Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

vivatifosi

Oh those are good. My favourite is still one a colleague told me, which I've mentioned on a previous NPT.

Translate 'entente cordiale'
Soft drinks will be served in the marquee.

GDB2222

I received a letter from the NHS today:

We're sorry we've had to change your appointment. It was due to take place on: Monday 18 September 2017 at 14:30

Another appointment has been made for you on: Monday 18 September 2017 at 14:20

Pyxis

Re. The highest square number under 70, I realised that I could do that after all! :T

Yey! Go me! I do Maths! :T

vivatifosi wrote: »

If you switched keys between rows, then the rake of the key would be different. If you change a key within a row, say from middle to end, then some keyboards are slightly sloped. Even if they are not, we could feel a difference in texture. Say for example you swapped my Q and E keys, well my e is much smoother and worn. My vowel and common letter keys are all worn out.

Ah, I see!

I haven't used a keyboard for years, so have forgotten what it feels like!
Talking of AZERTY keyboards, Sometimes I touch the keyboard language thing on my iPad by mistake, and it goes into French mode, and then I wonder where the letters are and where the exclamation mark has gone! :rotfl:

A funny thing happened the other day. I was typing in some German words so when the autocarrot stared throwing multiple wobblies, Iswitched to the German keyboard, but wondered why the u didn't have a ü option, so switched back to the English one for that, rather perplexed. It was later on that I realised the German keyboard has a dedicated ü key, separate from the ordinary u! Ich bin ein Dummkopf! :rotfl:

vivatifosi wrote: »

Oh those are good. My favourite is still one a colleague told me, which I've mentioned on a previous NPT.

Translate 'entente cordiale'
Soft drinks will be served in the marquee.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

More please! You teachers out there! More!

I caused one French teacher some distress once, when I was about 12, so hadn't been doing French for long.
We had to compile a scrapbook of French things, with captions. I stuck in a picture of the famous Cathedral in Paris, but unfortunately titled it as "Nôtre Damn".
She pulled me up to the front of the class to explain, but I honestly had no idea what I'd done wrong!

Then there was the time I referred to Shakespeare's famous play "A Midsummer Knight's Dream".
Well, that's what had popped up into my imagination when it was spoken about. I could picture him and everything! :rotfl:

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Then there was the time I referred to Shakespeare's famous play "A Midsummer Knight's Dream".
Well, that's what had popped up into my imagination when it was spoken about. I could picture him and everything! :rotfl:

Hehe, reminds me of someone who was adamant that the Polish Lancers were named that because they wore really shiny breastplates :rotfl:

LydiaJ

vivatifosi wrote: »

Oh those are good. My favourite is still one a colleague told me, which I've mentioned on a previous NPT.

Translate 'entente cordiale'
Soft drinks will be served in the marquee.

That sounds like something from "I'm sorry I haven't a clue".

Pyxis wrote: »

Then there was the time I referred to Shakespeare's famous play "A Midsummer Knight's Dream".
Well, that's what had popped up into my imagination when it was spoken about. I could picture him and everything! :rotfl:

DS (16, reasonably intelligent and well educated but significantly dyslexic) asked me the other day if a pacifist was someone who's passive. So close, and yet...

PasturesNew

I had some cheese late last night, about 90g... and I've been having nightmares all night

I thought that was just an old wives' tale!

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

I had some cheese late last night, about 90g... and I've been having nightmares all night
I thought that was just an old wives' tale!

Doesn't affect me like that - I often have cheese sarnies or, even, cheese on toast before turning in and I sleep just fine.

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

Doesn't affect me like that - I often have cheese sarnies or, even, cheese on toast before turning in and I sleep just fine.

Mine wasn't diluted. I just cut it into cubes and scoffed it ...

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I had some cheese late last night, about 90g... and I've been having nightmares all night

I thought that was just an old wives' tale!

chris_m wrote: »

Doesn't affect me like that - I often have cheese sarnies or, even, cheese on toast before turning in and I sleep just fine.

I wonder if it depends on the type of cheese, plus, I suppose, an individual's predisposition to it?


I'm a cheese freak..... it's my main form of protein intake and I love it! So, although I try not to eat anything later in the evening, sometimes the munchies cannot be quelled, and then it tends to be cheese I go for, as it's quick and easy, either with cherry toms or maybe with an apple, or just on its own.
I haven't noticed that it affects whether I remember dreams, (I rarely do these days), and doesn't seem to induce nightmares.



I had a quick google, and it seems that the essential amino acid in cheese, tryptophan, can actually induce sleep, so maybe it gave you a better quality of dream sleep, so that you remembered the dreams more easily.

Apparently, the type of cheese you eat can dictate what sort of dreams you dream....... (Taken from info about a sleep/cheese study that was done).

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Cheddar cheese tended to produce dreams about celebrities, including sitting in a pub with Jordan and playing football with Gazza. Cast members from popular soaps like Coronation Street and Emmerdale also made appearances in cheddar induced dreams.

Red Leicester caused nostalgic dreams often related to childhood, whilst Lancashire cheese produced dreams about work, which could arguably be termed a nightmare for some people.
(:rotfl:)
Stilton cheese produced the most vivid, unusual and downright strange dreams, including talking soft toys, lifts that move sideways and soldiers fighting each other with kittens instead of guns. Not nightmares, but certainly very off the wall dreams

Of all the cheeses eaten, Cheshire cheese led to a peaceful, night’s sleep without any dreams at all.
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Interesting about the Stilton....maybe it's the type of moulds used to make it?

I think I'll go and buy some Cheshire cheese!

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Cheddar cheese tended to produce dreams about celebrities, including sitting in a pub with Jordan and playing football with Gazza. Cast members from popular soaps like Coronation Street and Emmerdale also made appearances in cheddar induced dreams.

Right that does it, I'm not taking any risks of dreaming about that lot.
Out with the mousetrap and back to my favourite cheese - http://www.cheese.com/blacksticks-blue/

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