| lesley153
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| Nobody? Oh dear, I am out on a limb. |
Reply #4901. Jul 22 12, 6:05 PM
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satguru 
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I am happy someone else is making the food, and hardly remember anyone screwing it up, only a few times where I was given mushrooms, prawns or the like and had to change it for something without them. Once or twice you see a plate on the serving hatch for what drags on for ages, and of course when someone finally picks it up and deliver it it can't be hot any more, but either I've been lucky or people are too fussy. It can be cold, burnt or contain foreign bodies but if it's otherwise fresh and just not quite what people expected that's not a disaster, I found a certain combo with the initials BM was the least edible standard item on any known menu, even without the revolting pickles, but it wasn't something wrong with it (besides the 100% pure beef probably being mechanically recovered, which is still pure beef but which bits?) I just didn't like it. I am writing an article here already but surely better than the alternative of silence.
Reply #4902. Jul 22 12, 6:56 PM
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MarchHare007
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By no means, Lesley. Take a chair instead. :)
Very frustrating to Not enjoy a meal and have others in company who rave.
Makes me wonder how their taste-buds can vary so much from their friend-buds.
If I don't enjoy a meal, I'm not coy about it BUT have found that often noone else will say anything - and have been told it's bad manners to complain.
Well, no - I'm paying for a meal of a certain standard - and it's not up to that standard!
Funny how a later discussion will bring to light comments about not going 'there' again because the food wasn't very nice.....
You are not alone. Unfortunately. *sigh*
Reply #4903. Jul 22 12, 6:57 PM
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| lesley153
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Great article, David - and why did I get the impression that it wasn't just about food? Can;t think what BM is. Yes, infinitely preferable!
Goodness, MH, same the other side of the world! Reassuring to know I am not alone, and that it's not just in England. I suspect restaurateurs laugh at us because we accept almost anything without a word.
If my erstwhile dining companions made me feel uncomfortable about speaking up, I reckon that counts as bullying, and am now kicking myself for letting them get away with it. Last week's crowd didn't, because I did it to myself. Need a new attitude.
Went to London today, spent ten hours with sprog and thoroughly enjoyable it was too. We had food and coffee and more food in a few places but most of the time was in the Science Museum. Too much to see in one day. I could probably have spent a day on each floor and it still wouldn't have been long enough.
I've had vegetable and cooked fish sushi but today he introduced me to saw fish sushi. Delicious! We sat where we could watch the food being prepared. Listening to us, the sushi chef guessed it was my first time, and said I was being too adventurous for a first time. For a first visit, he recommended chicken katsu, noodles... Later, I looked up at the wall, and saw a "special" children's menu. Chicken katsu, noodles...
I was out of the house for thirteen hours and am now exhausted. |
Reply #4904. Jul 22 12, 7:30 PM
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Jazmee27
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Thought of something, but will post in my own blog
Reply #4905. Jul 23 12, 10:08 AM
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Professer
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Glad you had a good time Lesley you so deserve to.
Reply #4906. Jul 23 12, 11:01 AM
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| lesley153
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Thanks, Gary, it was a very good day.
Must remember not to post when I'm falling asleep. Last night was the first time I'd tried raw fish. If I really had been eating sawfish, the sushi chef would probably have been right. |
Reply #4907. Jul 23 12, 12:14 PM
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| lesley153
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Walked to my Alexander lesson today, then into town to get my wonky glasses looked at. Got the reading glasses readjusted as well! Went to a couple of chains to look at some pretty dismal clothes - perhaps sale time isn't the best time to look - picked up some food and went home. Still, I was out for four hours in blistering heat, so I may have picked up some vitamin D out of it!
The train yesterday was replaced by a bus to the first stop, so a ten-minute train ride became a half-hour bus journey - with Heart Radio playing the whole time. Noisy announcements on the trains, buses and tubes, noisy passengers, a load of French teens/twenties running through the Science Museum, shouting their heads off. One very small boy in the museum was jumping up and down yelling. If a child is too young to respect his surroundings, isn't he too young to go to a museum?
Walked into a shop today, walked into a wall of loud music, tried looking round with my fingers in my ears, gave up.
Got on the bus to go home. Just me and the driver. Looking good. Then someone else got on, and I think she was trying to get a refund on a one-day bus pass, but the driver wasn't having any of it. He laughed it off, she laughed back. She sat down in the seat behind me and immediately started talking, not to me, but to her phone. She has her pick of all the seats except mine, and chooses the one behind me to whip her phone out and start shouting at the back of my head. I moved to the back. Yes, it is possible to change seats on a two-mile journey.
Why me? And whatever happened to the Noise Abatement Society? |
Reply #4908. Jul 23 12, 3:00 PM
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Jazmee27
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Where has common courtesy gone? (does my generation even know what that is?)
“If a child is too young to respect his surroundings, isn't he too young
to go to a museum?”
One would think so, but…
“whatever happened to the Noise Abatement Society?” It kicked the can around the same time as the paperwork reduction act. (someone should remedy that)
Reply #4909. Jul 24 12, 6:08 AM
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| lesley153
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One would think so, but…
... the little darling's parents obviously didn't. Still, my 24-year-old sprog agreed, so I didn't feel like too much of a dinosaur.
I wonder if it's less a generational thing, and perhaps more social. I've encountered any number of young people who are heart-warmingly polite and pleasant one-to-one. Perhaps youngsters who behave appallingly in packs all know how to be pleasant individuals.
And then I've met old people who needed their faces pushed in. They're probably the same old people who bleat that the young don't show them any respect. Not entirely surprising when they believe that their age alone gives them the right to be blisteringly rude.
The NAS still exists!  http://noiseabatementsociety.com/
It claims to campaign, among other things (like promoting, encouraging, recognising and rewarding), but it can't be doing it very effectively if I'd almost forgotten it existed. |
Reply #4910. Jul 24 12, 10:35 AM
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Professer
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Well am shocked it still exists will remember that now when i have to complain to the council about noisey neighbours.
Reply #4911. Jul 24 12, 11:25 AM
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| lesley153
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Lovely day in London with Jonathan and family. Left the party early because he has to be up and out at dawn chorus for work, and I didn't have confidence in the ability of the Victoria line to ferry me to St Pancras after about 11pm, which isn't very impressive.
Got to St Pancras and waited for the 2332 s-l-o-w, which was running so late that they made it half-fast by cutting out some of the London stops.
So we got to St Albans around midnight, which was very good, and Luton ten minutes later, but there was an announcement that we would have to wait at Luton, and the driver didn't know why or how long for. It transpired that there were no signals, so the trains couldn't go anywhere. Reason: cable theft.
Metal thieves bring hospitals and telephone exchanges to their knees, and tonight was the turn of the railways. We gathered outside to wait for buses, but it's not that easy to find buses after midnight, so we got sent home in minicabs. Nice evening's work for Luton minicab drivers, and a ridiculous expense for British Rail.
I had a quick chat with a member of staff about metal theft, and he said there are fatalities, because thieves try and take anything, from plaques on gravestones to live cables. They are prepared to take that risk, and some of them die.
Because of the danger and destruction they cause, often quite disproportionate to their gain, I would be happy to see a 100% fatality rate.
If the train had run on time, I'd have been home at 12.50. I got home at 1.30, which isn't a vast difference. My travelling companions said I could claim a refund on my ticket because of the delay. Wondering whether or not to bother. |
Reply #4912. Jul 25 12, 8:26 PM
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Jazmee27
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I’ve met people on both sides myself (a dozen names come to mind, but I refuse to say even one—why am I trying to be polite? Nuts!)
Think it’s a cultural thing myself (or, should I say, one’s interpretation of culture).
I never did understand why people steal metal. Seems ludicrous to me (unlike other types of theft).
Reply #4913. Jul 25 12, 9:00 PM
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Professer
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metal thieves are the lowest of the low when it efects peoples day to day lives like the cable thefts.
Things seem to have got worse in this area over the past 2 years or so, this government do not understand by putting the squeeze on people is wrong and that the lowest of the low who do not care about anyone will steal the cables etc.
They are supposedly taking stronger action against these scrap metal dealers who buy the cables etc but it does not deter the thieves. I think time has come for the scrap dealers to be told they will be closed down and face a long sentance inside, any monies or property they have will be confiscated.
Reply #4914. Jul 26 12, 12:33 AM
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| lesley153
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The thieves won't stop, as long as they have enough dealers who don't care where the metal comes from, and just laugh at government appeals and regulations. I suppose the only real way to stop it is to let metal prices fall.
If I have metal to get rid of, I leave it in the front garden. It's the easiest way of getting rid of metal. Saves space in the bin or a trip to the metal section of the local tip.
From time to time, I get a knock on the door - "Do you want to sell that old car?" No, that old car is still in daily use, thank you very much, but you can have this old computer tower and these saucepans.
Two boys called recently to ask if they could take the little metallic heap by the fence, and seemed very unhappy, because prices were falling, they said, and it becomes harder to make a living. Were they lying?
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Reply #4915. Jul 26 12, 6:34 AM
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Professer
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But of course they are, Copper is nearly as dear as gold these days. I saw the train probs on bbc news site
Reply #4916. Jul 26 12, 7:22 AM
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| lesley153
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I didn't think of looking there. Have now. There are articles about the theft disrupting rush-hour traffic, but nothing about last night. Unless the BBC is more bothered about loss of Olympic traffic than people coming home at night from things that were nothing to do with the Olympics.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-18994203 - video clip of disgruntled passengers and apologetic rail employee.
Just this hidden in another article in the "read more" link:
"Last night there was deliberate criminal attempt to steal cable from an area north of Flitwick."
but no mention of loads of people held up at Luton.
Last night, the only way out from the train was a couple of flights of steps. There was a woman struggling with a pushchair, and another with a young boy in a wheelchair. They both got help from other passenger - with the wheelchair and the pushchair, and another man carried the boy upstairs.
In the middle of this, a young man, probably middle twenties, carrying a backpack and looking perfectly fit, strong and energetic, appeared at the bottom of the steps and tried to push his way through. "Excuse me!" Did he think he was going to push me out of the way and run upstairs? He soon realised that he was simply stuck waiting. Just. Like. Everyone. Else.
There's always one, isn't there? |
Reply #4917. Jul 26 12, 8:00 AM
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Professer
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Maybe he was one of those responsible for the cable theft wanting to get away. Or just a ignorant moron which is more likely.
Reply #4918. Jul 26 12, 8:58 AM
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| lesley153
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| No, I think you were right the second time. There's a lot of people who think they're too important to slow down. If I'd bothered to ask him why he was in such a hurry, he probably wouldn't have had an answer. |
Reply #4919. Jul 26 12, 9:13 AM
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