Random Questions (3)

[hellotiger]

The one here comes on Tuesday

Sorry to the woman I caught in the photo but she was there ****ing ages.
I've never eaten chips from there. Not a huge fan of chips but I do eat them at the seaside.

Maybe it's just a Cambridgeshire thing?

[Omar Little]

Originally Posted by hellotiger

Does anyone else have a chip van which goes street to street like an ice cream van?
It's something they have here but I've never had it anywhere I lived up north. Wondering if it's a southern thing or just a Cambridge thing.
P.s. The chip van plays "hitler has only got one ball".

There was talk about this on here a while back.

Originally Posted by Omar Little

We had a pop man, too. I used to go past the pop factory on my paper round, it was a magical place.

My nan's street was a constant hive of activity with all these types of people:
Coal man. Bin men. Milk man. Pop man. Video man.
Chip van. Ice cream van. Fish van. Mobile library. A-team van.

Of those, only the bin men and the ice cream van remain.

I'm in the valleys. There's still one or two chip ven that visit the local schools on dinner times.

[Omar Little]

And i just spilled a giant cup of tea all over my lap, my desk and the 57 things on the desk...

**** you, universe. **** you.

[hellotiger]

Originally Posted by Omar Little

There was talk about this on here a while back.

I'm in the valleys. There's still one or two chip ven that visit the local schools on dinner times.

I may have initiated that discussion then too. I forget things.
We used to have a pop van in Liverpool too. Called it the lemo van.

[Bambos]

Has anyone ever done a video interview? What fresh hell is this?

[Appear]

^ I know others who have had them. Can't say I'd be too happy to do one myself.

Originally Posted by Omar Little

And i just spilled a giant cup of tea all over my lap, my desk and the 57 things on the desk...

**** you, universe. **** you.

57 things? Do you have a desk in Heinz's headquarters?

Hope you came away unscathed (and with a couple of sachets of ketchup).

[Omar Little]

^I was unscathed, ta. Even though it was a fresh cup, I use so much milk that the tea is never hot enough to do any damage (I smell a biscuits' thread...).

I wish I worked in a bean factory, but knowing my luck it wouldn't be long before I got canned.

Originally Posted by hellotiger

I may have initiated that discussion then too. I forget things.
We used to have a pop van in Liverpool too. Called it the lemo van.

Nah it was Mikei - I never forget anything, it's my gift and my curse...

[Bambos]

Originally Posted by Appear

^ I know others who have had them. Can't say I'd be too happy to do one myself.

I was certainly less than happy, but after a whole day of building up to it I managed to do it. Really need a new job otherwise I would have balked forever. It was remarkably cringe worthy and quite probably awful but I'm pleased I managed to finish it.

[Clementine]

Aww Miss K, you have the worst luck with technology! Hope you get it all sorted.

[Bambos]

What kind of curry should I make?

[Clementine]

^ Nettle. Or monkey. Or Spam. I'm sure you have at least one of those items in the cupboard.

[Bambos]

I think I have access to nettles

[Bambos]

^ Edit > Find?

Or possibly press the rectangle with the up arrow through it and find the magnifying glass, that's how it works on phones anyhoo.

[David K]

Originally Posted by biscuits

Is there a way on safari that you can search for things within a webpage?
On Chrome I used to click 'find on page'

I can't find anything similar on safari.

Plz don't tell me that I'll actually have to read more than 9 words.

Mobile Safari? Type in the search/web address box, then scroll to the bottom of the list of search suggestions.

Desktop Safari? Command-F

[Appear]

Has anyone else ever become aware of their mind, seemingly if its own accord, jumping between random concepts and ideas and making nonsensical associations between them that momentarily 'make sense' as you fall in and out of sleep? E.g. the other night, I became aware of myself thinking about rice and then what I think were some struts on a big red crane. For a moment, they seemed to make complete sense together, as if there was some kind of unquestionable, intimate association between the two. In the next moment, that sense of association disappeared and I was left like, 'what?'

I've asked my family and fella about it and they don't know what I'm going on about. Tell me someone here knows what I'm going on about?

[Merritt]

^ I know exactly what you mean. Getting to sleep at night involves an hour or more of lucid overthinking, then eventually I'll realise my thoughts are taking on a kind of dream logic where everything's gone mad and it's perfectly normal. I've come to like it, it's a sign that I'm finally about to nod off.

[Appear]

^ Yay! 'Dream logic' is a very good way of putting it. It's almost as if the stricter, more reality-based boundaries that guide waking thought and logic are thrown out the window and your head becomes an associative free-for-all. I kinda wish there were a way to induce it (sans drugs).

[Appear]

^ Show off.

('The Noel Fielding phenomenon' is also a very good way of putting it.)

[Merritt]

Originally Posted by Appear

^ Yay! 'Dream logic' is a very good way of putting it. It's almost as if the stricter, more reality-based boundaries that guide waking thought and logic are thrown out the window and your head becomes an associative free-for-all. I kinda wish there were a way to induce it (sans drugs).

It's probably for the best that we're mostly paralysed while it's happening. I dread to think of what I'd get up to if I sleepwalked. A couple of months ago I had a dream where I was struggling against something, and I full-force booted the radiator. This may be why I'm single.

[Appear]

^ I think you could do much better for yourself than a radiator anyway. People that get into relationships with them always end up up against the wall.

(I wish I could say that only made sense to me in a half-awake state.)

[David K]

Originally Posted by biscuits

What does the phrase 'swings and roundabouts' mean?

It's been said to me a few times recently and I don't understand it. I thought it meant that it was lots of fun because the swings and the roundabouts were the best things to play on at the park, but that doesn't always fit with the context of the convo. I've googled it and I still don't get it!

Good and bad things balance out over time.

[Omar Little]

My brother asked me this not so long ago.
It refers to situations where what you lose on one hand (the swings), you gain on the other (the roundabouts), so it evens out. It’s a situation where things even out.
I think the saying comes from fairground owners. If more people are using the roundabouts and less people are using the swings, it doesn’t matter as your bottom line will be the same.
You get a new job that pays more than your old one, but your commute will be twice as long - swings and roundabouts.

[David K]

^ That's an excellent explanation.

[Omar Little]

It wasn't that clear when me and my brother tried wrapping our heads around it. Google helped.

[Omar Little]

A runner with an amazing arse ran past as as we talked about it, I was eating a gravy tray at the time. I remember saying 'If she bumped into me and I spilled my gravy tray, that would be a loss, but if I fell on top of her with my face between those cheeks, that would be a win. Kinda evens out - swings and roundabouts.'

[Omar Little]

I'd agree with swings being more fun than roundabouts.

A gravy tray is gravy and chips in a tray. A curry tray is, you guessed it, curry and chips in a tray.

[Omar Little]

When you want gravy and chips in a Welsh chip shop, that's what you ask for, a gravy tray.

[Ajax Amsterdam]

^
I am sooo sorry I clicked on that spoiler.

[newbs16]

The job and longer commute makes complete sense.

[Omar Little]

Originally Posted by MissKitty

Thank you for such a nice compliment
I work hard to have an amazing derrière so feel free to tuck in to my meaty goodness: