Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

chewmylegoff

zagubov wrote: »

Speaking of ales did you ttry any Harviestoun bres like Bitter and Twisted or Schiehallion? I don't miss "heavy" unless it's the 80/- variety..

No - I had most of these:

http://www.skyebrewery.co.uk/products.php

But the best one I tried was this:

http://www.kelburnbrewery.com/our-range-of-ales/permanent-range/red-smiddy/

michaels

chewmylegoff wrote: »

When I was in my 20s, everyone I knew who was in their 30s old me that your 30s was much better than your 20s. Nearly 4 years in I'm still waiting for this phenomenon to crystallise! Must be a late developer...

I just wish I was young enough to still remember my 20s

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Zag, did you move to England because you got fed up with the state of Scottish roads? I really liked everything else about Scotland but I've never seen so many potholes and Edinburgh's roads were properly third world- it made London look organised :shocked:

Try St Albans then - I am seriously thinking our next car will have to be a proper 4x4 as normal cars just don't have the suspension to stand up to the roads here.

silvercar

I'd have to be really seriously good at disguises if I was really 16 and male - you've met me in person. So no, I didn't think you were suggesting I was ]lying. I was just reflecting on how our friendships on here take so much on trust, and how easy it would be for any of us to reinvent ourselves and claim to be all sorts of things that we're really not. Although I suspect it would be difficult to maintain for any length of time. Eventually things would start to give other NP a feeling of not adding up. And yes, I agree, what would be the point?

Totally agree. On the question of what is the point, we in real life had a friend who turned out to be a compulsive liar. Took years to realise that it was not just little lies, or lies to get out of difficult situations, but stories would be invented just for the sake of it. Major back stories to his previous existence turned out to be lies. Eventually he fled the country as the lies caught up with him, leaving behind one wife and one ex- wife, who probably didn't understand half of what was going on. Only time I've been convinced that being a compulsive liar is a medical condition.

Nikkster

silvercar wrote: »

Totally agree. On the question of what is the point, we in real life had a friend who turned out to be a compulsive liar. Took years to realise that it was not just little lies, or lies to get out of difficult situations, but stories would be invented just for the sake of it. Major back stories to his previous existence turned out to be lies. Eventually he fled the country as the lies caught up with him, leaving behind one wife and one ex- wife, who probably didn't understand half of what was going on. Only time I've been convinced that being a compulsive liar is a medical condition.

I've had first-hand experience of someone who was a compulsive liar too. Don't think there were and major back-story lies, but lies were pretty much a daily occurrence (to me and others). These weren't always lies to get out of difficult situations, and I did wonder whether they realised that they were lying or not.

Nikkster

michaels wrote: »

I just wish I was young enough to still remember my 20s



Try St Albans then - I am seriously thinking our next car will have to be a proper 4x4 as normal cars just don't have the suspension to stand up to the roads here.

You're not joking are you?! (I got a lift to St A station on the way home today). The main road I go to work on (dual carriageway) is terrible too. They've patched up potholes at least once since I've been making that journey and within a few days the pothole had reappeared (and was joined by others). I'm quite tempted to get one of those bumper stickers that announces to everyone that I'm not drunk, just avoiding potholes
St A doesn't seem to just have a problem with potholes, the road surface is generally uneven!

lemonjelly

Itismehonest wrote: »

I live close to the twin villages. You're welcome to my place.

I haven't been to the cinema in years. It was in the Town Hall for years but then moved into the old Methodist church. It was threatened with closure (again) but seems to be plodding on. It seats about 70 people
I think lj is more interested in Woolacombe, though, & maybe doesn't have the use of a car?

Nope, have a car, & will probably have 5 days to fill if we go there.
Can see Ilfracombe is nearby, and barnstaple (which has a Warrens bakery, which will require a visit - loved their pasties in Newquay, plus, it has a special resonance...;))

Weymouth is another consideration.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

You're not joking are you?! (I got a lift to St A station on the way home today). The main road I go to work on (dual carriageway) is terrible too. They've patched up potholes at least once since I've been making that journey and within a few days the pothole had reappeared (and was joined by others). I'm quite tempted to get one of those bumper stickers that announces to everyone that I'm not drunk, just avoiding potholes
St A doesn't seem to just have a problem with potholes, the road surface is generally uneven!

Whereas here they have resurfaced perfectly adequate country roads then have to spend on mobile speed traps because the roads encourage speeding. It's silly. As the only house on my road I was perfectly happy with the small area of rough surface.....the resurfaced roads from last year continue to cause problems though.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Nope, have a car, & will probably have 5 days to fill if we go there.
Can see Ilfracombe is nearby, and barnstaple (which has a Warrens bakery, which will require a visit - loved their pasties in Newquay, plus, it has a special resonance...;))

Weymouth is another consideration.

I'd choose itsme's neck of woods over Weymouth personally.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Have just spent an entire Saturday afternoon and evening catching up on paperwork and clearing out old files in my office.

On a positive note, I can once again see the desktop.

On a not so positive note, I found about a dozen things I thought I'd done but hadn't. So tomorrow is looking a tad tedious now as well.

This is sooooooo not the rock and roll lifestyle I envisaged when I was 20.

GDB2222

I must do some of the dreary paperwork, too. Soooo not looking forward to it.


LIR, I would love to know what Bang Bang Chicken was trained to do? With a name like that, it must be something oriental, probably with peanuts.