The Ask Bookie a Question thread - Anything you like, form an orderly queue please

[calm1]

Ok - so can be a tad tricky! Will stay away from the lavender bush......

[calm1]

And yours as well, as it can't be well kempt, judging by the amount of time you spend on here, unless of course, you are very old and very bald..................

[Bookworm]

Well, at least, lavender is a natural antiseptic!

 

Edit: And that's just rude.

[calm1]

Am not in need of one:D

[caro]

Vinegar is very good on wasp stings. *runs and hides*

[Bookworm]

Yes, but on the cornea? OUCH.

 

Anyway, so's 1/2 an onion. It's the ammonia.

[Rooster-UK]

A large single malt, taken orally, helps.

[Janet-M]

err...no perhaps not

I'm lost was there a point to this post ? or have I missed the question

[Bookworm]

Vinegar is very good on wasp stings. *runs and hides*

 

Jan, do what I have done:

 

Go to your CP, open your buddy/ignore list, choose the "ignore" one, add the username of your choice, save list.

 

Voila. The whining buzzing irritant is gone. And what a blessed relief that is.

[Lula]

shame it doesnt work for everything lol

[Bookworm]

Well, it works for the relevant one, that's all that matters.

[calm1]

I think I would prefer a cup of urine on my eye to onion or vinegar. My own urine, of course. Although, saying that, if I had been stung on my eyeball, i would probably have p***** my pants by then and would be past caring.

 

I have freaked myself out thinking about how painful this could be and am investing in goggles for the whole family! No onion, no vinegar and no wee.....

 

Thanks for the info Bookie.

[Woolleykat]

Lavenders really nice, got loads in the garden, but hey whats wrong with the old jam jar with a bit of jam and water in it hung in a tree or somewhere to entice said wasps and kill em dead?

[calm1]

When these bug***s are in a nest of their own, a jam jar will not suffice if you disturb it.....

 

We all look a bit like bookworm in our house now - except our goggles have side bits on them..........

[Woolleykat]

I've heard they make their nests out of wood and paper by chewing it up, watch out bookie it might be you next. Nests are a work of art though - vacated of course.

[calm1]

They are indeed. We have an old one in the roof - I keep wanting to remove it, but am a touch wary in case there is something living in it!

 

Woolleykat is right Bookie, you want to watch out - if they find out where you live it will be carnage!

[Woolleykat]

If you don't hear the buzzzzz calm 1 they'll be no one home or if they are they'll be shells

[hedgey06]

Dear Aunt Bookie,

 

If I fell off a bucket and hurt my big toe, would I:

 

a) be able to claim to the bucket manufacturer that their bucket was faulty and sue?

b) bandage aforementioned toe and kick said bucket?

c) vent pent up anger on another source regardless of how innocent that source may be? (I have various targets in mind by the way!)

 

The bucket is fine by the way!

[saintly_1]

Personally i would go with options b&c ;-)

[Woolleykat]

Ahhh bless the bucket - c sounds good, got a few options in mind as well both begin with B! rhymes with the W word as well

[Bookworm]

Dear Aunt Bookie,

 

If I fell off a bucket and hurt my big toe, would I:

 

a) be able to claim to the bucket manufacturer that their bucket was faulty and sue?

b) bandage aforementioned toe and kick said bucket?

c) vent pent up anger on another source regardless of how innocent that source may be? (I have various targets in mind by the way!)

 

The bucket is fine by the way!

 

Well, dear Hedgey, speaking as a manufacturer of buckets myself, I can say that the amounts of idiots who wilfully abuse their buckets and then try to blame it on the buckets is staggering, and I think that the guillotine is too good for them.

 

If you were to try to sue the manufacturer, (and believe me, a lot of those low-brows morons try!), I would immediately advise them to defend on the grounds of wilful misuse, and countersue on behalf of the bucket for scarring, denting, and cruelty.

 

I feel very galvanised by this topic.

[saintly_1]

Dear Aunt Bookie,

 

If I fell off a bucket and hurt my big toe, would I:

 

a) be able to claim to the bucket manufacturer that their bucket was faulty and sue?

b) bandage aforementioned toe and kick said bucket?

c) vent pent up anger on another source regardless of how innocent that source may be? (I have various targets in mind by the way!)

 

The bucket is fine by the way!

 

Just a thought ........ what where you doing to fall off the bucket in the first place ????

[Woolleykat]

Bookie, is there no end to your talents and what you can do??

[Bookworm]

Just a thought ........ what where you doing to fall off the bucket in the first place ????

 

Well, someone said: "F*** it" and she misheard...

[hedgey06]

Just a thought ........ what where you doing to fall off the bucket in the first place ????

 

I was dead-heading me hanging baskets! (Hubby broke the step-ladders........... don't ask!!!!)

 

Is that a no then on the 'sue the manufacturer' Auntie Bookie????!!!!