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We got married in 2006. One of our wedding presents was a 200m roll of kitchen foil. Yesterday the roll ran out. Nearly ...
01/13/2026

We got married in 2006. One of our wedding presents was a 200m roll of kitchen foil. Yesterday the roll ran out. Nearly 20 years later.
Overripe banana for scale.
M48, sz11, Australia

Need to up my train etiquette. Lagging well behind this chap with his chalice.
01/13/2026

Need to up my train etiquette. Lagging well behind this chap with his chalice.

When I left for University in September 1998, I picked a fork from my parents' cutlery drawer (the one on the left) and ...
01/13/2026

When I left for University in September 1998, I picked a fork from my parents' cutlery drawer (the one on the left) and it was the only fork I ate with. Every meal for three years of University.
Then when I graduated, I moved into a shared house in 2001 and carried on using the same fork because I'd grown to like it and it reminded me of home.
In fact, as I wash it up yet again, I just realised that I've more or less used just one fork since 1998, despite getting married, buying a house and having a whole canteen of swanky German cutlery to choose from.
Recently, my 6 year old daughter wanted to use my fork and so I looked for an identical one for her, so we could be fork buddies. Google Image search soon told me it was a pattern called Mosaic by Viners, but all the forks I was finding were not as pleasing as my favourite one. They were rounder, seemed shorter and didn't have the distinctive longer slot in the middle, or the majestic straight tines.
A bit more searching reveals that for the last 27 years I've been eating every meal with a FISH FORK!! I don't even like fish! Occasionally, I may have a tuna sandwich (which I obviously don't eat with my fork) but other than that I don't touch the stuff. This must be the most used and least fishy fish fork in the history of forks.
Back to the picture - I've included my daughter's new fork (she does eat fish) in the middle and a banana for scale, on the right. I'm hoping she will also grow to love her Viners fork and use it above all other cutlery. I've also bought her a knife and spoon in the same pattern, as I'm a good parent.
(46 year old male, British, size 42 shoes, unless they're trainers)

To my friends across the pond. One day of solidarity. Let's make the most of it!
01/12/2026

To my friends across the pond. One day of solidarity. Let's make the most of it!

It's so hot here in Indonesia that the letters on our sun cream have individually detached from the label. Amazingly dul...
01/12/2026

It's so hot here in Indonesia that the letters on our sun cream have individually detached from the label. Amazingly dull and fascinating

I run a small tire repair shop in a town of 1,500 inhabitants in east Iceland. Every week we repair several punctured ti...
01/12/2026

I run a small tire repair shop in a town of 1,500 inhabitants in east Iceland.
Every week we repair several punctured tires. We keep the items that caused the punctures and pin them to a foam board on the wall.
Dull enough?

I'm an artist that uses a very dull medium. Used engine oil. Every painting of vehicles or aircraft I create uses its ow...
01/12/2026

I'm an artist that uses a very dull medium. Used engine oil.
Every painting of vehicles or aircraft I create uses its own, dirty, used engine oil on brown workshop paper. I have done works for Navy Wings and various car projects for others and spend my life in workshops and hangars, which I absolutely love.
Each engine oil has its own fascinating unique scent. My friends call me the 'somm-oil-ier'. I have a ritual sniff before starting each work. Radial engines smell a bit like burnt BBQ toffee.
Even more dull is my artist name. T.D.Centaur (TDC). Those of you used to engines might get why I chose that name...
Two recent paintings with an artist for scale šŸ–Œ
Look me up via the usual means if you think its a suitably dull subject.
No banana, sorry. Too busy painting šŸ˜Š
Bonus points if you can guess the make and models of the vehicles in the paintings below.

I present to you: le fishe - My momā€™s old a** Walmart goldfish, purchased at a Wisconsin Walmart for 23 cents during the...
01/12/2026

I present to you: le fishe - My momā€™s old a** Walmart goldfish, purchased at a Wisconsin Walmart for 23 cents during the George W. Bush administration around 2006-2007. With the exception of its current tank mate, an algae eater, this creature has killed and eaten every single other fish that has lived with it.

Nothing more dull than my home town? Small population of 1500, super north Arctic Circle North. On my way to work for an...
01/12/2026

Nothing more dull than my home town? Small population of 1500, super north Arctic Circle North. On my way to work for another day of the week. Gjoa Haven Nunavut. Canada. Home or heart of the Northwest Passage!

No banana necessary ļæ¼
01/12/2026

No banana necessary ļæ¼

Last night we was playing a family game and it came to the point where we needed to use a stopwatchā€¦Our eldest daughter ...
01/12/2026

Last night we was playing a family game and it came to the point where we needed to use a stopwatchā€¦
Our eldest daughter quickly interrupted, ā€œWe canā€™t use my phone, Iā€™ve got something on it!ā€
Intrigued, we asked what she was going on about and she turned her phone to show us a timer that had been going for 11,107 hoursā€¦. And counting šŸ¤£
Apparently she had started the timer on her watch and forgot all about it, only to see it continue on her phone.
Now we are all invested!
11,107+ hours or 462 days & 7 hours
Weā€™ve already set a date in our calendars to welcome in and celebrate the 2 year milestone! šŸ˜

Iā€™m usually the one who shovels for my apartment building of about 9 units. The landlord doesnā€™t do it so I donā€™t really...
01/12/2026

Iā€™m usually the one who shovels for my apartment building of about 9 units. The landlord doesnā€™t do it so I donā€™t really mind because I have dogs and would rather clean it up so they donā€™t track all of the snow in.
Today after shoveling I walked up to my door and 1 can of golden water was waiting for me. Pretty dull.. Go bears.

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