Off Topic What grinds your gears

I just use a hook bottle opener, so a waiters friend or the bit on a standard tin opener. Same action as opening a bottle, except it just releases the pressure rather than taking the lid off. After that it opens with no effort.

 

The old bloke next door is a great neighbour I pop in and see him a few times a week
He struggles on his legs but is all there mentally
He’s been let down by a few cleaners and now gone with Age Concern
The cleaner gets paid 12:50 an hour
Age concern charge him 50 quid for two hours
Robbing ****s
Concern my arse

 

I've always just twatted the lid in the middle to disturb the air inside and if that doesn't work put a couple of holes in the lid or a good rough tea towel for a good grip of the lid.

 

£5

 

Small jar - stick the lid end in a door jamb, pull the door towards you, twist jar.

Large jar - twat the side of the lid on one of the crimp points on a worktop.

Sorted.



Wealth of information this thread. There should never be a City supporter looking wistfully at an unopened jar of Ragu ever again.

 

I wasn’t going to comment on this but seeing as though it’s the hot topic on the board my FOMO took over.

Is this the same jar that you’ve had three failed attempts at or three separate jars, presumably having got a more proficient jar opener to assist in opening the previous jars?

If it’s three jars in two weeks that I have to say your consumption of beetroot is highly impressive but also concerning in equal measure.

‘How much beetroot do you get through in two weeks?’ isn’t a question I pose to my mates too often. If it was I dare say anyone replying’ 3 jars’ would be the winner by some distance. How big these jars are is factor, of course it is.

Beetroot is a marvellous source of various nutrients but all the vinegar can’t be good for you.

Have you thought you might have a beetroot problem?

Apart from not being able to open the jars.

Obvz.

 

Any road up, jarred beetroot is so twentieth century.


Go vacuum packed and you will never be defeated by a stubborn lid ever again.

 

It does seem to be harder to get into stuff these days. I always say to the Mrs "what do old people do?". She gives me that look that says "you are an old person now"

 

Beetroot has a long history of being used as an aphrodisiac.


Just saying

 

Rover thinks an aphrodisiac is a Kenyan with vertigo.

 

I was going to ask Baldricks Cunning Plan if that is true but he is still trying to get the ****ing lid off.

 

You’ve made that up.

Vacuum packed

Ernie thinks Tim Peake chomps on beetroot when he’s titting about on that Space Station.

 

Place between legs and ask her to squeeze