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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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Of course we missed you. You missed us too I'm afraid as there was an NP meet up last week (or possibly the week before, my brain is a bit frazzled at the moment) to which you would have been most welcome.
Ah yes...the NP meet up!
Who came? Did you behave? Did PasturesNew give chewie a foot rub under the table? Any juicy gossip?
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Thanks Lydia, I'll have to check your link tonight, because youtube is considered an inappropriate website by my employer's web filter thingy. And i'm not kidding.0 -
Neither Pastures nor Chewy was there. Just lir, fir, FC with Mr FC, Nikkster, GDB and me. If any foot rubs were going on under the table, I was unaware of them - the most likely candidates for that would have been lir and fir, but that wouldn't be very gossipful, would it?Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Thanks Lydia, I'll have to check your link tonight, because youtube is considered an inappropriate website by my employer's web filter thingy. And i'm not kidding.
My employer's web thingy once stopped me looking up technical specs for domestic gas cookers. It said it was p0rn. Where's that shrugging shoulders smiley when you want it?Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Neither Pastures nor Chewy was there. Just lir, fir, FC with Mr FC, Nikkster, GDB and me. If any foot rubs were going on under the table, I was unaware of them - the most likely candidates for that would have been lir and fir, but that wouldn't be very gossipful, would it?
:o. I think it was GDb I was directly opposite wasn't it? 0 -
lostinrates wrote: »:o. I think it was GDb I was directly opposite wasn't it?
I am sooo impressed with his ability to keep a straight face while carrying on a conversation with me, then.
Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Neither have I, but I'm a bloody furrener, so I got an excuse.
hehe.
I'm back.
Probably nobody noticed I was gone, but I'm back.
Welcome back!
One of Flanders and Swann's songs is an English National Song - they say in the preamble that every other country has a song saying how good it is, and how rubbish everywhere else is, except England. The refrain is along the lines of "The English, the English, the English are best, so up with the English and down with the rest / I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest".
The preambles are as good as the songs - part of it for this one is:
What English national song have we got? "Jerusalem" . . . "There'll always be an England". Well, that's not saying much, is it? I mean, there'll always be a North Pole, if some dangerous clown doesn't go and melt it.
I think that the reason for this is that in the old days - you know, the good old days when I was a boy - people didn't, we didn't bother in England about nationalism. I mean, nationalism was on its way out. We'd got pretty well everything we wanted and we didn't go around saying how marvelous we were - everybody knew that - any more than we bothered to put our names on our stamps. I mean, there's only two kinds of stamps: English stamps in sets at the beginning of the album, and foreign stamps all mixed at the other end. Any gibbon could tell you that.
But nowadays nationalism is on the up and up and everybody has a national song but us. The Americans have national songs, like "My country 'tis of thee", which they sing to the tune of "God save the Queen", I may say, and which together with their long range forecasting of our weather I find hard to forgive. Yes, and the Germans - and whatever you say about the Germans (and who doesn't) - what a marvelous song that was: "German, German overalls". Now there's a song.
...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 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »Welcome back!
One of Flanders and Swann's songs is an English National Song - they say in the preamble that every other country has a song saying how good it is, and how rubbish everywhere else is, except England. The refrain is along the lines of "The English, the English, the English are best, so up with the English and down with the rest / I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest".
The preambles are as good as the songs - part of it for this one is:
What English national song have we got? "Jerusalem" . . . "There'll always be an England". Well, that's not saying much, is it? I mean, there'll always be a North Pole, if some dangerous clown doesn't go and melt it.
I think that the reason for this is that in the old days - you know, the good old days when I was a boy - people didn't, we didn't bother in England about nationalism. I mean, nationalism was on its way out. We'd got pretty well everything we wanted and we didn't go around saying how marvelous we were - everybody knew that - any more than we bothered to put our names on our stamps. I mean, there's only two kinds of stamps: English stamps in sets at the beginning of the album, and foreign stamps all mixed at the other end. Any gibbon could tell you that.
But nowadays nationalism is on the up and up and everybody has a national song but us. The Americans have national songs, like "My country 'tis of thee", which they sing to the tune of "God save the Queen", I may say, and which together with their long range forecasting of our weather I find hard to forgive. Yes, and the Germans - and whatever you say about the Germans (and who doesn't) - what a marvelous song that was: "German, German overalls". Now there's a song.
That's the song in the youtube link I just posted - although the youtube thing doesn't have the preamble, and I agree it's as good as the song. The preamble is on this link, but it's audio only:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdY1Y5XNJBY
Including... "The rule is, if we've done anything good, it's 'Another triumph for Great Britain', and if we haven't, it's 'England loses again'."Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0
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