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

PasturesNew

I've got to either go out and buy food ... or go without. Don't want to go without, but CBA to go and find some..... which involves a 2-3 mile journey minimum... and even if I find somewhere with food for sale I still have to find a parking spot.

Looking forward to moving, where I'll have a freezer drawer, a fridge shelf and a wall cupboard ... kitchen's also from this century.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Is gdb or another of our Jewish cultural advisors?


IIRC the Jewish 'guide book' my cousin and aunt by marriage gave me tells me that altwring the body that God gave us is 'wrong' and tattoos are covered by that. Yet people have hebrew in tattoos.....is this irony on the part of tattoo artists startinga trend, or just ignorance, or is my information wrong? I like to think its the former. I am also always slightly puzzled when people have things done in languages they do not speak or read, chinese lettering etc, unless there was a particular reason....

Strictly speaking permanent tattoos are forbidden.

Hebrew tattoos are either on people who don't care for that particular ruling or aren't jewish.

vivatifosi

zagubov wrote: »

Had a deja vu moment. Looked up an older thread to find the calculator of your chances of reaching 100. StevieJ had posted it on thread 4.

I found it's almost exactly a year to the day since I first stumbled on the NP thread thnking it was about gardening (and life expectancy).

By the way has anyone got a link to the predictor, or somnething similar. The old one doesn't work.

Here goes:
http://www.livingto100.com/calculator

94 here apparently, though I'll believe that when I see it. A lot of that is to do with being a non-smoking, non-drinking vegetarian. It seemed to discount everyone in my family who had died younger on the grounds that they smoked.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Strictly speaking permanent tattoos are forbidden.

Hebrew tattoos are either on people who don't care for that particular ruling or aren't jewish.

So, the book is correct. Does that bring piercing in to question (i cannot remember the stance on that tbh), never mind circumcision.:)

Peo
E get outraged about circumcision now, but it seems quite commonly done to me.


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chewmylegoff

vivatifosi wrote: »

Here goes:
http://www.livingto100.com/calculator

94 here apparently, though I'll believe that when I see it. A lot of that is to do with being a non-smoking, non-drinking vegetarian. It seemed to discount everyone in my family who had died younger on the grounds that they smoked.

88. it told me to stop smoking and i could live to be 93. i think i would rather smoke twice as much and die at 83.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Peo
E get outraged about circumcision now, but it seems quite commonly done to me.
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I've seen a LOT of .... er ... xxx ... and I've only ever known ONE chopped.

misskool

Generali wrote: »

The trick with eclairs (and indeed anything with choux pastry) is not to add cream until just before you eat and to cook the pastry the same day you're going to eat it. You can make the pastry the day before though.

@PN: choux pastry is a doddle to make and very cheap too. It is a bit of a faff but the result is excellent. As economists like to say, "There's no such thing as a free lunch".

you can leave choux baked for longer. Although I don't know anyone who can last a week without filling them and scarfing the lot :rotfl:

(or I have really greedy friends)

misskool

vivatifosi wrote: »

Here goes:
http://www.livingto100.com/calculator

94 here apparently, though I'll believe that when I see it. A lot of that is to do with being a non-smoking, non-drinking vegetarian. It seemed to discount everyone in my family who had died younger on the grounds that they smoked.

86 but I have a rubbish family history. we're prone to all sorts

misskool

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i have just finished eating the filthiest sandwich i've had in a long time. must have been close to 1,000 calories. i think i'm going to have another one...

what could you possibly include in a sandwich to turn it into 1000 calories?

zagubov

vivatifosi wrote: »

Here goes:
http://www.livingto100.com/calculator

94 here apparently, though I'll believe that when I see it. A lot of that is to do with being a non-smoking, non-drinking vegetarian. It seemed to discount everyone in my family who had died younger on the grounds that they smoked.

Ta muchly. There was another one too where you put in your age and gender and worked out your chances of reaching 100 (rather than how long you might last).

Anyone know where that one is?

Circumcision in the UK was apparently 30% of males until the NHS started. They didn't offer it free so it fell to its current level of 8%. Apparently it's more common in the US where it's about 52% (but again, falling).

Speaking as a dad, wouldn't it expose babies to more nappy rash?