Is this the 1950's again? - Page 3

glatt · 01-23-2007, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by monster

Now, I agree that the Saran Wrap is hard to get off the roll, but once it is, I can't get it to cling to anything other than itself, and even that's a bit hit and miss -as soon as I try to stretch it tight, it slips. The supermarket brand was awful. So I have my MIL bring Sainsbury's cheapo brand when she comes over. Perhaps I just had a bad batch. Or two?

I think some of the brands that used to stick pretty well were reformulated because they contained a chemical that mimics estrogen and they were thought to possibly cause health problems in some small percentage of the population. So I don't know of any cling wrap in the US that works anymore. Maybe the UK wrap still contains the chemicals that let the cling wrap cling.

monster · 01-23-2007, 11:27 AM

(oh and, whilst septic (tank rhymes with yank) isn't a very nice term, it's only ever used affectionately in the same way Brits will call their best mates tossers etc. If people want to be nasty, they don't bother with rhyming slang -"Bloody yanks" works just fine. But it's still probably something I should have used without more

-type things. or maybe at all)

BigV · 01-23-2007, 11:28 AM

Hmm. They're just down the road. Shall I drive through and show them this thread, take some pictures, ask for autographs? I might even get completely crazy and buy a cup of coffee! Maybe at lunch...

busterb · 01-23-2007, 06:32 PM

IMHO Freds brand works better than most of name brands.

Sundae · 01-24-2007, 05:10 AM

Septics is only ever used tongue in cheek in my experience. We used to use it in Oxford when the majority of tourists who stopped right in the middle of the pavement with no warning seemed to be American. I doubt that's the case now.

01-23-2007, 11:27 AM	#2
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01-23-2007, 11:28 AM	#3
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Hmm. They're just down the road. Shall I drive through and show them this thread, take some pictures, ask for autographs? I might even get completely crazy and buy a cup of coffee! Maybe at lunch... __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

01-23-2007, 06:32 PM	#4
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	IMHO Freds brand works better than most of name brands. __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

01-24-2007, 05:10 AM	#5
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Septics is only ever used tongue in cheek in my experience. We used to use it in Oxford when the majority of tourists who stopped right in the middle of the pavement with no warning seemed to be American. I doubt that's the case now. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

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