Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Doozergirl

It's sooooo beautiful outside! Finished client meeting, collected smaller munchkin from school, back home now to collect the doglets and go for tea by the canal.

Absolutely perfect. No G&T though, late school run for the boy.

I really failed on the diet front over Easter. Looked at the scales this morning to assess the damage and I'm lighter again

Doozergirl

Oh pants. Forgot DD has tuition at 6.

silvercar

Doozergirl wrote: »

Does it need a cross-pollenator? (I'm not even going to check that spelling!)

It has. Lots of them. Assuming the apple, pear and unidentified fruit trees are ok.

lostinrates wrote: »

If we were doing that, in a small household I probably would buckle under and get the two. Or eat vegan/ vegetarian more routinely, washing up meat dishes.

We have had conversations where the menu was going to be dictated by the state of the dishwasher. But that is ridiculous.

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote: »

It has. Lots of them. Assuming the apple, pear and fruit trees are ok.

I think some cherries need other cherries to pollenate each other. Going by my recent research.

silvercar

Logic question that is apparently going viral:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3037266/The-maths-problem-set-Singapore-teenagers-left-people-world-stumped.html

silvercar

Doozergirl wrote: »

I think some cherries need other cherries to pollenate each other. Going by my recent research.

assume cherry blossom doesn't count?

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

I don't find the dishwasher ever gets pots and pans clean and even plates and cutlery are best rinsed off first unless you are going to run the dishwasher straight away and we don't run it half full. Anyway all done now and in bed by 10.30 but still tired today

hjd wrote: »

Seconded. Yours obviously isn't doing the job!

Agree. A decent dishwasher on a reasonably strong wash should get almost everything properly clean first time.

Yours sounds like the hopeless one my parents had in the 1970s. DW technology has moved on since then.

silvercar wrote: »

We use the dishwasher for everything, including pots and pans. I treat it like I would treat a human washer upper - if it doesn't do it right first time it has to repeat clean until it gets it right.

So do I - although I don't have to do that very often.

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

Logic question that is apparently going viral:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3037266/The-maths-problem-set-Singapore-teenagers-left-people-world-stumped.html

I don't think it is that hard and I would have found it even easier when I was 14...but then I couldn't do the numbers as shapes one at all - funny how minds work...

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

Logic question that is apparently going viral:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3037266/The-maths-problem-set-Singapore-teenagers-left-people-world-stumped.html

Nice one. Got it in a few minutes but had to resort to writing stuff down because when I tried it in my head I couldn't hang onto all the information simultaneously.

It's not too difficult if you've seen that kind of "who knows what and who can work out what from other people's comments" question before (which I have) but I can see why it would mystify people who haven't seen anything similar before. The kids sitting the exam it was in had almost certainly been taught how to do things like this, so it's not particularly impressive that 14 year olds were expected to answer it.

michaels

LydiaJ wrote: »

Agree. A decent dishwasher on a reasonably strong wash should get almost everything properly clean first time.

So our dinner was a saucepan that had had mashed potato made in it and a casserole dish that had chicken curry in the oven in it with the chicken browned in the bottom first. I would be surprised if the dishwasher could have done either of those in one go. Then the plates if they had stayed till this evening (when the dishwasher will be full) would have probably come clean but might have had the odd mark left. Definitely can't be going with running it half full, think of the environment.