Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

chris_m

Generali wrote: »

In Queensland (QLD) they don't have daylight saving although they did have a referendum on it. The reason? The extra hour of daylight fades your curtains.:rotfl::T:rotfl:

PSML, I never knew Queensland was just across the St Georges Channel from Fishguard.
:rotfl:

chris_m

Well, I've just been watching the most exciting Formula 1 race for quite some time. OK, his job was made a bit easier by the two Mercedes drivers taking each other out on the first lap but who'd have thought that an 18 year old in only his second season would win a race on only his first attempt in a new car?

Good job the organisers thought it possible, they've never had to play the Dutch national anthem before so they could easily have forgotten to order the recording

Way to go Max Verstappen, roll on Monaco.

Pyxis

"The Deadwood Stage is a-comin' on over the hill.....
..................diddley diddley dee....
Diddley-dee..... Oh... Diddley dee........
Whip crack-away, whip-crack away, whip crack away!"


Watching Calamity Jane!

Love those old musicals!



"I just blew in from the Windy City,
The Windy City is mighty pretty............."

Yum!

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

No chicken dinner for me. That's what I was told when the arrangement was made, but it's obviously been forgotten .... so I'm back home now. Did a quick food shop.

What you should have done was, when she rang to confirm she was going to the carboots, you should have said, "So, the chicken dinner's still on, then?"

If she had genuinely forgotten, she'd then have said so, but if it was an empty gesture in the first place, it would have put her on the spot.

You did a kind thing, driving her to all those carboots. Shame she couldn't keep to her offer. People, eh?

PasturesNew wrote: »

Currently knocking up a "salad", of course, for one, you can't really buy salad unless you want to eat it solidly for the next 4-5 days to get through an entire cucumber, etc etc
I'm guessing I'll have: tomatoes, boiled eggs, pasta salad, scotch egg.

Umm, no-one's told you about those individual mixed salads you can get in the supermarkets, then?

(:eek: runs to hide behind sofa to avoid fall-out)

PasturesNew wrote: »

I hate tattoos.

Do you know, I always used to hate tattoos as well. I don't like the way they fade, and I don't like most of the designs.

However, a couple of months ago, I decided I wouldn't mind a particular shape done, in a particular colour. I surprised myself by even thinking that!
Haven't had it done yet. The trouble is, I know nothing about assessing the skill of tattooists, plus this particular shape has to be done exactly right and I'm worried that if it isn't, I'll regret it.

So it's all on hold!

zagubov

Pyxis wrote: »

That's one place I'd like to go!

I'd also like to explore the language, it being such an unusual one an' all!

Same here. When I was a kid it was a somewhat mysterious place. I remember reading books about moomintrolls. Also I think Tolkein based his elvish languages on Finnish and Welsh.

Have taught a very few students from there. DW visited it once, was surprised at the number of Japanese tourists. Later on found it makes a bit of money out of connecting flights from Europe to Japan as it's really close when you fly across the Arctic Ocean.

Oh yeah and it's also one of those innovative countries. When they build new buildings they build proper new ones not the cheap tat we try to get away with. Google Alvar Aalto if you want to see some stunning stuff.

They also use the waste heat from servers to heat their cities. Love the joined-up thinking.

Pyxis

zagubov wrote: »

Same here. When I was a kid it was a somewhat mysterious place. I remember reading books about moomintrolls. Also I think Tolkein based his elvish languages on Finnish and Welsh.

Have taught a very few students from there. DW visited it once, was surprised at the number of Japanese tourists. Later on found it makes a bit of money out of connecting flights from Europe to Japan as it's really close when you fly across the Arctic Ocean.

Oh yeah and it's also one of those innovative countries. When they build new buildings they build proper new ones not the cheap tat we try to get away with. Google Alvar Aalto if you want to see some stunning stuff.

They also use the waste heat from servers to heat their cities. Love the joined-up thinking.

Years ago I had a couple of Finnish lodgers. It was fascinating listening to them and seeing the written language.

One day I found a nice piece of pottery in a charity shop. It turned out to be by a Finnish potter who they said was actually quite famous in Finland, so they were surprised when I said I'd bought it for such a small sum in a charity shop!
When they left, they gave me another piece of pottery by the same artist! :cool:





Edit. "Once...I had a secret love.............


NOW! I shout it from the highest hill,
Even told the golden daffodil!"


Film's drawing to a close!


So, who remembers the Kathy Kirby cover of that one, then? :rotfl:

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I hate tattoos.

Me too. Even for people that like them, I don't understand why they don't realise why they may not like them in years to come.

Pyxis

silvercar wrote: »

Me too. Even for people that like them, I don't understand why they don't realise why they may not like them in years to come.

That's the thing you see!

The "years to come" have come! So it don't matter no more! :rotfl:

zagubov

Just had one of those intergenerational moments where DS just realised how recently in history cowboy movies were actually set. I had clocked this rather late in life myself, having thought they were maybe hundreds of years ago, if not in the Flintstones era.

I think I did a double-take when Alan Whicker interviewed Butch Cassidy's sister! Just seemed weird. DS has now realised this era coexisted with Jack the Ripper and Dickens stories set around the dust-mountains in Kent, but even that sounds like ancient history.

Things didn't half move on in the last century.

GDB2222

I thought the NPs might like this.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/13/aussie_ring_spanner_mishap/

An Australian man whose penis somehow became lodged in a ring spanner earlier this week was freed in the traditional manner - by a fire crew bearing an angle grinder.

According to this local report, "firies" were called to a hospital in the New South Wales city of Tweed Heads on Monday to perform what for them is apparently routine surgery.

Senior firefighter Peter Sutherland explained his elite extraction team's method thus: "We use a tiny angle grinder that’s air operated and use measuring tape to protect the skin and slowly zip away at it while keeping water running on it so it doesn't get too hot.

"It's a pretty delicate operation especially where it is, there’s a lot of blood vessels. We do quite a few of them."

"We do quite a few of them." :rotfl: