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Here's how my beautiful ADHD brain works:
My beautiful and very patient wife has just asked me, "What are we going to get the kids for Christmas?" But I'm actually thinking about the second line in the song on the R. Whites lemonade commercial from the 1970s. I'm a secret lemonade drinker. How that line... I'm trying to keep it upper, but it's one of those nights. I'm trying to keep it upper, but it's one of those nights. It doesn't rhyme with the first line. I'm a secret lemonade drinker of the song. And and now she's asking me, "What did I just say?" And and all I'm thinking is R. Whites lemonade! How did I get to the 1970s lemonade commercial? But then I remembered that we both watched a documentary last night about the Pogues' "Fairy Tale of New York." And and uh one of the versions was produced by Elvis Costello. And Elvis Costello's dad was the session singer in the R. White's 1970s lemonade commercial. I'm a secret lemonade drinker. R. Whites lemonade. And now I can't remember what my wife said. R. Whites lemonade. See the lyric is, "I'm a secret lemonade drinker." But then it jumps to, "I'm trying to keep it upper, but it's one of those nights." Only the R. Whites bit rhymes because they've just repeated the word R. Whites.
I'm calling this uh an ADHD dad win. But it's actually a dad delivers fail. Um, hit me up in the comments if you are or might be an ADHD dad. It'd be lovely to hear from you. It'd be lovely to hear your trains of thoughts. And thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the Subscribe button. It really helps me to to do something with this channel. I do appreciate it if I can remember to actually edit and upload this video.
Hello - I'm trying out a new thing every day.
Today I want to MASTER my Vaillant boiler remote control...
so I'm reading out every single page of my Vailant boiler remote control instructions manual!
I'm trying out each chapter on the remote control timer itself - the Valliant VRT 350f controller for our Vaillant Ecofit Pure boiler.
For a TightwadDad, KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! (Or "Not using power")
Here are the chapters from the manual, just click on the times below to jump directly to the "How To" in the manual...
1:50 Operating instructions manual for Vaillant VRT 350f remote control for EcoFit Pure boiler
2:35 How to navigate around the remote control screen - what does the sun and moon icon logos mean? What do the buttons do?
11:15 Reading the system status
13:55 Setting Desired Temperatures - What does Desired Temperature mean? Find out here!
15:20 Hot water generation settings
16:00 Setting timer programmes. How to set the timer program on a Vaillant Boiler remote control.
20:20 What does Days Away From Home Scheduling mean?
22:15 Setting timer programmes: Days away from home scheduling
23:20 Setting the language - how to change the language on a Vaillant boiler remote control unit
24:10 Setting the date: How to change the date on a Vaillant remote control
24:30 Setting the time: How to change the time on a Vaillant combi boiler remote control
How to set the time after the clocks go back or forward
25:30 Setting the display contrast on the remote control
26:00 Setting the offset room temperature.
26:55 Changing the heating circuit name. How to change the name from HEATING1 to something else and rename it.
27:20 Reset to factory settings. How to factory reset the Vaillant boiler Remote control
28:20 Operating modes for the heating circuit -automatic mode, summer mode, comfort mode, setback mode
28:40 Automatic mode
29:05 Summer mode
29:25 Comfort mode
29:45 Set-back mode
30:15 System off mode: How to turn the Vaillant boiler system off
30:30 Modes for hot water production
32:40 Cylinder Boost
33:15 Party Function Mode
34:35 1 Day Away From Home Mode - for when you're away from home for one day
35:40 Service Message: What does Service Heat Generator 1 mean with a spanner logo or icon
36:00 Fault Message: Heat Generator 1 fault
37:05 Changing batteries: How to change the batteries on a Vaillant Boiler remote control unit for an EcoFit Pure combi boiler - AA batteries
I bought the URBANEARS PLATTAN 2 - two years ago... Here's what they look like 2 years on! Also, what they look like against a brand new pair of dark grey Urbanears Plattan 2.
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These are the cabled, wired, corded version of the Plattan 2 - the old pair are Indigo and the new pair is Dark Grey.
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Hello welcome back to the Happy Hut, I'm Neil and usually this is the Tightwad Dad Vlog.
It's a place where we try to be happy with what we've already got, but today that's really true...
I'm gonna be really happy with what I've already got because I've got these!
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These are the Urbanears Plattan 2 headphones
They are all over the earph-- I can't hear.
They're an all-over ear headphone that you can even twist them around
Now one of my most popular videos on the channel, bizarrely, is me unboxing these very headphones: the indigo Plattan 2 Urbanears headphones.
Not the Bluetooth ones - they're corded - they've got this wire and it detaches as well A
Anyway this video, it's got so many views you can see it playing now, where actually I'm doing an unboxing of the Plattan 2, and comparing them with the Plattan 1
Now I've been using these headphones every single day, and I only realized the other day that I've been using these daily for two years... so I thought I'd do two things in this video.
One is to show you how the urbanears Plattan 2 headphones look after two years of daily use.
I'll give you some close-ups in a second, but also compare them with a brand new set of Plattan 2's... ahh look... see how beautiful and clean and stitched they are!
And... ahhh, I've been using these every day for two years!
But they've held up - excuse me - they've held up really well, and I just want to show you which ways they've held up, and which ways they have probably deteriorated over two years
But anyway, this is what the box looks like
I actually got these new Plattan 2's for my long-suffering wife to help drown out me next to her.
Wow they feel different!
There's no Netflix account that can compensate for having to live with me I don't think but these sort of drown me out most of the time.
They're slightly different in a number of ways and I've only just noticed a few of the differences now and I wanted to go through those with you but let's take a look at the old Plattan 2, to show you a glimpse into the future of what yours might look like if you use them everyday for two years.
The first thing is... let me show you under the head - that has fared really well
There's just a little bit of-- where the colour has come away from the rubberized headband so this has worked really well
I think basically I've got a filthy head and I should clean more often, and I think the oil from my face in my head has... has worn this over time
The, the fabric has held up quite well as well I think you can see
I've spilt coffee on it
I haven't really bothered to clean it with fabric cleaner but in the comments on the other video, a few people were discussing best ways of cleaning these
I've not tried it, but I would use one of those pink sprays one of those OXY sprays that you have for upholstery
That will probably get that up
Hey, may-- that maybe that's another video!
But they don't look too filthy, thanks to the indigo colour.
And the next bit of wear and tear is on the ears, so don't know if you can see but these have completely unstitched themselves - so you can see the foam inside
They're still really comfortable though, but let me compare them with the new pair
You can see the stitching is pristine - that's how these used to look.
The oil from my face and being scrunched up as well has meant that some of the indigo colouring has come away
You know the great thing with these ear cups - I made another video about this
I'll give you a clip now: it's to show you how to disconnect the ear cups and replace them
I'll leave a link to that video in the description, or if you click on the "i" on the top of the screen - but just to show you if you wanted to get new ones.
They cost about fourteen pounds and and another fourteen pounds for delivery direct from Urbanears, but you can really easily disconnect them and they just they just twist-on really easily.
The last element of these lovely headphones is the cord and if you see, it's slightly frayed.
Now that is completely my fault because they're designed to be wound up and then you can tuck the 3.5mm jack under the cable like this, and then I pull it tight... and then I throw it in my bag!
What happens is, I think you can see that, but because I haven't extended the cups the cable clashes against the headband and bends it and over time - two years every day - it has caused the cable to bend slightly and wear away
It still works really well.
They still sound fantastic
What I didn't say in the unboxing review video was how they sounded, but I thought it was pretty obvious
I was replacing another pair that itself was I think five years old
The sound is phenomenal.
These cups kind of block out everything else around you which is why I've got them for my long-suffering wife but the sound is really rich and really warm
This is my favorite sounding headphones and they're so comfortable as well
I use them for really long... you know... walking, long movies
Sorry, it's the sound of someone's house being broken into!
So that's the tour of the two-year-old Plattan 2 headphones but look at this!
These are dark grey headphones - I'll just give you a comparison of the colour.
There are some differences between the two, and I can see one immediately when I do this...
The new headphones they have some kind of magnet attachment so where the ear cups meet the headband, Urbanears calls this a flexible 3D hinge
There's a magnet so they snap shut like this... and then to fold them up you just break the magnet
The other big difference that I've noticed - in fact I think it's the only other difference, it's identical in all other respects - is this...
This is how the Plattan 2 Jack has fared over two years
I'll put it over my head, there we go, nice focus
I don't know if you could see but the top of the L-shaped jack has worn away over time
Now again this is completely my fault because I have quite a chunky case on my phone, though it's got an L-shaped which is really helpful, and this lasted much longer than the jack on the original Plattan headphones
You can see the the rubber has worn away
But look at the new Plattan 2 Jack
They've given a very generous amount of protection on the end there because they know that's where it's going to be pulled out, over time
So you can see it's got this kind of rubber shield and it concertinas
I don't know what this is for, this hole
I can only imagine it's so you can tidily fold it up like that
But that seems to be putting a lot of pressure on the wire
I don't think I'd bother doing
That not that they're my headphones
Wrap the cable round and it's still clashing with the head band
So what I would advise if you get these headphones is to probably each time you do this push them up a bit
Oh now, that's made it worse!
Okay push them down a bit and then you'll see that the cable clears, but the great thing with the Plattan 2 is that the cable is replaceable
So this cable comes out
Don't do this if you have the Plattan and the original Plattan
Is it Plat-tan or Plattan?
This detaches as well so this part is completely replaceable and you could put in a cord that doesn't have the microphone built-in
Also, same with the other Plattan 2 - there's an extra 3.5mm jack so you can daisy chain your headphones and I can listen to things with my long-suffering wife, if she lets me!
She's probably gonna watch this video on these headphones, but do you have any questions?
Leave a comment - I'm sure there's something I've forgotten - but leave a-- a question below or just to say hi.
It'd be lovely to hear from you - maybe someone else could help you out with any questions that you might have about this, but I'll leave a link to the original video in the description because everything - all the details are there
The last thing I wanted to do is to just check if the ear cups detach.
This could go horribly wrong
Yes!
There you go
I haven't broken them. They do go back on, and I don't think this will show up on the camera, but it says put me back on or order a replacement at urbanears.com
I hope this has helped you decide whether or not you want the Plattan 2 Urbanears headphones
I cannot recommend more highly and like I say I've used mine every day for two years and before that daily for five years with the original Plattan
I better put this back together!
If you've reached this point of the video, it'll be fantastic if you could send me a little signal to let me know someone got this far
Just hit the thumbs up and if you're feeling even kinder why not hit the subscribe button you never have to watch anything I watch ever again but every subscription helps me get closer to 10,000 subscribers
It took me two years to get to 1,000 so I think we're looking at 2030 for smashing the 10,000 barrier
If you want to help me on that journey thank you and good luck with your purchase.
There are links to the Urbanears Plattan 2 in the description, if you buy them from there, Amazon give me a few pennies - so if you buy them from there thank you in advance.
Can you please help my daddy get 1000 subscribers just click on his face.
Thanks! Bye! How's that?
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Trying something new every day.
Today it's showing how I Marie Kondo fold my T-shirts.
In real time. For 15 minutes.
It started a few days ago where I made a homemade DIY face mask video: https://youtu.be/e9iFYewJS1k
I'd pulled out all my T-shirts, so filmed myself putting them all back again, showing how I use the KonMari method for folding Tshirts.
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0:00 How to fold a T-shirt using Marie Kondo method of standing them up in the drawer
1:33 Should I call this vlog #TightwadDad or Self-Help Dad? - leave a comment below!
0:45 I was on the BBC News At Six on Tuesday 12 May 2020, 30 minutes in...
2:00 Man folds T-shirts for 10 minutes... T-shirt packing tutorial, KonMari style!
Fold in the sleeves, then fold lengthways down either side of the collar.
Then fold the Tshirt in half, and half again. Stand the T-shirt up to see if the folds are correct.
13:20 When packing the Tshirts into the drawers, move dark colours towards the back and lighter T-shirts towards yourself
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This is ten minutes of my T-shirt, KonMari method.
My Marie Kondo - with these.
You're gonna watch for ten minutes? Okay!
Guess we're doing this...
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Hello I'm Neil welcome back to the happy hut.
Usually I'm a tightwad dad, trying to be happy with what we've already got.
Which is what the words show.
But we're in the great shutdown of 2020, and I'm just questioning everything at the moment. I'm just trying to get through the day by coming up with trying out something new every day.
I made this video the other day, ah, where I'm trying to make a face mask out of my t-shirts, and it went really well.
It went so well two days later BBC News tweeted me and asked if they could use a clip on the BBC News! News at Six.
[CLIP] "Using anything from old t-shirts to bedding sheets...
Two of these guys are going to get the chop - quite literally.
[REPORTER:] This dad from Hampshire tried making a t-shirt mask for himself on his YouTube channel.
My ears aren't coping very well with the elastic bands.
So I'm on telly! And the video is on BBC One!
National British BBC One, which is fantastic!
Today it's kind of related to that because I'm going to be Marie Kondo -ing my t-shirts continuously, 13 minutes in real time - and it made me think!
Should I call this thing something else?
There's a poll on the screen - I think it's that side:
Should I carry on calling this vlog the tightwad dad vlog, where we're trying to be happy with what we've got... or should I call it something else like "self-help dad", which it's a bit wet.
I don't know is it? Tell me.
Tell me in the comments: should it be tightwad dad or self-help dad?
One feels more positive which is probably why it is not quite as catchy?
There's something about tightwad dad that I really like that it's actually true to the position that we're in.
But anyway - today is trying something new.
Marie Kondo 'ing all my t-shirts on camera in real time.
Guess I've got to put all my t-shirts back together again.
This is ten minutes of my t-shirt konmari method - my Marie Kondo - with these.
You're gonna watch for ten minutes?
Okay!
By the way, what do you think about my interpretation of the konmari method?
Leave a comment below!
I'd like to know if you have any tips or an opinion on how I'm doing this.
What do you think?
Leave me a comment below, I'd love to hear from you just to say hi.
And if you made it to the end - I don't think that anyone made it to the end - but if you did you could prove me wrong by clicking on the thumbs up, that would be really cool or if you're feeding even kinder why not hit the subscribe button.
Trying to get to 10,000 subscribers and I think this is just the kind of video that's goona - that's gonna send me all the way to 10K.
So thank you but-- but this is another video... and my face... if you click on that you can subscribe. Thanks for being there. Appreciate it.
Can you please help my daddy get 10,000 subscribers. Just click in his face. Thanks bye! Alright, this is gonna be the proper one, right?
You ready?
Yes.
Let’s do it.
Hello I'm Neil and this is the Tightwad Dad podcast.
We're outdoors.
We’re cutting a pomelo. And it’s bruised.
Do you know what a pomelo is?
Erm all I know is it’s a honey pomelo.
Yeah but I don't I don't know what it is either.
It's like a exotic fruit.
Got a second camera so we can get some close-ups.
Some action pomelo closeups.
What does it smell of?
Smells weird.
Oh.
Nearly lost my nose then.
Oh.
You said, before, you thought I couldn’t do it.
Oh, it feels so squishy!
Can I smell it?
How do you think we should cut it?
Do you think you’re supposed to cut it--
In half.
Yeah what like down or across?
It says to cut it down.
Oh there’s instructions - let's show the instructions.
So is this a pomelo unboxing?
Yes.
Yeah pause the video I'll show you the instructions. I still don't quite understand them.
So I gave you a bread knife instead of the super sharp knife.
Oooh it looks weird.
It looks like a giant lemon.
Woah, it might be.
Ohmygod the seeds!.
Go on, eat it eat it go on.
And the trouble with this pomelo is that we've been planning this video for about two months and it's been by the kettle hasn't it for about five weeks because we got it after Christmas.
It's now end of February so this this might not taste very nice.
Good work.
It smells like grapefruit.
You know it would take me like two seconds to look it up on Wikipedia.
It spurts.
It’s like a lemon.
“What is a pomelo?”
Oh here we go right so a pomelo is the largest of the citrus fruits with a thick yellow skin and bitter pulp.
I like bitter stuff.
Do you think you could just peel it out like this you know like a big orange piece?
Oh that's like
[OFFSCREEN RUDE SOUND]
[GIGGLES]
I won't tell you who that was.
[MORE GIGGLES]
It's almost like we're turning the podcast into a cookery vlog.
Right, should I open it and then we'll take a bite?
I think this is really off.
Go on you bite, I’ll bite.
[UGH! PFFT!]
I didn't spit it out, I like it.
Oh I did.
I spit out a seed. Could we grow a pomelo?
Go on, go on, plant it!
So yeah it tastes like a--
I’ll plant a pomelo tree.
It tastes like a grapefruit.
Okay! Planted!
We're gonna turn this into a gardening vlog now.
How would you describe this to someone who’s looked up on YouTube “what does a pomelo taste like?”
It's fairly sour, not very sour.
Sweet.
I like it.
But it’s kept it quite well - yeah - because it's huge.
That's because of its thick skin.
All of that has been protecting it.
I didn't-- I didn't think I'd eat this much.
Excuse me.
I'm just planting one.
[LAUGHS]
If you've got to this point in the video - like and subscribe - don't forget to leave a comment if you’ve tasted one. How would you describe a pomelo?
Answers below.
That rhymes!
Bye.
Ugh. It's not that good.
I like it.
