Using a kitchen cupboard door inside panel as a white board?

[Adrian]

I've now got a mental image of somebody wandering around the supermarket trying to juggle an A0 flipchart sheet with their shopping list on...

[matthelliwell]

Glad to see I'm not the only one then. I upload them to Evernote so I can get them on the PC as well, not to mention tag and search for them.

Matt

[Andy Dingley]

"glass markers", so I guess why not.

So lets not use those then, clearly the wrong thing. Anyone really think that's what TNP meant here?

[Man at B&Q]

Nothing like whiteboard pens FFS.

Where are the rest of your "quite a few"?

MBQ

[The Medway Handyman]

Yup. Never let the truth interfere with a good story :-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

'dry' means 'solvent based' rather than 'water based' but that doesn't tell you if once the solvent has gone, what's left is a powdery wipable pigment, or a hard set resin that is ineradicable.

[The Natural Philosopher]

yes, that was exactly what I meant.

After many years in an odffice that used two types of 'dry marker' - one for whiteboards and one for parcels and (moderately intelligent) people were forever grabbing the wrong one out of the stationary cupboard..and permanently wrecking the whiteboards.

[The Natural Philosopher]

To me dry was always 'fast drying' i.e. solvent based or 'dry' as in not wet=not water based.

[Andy Dingley]

I've worked with some monumentally stupid people over the years, but I've never seen anyone take a Chinagraph to a whiteboard.

Nor have I yet seen a "permanently wrecked" whiteboard that didn't respond to xylene or cyclohexane.

[The Natural Philosopher]

It got most of it off, but it was permanently stained.

[dennis]

I have seen chinagraph on a whiteboard.. it wipes off but can leave it waxy.

Everyone I know calls whiteboard pens dry wipe markers BTW.. you can wipe them off using a dry wiper.

[Thomas Prufer]

Ha. A new whiteboard: "Oi, don't use that sponge, there's a special wiper thing for it. I'll get it, OK?"

Two minutes later, it had been "cleaned" with the Scotch-Brite side of a sponge.

Thomas Prufer

[Man at B&Q]

Indeed. All our meeting rooms are equipped with a bottle for when someone uses a flipchart marker on the whiteboard.

MBQ

[Andy Dingley]

Nothing to add.

[Andrew May]

Nah. What he needs is an iPhone app that will photograph the door, do a character recognition of what is written to produce a list, parse said list and query the website of each local supermarket. Then tell the OP where to go to get the best price for the whole basket. Then as the OP shops he photographs the bar code on each product as he puts it in the basket and crosses it off the list. Simples.

[Huge]

Off you go... :o)