Show us your.......newbie progress! [4 Sep 2012 - 4 Oct 2014]

[Nigelnaturist]

Tonic is only a drink if there is (good) gin in it, otherwise it's poison. You should hear what us southerners say about the north.

I heard all right lived in Kent for a year, Surrey for two, your all still mad.

I was talking about mad cows?

Now I am lost.

I think @Mo1959 needs to get back here and bring some normality to proceedings. Cat must have finished eating by now

Not going to say anything about those north of Durham, they tend to not like us sasanach's

 

[themosquitoking]

@Nigelnaturist you need to get out and do another 0.1 miles - fancy finishing the day on a .9

http://imgur.com/SuZQUWF

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@Nigelnaturist you need to get out and do another 0.1 miles - fancy finishing the day on a .9

lol, do it often, I actually work distances in Km's

 

[themosquitoking]

I heard all right lived in Kent for a year, Surrey for two, your all still mad.

We save the special stuff for when none of you are listening.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

http://imgur.com/SuZQUWF

dont get it, $3.999 or $4 to the gallon, now i have to convert this to english (sorry Mo), right $4.57 a U.K. Gallon, or £2.94 for a U.K. gallon, still don't get it.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

We save the special stuff for when none of you are listening.

You mean like the Welsh in North Wales.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

dont get it, $3.999 or $4 to the gallon, now i have to convert this to english (sorry Mo), right $4.57 a U.K. Gallon, or £2.94 for a U.K. gallon, still don't get it.

round numbers. Either the amount you pay is a round number, or the gallons you get is, you can't round number them both, so you have a dilemma, personally I would add the extra cent

 

[themosquitoking]

round numbers. Either the amount you pay is a round number, or the gallons you get is, you can't round number them both, so you have a dilemma, personally I would add the extra cent

Yeah me too, can't leave it at .9

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I still don't get there just numbers what difference does it make, I would leave it at 39.99 because they way pumps works these days, the next time you press it, it will be 40.01 and $10.05001

 

[themosquitoking]

I still don't get there just numbers what difference does it make, I would leave it at 39.99 because they way pumps works these days, the next time you press it, it will be 40.01 and $10.05001

It matters if you have OCD because you have OCD. I don't suffer from it but every now and then i take out all the coins in my pocket and turn them round so they all face the right way.

 

[AndyPeace]

Now I am lost.

That'll be me then. It's hardly a surprise I can't follow a gps route, I can't even follow a conversation! I was referring back to the Spanish steaks that were mentioned.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

It matters if you have OCD because you have OCD. I don't suffer from it but every now and then i take out all the coins in my pocket and turn them round so they all face the right way.

Why do you do that, is it one of those odd things southerners do, besides what gives you the pleasant right to say I have OCD, even my psychiatrist has never said that, BPB I was told some years ago.

That'll be me then. It's hardly a surprise I can't follow a gps route, I can't even follow a conversation! I was referring back to the Spanish steaks that were mentioned.

Still don't understand where the steaks came from, in conversation I must have missed something being obsessed about something.

 

[themosquitoking]

Why do you do that, is it one of those odd things southerners do, besides what gives you the pleasant right to say I have OCD, even my psychiatrist has never said that, BPB I was told some years ago.

I didn't say you had OCD, if you don't get the joke about it i'd say it's pretty certain you don't tbh.

 

[AndyPeace]

Is he talking about Spanish steak or booze?

Still don't understand where the steaks came from, in conversation I must have missed something being obsessed about something.

This is how I read the Spanish Steak remark. In the late summer/Autumn of 2000 there was a scare that Spanish Cattle had become infected with mad cow disease. This was not the real reality of the situation, there had been one case reported, but that media coverage of that one case brought a standstill to the purchase of Spanish beef. This left a lot of beef and no customers, thus quickly it's price dropped and was bought by big restaurant chains, etc... I think this was followed by a news report which then in turn scared people into thinking they had eaten infected cattle and become infected with Mad Cows disease...but then I've possibly read a little too much between the lines on that comment.

I should point out I am a vegetarian and in no way have contracted 'mad cows' myself.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

This is how I read the Spanish Steak remark. In the late summer/Autumn of 2000 there was a scare that Spanish Cattle had become infected with mad cow disease. This was not the real reality of the situation, there had been one case reported, but that media coverage of that one case brought a standstill to the purchase of Spanish beef. This left a lot of beef and no customers, thus quickly it's price dropped and was bought by big restaurant chains, etc... I think this was followed by a news report which then in turn scared people into thinking they had eaten infected cattle and become infected with Mad Cows disease...but then I've possibly read a little too much between the lines on that comment.

I should point out I am a vegetarian and in no way have contracted 'mad cows' myself.

Wasn't there a more pressing issue about foot and mouth in the U.K. at that time