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PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

So you give me a 100% money back guarantee that this pub will provide be with the best meal and service I've ever had? You must be very confident of the quality I think.

I think if his advice is wrong, you should be compensated - distress and hurt to the family. It'd need the cost of a 5-star holiday to get over a really bad bar.

Do you have the space/time/desire to create your own beer - start a microbrewery in Aus.... there are some worse business ideas out there, but hit the niche right and that's a winner.

Saw a bloke on the telly the other day - started from his kitchen in London - making local cheese. Now he makes quite a lot of cheeses, that he sells to local delis and posh pubs and also does markets. He's had to get a small industrial unit now though.

Generali

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

As my recommendations are 100% free, I'll happily give you a 100% money back guarantee on them.

I have no idea what the food is like, I went there to drink somewhere nice and outdoors on a sunny day.

Given I live in Scotland, my reference points for 'nice' and 'drinking outdoors', and for that matter 'sunny day', are somewhat limited....

So actually yeah, feel free to completely ignore me.:rotfl:



Maybe order a wine then.... :doh:

I'm looking forward to seeing Albury. I love those Aussie country towns.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

I'm looking forward to seeing Albury. I love those Aussie country towns.

Is it possible/reasonable, to get a dashboard mounted webcam now - and fit it, so it's uploading your entire journey? When you're in a care home in 50 years' time your kids could visit and set that up on a continuous loop for you on the telly screen .... along with any other videos made of roadtrips you did.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Generali wrote: »

I'm looking forward to seeing Albury. I love those Aussie country towns.

I do too, have a real soft spot for them, much to Mrs McT's occasional annoyance.....

I've wanted to go to Parkes ever since I saw The Dish.... And will confess to an occasional desire to own an underground house in Coober Pedy, although, that may just be my inner Hobbit talking.:o

zagubov

Nikkster wrote: »

I dunno. Is there ever a truly right answer to most things? There's just a right answer to the best of our knowledge/ the most popular theory right now.

Maybe I'm better suited to philosophy than science :rotfl:

In Science, we seem to be writing an endless poem where each verse describes a scientific detail and ends with "and this is the way that the world works", and then we go and take turns to add another verse. The phrase that sticks in my mind from the degree I was doing was "the increasing truthlikeness" of science and how sure can we be that it will continue.

The big debate was how real the theoretical stuff was- the Realists saying that the particles, forces etc. we use to describe the world are actually there regardless of what we think about them, and the Empiricists who believe they might be weirder things than we know, and we're projecting simple limited understanding onto them and we could be in for a shock when he study them more.

They also debated how there could be laws at all. There's a lot of stuff we have to take on faith to believe in a consistent world. I'll throw in a link to the squashed philosophers site again.

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

After sampling philosophy in my first degree, I did a higher degree in it
It was quite fascinating but raised more questions than it answered.
I'm a strong believer that it should be a part of every degree. In fact the IB has a Theory of Knowledge module which is epistemology.

In my last job ( a faith college) they taught a philosophy qualification in the RE lessons.

I think the old General Studies qualification people mentioned earlier also covered a bit of epistemology, and the tripartite theory of knowledge (justified true belief). It used to be that having the General Studies A level as a fourth subject was one of the best predictors of success at uni, which was very much underappreciated by the students parents who often thought it was filler.

General studies was TAUGHT very much as a mandatory filler at both places I did a levels. ( surprising at both I think.....though I hope both have improved) I missed, um, a number of the lectures and had no problems with the exam. I don't think I was unique by any means. While statistically it might be a predictor of results that might simply be a measure of .....something else. IMO the things you are talking about are what's missing from being built in to much standard education perhaps in order to cover the ground set on a syllabus, I don't know...perhaps because of uninspired teaching?


If I had a determined interest in an extra subject I would really want to study it. I did five a levels in one year, which was a bit of a heavy time table, but suited me much better as it turned out, so four and general. If I'd done two years I might have been able to do more a levels, time wise, but.....life /balance wise I think it would have been tough.....unless I took two years of one year a levels, which seems a bit point less.

lostinrates

I mentioned a few months ago to DH that as I felt returning to old instruments was a bit emotional I might try taking up something else, even just learning guitar chords might be fun. So we took the guitar in to have a little overhaul recently. Today I learnt my fingers have lost their stretch......seriously, how did I used to play anything with these silly short fingers?

I do seem to be able to remember the fingering for three chords, and have been through all the major chords with fir today. I'm just struggling to play them.

GDB2222

PN, that's very impressive. You're obviously very talented.

zagubov

GDB2222 wrote: »

PN, that's very impressive. You're obviously very talented.

I'll second that.
PN, the OU is based on the philosophy that you do a four-year degree at half-speed so you stretch it out over eight years. It's totally understood that a student will have major life events intervene in what is such a major slice of somebody's life.

Don't assume its not doable. It's well worth investigating at any age.

hjd

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