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

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

Just posted this on the Techie Stuff forum, and thought I'd put the question to the NP too. All suggestions gratefully received:

Got a good one for about £10 in Argos. No probs with it whatsoever. Logitech M185 I think you can get it for under £10 online, so do look around ebay etc.
One of the best gadgets I ever got, even though I'm a real luddite. In fact I don't even know whether I should be on a forum. But most people probably wonder about that anyway.:o

neverdespairgirl

zagubov wrote: »

One of the best gadgets I ever got, even thiough I'm a real luddite. In fact I don't even know whether I should be on a forum. But most people probably wonder about that anyway.:o

I'm calling bullsh!t on that one, Prof........

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

Ceviche is fish cured with salt and sugar (to kill bacteria) and lemon or lime juice to break down the proteins in the flesh to 'cook' it.

Heavens above! Can you just rub money on it to "buy" it as well!

After hearing about thousand-year-old eggs, I wonder if the stone-age chemical cooking project got as many casualties as the bear-milking or the fungus-finding projects.:D

neverdespairgirl

I've wondered that about things like kidney beans. I wonder who it was that thought, "these things poison us. Let's try cooking them and see if they're still toxic", and who got to try out the cooked version.

Generali

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I've wondered that about things like kidney beans. I wonder who it was that thought, "these things poison us. Let's try cooking them and see if they're still toxic", and who got to try out the cooked version.

I always imagined that it would be someone desperate, probably starving.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I've wondered that about things like kidney beans. I wonder who it was that thought, "these things poison us. Let's try cooking them and see if they're still toxic", and who got to try out the cooked version.

I'm glad they did.

chewmylegoff

Generali wrote: »

The smoking ban is pretty relaxed in Aus compared to the UK.

There is a covered terrace there where you can smoke which is on the LHS of the picture.

Most pubs have an area where there are fruit machines under a roof with 4 walls but a lot of breeze coming through where you can smoke plus a terrace with a roof ditto. If you allowed smoking throughout your restaurant/bar it would be commercial suicide in most of Sydney regardless of the laws.

It isn't more relaxed in Queensland. I'm not sure of the exact rules but you are not allowed to smoke anywhere near food service - so you wouldn't be able to smoke in a beer garden of a pub that served food and you also aren't allowed to smoke within 5 or 10 metres of the front door of any business I think.

chewmylegoff

I think we are going to put an offer in on a house that we saw on Saturday morning. Will probably get instantly outbid by some loons. Will be interesting to see how many offers they get - they had at least 20 viewings booked in by the looks of the list the estate agent had.

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

We've had a mostly-indoors day - Geology Museum. Yesterday, Isaac and OH attended a lecture at the Wallace Collection, but I opted out, feeling weary after a long week and another long one looming. Isaac's capacity for London's museums and lectures held in them outstrips most adults (including his loving parents).

There's an ebook costing about $4 called Whirlaway that I read as a kid. A friend lent it to me (as hard copy obviously) and I didn't realise how rare it was (most copies were destroyed in the blitz). The author emigrated to Aus and wanted to interest kids in palaentology and, in another book, the solar system.

You could download a copy on the web until recently. Would recommend it to anyone with children. Might be better than a lecture or museum visit, but let them get through those first!

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

I always imagined that it would be someone desperate, probably starving.

I did hear someone say it was a brave man who first ate blue cheese. A bl00dy hungry person more like.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I've wondered that about things like kidney beans. I wonder who it was that thought, "these things poison us. Let's try cooking them and see if they're still toxic", and who got to try out the cooked version.

I also wondered, after sharing a flat with five other students a biochemist and four medics who all got agonising food poisoning after eating undercooked kidney beans (don't slow-cook a chili unless your'e using tinned beans). They were roaring with the pain.

I have to imagine the original tribes looking at the writhing experimental subjects who first tried them and who then scratched their heads and instead of saying the obvious "what else could we eat" asked the unexpected question "how are we going to get these beans eaten?".:eek:

Chewie, good luck with the offer!