Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

... What I miss is vegetable pakoras, the national dish of Glasgow.

.... It's never on the menu down here in London (except in the India Club on the strand).

On my forays through internetland books earlier, I spotted that the author of the Takeaway Secret, Kenny McGovern, who is somewhere in Scotland, also has an Indian Restaurant book in the same style.

I think he might even have signed up to MSE to join the big thread about his book (I could be wrong about that)... and he has a facebook page. Maybe you could contact him and ask if any of his books have the pakora/onion sauce recipe you like.... if it's such an institution he's bound to have either done it, or got it and not published it yet.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

For PN, and anyone else who's interested, here's a lateral thinking question. A phone company with phone booths offered unmetered cheap local calls but made its money from customers making long-distance calls.

Problem was that people making local calls hogged the booths and made the long-distance callers wait outside (or give up if they had to queue too long). So how could they limit those local calls so the profit-making long-distance callers could get
their turn.

Because of competition from other phone booth companies, they couldn't put their price up or limit the length of any calls.

They got an expert in who suggested an answer which worked -this is a real case by the way.

How did he solve it? :cool:

My first thought is adverts. You listen to an advert before the call connects, then at regular intervals during the call (say every 2 minutes). That way people could make quick/free calls about important stuff, but they'd not be tempted to whitter on and on as the adverts would p155 them off.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Any way, i went and waited for half an hour at the wrong station, and had left my mobile at home.

... awww... he probably thought he also had no wife!!

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

Intriguing. Would it work if you had different phone boxes - red ones for long distance calls only and yellow for local (or maybe local and long distance)?

I like it! It reminds me of a proposal in a Central American country to pay government employees different-coloured money to ensure they weren't being bribed!

But in this case the colour was part of the brand name and couldn't be changed. Also would require a major (OK, minor) rebuild of all their stock I think.

Still, there's a satisfaction to seeing people thinking laterally. keep it up, LydiaJ

lostinrates

I have just put autocorrect on again sp that Dh can see funny thing
On my keyboard. It's really arc not to look at the screen and make corrections as I go along. He wants tok dictate something now.

Ok I have pecans waits for you. If you would ime scolds p eying I have chiled rive pudding with nutmeg. Um. I want more chocolate ice cream milkshake. Um.um maybe with some Leo's mixedr in. Um.superrcalifradgalisticexpealdotious. Um.i don't know what else to say now. Yawnn. Uh. Hehehehehe. Hahahahaha. Damn you autocorrect . Damn you, sleepy one hahahags haahagGhahaha. Aw whatsr pinky oing? Haha. Um. Stop typing now stuffy. Or mar,acute will have words, stop now stuffy. Why stuffy? Did you toe stuffy? What does stuffy originally come from? What does it come from? Hagshahah stuffy. I know. Stop typing. I've had enough, stop typing. Stop typing. Are you go g to press sen? Stop typing birdie. Do you want people to know I call you birdie? Are you going tout that? Are you going to? Are you going to? Are you going to ? Stop typing now and pres send please.

PasturesNew

Over 30 years ago there was a shabby shop on my way into work.... and in the window they had these pyramid-shaped things, like samosas but all of the four thin/folded/pastry sides were the same size. They were quite fat/big.

Inside it was just mash and peas and spices.

I've no idea what they were called, but I used to have them quite regularly as they were scrummy.

They might be something that's quite commonplace, but maybe that one shop did them in a different shape/size to everywhere else so I don't recognise them.

Bl00dy lovely they were.... I used to eat them cold.

lostinrates

Btw, that sound cross, he is not cross. He thinks it sounds bad, And pinky is the cat...not some thing rude ! I think I made the autocorrect point to him though!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

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Ok I have pecans waits for you. If you would ime scolds p eying I have chiled rive pudding with nutmeg. Um. I want more chocolate ice cream milkshake. Um.um maybe with some Leo's mixedr in. Um.superrcalifradgalisticexpealdotious. Um.i don't know what else to say now. Yawnn. Uh. Hehehehehe. Hahahahaha. Damn you autocorrect . Damn you, sleepy one hahahags haahagGhahaha. Aw whatsr pinky oing? Haha. Um. Stop typing now stuffy. Or mar,acute will have words, stop now stuffy. Why stuffy? Did you toe stuffy? What does stuffy originally come from? What does it come from? Hagshahah stuffy. I know. Stop typing. I've had enough, stop typing. Stop typing. Are you go g to press sen? Stop typing birdie. Do you want people to know I call you birdie? Are you going tout that? Are you going to? Are you going to? Are you going to ? Stop typing now and pres send please.

No job, nearly no wife.... and now you're practising gangsta txt speek so you can mix down the dole office with the others ... init.

michaels

St Anton is great - only ever been there in low season when we had the slopes to ourselves tho and got lucky with the snow.

LydiaJ

There's a thread on the debate board currently that's about Myers-Briggs types. It's here.

I'd be interested to see whether the distribution of types in here on the NPT is different from the distribution on the board as a whole. Anyone who's up for it, please join in on the other thread.

Cheers everyone.