Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

chris_m

I see PN's council doesn't have a sense of humour;

Port Isaac taxi firm must remove 'offensive' signs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-36370028

ivyleaf

Pyxis wrote: »

Can anyone remember when self-service petrol stations came in?



I can remember when self-service grocery stores started. I was often sent on errands to the little Coop grocers as a child, and then they said you had to pick the things off the shelves yourself! I was terrified in case they thought I was stealing them!
It was only a little shop.

I can still remember our Coop dividend number, too. I was always terrified of forgetting it, so would keep repeating the number, and what I was sent to the shop for, over and over like a mantra until I got to the top of the queue at the till.
:rotfl:

Which reminds me of the ad where where the little boy was sent to the shop for some Plumrose Chopped Ham With Pork and repeated it over and over all the way there and then blurted out "CHUMROSE PLOPPED HAM WITH CHORK!" (Well, it seemed funny at the time.)

chris_m

You not in Cornwall, then?

Pyxis

Is this going be a parallel "Guess Where I Am?" thread? :rotfl:
(I'm running one in the Arms at the moment!)

Will this one be Guess Where PN Is? :rotfl:

GDB2222

Pyxis wrote: »

Is this going be a parallel "Guess Where I Am?" thread? :rotfl:
(I'm running one in the Arms at the moment!)

Will this one be Guess Where PN Is? :rotfl:

I know exactly where PN is. She is on her sofa.

michaels

PN (and other NP) please could you have a look down the back of the sofa for a bit of change as I have seen another house I could live in on rightmove and I am only 1.2m short.....

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

PN (and other NP) please could you have a look down the back of the sofa for a bit of change as I have seen another house I could live in on rightmove and I am only 1.2m short.....

Sorry, Michaels, am not at home at the mo; am in furrin climes, so can't look down the back of the sofa.

Could let you have some of my spending money, though? I won't need it all, probably!

Spirit_2

michaels wrote: »

PN (and other NP) please could you have a look down the back of the sofa for a bit of change as I have seen another house I could live in on rightmove and I am only 1.2m short.....

Presumably you have the other £6.8M that would have been required to equal the last market price of your childhood home in your sock drawer.

Generali

oldandhappy wrote: »

salad to me is about lots of different foods...important cheese, pasties, chicken joints salad add on for a bbq or pizza...not lettuce toms and cue.....cutting down food for loosing weight though is no easy task....myself IU have three sizes of clothes...I blame the Hashimotos disease we have in our family my Dr here disagrees...he reckons food is to blame...what a silly suggestion:D

I take the French approach to salad: basically it's a vehicle for salad dressing.

SingleSue

James is home for a short break from uni as lectures are finished and we are all going to London Saturday. However, he needed to do an essay and trying to travel light, he decided to leave his Macbook back at the halls.

What does he do? Gets out our super old original laptop (given out by the government to low income families - I didn't do as some others did which was then to sell them straight on, ours was used for the purpose they were intended for) which hasn't been used for some time, probably a good couple of years, fires it up and it still works perfectly! Ok, he wasted a fair while taking a trip down memory lane with his old photos and GCSE coursework but at least it did the job.