Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

SingleSue

I got a very boring and plain 0 on the test...one of these days I will be someone exciting!

Spirit_2

SingleSue wrote: »

Bit of a funny story about middle son, he got a phone call from the school on Friday as they were worried there was some bullying going on due to his size as he had won an award in the student voted end of year awards.....for rear of the year!

Middle son laughed and said it was ok...as he had voted for himself in that category! .

What a star....and such wisdom.:T

lostinrates

SingleSue wrote: »

I got a very boring and plain 0 on the test...one of these days I will be someone exciting!

The thing is that 'normal' IS exciting in that context.

Dh and I were saying to our friends on Friday night we dislike the term 'vanilla' used in a derogatory fashion because it shouldn't be. Sexuality and safe, consentual sexual choices shouldn't be a competition. Healthy, safe, fulfilling hetero, monogamous sex is no less 'exiting' than a room full of healthy, safe consenting bods. IMO.

Exciting to me is happy, content, either secure in who you are or having fun finding out. It's not messing people around, playing unnecessary games in any context, and up for what you know you are up for, and not forced into what you know you are not, possibly with some wriggle room in the middle. . That can apply to any sexual situation with any players...one or a football team.

silvercar

Generali wrote: »

May be of interest to some:

http://vistriai.com/kinseyscaletest/

It's a test of how heterosexual/homosexual/asexual you are. I got a 0 which is unusual. When I answered as my mid-20s self I got a 3 which I found interesting as I only answered 1 question differently.

I got 0. Exculsively heterosexual.

didn't really need to take a survey to know that.

lostinrates

Chicken update (not many this year as so few chickens ). But we have those chicks and they are growing up. She lost one, so not doing badly. This was their first time out of the broody coop.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Is this a POSH ALERT that somehow or other slipped past Pastures' eagle eye?

Or am I just out of touch? I've never had a lawn mower with inflatable tyres, but maybe everyone has them these days? And ride-on?

Some things you just have to let slide by .....

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

May be of interest to some:

http://vistriai.com/kinseyscaletest/

It's a test of how heterosexual/homosexual/asexual you are. I got a 0 which is unusual. When I answered as my mid-20s self I got a 3 which I found interesting as I only answered 1 question differently.

I got an:

X : Non Sexual

lostinrates

I'm sitting feet up on a sofa while dh preps a cake for me. It would have taken me about 2o mins. We've been here for over an hour. An example. He won't use the grinder thingy to grind a cup of toasted pistachio nuts, so he's doing it painstakingly with the pestle and mortar. Which isn't big enough to do a lot at a time.

StevieJ

I noticed the film Dennis was on this afternoon, I wondered if it was based on the character from The Beano, so I googled. In doing that I stumbled on a mind boggling coincidence.:eek:

On March 12, 1951, Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace comic strip first hit American newspapers. It's still running to this day, in more than 1,000 newspapers, because comic strips never, ever die.

Just a few hours before Ketcham's Dennis the Menace hit the nation, on the opposite side of the Atlantic, issue No. 452 of the British comic The Beano hit newsstands even though it was dated 17 March, 1951. This particular comic was notable for featuring the first appearance of what went on to become cartoonist David Law's most famous creation Dennis the Menace.

And there are more.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18788_the-5-most-mind-blowing-coincidences-all-time.html

zagubov

StevieJ wrote: »

I noticed the film Dennis was on this afternoon, I wondered if it was based on the character from The Beano, so I googled. In doing that I stumbled on a mind boggling coincidence.:eek:
And there are more.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18788_the-5-most-mind-blowing-coincidences-all-time.html

Yep I think it was the British one that was first and the US one had to change its name.

I read that Baekeland who patented Bakelite beat a rival to the patent office by only a couple of hours otherwise it would have ended up with a totally different name.
There's a great book Serendipity which I'd recommend everybody read. One course I teach on involves discussing the properties of aspirin (and getting them to make it) and all its health benefits and then discussing the properties of heroin (then NOT making it) and getting them to find out that they were both made by the same process (acetylation) and that stable forms of them were first produced by the same company (and in fact the same person).