Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

Doozergirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i get that from iphone something horrible- are you using an ipad? if so turn it off through settings>general>keyboard

I'll have to apologise in advance if people don't like language of the colourful variety, but this website had me crying with laughter the first time I read it. H was asleep next to me and I couldn't contain the guffawing

http://damnyouautocorrect.com/

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

Someone will have to hide the mushrooms whilst the chef isn't looking.

We'll feed them to wheezy to cheer him up from no meat.

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

Otoh some one gave me a jar of chilly jelly recently and i dh and i agreed it wasn't a patch on miss kools. Which is called something along the lines of misskool jelly here. So in that dense it is the definitive chilly jelly.

Didn't make any last year you will have to wait until oct for the next one.

which reminds me, must sow chillies.

Need to sort car business too. I haven't yet decided and really must decide something soon

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'll have to apologise in advance if people don't like language of the colourful variety, but this website had me crying with laughter the first time I read it. H was asleep next to me and I couldn't contain the guffawing

http://damnyouautocorrect.com/

Oh, thats so funny, i have just shreiked with laughter and the cats started biting me,..they bite me if i'm loud, so i have had to stop till i calm down.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Which is why we could never have a dim sum nice person meet. One of our number is shellfish allergic too, is it ndg? And those who keep kosher.....


Vegetarian would be the best bet really. We all eat vegetables...right?

that's moi Chronically 'passing out/faint stone cold all over the floor allergic' if it even touches my lips. Happened with oysters (obviously the 1st time I ate them) in Sheekys near Ch X and was highly embarrassing as I fainted, collapsed then awoke as the stomach decided to get shot of them. Lovely waiter steered me to some steps very quickly (that led down to the loos I think ) and I sat down on the top step and he held a champagne bucket in place. He had seen it several times so knew what the body would do after coming round.
OH recalls the scene and I did it in total silence.:D
Prawny things I have never liked and, if I did eat a few in a Chinese sometimes I would always be pretty ill an hour afterwards but never knew it was an 'allergy' as such.

Fish sauce is now a real PITA as, if in anything, I go giddy and my throat closes up so I can't breathe properly, start to choke and I know some has gone into my stomach so I have about 2 hours before I will pass out. Seems to take longer for some reason....but I get a warning.;)

It's not always on the menu and Wagamama's is the worst as the vegan option deff has FS in it....used to be our friends fave place to meet up but after a few tries I had to give up on it.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just sitting here thinking of the old ... and that age-old argument about paying for care... and I got to thinking, old people are the only ones who are means tested and have to pay for their care. Prisoners don't get a bill for accommodation/food/entertainment/education; people in hospital even if they 'chose' to be there because they got drunk/in a fight, or chose to have babies.... kids aren't billed for school, there's no charge for ante-natal and pre-natal care and polititians jet off for £1000/night hotels and posh food.... so why should old people be forced to pay when they are unable to live alone/at home, or to have help with things they need? If it's not a lifestyle choice, but a necessity as living alone they'd probably be dead withing 2 days due to all sorts of incapabilities.

I don't really want an answer/discussion, it's just that these other situations occurred to me where people are getting stuff for free without a thought for cost entering into the equation.

Nobody chooses old age, it's done to you.

My poor old ... never had any nice things, or social life, or new clothes.... and all the "saving for your old age" that they did religiously is being shovelled off at a rapid rate without it having been enjoyed.

Your comment above is very similar to some of our olds (who have now gone) and I know it made my mother sad as her own parents went without so much so they could have plenty of savings for their 'old age'.....she commented that they were not sure if they knew what they were saving for sometimes as they wouldn't have holidays in their later years as they didn't want to dent the account.

michaels wrote: »

I wonder if that may be because things are so uncertain nobody really has a clue how they will pan out and each little piece of 'evidence' is far from conclusive so instead opinions become entrenched through the reiteration of the same old debates?

I still look as I would love to know when IR's are going to go back up....just roughly. The jist of it seems to be another 18 months to go but I could be wrong.:o

lostinrates

Its no good, i have had to go back and read more, the cats are going bersek and there are tears all over my ipad. Thats really silly - funny, i love it. Thank you doozer

michaels

Thanks DG - DW has just sent me out of the room for laughing and I am not a laughing person.

My extension smells, can't say what it smells like but unpleasant - any thoughts?

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'll have to apologise in advance if people don't like language of the colourful variety, but this website had me crying with laughter the first time I read it. H was asleep next to me and I couldn't contain the guffawing

http://damnyouautocorrect.com/

Doozergirl

michaels wrote: »

Thanks DG - DW has just sent me out of the room for laughing and I am not a laughing person.

My extensoin smells, can't say what it smelis like but unpleasant - any thoughts?

New carpet?
Something new burning off that "something new burning" smell?
Anyone left the room in a hurry recently? :rotfl:

lostinrates

Does it smell like nothing on earth with a slight metallic hint? If so thats death. Could a rodent have got in and died? You will know if its that.

LydiaJ

It's interesting, this discussion about "saving for one's old age". We assume we know what it means, but actually it's ambiguous. Does it mean saving in order to be able to have fun during the healthy part of retirement, or saving so as to have options to lessen the bothersomeness of the no-longer-healthy end of life?

Although I started paying into a pension when I started earning a salary, I never gave it very much thought. Then my aunt and uncle got old and started having heart trouble and knee problems and so on, and couldn't cope in their own home. They moved into a house in one of those retirement village places, and we went to visit them there.

It was a nice house, and really quite a pleasant little community - small enough to know everyone, but big enough to have plenty of people to choose one's friends from, nice meals available in the restaurant for those that didn't want to (or couldn't) cook in their own houses, plenty of activities for those who were up to them, competent and respectful staff, pleasant facilities that were clean, well maintained, and well managed. I saw the place and I was pretty certain that the options available to those being paid for by the council would be in a different league.

I left with a new feeling for the value of saving for one's old age. If I live long enough to get to that stage, I want to spend my 80s and 90s being able to pay to live wherever I (or my kids if I'm gaga) think will give me the best possible quality of life as the limitations of old age overtake me.

I thought so again when my own mum was deteriorating. When my dad went into hospital to get his knee done, we could choose where we thought was the best place for my mum's respite care, and not worry about how much it would cost, or whether they accepted state-funded residents, because we knew that the money was there. Similarly, all those years when we were children and we lived on the cheapest possible food and never had the heating on unless there were visitors... that frugality when my parents were healthy meant that when they became old and frail they could easily afford to have the heating on all the time and buy convenience food of a decent enough quality to tempt a failing appetite.

That doesn't mean that I think the present system of two-tier funding is a good thing, or that I'd be happy to pay though the nose for mediocre care and subsidise the council so they didn't have to pay as much for state-funded oldies getting the same care. I'm just trying to be realistic about the situation that faced my parents recently, and the way things are likely to be for me in 40 years' time, or whenever, and try to be as prepared as I can.