Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Spirit_2

Generali wrote: »

TBH I'm not much of a TV watcher. I'd rather be cooking. I do watch sports and the odd series like this. Usually I watch them mostly to spend time with Mrs Generali. She loves a bit of TV does Mrs Generali.

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I do not watch much TV. I have switched it on once so far this year to watch HIGNFY when silvercar posted that David Mitchell was chairing on Friday. I am being brave and will put it on this evening to watch Crimson Field. I will actually spend most of the programme hiding from it, it is the last episode and more tricky becasue I am on my own. I have managed the other episodes as OH has been here. I go and and hide, then return and ask what has happened?

Can't do drama, suspense, cruelty, violence, docu drama, reality. Even some comedy puts me on edge. OH watches TV and he does not complain but I must drive him nuts by expecting him to account for the storyline when I have seen snatches of things.

I can watch Jeeves and Wooster and Rom Com movies. That is it I think. Wish I could watch more as I know I am missing out on a lot but the upset/anxiety it creates is not worth it, and I seem to be getting worse as I get older.

Eurovision leaves me cold and until the NP thread I had no idea that anyone other than those into irony, student and gay culture cared about it at all.

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

It's interesting... being a bit of a Eurovision nerd I've been looking at the breakdown of the popular vote.

In the UK, the phone voting went 1) Polish women with big boobs, 2) Netherlands, 3) Conchita. Because the Polish women were scored about last by the jury, Poland scored no points from the UK, even though more people voted for it than any other song.

In Russia, the phone voting went 1) Armenia, 2) Belarus, 3) Austria. This proves that bearded women have the same popularity in Russia as they do in the UK, but Polish boobs are less popular. Be afraid Putin, very afraid. Your people are far more tolerant and open minded than you and your friends would have us believe.

Polish boobs also won the popular vote in Ireland and Norway and one other country (can't remember which). The most popular votes were won by Netherlands, not Austria. It's also surprising how little neighbour voting happened this year.

My non scientific analysis:

So many songs were similar sorts of songs that people chose something that was memorable . So Austria wins for the beard on woman image.

Neighbour voting: When voting was only from eurovision fans, there was an urge to vote for your neighbours in the hope that you would be able to travel to next year's event. Now that voting is relatively cheaper than in years gone by and easier, coupled with cheap flights throughout Europe, more people vote and serious fans can always travel to the host country.

silvercar

zagubov wrote: »

Nobody's too old to learn. If I'm correct about your age, you've not yet reached your cognitive peak.;)

I suspect I am older than you think.

PasturesNew wrote: »

That was a "story" some time back. The question becomes "how useful will what you learn actually be?"

I've done coding courses in the past, OU/degree at 2nd and 3rd year level. That coding isn't in languages that people use. I can use the "transferrable skill" of knowing I understand how that low level stuff works to another language, but then what. Then I've got to learn another language and have a use/application for it. And then, to achieve something useful, it'd take HOURS (weeks/months) to get close to what you thought of.....

I just don't get it, why they are promoting this. It's a bit like saying everybody should learn woodwork (more useful in my opinion) - how much actual woodwork could people actually use from a low level course; it'd just be the start of an expensive/long-winded journey to achieve anything you actually found useful.

Exactly. If I learn what will I do with it.

At school I learnt BASIC and COBAL and FORTRAN. At university I learnt PASCAL. Probably all extinct now.

Generali

Spirit wrote: »

I do not watch much TV. I have switched it on once so far this year to watch HIGNFY when silvercar posted that David Mitchell was chairing on Friday. I am being brave and will put it on this evening to watch Crimson Field. I will actually spend most of the programme hiding from it, it is the last episode and more tricky becasue I am on my own. I have managed the other episodes as OH has been here. I go and and hide, then return and ask what has happened?

Can't do drama, suspense, cruelty, violence, docu drama, reality. Even some comedy puts me on edge. OH watches TV and he does not complain but I must drive him nuts by expecting him to account for the storyline when I have seen snatches of things.

I can watch Jeeves and Wooster and Rom Com movies. That is it I think. Wish I could watch more as I know I am missing out on a lot but the upset/anxiety it creates is not worth it, and I seem to be getting worse as I get older.

Eurovision leaves me cold and until the NP thread I had no idea that anyone other than those into irony, student and gay culture cared about it at all.

I think it's fair to say that you watch a lot less TV than me even.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

At school I learnt BASIC and COBAL and FORTRAN. At university I learnt PASCAL. Probably all extinct now.

There weren't PCs when I was at school. I think PCs were out 10 years after I left school.

lostinrates

DH doesn't have a tv in London. ( well he does, but it doesn't work and he doesn't care to fix the issue because he doesn't care. )

This means at the weekend he is quite fascinated by tv. He loves the food network and watches it. He likes a programme wear a man eats a lot ( man versus food) which I find bizarre. ATM we are sowing seeds in the kitchen and he is watching people who annoy me make cakes I don't think look very nice.



This is the kind of Sunday one benefits from a feel good afternoon film and a snuggly, lazy day. I want to bath two of the dogs though, might just do kiwi now, seems a bit energetic now to do one of the girls too.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

He loves the food network and watches it. He likes a programme wear a man eats a lot ( man versus food) which I find bizarre.

I've never seen the Food Network, so not even sure if I can get it on Freeview.

I liked Man V Food when I first saw it - but after 5-6 programmes you've seen enough really..... it's pretty much all the same after that.

Tom Kerridge has been on the telly a lot in recent weeks - he's annoying. He's some Michelin starred chef with a pub in North Devon I think .... the food he makes isn't stuff that people would make at home.

I think watching food programmes comes into two types of watchers:
[A] posh people who want to use expensive/unusual ingredients (that are common to them) and want to impress somebody/people.
people who want to watch chefs make food that looks like the sort of thing they COULD make if they went out of their way to get the ingredients together. Stuff that's using similar ingredients to what they usually buy, or they have seen, or might see, in their supermarket if they look for it.

I doubt many people actually ever make stuff they watch.

I am a Type B. I like them to get to the end and think "Hmmm, I could eat that right now"

It does annoy me though that these days most TV cooking relies on having all manner of gadgets. Delia Smith would have shown you how to make pastry - now chefs shove it in a food processor and press a button. A food processor is on my "must get at some point" list..... to make quick pastry, to mix/knead dough, to mix up mince mixes (e.g. kebab meat).

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

To me, that's the 'strangest' idea ever. Would people actually vote based on where they might be able to go? Do many people go to the contest? How many seats are there?

I'd never heard of anybody, anywhere, anytime, ever going to the contest ... until Viva did. But I've also never ever known anybody watch it, or vote in it......

I wonder what the "marketing demographic" is for people interested in Eurovision. Telly companies must know who is most likely to watch probably.

Think football stadium size. Loads of people. Very loud party atmosphere, more like a music festival.

Lots of my friends get together in small groups to watch and ironic texts get sent between groups. This year, for the first time, we followed the twitter feed as well as watching and texting. Not sure that any of my friends actually voted more than once, a lot didn't vote. Some "allow" their kids to have a vote each.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never seen the Food Network, so not even sure if I can get it on Freeview.

I liked Man V Food when I first saw it - but after 5-6 programmes you've seen enough really..... it's pretty much all the same after that.

Tom Kerridge has been on the telly a lot in recent weeks - he's annoying. He's some Michelin starred chef with a pub in North Devon I think .... the food he makes isn't stuff that people would make at home.

I think watching food programmes comes into two types of watchers:
[A] posh people who want to use expensive/unusual ingredients (that are common to them) and want to impress somebody/people.
people who want to watch chefs make food that looks like the sort of thing they COULD make if they went out of their way to get the ingredients together. Stuff that's using similar ingredients to what they usually buy, or they have seen, or might see, in their supermarket if they look for it.

I doubt many people actually ever make stuff they watch.

I am a Type B. I like them to get to the end and think "Hmmm, I could eat that right now"

It does annoy me though that these days most TV cooking relies on having all manner of gadgets. Delia Smith would have shown you how to make pastry - now chefs shove it in a food processor and press a button. A food processor is on my "must get at some point" list..... to make quick pastry, to mix/knead dough, to mix up mince mixes (e.g. kebab meat).

Food network is on free view, other wise we wouldn't have it

Its channel 41

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

*turns over* I guess by the time I get through pressing the button to "next, next, next, next" I've usually found something long before I get to channel 41.

My this woman's really annoying .....

Yes, it looks super annoying.

They're just shoving things into a cake mixer.... does nobody "make cakes from scratch" any more with a bowl and wooden spoon?

I make from scratch but use a mixer where possible, before I had my mixer I used my hand mixer. Its easier by far for many things.

I think of scratch being ' raw ingredients" not the method of mixing. So not cake mixes for example.