Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Sorry, it's an addiction thing.
Has to be cans.
Has to be Pepsi.
Has to be Max.


Even PMax in a bottle's not the same.....

I'll drink other stuff ..... but for my favourite addiction it has to be exactly right.

Yuk!

We are a coke household. Most favoured choice is caffeine free diet coke, though we will stretch to diet coke at a push.

Nikkster

silvercar wrote: »

Yuk!

We are a coke household. Most favoured choice is caffeine free diet coke, though we will stretch to diet coke at a push.

I don't understand the point of caffeine free diet coke! What's left without either of those? I prefer coke zero ( very occasionally) or full fat coke/ cherry coke sometimes if hungover.

Spirit_2

Winchester Christmas Market was very good. Worth a visit. I arrived from hometo gift of a box of biscuits from the village charity that provides for villagers who have had a tough year.I got a box last year too.

This evening OH and I have been to the village hall for a Christmas sing song. Carols and classic songs, performances of a five minute pantomime, a poem (twelve days of Turkey) Duets and choirs singing Pop seasonal tunes, Fairy tale of New York, Wombling Merry Christmas. The christmas pudding song. Mulled wine and cake. Some fine voices and some who were a triumph of lack of talent but had a go. Really inclusive, secular, neighbourly in the spirit of Christmas without feeling falsely jolly or hostage to the stage struck.

Masomnia

Don't quote as will very much delete...

Met Zac Goldsmith!! Nice bloke. Defs shall be voting.

zagubov

kabayiri wrote: »

They showed "2001 - A space odyssey" on BBC4 last night; probably because it was a current theme.

Am I the only one who finds it boring, and slow paced, and poor acting/dialogue?

Mind, I'm not a Star Wars fan either.

I agree about 2001. The boring stuff was mainly because it was showing off. the special effects, not being CGI were expensive and had to be lingered on. The slow pace was because it was about evolution, as we were upgraded from apes to humans, then the next step.
The humans were like cogs in a vast machine. It made space travel look spectacularly difficult, and we were the emotionless robots that made it possible. The computer HAL is the most emotional thing in the main story, while the main protagonist Dave seems quite cold, and finally calm and accepting when he gets upgraded at the end.

There are artistic tributes to it, which convey the majesty minus much of the tedium.

vivatifosi

I really like Christmas. Not so much the run up as every year it creeps up on me as though the date has changed.

We get up when we are ready, which is generally about 10am, love the lay in, have a lazy breakfast and listen to Christmas music. We open presents from each other at midday. Later on we may venture out or have people round. All of our immediate family live nearby, so we meet up each year. When timings allow, we Skype the rels in Aus, though by then it may be their Boxing Day.

It's New Years eve that I don't really enjoy. I'm not teetotal, but generally don't drink and it's a horrible night out if you are sober... people are drunk and everyone wants you to drive. If you do drive, the people on the roads are scary. Everywhere is expensive and packed if you do go out, and some drunks are downright unpleasant. I'd rather stay home. But you stay home and what is on tv is the same every year. Boring... bah humbug.

bugslet

silvercar wrote: »

He says he is driving. I'm not happy with him driving the Aygo on the motorway for 200 miles. He says he has driven a pick-up truck in America and is more than capable and the train would be a hassle. I say that it is the 1 litre car on the motorway that is my concern, not his driving..

Maybe I had bd/reckless parents, but mine turfed me out in a 1 litre Nissan Micra with instructions to drive to Aberdeen and deliver a jiffy bag, come back and often find something else to do in the remainder of the afternoon. That would be the day after pasing my test.

I still love driving, 500 miles is the cut off point for when it stops being entertaining. I think a lot of it these days is that I don't have hands free in the dogvan, so no-one can get to me unless I stop and ring them.

silvercar wrote: »

DS2 says he has discussed it with her and he doesn't need to get a present for anyone other than a general "thanks for inviting" gift. Apparently they are not so big on present giving. :shrugs:

I don't do presents at all except to children, so always useful to find out what the etiquette is. I'd find it bizarre if people gave me gifts when I didn't know them.

Christmas is just another day - no family and an atheist; think I started some decorating last year on the day!

Generali

NYE is dreadful and I'm quite an enthusiastic drinker. It's expensive and you can't get to the bar. Everyone is smashed and you can't get in anywhere.

The thing that annoys me the most is the crap local boozer selling tickets for £25 and they don't even put any extra bar staff on.

Doozergirl

I'm happy with a bottle of something and Jools' Hootenanny.

SingleSue

Christmas day here starts with us getting up at a reasonable hour and then making our way down to my parent's house for about 10.30 (James will head off earlier on his bike to help mum and dad set up the front room).

Everyone arrives (except my sister and her family), presents are opened in the front room and then I usually go out into the kitchen to help out with dinner whilst the boys/ex mother in law/brother and wife do 'stuff' in the front room...no idea what stuff as I am generally in the kitchen or going to a happy place in my brain AKA day dreaming.

Dinner is about 2 ish, afterwards we may have some records playing (yes actual records), a little dancing, lots of talking and then television.

It's all pretty harmonious.

Boxing day is another relaxed get up and then we venture out to see what shops are open or where we can grab a bite to eat...this year, we are going to a panto, so will grab something there. Later we go to see parents where sister and family have arrived, loads of other people pop in to see parents and I prepare the buffet. Music, dancing, conversation and lots of fun.

New years eve - go to the pub and watch a band. Free entry and because a non drinking friend does the driving, I can have a pint or two (generally not much more than that), so saving on taxi costs. Last year it cost me less than a tenner to go out for NYE.

We have a lot of fun at Christmas, watching that programme on television this week about Christmas through the decades, we do a much more 70's Christmas than a modern one. Lots of family time (apart from youngest who needs to shut himself away for his own sanity for much of the day), good natured and not quite as commercialised as some. Yes the children do have a large sack of pressies but they are not expensive things plus some family members like to 'trick' people by putting very small items into very large boxes! Last year, mum and dad gave money to youngest, instead of a small envelope, mum got the biggest box she could find (it was absolutely massive) and put it in there.