Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

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I want to know how your house hunting's been going....

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I wear stay ups. I used to have suspenders, but they're annoying.... stay ups are much more comfortable. I buy the cheapo ones and have never had a problem with them, but that might be because my inside leg's only 27", so maybe it's people with bigger legs that have problems with them staying up.

Having said that, I've not actually gone out anywhere where I've worn stayups for years. I wear tights for job interviews.

I just don't find they stay up and didn't when I was slimmer either.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Edit: thank you for getting this peeve. I was feeling a bit like an oddity for being so peeved by it. Your understanding makes me feel better about it.

You are quite welcome! I have to say it was my mum's peeve too and she has passed it on to me. Normally followed by underbreath muttering of "bloody male photographer, clueless".

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

I just don't find they stay up and didn't when I was slimmer either.

I have a theory that stay-ups stay-up better on people whose legs are a more consistent shape all the way down. Mine aren't:o. It doesn't matter how big or small I've been, they never have been either.

silvercar

In the world of coincidences, directed to michaels:

A friend's kid has also got 50% scholarship to a drama school in your town.

Doozergirl

I've spent the last 15 minutes trying to remember the name of a programme to try and find a YouTube clip. Finally worked out that the programme was 'Coupling', a comedy on BBC2 but no clip, only a transcript.

Steve Taylor: There are three things all men should know, and it's time you did too. You're never going to be famous, you're fatter than you think, and, most important of all, they don't keep wearing stockings.
Jeffrey 'Jeff' Murdock: Julia always wears stockings. No, really! She's always worn them. She always will. She told me.
[Steve and Patrick chuckle]
Jeffrey 'Jeff' Murdock: In fact, Julia told me she...
Steve Taylor, Patrick Maitland: [finishing with him] ... prefers wearing stockings.
Jeffrey 'Jeff' Murdock: What?
Steve Taylor: Stockings aren't real, Jeff. They're a myth.
Jeffrey 'Jeff' Murdock: Stockings are real. I've seen 'em.
Steve Taylor: Oh, sure there are SOME stockings out there, but... there's... what? Ten pairs in the whole world?
Patrick Maitland: Ten, at most.
Steve Taylor: Ten pairs for all the women in the world. They share 'em out.
[Speaking in a woman's voice]
Steve Taylor: Oh, Julia! Y'got a new boyfriend? Your turn with the stockings then, but we'll need them back on Tuesday. There's an anniversary in New Zealand.
Jeffrey 'Jeff' Murdock: Tuesday?
Steve Taylor: The stockings will go, Jeff. They'll just melt away.

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

I've spent the last 15 minutes trying to remember the name of a programme to try and find a YouTube clip. Finally worked out that the programme was 'Coupling', a comedy on BBC2 but no clip, only a transcript.

Steve Taylor: There are three things all men should know, and it's time you did too. You're never going to be famous, you're fatter than you think, and, most important of all, they don't keep wearing stockings.
Jeffrey 'Jeff' Murdock: Julia always wears stockings. No, really! She's always worn them. She always will. She told me.
[Steve and Patrick chuckle]
Jeffrey 'Jeff' Murdock: In fact, Julia told me she...
Steve Taylor, Patrick Maitland: [finishing with him] ... prefers wearing stockings.
Jeffrey 'Jeff' Murdock: What?
Steve Taylor: Stockings aren't real, Jeff. They're a myth.
Jeffrey 'Jeff' Murdock: Stockings are real. I've seen 'em.
Steve Taylor: Oh, sure there are SOME stockings out there, but... there's... what? Ten pairs in the whole world?
Patrick Maitland: Ten, at most.
Steve Taylor: Ten pairs for all the women in the world. They share 'em out.
[Speaking in a woman's voice]
Steve Taylor: Oh, Julia! Y'got a new boyfriend? Your turn with the stockings then, but we'll need them back on Tuesday. There's an anniversary in New Zealand.
Jeffrey 'Jeff' Murdock: Tuesday?
Steve Taylor: The stockings will go, Jeff. They'll just melt away.

Few men wear shirts wear the collar and cuffs aren't intrinsic now either. But they probably work out cheaper long term too.

Its a happy thing when what is stingy is also luxurious and seen as desirable. .

PasturesNew

I was peckish ... so decided to make some macaroni. Didn't want plain macaroni and didn't want macaroni cheese .... then I spotted a random cup-a-soup - so now cooking macaroni with a cup a soup

Hope it's not minging.

LydiaJ

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Grrrr. Some sort of hitch with the bit of the chain above us means we are going to be homeless. Our tenancy agreement ends on 17th and looks like we won't have completed by then.

silvercar wrote: »

9pm ch 4 programme about a headteacher taming wild pupils.

I'm always amazed by progs like this. Not just that the wild can be tamed, but how these head teachers are spotted at interview.

Thanks. Too late for Ch4 or 4+1 but have set it to record on 47. Am also recording the programme that immediately followed it on 4+1, also about taming "unteachable" boys. I so admire teachers who can do that. I am useless at it. My teaching skills are much more to do with the other end of the spectrum.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm watching that. He was on one of those TV Reality programmes, Educating Yorkshire I think it was.

Close. He was the head in Educating Essex, which was the year before Yorkshire.

lostinrates

Just thinking about the very unsexy black woollen stockings I used to wear. .