Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

I have just drawn a circle on the map 50 miles radius from Cotehele. PN, I need a couple more distance figures, please.

The sun is in the sky from here, just about 93,000,000 miles away.
I am about 3,000 miles from New York.

Hope that helps.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Well, some people do have stuff in stock just for visitors. But not perishable items. Would UHT milk have been okay?
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Those are the sort of people that might have visitors. I don't have visitors. I lead a life without visitors.... usually in my pants and T shirt.

They just dropped in on their way to the supermarket.... so it wasn't a "visit", it was a random "making a round robin of it" when they were out on their daily supermarket visit.

If I bought UHT milk in case somebody came by ..... I'd be throwing it all out all the time as I don't have visitors.

LydiaJ

sss555s wrote: »

Nice reply Lydia. If you talk like how you post then I can see why erm... (without saying too much) someone liked to listen so much.

Just make sure who ever is a nice person

Aww. Thanks sss. I think I talk how I post - but ask lir, because she's met me. My own perception is that my RL self is pretty much like my online persona but with a better sense of humour. I don't seem to be able to do humour without non-verbal cues, and that frustrates me online.

He seems nice so far, but I am not making any decisions in a hurry. I'm arranging to meet one of the others soon, too. He seems nice as well.

GDB2222 wrote: »

Well, some people do have stuff in stock just for visitors. But not perishable items. Would UHT milk have been okay?

I have tea, coffee, whisky (single malt), port and gin, none of which I drink, but am happy to keep in the house because, as GDB points out, they're not perishable. So I still get caught out when I want to offer people tea/coffee and haven't got any milk. Since I don't drink tea or coffee, and don't think much of cereal, and my kids prefer their cereal without milk and won't drink milk, in our family milk is just a cooking ingredient. I buy it if I know I am planning to cook something that needs it, or (if I remember) when I know somebody will be coming round who might want tea/coffee. Hardly anybody ever drinks any of the booze, though. They aren't here at the right time of day to want some, or they're driving, or usually both. Some of it I bought for visitors, but some came from LNE's booze cupboard when I cleared his house.

Brallaqueen

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Are you doing that with a longer term goal of becoming a police officer?

I'd really like to, it seems a really good way of helping people but not just in a there, there way, in a practical and substantial way.

I guess any volunteering experience is useful both for personal satisfaction and for expanding skillsets - and at least I will have tried.


LIR I've also had to look up pearly kings and queens - what an odd tradition but the costumes are really arresting.

SS I hope everything is ok now and no damage has been done.

sss555s

My sister is funny with her coffee. She likes a third milk, 1-2 teaspoons of coffee and half a sugar.

Even when it's spot on she still often leaves half of it though she always has a cup.
Her answer at mums when asked if she want's a coffee is "yes, I'll make it!" :rotfl:

I should offer her to make her own at mine too. I can drink tea or coffee made any way though I don't usually choose to drink coffee now.


My "stock" consists of coffee, tea, hot chocolate, instant hot chocolate, diluting summer fruits, fresh orange, milk n a water filter jug in the fridge.

No alcohol as I just buy what I consume and I only really drink wine now.

PasturesNew

I cannot BELIEVE the amount of people who say they're having to look up Pearly Kings and Queens!!! Gobsmacked isn't the word.

They're as much part of being English as having a Queen and eating fish and chips at the seaside!!

And I'm not even from anywhere near London - and grew up in a small country village when there were 3 channels of telly, which closed at 11pm and wasn't on in the daytime.... and we only had the local newspaper Mon-Sat and the Sunday People on Sundays.

Maybe you're all too posh for them.... they're from a working class culture

PasturesNew

My stock is: a jar of instant coffee.

I used to have sugar and milk, but over the years when you live alone you realise that milk goes off, so you've got no milk, so then you have to remember to buy milk, then you bring it home and it goes off before you've finished it all .... so it's easier to give it up. And sugar's another thing that you can run out of - so it's much easier just drinking instant coffee, black, because all you need is coffee and water. It also lessens the chances of being served vile coffee in other people's houses as they offer you bizarre milk, different sugar, or over-milk it (I HATED milky coffee).

sss555s

PasturesNew wrote: »

I cannot BELIEVE the amount of people who say they're having to look up Pearly Kings and Queens!!! Gobsmacked isn't the word.

I agree. I'm over 300 miles from London and have always thought of them as a well known London thing, like Buckingham Palace.

sss555s

My choice of drink is tea, no milk, no sugar!

Are you all listening?!!

sss555s

If only we could teleport each other a drink....



Lir's would be herbal with a hint of jasmin

Viva's would be well researched, thought out and practical

Dave's would include a fried banana skin

zag's would have a drop of Scotch in it

Lydia's would be technically awesome

wheezy's would include a Belgium chocolate

michael's would be teleported on a 2 for 1 deal through top cash back

PN's would be black coffee, no sugar in a plastic cup

And Gen's would arrive upside down and spill everywhere




I'll leave the rest of TNP for another time