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

Itismehonest

silvercar wrote: »

I retch over milk that is the slightest bit off. I can smell when milk is nearly on the turn when others can taste it and it doesn't even taste off.

I'm starting to wonder if we should leave the heave threadlet before someone has undesirable consequences.
Actually that is what does it for me. Someone else throwing up. _pale_

silvercar

marshmallow biscuit things:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate-coated_marshmallow_treats

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

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.

Although I've always lived in the countryside, it's never been the posh bits so I've never seen a hunt (even in the distance), nor heard of anybody ever going on one, nor heard anybody speak of having seen one/gone.

Itismehonest

PasturesNew wrote: »

I just used to call those things marshmallows, but they were small (about 1.5" across) and came unwrapped in a plastic tray of about 6, or 12.

DH thinks they may have been made by the company who originally made Wagon Wheels but they (the company) no longer exist &, guess what, we can't remember their name either :rotfl:

silvercar wrote: »

marshmallow biscuit things:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate-coated_marshmallow_treats

They were just like the teacakes but bigger. When you bit into them you ended up with this marshmallowy stuff up your nose & round your cheeks. There was absolutely no way to eat them in a lady-like fashion.

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Wasn't a snowball was it?

That didn't have a biscuit base in my mind though.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

As kids get older they get more and more expensive. As to the the thought that they could be taxpayer funded....:rotfl:

1] I get CB for one, so that's about £18 a week. No other funding. That doesnt pay for food, let alone travel to school, stationary.

2] Then add on extra school stuff like materials, revision aids, extra text books, uni applications, exam entrance fees.

3] Then add on essential clothes, social life stuff, b'day presents for mates, visits to family / universities.

4] Then add on what some may call non-essentials like mobile phone, running a car, decent clothes, sports, social stuff.

5] Then add on the real non- essentials ie the things that we wouldn't do if money was tighter, private schools fees, said mobile being an iPhone, holidays, gym.

Tax payer funded - I wish!

You see, a lot of that isn't stuff we ever had is it. I've numbered them for quick ease of reply:

1] We used to get a free bus pass to get to school if the school were over 3 miles. Up to 3 miles you walked. Didn't have to buy stationery either.

2] We didn't have any of that. Revision aids = the notes you wrote in lessons. No idea about Unis, never went.

3] Clothes were 2nd hand (except new PJs for Xmas), even school uniform was 2nd hand. Didn't have a social life. No b'day presents for friends. Didn't visit family, or universities.

4] Running a car? My parents never put a penny towards my learning to drive or buying/running a car. No mobile phones obviously - if I wanted to use the home phone I had to ask permission, then was hovered over to keep it brief, then I had to put down the pennies for the call. Decent clothes - that's a laugh, had none. Sports - nope. Social stuff - it's free to sit on the bench at the village green every night.

5] Pure luxuries.

Mostly they're not the cost of kids, they're the cost of choices.... and, with that list, it's time for a POSH ALERT

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Oh y, my school run bill from the last house was £18 a day in petrol. It's now £9 or £12 dependant upon what time he finishes. Child benefit is probably just a bit of a tax rebate on the fuel.

In my car £18 would probably go about 120-140 miles.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

In my car £18 would probably go about 120-140 miles.

90 in mine. 45 mile round trip twice a day. Tedious, to say the least.

PasturesNew

Got my MSE chocs here..... stopped off on the way home, determined to buy some chocolatey goodness.... went all along the rows looking at the £/100g and spotted a half price 150g box of chocs at 50p. So they were the ones I had.... at just 34p/100g. The ones I'd have chosen based on what I like were bigger and well over £1/100g. So that's a double win: calories and cost

Doozergirl

I'm in a hotel room again, but this time I can see The Shard straight out of the window