Same for Belgium, Netherlands, even France I think? The glasses are decorated and sometimes collectors items. See e.g. etsy.com/nl/listing/1703440592/…
@JourneymanGeek Depending on dietary patterns... a lot :P A diet in the 60s/70s Netherlands would mostly be 'potato, vegetable, meat'. My parents ate a lot of their veggies with mustard.
@JourneymanGeek yes, exactly. They look very nice. If you didn't know where they come from, you'd think they were bought as water glasses at a department store.
@rumtscho Nooooooo. To be fair, I also can't find any current packaging of the 'marne' brand that can be used as drinking glasses, so I suspect they stopped this too.
@JourneymanGeek I started that too, but I slowly switched to buying stuff... standardized sizes that fit neatly into a drawer are easier to use than recycled bottles/jars here :)
I don't keep my toothpaste in the fridge though, I do keep the mustard there. And the chocalate paste is in a drawer. I should be fine (or veeeery drunk, if I do get this wrong XD)
Hahaha. The thing more likely to stop me is that my set of storage containers is rather complete (mepal modula), and this one isn't likely to fit in. Also, I don't 'display' the storage containers so paying extra for a fancy-looking one isn't a very Dutch thing to do :P
I had once planned to start eating more rice. To just keep a box of cooked rice in the fridge for snacks or an unplanned starch component, as opposed to eating expensive, additive-ridden gluten-free bread all the time.
But somehow I forget to eat it before it goes bad.
@Tinkeringbell yes, I guess it lasts much more than that. the "month" was the lowest border of my estimate.
@JourneymanGeek True, for me it's the indoor bits. The heat pump has been malfunctioning (too hot), I need to call that company again tomorrow because I should've been called back but haven't heard anything for a week. It's been almost 3,5 years and I still don't have a properly functioning front door.
Also, some of the tiles in the bathroom and toilet room are breaking (all at the top, where they meet the ceiling) and I don't know if that's normal (due to a newly built thing 'settling') or something I should complain about...
The bathtub needs a new layer of caulking, as the current one is letting loose.
@JourneymanGeek I have to. I got them down, but not as much as I wanted, so I'm looking up legal stuff but so far it seems they can like ... just do this.
@JourneymanGeek Ugh. I have a soot stain on the ceiling above the fridge. And some of the wallpaper above it as well. Apparently there's some airflow going on, and when I burn a candle for cozy vibes, it stains :(
I've spent half a day scrubbing last Saturday and it still isn't all gone.
@Tinkeringbell tiles shouldn't break, especially if relatively recently installed, and not broken by physical damage (e.g. dropping a heavy pot on the floor tiles).
also, the person who installed the tiles should have left a sufficiently wide distance between the uppermost tile and the ceiling. And if you tell them "I want tiles like from a magazine, with 1 mm grout" they should stop you and tell you that's not functional. They don't do it though :(
I also have broken tiles in the bathroom, I complained to my landlady, but the tileman didn't return her calls for a few months, then came, saw it and said "I'm not taking on such a small task, I'm too busy and it's too low margin for me, you have to retile the whole bathroom" and we decided to leave it as-is
@JourneymanGeek the waterproof stuff is prescribed by code in the West
the tiles are considered a cosmetic thing, not a barrier to moisture
that's why in Germany, you can't tile below/behind a shower cabin or a bathtub.
The code requires you to have an unbroken barrier between the membrane on the wall and the bathtub itself, so you have to install the bathtub before the wall is tiled (fully), and add the super duper sealing tape
@rumtscho for... reasons - in my parents place, we had to redo the membrane, so you can roughly see where the membrane is until, cause the tiles are different
if they sound hollow, they have detached themselves from the wall (or the mortar) and that's something that exposes you to further risk. If water gets between the tiles and the wall, that can get ugly. Even if you have said membrane everywhere.
There's also a good chance that you don't have it everywhere, especially if the bathroom isn't super tiny
The German code requires a certain width of membrane on the walls outside of certain "wet" zones (the inside of a shower cabin, the plumbing of a washing basin). It's maybe 50 cm.
also, the height specifies a certain height above floor (or maybe above showerhead?) but it doesn't have to go up to the ceiling
although, if they were using Bahnen rather than liquid rubber, it may have been easiest for them to do it floor-to-ceiling, which is more than the code requires.
If it's only chips off the glazing, it's not too difficult to fix cosmetically. You can fill it with cement grout or epoxy grout, color-matched to the tile.
@Tinkeringbell I have a weird question. Background: I am going to lead a yoga class today. It's an informal situation, I'm doing it for people from my watersports club. We have a different activity every week in winter, and this week, I'm offering yoga.
I'm not a yoga instructor, but I have practiced a lot and I'm confident I can do it well. Also I already have created the sequence and tested it out alone. So that's going to be OK.
The people will be a motley crew, probably all possible levels from "never tried yoga" to "I go to the studio twice a week" and everything in between. They won't have ever trained together.
The active time of actually doing positions will be around an hour.
My brain is coming up with all sorts of information I want to "preach" upfront
can you imagine yourself in such a situation and tell me what would you like to hear from your layteacher in such a situation? What points would be important to you? And how long a speech will be too long?
hey @Cerberus!
same question for you, I only addressed Tink because I thought she's the only one in the room!
@rumtscho Yeah, I just don't want to spend the rest of my bathroom's life filling in chips each year either though XD
@rumtscho Ow uhmmm... That really stretches my imagination XD. Assuming everyone signed up for this entirely voluntarily, and the "studio twice a week" people are not going to complain about getting a sermon on novice level... I'd say talk a bit about each move, about what muscles it is good for, what wrong things to watch out for, then do the move?
