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

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

OK ....saddo townie question I thought hunting had been banned. Or did it become legal again?

You can hunt... you can't hunt/kill foxes.

This amounts to them all just racing about the area in fancy dress and making it look like they're doing something.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was brought up to fear adults. I still can't talk to adults, they still scare me. Adults, bosses, teachers - fear of god.

I was brought up to think that nothing's really possible and I'd only fail if I tried and it's a ridiculous idea *rolls eyes* and if I didn't get it out of my head I'd be thrown out on the streets and disowned.

Retrospectively, I should have opted for that one.

It's not just parents who beat kids that are bad .... it's those that emotionally/mentally crush you too.

PN There’s no need to fear adults – there aren’t any. I’m still waiting to become one. I remember being a kid with fears and worries and I never remember that stopping.

All the time my kids were young I was worried real adults would show up at any moment and tell me they would take over and bring up my kids.

As me and my friends have grown grey-haired we still haven’t matured in that way that I remember adults being. I watch the telly and see the country being run by charisma vacuums and oxygen thieves with no discernible talent for it whatsoever who I wouldn’t trust to run a bath. Let alone a nation.

Come to think of it most of the organisations in this country seem to be run by pompous people full of themselves whose sole qualification is that they have been breathing too long. You’re as good as everyone else if not better – I’ve devoured your posts and found them insightful and perceptive, and they’re one of the main reasons I lurk and post here.

Have a happy New Year and my fond wishes

Masomnia

vivatifosi wrote: »

Was someone on here looking for a new phone recently? Tesco Mobile currently has the Blackberry Curve for £15 per month for 750 minutes, 5000 texts and 500 Mb data. 24 month contract, phone free.

I've been asking recently as well! That's incredible. I was looking at an HTC with the same allowances as above and that £25pm.

Masomnia

I'm thinking I'll take that Blackberry. If I get bored of the phone I can always buy another unlocked and move the sim card across. £15 for those allowances means I'll be saving £240 over the two years on the HTC, so I could always just buy one if I fancied one at some point, or even something better. It's cheaper than what I'm paying now, and I'm currently on my old Nokia 3310 as my 'modern phone' broke, so I can't go wrong!

I owe you a pint vivs!

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

There was an article in a newspaper magazine some time in the past 1-2 years that looked at the total cost of ownership of pets from a budgie up to a horse, then put it down as a yearly figure. Horses worked out at about £12,000/year each.

I honestly don't think that horses have to cost that much. My sisters "do" horses, but they do most of the dirty work themselves - getting up at the crack of dawn to muck out before work, so no labour / livery costs.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

and surprising, and funny and interesting and responsive and caring.

I agree - I'm a fully paid-up card-carrying member of the PN fan club.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

You can hunt... you can't hunt/kill foxes.

This amounts to them all just racing about the area in fancy dress and making it look like they're doing something.

You can hunt, and foxes can accidentally get killed by dogs that get over-excited. You can't intend to get them.

AIUI, the law is pretty unenforceable and unenforced. One of my sisters (the veggie one, who hunts a lot) said there were 2,000 people at her hunt's Boxing Day Meet. She wasn't hunting herself that day, though. She just turned up to say "hi" or whatever it is you do at such events.

neverdespairgirl

I think my darling Isaac is over the worst of his bug. No more nasty productions at either end, although he's still a bit subdued. He's been playing lots of chess with my Dad, which they both seem to enjoy, and throwing endless balls for the dogs.

Alarmingly, after only a couple of days, he looks skinnier around the ribs! But I don't think it'll last. We all had dinner together, my mother cooked an amazing mini chicken fillets in aubergine / corgette / tomato / onion / garlic sauce thing. My parents and I each had 3 of the mini fillets, and a couple of boiled spuds, some peas and cauliflower.

Isaac had 7 chicken fillets, no spuds (he doesn't like them) and peas and cauliflower.

I was looking at him and wondering - how can that much food actually fit into his stomach?

We kept slowing him down, asking him if he was sure, worried he'd be sick again. But he wasn't, he went to bed fine.

Masomnia

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

(the veggie one, who hunts a lot)

Bit of a head scratcher, that one. Is she a veggie just because she doesn't like meat, rather than ethical reasons?

vivatifosi

Masomnia wrote: »

I've been asking recently as well! That's incredible. I was looking at an HTC with the same allowances as above and that £25pm.

It's a similar deal that I got on my Wildfire, but that was stopped when the stocks ran out (it had been replaced by the Wildfire S). I don't know the Curve, but it does look a very good deal.