NFR NFC 2017 - The friendly thread for lovely people

[Quark]

2 minutes ago, Funkyfairy! said:

Le Something

Quoted you, too late

3 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

Obviously not in all decisions

So rude. What can I say, I'm her blind spot

Edited May 17, 2017 by Quark
I'm a nice guy

[Funkyfairy!]

Just now, Quark said:

Quoted you, too late

So rude. What can I say, I'm her blind spot

You cad - I knew you would do this :-(

[Quark]

1 minute ago, Funkyfairy! said:

You cad - I knew you would do this :-(

FTFY

[squirrelarmy]

This is a Teacake:

 

There is one thing I'm hoping we can all agree on. When making a cup of tea in a mug, does the milk go in before or after the hot water?

[Curlygirl]

6 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

This is a Teacake:

 

There is one thing I'm hoping we can all agree on. When making a cup of tea in a mug, does the milk go in before or after the hot water?

Definately after!! 

[lucyginger]

5 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

If making in a mug with a teabag, the milk goes in last and under no circumstances must the teabag still be in the mug when you add the milk! 

But the real answer is to use leaves in a pot really. 

Agreed!! 

[carlosj]

3 hours ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

He is right. 

Snack, Breakfast, Elevenses, Dinner, Tea, Supper. 

The full range.

[Funkyfairy!]

1 hour ago, Quark said:

FTFY

mwah - amazing how 'exposed' you feeling when revealing your true self to strangers ;-)

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I was once found in a rather drunken state by a friend once. I'd been on a bender for a few days and was out of my mind demented. Anyway, my mate half carried me back to his parents house which was close by. I got in and just fell asleep straight away, on a mattress etc that they'd made up for me. When I awoke, late the next day, my mate and his mom made me breakfast. At that point I hadn't eaten for a couple of days at least. They made, for me, an unusual breakfast of naan bread and fried eggs, which was a very pleasant revelation to me. Then it comes to the tea. The tea was made with milk instead of water, and the tea bags left in. This was and, I suspect, will be the best cup of tea I have ever tasted. I have tried to re-create the tea on a fair few occasions over the years, but I've never re-captured that initial first cup.

[mr gumby]

38 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

This is a Teacake:

Theres one thing I'm hoping we can all agree on. When making a cup of tea in a mug, does the milk go in before or after the hot water?

Makes no difference, foul stuff either way. 

[cornish hick]

Milk in tea? you heathens!!

 

and when my kids were younger we had a meal called tupper -  a late tea / early supper

[Funkyfairy!]

I've just been in a meeting and pondering this secret resale malarky. Now of course I am here to the bitter end for MJ, but what if so many people now know about these 'secret sale' and the technology advances leave it less down to luck etc etc , added to the potential that there were minimal tickets back in the bucket plus the Eavis's feeling that its 'not healthy' for people to be obessessing with pings at 2am they do decide that returns have been ploughed back into the festival (eg staff/performers) . festaff had more spaces - could they have been given out to other places to stick to their word of 'tickets sold out' (I really hope not)

A note to Mr E - please please we are ok hanging on, the pings at 2am are worth it to get MJ to the festival - please don't give up on the stamina of a  few

[Curlygirl]

That's the last shift on the laptop for a while. I'm working all of this week and next so I can't help any more I'm afraid @MilkyJoe. FF I'm a little bit worried you may be right. I saw in the GG fb site a response from the festival saying minimal tickets were handed back and these have been absorbed by the festival. I hope not. 

[Quark]

1 hour ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

But am probably wrong on coffee as can't stand the stuff

There are so many other things I suspect to be wrong about you Scruff

[Quark]

My uncle's approach to tea was to boil water in a saucepan, then drop the teabags in and continue to boil it until you could stand the spoon up in it. He did use to work on road gangs and in the mines, so I suspect he liked it strong

 

[mr gumby]

Georgie and Scruffy, sitting in a tree, P.O.K.I.N.G.

[Quark]

48 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

That's true. It's a packed lunch. Cos it's sandwiches and light. If it was a meal - like at school or for Sunday dinner, then it's dinner. 

You wouldn't take a three course Sunday dinner on a coach in a lunchbox. 

Clearly you never had one of my dad's packed lunches

[Penrhos]

So I haven't missed anything but a food fight...

My boss now thinks I'm 100% mental - had "check4change" running on my phone at 1 min refresh all day and each time the alarm went off I'd sneak a peak in case resale was GO!

Wouldn't have been so bad but was in a meeting about Crypto-viruses all morning and one on Datacentre design & security all afternoon (Yawn & double Yawn).

Fortunately I haven't missed out on any potential resales or had to run out of a meeting to press F5 manically on PC - unfortunately I consumed so much caffeine to prevent myself falling asleep in said meetings I'm now completely wired to the level that I might as well taken some speed... 

[Quark]

3 minutes ago, Penrhos said:

So I haven't missed anything but a food fight...

Anything. But. A food fight.

That's like walking into an illegal travellers' boxing match and saying "I haven't missed anything but a bit of argy-bargy"

We take our food VERY seriously here

[MilkyJoe]

5 hours ago, Funkyfairy! said:

I've just been in a meeting and pondering this secret resale malarky. Now of course I am here to the bitter end for MJ, but what if so many people now know about these 'secret sale' and the technology advances leave it less down to luck etc etc , added to the potential that there were minimal tickets back in the bucket plus the Eavis's feeling that its 'not healthy' for people to be obessessing with pings at 2am they do decide that returns have been ploughed back into the festival (eg staff/performers) . festaff had more spaces - could they have been given out to other places to stick to their word of 'tickets sold out' (I really hope not)

A note to Mr E - please please we are ok hanging on, the pings at 2am are worth it to get MJ to the festival - please don't give up on the stamina of a  few

I think the longer this goes on obviously the more chance that there may not be a sale but to be honest it's too early for me to consider giving this up yet. I have too much time invested in this whole thing now. I'm tired (never having a day off work out here just doesn't give you the chance to recharge your batteries) and ridiculously and irrationally emotional about the whole prospect that I may not be going so I have to keep the faith and see it out. It certainly won't happen at 2am though! Even I'm ignoring those pings!

4 hours ago, Curlygirl said:

That's the last shift on the laptop for a while. I'm working all of this week and next so I can't help any more I'm afraid @MilkyJoe. FF I'm a little bit worried you may be right. I saw in the GG fb site a response from the festival saying minimal tickets were handed back and these have been absorbed by the festival. I hope not. 

Thanks for all you've done to help so far Curlygirl. It really is appreciated and I would love to buy you a drink either next month or at Kendal!

There has been a lot of negativity on the resale thread where I've been for the last 10 days and the email response you mention was posted on there a couple of days back. It also mentioned on the email that there was no such thing as a secret resale...

 

A slightly more uplifting point is that somebody had called See to find out about his coach details as he and others hadn't had them yet and were told that they were still processing tickets. Of course this may mean absolutely nothing but it does appear that they are a little bit behind and Neil has also posted that he doesn't believe that they are currently in a position to hold a sale.

Fingers and toes still crossed!

 

back to your food now!

Shaun.

[mr gumby]

4 minutes ago, MilkyJoe said:

I think the longer this goes on obviously the more chance that there may not be a sale but to be honest it's too early for me to consider giving this up yet. I have too much time invested in this whole thing now. I'm tired (never having a day off work out here just doesn't give you the chance to recharge your batteries) and ridiculously and irrationally emotional about the whole prospect that I may not be going so I have to keep the faith and see it out. It certainly won't happen at 2am though! Even I'm ignoring those pings!

Thanks for all you've done to help so far Curlygirl. It really is appreciated and I would love to buy you a drink either next month or at Kendal!

There has been a lot of negativity on the resale thread where I've been for the last 10 days and the email response you mention was posted on there a couple of days back. It also mentioned on the email that there was no such thing as a secret resale...

 

A slightly more uplifting point is that somebody had called See to find out about his coach details as he and others hadn't had them yet and were told that they were still processing tickets. Of course this may mean absolutely nothing but it does appear that they are a little bit behind and Neil has also posted that he doesn't believe that they are currently in a position to hold a sale.

Fingers and toes still crossed!

 

back to your food now!

Shaun.

MJ, I've not met you, so I don't know, but just in case, do you think you could fit in a rucksack?

 

[MilkyJoe]

11 minutes ago, mr gumby said:

MJ, I've not met you, so I don't know, but just in case, do you think you could fit in a rucksack?

 

 I'm only 5' 5! I could certainly fit fit in one of those ridiculous suitcases you see people taking in with the tiny wheels! Be a bugger to carry it mind...

[dizzymoo]

7 minutes ago, MilkyJoe said:

 I'm only 5' 5! I could certainly fit fit in one of those ridiculous suitcases you see people taking in with the tiny wheels! Be a bugger to carry it mind...

I've seen people bringing their stuff in wheelie bins.. not like anyone at the gate would check or anything.

[lucyginger]

31 minutes ago, dizzymoo said:

I've seen people bringing their stuff in wheelie bins.. not like anyone at the gate would check or anything.

Yup, my sis took a wheelie bin one year. You could pop in one of them MJ! 

[mr gumby]

8 hours ago, MilkyJoe said:

 I'm only 5' 5! I could certainly fit fit in one of those ridiculous suitcases you see people taking in with the tiny wheels! Be a bugger to carry it mind...

Hmmmm......

I've never understood people who bring suitcases. Those wheels can't even cope with a bumpy pavement, how the hell are they supposed to manage a dairy farm?