Phil Deakins

I've camped in my time too - never out of necessity - always out of 'it's better than just standing around doing nothing'. In one place, I was camping on a pad that paid 1L every 5 minutes, when the sim went down. It actually paid every 5 minutes instead of building up the amount it would pay when I got off. From then on it kept paying me every 5 minutes and no matter what I did, I couldn't stop it from paying me. Later, I logged out and went to bed. When I logged in the next day I found that it had been paying me all through the night, and it was still paying me every 5 minutes. It stopped paying later that day when the sim got back to normal. That was the best camping spot I ever found

lol - ty

Maelstrom Janus wrote: Stull running ?..Is that sort of almost running but only just .. normally I wouldn't go picking on typos but I think anyone declaring anyone else to be brain dead has to be so careful about what and how they type Alright. I'm brain challenged, but that's a whole lot better than being brain dead lol.

My new year resolution is to break any new year resolution that I might make. That way, I'll have no need to kick or reproach myself when the inevitable happens

Camping has always been allowed. What's not allowed is traffic gaming, as you mentioned. So camping is not allowed on land that is set to show in search or it would inflate the traffic figures. The camping in my store is on its own tiny parcel that isn't set to show in search, so it's perfectly above board.

I declare that anyone who says that SL is dead, is actually brain dead. They must be, because it's self-evident that SL isn't dead - it's stull running.

RL was better for me. Not because anything happened that doesn't happen on any other day of the year, but because I rarely do nothing in SL except just stand at my Home location, which is what I did through Christmas. I live alone in RL, and I did what I do every other day - use a couple of forums and watch some TV. I did put some lights and a small tree up though but that's only because a friend I made in SL made me do it for the last few years by sending me (in the UK) a small tree all the way from New York, with instructions (not suggestions) to buy some lights. I have to put them up in case she wants to video chat on Skype. She didn't, so I could have got away with not putting them up

Madeline Blackbart wrote: The place where you saw you can mop the floors for money is called a camper. They pay VERY VERY little for the hour. Like 1l an hour. The best way to make money in game is to either get a RL job and buy lindens, sell something that people need, or look for employment in clubs. 1L an hour? Good grtief. Haven't times changed. It used to be 2L/10 minutes, and sometimes more than that. Later, I saw it at 1L/30 minutes but 1L/1 hour? After 8 hours you have 8L? It's ridiculous if people actually camp for that. To the OP. Camping at my store pays 2L/10 minutes but you will be thrown off if you're AFK, so it wouldn't suit you.

Charolotte Caxton wrote: Phil Deakins wrote: Charolotte Caxton wrote: Milkmen? Tea with bread and butter? Custard cream biscuits, rich tea biscuits, sixpence? Milk monitors and class systems, you guys sound like you come from a fairytale! Lol. I don't know about Echo, but I like to reminisce sometimes Oh, I meant that as a compliment, I love stories. Me too I've noticed that the older I get, the more I like to reminisce and talk about the old days so, when anything from my earlier years comes up, I'm almost certain to join in. And good morning, Charolotte

Well, now you know better

Melita Magic wrote: Another po' folk treat is bread pudding. Stale bread, raisins and what have you. We still have 'bread and butter' pudding here. I'm sure it came about during the war but it's still around by choice.

Charolotte Caxton wrote: Milkmen? Tea with bread and butter? Custard cream biscuits, rich tea biscuits, sixpence? Milk monitors and class systems, you guys sound like you come from a fairytale! Lol. I don't know about Echo, but I like to reminisce sometimes

Echo Hermit wrote: There was a bizarre class system even in our local council-run school. For sixpence (six old d pennies, you will remember, Phil), you could have a custard cream biscuit with your milk, or if your parents weren't so well off you could pay just two old pennies and have a rich tea biscuit with your milk, or the very poor kids (or parents who actually fed their kids breakfast and knew biscuits weren't that nutritious) got just the milk. Good grief! 6d for a custard cream? That's a lot of money for just one biscuit. I could buy a cornish pastie for that - or was it a shilling (1/-). Even if it was a shilling, half a cornish pastie was huge compared to a single custard cream. I certainly remember the old money, Echo. I used to spend farthings when I was very young I was in Nairobi when they made the change. When I went there, a cup of tea in a cafe cost 4d. When I came back 6 months later, the same cup of tea cost 4p - ~double what it cost before I went away. Some retailers took advantage of the change.

Echo Hermit wrote: A lot of words on that Scouse list are not, you are right, unique to Liverpool, but I tested my brother, and he did not know what some of them meant. There is one word on the list that I've wondered about for ~45 years - jigger. When I was in the army, two friends had a laugh about "legging a jigger" but they wouldn't explain what it meant. At least I know what 'jigger' means now. Maybe the phrase meant running along a jigger. Dennis Tanner, what a coup that was. I'm no sure exactly how long he's been back, but long enough to become very close to, and marry Rita Littlewood/Fairclough/Sullivan. He's fitted well back into it. (Good job they didn't kill him off - nice the programme's writers/producers listened to the viewing public.) You'll certainly remember Dennis Tanner's mum then - Elsie Tanner. She got the job after doing an audition in which she was told "We'll let you know". She was used to hearing that and she let off some steam to those who were autitioning people. It was that letting off steam that showed she could play the character they were looking for, and it got her the job. You may be a little bit older than me. All I remember about my earliest viewings of Coronation Street was Ena Sharples and her static breasts underneath that severe coat she always wore, and the hairnet (of course). Whenever I hear the name Ena Sharples, I think of the song 'Some Enchanted Evening' - and vice versa. They ended an episode with her singing a few lines of it in the Snug. It was so not what you'd expect from Ena Sharples that you had to laugh. And the memory stuck. I've seen the caramel version of condensed milk; dare not try it, it sounds such a very naughty treat. I do like that tinned thick sterilised cream (Nestle TM), and Carnation for tinned pears or peaches always takes me back to Sunday tea time, when we'd have it for our tea, with bread and butter. "a naughty treat" lol. Years ago I heard about boiling a tin of condensed milk for a few hours but I never tried it. When I saw the caramel variety I bought a tin. I didn't care for it but I boiled a tin of normal condensed milk to make sure it was the same, and it is. Maybe boiling it for a shorter time would be better for me, but it would be very difficult to improve on the taste of plain condensed milk - Carnation, Nestlé, any other - they are all delicious.

Syo Emerald wrote: Amazing how the topic (Nudity vs child avatars) gets turned into a vivid row of comments about milkproducts with some additional videos about tiny dead animal getting a grave made. And various forms of milk. Don't forget that

Charolotte Caxton wrote: Phil Deakins wrote: I love evaporated milk as well but only on fruit and fruit pies in a dish - not on its own. ETA: I like it on All Bran too, but with normal milk. Mostly normal milk plus some evaporated milk. You are a milk connoisseur. Do you ever have a glass of milk with ice cubes? I never have milk on its own (with ice cubes woulkd be pretty much the same). I don't like it on its own. When I was at school every pupil got 1/3 pint bottle of milk during the morning break. I never had any because I didn't like it.

Charolotte Caxton wrote: What size of tin are we talking about, Mr Deakins. Like the baby sized ones, or the soup can size? Larger than a tin of baby food. They are approximately half the size of a full size tin of soup. Maybe slightly larger.

Echo Hermit wrote: Charolotte Caxton wrote: I found this list, http://www.liverpoolcityportal.co.uk/history/scouce_language.html Make any sense to you? Makes a ton of sense. Although I am born and bred in Yorkshire, and Scouse folk, Liverpool, Manchester is a whole other county (with whom we did have a civil war a long, long time ago apparently), my mother was from Manchester, and as a UK northerner, I understand much of what is in the list you linked to. If you can find an episode of "Coronation Street", a really well-known soap opera, you'd get a bit more idea of how we speaka-da-language :matte-motes-big-grin-wink: A lot of words on the list are not unique to Liverpool. They are widely used. I'm Yorkshire too but we never had a war between us. That civil war was between the house of York and the house of Lancaster - families fighting for the crown of England, not counties I spotted Dennis Tanner in Coronation Streeet the other day. How long has he been back? He was in it from the start (I remember it back then). When it was known that they were going to write him out of it, they got loads of mail asking them not to kill him off, so they didn't.

I love evaporated milk as well but only on fruit and fruit pies in a dish - not on its own. ETA: I like it on All Bran too, but with normal milk. Mostly normal milk plus some evaporated milk.

Charolotte Caxton wrote: Milk in a tin? Eating milk? Eta: Oh, http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_tin_of_condensed_milk You like what, eat it with a spoon? I've only ever seen it used in baking. At least I guessed right in that After Eights were a candy! Yep. Condensed milk is super-delicious. I only buy it for eating from the tin with a teaspoon and, once I've opened the tin, I can't stop eating it until it's all gone. Yummy. ETA: They've started selling what they call Caramel Condensed Milk now. It's just a normal tin of condensed milk that's been boiled for an hour or two. I don't like it though but, apparently, it's a staple in the diet of one South American country.

Charolotte Caxton wrote: Yes, agreed. Not being able to control oneself is eating that extra slice of cake when you know you shouldn't. Or only eating half a tin of condensed milk, putting the remainder in the fridge for the next day, but not being able to leave it there, so 30 minutes later it's out again and being eaten. Yes, I do that, and I can't stop myself from getting it back out of the fridge. Or eating some After Eights from a new box and saving the rest for another time. I can't do that either.

Yes, it was a terrible thing to have happened. But it didn't happen because the men couldn't control themselves. It happened because they wanted to do it. And she was fully clothed so it doesn't relate to this discussion. And good morning, Charolotte

I heard about that rape and death on the news but it has nothing to do with this discussion. Men commit rape because they want to and not because they can't control themselves. The woman who was raped was fully clothed so it's not an example of what Orca said - that men can't control themselves when faced with naked female breasts. Men only find female breasts to be very attractive because they are normally covered up and out of sight. If they were normally on show, they wouldn't hold any more attraction to men than any other part of the female body that was normally uncovered. Here's a thought. If it was the norm for women to be topless, as it is the norm for their hands to be naked, for instance, then female breasts would usually be the opposite of attractive, because only a small minority of women have breasts that match up to the shape they appear to be when clothed in a bra. Bras do a great service for women, by usually giving them a shape they don't naturally have. If it were men who made women cover their breasts, as Orca thinks it is, then they'd be covered in such a way as to make them unattractuve. But the opposite is true. Women wear bras that lift their breasts, and make them stick out more, making them a lot more attractive than they naturally are. Orca's statement was wrong. It meant that men make women cover their breasts because they (men) can't control themselves when female breasts are on show. It's absolute nonsense.

Orca Flotta wrote: Men are too weak to control themselves so they rather cover up the women. I just saw the above quote in the previous post and I had to respond to it. You are quite wrong. It's the covering of female breasts that makes them attractive to men. If bare-breasted women were the norm, female breasts would hold no more attrraction to men than female hands do. It's the 'secrecy' that makes female breasts attractive to men. The private parts of the human body are intrinsically unattractive. Male bits look positively ridiculous, female upper bits have nothing special about them other than they are there, and the female lower bit is positively ugly when viewed close up. And yet they are all normally attractive to the opposite sex. Why? Solely because they are normally kept out of sight. When they are revealed, especially if only briefly, both sexes automatically look. It's very difficult not to look. When they are covered, we want to look - we are attracted. So it's nothing to do with men being unable to control themselves. If there's any lack of control in men, it's more likely to occur when female parts are covered. But there's no lack of control in men at all, and your statement barks up the wrong tree.

That's not good enough, 16. I need some strong objections to bots, so I can get my teeth into disagreeing. So go back and try to do better.