire’s argument fell apart pretty quickly for being so… reasonable.
The situation is highly weird, but I do appreciate Glenn’s principled stance against gossip