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forks, a dollar, a browser
Sunday, November 5th, 2017 11:25 pmI dislike it when the inside edges of fork tines are rough; it makes eating unpleasant, unless I'm very careful not to have the fork touch my tongue. That's one of the reasons my favorite fork is my favorite, because its tines are smooth. But how to know, when buying cutlery, if the tines are smooth or not? Most of the loose individual forks I've seen for sale, as at Walmart or World Market, have rough inside edges. Not to mention, the tines also generally have thick squarish ends which I don't like either. When they are part of a box set, it is hard to tell if the tines are smooth or not.
The same could be said for spoons... sometimes, spoons have rough outside edges, but it is not as common as with fork tines, and tends to only be the very cheap brands.
This online store says that smooth tines are polished more:
Higher-priced patterns will have more care given to polishing the fork tines. While it's very subtle and subconscious, your lips and tongue will feel the slight roughness. When you eat with a pattern that has well-polished tines, it feels smooth all the way through.
Point of Reference:
This Ikea Fornuft brand (marked with number "223 32") which Qiao bought has lovely spoons, and the knives are ok. They all have a nice shiny finish. But the fork tines are rough and unpleasant on the inside. The Ikea website lists them at ~$8 per 20 pieces (clearance price, perhaps?), while Amazon lists them at ~$15 per 20. So apparently I need to look for ones which are more expensive than that.
These look nice from the photo. $25 for a 5 piece set, though if one buys the forks individually, they are $18 each!
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I previously posted about iTunes charging me an extra dollar for a song I bought back in early June. The first time I contacted them about it, they said it was an authorization charge and that it would "drop off". I waited another month to make sure, but it didn't drop off. After that, I had trouble getting through to their customer service again, and when I finally did, they said that Paypal should have refunded it to me. So I contacted PayPal, who promptly refunded it to me with no hassle. That was mid-August.
So imagine my consternation, when in mid-October, my PayPal account showed that iTunes had now also refunded me $1. Two weeks later, iTunes sent me an email. It didn't mention my prior communications with them; it only said:
You may have recently noticed that your PayPal account was erroneously charged for one or more authorizations from the iTunes Store, iBooks Store, App Store, Apple News, or iCloud, in the amount of $1.00. This issue has been resolved and all applicable charges have been reversed. You should see the reversals on your PayPal account within five business days.
So perhaps it wasn't only me with the problem, and perhaps they refunded everyone who was erroneously charged. Now I feel slightly bad that PayPal gave me a dollar too, when apparently it wasn't their fault after all.
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A new browser for me to try out: Vivaldi. It's not open-source, though.
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Dirk Gently, season 2, continues to be amazingly good and entertaining.
The same could be said for spoons... sometimes, spoons have rough outside edges, but it is not as common as with fork tines, and tends to only be the very cheap brands.
This online store says that smooth tines are polished more:
Higher-priced patterns will have more care given to polishing the fork tines. While it's very subtle and subconscious, your lips and tongue will feel the slight roughness. When you eat with a pattern that has well-polished tines, it feels smooth all the way through.
Point of Reference:
This Ikea Fornuft brand (marked with number "223 32") which Qiao bought has lovely spoons, and the knives are ok. They all have a nice shiny finish. But the fork tines are rough and unpleasant on the inside. The Ikea website lists them at ~$8 per 20 pieces (clearance price, perhaps?), while Amazon lists them at ~$15 per 20. So apparently I need to look for ones which are more expensive than that.
These look nice from the photo. $25 for a 5 piece set, though if one buys the forks individually, they are $18 each!
.
I previously posted about iTunes charging me an extra dollar for a song I bought back in early June. The first time I contacted them about it, they said it was an authorization charge and that it would "drop off". I waited another month to make sure, but it didn't drop off. After that, I had trouble getting through to their customer service again, and when I finally did, they said that Paypal should have refunded it to me. So I contacted PayPal, who promptly refunded it to me with no hassle. That was mid-August.
So imagine my consternation, when in mid-October, my PayPal account showed that iTunes had now also refunded me $1. Two weeks later, iTunes sent me an email. It didn't mention my prior communications with them; it only said:
You may have recently noticed that your PayPal account was erroneously charged for one or more authorizations from the iTunes Store, iBooks Store, App Store, Apple News, or iCloud, in the amount of $1.00. This issue has been resolved and all applicable charges have been reversed. You should see the reversals on your PayPal account within five business days.
So perhaps it wasn't only me with the problem, and perhaps they refunded everyone who was erroneously charged. Now I feel slightly bad that PayPal gave me a dollar too, when apparently it wasn't their fault after all.
.
A new browser for me to try out: Vivaldi. It's not open-source, though.
.
Dirk Gently, season 2, continues to be amazingly good and entertaining.
