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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

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  • Yorkie1
    Yorkie1 Posts: 12,072 Forumite
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    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    The civil service get a day off for the queen's birthday and an extra half day on maunday Thursday.

    It's just been reduced to the single day for the Queen's Birthday.

    The other 1.5 'privilege' days have been added onto annual leave allowances for existing staff, and new staff won't get them at all.
  • PasturesNew
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    Made DH some poppycock, (its movie night at the rates house!) stuck it in the oven and said, watch this like a hawk, turn it in about thirty seconds...


    Came back....he's picking off top burnt layer.
    Never heard of it .....
  • mystic_trev
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    I was staggered when I found out Australians get a day off for the Queen's Birthday.

    I take the day off for everybodies birthday :D
  • lostinrates
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    I've been Money Tipped!
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Never heard of it .....

    Ridiculously fattening and toothaching thing to do to a perfectly good and healthy snack...

    Poppycock is a brand name for a popcorn coated in caramel sort of glaze and nuts and sold very expensively. You can do it at home cheaply and more fun. You just make the glaze, mix it into popcorn and toasted nuts of choice (almonds tonight here) and then bake it in the oven to dry the 'glaze'. When I first did this at school my schoolmates thought I was god. (It was a popular tuck box purchase but very expensive on the old pocket money so I asked the home economics teacher if I could try making it and then gave it to my dorm mates I. Return for some favour or an other....) :D.
  • zagubov
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    edited 24 August 2013 at 8:38PM
    Spirit wrote: »
    After I had a long term bout of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardiasis in 2010 it left me lactose intolerant for a while afterwards, fortunately it has diminished and the main legacy is I drink mint tea.

    There are lactase enzyme pills you can take before food which help, and I think 'drops' you can add to milk. I prefered not to take anything, but if the intolerance had continued I think I would have . I hope it passes off for you too.

    There's a bizzare condition they have in the southern US where a tick bite makes you allergic to a component of mammal meat. It's regarded as a weird kind of contagious vegetarianism.

    It's also the only way you can become allergic to lamb which is otherwise one of the very few things noone ever gets allergic to.
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  • neverdespairgirl
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Beds.... posh alert.
    :)

    My pile of straw and sacks is very posh, because it doesn't have any fleas.
    michaels wrote: »

    I envy NDG her nap - I have had a very long week at work but am supposed to be driving down to Dorset this evening for a couple of days, I don't know the roads and thunderstorms are forecast and my back is hurting...fun.

    Edit: However I have just seen a very nice lady so am feeling much smilier :)

    I had a wonderful sleep, thank you - from 2pm yesterday until 10.30pm, and then 11pm until 6am. Made up for a lot of missed sleep recently, and I feel full of oomph
    ...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'.
  • neverdespairgirl
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    Nikkster wrote: »

    I can see this bit too, you know.

    Do you think that maybe Nikkster doesn't like us talking about her as if she weren't here?
    michaels wrote: »
    Who ever it was played Dorothy was allegedly a lesbian hence friend of Dorothy.

    (

    Judy Garland - I thought the theory on the "friend of Dorothy" thing was it either came from JG being a gay icon, or her character in the Wizard of Oz being accepting of difference, or from Dorothy Parker, who had a lot of gay friends and acquaintances.
    ...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'.
  • zagubov
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Judy Garland - I thought the theory on the "friend of Dorothy" thing was it either came from JG being a gay icon, or her character in the Wizard of Oz being accepting of difference, or from Dorothy Parker, who had a lot of gay friends and acquaintances.

    That begs explanation just as much as the original one. What was especially so unique that led to that.

    Bit of a fan of short short stories and Dorothy Parker's one of the classics; but not quite as good as O. Henry. or as wicked as Saki.;)
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  • michaels
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Do you think that maybe Nikkster doesn't like us talking about her as if she weren't here?



    Judy Garland - I thought the theory on the "friend of Dorothy" thing was it either came from JG being a gay icon, or her character in the Wizard of Oz being accepting of difference, or from Dorothy Parker, who had a lot of gay friends and acquaintances.

    You are Wiki Pedia and I claim my ten pounds.

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_of_Dorothy
    I think....
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    michaels wrote: »
    You are Wiki Pedia and I claim my ten pounds.

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_of_Dorothy

    Great minds think alike?

    Or

    Fools seldom differ?

    My possible options came from a very drunk late night chatting session with some gay friends years ago (-:
    ...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'.
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