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... after visiting it many times, and passing it loads more ...
... that the National Portrait Gallery, London is a Landscape building ... 
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No, never read it. But I was sent that cartoon without attribution and thought it was about right.
And I'd never noticed it myself...
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OriginalGriff wrote: ... after visiting it many times, and passing it loads more ...
Clearly, you are more oriented with it than others.
/ravi
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I'm sitting here, typing away, and I hear a yell of "Oh B*gg*r!" from the kitchen. This is Herself-ish for "I did something wrong, come and fix it".
So I go out to find out what the problem is and she is trying to fish half a bread roll out of the toaster ... with an all metal Sabatier chopping knife. And yes, it's still plugged in.
Point out the silliness of this - gently, I don't wish to lose Brownie Points here - and use a wooden spoon to extract it. Just trying to get the other half out and she chimes in with "Should you be using your finger?" Sure enough, I'm wiggling my finger around inside a plugged in toaster. Oops.
Petard. Hoist. B*gg*r.
Done anything stupid today, folks?
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got up in the morning 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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What impresses me the most is that unplugging the toaster is not the first thing you did.
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Have you tried pouring water over it to flush the bread out? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I suggest gasoline. It has lower density. Thus it will not spoil the bread.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I like the way you think
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Nah, just keep re-toasting it till it turns to ash and can be poured out the cleaning flap at the bottom. (Suggest removing the wooden spoon and finger first though.)
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Nitro. Take 1/10 litre and it will blow the bread straight into orbit, provided you try it outside. It does not matter very much should the toaster still be plugged in.
The user can't update the up: we update it for them (Choice in the CP poll)
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If it were my Mrs, I'd find myself being chastised for any of the following reasons:
- I didn't save her from harm politely enough
- Why did I get metal knives?
- She's done this before - why did I have to bud in?
- Why did I bring home such fat rolls (or not warn her if she bought them)
- If I burn her wooden spoon she'll "have me head"
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If it were my Mrs, I'd find myself enjoying a perfectly toasted roll with homemade preserves. 
Maybe you should consider an upgrade? 
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There are better uses for women than serving wenches.
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Based on that reply you should consider yourself lucky your Mrs. allows you to continue to breathe. 
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Receptacle requires a dispenser.
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The 1950's called wondering where you'd run off to.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: wondering where you'd run off to.
The Bedroom.
You, being a modern, can run off to the video game console (make sure the joy-stick you shift is the right one).
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W∴ Balboos wrote: You, being a modern...
 I'm one month shy of 54 years old and have been happily married for nearly 32 years. Haven't touched a video game console in nearly 2 decades. If that makes me "a modern" then so be it.
I was taught to respect women and not treat them as chattel.
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The kitchen in my domain - she cooks twice a week to give me a break - so I have metal knives for filleting and "bony" meat. The ceramic ones don't like bone or metal so she does know not to use those (and I keep "her" ceramics well away from "my" ceramics so she won't bugger them up anyway).
And she's afraid of most of my big toys, which helps: Freddie the meat slicer is safe, and so is Stephen the deep fat frier (both are industrial equipment: Freddie is a 10-inch rotary blade, and Stephen holds 8L of oil - she could hurt herself or the cat pretty badly with either). The Sous Vide she has accepted and actually uses occasionally.
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I get my once-upon-a-time-chemist satisfaction by being the cook. She didn't know how to cook when I acquired her, so, when she does cook, it's my style (a hidden blessing, that).
She doesn't use my knives - I insist they be hand washed as soon as their use is finished. No dishwasher; now sitting on a counter for days. So she has some sort of fear of offending my sensibilities - or (more likely) she likes that I do all the cooking and doesn't want to rock that boat. Also, leaving stuff that sharp in a careless way, like in a sink, could result in copious bleeding if grabbed unknowingly and inappropriately. Oddly, the ceramic knives given me as a gift some years ago are her domain - not sharp enough. We share the cleaver. Somehow, a woman with a cleaver always sounds ominous[^].
My deep-fryer holds ca. 3 liters. It's actually in order to eat less oil - wok-food has water-based components ready and in go the drained fried items. Greasy tastes so damn good. Especially potatoes.
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Not yet, today seems to be the exception.
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Seems like you're toast!
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