Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

lemonjelly

So, finally caught up.

LydiaJ I hope you and your family are well. We lost my grandad in the run up to christmas a few years ago. It was a really tough christmas. I'm glad your dad will be with you.

I'm still thawing out. Went to the football at the weekend. Oh the joys of football on a rainy cold winters day, sitting in a stand with no roof on it, getting soaked.


We won though, so all good!

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

I can drink pepsi, diet pepsi, diet coke. I can't drink coke. Foul after-taste.

full sugar cola of all types makes my teeth feel sort of soft. Yuck.

Davesnave

Eurgh! Just had a late brekkie with an 'organic, free range' egg, which was so runny it went all over the pan instead of hanging together in 2 layers like real, fresh eggs do. Yolk was an insipid, acid yellow too, not orange. :(:(

Good job a couple of our hens have started to lay again, if this is what the public at large have to put up with!

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Another nice people survey: coke or Pepsi? Diet coke or Pepsi max?

We are a coke/ diet coke family.

On pricing. However much you buy gets drunk. So probably comparing the price of a 6 pack against the price of an 8 pack is valid. Both will be drunk by the week end.

Pepsi Max every time.... every time.

If absolutely NO Pepsi Max then I'm happy to look at Coke Zero, or those "twist of lemon" or "twist of lime" diet cokes.... but regular diet pepsi and diet coke are pretty dire.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Eurgh! Just had a late brekkie with an 'organic, free range' egg, which was so runny it went all over the pan instead of hanging together in 2 layers like real, fresh eggs do. Yolk was an insipid, acid yellow too, not orange. :(:(

Good job a couple of our hens have started to lay again, if this is what the public at large have to put up with!

hahahaha. Properly converted. For real zeal you need to fry the two along ide eah other, or make things th same recipe and wow at how much yellower/fluffier etc your eggs make the same dish

lostinrates

I want to take more pictures but I can't remember how to delete the old ones. Its not full, but its copying the 400 odd over gain each time I plug it in and I can't find th new ones.

Wheezy_2

lemonjelly wrote: »

Microwaves are evil imo.

We use our microwave more to heat Mrs. Wheezy's microwaveable slippers than to heat food.



Pepsi for me.

M&S Cola is also nice. Had one of those once when Mrs. was browsing every single clothes rail in an M&S outlet and it was quite OK.

SingleSue

silvercar wrote: »

Another nice people survey: coke or Pepsi? Diet coke or Pepsi max?

We are a coke/ diet coke family.

On pricing. However much you buy gets drunk. So probably comparing the price of a 6 pack against the price of an 8 pack is valid. Both will be drunk by the week end.

Neither for me but eldest lives on the stuff (without it his P.O.T.S gets out of hand).

GDB2222

misskool wrote: »

And the same with science news stories. Some of the science/health spots make me cringe (especially with the LHC). Journalists who have been selected to be specific correspondents (ie economics, health, science etc) should TRY to be more knowledgeable in their subject area.

I don't mind the science correspondents, too much, as they often have some scientific knowledge, but I simply can't stand the nutrition 'experts', who rarely have a clue. Someone spots some tentative findings that a certain dosage of say Selenium was good for some laboratory mice, so that's the next headline for the nutrition non-experts: "Kale, the new super-food" on the basis that grown on some soils Kale may have a trace of Selenium in it. No notice is taken of the possibility that your daily multi-vitamin may contain more Selenium than you can get out of a tonne of Kale.

My DW religiously takes a zinc tablet every day on the basis that she doesn't get colds that way. The only trouble is that the multi-vitamins she takes contain slightly more zinc than the zinc tablets. Besides which, she has just had a cold.

SingleSue

lemonjelly wrote: »

I remember getting glasses for the first time. What made me realise was driving along the motorway, & slowing to read the sign to see if that was my junction. I had to slow to 40mph to read it :eek::o

That persuaded me.

I felt wierd getting glasses. I now dread to think about some of the stuff I have missed seeing over the years.:o

I used to read road signs with one eye shut when I was riding my motorbike...finally had my eyes tested and got glasses just before my 3rd car driving test which was handy as they changed the rules on reading license plates which meant that I couldn't get away with it by memorising the number plates before going into the test centre (photographic memory came in handy for a few things)

If I go out socially now, I take my glasses off....it seems more clinical and boring with them on.