Max Crisp

@Orson_Kart (7179)

United Kingdom • Age 66

Joined myLot 14 years ago

Member since 2008 The Reluctant Air Fryer

Max Crisp's Responses

Good morning myLot

NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (122078) • United States 10h

Hello everyone. I hope your day is off to a good start. It is 60 degrees F and dark here at the Jersey Shore. The high for today is 80!! I went to bed early last night and wound up waking up at 3am. ...

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Max Crisp I’m usually awake at 3am every morning, but I never get up to do anything productive, just go to the loo and have a drink of water. Not necessarily in that order. We are having a partial eclipse today, about now, so I keep popping outside to see what I can...

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I dislike flowers being shredded

vanny @vandana7 (101612) • India 10h

Flowers are beautiful...whether symmetrical or not... Out here, they shred them, as if they can make something more beautiful than god. Such shredded flowers are then laid on path of dignitaries (read politicos) or actors or...

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Max Crisp I loved the drink Dandelion and Burdock as a kid. I’m sure they must have to crush the flowers to make a juice out of them, but not purely for decoration. We do however, have many talented flower arrangers who can create wonderful decorations with flowers and...

Casu Marzu - worm cheese

Always smiling @allknowing (142888) • India 12h

As we know there are several types of cheese that one can pick from. Why should anyone could have thought of the worm cheese - Casu Marzu amazes me It is a worm cheese literally infested with maggots. It is also known as...

carsu marzu

worm cheese

rotten cheese

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Max Crisp I’ve never heard of this cheese, so don’t think it’s available in the UK? I love most things that come out of Italy, but I think I’ll pass on his one. I love cheese, but we Brits produce enough good varieties to satisfy my needs.

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We had a wild and crazy night here.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (42052) 28 Mar

I checked the weather yesterday like I generally do. Other than wind and a bit of rain, it seemed nothing alarming was going on. We were slated to get a few thunderstorms in the night--nothing major, no problems. About 9:45 PM,...

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Max Crisp Our weather has been quite benign recently. I’m hoping to experience the partial eclipse this morning, but it’s a bit cloudy. Power is often lost in the UK during storms, mainly due to fallen trees. I don’t know why they don’t keep the power lines clear of...

Thanks, Y’All!

Four Walls @FourWalls (72761) • United States 16h

Every now and then I’ll treat myself to something silly. I saw this t-shirt and couldn’t resist. It’s an old Navy joke. I found it online, and the company took PayPal. I used my earnings from myLot to pay for it. It arrived...

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Max Crisp “A volunteer is better than ten pressed men”. I do remember that one too. It’s excellent that you can spend some of your hard earned cash from here on something that you appreciate. It’s also nice that you appreciate all of us who have had a hand in it....

1985 Top Ten Songs: Walk of Life (#4)

Four Walls @FourWalls (72761) • United States 28 Mar

Today is the anniversary of the birth of my dear mother of blessed memory. Appropriately enough, one of her favorite rock songs pops up on the list of favorites of mine from 1985. I’m so thankful I inherited rhythm from my dad,...

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Max Crisp I remember you posting a Dire Straits track before, was it this one? Mark Knopfler is a fantastic guitarist and I have this album. One of my all-time favourites. Mothers are special, and I miss mine too, so I know how you feel.

1955 Top Ten Songs: Memories Are Made of This (#4)

Four Walls @FourWalls (72761) • United States 28 Mar

Here’s another song that’s now 70 years old. This one is on my 100 favorites list, ah, but on the pop side, not country! I truly cannot remember when I first heard this, but I know I loved it the first time I...

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Max Crisp If I made a top 100 list, then this would be on it too, along with another 1000 probably. Very difficult to choose from so many good records, and Dean Martin would be there at least a few times more. We were just talking about...

1985 Top Ten Songs: Rock and Roll Girls (#5)

Four Walls @FourWalls (72761) • United States 27 Mar

Wow, this restaurant is awful! Oh, wait, I’m home. Yes, I’m cleaning things (garbage pickup is tomorrow, so it’s a good day to fill the garbage cans), pausing to watch the weather blog and give you another song from...

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Max Crisp “Wow, this restaurant is awful! Oh, wait, I’m home” You make me laugh! I’m a big fan of CCR, but I’ve never heard this song before. With his voice, what could go wrong?

27 Mar

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A handsome young buck!

Fleur @Fleura (31388) • United Kingdom 26 Mar

I have heard or read this phrase used as a description of a lively young man in the past – more often in historical contexts it has to be said, rather than in contemporary use – but today I had a visit from the genuine article – a...

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Max Crisp Sadly I don’t recall ever being called a handsome young buck. Cheeky young whippersnapper, definitely. That’s a great shot! All I get in my garden, apart from birds, are squirrels trying to hide/find their nuts!

27 Mar

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Finally finished my taxes

NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (122078) • United States 26 Mar

I tried to do them early last month but I couldn't remember some 5 digit PIN that I had created the year before. Both the federal and state returns were rejected and I was furious. I called to get a refund and the guy was like "no...

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Max Crisp That’s the problem with creating PINs and passwords: you need a good memory. Or a notepad. We have to do our tax returns by the end of January for the previous year. Our year runs from 6th April to 5th April. I’m not sure why as it doesn’t make sense, but...

26 Mar

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Fruit juice

Always smiling @allknowing (142888) • India 26 Mar

I normally make fruit juice from the various fruits that we have in our garden. At the moment there is a bumper crop of the bell fruit I am planning to make bell frfuit juice The fruits are put in the blender and the juice...

fruit juice

bell fruit

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Max Crisp I don’t have any fruit trees in my garden so I have to make do with buying ready made juice from Tesco. I particularly like ‘tropical fruit’ which has a nice zing to it. It’s probably taking the enamel off my teeth, but it’s refreshing and tastes nice....

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Wheee! I got my laundry done yesterday.

The Horse @TheHorse (224906) • Walnut Creek, California 26 Mar

After realizing I had been wearing the same pair of socks for several days, I decided it was time to get my laundry done yesterday. I like the fact that my clothes smell like Bounce when they come out of the dryer. It's subtle,...

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Max Crisp It’s definitely not “soap” that makes up a dishwasher capsule or tablet. Asking AI I got this response: Dishwasher tablets typically contain a blend of ingredients including alkaline agents, oxygen-based bleaches, enzymes, surfactants, and sequestering...

26 Mar

1985 Top Ten Songs: Walking on Sunshine (#6)

Four Walls @FourWalls (72761) • United States 26 Mar

At last! I promised you a “hit,” and here you go! Get up and dance!!! That is, until you realize this countdown is celebrating the 40th anniversary of these songs…then you may need your Geritol before you get...

music

top ten lists

1985 songs

katrina and the waves

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Max Crisp It’s a cheery song for sure! She is also remembered here for winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1997 with ‘Love Shine a Light’. It did well in the charts, both here and in Europe, but I guess not over there, as you didn’t mention it....

26 Mar

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Horse racing is enjoyable

Daniel @Danielclark691 (1913) 23 Mar

I find horse racing is an enjoyable sport. It is a great spectacle, and as a spectator you can get a great deal of satisfaction from it as the horses thunder past you. Some people don’t like the sport, but I find it fascinating....

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Max Crisp Too many horses die jumping the fences, so the flat is better for them. I think the attraction for most people is the gambling associated with it. Nothing more exhilarating than having a few pounds/dollars on the winner at 10 to 1.

25 Mar

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It's Hard Monday, Ya Beatniks! (Mylot Exclusive #1875)

Greg @xander6464 (44947) • Wapello, Iowa 24 Mar

You probably didn't notice but I took the weekend off. That's why I'm here, bright and early, all well-rested and relaxed at the crack of early Hard Monday late evening. If you, my 226.4 Billion Loyal Dedicated Daily Readers,...

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Max Crisp I was watching our non-roving reporter, Sophie Ridge, on Sky, and she aired the whole interview with Trump about it. He basically dismissed it as a non-event.

25 Mar

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Have you ever eaten canned potatoes?

Melanie Marie @Melanie_Marie (2015) • United States 22 Mar

And if so, how did you prepare them? These somehow ended up in my room after the move to Kentucky (I’m sorry I mean Ira Twp, MI) and they are nowhere near expired so I can still do something with them. I would like to dry them...

canned potatoes

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Max Crisp I know I am a bit late to this, but my expert advice would be to donate it to your local food bank. But do it anonymously.

25 Mar

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A new word for me - recuse

Judy Evans @JudyEv (349298) • Rockingham, Australia 22 Mar

The photo has nothing to do with the post. It’s Vince sitting on a lot up the hill from our house-sit and trying to get a phone signal. I learnt a new word today. The chief of Australia’s National Anti-Corruption Commission has...

australia

national anti corruption commission

conflict of interest

recuse

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Max Crisp It’s a new word to me too. I follow Susie Dent, a lexicographer for the OED, who also appears on the long-running show - Countdown, and she has a “word of the day”. Today’s word of the day is “ingordigiousness”: extreme greed at the expensive of principles....

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Airport.

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13354) • Ireland 24 Mar

There I sat in Belfast international Airport early this morning, disgusted and irritated. Only place I could get a seat and what passed for ‘coffee’ was in a disreputable chain of coffee shops - bilge, pure bilge. And here’s...

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Max Crisp Edinburgh is a great city, but a bit expensive. I prefer Glasgow, as it’s cheaper and still lots to see and do.

25 Mar

Three days no water in my location

Erly Maglangit @cacay1 (84509) • Cagayan De Oro, Philippines 24 Mar

It's so frustrating to suffer water outage starting this day, Monday up to Wednesday evening. There's no memo sent by Water District. The management only announced at dawn of Monday when people were still sleeping. We only...

no water

annoying

bad days

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Max Crisp Having fresh drinking water from a tap is something we take for granted here. On the rare occasions it’s not available, it causes panic as it is vital for our survival. When it does happen, the water companies but bowsers in the streets and deliver bottled...

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Weird encounter

Laura @Laurakemunto (13153) • Kenya 10 Mar

I met a man 4 days ago. I didn't tell him yes to marriage since I want to date first. We were to have out first date yesterday. He never honored his time took around 2hours late. I canceled the date and went to see a friend....

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Max Crisp Is this someone you’ve been in an online relationship? Asking you to marry him after 4 days is a bit quick. I think you’ve had a lucky escape if he then abused you on the phone. Good luck with your next venture into the world of love!

25 Mar