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

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Only if you deal with furreners.
I've never worked in a job where they had furreners.

Anyway ... doesn't everybody speak English??

That’s not the point PN

Yes, i do deal with a lot of foreigners

CKhalvashi

Financial debate here please.

I’d rather not burden the NPT with hundreds of newbies that wish to debate this, as it’s not what the NPT is for

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

I heard some really sad news tonight. Someone has been murdered in the street I grew up in. It was only 20 houses and the house where it happened was very close to our old house. I didn't know the people involved or anything like that, but have such happy safe memories of the place its just inconceivable to think something so dreadful could happen there.

Oh no, that's horrible. That would make me feel really sad too.

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Ive never really given this any proper thought. Why dont we just eat the males of dairy herds. I bet it doesn't taste any different. I doubt i could tell the difference between meat from two different breeds especially if my mum had cooked/burned it to cinders.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Different sorts of cows are bred for different qualities/cuts. A dairy cow won't be producing the best meat. If you're going to feed an animal all the feed (and vet bills) it needs to get to the stage you can sell it for meat, there has to be a profit in it. And there's no profit in the meat that type of cow produces.

Apparently male meats taste bad due to testosterone, but if you castrate them to improve the flavour the meat yield goes down. So it's a short life for the males!:(

CKhalvashi

Nikkster wrote: »

Oh no, that's horrible. That would make me feel really sad too.

That really isn’t nice.

We had a murder at the bottom of the road that we live in a few years back, and it makes a safe-feeling area feel unsafe for some time afterwards

CK

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

I heard some really sad news tonight. Someone has been murdered in the street I grew up in. It was only 20 houses and the house where it happened was very close to our old house. I didn't know the people involved or anything like that, but have such happy safe memories of the place its just inconceivable to think something so dreadful could happen there.

I grew up in a pleasant, green, village, where nothing ever happens. A few months after my parents moved from there a woman in her early 70s was murdered round the corner (about 20 doors away from ours). And she's one of those big "unsolved uk mystery cases".

Edit: Just tried to find it and she was 76.... but I also discovered that some kids at the school I went to were murdered by their mother. Not while I was there, recently.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

On Hidden Talent now they're looking at the language Hidden Talent. The winner of that was James Winnery: 22 and had dropped out of A levels and was living in a hostel for the homeless.

The top 5 first had a 1 day crash course in Turkish, then worked in a Turkish restaurant serving Turkish people.

Then James was put forward from that to learn Arabic. He had to move to London for that at one of England's top Universities.

Six weeks in Jordan and he had to do a live TV interview, in arabic, broadcast to 2 million people. He was fluent, made no mistakes, was relaxed.

I've a pal who's got a gift for languages. he sort of "catches" them the way the rest of us catch colds.

It helped him quite a bit in his job. Actually he had the service of translators and found it better and much more useful to not let on he didn't need them.;)

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Anyway ... doesn't everybody speak English??

On certain parts of this planet, no, they don't. The whole of the rest of the galaxy does, though. (Just been watching Star Trek with DS)

vivatifosi wrote: »

I heard some really sad news tonight. Someone has been murdered in the street I grew up in. It was only 20 houses and the house where it happened was very close to our old house. I didn't know the people involved or anything like that, but have such happy safe memories of the place its just inconceivable to think something so dreadful could happen there.

Hugs. What a horrible thing.

lostinrates

Its horrible when places we feel safe and fond about are violated.


Shortly after w moved here there was a rape down our road, i had no idea and felt somehow responsible for not knowing and calling the police. Apparantly the police were in our layby for hours in the night, and i ha no idea at all.

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

We were talking languages a few nights back and # happened to see this today which might be worth a try.

Sue we are very near UofH so if you are visiting please drop in for a coffee. I also have a colleague who went there (admittedly a few years ago now who I am sure would be happy to advise.

Good tip, thanks. And has anyone tried the mailinator.com website that somebody on that thread mentioned as a "fake" email to divert spam.