Phew

Cleaver

misskool wrote: »

I can move it if you like?

Isn't that a bit like the referee asking one player if another player should be booked?

I'd say keep it here Coolio. There's stuff about shops and that. Economy-based innit?

misskool

Cleaver wrote: »

Before I say this misskool, this isn't a comment aimed at you. But I find the 'I know what I'm gonna get, not amazing, not awful, middle of the road' attitude something us Brits settle for quite a bit. And having little money means you should take more chances in my eyes. Go to a scary looking, cheapy, backstreet sushi place. It may be awful (doubt it) but at least you'll have a different sensory experience, unlike at Nandos.

Ye gods, I've just re-read my post - how pious and righteous do I sound? Ah well, I don't care when it comes to this subject. I hate all these identikit gaggle of restaurants that crop up in odious groups all over our country.

It is incredibly interesting how people in this country are either very blase about the type of food they eat or get on their exceptional high horse. It must be from a society that is obsessed about the class they fall in.

Coming from a country literally obsessed about the food we eat (we have been known to drive hours just to eat a single dish at a specific restaurant), we appreciate good food when we get it but we also don't mind the ocassional guilty secret. Here it's a sin if you're a foodie but you don't shop at waitrose or the expensive deli to prove that you have a palette.

I'm just as happy eat fast food as necessary, no one can beat a good chippie that prepares fresh hot chips, covered in cheap malt vinegar and salt. I don't need to go to a Michelin starred restaurant that will give me double cooked, balsamic vinegar reduction and cornish hand harvested sea salt.

Maybe I'll make my point better tomorrow.

Cleaver

misskool wrote: »

I'm just as happy eat fast food as necessary, no one can beat a good chippie that prepares fresh hot chips, covered in cheap malt vinegar and salt. I don't need to go to a Michelin starred restaurant that will give me double cooked, balsamic vinegar reduction and cornish hand harvested sea salt.

Maybe I'll make my point better tomorrow.

I think you're making your points very well right now.

I know what you mean, and I wasn't stating that I don't like Nandos because it's cheap. I don't really like it because I think it's just a passion-free, soulless place where no one really cares about anything other than shovelling cheap food to the masses. Maybe that's harsh, I dunno.

Great, cheap, street food is amazing. You're right: fish and chips from a great chippy, a cheap crepe from a street vendor in France, a homemade cheap pie from a bakers. All cheap and cheerful, but presumably made by someone that cares about what they are making. And served in an individual place with maybe a bit of character, not in a shopping centre next to a cinema because a marketing committe did some research and found a site that was 'optimally placed to discern cheap-chicken consumers on a post-spending trip'.

I dunno, I just find Nandos and similar places depressing. I don't really get the point, but maybe that's just me.

Harry_Powell

carolt wrote: »

Well, you'd know all about that, Dithering Dad.

I bow to your expertise in this area - you are clearly the master of duplicity. Or should that be triplicity, quadroplicity, etc?

Oh dear, the usual MSE 'when all argument fails, accuse your opponent of sock puppetry'. It seems I hit a raw nerve carolt and all you can come back with is this. Tut tut. This is just as bad as your 'I'm not going to discuss my life on the internet' statement when people try to pick apart your tall tales.

carolt

misskool wrote: »

I can move it if you like?

Bit late now - I was in bed before you posted this, I think, but no - personally, I'm in favour of keeping the chat, unless it's offensive. If it's friendly, what's the harm?

I'm all for it.

IveSeenTheLight

carolt wrote: »

Because, given the number of nutters who haunt my posts, I'm going to disclose exactly where I live, aren't I.

Sorry, I'd rather discuss chocolate.

You want the gloater's thread, ISTL - that's one of Hamish's, I believe.

It's not where you live though is it?
Hardly people going to know exactly where you live or might live though.

However I take your point and understand you would not be raising anymore anecdotal threads in which we cannot discuss on.

There'd be no point would there?

carolt

Naming a general area would be a bit pointless, as my OP stated that I was referring to specific properties - which narrows the area down a lot. So no, I'm not going to name them. Or give rightmove links.

My stalkers will have to be disappointed, I'm afraid.

julieq

Good good, no verifiable data = no data. Move along everyone, nothing to see here.

Misskool, any chance of merging this thread with some of the other memorable flights of bear fancy to prevent people taking it seriously by accident?

mewbie_2

julieq wrote: »

Good good, no verifiable data = no data. Move along everyone, nothing to see here.

Misskool, any chance of merging this thread with some of the other memorable flights of bear fancy to prevent people taking it seriously by accident?

I'm quite happy with anecdotal when it comes from people I trust as genuine. Now from you I would certainly require proof rather than your distinct style of attempting to talk down to people... as though you were some kind of expert on anything of consequence.

julieq

Mewbie, I present nothing more than my arguments, and I back them up with source information. I'm debating (hint, look at the forum name), and you don't debate by being wishy washy about your opinions.

Meanwhile the bears have been lecturing people for years - hpc is the HOME of the haughty lecture - but you seem to mind that a little less. Curiously you can accept anecdotal data from people you happen to want to agree with, even if they won't back up observations which are at 90 degrees to recorded data with the name of even a county for a little cross checking.

Which is probably why you've been so consistently wrong. You trust the wrong girls.