Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

GDB2222

Could you put up with a cat, PN?

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can't swear to what I saw, but I stood up and saw something small and brown "hop" what I thought was under the shed. It didn't look like a "fly round the back" ..... bugg4h.

Call the rat lady.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

I'm probably awful. I fry smoked salmon! Very hot pan, no fat, and ten seconds at most. It completely changes the texture and flavour.

Hamish will be along in a moment, to correct us. I agree with your taste. I prefer a decent blend to a poor single malt. Lidl do a blended malt, which I like, for not a lot of money.

I don't even like salmon with scrambled egg. Too hot. I can do it in pasta though. ( not ravioli, but uncooked, on top).

I do however adore hot smoked salmon. Or better still trout.

Rarely have it for some reason. Probably because the cheap stuff tastes pappy in the mouth.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Call the rat lady.

I'll leave it, I've something more important to attend to in the next couple of days. And I might have been mistook

michaels

GDB2222 wrote: »

Yes, there are unknown unknowns. It's the sort of thing I'd expect a management consultant to talk about quite a lot. I'm now worried that you are an imposter.

I know all about the other 3, it was the unknown knowns I was wondering about - for example if you know something but don't realise it is of importance (could be described as an unknown known) is it really any different from an unknown unknown?

PasturesNew

There's been some random thunder ...and bits of lightning ... over the last 3 or so hours. And then some rain. Now it's tipping it down!

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's been some random thunder ...and bits of lightning ... over the last 3 or so hours. And then some rain. Now it's tipping it down!

We have a delicious breeze now, soi hope we get some of that.

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

I know all about the other 3, it was the unknown knowns I was wondering about - for example if you know something but don't realise it is of importance (could be described as an unknown known) is it really any different from an unknown unknown?

An unknown known to me is I go out to lunch. While out, I forget to pick up something important, so it becomes off the radar, then I remember it at 2pm after lunch.

For example in the world of terrorism...

Known known.... ISIL structure and key lieutenants and their role.

Known unknown... where certain of those parties are when you want to send a drone after them(until you get intelligence, when it becomes a known known.

Unknown known... you have chatter in your databases but don't have enough info to join the dots.

Unknown unknown... when and where the next terrorist attack will come (unless and until credible evidence arrives from any of above)

That's how I see it, though I didn't check the quote beforehand to see whether he even used unknown knowns.

If I worked for Boston Consulting, this would be the bit where I drew that as a four box matrix. Thankfully I don't (though the money would be handy), so you are safe.

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's been some random thunder ...and bits of lightning ... over the last 3 or so hours. And then some rain. Now it's tipping it down!

We had friends round for supper. Just hm pizza and salad eaten in the garden. Almost finished when there was a loud clap of thunder a big heavy rain drops. food and wine hastily taken indoors and cushions from chairs cleared into shed. then rain stops and we bring everything back out , 20 minutes later repeat the move indoors exercise. No further thunder or rain.

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

I know all about the other 3, it was the unknown knowns I was wondering about - for example if you know something but don't realise it is of importance (could be described as an unknown known) is it really any different from an unknown unknown?

They sound like what Iain Banks used to call out-of-context (OOC) events. He meant something unexpected that would deal with things the way a full stop deals with a sentence. Like that asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. :eek: