Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

I use my fork ' american style' often enough, leaving knife on the plate. I find it very hard to eat with my knife in right hand and fork in left. In an informal situation i will swap them to my more natural position, to save me oncentrating to hard.

I've been reading Continental Drifter by Peter Moore, in which he follows in the footsteps of Thomas Coryat, travelling round Europe. It's hard to believe that back then the English didn't know what a fork was and ate with their hands. He brought the fork back and - it would appear - has a lot to answer for.

ETA: sorry, I meant Tim Moore. Peter Moore is a bloke I used to work with.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Dh is a taurean too.

I love your sig. I am sigless atm, maybe i should pronounce your hotness in my sig:rotfl:

What happened to your "vice of reason" and "pants defying enclosure" sig?

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

She needs to find out if he has any brothers - if so they might well be similarly good looking, well educated, religious etc, but straight.

lostinrates wrote: »

Chewy, you might enjoy the mooncup thread. :A

:rotfl:
Made my day. Gen is right, though, I doubt chewy's brave enough for the mooncup thread.

On the subject of tanning... I don't tan, but I only very occasionally burn. I just remain pale. I remember once years ago spending all day up in the mountains over Grenoble on a beautiful sunny August day. The girl I went with had a tan before we started, and was burnt by the end of the day. I was white at the beginning of the day and still white when we came back down. No sunscreen for either of us.

PasturesNew

Well, that's a shambles. Standing there for an hour ... then missed it.

There were LOADS of people - didn't expect that. Then, just as the 'procession' started, cars stopped right in front of us ... and we thought the torch was about to come... but it wasn't.... there were LOADS of bikes and cars and everything first... and I had no idea where the actual torch was. There were these huge flags in the way ... and there were some buses and I turned round as I wanted to go to the other side of the road and there it was, it'd just passed me, she was jogging 6' behind a huge bus.

Shambles I say ....

So - camera in hand, but not poised, I pointed and snapped... thought I'd get a blurry left heel. Seem to have a photo of her/flame though.

Generali

I thought I'd stick a bob into the NPT jukebox:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE (the kid in a red top is fantastic and surely Stevie Wonder is the best pop musician on record)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsksSWOxq2Y&feature=related (burn all our notebooks woo! what good are notebooks, the burnin' keeps me alive).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgfdUzflEnw (When they kick out your front door, how you gonna go? With your hands on yer head or on the trigger of your gun?)

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

...is more important than the right fork to me....

Oh blimey ... there's a right fork? Oh dear.

The thing with that is .... if you've been told there's a right fork - and you know about forks... that doesn't mean others know of the same. And that's not their fault is it.

I've never eaten a meal where there's more than one fork... although, when I was 8, I did learn how to lay a table, which I think had two forks, for a badge at something similar to brownies (but it wasn't brownies).... and actually, there was no actual badge for it either. You just got a tick by your name. I'd probably struggle to remember how I had to lay stuff down... I think it was two knives, two forks and a fork/spoon for the afters. And a glass. Had to learn where to put those.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

...I don't care if someone else gets upset about me scooping up peas with the fork ...

Common people use the spoon. We're posh for scooping peas with a fork in my book!

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Chewy, you might enjoy the mooncup thread. :A

I doubt anyone would enjoy the mooncup thread, not for the subject matter, but for the evangelical nature of the posters. Like Jehovah's witnessess they are out to convert the world.

motherofstudents

There's a story I read about the Queen but I feel that it is probably one of those urban myths. Anyway it was at one of those big posh banquets at Buckingham Palace and the Queen was seated opposite the Prince of somewhere obscure, when he picked up the finger bowl and drank from it. The servants were probably horrified, but the Queen picked up hers and drank from it too.

Now that I think is good manners. I can't believe it's true but at least it makes a point.

michaels

I have a lil' bro, late 20s, 6 foot, a bit beanpole, more intelligent than me :mad: but a bit geeky with it but hopefully the next Zuckerberg. He may not be entirely single but definitely in to ladies. Would you like to meet him PN?

GDB2222 wrote: »

Thanks for all the offers of sons/cousins for my DD. I will have to check with my management before doing any match-making. What I can say is that, far from being freaked by it LIR, I would be honoured. Same with you, Silvercar.

PasturesNew wrote: »

How come I was never offered this freebie?
*stomps off*
Is it cuz I is awld?

Sounds lie a great idea, 52 copies sold for a start...can we be first please. Our claim to fame this week is that DD1 may meet the queen tomorrow dressed as a 1960's Brownie.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think I have the title of my next (first) book and blog .... "A Week In the Job of My Online Friends". For this, I have to come and live with you all for a week and come to work with you .... then I write it up. If you don't work, I trudge behind you all week in my jim jams while you do the housework.

52 weeks.... 52 chapters....

Right - who is first?

michaels

I often eat with just a work in my right hand - is this permissible?