Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

michaels

vivatifosi wrote: »

I have no idea whether it is illogical or not, but I have a phobia of germs on wooden spoons and chopping boards. I don't use either, preferring plastic alternatives. DH uses a wooden spoon, but I really dislike them as they are not coated and just seem too porous.

I find the dishwasher clean after washing up reassures me - for both the wooden spoon and plastic chopping board.

I worry a lot about chemical transfer from things like cling film and Teflon frying pans especially in things that go in the oven. Also agree with Spirit about all the chemicals in the house although I also worry about the hair and other aerosol products.

I don't know how people get time to watch tv. When we do have it on as second screen it is normally the news and we might watch a late movie on a friday/saturday. DW watches things like voice/x-factor and 'enders....and of course Jeremy Kyle and Neighbours all day while I am working.

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

I don't know how people get time to watch tv. When we do have it on as second screen it is normally the news and we might watch a late movie on a friday/saturday. DW watches things like voice/x-factor and 'enders....and of course Jeremy Kyle and Neighbours all day while I am working.

I watch Neighbours every day. It's the only soap that I do watch. As you can tell, it's very high culture in this house. Not.

tomterm8

silvercar wrote: »

Reading in Sunday Times that everyone should learn coding. Am I too old?

1. No you are not too old to learn coding and,
2. Not everyone should learn coding.

Or, to put it another way: If you've got a use for it, learn it. If you want to learn it, then learn it.

If you don't have a use for it, use the time to learn something you're interested in.

Life is too short to learn anything that you either aren't interested in or don't have a use for.

silvercar wrote: »

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

Computer languages don't die. They become Legacy systems, and you charge three times as much per hour because you're the only !!!!!! in the world that understands them.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Spent the afternoon up at my parents house cutting down a tree and feeding it through a wood chipper. I need to get a wood chipper. And a garden to grow things in to feed through the wood chipper of course.

Just get a wood chipper - and run a weekend business chipping other people's woody bits

Spirit_2

Update from my beloved.

Two of the guests at the dinner the other night were arrested afterwards for being drunk. He is more surprised that everyone else was not arrested on that basis. Large fines and a sort of house arrest have sorted it.

Had a lunch today on a ship from Indian subcontinent. A diplomatic mission and so he was looking forward to a really authentic curry and got fish&chips with tinned veg and rice pudding.

Dinner tonight is being hosted by their sponsors and is in the "knocking shop" :eek: that he has previously visited.

I think he is trying to tell me "it is not easy, and it is work" just in case I think he is having a good time.

silvercar

chewmylegoff wrote: »

And re: getting garden (and house), we said we would exchange now if we could complete by 6th.

They came back and said 13th. We said no, 6th.

I think if they insist we will say if they want any later than the 6th then the offer is £3,000 less - which is about what it will cost us to rent a 2 bed flat for 1 month. Hopefully we don't need to go there as that will probably wind them up a bit.

Of course since the penalty for failing to complete is only £80 a day they may agree to complete on 6th and then not complete. Perhaps I should get solicitor to update penalty clause...

You are taking an aggressive stance.

Would it really cost £3000 to rent a place for 1 month?

Not many people sign up to complete on a date and then choose not to do it. The only times I have heard it happening is when someone has died immediately before the completion date and when there was an old dear with dementia who refused to move out.

Miroslav

vivatifosi wrote: »

Conchita was bloody amazing live. I can't begin to explain what it's like to be there and hear that. It was electrifying.

I'm sure it was. Still not my thing. Not saying it wasn't a good performance, it was decent as were many last night but Eurovision is nearly as much about marketing as mainstream music these days. All the headlines that I hadn't realised were happening before the contest would have played a major part in the win, although she still had to put in the performance.

I went to see Joe McElderry last week, not my kind of thing but UK should send him with an operatic song - if he didn't win with that and that voice (and his Opera was amazing) then the world will officially be mad. A billion times better than anything last night, in my opinion anyway and i'm hard to please and would have laughed if anyone had told me that 8 days ago.

vivatifosi wrote: »

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.

Madness.

I'm not sure what is worse, people voting for neighbours (although less so last night) or juries diluting the public vote.

Oh well, all over until next year....when UK go back to type and send Cliff Richard.

Hope everyone has had a nice day

silvercar

Spirit wrote: »

Update from my beloved.

Two of the guests at the dinner the other night were arrested afterwards for being drunk. He is more surprised that everyone else was not arrested on that basis. Large fines and a sort of house arrest have sorted it.

Had a lunch today on a ship from Indian subcontinent. A diplomatic mission and so he was looking forward to a really authentic curry and got fish&chips with tinned veg and rice pudding.

Dinner tonight is being hosted by their sponsors and is in the "knocking shop" :eek: that he has previously visited.

I think he is trying to tell me "it is not easy, and it is work" just in case I think he is having a good time.

My OH claims that if he is in America with work he wakes up early and uses that time to email the English team in the office here. Then he does a days work with the Americans and then gets taken out for dinner and has to make polite conversation before going to bed exhausted. I never believed him until I went with him on the last trip and it is true.

When he is at a conference overseas, they all stay up til 3am with half of them getting obscenely drunk and some incident occurring.
He moderates his drinking knowing he can't keep going as much as the seasoned drinkers.

Doozergirl

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).

A kenwood Prospero. Maybe from ebay. It's the baby of the family, but it's still a mother

Miroslav

Doozergirl wrote: »

A kenwood Prospero. Maybe from ebay. It's the baby of the family, but it's still a mother

Or Robert Dyas do food processors....just not that one...and it buying from them helps my job security....:D