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Note to self:

Foaming DraughtFoaming Draught Shipmate
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Note to self: After de-seeding a chilli, do not wipe yr hands on a handkerchief and then wipe yr eyes with that handkerchief. 🌶️👀🤧

Note 2: After de-seeding a chilli, wash yr hands thoroughly before doing a wee.

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  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    Ouch!! 🙀
  • RoseofsharonRoseofsharon Shipmate

    Don't wipe the sticky face of a small child either. Still feeling guilty 40+ years later!
  • Graven ImageGraven Image Shipmate
    I've been there, did that, learned a lesson, never again.
  • Celtic KnotweedCeltic Knotweed Shipmate
    Also, if you wear contact lenses, wash your hands thoroughly and repeatedly before removing them... Just glad that I was using disposable lenses by the time I neglected that point!
  • Stercus TauriStercus Tauri Shipmate
    On the other hand, so to speak, feel free to shake hands with someone you'd rather not meet again.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    You're so bad @Stercus Tauri - I like your way of thinking. :smiley:
  • jrwjrw Shipmate
    If you want to back something up on a computer, do NOT copy a shortcut, as you'll find that all you're doing is copying a shortcut icon. I'm probably just telling everyone what they already know (story of my life), but I had to learn this lesson the hard way.
  • HarryCHHarryCH Shipmate
    Likewise, if you want to delete a file, it is not enough to delete the shortcut for that file.
  • AravisAravis Shipmate
    If you ever have a chilli-related accident, e.g. getting chilli in your eyes, try washing with a small amount of milk before washing with water. It doesn’t remove the pain but it does alleviate it.
  • The RogueThe Rogue Shipmate
    jrw wrote: »
    If you want to back something up on a computer, do NOT copy a shortcut, as you'll find that all you're doing is copying a shortcut icon. I'm probably just telling everyone what they already know (story of my life), but I had to learn this lesson the hard way.

    I suspect that most IT professionals will have learnt this lesson (and many others) the hard way. I wouldn't call myself professional but I am the go to IT person in my company and I have done many things like it. Fortunately the accountancy professional in me insists on checking everything after I have done it which helps alleviate my embarrassment.
  • Schroedingers CatSchroedingers Cat Shipmate
    I would also add - as an IT professional* - that you should also check that your backup has worked occasionally.

    A work situation, many years ago and not directly involving me, where a team dicovered that their backups had not been working for a few months when their system corrupted just before Christmas.

    * Not that most people consider me professional at anything other than making an idiot of myself. But it is the area I work in.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    The Rogue wrote: »
    jrw wrote: »
    If you want to back something up on a computer, do NOT copy a shortcut, as you'll find that all you're doing is copying a shortcut icon. I'm probably just telling everyone what they already know (story of my life), but I had to learn this lesson the hard way.

    I suspect that most IT professionals will have learnt this lesson (and many others) the hard way. I wouldn't call myself professional but I am the go to IT person in my company and I have done many things like it. Fortunately the accountancy professional in me insists on checking everything after I have done it which helps alleviate my embarrassment.

    Most IT professionals know what a shortcut is.
  • The RogueThe Rogue Shipmate
    A short cut is something that means you can do the job in half the time that you originally said it would take and so look really good when you complete early. But not too early - you don't want to raise expectations too high.
  • Schroedingers CatSchroedingers Cat Shipmate
    The Rogue wrote: »
    A short cut is something that means you can do the job in half the time that you originally said it would take and so look really good when you complete early. But not too early - you don't want to raise expectations too high.

    Ahem. A short cut is a way of CORRECTLY doing the job in less time, so that you can get on with the essential tasks that need ot be done to keep everything running but that are never given enough priority to be allowed to do them.

    Or is that just me?
  • RuthRuth Shipmate
    A shortcut is supposed to be a way I'll use to get to my destination sooner, but in reality is a way for me to get hopelessly lost.
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    I just drag things to the Dock, but that's a Mac thing.
  • mousethiefmousethief Shipmate
    You may think it's a clever and memorable location, but when you go to look for whatever you stuck there, you will have totally forgotten where that clever and memorable location is.
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    When working in an extremely confined space, such as a larder, that has the door shut...

    ...in the name of all that is holy, do not fart!
  • Stercus TauriStercus Tauri Shipmate
    Sandemaniac wrote: »
    When working in an extremely confined space, such as a larder, that has the door shut...

    ...in the name of all that is holy, do not fart!

    It is particularly anti-social in a walk-in freezer.
  • SparrowSparrow Shipmate
    If using a loo you are not familiar with, make sure there is some toilet issue before you start anything.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    I think you mean tissue...
    :lol:
  • Lamb ChoppedLamb Chopped Shipmate
    Heh.

    Check the font before service time to be sure there’s water in it. And if there’s a problem with the cold water supply in the sacristy, make sure there’s no steam coming off the surface of the water…
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Our Place has a large brass Jug, which is filled with warm water from the Hall kitchen shortly before a baptism takes place. It was forgotten about once, and had to be hastily filled whilst the baptism family waited patiently...
  • Foaming DraughtFoaming Draught Shipmate
    You might think that’s the sort of oversight which you’d only make once. Sadly, more than once I’ve commmenced to intone “Aloysius Jasper, I baptise you in the … “
  • Lamb ChoppedLamb Chopped Shipmate
    This is why you need a hyper-vigilant anxiety freak like me in the background.
  • Schroedingers CatSchroedingers Cat Shipmate
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    I think you mean tissue...
    :lol:

    In fairness, both.
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    If going for a long walk in the middle of nowhere with your camera, make sure you have an SD card…
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Foaming Draught wrote: »
    You might think that’s the sort of oversight which you’d only make once. Sadly, more than once I’ve commmenced to intone “Aloysius Jasper, I baptise you in the … “

    You'd have thought that Aloysius Jasper would have been a once-in-a-career moniker ... :mrgreen:
  • Stercus TauriStercus Tauri Shipmate
    Do not leap out of car before unfastening seat belt.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    Foaming Draught wrote: »
    Sadly, more than once I’ve commenced to intone “Aloysius Jasper, I baptise you in the … “

    You'd have thought that Aloysius Jasper would have been a once-in-a-career moniker ... :mrgreen:
    And you'd have thought he'd only be baptised once.

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