[Goldilocks]

Well if I were to list them all this post would be a Guinness Book of Records entry but to start off I was in The Pier yesterday and they were selling "occasional tables". This is something that struck me as strange, why on earth would you call an table an occasional table? surely its always a table or does it moonlight as a chair when your back is turned?
What are your such confusing things?

[Milky Joe]

The Pier in general! What an odd shop...random trinklets for your home. Being a man i dont understand the obsession with buying oriental mug holders or 4 foot tall wooden girraffes.

Can someone explain it?

Would it not be a table for special occasions?
I don't really know what that is either though, sorry.

[Blue Robin]

Originally Posted by Goldilocks

Well if I were to list them all this post would be a Guinness Book of Records entry but to start off I was in The Pier yesterday and they were selling "occasional tables". This is something that struck me as strange, why on earth would you call an table an occasional table? surely its always a table or does it moonlight as a chair when your back is turned?
What are your such confusing things?

It's a table for occasions like afternoon tea!

[ThinBoy]

I don't understand why toasters are too small to get slices of bread into. I mean, don't these guys who design them do basic research, like buying a loaf of bread and measuring it? The top third of the slice always sticks out of the top. It does in mine anyway.



Is it just me?

[Milky Joe]

Originally Posted by ThinBoy

I don't understand why toasters are too small to get slices of bread into. I mean, don't these guys who design them do basic research, like buying a loaf of bread and measuring it? The top third of the slice always sticks out of the top. It does in mine anyway.



Is it just me?

You put them in sideways

[Blue Robin]

Originally Posted by ThinBoy

I don't understand why toasters are too small to get slices of bread into. I mean, don't these guys who design them do basic research, like buying a loaf of bread and measuring it? The top third of the slice always sticks out of the top. It does in mine anyway.



Is it just me?

It's just you.

[Goldilocks]

Originally Posted by Blue Robin

It's a table for occasions like afternoon tea!

Not this one it was too tall and narrow and just generally horrible, so bad in fact it would put you right off your food
End tables though are another item that confuses me. If there were put at the end of something then it would make sense but some people buy an end table to put in the middle of the wall in their hallway and so its not at the end of anything.

[swingaleg]

Ooh........we have a Pier near me.........odds and ends shop.......

Occasional Table...............it's for when you have one too many guests for a dinner party or soirée..........someone has to go sit in the corner..............so it's only used occasionally.............

[Chickens hit]

I don't understand women!

[Welsh-lad]

Originally Posted by ThinBoy

I don't understand why toasters are too small to get slices of bread into. I mean, don't these guys who design them do basic research, like buying a loaf of bread and measuring it? The top third of the slice always sticks out of the top. It does in mine anyway.



Is it just me?

You're using the wrong loaf!
Use a sandwich loaf (i.e. a square ended one) to make toast. The 'tin' and 'farmhouse' loaves have a curved top and never fit in the toaster.... same with 'batch' loaves.

[swingaleg]

Originally Posted by Chickens hit

I don't understand women!

........especially 'occasional' women............

[Goldilocks]

Originally Posted by Milky Joe

The Pier in general! What an odd shop...random trinklets for your home. Being a man i dont understand the obsession with buying oriental mug holders or 4 foot tall wooden girraffes.

Can someone explain it?

As a girl (will be 30 in July will I then have to start referring to myself as a woman life is just so confusing for me now ) I will also admit to being baffled as to the appeal of said giraffes or tin aardvarks and other such animal menageries. The Pier is great for buying candles to give to people are presents.

[ÐåÑ©ìÑG ÐïVÅ™]

Originally Posted by swingaleg

Ooh........we have a Pier near me.........odds and ends shop.......

Occasional Table...............it's for when you have one too many guests for a dinner party or soirée..........someone has to go sit in the corner..............so it's only used occasionally.............

Never heard of that up here, is it a posh word for gathering lol

[grotbags1975]

Only fake leather watch straps are branded with 'authentic leather' - real leather straps dont.

I really dont understand why colemans have developed a crap squeazy tub of english mustard

[swingaleg]

Originally Posted by shaz77

Never heard of that up here, is it a posh word for gathering lol

It's something that people with 'occasional tables' have........

[ÐåÑ©ìÑG ÐïVÅ™]

Originally Posted by swingaleg

It's something that people with 'occasional tables' have........

i now know what an occasional table is, its for occassions

[daisyboo]

how do the birds know that i put bread out?

[PoohBear7]

Originally Posted by Chickens hit

I don't understand women!

I am one myself and i don't understand either. Some of them are just plain weird

[swingaleg]

Originally Posted by daisyboo

how do the birds know that i put bread out?

The bees tell 'em........they're very chummy, the birds and the bees........

Or maybe they smell it ?.........or see it ?.........good eyesight have birds..........

[Gill P]

I don't understand why people buy candles! I cannot stand them. I have a candlabra with room for three candles and they have never been lit and are unlikely to unless there is a power cut. That and only that is the time when I light candles.

[Blue Robin]

Originally Posted by Goldilocks

Not this one it was too tall and narrow and just generally horrible, so bad in fact it would put you right off your food
End tables though are another item that confuses me. If there were put at the end of something then it would make sense but some people buy an end table to put in the middle of the wall in their hallway and so its not at the end of anything.

If it was horrible it's just as well it was just occasional. Perhaps people use them as an occasional table to put flowers on or something but not all the time.

What sort of end table do you mean? Do you mean like a small table you would put at the end of a sofa rather than in the middle of the room like a coffee table. I like those. Can't stand having a table in the middle of the room.

[Blue Robin]

Originally Posted by Gilberto

I don't understand why people buy candles! I cannot stand them. I have a candlabra with room for three candles and they have never been lit and are unlikely to unless there is a power cut. That and only that is the time when I light candles.

My OH loves candles. Can't get enough of them. He has them lit all over the room especially scented ones.

[finlux]

Originally Posted by ThinBoy

I don't understand why toasters are too small to get slices of bread into. I mean, don't these guys who design them do basic research, like buying a loaf of bread and measuring it? The top third of the slice always sticks out of the top. It does in mine anyway.



Is it just me?

No, mine's the same - & bread will NOT fit sideways

[UKMikey]

Originally Posted by daisyboo

how do the birds know that i put bread out?

I'd've thought they just stop by on the off-chance. Do you check your bird-table or lawn when there's no bread out? That pathetic, hungry warbling on the wind is them.