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I love cicadas! I find them very fascinating to look at.
Be careful if you pick one up, though. They don't bite, and they're not aggressive. But if you let one set on your hand for long enough, it might mistake you for one of the trees cicadas usually sit on. If that happens, the cicada sitting on your hand might get thirsty and try to jam its proboscis into your hand to drink your sap. It hurts!
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@GregUtas
You did it without prompting!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I was heartbroken by its absence!
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frantic, nerviest at tower fell (4,4,4,3)
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I'm guessing this only really applies to females (or those with an aviary)?
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Strictly speaking, no, but clearly you've figured it out!
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I'll give it 20 mins to see if anyone else gets it and try to save myself and everyone else from one of my low quality clues.
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Your clues are not low quality!
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WENT ARSE OVER TIT
Anagram of NERVIEST AT TOWER
If right, credit to Rich.
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I'll let you and Rich sort who'll set it tomorrow.
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Unless Rich is desperate to set one, I'll give it a go tomorrow.
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I'll happily take the credit but would you be able to do tomorrow?
Things have gone a bit mad since I posted with one email (in or out) every minute and it looks like I'm going to be a bit rushed tomorrow!
Thanks.
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Right now he's assembling his cabinet.
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Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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I hope he assembles his cabinet better than Ikea makes furniture.
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To be fair, IKEA makes furniture of pretty good quality.
A friend of mine makes furniture for super yachts, the kind Arabian royalty has.
Even they get parts from IKEA, because it's just pretty good and you can't get that kind of quality cheaper anywhere.
He even bought it for his own home despite him being against it at first.
When shopping for furniture he gave it a chance and decided that the price of IKEA furniture gave you a better price/quality ratio than "good" furniture does.
Even from his suppliers he couldn't get wood cheaper to make it himself
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'Wood' ?!
Are you joking, Mr. Rossel?
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Well, it is wood.
Small flakes mixed with glue and subsequently pressed into a board.
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Kind of like McDonald's all "Meat" burgers. some real meat mixed with filler agents (glue). pressed into patties to resemble meat burgers.
no thanks.
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I know exactly nothing about wood.
My friend does and told me the wood he found at IKEA was good and cheap.
Not the chipboard stuff, mind you (although that was also cheaper than he could get)
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To put some balance to that comment.
Ikea is experts at getting exactly the right quality for the intended purpose.
Buy a kitchen, and it will easily last you twenty years of daily use. (if assembled correctly)
Buy a bookshelf and fill it with (not to heavy) books and it will do the job of storing them just fine. But if you use said bookshelf for anything else, what so ever, if will quickly disintegrate.
The trick to be happy with your Ikea purchase is to never stray from the products intended purpose.
Also, the purpose of an Ikea couch is to be replaced every ten years or so.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: the purpose of an Ikea couch is to be replaced every ten years or so Make that five, as I'm finding out with my current couch
To be fair, the price was less than a quarter of a couch that would last me twenty
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Sander Rossel wrote: Make that five,
Probably quite correct. I was giving the benefit of doubt.
Sander Rossel wrote: To be fair, the price was less than a quarter of a couch that would last me twenty
The main problem here is that they probably won't last twenty years, as we're finding out with our "proper" couch. (That cost about four times as much)
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I love IKEA stuff - it's just like grown-up Meccano!
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