Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

neverdespairgirl

My Grandad's licence was even odder - he didn't have to do anything to get it, apart from shell out a bit and get the piece of paper. Just like getting a TV licence now.

PasturesNew

Even though I can just hitch up and go .... if I bought a caravan I'd want to take lessons/the official test just to gain the confidence that's needed for towing.

lostinrates

I'm making a Chinese soup for supper. While its relatively simple its this kinda cooking that floors me. This and fried eggs.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm making a Chinese soup for supper. While its relatively simple its this kinda cooking that floors me. This and fried eggs.

I've no idea how you make a chinese soup .... is it any different to any other soup? Looks, from pictures, to be: make a weak stock, lob some stuff in it - whatever stuff's in it, that's the soup name.

I love fried eggs. used to have egg and chips a lot when I was growing up. Used to cook fried eggs for mum the other year.

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My Grandad's licence was even odder - he didn't have to do anything to get it, apart from shell out a bit and get the piece of paper. Just like getting a TV licence now.

There was another loophole when driving tests were introduced. You could get the ferry to Northern Ireland and travel across the border. In the Republic you could buy a drivers licence in any post office without any formalities or tests, like a TV licence or dog licence. Once you had it, it was accepted throughout the Common Travel Area. Loads of people did that if they had any business or reason to travel "across the water".

Obviously doesn't wlork any more. Having said that some countries didn't have a practical test just a theory one. Italy perhaps?

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've no idea how you make a chinese soup .... is it any different to any other soup? Looks, from pictures, to be: make a weak stock, lob some stuff in it - whatever stuff's in it, that's the soup name.

I love fried eggs. used to have egg and chips a lot when I was growing up. Used to cook fried eggs for mum the other year.

I'm not keen on fried eggs really, so my heart is rarely in it.

Poached eggs on the other hand..



Chinese stock base started differently.

There is soup making and soup making I guess, in every culture. I think every housewife makes 'lob in what's left' in a pleasing combination soup, but also has ' guest smart or dinner party/celebration recipe soups.:D

This is char Sui soup. Its going to have pork, noodles, sprouting broccoli and spring onions in it. Its the last veg I plan to eat before going strictly back on plan. .

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I think every housewife makes 'lob in what's left' in a pleasing combination soup, but also has ' guest smart or dinner party/celebration recipe soups.:D

I've never been a housewife .... nor ever had, or been to, a dinner party. Seen them on the telly programme though.... they're mostly full of fail, poor cooking, annoying people, arguments and hate though ... good viewing!!

I can cook 3 types of fried egg... depending on what's required. It's important to fry them just how people like them

LydiaJ

I've just been completing one of those questionnaires that council-funded organisations have to use to monitor diversity. It asks for 9 pieces of information. Seven of them (age, relationship status, ethnicity, sexuality, employment status, disability and "belief, faith or creed") give an option to tick "decline to answer", but this isn't offered for male/female, or for which area of the county I live in.

The one that seems a bit odd to me is the employment status one. It offers 6 possibilities:
Employed full time
Employed part time - I ticked this one
Unemployed and seeking work
Unemployed and not seeking work
Retired
Decline to answer

I am being too picky to think there should be an option for SAHMs and other carers? When I was at home full time with small kids, supported by a full time working husband, I wouldn't have wanted to describe myself as "unemployed and not seeking work" - that sounds like someone on "benefits as a lifestyle choice", but I also wouldn't have wanted to tick "decline to answer" because that implies a desire to keep my employment status secret, which isn't how I feel.

ETA It's a badly designed form in another respect, too. The ethnicity question has the possibilities listed in two columns, with the tick boxes to the *left* of the words. All the other questions have the possiblities in one or two lines across the page, with the tick boxes to the *right* of the words. Plenty of scope there, if your answer is in the middle of the line, to tick the box to the left of what you want to say, and accidentally tell the council that you're the option before the one you meant to put.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

I've just been completing one of those questionnaires that council-funded organisations have to use to monitor diversity. It asks for 9 pieces of information. Seven of them (age, relationship status, ethnicity, sexuality, employment status, disability and "belief, faith or creed") give an option to tick "decline to answer", but this isn't offered for male/female, or for which area of the county I live in.

The one that seems a bit odd to me is the employment status one. It offers 6 possibles;
Employed full time
Employed part time - I ticked this one
Unemployed and seeking work
Unemployed and not seeking work
Retired
Decline to answer

I am being too picky to think there should be an option for SAHMs and other carers? When I was at home full time with small kids, supported by a full time working husband, I wouldn't have wanted to describe myself as "unemployed and not seeking work" - that sounds like someone on "benefits as a lifestyle choice", but I also wouldn't have wanted to tick "decline to answer" because that implies a desire to keep my employment status secret, which isn't how I feel.

No. I would have hated that.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

No. I would have hated that.

Glad it's not just me. There's nothing for students, either, I've just realised.