Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

vivatifosi

Playing catch up again. You lot have been busy today!

PasturesNew wrote: »

I never mix with, and don't know, any furreners either.

Sure you do. Hamish and Zag are Scots and Gen, well he's Strine now.

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's because PCs don't have XP installed any more that's been a major reason for me to not be motivated to replace my current PC so far

Windows 7 is pretty good. I prefer it to XP and I really liked XP. Windows 8.whatever though:eek:.

vivatifosi

Yorkie1 wrote: »

I've got a jar key and jar gripper (not this one but similar idea) which are absolutely fabulous. The key wouldn't be helpful with DH but the gripper might and saves palaver with knives or hot taps.

PasturesNew wrote: »

The only thing I've tried that worked was a simple shoving of a knife under the rim and "popping" the vacuum.

I've got a jar key and it's pretty much my favourite 'opening' gadget (though obviously a tin opener is pretty practical so would win overall). It works pretty much how you've described the knife, but is much safer.



Still playing catch up.

lostinrates

Urge, took my dogs up to dog walking spot and its full of nasty youths behaving disgustingly. We drove right through, dogs screaming like banshees at them.

CKhalvashi

Doozergirl wrote: »

A young man has just pulled up in the school car park in one of these:
http://www.astonmartin.com/cars/aston-martin-cygnet

I didn't know they existed. It's like a smart car - there isn't a huge call for tiny cars in semi-ruralshire so it stands out, then you see the badge. Very showy number plate.

It's Toyota iQ.

My iQ level is high enough not to buy the Aston one for £40k, as the Toyota is £10k

ETA: The interior may be, but the exterior.............

Timeless Aston Martin design values. Hand-crafted with painstaking attention to detail. Cygnet is an Aston Martin in a class of its own.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's bl00dy annoying.

As the telly's not working, I just took a drive to the house .... it's as quiet as anything round there. No ferals, no noise. I bet it changes once I get in

Well, 'the ferals'. ( don't like that term) are road racing round the rural routes now. . Problem with big valleys is you can here it from a long way. Because its national speed limit police aren't interested ever. My point always is its nothing to do with speed ( which is often seemingly over anyway) but safety. On straight safe stretches...tbh....speed isn't always the problem. Its the bends and the round routes they like here, they can do different loops and diggers of eight, including a bigger road, but the whizz of the bends and corners over night often. Its less common weekdays though.

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Well, 'the ferals'. ( don't like that term) are road racing round the rural routes now. . Problem with big valleys is you can here it from a long way. Because its national speed limit police aren't interested ever. My point always is its nothing to do with speed ( which is often seemingly over anyway) but safety. On straight safe stretches...tbh....speed isn't always the problem. Its the bends and the round routes they like here, they can do different loops and diggers of eight, including a bigger road, but the whizz of the bends and corners over night often. Its less common weekdays though.

I posted a while ago about the high price people were paying for driving fast at night around here. In one three month period in the last year three people died within a mile of here.

It is not just 'yoofs' .Last Thursday evening, as I signalled to turn right into a lane off the A272 a Bentley overtook me and the line of traffic I was in and headed towards the brow of a hill on a bend.

Expensive cars do not have magical safety features. 22 years ago an Aston Martin driven by an idiot caused the idiots death and made my daughters child hood friend an orphan.

Tahlullah

michaels wrote: »

A relative is looking for a car at the 'old banger' price point, do any NP know of anyone selling one?

Yes, me! I spent a shedload of money on my new to me car earlier this year and it has turned out to be a shed!

Having to fix or replace the gearbox (2nd and 5th) , the clutch and now a leaking turbo before it completely knackers the Catalytic Converter.

Such a bad buy, but these things happen. At least once in your life, you will buy a bad car. This is my time.

Soon, it will be perfect and I won't be able to afford to sell it.

Nikkster

I have teeny tiny tomatoes and teeny tiny round carrots (I think those ones are supposed to be teeny tiny and round) and teeny tiny courgettes :j

I'm more than a teeny tiny bit excited

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I have teeny tiny tomatoes and teeny tiny round carrots (I think those ones are supposed to be teeny tiny and round) and teeny tiny courgettes :j

I'm more than a teeny tiny bit excited

Sounds like a salad for tea tomorrow then!
Fresh teeny tiny tomatoes ... with grated teeny tiny carrots ... and thinly sliced teeny tiny courgettes

Put some chips on the plate though .....

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Sounds like a salad for tea tomorrow then!
Fresh teeny tiny tomatoes ... with grated teeny tiny carrots ... and thinly sliced teeny tiny courgettes

Put some chips on the plate though .....

The tomatoes are the size of peas (and not far off the colour)!

Plus I have house guests tomorrow night. Definitely not enough to go round the three of us! Might well be chips from the chippie across the road for dinner (wouldn't be my first choice, but its semi- traditional now)