Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lemonjelly

Right, I've read up on about 15 pages of NPT. Everyones thanks count should have improved now!:p

Firstly, can I say that I found the PN night both heartbreaking, and at the same time completely endearing. It never ceases to amaze me how people can be inventive, intelligent, supportive and compassionate.

I've not been about because I've been just too damned busy! Had a number of bowls matches (got angry as lost a couple. What was really disappointing is that I was top of the averages for the league, which I am not any longer!:mad:). There was supposed to be a football match with a load of people on another forum I go on (I'm lemonjelly on there too!) but that got cancelled.

Garden has got quite busy - beans are flowering now (white flowers, I always thought they were red?). Did a massive weeding project across the whole garden to try and protect/re-invigorate the beetroot that is in the ground. Planted some carrots in pots which are now coming through. Repotted a lot of toms, & am getting more flowers now. Starting to struggle for space!

Done a fair bit of reading. In response to one or 2 things I've read recently, as well as a comment or 2 from others, I'm reading a novel atm, as I find I am invariably reading factual books.

Bought tickets for this yeasterday via a fans pre-sale:


Expensive, but very exciting.

vivatifosi

Jelly,

While you are around, you might like this book. Similar sort of thing to Dan Ariely:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sway-Irresistible-Pull-Irrational-Behaviour/dp/0753516829/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1309435642&sr=8-3

This is where you tell me that you read this a year ago and mentioned it on page 72....

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I'm really confused here. Do his socks go baggy over his hips? I've read this over and over. Maybe I need to take a break from the screen.

oops, important word ommitted>>>>>trousers.

:rotfl::rotfl:

lemonjelly

vivatifosi wrote: »

Jelly,

While you are around, you might like this book. Similar sort of thing to Dan Ariely:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sway-Irresistible-Pull-Irrational-Behaviour/dp/0753516829/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1309435642&sr=8-3

This is where you tell me that you read this a year ago and mentioned it on page 72....

Cheers Viva! Not heard of that one. It has now been added to the list of things jelly wants for his birthday...:)

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

No, she's not Italian American. One parent was Jewish, the other wasn't. Each year we choose whether to get told off for sending a Chjristmas card because ''we're'' Jewish or get told off for not sending one because neither she nor I are Jewish, and its just good manners....you know those people you just can't win with?

Reminds me of the mother who bought her son two ties for his birthday. He thanked her and immediately put one of them on. "Ah, so what's wrong with the other one? You don't like it?"

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

send some here. We get through loads of socks.

dh's TROUSERS keep going sa funny shape atm. He had some beautiful brown linen ones for this summer. He went to work in them one Monday morning and wore them home on the friday, he assures me he gave them a rest on tues and thurs, but he came back with them looking like something from the 1930s. HUGELY stretched and baggy over hips and 4rse and mysteriously longer in crotch so that instead of sitting on his hips they could be worn with braces up by his chest. He hadn't noticed.

I think they are almost all Mr Men socks.:)

I love the Mr Men.

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

Yes. Cars are designed earthed. Has anyone else never been on a motorway in a thunderstorm? I have. Lightening merely forks around a car.

My nearest motorway's 90 miles away

PasturesNew

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

I've had this funny feeling that "Pastures New" is a closet intellectual.

This morning I learned where the monica comes from - obviously a childhood spent studying Milton at a ladies academy

http://www.online-literature.com/milton/557/

I have not managed to translate this elegy but the last line is self explanatory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegy

On the other hand, if you know my real name and Google it, there's a bunch of p0rn videos where the name's the entire title.

That's not me either

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

I think they are almost all Mr Men socks.:)

I love the Mr Men.

ok, you keep them.


I'm definitely a smurfs girl. (actually despite a fondness from childhood for the smurfs - or maybe an envy of Smurfette?- I'm not at all keen on animation.)

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

for some reason cars with those little tails make me irrationally cross.

I think I need one of those. Every time, without fail, EVERY time, I get out of my car and touch the door to close it, I get an electric shock. I think it's the nylon seat fabric.