Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

sss555s

vivatifosi wrote: »

That too has now been painted over. Unfortunately planes need a lot of painting.

Just wondering.....

Do they remove all previous paint before re-painting?

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

I used to study at a university that taught crop-spraying and my flatmate was studying on that course.

He told me it was one of the cheapest ways to get a pilots licence, because the course had lots of flying lessons thrown in, plus the students paid for as many extra as they could fit in.

When OH lived in the US the radio used to warn us if they were spraying Alar ior whatever it was at the time and we had to stay indoors, not hang our washing out or pick fruit for a day.

Haven't a clue how they handle it here in the UK but they must have to spray loads of areas.

In Scotland if you take ten steps outside a city the insects'll eat you alive!:eek:

Spraying is generally done by tractor preferably on a still and dry day here.supposedly. That these apications are as they are makes a mockery of organic. The organic farm that surrounds us is surrounded again by a heavily inorganic farm.....

This wasn 't crop spraying through......just a daily attempt at mosquito control.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

My daughter brought home the most amazing boy yesterday. Well over 6 feet tall, handsome, intelligent, well educated, good manners, religious (like she is), and very eligible. By far the best looking boy that she had ever brought home to see us, but sadly as gay as a maypole

If your first criteria is height, my boys should do OK.

lostinrates

sss555s wrote: »

Just wondering.....

Do they remove all previous paint before re-painting?

That is so funny!

I am guessing they are men in the main, so preparation is key. Or maybe not...which is why they need repainting so often?

lostinrates

Gdb, is she looking? Dhs tall and fairly religious banking cousin is working in london atm? About 29 years old i think? I can find out if he is single.....

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

I am very lucky with the sun. I am very, very pale...almost all make up is too dark for me ...but i rarely burn and can tan very dark.....when i came to uk at my school people were amazed to discove both my parents were white.....it was assumed otherwise.

Which in itself makes me a risk, because i think my skin is so because of the years i spent running aound hot places whering nothing more than a pair of red bikini bottoms when i was little. My parents didn't really know much about suncream. One place we lived that i remember we had a plane fly over deopping insecticide for mosquitos. The adults used to put their hands over their drinks, and i used to duck under the water in the pool or sea. When i think aout the deet or whatever we must have all taken in i can get very worried.

I rarely get burned either, but mostly because I avoid the sun! This is probably the worst I've ever been burnt and it's really not that bad, I have a couple of very small blisters on my shoulder otherwise it's just all a bit red.

I gave up trying to avoid carcinogens at university, when my lecturer (the relatively famous Steve Jones, who was a pretty rubbish lecturer really) told is that lettuce, pepper and coffee all contain carcinogenic compounds.

lostinrates

lostinrates wrote: »

Gdb, is she looking? Dhs tall and fairly religious banking cousin is working in london atm? About 29 years old i think? I can find out if he is single.....

Would it be weird if they hit it off and gdb and i became family? Would that freak you gdb?

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I gave up trying to avoid carcinogens at university, when my lecturer (the relatively famous Steve Jones, who was a pretty rubbish lecturer really) told is that lettuce, pepper and coffee all contain carcinogenic compounds.

I once attended a conference which had Steve jones and Rchard Dawkins speaking and I can tell you I soon knew who I'd rather have as a lecturer after that!

chewmylegoff

zagubov wrote: »

I once attended a conference which had Steve jones and Rchard Dawkins speaking and I can tell you I soon knew who I'd rather have as a lecturer after that!

But you could put Dawkins next to anyone and prefer the other person as a lecturer.

Dawkins is an awful human being.

SingleSue

Not an impressed cookie today....James decided he would be a typical teenager and not come home until 3.30 this morning.

So there was me, expecting him home at his usual time on a Friday after babysitting at around 10 and by 3am, considering ringing the hospitals as his mobile was off, he had left his babysitting place 5 hours earlier and there was no sign of him.

He couldn't see what all the fuss was about because again, like a normal teenager, he thinks he is invincible and was bemused about my concern for his safety. In the end it turns out that on his way home, he met up with a friend (female) and spent hours talking on her garden wall (he has a habit of doing that...must have learnt from his mother!) and when he went to text me to say he was delayed, realised his phone had run out of charge.

Not easy reading the riot act at 3.30 am with the other two in bed but he got it with both barrels when he did eventually reach home.