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In a recent poll, the residents of some large German cities were asked which city in Germany was the second most important city in Germany. Unsurprisingly: The residents of Hamburg said "Hamburg"; The residents of Cologne said "Cologne"; The residents of Frankfurt said "Frankfurt"; And the...

Given that we are here: The Pyra Forums Off topic Offtopic Discussions I'm not completely sure the rules about remaining on topic necessarily apply. But good pedanting. There is a material difference between 'everyday' and 'every day', and since Matezu wrote 'everyday', my...

Irrelevant point deleted. Sorry for the interruption.

Undergarments: Clothes worn under your outer clothing, not normally visible in polite public social situations. For women, bras, panties, g-strings, petticoats, girdles, corsetry; for men (under)pants, boxers, briefs, vests, singlets and sometimes 'T'-shirts. Long-johns in cold weather. Also...

I will not nab it. I can't justify it, even though I do appreciate it (and your gesture).

Well, the Kāsejāger looks rather fine. I could be tempted... While I don't collect knives as such, I do have a particularly fine bread-knife with a reverse-scalloped, not serrated blade*. I inherited it, and subsequent research showed it is rather difficult to find such blades. I still haven't...

I don't carry a multitool professionally. Or non-professionally. Opinal No. 8 no longer carried (because that would be illegal), but is my favourite letter-opener. Has other uses, but sits on my desk. Victorinox Sportsman: Used for nail-care (removing the gunk from under my nails), the...

There's a whole industry that supplies knife handle materials. Lots of overview articles available, like this one, or this one, and suppliers, like these. What irritates me is that Victorinox have chosen a material that is just not up to the job.

Yes. Not impressive. Wooden handles cope with boiling water.

I don't think so. I think the Victorinox plastic is a cheap thermoplastic. The Opinel says it is a "fibre-reinforced polymer" - "The multi-material handle is fiber-reinforced to withstand extreme temperatures, knocks and exposure to water."

You are right, but sometimes the knife (tool) in your pocket is more useful than the one in your workshop 30 minutes travel-time away. I would be a bit wary of keeping a scalpel in my pocket, and the best use of Stanley knives seems to be hijacking aeroplanes - I think they are a pretty poor...

I habitually have a Victorinox knife around (the Sportsman), but I have one big and one small gripe about it. The big gripe is that the plastic dissolves in isopropyl alcohol and melts in boiling water!!! I use the knife as a working tool, and occasionally it gets a bit dirty, so my cleaning...

If tallar en sec is 'to cut abruptly', or 'to cut short' (as in cutting short someone's reply), then possibly the job is 'hiccough-interrupter', which seems suitably surreal? Otherwise, tallador seems to correspond to the English teller - a person who counts things, so also possibly a 'dry...

Excellent suggestion: thanks for bringing it here.

Sorry, a minor bugbear of mine. Commas are not a 'continuous' quantity, so it is fewer, not less. I write 'continuous' as the rule is more subtle. One can ask for fewer potatoes, but less rice, and money is treated as continuous: I have less money today than yesterday, even if you can itemise...

Obviously, it was sabotage.

Sigh, so many people get this wrong. It really isn't difficult.

If 'it' clocks them watching, it might be alarmed, but if they get away with it this time, peace might continue to reign. No matter, your advice has been minuted, and if they do it a second time, there will be no means of escape - meant in a kindly way, of course.

Thank-you very much for your efforts and contribution, elw3. I very much appreciate both. I think the discussion shows why so many devices have buttons to control volume (up and down), rather than a wheel. It strikes me that having a combined rotary encoder/potentiometer might be a thing. Only...

My son was learning the photosynthesis song at school and complained about one of the lines: He asked me, "Aren't trees plants?". I thought for a moment, then replied, "Of course not: they're classified as elephants." He looked confused, and thought about it for a while, and couldn't resist...