Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

neverdespairgirl

SingleSue wrote: »

Holidays included, I have been to Czech Republic, France, travelled almost the length of Denmark (in one weekend), Italy, Spain and Belgium.

I apparently went to Germany when I was a baby, and have one memory of going to Switzerland when I was 3. I remember going to Greece when I was 5, then family holidays in Italy for 3 years from the age of 10, and then 3 years in France, and 4 in Spain & Portugal. Also a New Year's holiday in Cyprus.

I went on a 2 week school trip to Moscow when i was 14, that was fantastic. When I was 18, I went to live & work in Poland for a year, and went all over the place - Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia, Hungary and Austria.

After my first year at uni, my best mate and I spent 3 months in Romania, Bulgaria, Istanbul, then north to Russia and the Ukraine.

After my second year at uni, we went to India for a couple of months.

After my third year at uni, OH and I spent the summer camping and travelling in Mongolia.

I also got paid-for trips for debating when i was at uni, to Athens, Manilla, and Japan.

Since starting work, OH and I have been on holiday to Portugal, Madeira, Malta twice, Italy a couple of times, ski-ing twice in France, and Israel 7 times.

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

Sorry to switch the subject back, but I just wanted to say that I think Hebrew is an amazing looking language. I don't understand a word of it, but for something so ancient it has an amazingly sci-fi appearance. Its the sort of script that appears on intergalactic spaceships.

Someone on the Tesco DTD thread had a sig in hebrew. When I tried to copy it to google translate it, the cursor moved the wrong way, so right arrow moved left. Most odd, I know the language reads right to left but I didn't expect it to be able to control the cursor.

neverdespairgirl

vivatifosi wrote: »

Sorry to switch the subject back, but I just wanted to say that I think Hebrew is an amazing looking language. I don't understand a word of it, but for something so ancient it has an amazingly sci-fi appearance. Its the sort of script that appears on intergalactic spaceships.

The printed and hand-written types are even more different than the Latin letters, though, completely different, really!

So the first letter of the alphabet, aleph, is hand-written like this:


But printed like this:

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

I didn't expect it to be able to control the cursor.

Haven't you heard? They can do anything. I believe they are somehow connected to some strange race of lizard people who release maggots or something from the chem trails in planes and manipulate the silver and gold markets. (roll eye smilie) I never quite get the fascination with Jews by conspiracy theorists.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I don't think you change them yourself - apart from flipping a switch to the spare set.

Well, the spare set has to get there somehow!

I used to have a twin tank, with what was supposed to be an automatic switch-over, which failed a couple of times... but once you've got an empty you have to disconnect it, then lug it somewhere ... then lug in the new/full one and connect it up.

I used to have to buy my tanks (4' high orange ones) from the site owner, then balance it on a sack barrow and manoevre it along the roadway, over the speed bumps, up a kerb, along a narrow walkway, then follow the paving slabs round to the back of my van.... connect it, get the empty onto the sack barrow and cart that back.... in winter this meant doing it in the ferkin cold/wind/rain too. It also had to be done during daylight, which mostly meant on a Saturday morning; I couldn't risk running out entirely, so once one was empty it HAD to be replaced the next Saturday, whether I fancied it, or had time for it, or not.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Haven't you heard? They can do anything. I believe they are somehow connected to some strange race of lizard people who release maggots or something from the chem trails in planes and manipulate the silver and gold markets. (roll eye smilie) I never quite get the fascination with Jews by conspiracy theorists.

Well that's the best explanation I've heard so far!

PasturesNew

My holidays were a fortnight in caravans, in the back gardens of farmers.... and the roofs leaked. We'd get up, go sit on the beach, then go back home for tea. The caravans had an outside chemical toilet and gas mantles in the vans.

When I was 18 somebody I knew was moving to London, she asked me to go/share a flat. I wasn't allowed; parents said they'd disown me if I went there. They told me I'd be kidnapped and murdered if I went.

I was brought up with the fear of everything being drummed into me.... and still am really.

neverdespairgirl

My parents used to have it at their previous Kent house, but I think the bottles were delivered. I could be wrong.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My parents used to have it at their previous Kent house, but I think the bottles were delivered. I could be wrong.

For a house I'd expect a delivery to come to the gate/door, to a shed. But then they need to be stored until used... and once you want to use one it has to be lugged.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Well that's the best explanation I've heard so far!

LOL. I think its because dh doesn't remember any of his bar mitzvah Hebrew that we had to take out a mortgage. Its a tough life, knowing you too could have been one of the chosen lizards, but for the love of shellfish and bacon and a non jewish girl.