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

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

I don't know I could never get past the smell.

We were flying within Borneo and the airport had signs up that said "No Durians". I could not imagine being stuck on a plane with one.

Nikkster wrote: »

Did he have the whole train carriage to himself?

I guess it probably can't taste any worse than it smells?

Fir says

'I would say it tastes better that it smells. It smells worse that it tastes. Then I'd add if it tasted anything like as it smells it would be completely inedible. The thing about it is you cannot eat it with out the smell. It tastes like eating the foul gutters of China town. With a Papaya maybe'


Lir says, DH is not at his most eloquent to night, but hardly sounds that inviting, right? Gutters and fruit? He was speaking really quickly too, so if I managed with few typos I've done ok.

LydiaJ

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

You are right, I wrote without thinking. It might be a sign of a good parent (adult child enjoys company, and vice versa) or it could be a sign of insecurity, co-dependence, all sorts of bad things. All depends.

Yes, could easily be either. I remember my dad saying they'd never really thought about it, but all their children had just grown up, gone off to university, and never lived at home again (apart from uni holidays etc, obviously). But then my dad and his sisters all just grew up, joined the forces during WWII, and never lived at home again either, so maybe that coloured his expectations.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I wasn't meaning to imply that it's only women who behave that way - and yes, your instance is extremely irritating, too.

Don't worry. I realised you were just using "she" because the example person you were thinking of happened to be female. My main example person was male, that's all.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

It tastes like eating the foul gutters of China town.

That doesn't sound like something that should be eaten!

Good description though - that's exactly what it smells like :vomit:

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Yes, do that, and we'll do our best to be helpful. Warn us off if we ask questions you can't answer without dropping other people in it. Is it something you can't tell ANYONE EVER, or something you can't tell on a public forum? If it's the latter, you can always PM selected NP and see what advice you get.

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Public forum stuff. Ironically its here I can be more relaxed about some other things.....which is why real life feedback is different. Real life inner circle who I would talk in a relaxed way about things like in laws....as a random out of the air thing, is small, because its a small world and many of them work in similar fields or know someone who knows one of 'em or something. So, if say, an issue involved them, it would be hard for them to get an idea of the roundness of the issue.

vivatifosi

In the absence of Pastures, I'll just say...

I've never seen, smelled, tasted or possibly even heard of a Durian.

Frankly I'm quite glad. I'll stick to more mundane and less smelly fruit.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

In the absence of Pastures, I'll just say...

I've never seen, smelled, tasted or possibly even heard of a Durian.

Frankly I'm quite glad. I'll stick to more mundane and less smelly fruit.

Viva, you know that funny smell china town has? That kind of .....dirty smell? Like ....dirt, and not quite sewers and sweat and salt and rot? And you always wonder why china town should smell so bad ? Its durian.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Viva, you know that funny smell china town has? That kind of .....dirty smell? Like ....dirt, and not quite sewers and sweat and salt and rot? And you always wonder why china town should smell so bad ? Its durian.

Ah, yes I don't tend to hang out there. I did used to go to Wong Kei to get food thrown at me and abysmally bad service, but thankfully grew out of it.

Still not rushing out to buy one.

Generali

Durian: tastes like heaven smells like hell.

michaels

vivatifosi wrote: »

In the absence of Pastures, I'll just say...

I've never seen, smelled, tasted or possibly even heard of a Durian.

Frankly I'm quite glad. I'll stick to more mundane and less smelly fruit.

Snap - DW might know as she watches I'm a celebrity sometimes when I can't talk her out of it.

lostinrates wrote: »

Public forum stuff. Ironically its here I can be more relaxed about some other things.....which is why real life feedback is different. Real life inner circle who I would talk in a relaxed way about things like in laws....as a random out of the air thing, is small, because its a small world and many of them work in similar fields or know someone who knows one of 'em or something. So, if say, an issue involved them, it would be hard for them to get an idea of the roundness of the issue.

Isn't there something about it being easier to share intimate stiff with strangers on the internet than people we know?

Spirit wrote: »

OH is out tonight with the chair of the charity he works for.

Chap celebrates his 50th birthday tomorrow - and became a first time father at new year - to twins. What a scarey thought that is.

He was showing OH an app on his phone - it is linked to a camera in the twins nursery back in Canada. As they watched, arms went into a cot and took one baby out:eek: The night nurse was going to feed one.

<Not Nice>DW and I often exchange 'stage whispers' about how nice it is to see grandparents taking their children out when we pass particularly mature parents.</Not Nice>

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

<Not Nice>DW and I often exchange 'stage whispers' about how nice it is to see grandparents taking their children out when we pass particularly mature parents.</Not Nice>

Seriously not nice.

As a kid I heard this more than once a long with much nicer (and Cattier) confusions that sibling was my parent.

I can tell you it hurts the kid, a lot.

Edit: personally I think delaying parenthood is not most prudent and a worrying social trend for health reasons. But its my personal opinion, others have the right, the absolute right to feel and do different.



As to other points.....I don't really feel lots of you are strangers tbh. Helped by the fact I have met some, but tbh, lots I met didn't feel like 'strangers'. I think I just feel able to relate here differently because most peoe don't give a monkeys if someone's third cousins dog is snoopy or whatever. We're just people, who might or might not be somehow connected, but the obvious 'nickname' removal even those of us who 'know who each other is' in real life, seems some how more ...to the heart of the matter at times. Does that make sense?