Nice People 13: Nice Save

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

I think your mistake is expecting anything else, people generally have no clue when it comes to assessing relative risk and politicians will therefore play on base emotions rather than facts. Your choices are to accept it and move on or let it eat you up.

Other countries have it worse. I know that in some European countries if your hobbies include risky sports like skiing it'll count against you in job applications.

Er. probably not for ski instructor jobs before michaels rightly interrupts me.

zagubov

vivatifosi wrote: »

Why thank you. It was wonderful. I did think of you too, as Toploader was the team up music, and IIRC you can't stand Dancing In The Moonlight,so I wondered what you would have thought.

The cold weather made my rosacea flare up. Hopefully nobody will see me on telly as my face looks like a map of the Empire with plenty of pink bits.

Today I had a stroke of exceptional good luck and did thank God for looking after me. I did not notice it at the time, but while standing in the queue for Strictly, I managed to lose a diamond from my engagement ring. I didn't notice that his until this evening, while in the tv studio. This is not a big diamond.. Just a shoulder accent rather than a main stone, less than 1/5th of a carat. Yet walking back on a path, in the dark, in the frost, I looked down and there it was. I've walked a good 3-4 miles today and it could have fallen out anywhere. I could have looked in the right place and missed it, it's teeny after all. It could have got caught up in someone's shoe.. there were at least 300 people behind us. But no, there it was, in the dark, winking at me. Amazing.

As newlyweds, before I got my wedding ring resized, we were driving south on the motorway and I realised I'd lost it, between Brum and London. Quickly realised it must have been at a petrol station so off the next exit and turned round and back up two exits so we could turn back and return to the same pump.

And yes we found it. :j

Brilliant feeling!

Generali

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

I may just be getting old and cynical.

But it strikes me that society is becoming ever more irrational and illogical.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5130052

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5129316

I think the thing with drink driving specifically is that there needs to be a limit so we're really just arguing the toss about what it should be.

With the NHS, the logical extension of the state paying for all your health care is they take an unhealthy interest in how you look after yourself. I wonder whether the NHS thing is really that they won't do treatments that are futile: there's not much point in giving a drunk a new liver if they're just going to destroy it.

Jazee

I haven't read through the links about drink driving and NHS but my own opinion is that the limit for drink driving should be zero, do not drink any alcohol and then drive.

For the NHS quote about not giving a liver to a drunk - totally agree - and so does my alcoholic DH.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

When we went into the food pub, trying to find a table, there was a small group of people tucking into meals that were served in roasting tins. HUGE meals they were. We asked what they'd asked for, then looked one up on the menu..... it was in a section called "The Unfinishables".

"A monstrous tower of two 12oz beef burgers,
a grilled chicken breast,
two rashers of bacon,
two slices of Monterey Jack cheese and
BBQ pulled pork
crammed in a jumbo brioche bun with mayo, lettuce,
red onion, tomato and
a huge portion of chips"

Order one of those between six people?

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

Other countries have it worse. I know that in some European countries if your hobbies include risky sports like skiing it'll count against you in job applications.

Er. probably not for ski instructor jobs before michaels rightly interrupts me.

Lots of the more social European offices in fir's firm do a couple of small ski trips. We were in invited to a couple.

Yorkie1

What is it about brioche buns? They seem to have replaced ordinary baps for burgers and similar.

I like them; it just seems a sudden change.

Generali

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Can't disagree with any of that.

Just seems to be getting worse the older I get.

I suspect that your tolerance for idiots is declining, I know mine is.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

When we went into the food pub, trying to find a table, there was a small group of people tucking into meals that were served in roasting tins. HUGE meals they were. We asked what they'd asked for, then looked one up on the menu..... it was in a section called "The Unfinishables".

"A monstrous tower of two 12oz beef burgers,
a grilled chicken breast,
two rashers of bacon,
two slices of Monterey Jack cheese and
BBQ pulled pork
crammed in a jumbo brioche bun with mayo, lettuce,
red onion, tomato and
a huge portion of chips"

GDB2222 wrote: »

Order one of those between six people?

Yorkie1 wrote: »

What is it about brioche buns? They seem to have replaced ordinary baps for burgers and similar.

I like them; it just seems a sudden change.

I read pn's post to fir his reaction was has pn gone to America?!?!?!, and when I said no, he said why are they serving montaray jack there?

Any way,

Then I got to the end and and he said, yeah, go on. :eek:. He really doesn't have that huge a day to day appetite.


Edit...my take on brioche buns is also that its part of the general lean to sweeter and sweeter taste buds in society.

Delicious, I agree, but so is heavy rye ( not with burgers) or a normal well made bun.

I think if sweet detection were a scale where neutral was about 5 lots of us are sitting at so we here between 6- 9, wanting sweeter food and seeing it as normal, not sweet.

I always think of my self as a sweet toothed person tbh, but not in comparison with others, so I have adjusted how I describe that. I love things like nut or seed brittle. Would not want to eat them weekly.

GDB2222

Generali wrote: »

I suspect that your tolerance for idiots is declining, I know mine is.

My current argument is with the local council, which has outsourced the council tax department. They have decided to charge me council tax on a property I don't own. When I queried this, they said that I needed to prove that I don't own it, which is quite hard to do. In any case, the whole attitude is oppressive. What's even dafter is that I know who does own it, namely the council. You would think this could easily be sorted out, but no. So far, it has reached the third stage of the council's complaints procedure, and it's conceivably going to the ombudsman.