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Offline snowcap

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Re: The 3 Towns Coffee centre
« Reply #1800 on: June 24, 2017, 10:32:53 pm »
Here is some food for thought
Thought you might appreciate this!

When at a store checkout the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own shopping bags in future because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologised and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."

The cashier responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got blunt.
But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every shop and office building. We walked to the shop and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two streets.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 2200watts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that young lady is right. We didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the county of Yorkshire. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the post, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not polystyrene or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right. We didn't have the green thing back then.

We drank water from a fountain or a tap when we were thirsty instead of demanding a plastic bottle flown in from another country. We accepted that a lot of food was seasonal and didn’t expect to have out of season products flown thousands of air miles around the world. We actually cooked food that didn’t come out of a packet, tin or plastic wrapping and we could even wash our own vegetables and chop our own salad.
But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people caught a train or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mothers into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical socket in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza place.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we oldies were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-ass young person.

Remember: Don't make old people mad. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off...

Offline hollins

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Re: The 3 Towns Coffee centre
« Reply #1801 on: June 29, 2017, 02:02:23 pm »
Are we all enjoying this lovely weather?
What a contrast from last week.
Not stopped chucking it down here so I have lit the fire and am crocheting under the blanket I am making!


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Re: The 3 Towns Coffee centre
« Reply #1802 on: July 10, 2017, 11:47:30 am »
A tale to recount...

I recently ordered several items of fairly expensive furniture from a local independent furniture retailer, situated at the upper end of Mostyn Street. I chose them because I had used them previously and had received good service from them, with them carefully unpacking the furniture from the boxes, placing it in the areas we asked them to and then taking away all the packaging.

This time, when the delivery arrived, I left them to get on with bringing the furniture in. When I returned downstairs, they had gone and I was surprised to say the least to find 3 large cardboard boxes sat in my lounge, still wrapped in plastic tape!  Thinking this was perhaps an oversight, I phoned the store and was told that they no longer unpacked the furniture or took away the packaging materials with them.

I do like to support local businesses, but wonder what the point is when you receive such poor customer service?

Offline SteveH

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Re: The 3 Towns Coffee centre
« Reply #1803 on: July 10, 2017, 01:37:47 pm »
That's not good business thinking on their part, especially in a town like Llandudno, I suspect a lot of their clients would rely on this service.

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Re: The 3 Towns Coffee centre
« Reply #1804 on: July 10, 2017, 03:53:39 pm »
If you're talking about Listers, I bought quite a few items there in the past, and they always knocked the delivery charge off the price. Only £20, but it's a nice gesture.
On the last 2 times I enquired about a purchase, they wouldn't enter into a discussion about it.
So, sorry to say, I didn't bother buying.
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Re: The 3 Towns Coffee centre
« Reply #1805 on: July 21, 2017, 08:53:19 am »
Is anyone in here a Fungus / mushroom / toadstool expert? The reason I ask is that at this time of the year we have a number of truly huge fungi sprouting and they appear delicious.  However, since there's a worryingly large number of them that wreak havoc with your liver, kidneys, central nervous system and eyesight I'm a tad wary of picking and cooking them.

I tracked down all the information I could, including this excellent site from Berkley, but despite browsing it for quite a while I've not yet come across the specific fungus that appears so tasty, so I was hoping someone knows their fungi. I'm guessing the real skill is in knowing for sure which ones to avoid.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.  ― Michel de Montaigne

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Offline Hugo

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Re: The 3 Towns Coffee centre
« Reply #1806 on: July 21, 2017, 10:50:12 am »
Don't  do trial and error and eat the fungi Ian, even if it looks good enough to eat.    I think Jack is pretty good on identifying things like that and he may know the answer.

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Re: The 3 Towns Coffee centre
« Reply #1807 on: July 21, 2017, 11:04:10 am »
Having read what the Amanita genus can do to you I wasn't thinking of trying  :-}}}
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.  ― Michel de Montaigne

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Re: The 3 Towns Coffee centre
« Reply #1808 on: July 21, 2017, 11:33:25 am »
Ask Fester, he's a fun guy!  ;D
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Re: The 3 Towns Coffee centre
« Reply #1809 on: July 22, 2017, 12:27:38 am »
Ask Fester, he's a fun guy!  ;D

I like mushrooms, and I trust the ones that come in tins from Chesswood!
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Offline Michael

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Re: The 3 Towns Coffee centre
« Reply #1810 on: July 27, 2017, 12:51:35 pm »
Changing the subject. Often happens in coffee shops.
  Subject: safety on the roads. So many accidents. Such attention paid to speed limits and ever stricter enforcement and more and more terrified drivers ( me included for the first time in my life) within one more speed enforcement penalty and I am walking.  So I and thousands others are constantly glancing down at our speedometers. Instead of constantly looking around and ahead of themselves. Constantly causing potential danger.
  So how about the compulsory fitting of some type of audial device that beeps or buzzes when you exceed the speed limit? Preferably adjustable to the limit being observed.
  I imagine this should be fairly simple to do. I for one would much appreciate it

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Re: The 3 Towns Coffee centre
« Reply #1811 on: July 27, 2017, 07:01:49 pm »
Some sat navs are programmed to let you know about speed limits but the answer is not to be too heavy on the accelerator Mike.    Don't forget that you're no longer a boy racer!       ;D

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Re: The 3 Towns Coffee centre
« Reply #1812 on: July 28, 2017, 03:46:10 pm »
..... or get a car with a speed limiter, - a 'governor'

I should use mine but never do.
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Re: The 3 Towns Coffee centre
« Reply #1813 on: July 28, 2017, 08:11:14 pm »
..... or get a car with a speed limiter, - a 'governor'

I should use mine but never do.


Better still, get a car with cruise control.
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Re: The 3 Towns Coffee centre
« Reply #1814 on: July 28, 2017, 08:26:16 pm »
..... or get a car with a speed limiter, - a 'governor'

I should use mine but never do.


Better still, get a car with cruise control.

I think that's what I meant, that's what's in my car.
A 'governor' is a device in HGV's, it's different to cruise control.
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