The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

Do NP like to watch movies more than once? I am of the 'I've seen it now I want to watch something new' persasuion and just assumed everyone would be like this but my kids even now they are older are much happier choosing something they have seen before than trying something new. I can't ever remember being like this but then it is a long time since I was young.....

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Can I very nicely say that I hate peanut butter?

Yes!

I'm a bit funny with peanut butter.
To start with, I'd much rather have the chunky stuff than the smooth stuff, (but then I much prefer the really coarse, dark marmalade full of bits, than the smooth, bitless marmalade).

However, I really have to be in the mood for peanut butter. This may occur every 1-2 years. Maybe it coincides with a comet passing, or something.

Does anyone else find that they're getting fussier and fussier as they get older, as to what they really like?

I mean, I'll eat most things if really pushed to, but the number of things I really, really enjoy is diminishing.
It's not that my taste buds are failing or anything, I just find that most food isn't all that well cooked or put together, my own cooking included!

I suppose part of it is that we're cutting out a lot of fat and salt, and they are two of the things that probably make a dish tasty.

Pyxis

Forgot to reply to Michaels' quote as I got sidetracked by food.



Do you mean rewatch films straight away or some time later?

I wouldn't want to watch a film again, unless I'd missed a chunk of it for some reason, (like falling asleep!), but I might want to watch it some years later. It just depends.

I do like the old British black and white films, though. Some of those I've seen several times on the TV.

silvercar

Pyxis wrote: »

Yes!

I'm a bit funny with peanut butter.
To start with, I'd much rather have the chunky stuff than the smooth stuff, (but then I much prefer the really coarse, dark marmalade full of bits, than the smooth, bitless marmalade).

However, I really have to be in the mood for peanut butter. This may occur every 1-2 years. Maybe it coincides with a comet passing, or something.

Does anyone else find that they're getting fussier and fussier as they get older, as to what they really like?

I mean, I'll eat most things if really pushed to, but the number of things I really, really enjoy is diminishing.
It's not that my taste buds are failing or anything, I just find that most food isn't all that well cooked or put together, my own cooking included!

I suppose part of it is that we're cutting out a lot of fat and salt, and they are two of the things that probably make a dish tasty.

When I find something I really like, I stick to it until totally bored.

At the moment it is stem ginger oat biscuits.

Dislike marmite, peanut butter and marmalade.

hjd

I love marmite and marmalade (as long as it's dark and chunky).
Hate mushrooms and peanut butter.
Texture is very important to me in food - really don't like food with no defined texture. Not sure how marmite gets in there but has to be spread on chunky toast/bread..

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

When I find something I really like, I stick to it until totally bored.

Is that your answer to the movie question too?

hjd wrote: »

I love marmite and marmalade (as long as it's dark and chunky).

Dark and chunky marmite...now there is a mental image I wish I had never had....

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

Dark and chunky marmite...now there is a mental image I wish I had never had....

Makes you wonder what the chunks would be. :eek:

Macro yeasty fruiting bodies? :eek:

chris_m

michaels wrote: »

Do NP like to watch movies more than once? I am of the 'I've seen it now I want to watch something new' persasuion and just assumed everyone would be like this but my kids even now they are older are much happier choosing something they have seen before than trying something new. I can't ever remember being like this but then it is a long time since I was young.....

I have a selection of favourites from which I will often choose again and again - not the same one again and again, I hasten to add.
Then I have ones that I haven't watched yet and keep meaning to, one of which I finally got around to watching the other night and wish I hadn't put it off for so long - The Theory of Everything, the Stephen Hawking story which was more than rather good IMO. No wonder the actor playing Hawking got an Oscar, he played a very difficult subject very well indeed.

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

I have a selection of favourites from which I will often choose again and again - not the same one again and again, I hasten to add.
Then I have ones that I haven't watched yet and keep meaning to, one of which I finally got around to watching the other night and wish I hadn't put it off for so long - The Theory of Everything, the Stephen Hawking story which was more than rather good IMO. No wonder the actor playing Hawking got an Oscar, he played a very difficult subject very well indeed.

Was that the one that covered his early life only?

If so, then yes, I've seen that, and it was good.

Just googled it to remind myself who played him... Eddie Redmayne.

At one point he was on TV a lot, but haven't seen him in anything for a while.

I think he also played Angel in a TV production of Tess of the D'Urbevilles, amongst many other roles.

SingleSue

Love mushrooms, bit marmite about marmite.

Belated Happy Birthday Lydia!

I do watch films more than once if they merit it, sometimes it has to be a very long time in between, sometimes in can be as short as a week.

Had a panic Friday/Saturday, Joe wants me to stay overnight when we drop him off at uni in case he needs me, so once we found out which halls (and consequently which day) for drop off I went off to trawl around the internet to book a hotel/B&B/AirBnB. There was nothing! Lincoln was full!

Several glimmers of hope arrived Saturday morning with possible vacancies but all came to nothing until trying my last last hope discovered they had just had someone cancel 3 rooms.

Turns out there is a massive food and drink festival on on the weekend all the kids are arriving at the uni....traffic is going to be chaos!

Pyxis

When does he go, Sue?





I don't mind how often I see some films.

Let's see........

Brief Encounter is one.

Passport to Pimlico et sim.

The Dambusters.
I love watching the footage of the bouncing bomb going boing boing. They included that in a recent repeat of Foyle's War, (about a research engineer doing secret war work which included that bomb),

I know they're not really films as such, but I adore the Miss Marple series with Joan Hickson.(Infinitely better than previous or subsequent attempts). They are so true to the books.
In fact, I bought the lot on CDs, and the Poirot ones a s well.


Oh dear, my mind's gone blank, now.