Do you sleep with a blanket regardless of temperature?
And when you’re looking for a word in the dictionary, do you always have to recite the whole alphabet in order to find the letter that you’re looking for?
Don’t worry, you’re not alone. It seems we are all more alike than you might have thought.
This gallery makes the world seem a whole lot smaller. Thanks Buzzfeed.
Wondering how many photos of random people have you in the background
Which of these are you guilty of?
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I hold up my left and right hands to make L shapes to check which way is left and right…still.
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Getting into a lift full of people and going to press the button for your floor, realising it’s already pressed, having an awkward moment, but pressing it again anyway.
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i would die if i were th woman in the background on the first pic… that actually is my thing… i run away from people taking photos/video in a public place as i fear of being in the background… don’t ask me why cause i don’t know the reason… i also don’t like hg strangers in the background of photos that i am taking… actually bad backgrounds in photos annoy me enormesly… the other day they were taking photos of a bride end groom at a beautiful beach and the toilet block was in the background… why, people, why?!
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Tee hee – hitting the button at a pedestrian crossing even though someone else is there already (and in all likelihood had already pressed it). But then rolling my eyes if I’m at the first to hit the button and then someone else come along and hits it again. Such a double standard!
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Of these I relate to throwing something in the bin then needing to check the directions, and also always needing to have a sheet/blanket on me when I’m asleep. Also, movie posters on book covers, noooo. I have that copy of Youth in Revolt though.
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I do the microwave thing. What is that about? It drives my partner insane.
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Indeed!! I always think 1990 was 10 years ago. I wonder why…
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I do the glass thing.
I moisturizer my hands a lot and use lip balm a lot.
I definitely doing walk about the beach with my pants undone and my hand in there.
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Kind of along the lines of the 1990s being 10 years ago, I still think of Channel 10 as the new channel.
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I can’t go to sleep if the wardrobe doors are ajar or if the tallboy drawers aren’t completely closed. It’s too unsettling! My husband is constantly curious about my tipping the last mouthful of any drink down the sink. Especially hot drinks…I just can’t do the dregs!
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It would be great if we could get captions to show in the mobile gallery, i didn’t get what some of the pictures were about without captions!
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Agreed, as a mama of three small children I only get a chance to read on my iPhone. Please please work out how to get the captions onto your gallery viewed on an iPhone!
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It would be great if we could get captions to show in the mobile gallery, i didn’t get what some of the pictures were about without captions!
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Wednesday is a stupid word. I don’t care that it probably has origins in another language – why can’t we just get rid of the extra d?
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Definitely the microwave one! the stupid loud beep always annoys me, that said I don’t go as far as adding an extra second to the time to allow for it
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So what’s with the classy lady in the background with her hand down her pants? Anyone care to hypothesise? It’s the only reason I read the article, I thought it was something to do with the hand down the pants while walking along the beach kind of weird thing… disappointing really.
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Me too!
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Oh my goodness, totally didn’t even spot that! She’s really having a good old scratch there (I assume). Pants are undone and all!!
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Haha Katie you crack me up
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I have to have the volume on anything, like tv or radio or watever on even numbers! or its ok if its in 5′s… like 20,25,30… my brother is exactly the same! and we both have to make sure to tear off the toilet paper neatly! no jaggered edges!
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I can’t count how many times I’ve had to get the box, package or wrapper out of the bin! Also forgetting names! Why is that? I try to remember too. I also tap on the glass at pet stores, and say helllooooo, really high pitched , to all the kittens and puppies.
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not when they’re asleep though ! I thought I’d better add that before someone starts criticising me.
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I have to recite the whole alphabet to work out which letters come after g. And I also have trouble with my left and right and clockwise and anti-clockwise.
Otherwise I am very normal (well apart my my balloon phobia)
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Um I think you’re me….
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I have a phobia of mines, as in coal or gold mines (the underground ones). They creep me out, the look, the damp, the dark, the smell, the undergroundness, the cart tracks and so on. Always have.
I don’t worry about creatures or bats in there. It’s just BEING there and a fear of something that might happen. Very specific to mines. I think it is a past life thing.
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I’m ashamed to say that I still do not know how many days each month has, and for some reason I was never taught ( or clearly don’t remember) any songs or knuckle tricks to remember. Someone tried to teach me, but I think I missed my opportunity!
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30 days have september april june and november, all the rest have 31….except for February which has 28! I have to recite this everytime I think about how many days in month
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except February alone, which has 28 days, and 29 days each leap year!
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30 days HATH September…. etc. I’m a child of the 60s. They made us learn and say it “correctly”
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If it makes you feel better Janey, I’m an 80s kid and was taught the same. “Have” makes more sense though!
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80s kid – taught “hath”. Have doesn’t make grammatical sense if not hath it would be has.
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and along with learning the times table… 10 x(times) 2 = 20 etc
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Okay, I’ll see if I can explain this without showing you my knuckles. Make a fist. Touch your first knuckle (pointer finger). That’s January (knuckles equal 31 days). February is the gap between first and second knuckle (normally the gap would be 30 days, but it’s February…28 days, or 29 in a leap year). March is your second knuckle (31 days). April is the gap between second and third knuckles (30 days). And so on… August falls on the same knuckle as July (they both have 31 days), and then you work back to the beginning, i.e., the gap between fourth and third knuckles is September (30 days). Make sense?
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Yes!
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My year 4 teacher taught me…
“30 days hath September, April, June and November.
All the rest have strawberry jam,
Except for Grandma, because she rides a bicycle!”
I’ve never forgot it!
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knuckles: start on your pinky knuckle on your left hand.
high knuckle: more days (i.e. 31)
low knuckle: less days (i.e. 30 or 28 or 29)
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I don’t do any of these things. Am I alone in that?
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Nope.
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Every time I get into the shower and get the taps in a muddle (usually twice a day) … Say to myself “right tighty – lefty loosey”
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I say this when I’m using a screwdriver or changing a light bulb
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Does anyone do the 9 times table on their fingers? Hold your hands up. Say if you want to know 9 x 4, count from the left and put your fourth finger down. Before the finger that is down is the tens column (30) and after the finger that is down is the ones (6). I don’t actually need to do this, but I just like too. It’s a teacher thing haha
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To with one O not two. Damn this no edit button thing, it’s not a good look for a teacher
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Yes! My mum taught me when I was little. Still amazed by it and show anyone who doesn’t already know.
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I will often delete a whole sentence to go back and fix a spelling mistake. It seems so much harder to lift my hand up and click the mouse/cursor to the right spot etc.
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How many of these everyday 15 things do I do ?
Twenty three. Eight of them I do twice to make sure that I got it right.
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Hahahaha
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Is it just me or does that lady in the first photo have her hand down her pants….?
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No. She has her hand down her pants !
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Errrr, good point Vanessa. What the hell is going on there??
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I don’t know either, but whatever it is that she’s looking for…..Ihope that she finds it !
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Isn’t that the whole point of the photo…? Randomly snapped in someone else’s photo, doing something awkward?
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Why are those men shaking their left hands…?
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Left handed people do tend to do that…its like a jolt of lightning when the person i attempt to shake with gives me their left without any awkward shuffling!
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Ummm, no we don’t!!
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Off topic – PIZZA and COOKIES TOGETHER?!
I want <3
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Having the full “I CAN’T FIND IT HERE ANYWHERE WHY CAN’T I FIND IT WHY IS IT THAT AS SOON AS I WANT SOMETHING IT GOES MISSING THIS IS CRAP!!!!” tanti exactly 15 seconds before finding the missing item?
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I usually find midway through that tanti that the item in question is already in my hand.
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you’re really a Man arent you??
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Putting up my left hand in a L-shape and using my right pointer finger to trace it and say ‘L’ out loud.
This is how I know what is left or right. Sad I know.
I may have a Masters degree, but also have directional dyslexia.
Please, please don’t ask me to give you directions or read a map to you.
It will only end up in tears …. yours.
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There’s a name for this problem, directional dyslexia! Ha ha. The left hand L trick changed my life, until then telling my left from right was so painful. My kids are still pre-schoolers but I talk about left and right every day because I don’t want them to suffer like me!
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If you start by putting your left hand up then you know your left!?
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This is similar to me … I always use the L on the hand. Strangely I can read maps, but I am no good at giving others directions, my husband asks me to point rather than say L or R
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hahahahhaha oh this made me laugh Fifi – I am so pleased there is a name I can give to this. Love it. I have directional dyslexia too. And I always do the holding up my hands to find the letter L hahaha.
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Brilliant! I have always relied on a scar on my right arm to tell the difference between L and R… If only I’d known this.
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And additional complication of directional dyslexia is tightening and loosening screws and bolts – I have to recite “lefty loosey, righty tighty” every time. Do other directional dyslexics do this?
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I never memorised the Left and Right thing, but have really been trying harder the last couple of years. Usually it takes concentration and thought.
Weirdly, I know instantly by heart Left (a gauche) and Right (a droite) in French and the corresponding directions!
I learnt French at school for four years and it just clicked. Soemhoe to me those words make sense / sound right.
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My hubby asks me “Is that your proper left or your right left?” … !
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I have to count using my fingers sometimes…. tell me I’m not alone?
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me too
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Clicking the little blue dot to open up Google Chrome. I know that I can click the whole icon but the blue dot has me………….
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Guys.
The slideshows are always great – but this is the third post in the last week or so ripped straight from Buzzfeed. Would be great to see some original content along these lines.
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Hi there Anonymous.
Thanks for the comment. We’re a small team over here and we post a lot of content every day. We produce original content from the editorial team each day and we also share the work of people who aren’t on staff but submit to us.
When we come across something online that makes us laugh and that we think readers will enjoy it, we often aggregate an excerpt or part of a gallery, while crediting the source and linking to them.
Just as an aside, Buzzfeed also bring together galleries that they find elsewhere on the net – so they tend to be a bit of a hub for the great pics that are going around.
Jamila
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Honestly I much prefer when sites like this just link to things like galleries, video’s etc. that they haven’t created. Like a daily or weekly round up of cool links. That way you’re still sharing things with readers and they can still comment on things here, but the people who did the work get the hits.
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am guilty of most of these, but i thought i was the only one who thinks 1990 was ten years ago
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Nope – feels like five minutes ago some days. Plus I’m a teacher so there’s nothing worse than saying ‘You might remember a few years ago when…’ and then realising none of my 18 year old students were born then. Sigh.
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lol
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I see people with babies who are the same ages or younger than two of my kids. SOme of my younger kids teachers are also the same age as my oldest girl…..
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I feel a bit weird about babies born in the year of 9/11 (2001) are now 11! They have no concept of a world before:
mobile phones (and sexting)
emails
digital camera
iPad / iPod
pre War on Terror
everyday internet usage (and unfortunately easy access porn)
Love letters from high school boyfriends
I was on a long overseas trip that year and booked all accommodation via fax or landline, and also mailed foreign currency cheques, yes cheques! for the first night’s deposit! All the European currencies had differening currencies then too.
My goodness, remember floppy disks?! Postcards?! Whitepages – hard copy books! Going to a travel agent?
I sound ancient reflecting on all that but I’m only 32 and 2 months… the world’s never changed so rapidly as the 2000s.
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Oops – I meant to add the “Love letters from high school boyfriends” into the ‘remember these’ section!
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It’s amazing isn’t it? Last year I was trying to explain to my 7 year old that the Word ‘save’ icon was the one that looked like a floppy disk. Nope, he’s never seen a disk, so that didn’t help!
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I have to recite the “30 days has September” poem all the time to work out how many days in the month….
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I used to have to do the knuckle thing for the months until recently!
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Me too!
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Cordeline, what’s the knuckle thing?? Explain! xxx
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It’s a visual thing and I will explain REALLY badly, but here we go Bec…
Make a fist with one hand
Start by tapping the the knuckle of your index finger and say ‘January’
Then tap the dip before the next knuckle say ‘February’
When you get to the knuckle of your pinkie you should be saying ‘July’
Then tap that knuckle again and say ‘August’
Then go back down your hand touching the dips and the knuckles
The months that are on the knuckles have 31 days
The ones in the dips have 30 (or 28/29 for Feb)
It sounds so convoluted when written down! But I remember being taught at primary school and after being shown just once, it stuck with me!
xx
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Cordelia,
This is how I remember the dates in a month as well, having been taught as a kid.
Props for a great explanation
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That’s brilliant, I am using this with the kids at school! Cheers!
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“Always stopping the microwave with 1 second left”
This is a thing? I thought it was just me.
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My favourite number is 5. I can only stop the microwave on a multiple of five….. So: 5, 10, 15, 20!
Then somedays, I had to walk all the way home on the space on the footpath, never on the line! I used to get this all the time.
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I do the 1 second thing but its because I hate that it keeps beeping so that’s why I do it.
Also when I put one dish in the sink I wash 3 dishes in its place. Unfortunately no-one else has this rule in my house so the dishes never get finished!
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I’m the same in that I have the have the volume on the TV in multiples of five. It’s weird I know….
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My God I’ve seen my sister do this in the car too!! It had to be on 20 or 25 or 30 etc?! She also colour codes pegs…like if it takes 2 pegs to hang a top they MUST be the same colour as each other…
Me – I am guaranteed to forget names!
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Oops, can’t edit? I meant the car stereo (obviously)!
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My sister does this with the volume on the tv or stereo. She adamantly, and I mean adamantly refuses to leave the volume on a number that is not a multiple of five. I thought she was just OCD. I will have to tell her that there are others in the world just like her
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Nope, my sister and I do it too! In the car, the volume must be multiples of 5. On the tv, the volume must be an even number. If it’s not, I feel really unsettled!
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OHMYGODMETOO!
I have to have TV volume on an even number, unless it’s a multiple of 5. Because for some reason, they kind of feel even. I get really twitchy otherwise.
I don’t step on cracks on the pavement either and if I accidentally do, I then have to step on a crack with the other foot so it feels ‘even’.
I have to hang my knickers in colour order to dry. So black next to grey, next to blue, next to purple, next to pink etc. If there is a ‘jump’, it has to be something like black with pink lace next to pink with black lace…
Sometimes I turn out of a room one way and feel ‘off centre’ like I’ve gone the wrong way, so have to sort of turn around the other way to feel better. That one is hard to explain (and hard to remedy in public).
Have I gone too far on the weird spectrum?!
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Books with movie posters is number one for me. I go out of my way to find editions that don’t have the movie poster on them, especially if the poster has people in it (don’t ask me why that matters, but it does).
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It is definitely worse with movie people on the cover! I think it’s because I don’t picture the characters as the actors in the movie, and I feel like the book cover is forcing me to. Also, I like my book covers to be more arty than just a shot of an actor.
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I think I’ve done most of these………
But I have another one to add to the list – pouring a glass of water, drinking all but the last sip, then tipping the last bit down the sink.
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i do that too!
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me too Bec – not really sure why!!
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Re: drinks and drinkware.
I have 2 things I do by habit always – but I forget I do them until someone watching me asks or points it out. Then I remember it’s not standard:
1) I always blow into an empty glass when I get it out of a cupboard or off the shelf, before pouring water or a drink in it. I think it must be a dust or loose particle paranoia thing?!?! I feel better for doing this though.
2) Making tea: I always use two teabags. This is because I like my tea strong and don’t want to wait 7 minutes’ brewing time to get equivalent strength from a single teabag. Lots of people think it is odd though.
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My Dad came up with a trick for getting a strong cup of tea quicker. First heat your cup. Then only fill it about a third full (with the tea bag in). Re-boil kettle (only takes a few seconds). Top up. You will be amazed how much stronger it makes it.
I miss PJ Tips from the UK. Such strong tea.
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Ohyeah, I also do the heating of the cup too! Forgot to mention that it’s becoem such a subconcious habit for me.
I’m going to try your dad’s trick! Tell your dad thanks for me.
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Am I the ONLY person who knows their alphabet without having to go through all 26 letters?
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Yes.
I also have to say months out loud in order most of the time too!
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Yes…
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Yes
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The alphabet has 26 letters? I thought it had only 24
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No, you’re not! I’m right onto the alphabet Claire!
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No you’re not, I am the master of finding words in the dictionary. Everybody else seem to need an eternity to get there, turning pages back and forth to find the word, I can find a word in no time. So proud of myself.
But I often say ‘what’ even though I heard what the other person said. And the getting-the-packet-out-of-the-bin.
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