Now it's my turn - Can't find our tin opener, what to do?

I'm worried I'm quickly approaching the age where I might start thinking about buying corned beef. A terrifying prospect.

plenty of time - you have to go through the buying tins of salmon first. You then degenerate to the corn beef stage
 
If you're feeling rather hungry
There's a product you'll remember
Eat it hot or cold on Sunday
Or you can put it in a blender
Corned beef
With chips or with salad It's corned beef
Even Buckingham Palace eats corned beef
Hey! Why don't you try corned beef hash
I like corned beef as much as the next man, but wtf do you make by blending the stuff? A corned beef smoothy? I mean, it sounds pretty manly. Is this what separates the alphas from the betas?
 
Corned beef and cheese toasties are pretty damn good too. They will melt your mouth off though as they're hotter than the surface of the sun.
 
How do you lose a tin opener?
Did you take it away camping or something?
It stays in the drawer with all the other kitchen utensils.
You know how these things go - You're in the middle of something, when someone phones and you carry on absently while focussing on the conversation... or something important happens and you have to clear stuff away, forgetting exactly where you placed the tool...
In the case of a friend of mine, he was scouring the place looking for where he'd put his mobile phone... while talking to a client on his mobile phone. We're kind, so only let him carry on for about half an hour like that!
 
You know how these things go - You're in the middle of something, when someone phones and you carry on absently while focussing on the conversation... or something important happens and you have to clear stuff away, forgetting exactly where you placed the tool...
In the case of a friend of mine, he was scouring the place looking for where he'd put his mobile phone... while talking to a client on his mobile phone. We're kind, so only let him carry on for about half an hour like that!

A tin opener is usually in the drawer or attached to a tin or lying on the worktop. It's not something that I would just carry with me somewhere if something happened.

It would be placed on the worktop and remain there.

It's not like a torch, pen, screwdriver, etc.

In fact the only item I've lost has been a screwdriver but I'm sure that my mates uncle nicked it after it was accidentally left in his car after he picked me up to go round to help do a few DIY jobs and I lifted everything else out the car bar the screwdriver and then his uncle borrowed his estate and it was never seen again.

A tin opener though it's not something I'd ever lose or take with me anywhere.
 
You're right of course.

I can do .44 or .357 but unfortunately, the meat might be inedible afterwards.

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(yes, the .357 has my name on it. My logic is that if I've got the bullet with my name on it, nobody else has)

Baldrick is that you? :p
 
Corned beef and brown sauce Sandwich on white bread mmmmm.

Not had potted dog from the butcher's for ages either.
 
I been in that position so many times, we have brought a lot of cheap tin can opener and they always broke. The one fix, dangerous was the use a know and stab the tin opener until you have enough opening to get it out, it works but time consuming.
 
Random vaguely relevant thing - tins were invented quite some time before tin openers. People opened them with knives, bayonets (tins were invented for the military), chisels, whatever they had on hand. Less than ideal.
 
A tin opener is usually in the drawer or attached to a tin or lying on the worktop. It's not something that I would just carry with me somewhere if something happened.
Yeah, everybody says that until they have someone talking to them while they work, then they simply mislay the item. It's as easy as that, and if you live with other people the chances of mislaying something increase.

In fact the only item I've lost has been a screwdriver but I'm sure that my mates uncle nicked it after it was accidentally left in his car after he picked me up to go round to help do a few DIY jobs and I lifted everything else out the car bar the screwdriver and then his uncle borrowed his estate and it was never seen again.
So you have never, ever, ever, EVER, in your whole long life of thirty-five thousand, two hundred and nine posts, lost a single thing apart from one excessively convoluted chain of events that sounds like a poorly conceived excuse in a bad PACE interview?
I don't believe you!!

A tin opener though it's not something I'd ever lose or take with me anywhere.
To be fair, OP didn't say he lost it. He said he can't find it, suggesting it's still believed to be around (and thus not actually lost) but certainly not where it should be... and he also said 'our', which implies other people are involved in the disappearance, and thus opens up magnitudes of possibilities.

So yeah, people lose all kinds of things. They get distracted and stuff gets mislaid, people tidy up in a hurry, people reorganise and rearrange room layouts, people sometimes even move house... any number of ways to lose a tin opener.
 
To be fair, OP didn't say he lost it. He said he can't find it, suggesting it's still believed to be around (and thus not actually lost) but certainly not where it should be... and he also said 'our', which implies other people are involved in the disappearance, and thus opens up magnitudes of possibilities.
I also said (in very small text) that Mrs. Feek would know exactly where it was and I was right. When she got home and I asked about said tin opener, she pointed me in the right direction. I was looking in the drawer it used to be in, not the drawer that she moved it to without mentioning it.
 
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