Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

We have mirror lights like this above the sinks in our bathroom, turning them on with your feet would be a challenge. Lydia's are taller and lower, turning in and off with a foot rather than bending and using your hand seems to make sense.

The bottom of mine is at knee height. Waving at the sensor with either a hand or a foot is easy.

vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

What is "creamed corn"? Sounds like a corn version of mushy peas! Yuk x 2.

It's one of those American food items that doesn't cross the Atlantic well, along with the likes of corn dogs; grits; peanut butter and jelly (jam) sandwiches; chocolate made with soured milk, such as Hersheys; and drinking Dr Pepper, which tastes suspiciously like germoline smells.

Or alternatively, as unhealthily as we eat here, proof that other nations are worse.

If only creamed corn was as healthy as mushy peas and not made with cream, or milk and butter, or in the case of the tinned stuff... cornstarch... why? Just why?

In America's defence, they don't understand Marmite; warm beer and a whole host of British oddities either.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

vivatifosi wrote: »

It's one of those American food items that doesn't cross the Atlantic well, along with the likes of corn dogs; grits; peanut butter and jelly (jam) sandwiches; chocolate made with soured milk, such as Hersheys; and drinking Dr Pepper, which tastes suspiciously like germoline smells.

Or alternatively, as unhealthily as we eat here, proof that other nations are worse.

If only creamed corn was as healthy as mushy peas and not made with cream, or milk and butter, or in the case of the tinned stuff... cornstarch... why? Just why?

In America's defence, they don't understand Marmite; warm beer and a whole host of British oddities either.

To be fair - I quite like corn dogs, Dr Pepper and Hersheys chocolate syrup (but not the actual chocolate).

And though I'll agree grits are just awful, I do like 'biscuits and gravy', which to the uninitiated is an abomination of a breakfast food that most closely resembles hot scones with mangled up sausage meat in a cream based gravy/sauce...

I suspect my taste buds were well and truly corrupted by all those years living in the States. :rotfl:

michaels

Woke up thias morning very congested with hayfever. Saw a mentol sweet on the windowsill that looked like it would do the trick.

Being on a warm windowsill for several years does not seem to improve menthol, honey an d lemon sweets, I now have the wrost stomach cramps comparable to a bad stomach bug, no vomiting yet but so much pain.

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

Woke up thias morning very congested with hayfever. Saw a mentol sweet on the windowsill that looked like it would do the trick.

Being on a warm windowsill for several year does not seem to improve menthol, honey an d lemon sweets, I now have the wrost stomach cramps comparable to a bad stomach bug, no vomiting yet but so much pain.

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Several years? On the windowsill? :eek:



Try Halls extra strong. Black packet. They'd unbung a blocked drain.

michaels

They did work ok on the congestion.....

Stomach cramps finally easing a bit.

Found the packet, best before may 14 so not so bad, i suspect the temperature and direct sunkight had done something to them....

Conrad

vivatifosi wrote: »

It's one of those American food items that doesn't cross the Atlantic well, along with the likes of corn dogs; grits; peanut butter and jelly (jam) sandwiches; chocolate made with soured milk, such as Hersheys; and drinking Dr Pepper, which tastes suspiciously like germoline smells.

My first time in US culture, I was in the Bahamas on business, a remote island and the American hotel owner kept asking me 'do you want grits with that'.


I declined when I saw this strange grit stuff.


One American food I love (you can get them at Home Bargains or on Amazon / Ebay)

Pyxis

Grits look like a corn on the cob version of pease pudding, or even porridge, I suppose.

If you like corn, they might be ok.

PasturesNew

Loanranger wrote: »

.... also PN may know as she unearths fascinating material from newspapers. Can they help me, I wonder?
...

I'd love to say yes, but can't.

If it were me .... I'd google to find out who holds the archives/copies, then contact them and see how you get a copy.

It must exist somewhere.... trouble is, that somewhere might be "Bunker B, Level 14, Shelf 1015, box 65/999" - and it might be some time.

On the other hand .... you might be lucky and they might be digitising it as we speak and keen to trial their handiwork.

The story might've been elsewhere too though.

What happens is the major newspapers get a story - the lesser papers trawl the majors for stories and piggy back it ... or also get it from the same source. All stories are for sale/resale, so it's rare for a story to exist in one single spot, except where the story's VERY local/quite uninteresting. e.g. "Mrs Muffins dropped dead in her garden on Sunday morning" is local. "Mrs Muffins dropped dead in the church right as the Queen was about to speak" isn't so local.

Speaking of strange stories: I randomly found a story in the papers the other day of an unknown man in a black hat dropping dead at a funeral.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

Woke up thias morning very congested with hayfever.

PasturesNew wrote: »

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Sending cyberhugs to michaels, PN, and any other NP not having a good day today.

PasturesNew wrote: »

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Nice strategy, PN. :T