Shopping Thread .. or What Did You Buy?

[Kaitzilla]

Time for Black Friday sales! (on Wednesday)

$50 PS5 controller, $35 God of War Ragnarok, and maybe a 2TB expansion SSD now that prices are reasonable.

Hmm, $5 Sim City 4 on steam.


Be happy and joyful comrades

 

[Grendeldef]

Hertz is the normal unit in the U.S., at least these days. I did a double take on seeing the "cycle" by the "110 volt, 60" as well. But I'm too young to remember what was standard in the 50s when that was printed.

I have a liftable table, it was a good purchase, I switch its height a lot more often than when I had a manual-adjustment one at work. Although we generally call them standing desks here. At least stateside, "electric table" sounds too similar to "electric chair", which was our most common method of conducting executions for most of the 1900s. You built a larger one than I have; mine is 60 inches by 30 inches, which is about 150 centimeters by 75 centimeters.

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I bought a couple new mixing bowls, after my previous one split in two while being microwaved. If I'd known mixing bowls were as affordable as they are, I would've bought a second one years ago.

Oh yes, I worded my question a bit hastily so in my 50 odd years I've never seen "cycle" nor heard of it so I assume it wasn't a common way of expressing it at any point in time but I was rather thinking of whether it was just that one company or if it was used by (some) others, too for a while.

Electric chair has the same meaning here, too but as it was never used here referring electrically adjustable chair as such doesn't associate those with executions. I haven't seen those adjustable tables with called with anything else than electric tables but that doesn't mean they don't have a better name. The purely mechanical predecessors were & still are called "hissipöytä" (literally lift table) and that can include the electric ones as well.

 

[Kyriakos]

The new computer was the obvious recent sizable buy.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I've been trying some of the new (new to me) varieties of Lay's potato chips.

So far I've tried Honey Butter and Chicken & Tomato. Both are delicious.