Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

.... wonder if you'll still be thinking that by 4am

If you are up, look for a green dot by my name.

To trick the system into thinking I am not desperate I am going to:

• get ready for bed
• make myself a mint tea
• maybe have biscuit (a bad sign... I eat everything, but usually not biccies)

That should make it get a move on.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes fc, that pne. But i missed the one on white.

Also, shhh...but the blue one at least was a little inaccurate imo.

The gold one caught my eye in the ad. I am a fan of gold

zagubov wrote: »

Sounds like when DW got tickets. Will check!
We had a crazy taxi journey across Crete when the travel company c0cked up our tour pickup and worked wonders to help us rejoin it.

I take it OH was like me, daft enough to sit in the "booby seat" inthe front. Well, more fool me for thinking londoners just close their eyes and "use the Force" when driving.

I spotted pdq how scary driving is in countries where the driver answers his mobile while driving and also needs his hands free to make unobservable hand gestures to the caller who can't see diddy-squat!

Now let's guess how many hands that leaves on the driving wheel of the car in the fast lane.:eek:

If I could have flicked his phone out of the car without him noticing..........:D

We decided not to car hire due to the arrival time and we had a nightmare driving in Turkey...the roads were lethal, stray dogs sauntering across the motorway, dangerous roadworks and no clear signs at all and so on......OH is a great driver and we have driven in Holland, France and portugal (in big vans too) but we figured a 3 hour drive after no sleep wasn't a good idea so we decided to get the factory owner to book us a car.
He even had a smoke in the car :eek: Didn't say 'do you mind?' or anything just lit up and puffed away whilst driving @ 80mph up the backside of the car in front. You kind of forget how things used to be.....like going back to the 70's....and no PN i didn't ask him for a puff haha as I am off them again.

vivatifosi wrote: »

Have been on the internet for the past 50 minutes trying to get tix. Have managed to get a single ticket for closing ceremony. Have told DH he can go so he has the full set. I am a nice wife.

There are tix still available (poss not for closing) for people willing to persist.

Plenty for Para athletics 3 + 4 sept + equestrian @ Greenwich. We want to go to check out the stadium, get a bit of atomosphere and I reckon there will be no kids as schools go back about then so it will be less busy.
I paid £10 fpr Greenwich (£5 for the parents as they are OAP) + £15 for para athletics (£5 for kids + £5 for my dad)

My sis had a great day at the beach volleyball today.


PN I think the pause thing is on Sky+ I can't remember. We have a BT Vision thingy which has it. Never watch anhything live anymore...also you can pause, go make a cuppa and come back.

Spirit_2

It still says 12 minutes.

Ready for bed, tea brewing. Many delicious little almond biscuits consumed.

Now heading towards two hours..may be time to admit defeat. Lack of commitment and stamina, plainly not olympian material.

I never imagined it could be so hard to be a punter.

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

....and no PN i didn't ask him for a puff haha as I am off them again.

Probably a good thing.... a bum suck probably doesn't translate well... and you could have found yourself in serious bother

fc123 wrote: »

PN I think the pause thing is on Sky+ I can't remember. We have a BT Vision thingy which has it. Never watch anhything live anymore...also you can pause, go make a cuppa and come back.

I think it does pause.... when he was showing me how it worked (you know how people do ... all fast and holding the controls and flicking here there and everywhere) .... I did see some rewinding... but that might have been on films that apparently I can record... yeah, which flick was that then??

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

Ready for bed

Lightweight.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

Re slow cookers, i am going to do a pn and moan about the plight of the single cook.

Unlike pn i am happy and able to cook a meal for one, primarily thanks to the freezer. I know that slow cookers come in different sizes but ours is massive, and all the ones i have seen are too big for one meal (but could be part of a batch cook regimen when pn gets her pwn place and a freezer.

Finally....i have only cooked one thing out of the darn thing i half liked. Some how the flavours seem to musdy in a way they do do if i put in in the cooker or stove or hob top for a long slow cook, and the liquid seems to emerge from no where to make a horrid texture. One uses more pots, because meat really still needs to be browned (the depressing look of unbrowned meat in the slowcooker made me feel a bit ill)

LIR, I think I made you laugh recently at me worrying you were going to re-enact the horror-story of my old student days flatmates who slow-cooked non-tinned (and therefore still toxic) kidney beans.

They ended up monopolising the toilet of our flat for a crucial part of the weekend.:eek:

Spirit_2

Olympic ticket session timed out.

Oh well.

chewmylegoff

Spirit wrote: »

Olympic ticket session timed out.

Oh well.

I tried 5 mins ago for all athletics sessions supposedly available - cheapest ticket £450, priciest £750. I wouldn't have actually paid hat, but didn't matter as is came back "no tickets available" inside 10 seconds when I sent the booking request.

Media is going nuts about touts - but if you want a ticket that's the only way you can get one I reckon.

PasturesNew

Can't sleep .... also can't randomly wander about, make a coffee, put the telly on, go out for a cig etc .... in case I wake up the LL. It sucks to be a lodger, you're not free to really do what you want.... or even declare it in advance. Who'd take in a lodger that said "Yeah - and a lot of the time I can't sleep, so I get up and wander about, I go outside at 2-4am quite regularly, so, since I'm up might as well watch some telly and put the kettle on"

vivatifosi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I tried 5 mins ago for all athletics sessions supposedly available - cheapest ticket £450, priciest £750. I wouldn't have actually paid hat, but didn't matter as is came back "no tickets available" inside 10 seconds when I sent the booking request.

Media is going nuts about touts - but if you want a ticket that's the only way you can get one I reckon.

Yesterday at the BV they arrested the only tout I saw and carted him off. Why it's illegal to sell Olympic tix - which is the right way forward IMO - but not everything else is beyond me. The real touting where it does exist is clearly much more sophisticated than the bloke who stands on the kerbside shouting "tickets, who wants tickets?" but it would be great if they could get rid of kerbside touts.

There were four games yesterday at Beach Volleyball. The third of these involved the US team. At the end of this, virtually every American spectator got up and left, leaving swathes of empty seats for the British team to compete in front of and no way of filling them:mad:.