The Nice People No. 17

Cakeguts

Pyxis said:

Stirfries can be quite healthy, though...lots of veg etc.

What’s worse is people in The Arms talking about doughnuts. 
(Yes, I’m talking about you, @colinw !😁)

What is the Arms?

PasturesNew

Cakeguts said:

What is the Arms?

The Arms https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/categories/the-money-savers-arms 

Best to watch, NOT post, for at least a month, get the feel of the place.  They pounce there quicker than somebody diving for the most packs of bog rolls in the supermarket coronavirus scrums.

If there's one place to go, where you can easily offend somebody ... it's there.

Cakeguts

PasturesNew said:

Cakeguts said:

What is the Arms?

The Arms https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/categories/the-money-savers-arms 

Best to watch, NOT post, for at least a month, get the feel of the place.  They pounce there quicker than somebody diving for the most packs of bog rolls in the supermarket clearance scrums.

If there's one place to go, where you can easily offend somebody ... it's there.

Thank you. I didn't know that existed I will have a look.

zagubov

Cakeguts said:

Pyxis said:

Stirfries can be quite healthy, though...lots of veg etc.

What’s worse is people in The Arms talking about doughnuts. 
(Yes, I’m talking about you, @colinw !😁)

What is the Arms?

It's the forum's virtual "pub". People chat about current topics and swap jokes. Not particularly serious mostly, except for some of the Discussion Time threads..

Pyxis

PasturesNew said:

Cakeguts said:

What is the Arms?

The Arms https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/categories/the-money-savers-arms 

Best to watch, NOT post, for at least a month, get the feel of the place.  They pounce there quicker than somebody diving for the most packs of bog rolls in the supermarket coronavirus scrums.

If there's one place to go, where you can easily offend somebody ... it's there.

Hang on............ The Moneysavers’ Arms consists of:
1) The Arms, which is a friendly place with some silly threads where you can have a right old laugh, a bit like being down the pub with friends.

2) Then there is a sub-board, Discussion Time, (DT),  which can be very fierce at times, especially when there was a Brexit about, but since the onset of the V word, isn’t quite so bad, once you get used to recognising the Usual Suspects. It’s useful at the moment for picking up info about stats  and stuff to do with the V word, again, once you have worked out who the Usual Suspects are so that you can ignore what they say. 

Just recently, though, even DT, and even the Usual Suspects, have been quite good for a jolly old laugh. I’ve just had a really good laugh in there!

However, for anyone that’s a bit spectrumy, it might be politic, as Pastures said, to look and not comment for a while. Some of the Usual Suspects would eat a speshul for breakfast! Even wimpish old me got munched by one a few days ago! 😂
It’s all right though....I got spat out again! 😂😂😂

Cakeguts

Too late both of you. I have been I have seen and I have posted.  Haven't found the Discussion Board yet so I might be alright.  If not it will just be another of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time and then turned out not to be. In any case it can't possibly be as bad as Facebook groups can it?

Pyxis

Cakeguts said:

Too late both of you. I have been I have seen and I have posted.  Haven't found the Discussion Board yet so I might be alright.  If not it will just be another of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time and then turned out not to be. In any case it can't possibly be as bad as Facebook groups can it?

Dunno about Facebook groups......

But do be a wee bit careful in DT. Best to use lots of subjunctives and subjunctive substitutes if you want to dodge the piranhas or you might find you are missing a toe or ten! It’s a mixed bag in there at the mo..........probably about 70% Robin Hoods and 30% Sheriffs of Nottingham/Vlad the Impalers, but if you encounter a Sheriff Vlad, it might send you under the bed into a foetal position crying for mummy and sucking your thumb.

The Robin Hoods are ok, though. 🙂
I’ll keep an eye out for you and sharpen my two-metre spear, Cakeguts for the defending of.

Cakeguts

Pyxis said:

Cakeguts said:

Too late both of you. I have been I have seen and I have posted.  Haven't found the Discussion Board yet so I might be alright.  If not it will just be another of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time and then turned out not to be. In any case it can't possibly be as bad as Facebook groups can it?

Dunno about Facebook groups......

But do be a wee bit careful in DT. Best to use lots of subjunctives and subjunctive substitutes if you want to dodge the piranhas or you might find you are missing a toe or ten! It’s a mixed bag in there at the mo..........probably about 70% Robin Hoods and 30% Sheriffs of Nottingham/Vlad the Impalers, but if you encounter a Sheriff Vlad, it might send you under the bed into a foetal position crying for mummy and sucking your thumb.

The Robin Hoods are ok, though. 🙂
I’ll keep an eye out for you and sharpen my two-metre spear, Cakeguts for the defending of.

Pyxis said:

Cakeguts said:

Too late both of you. I have been I have seen and I have posted.  Haven't found the Discussion Board yet so I might be alright.  If not it will just be another of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time and then turned out not to be. In any case it can't possibly be as bad as Facebook groups can it?

Dunno about Facebook groups......

But do be a wee bit careful in DT. Best to use lots of subjunctives and subjunctive substitutes if you want to dodge the piranhas or you might find you are missing a toe or ten! It’s a mixed bag in there at the mo..........probably about 70% Robin Hoods and 30% Sheriffs of Nottingham/Vlad the Impalers, but if you encounter a Sheriff Vlad, it might send you under the bed into a foetal position crying for mummy and sucking your thumb.

The Robin Hoods are ok, though. 🙂
I’ll keep an eye out for you and sharpen my two-metre spear, Cakeguts for the defending of.

I have had a bit of a look and done a bit of deleting. The ones left can't really be got at. They aren't long enough. 

Facebook groups can be whole groups of Robin Hoods at first sight who then turn out to be all Vlads in disguise. 

When people turn out like that I can't be bothered. So I just leave. 

Nice to know about the spear. Do you think two metres will be long enough?  I also think two might be better? One for each hand?

No one would ever have been crying for my mother they would all be too busy running away from her as fast as possible.

SingleSue

Pyxis said:

There was a programme  on a few years ago about how to survive.

Practical things like getting a room in a hotel that’s not above a certain number of floors...ie above the height that a fire brigade ladder could reach. 

Things like, when you get to your hotel room, locate the fire exit and walk to it in terms of  which way do you turn, how many steps to get to it etc., because in the dark and smoke you lose sense of direction. Walking it through helps to map it in your brain.

Stuff like that.
The difference between surviving or not.
Takes a few minutes but could save your life. Etc.

Anyway, what the programme said was that it is the people who are seen as being the ‘worriers’  who are the survivors; the ‘pessimists’, who see danger everywhere, who live.
Whereas the optimists who think that everything will be ok are the ones that get caught out.

Ok, sweeping generalisation, and extremes of either can be bad, but they had a point. It’s the being aware of the worst-case scenario and making reasonable preps to avoid it, without it taking over your life, natch, in a pro-active way.

For worrier, read warrior.

I'm one of those that will have not just a plan a or plan b but a plan through to z or futher. I work every single possibility through so that if it goes wrong at any point, I can just switch plans to one I have already worked all the options through on.

It's a bit time consuming though and I can get bogged down in it but it works for me and I find it frustrating that others may not have seen a potential downfall and worked through alternatives beforehand. The boys just think I am mad.....

Pyxis

Cakeguts quote...
“I have had a bit of a look and done a bit of deleting. The ones left can't really be got at. They aren't long enough.  

Facebook groups can be whole groups of Robin Hoods at first sight who then turn out to be all Vlads in disguise.  

When people turn out like that I can't be bothered. So I just leave.  

Nice to know about the spear. Do you think two metres will be long enough?  I also think two might be better? One for each hand?

No one would ever have been crying for my mother they would all be too busy running away from her as fast as possible.”

Two metres is the Government directive. 
Not sure if that’s radius or diameter though - the directive didn’t specify.


The mother from hell, eh? 
Ok , I’ll concede you the Mother from Hell if I can be Best Worrier.
(Before you answer...remember,,,,I’m the one with the Spear).