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I wear shirts every work day and travel a lot. Never tried them but was curious as to whether they were effective. Are they really that bad?Quote:
Originally Posted by Danderhall Hibs
(Top travel tip - if you do have to pack shirts, iron them first, then when you unpack, hang them in your hotel bathroom and turn the shower on full heat for twenty minutes - all the creases come out due to the steam).
Unless my washing machine folds the shirts more than Charles Tyrwhitt or TM Lewin expected then yes they’re just like any other shirt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
Good tip - I usually just unfold and hang up. If really bad I get the iron out (again)...
And we're wondering why our environment is changing and trying to kill us. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
Cheers, I'll give them a swerve.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danderhall Hibs
As for hotels, their irons are usually horrendous and spill brown staining water. Best avoided. The other thing to do is a cheap investment in a couple of foldable travel hangers - lots of hotels have those ones that clip into a lock on the rail so you can't take them into the bathroom.
Ideally, we can move away from what we wear now and wear the non-ironable and seemingly never-washable outfits that we saw in 'Logan's Run' and 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
It wasn't just jet packs we were promised :wink:
If you keep using 30 000 litres of water and 5 000 megawatts to steam iron shirts, then we'll all be able to run around in the scud by 2027. That said, in 2027 my birthday suit will need ironing too. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
Not sure what point you are making, but if you are criticising steaming shirts while in the shower or even when not in the shower, then okay. I should maybe just plug in an iron and use electricity that way?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
From what you've posted, you earn your income in the aviation industry though, which obviously contributes to positive climate change :wink:
Think you are in a glass house throwing stones and I bet my occasional shower with a shirt in the bathroom doesn't add up to 0.0001% cent of what you do on a daily basis.
Either way, air travel isn't environmentally friendly, and me using electricity to steam shirts isn't either. I try to limit it by hacks like hanging my clothes up while I shower.
To end on a positive note, maybe you could share what passengers could or should do on flights to be more eco-friendly? Most sensibly-minded folk would be receptive IMO.
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Originally Posted by matty_f
I think there's good and bad environmental aspects of air travel. The bad mainly being that it causes large areas of natural land to be croncreted over to build airports. On the plus it's far more environmentally friendly to transport 400 people per aircraft than by other tradtional fossel fuelled methods.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
P.S. You didn't say you were in the shower at the time so I had visions of you at the bar whilst your shirt was er......... ironing :doh:
They're not bad. For them to be non iron, I find I need to remove them from the washing machine straight away and dry them on a hanger. If I do that then generally you get away without ironing them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
They are definitely easier to iron than a lot of normal shirts so still an improvement.
Vaping. I got a whiff of strawberry recently behind a vaper.
Surely, you'd want your vape to taste like tobacco?
It's a free world I suppose.
Depends whether you're vaping to give up smoking or just reducing your tobacco use. Vaping tobacco flavours makes it harder to give up completely.Quote:
Originally Posted by heretoday
Work colleagues. Not anyone specifically, just in general. I'm convinced workplaces are made up of about 5% of people who actually do the job they are paid to, 4% who do their job and then go 'over and above' to pick up the slack, 1% who have the authority to delegate to the above groups and then 90% of people are essentially just being paid appearance money and maybe send the odd email or shuffle some paper on a Monday morning.
I've sat opposite the same woman since I started. She has been at our company about double the time I have and anytime anything a bit out the ordinary comes up there's a sigh and always, ****ing always, a 'I don't even know where to start with this'. So I show her something she has seen 50 times before and we move on then it's 'can I just check....' then I check and inevitably say 'no that's wrong you need to...' and I get a 'I'm just not getting it' so I end up just taking the whole thing as it saves time for everyone. She sits with a little smirk and goes back to reading the Daily Mail online or whatever she is paid to do. I just want to grab her and tell her this is your ****ing job you lazy, workshy, coniving freeloader. This is repeated across the board. Someone calls for accounts and you try to hand it over: 'take a message' so you take a message, pass it on and 3 days later get a phone call from an irate person who hasn't had a call back. Try to pass that on? 'Just take a message'. Someone requests a call back about a product and their account handler will 'get round to it'; as sure as night follows day you'll get a call back the next day asking why no one has been in touch. 'Oh I forgot, you couldn't just sort that for me mate?' Aye no bother I'll push back stuff for my customers so I can bump up your sales figures.
I'm going to set up a business as a dog walker or something. Talking to dogs all day has to be preferable to dealing with the shower of cretins I share a carpet with all week. And they wonder why I don't go on work nights out.
You have hit the nail on the head, Pretty Boy.
It used to astonish me that these type of slackers survive, but they do. It's called playing the game. Do as little as possible but just enough
to not arouse managerial concerns. They rely on someone with a conscience to unwittingly cover for them. They truly don't give a hoot.
The only thing they get is their just deserts - they will always be sitting across the desk with no hope or ambition whereas you will move higher.
Just remember to move up asap. Good luck!
What I find strange is that, for me at least, the working day seems to pass a lot quicker if you, erm, work.
I'm lucky in that I enjoy my job, but last week I had a situation where I was at an impasse on each of the 3-4 projects I'm working on (waiting for information, client decisions, etc.). It was brutal as I couldn't find anything worthwhile to get my teeth into.
I'm well capable of stopping for a blether or having a squint at the Internet, but I definitely find working far more fulfilling than kidding on.
Agreed. Problem I’ve got is I’ve no work to do so I hate my job :greengrin. Thankfully they’ve let me start working from home so I at least now get to spend about half my week doing nothing while at home!Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
All fun and games until you set the smoke alarms off... Been there and done that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye
Deary me Sean.Quote:
Originally Posted by .Sean.
Always travel with a wee plastic bag and a few elastic bands, bag over detector and elastic band over them, hey presto.:greengrin
Also handy if you Vape as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by silverhibee
Food that has a bit of wrapper that sticks to it when you open it.
The phrasing "I identify as...".
:agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
WHAM bars are terrible for this :greengrin
Black jacks and fruit salads were a nightmare for it too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lemonade
Careless Wispas too! ☺Quote:
Originally Posted by Lemonade
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Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
:faf::top marks
Not always wise to cover detectors as some systems can show this up as a fault and can say which room or section is faulty
Or there may be a genuine fire in your room which goes undetected at the earliest possible stage, costing your life and the lives of others...Just saying.Quote:
Originally Posted by staunchhibby
Edam, when the rind doesn't peel off in a one goQuote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
Folk who get on the train carriage at the opposite end to where their seats are with big bags/suitcases and haul them the full length. It’s not difficult to look at the seating numbers at the door before you board.
How else am I meant to vape in the shower while I de-crease my clothes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Future17