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I'm sorting out the spare room, and found a very black silver locket - obviously Herself's, it had a picture of her late son in it.
So I look on t'interweb, and it says to bring one litre of water to the boil with a tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda, and a piece of aluminium foil, and drop the silver in it for ten seconds.
"What the heck" thought I. "She hasn't worn it for fifteen years, doesn't matter if it doesn't work". So I took out the picture, and tried it.
By heck. It only worked!  Shiny, bright, and silver ... that's some serious Brownie Points with Herself, right there!
Contrary to my hard felt belief, not everything on the internet is
1) CodeProject,
2) Pron,
3) Cat pictures,
or 4) Rubbish.
Verily, I am amazed!
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Many of the commercial silver cleaning kits contain exactly that, at a much higher price, naturally. 
EDIT: My grandmother used to get rid of persistent silver stains with a tiny bit of fresh lemon juice, rubbed on the stain. Don't do this too often; it etches the silver.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Well that might get a try... 
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I've used that same technique a long time, but my recipe adds a teaspoon o' salt, and a wee jigger of white vinegar ... forget where I got that recipe, however, but it's a frequently cited one.
It would be interesting to A/B test with and without salt, and vinegar.
Did you use a glass container as usuallu suggested "?
cheers, Bill
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Nope - stainless steel saucepan. All fine, the pan wasn't discoloured.
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...bring one litre of water to the boil with a tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda...
Wonder where that recipe came from.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Nonsense. It should be 1 quart of water and 15 grams of baking soda.
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The internet version of Sturgeon's law[^] states that 99.997% of everything on the internet is crap. You found a part of the 0.003% that isn't.
Software Zen: delete this;
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If you want to pick up girls, should you keep your back straight, and bend with your knees?
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I just let them notice I can lick my eyebrows . . .
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That's not what they had in mind . . . use your imagination.
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Would it work as well with nose hairs?
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Just how long do you let yours grow??
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Swedish style, I suppose?
Being raised on fish will do that to you.
(The aroma of fish? Get it ?)
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You're confusing me with Norwegians. They eat dried smelly fish.
I was raised on Moose and potatoes.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: You're confusing me with Norwegians.
Swedes? Norwegians? Danes? Fins?
And the difference is ? ? ?*
* Mitigate your rage! At least I didn't include French in the list!
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Mexicans, Usians or Canadians.
I don't know who's having the biggest right to feel insulted.
The French I suppose, for being excluded.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: You're confusing me with Norwegians. They eat dried smelly fish.
I was raised on Moose and potatoes.
I suppose that means that you know how to put furniture together.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I do, but that's mostly unrelated. I believe.
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How could anyone stoop to that level?
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As I recall, the problem isn't picking them up, but laying them down. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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You got my vote!
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I love it.
Coming from Windows 7, and not being able to update it as a specific and needed software was still not compatible with 10, I started yesterday to update my main development machine.
Good things that were not in 7:
- Being able to switch languages pressing Windows + space (while writing in a web form, in word...) this is wonderful, I guess that this is not needed by most of English speaking guys/girls here... but to me that write often in Catalan, Spanish and English... it is wonderful.
- I had only 10GB of free space before... now that I have everything again at it's place I have 100GB free... probably a copy of windows 10 ready to be installed, all the Lenovo drivers, that recovery partition that is not there anymore (but I have a recovery USB from Lenovo yay!) and who knows what else was lying under the know things...
- I can access the DLNA media server directly from the operating system.
- Edge works really well... I need to find out how to add more rows of "main sites" to get it as I like but appart of that I'm happy with it's performance.
- The display quality has improved a lot... Having 14" display and a high dpi resolution was not good with 7... now everything looks great.
- The way search works after pressing "windows" is really nice.
- Having one task bar under all the screens is nice. It would be great if the start menu would appear on the display the mouse is at the moment you press the windows key, but having the bar in all the displays is a good thing.
- Everything works fast and well...
There are small things that still need to improve but...
- Having Edge as the default PDF viewer is not good enough... can't rotate easily...
- Missing MRU (last used files) in the start menu.
- Would like to be able to change the wallpaper in the login screen... That cave and beach is...
At the end, I'm happy with Windows 10.  
modified 14-Apr-17 10:57am.
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Joan M wrote: The display quality has improved a lot... Having 14" display and a high dpi resolution was not good with 7... now everything looks great.
Really? That's funny, I had to install some weird not-really-trustworthy tool to unblur everything on 125%. 150% worked, somehow, but that's way too much. It can't even be done with a registry tweak, MS in their wisdom has decided to reset that setting every couple of reboots.
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