What was that saying about a bad workman?
If your keyboard is so bad why not make your own?
Or lose weight ... I must admit I though you were on something :-)
When all else fails, use spell-check.
Mary
Nah. I would just like to be able to buy the same quality level of food easily.
.andy
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I understand that Yorkshire ladies are fairly.. er... direct?
.andy
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I suspect you wouldn't have to go far in England to find that.
Mary
Yorkshire women are even more direct!
Mary
Because if I really want to type something accurately, I can.
I just don't care enough about Usenet to bother..
The fingers may be stubby, but the rest of me is not.
Don't have one on this version of NerdScrape.
You know, you sound just like I remember the children did, they'd try any excuse and think I'd believe them!
Mary
And you sound just like the schoolteachers I had. No matter what you said, truth or lie, made no difference because 'they knew best'
What a relief to get to university - even a snotty one - where you could meet up with world experts on many subjects, who would gaily admit they hadn't a clue about most things apart from their direct speciality, and were quite happy to assume that you were an adult human being, without some kind of authority hangup, and if you said ' I just didn't feel like attending the lecture' then you were perfectly within your rights, if you felt an hour spent with a textbook was better use of your time. Or an hour playing frisbee. Or an hour in bed recovering from the morning before..
Why should I have to justify my typing methods to you?
What possible business is it of yours?
Do you really have such a high opinion of yourself that you cannot actually conceive that I actually don't give a flying f*ck what you think?
Lets face it, I am only filling in the odd half hour till the US markets open, and then I am going to mow the lawn.
My somehat unpleasant grey haired mother lives alone, and is getting a tad senile. She's always been a paranoid suspicious and fairly miserable woman, and now its come back to haunt her. She loses things. She forgets where she has put them. Her logical deduction from the fact that they aren't where she remembers them, plus her deep suspicion of the neighbours (into whose gardens she throws all the stones that come up after it rains, due to the soil washing past them, as she thinks they must have thrown them in in the first place. Well of course, these days they do...) leads her to the insecapable conclusion that they are in fact coming into her house and moving things about. She started hiding things in various places, and now 'the neighbours are hiding things as well'...It's making her life a lonely miserable hell. But no one wants to visit her, becasue she proceeds to make their lives a lonely miserable hell for the duration.
Watch out. Your prejudices will come back to haunt you. Sometimes its clever not to be smart.
Please remind me how many times I have corrected you when you "knew best". It will not be an exhaustive collection of your inaccuracy, but will serve as a guide.
John Schmitt
"Mary Fisher" wrote | "Owain" wrote | > | And for the record we have electricity here too these days. And | > | mains water - hot even sometimes. | > That's really ingenious - how did you manage that? If my mains | > water was hot it would save a fortune running the boiler for baths. | ? Why would you want to wet your coal?
So it's nice and clean. My dad was in the Army and as a child every Saturday the chores included washing and painting the coal in the bath. White paint in summer and black paint in winter. These habits stay with one.
Owain
But doesn't it make the coal slow to light?
My dad wasn't in the Army (even during the war - reserved occupation and not good health) so we missed out on such activities :-(
Mary
Frankly Mr Schmitt, I haven't ever noticed you posting before.
I don't bother to preface every post woth 'in my exeperience' or 'in my opinion'
and nor do I bother to respomd to people with fixed minds. Unless it ois to mae fools of them.
Byb bye.
"Mary Fisher" wrote | "Owain" wrote | > So it's nice and clean. My dad was in the Army and as a child | > every Saturday the chores included washing and painting the | > coal in the bath. White paint in summer and black paint in | > winter. These habits stay with one. | But doesn't it make the coal slow to light?
A bit, but it does give lovely coloured smoke. I can remember the Queen's Silver Jubilee, painting the coal red, white, and blue. :-)
Owain
AH! That's what the Red Arrows use for fuel !
But I meant the water really ...
Mary
Did you forgot the ironic smiley? He's been here ages... one of the ways I found this group was from an early post of his cement faq, must be five years ago now.
Reminds me a bit of teaching my dad to use email, ever seen the film Momento?
Still I've taught him how to make notes, never too late to learn and all that.
Anyway, now he's got the hang of that and the web, the next thing is to get him on broadband >:)))
My dad has a ton of stuff in his loft and can never remember what is in what box, so when I get a digital camera I'll just photograph each box and burn it onto a CDR for him :)
Just you wait til you get to her age ;)
cheers, Pete.
Hah. I spy a new venue for the UKDIY meets.
Sushi bar, anyone ;-)
Cheers,
Paul.
"Mary Fisher" wrote
Try the carpaccio next time you're in Italy. Very thinly sliced raw steak 'cooked' in Lemon juice & served with Parmesan shavings and Olive oil.
It's superb when prepared correctly.
Cheers
Paul.
Yep....
Calamari, fresh from the sea, lightly cooked without coatings and served with same lemon juice, (must be extra virgin) olive oil and parmesan..... Mmm.
.andy
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I would definitely be up for that. Do you know any good ones in London? I went to one somewhere in Soho/Theatreland a year or so ago - can't remember the name - but wasn't that good. I also went to a sushi bar lunchtime place in the shopping centre under Canada Square and that was not great either...
It seems to be all about have excellent (not just good) fish and the time and effort taken over preparation...
.andy
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