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Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait
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PasturesNew wrote: »None of those appeal ... so staying in.
As you are at a loose end and we are mates, would you like to come over?
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lemonjelly wrote: »Mine is a 2001, an astra.
I'm still of the opinion there's no need to change what is clearly a well built car. I'm approaching 100,00m miles, & given it takes me 2 years to make a decision, perhaps I'll start thinking about a replacement in a year or 2.:D
Same here.
I had a lovely M reg Astra before our current R reg Fiat. My sister got the Astra when I got the Fiat (it was for my sister's 21st birthday, and she wanted the Astra, so I got the Fiat and handed it on).
The Astra did 150,000 miles before it needed expensive stuff doing to it. Can't remember what expensive stuff, but more than it was worth....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Poms put other people into groups (posh/not posh, class etc) based on how they pronounce a word. To then heap a whole load of supposition of how they view other people based on whether they say fate or fette seems a bit mental, if unfortunately normal for England.
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My family (being Irish) do not do this....have had other ways of demonstrating petty snobbery though.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I liked 26/27.
I didn't. I was pregnant, and throwing up every single day until I gave birth, and feeling sick all the time.
It's horrible, constant nausea, really nasty. It's put me off having another baby thus far, although OH and I are now discussing it. For some reason, planning a baby seems more scarily adult than having one not deliberately.
In relation to "the truth" idea - I certainly don't tell "the whole truth" for ID reasons, but I've said nothing that's false, ever, on this site. Just kept locations etc vague, sometimes.I was in chewy's neck of the woods last night, and we got a takeaway. There was a fair amount of food left over which was going to be chucked :eek:... I brought home a doggy bag
I have a vague idea you need to be really careful with leftover takeaway rice, it can be iffy even if properly re-heated.lostinrates wrote: »Dh remembers his ( uk) grandfather having two,chauffeurs and two cars. I think that a pretty impressive for the uk.
Yup. Seems a bit unnecessary too, how can you be driven in 2 cars at once?
My parents have a gardener, who works half a week - but that doesn't really count as it's a farm, rather than a small urban or suburban garden....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
CKhalvashi wrote: »
ETA: The street numbering system is so confusing, and you really need local knowledge to get anywhere with it! I tried to direct someone to our other Georgian studio on Vazha-Fhavelas yesterday, and although it's easy to find if you can work the numbering out, where the Communists were building extensions to existing roads, you'll go from (as you drive down), say 31-1, then 65-33. The one way system on this road makes it more complicated.
Lots of Polish cities have two numbering systems, so a house has 2 numbers. One is by age - so the oldest houses are 1,2,3 and the newer ones 43, or whatever.
The second system is the more sensible one, like ours.
If you don't know which number system the one you've been given is, that's rather irritating. And if you know it's the "by age" one, that doesn't help much either!...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Never heard the pronunciation fett before.... I'm sure he was 100% wrong as I am never wrong and it's a "fate".
It's an age and poshness thing, I think. "Fett" is older and / or posher.Yes, my job is a percentage of a full-timer. This year it's 52.5%.
Was geography your mother's subject?
Yes, she was a geography teacher, with German as her minor subject from teacher training, but she never taught German.
She did teach biology at her second school (before I was born) but she hadn't even done biology O level. Fortunately, she was only teaching 11-13 year olds.
She and my mother went to the same secondary school, although my mother was a few years younger.
Because I was 17 and in the Upper Sixth when my mother came to the school, it didn't bother me at all. She did come on field trips (the whole department did) and I thought that was fine.
My younger sister wasn't so keen - my mother once had to go into a class whose teacher was late to read the riot act because they were being noisy, and only after she'd started, noticed Lil trying to hide under a desk....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »My grandmother used to say: "She's no better than she ought to be" to describe people putting on airs and graces.
For me, I go to fates, eat at cheap restaurants or get a takeaway and have "afters" (not pudding, which is posh).
I go to a fate, too, but pudding for me, rather than afters.
When my Granny said, "she's no better than she ought to be" it was in relation to perceived moral failings, rather than airs and graces. And moral failings in relation to the male half of the species (-:vivatifosi wrote: »
Sorry, have mentioned on here before, but reminds me of someone who for their french exam translated entente cordiale as 'soft drinks are served in the marquee".
At least the examiner will have had a laugh!
I never really understood this thing where Poms put other people into groups (posh/not posh, class etc) based on how they pronounce a word. To then heap a whole load of supposition of how they view other people based on whether they say fate or fette seems a bit mental, if unfortunately normal for England.
It's been going a long time - didn't someone like George Orwell say that an Englishman only had to open his mouth for another Englishman to loathe him?...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
I never really understood this thing where Poms put other people into groups (posh/not posh, class etc) based on how they pronounce a word. To then heap a whole load of supposition of how they view other people based on whether they say fate or fette seems a bit mental, if unfortunately normal for England.
I think it's a remnant of our Empire days when we happily looked down on everyone born anywhere else as somehow lacking.
Strangely, while the class system here really doesn't exist in the same way as it did pre-WW1 apart from the aristocracy itself, a new 'class' system based on wealth - much like in America - has taken it's place.
It's a bit weird that the working classes (who probably gained most from the social changes post-WW1) are the ones who won't let the class thing slip but almost everyone would like to have the big house, cars etc. that wealth brings.
At the end of the day it isn't what class anyone is, what money they have or where they went to school that matters it's what they are like as people.
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »I have a vague idea you need to be really careful with leftover takeaway rice, it can be iffy even if properly re-heated.
The small amount of uneaten rice had already been binned by the time I thought to rescue the leftovers 0 -
They also have my "lazy sauce" on the bottom: squirt a large dollop of cheap ketchup into a small pot, shake 4-5 big shakes of chilli in, stir them together until mixed, use a spoon to spoon out onto the naans, then use the back of the spoon to spread it everywhereneverdespairgirl wrote: »That sounds very nice. I'll eat your spare one next time, just to save you from yourself. How generous is that? 0
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