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Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait
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lostinrates wrote: »Anyone care to recommend a book?
I need something not to taxing to read. No crime and thrillers. Nothing political. No historical thing (either settilng or writing....love the classics, don't fancy one atm) Nothing remotely to do with uniform wearing people of any disceiption. Nothing set on a boat. Minimal angst. Scifi or fantasy might be good escapism....(no medical horrors please!). Comedy might be ok. Long...or two books.
. Available on kindle.
Fussy huh? I just need to be all consumed by something easy if I can stop coughing. I also cannot find my diazepam especially procured for this . Poop. They'll jab me with some godamnawful muscle relaxant while getting cross with me for not relaxing probably
In tribute to Iain Banks, I'd suggest Dead Air. As mentioned above. Very funny in many places. Quite surreal sometimes.
Another reccommendation might be About A Boy by Nick Hornby. Again I found that well funny.
If you haven't read it, Jonathon Livingston Seagull?It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
Just finished watching Les Revenaunts on channel 4.
Bewitching.
The Mogwai soundtrack to it works superbly. Zag, Mogwai are also ace!It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
Two other book reccomendations after a wee bit of thought.
I laughed my socks off at Porno & Skagboys by Irvine Welsh.
Porno is after trainspotting, taking place about 5+ years later.
Skagboys takes place about 2 years before trainspotting.
Both absolutely superb books, and very very funny too - Skagboys especially!It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »Just finished watching Les Revenaunts on channel 4.
Bewitching.
The Mogwai soundtrack to it works superbly. Zag, Mogwai are also ace!
Surely zag has heard of mogwai?
I'm watching it now on 4+1, will definitely watch again next week 0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »Just finished watching Les Revenaunts on channel 4.
Bewitching.
The Mogwai soundtrack to it works superbly. Zag, Mogwai are also ace!
Being a bit of a wimp, Les Revenants sounds far too scary for me. As someone who normally avoids the scary bits by watching through her fingers, I'm not sure how I can make that work with subtitles. Dr Who is about as scary as I go.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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I have vaguely heard of mogwai but I couldn't tell you whether they are some kind of acid house outfit or country and western...
Looked at the glastonbury line up last night. There were about 20 bands I've heard of across all stages on all days and two that I actually care about seeing (public enemy and the heavy). Good job I like drinking overpriced warm lager in a damp field otherwise it would be rubbish.0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »Some good ideas there, thanks lir. I've not seen yellow courgettes or pattypan squash, so will need to keep an eye out for those.
I've never seen them commerically (yellow corgettes), but my Dad grows them, and they are nice - similar to the green ones, but with subtle differences.
Actually, quite a lot of the stuff my Dad grows I've never seen in supermarkets - he grows about 8 different types of squash, and the only one normally around is butternut squash. Turk's Turban is a particularly nice one. He also grows some purple carrots whcih are yummy.
<rummages around>
here's a pic of them - they can be other colours, too, but all have that "hat" kind of thing on top:
Cheese = the reason why there can be fat vegetarians.
It allows them to avoid meat while competing with the rest of us for an early grave from CHD.:(
Cheese, chips, crisps, stuff with sugar in, nuts.....
Lots of ways to be a fat veggie :j...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 -
Me too, just 3 carpeted rooms left here which will all become solid wood eventually. The Only bit that may stay carpet is the stairs and upstairs corridor, I think wood on these will just be too noisy. Sometimes on rightmove you see carpet in the bathroom - to me that is just gross.
We have no carpet at all - and don't find the stairs too noisy. Isaac, admittedly, can sound like an entire herd of elephants on his own, but OH and I are much quieter, despite out-weighing him by some margin.Grossest things:
1. Carpeted toilets
2. Cats/dogs indoors and specifically in kitchens
3. Smoking while cooking (touch mouth, touch food, touch mouth, touch food etc.)
(For normal people)
With you on 1 and 3, but 2 seems entirely normal to me, sorry. Hardly ever known a kitchen without a few mammals littering it.PasturesNew wrote: »
I've even been served bananas in some indian curries (very few do this, but when they do I like it).
Kashmiri curries have lots of fruit and nuts in them - I liked them until I caught salmonella from one in Agra, in India, and ever since, the whole idea makes me feel ill.
I know rationally that it was cross-contamination, as theoretically I was eating a vegan meal. My body doesn't accept this, so feels sick at the very thought....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 -
Edit: And this will happen to you, too, when you reach 60.
Do you look for your glasses when they are on your head / round your neck?
We caught my mother doing that over Easter, although she tried to deny it. Eventually she gave in and quoted Oscar Wilde*.
*SOmething like, "all women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man becomes like his, and that is his"...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 -
lostinrates wrote: »
ATM I think I have: malt, cider, white wine, red wine, sherry, mulberry (this is my 'why'? Vinegar) balsamic and that's probably it.
We have malt, cider, white wine, and balsamic - and use all of them regularly, I think.
I acquired 14 lb of raspberries on Friday, and with Isaac and OH absent in Rome, made raspberry jam with half, and raspberry jelly with the other half.
My parents' early raspberries are apparently fruiting madly, enough for my mother to be overwhelmed. She and one of my sister apparently picked 60lb last week. That's quite a lot of raspberries!Nope it happens to me as well already. And I'm 53 . For about another 5 minutes
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My Dad says he doesn't know what he wants to do when he grows up.lostinrates wrote: »My kitchen is hopefully going to be half painted my the end of today! It's this colour
http://www.littlegreene.com/salix
LIR, among the options for that paint are various "intelligent" ones.
Since when did paints have an IQ?...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
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