Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

oldandhappy

pepsi cans for a fiver at the moment


expensive toilet cleaner apparently... been informed on the internet of course

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't really like freezing bread. One loaf takes up about 1/5th of my freezer space!

Fair point - I have a chest freezer so space isn't too much of an issue.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Mincemeat, when first invented, was meat mince.... it became "nothing at all to do with meat" over the years.

Cheers, one learns summat new every day.

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

Oooh, forgot to mention, my favourite song is on tonight... go team BELGIUM!!!!!!

Is it good enough for other people to agree with you? betting card ready.

oldandhappy wrote: »

pepsi cans for a fiver at the moment


expensive toilet cleaner apparently... been informed on the internet of course

Not much else to do with pepsi!

In garden news we have the cutest fox cub. He emerges at night from under the decking. Only downside is it has chewed some decking light wire.

chris_m

silvercar wrote: »

In garden news we have the cutest fox cub. He emerges at night from under the decking. Only downside is it has chewed some decking light wire.

My parents had to do away with a water feature once. It was like a mini-fountain, trickling onto a pile of stones.

First the family of foxes from down the road started playing marbles with the stones, then they ate the cable - luckily for them, Dad turned it off at night so no fried fox in the morning..

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

At first I was annoyed at how little my freezer held as I can't go out and do a big shop at, say, Iceland - and randomly add things into the freezer.

I've had a 3.5 cu. ft.chest freezer for years, at least 15, probably 20. There was only space for one appliance in the kitchen of my new house so I had to get a fridge/freezer. Despite getting one with as much freezer as possible within the height limit for the whole appliance, I still found the freezer pathetically small and, being split into drawers with freezing elements between them, very restrictive as to what I could get in it.

So I brought my chest freezer from the old place and set it up in the outhouse. All was fine for a few weeks, then it stopped working - either it didn't like the cold, or it didn't like the 300-odd mile move, or it was simply ready to die anyway. I can't really complain, after all those years it didn't really owe me anything.

Astonishingly, the 5.5 cu. ft. one I've bought and put in the porch (should be a touch warmer there than the outhouse) only cost about what I think I paid for the smaller one all those years ago - and it's far more convenient when I go buying my lamb by the animal. Might struggle if I try that with beef though

I don't have too much trouble with turnover, I keep a whiteboard by the freezer and what goes in gets written on the board and wiped off when it's taken out.

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vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

Is it good enough for other people to agree with you? betting card ready.

We have bet on it to win as it is our favourite, only a small bet though (£5), though long odds, so a reasonable amount to win if it does.

I'm not sure what will win this year. It could well be Russia. There's been a bit of a curved ball this year because the Scandi countries have really underperformed. Only Sweden has made the final. So who else can Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and for that matter, Sweden, vote for? Those votes which would generally go to each other will go to the sort of songs that they would vote for. This could mean that Sweden gets a huge number of bloc votes and push Russia down the rankings. Therefore it could also be Sweden. Sweden is a good price actually taking that into consideration. Other western European nations stand to do well as a result of this.

Too many unknowns. The rainbow vote won't go for Russia, that's for sure.

We are reasonably good at predicting, but not infallible. We predicted 8/10 from the first semi-final and 8/10 from the second. But then who would predict Georgia going through (actually that was in our top 10 tonight:D). I'm glad they did, I really like it, but it definitely isn't a Eurovision song (and you almost certainly shouldn't put a bet on it - sorry CK). We failed to predict Poland, which isn't our style at all, and Israel, which we ranked 11th.

Australia has a good song, but I don't know who will vote for it. They had their happy cheery welcome to Eurovision year last year, so may not do as well, though I still think it will be top 10.

Ukraine... goodness only knows. It's a song about Stalin and 1944, sung partly in Crimean. It will get a protest vote, but I have no idea where that will come from. IMO this one is doing too well in the betting (it is currently third behind Russia and Aus). If it wins, I will eat my proverbial hat. I don't think it will get top 10, but it is hard to know as I have an under-developed eastern European agit-pop radar.

France... this is a nice, catchy song. Should do well. Currently placed 4th in the odds. I haven't seen him sing it, but some say he's underwhelming, even though the song is good. Therefore may also underperform. I like it though. He is Jewish, and I wonder whether he will get the Israeli vote as he performed in Kokhav Nolad, so would be known there.

Of those lower down the odds, I think the UK, Belgium and Netherlands all deserve to be top 10.

DH and I have picked the winner 2009-10, 2012-2015. In 2011 we chose Ukraine, which came 4th. This year we have our favourite, but don't necessarily think it will win.

vivatifosi

I forgot to mention... when we placed our bet we got a £5.00 free bet. DH put it on the Tampa Bay Bucaneers to win the 2017 Superbowl at 100-1. If purch is still around he can stop by to tell you just how ludicrous that is. But it will keep him happy for the American football season, which is a free £5 well spent.

vivatifosi

Oh, and I got my 10 year badge today:D

Thank you badger!

Nikkster

chris_m wrote: »

And a "proper" pasty should only have the meat/veg at one end - with fruit/jam at t'other.

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