katie1997

Does anyone ever look at their fellow passengers in the lift and idly wonder which one would be most useful in the event of a lift-related emergency situation?

Ceges that's such a good one about the toilet roll facing the wrong way. Notice that those ... freaks...who put it like that have yet to confess THEIR weirdness on here...tsk, almost makes me wonder if they know not what they do.

Apparently 'retro' mobiles are now in fashion (whatever that means in technology terms) and think you can also get them to look retro yet they still have all the apps. I just found out I have been unwittingly paying for a bloody TV/sports/news package on my blacberry (I don't even know which icon would have this?!) from Vodafone. Grrr. I long for the days when you could only ring someone if they (and you) were at home. Am sure I was never late then :p

Will be giving this one a miss. Have a fab time all X

*sends Laddy Muck and karter even more messages*

You could have moved to Australia and enjoyed a normal, crisp-filled life. They have got kangaroo flavour there and everything....

HAL9000 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I refused to eat things on my plate if they as > much as touched near the other things on the > plate. > > You are Christopher John Francis Boone and I claim > my five pounds. I enjoyed reading that book too HAL but I'm afraid you're not five pounds richer.

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I had a mate with an egg problem - he craved fried > egg whites, but if he even saw a yolk, he would > vomit. He would ask people to prepare it for him > whilst he stood outside the kitchen, and would > only return after the yolk had been disposed of. "Dear Deirdre" "I have a mate with a problem"....yes, yes. So you don't like egg yolks.

Annette Curtain Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There's a girl so scared of what's around a > corner, that she carries a stick with a mirror on. > She uses it to check what's there ( or not ) > before carrying on her journey. > > Sounds absolutely rational to me. > > NETTE(tu) Don't b'leeeeeve you. Mirrors on sticks are for checking that something under the bed isn't drooling. Everyone knows that.

Erm....I refused to eat things on my plate if they as much as touched near the other things on the plate. *embarrassed* Edited: just because.

Too many to mention. Where do I start?

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I' m not sure that wee, witty and cute girls who > don't believe in climate change should be allowed > to volunteer for anything that doesn't involve > painting a bridge. *grits teeth* *counts to ten* > Thus I find it an absolute menace that I should be > considering asking her help on how she does all > these things on twitter. *smiles* > Do you have to keep looking at the page to see all > these things? Fisked specially for you Huguenot. Yep you do, but its quite nice when you're on a nightmare bus journey to scroll through these snippets on the way home. I think it suits well as a phone application. Once you've found some decent sources to follow, then I suppose you can also click to see their previous tweets. Often you just want to get good links to articles rather than simply read the tweet itself. Sometimes you just want to know when those crazy scientists first managed to record the sound of jelly wobbling (July 2008). I think you need to weed out who you follow once you get used to knowing what works for you and what info you like. You can make lists (I haven't used this feature yet so don't know if this makes it easier). There's a useful little button you can click to check 'trends' around the world. For you, I just had a quick look at Singapore and 'Happy CNY' and Chinatown seems to be the going thing ;)

I have to confess I first signed up to twitter about 3 years ago (a bit like Mr Ben's example where those businesses sign up to it without knowing what they want to achieve and do it for the sake of it) and thought 'is this it?' Rubbish. But now I have tried it again (early adopter I ain't) and I'm enjoying it a lot. I'm still a bit unsure of how to use all the functions properly and there's probably a way to better order or group info I receive. I can check what's trending in India, Glasgow, London. I have found out about volunteering stuff I'm interested in doing here in London, a training course in Italy, China's interests in shale gas, signed up for a Scandinavian baking course, got recommendations for a builder in Norfolk, what Franklin's are doing for Burn's Night and what they are selling in the deli tomorrow, Director of David Tennant's film premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival, .... and crucially, I now know what Nigella's family are having for breakfast tomorrow ;) Give it another go, follow wisely and you might just enjoy it. Or perhaps not. Oh, and if you run a business, for example, a restaurant, its a great way of quickly informing existing customers and has huge potential for reaching new customers on offers/menus/ what specials you have on that day and so on. Edited: just because.

Ming Inn - chinese take-away somewhere in Scotland, according to my brother.

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Where's Chippy? Funny, I was thinking exactly the same thing about Straferjack?

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There was a thread on this ages ago - can't > remember what section of the forum it was in > though, it was in the Autumn I think. Wow, there's a seasonal EDF? The Dog that become an hotel sounds like a book title.

Well, the one at Hunstanton is shut on bank holiday Mondays despite the fact the most exciting happening in the area for years - a whale landed on the beach :( Keep them coming Nette, I'm genuinely interested X

Well I'm the eldest and the only girl...I missed out for sure. I think there's loads of places to choose from around here, just give em a call about the celebration and see if they can do something that suits you? Was at a birthday do at the black cherry which was fab, lovely nibbles and drinks and a dance floor for later!

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Start a new one!! This one is jsut getting silly :)

Yes.

I think you're all onto something there.... Perhaps I'm harking back to a long-forgotten, er, 'golden' era of public conveniences with attendants that just don't exist anymore. Okay the soap and the bog roll wasn't best quality but at least it was better than nothing. Maybe I need an 'app' to alert me to the nearest one? I must be old-fashioned. Hate those new metal box things where you can't open and close the door by yourself. The ones on trains are awful now too.

karter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Katie, i dont do gin. Which coffee would you > drink? In no particular order, I like coffee at: Scoop (ice cream parlour) Homemade (Barry Rd) Gastronomia (across from the Plough) Blue Mountain Green & Blue Stall at North Cross market French Cafe on Forest Hill Road Cafe on the Rye Prettys There are plenty other local places I've yet to try for coffee too... Edited to add one I can't believe I forgot. Btw, I don't think the chain coffee place we have here is the worst of the chains either.

Please say its not just me getting older but WTF has happened to them? If you lived in a city*, you'd at least know that you were never far away from one ... complete with stern/lovely* (*delete as appropriate) caretaker in a swirly psychedelic patterned apron. They wouldn't dream of spritzing you with designer perfume or demanding money from you either. Now there's nowhere to go unless you pop into a cafe or a bar? And even then you can only use the facilities on production of a receipt in exchange for that magical pin code. Or the exact change. *If you lived in the countryside, no problemo!

Isn't Eat(s) a fine example of big business catering for idiots? karter - ED could do with a gin palace. Nowhere caters for that around here. Its a disgrace.