Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

CKhalvashi

ivyleaf wrote: »

CK Sorry to hear things haven't been good lately. Thanks for the dodgy hug; sending you a (HUG) back, and I hope things will shortly be on the up for you!.

Thanks Ivy, it's just been a tough couple of weeks.

Potential client near the top of my target list (but who I hadn't had time to contact yet) is flying into Stansted next week 'Oh, would you like a free lift into London, can I speak about what we're planning this year over lunch?' was my reply.

Answer to both is yes, so my charm is still working, and whilst not on a hard sell (the service my company offers sells itself), it looks like things are looking significantly up. Only downside is that it's a day I was planning to have off, but hardly the end of the world.

PasturesNew wrote: »

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

Sounds like the perfect drink right now with ice!

Just got back from the pub. Neighbour was behind the bar (or on the wrong side, as I usually say) but drinking, and while I missed who I was hoping to see (been and gone, wanted to apologise for being a bit on edge on Friday night) it was a really nice night for once.

michaels wrote: »

I am about to start a thread on the economics of higher education (more the cost than the funding source) and I suspect NPs may have useful knowledge/opinions.

Willing to give my 2p on the matter, but the NPT isn't the right place for deep financial breakdowns, nor is tonight.

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

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I am about to start a thread on the economics of higher education (more the cost than the funding source) and I suspect NPs may have useful knowledge/opinions.

If you mean parents paying University fees etc., all I can say is that it nearly broke me, for reasons I won't go into on here, and I ended up living on my credit card, built up a £7000 debt as a result, which I only managed to pay off when I got a small inheritance following the death of a close relative.
Not good years, those.

Especially when the beloved two year-gap between children means that you have two at University at the same time, for at least one year. That was a factor you didn't know about when doing your family planning! :rotfl:



I started a thread the other day suggesting the use of some classical Latin poetry for upcoming Valentine's Day, (with my tongue firmly in my cheek, I should add, so shh! Pastures! ), as I wanted to test the reaction, naughty me, and also to winkle out any closet classicists that there might be in the Arms.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

There aren't any! :rotfl:

By the way, those Classical Latin poets were a right racy lot, some of it should be X-rated, although we only got given the milder love poems at 'O' Level. Wonder why?



And now, on the news, they are resurrecting the view that dark toast, biscuits etc. produce substances that are carcinogenic. I know it's been mooted before, and apparently it still has to be proven in humans.
However, it's another little pleasure eroded away. I really like high-baked bread, etc, and very well-done toast. Can't stand anaemic toast. And I love char-grilled peppers and parsnips.
I was once given 'toast' in a hotel that was, literally, nothing more than warm bread. I was used to be given 'underdone' toast, but that was ridiculous! I had to ask for it to be re-toasted.

It's funny, isn't it, that warm rolls are quite nice, but warm bread is yuk! (Especially when it's supposed to be toast......... the clue's in the name! )

SingleSue

If Joe hadn't had to repeat a GCSE year, I would have had 3 at university at the same time!

Pyxis

SingleSue wrote: »

If Joe hadn't had to repeat a GCSE year, I would have had 3 at university at the same time!

:eek: :eek: :eek:

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

It's funny, isn't it, that warm rolls are quite nice, but warm bread is yuk!

Too much generalisation there - warm bread freshly out of the oven is scrumptious

CKhalvashi

chris_m wrote: »

Too much generalisation there - warm bread freshly out of the oven is scrumptious

Yes, which is why I go to the bakery as soon as they're opening if I'm going. Reheated bread served as 'toast' definitely isn't though.

Procastinating over an email as I can't get it perfect at the moment and it's important.....Will go back to dealing with it when I've had another coffee

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

And now, on the news, they are resurrecting the view that dark toast, biscuits etc. produce substances that are carcinogenic. I know it's been mooted before, and apparently it still has to be proven in humans.
However, it's another little pleasure eroded away. I really like high-baked bread, etc, and very well-done toast. Can't stand anaemic toast. And I love char-grilled peppers and parsnips.
I was once given 'toast' in a hotel that was, literally, nothing more than warm bread. I was used to be given 'underdone' toast, but that was ridiculous! I had to ask for it to be re-toasted.

I'll admit to liking dark-cooked food in some instances. It does improve some foods in some instances, if not "over done".... but, to be honest, I can't be bothered to wait for things to get darker these days, I just eat them "as soon as they're edible", so will more often be found eating light brown "just about done" foods.

silvercar

Especially when the beloved two year-gap between children means that you have two at University at the same time, for at least one year. That was a factor you didn't know about when doing your family planning!

Disagreeing. I planned for them to be a few years apart so they wouldn't be at the same stage at the same time.

Theory is good but doesn't always work out. Turned out that DS1 was doing his masters (no funding at all, not even for fees) while DS2 was in his final year at private school. I'd never really planned on sending to private school at the baby planning stage. That was the killer year.

ivyleaf

I can't stand pale toast - it has to be almost burnt, for me. I blame my mother, because that was how she liked it, so that was how she always made it when I was young I don't have toast very often though, so it probably doesn't matter.

A few years ago we stopped overnight at a Premier Inn where the restaurant was in the same building as the hotel, rather than being next door as they often are. The fire alarm went off because someone had burnt their toast. The staff were so worried it would happen again that the "toast" at breakfast was indeed warm, hard, slices of bread

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Too much generalisation there - warm bread freshly out of the oven is scrumptious

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Yes, which is why I go to the bakery as soon as they're going if I'm going. Reheated bread served as 'toast' definitely isn't though.

Yes, that's right. Warm, freshly-baked bread is to die for, even sliced, and will not last long, as it is scrummy.

I meant, like CK said, ordinary slices of bread, warmed up, are yukky, especially when they're meant to be toast.