Farming Chit Chat sticks it to six.

Base price wrote: »

Sons held a "card" game on Friday night with their friends. Appears that some dope dropped the best part of a half roll of toilet tissue down the guest toilet, flushed it down and didn't tell anyone.
I realised that there something was wrong when my en-suite toilet didn't drain properly this morning.
Eldest and I have spent the last hour clearing AJ manhole covers to find the blockage :mad:

Base price wrote: »

Go back up the hill and stay there


TBH I think that the NPA are extremely remiss in providing the requisite number of toilets in the appropriate areas.
I went to the ploughing last year and it was my first time to do so in 12/13 years. I travelled from Longford and got stuck in traffic for hours and hours. When I arrived into the large parking area and parked up there was only 6 toilets, 2 male and 4 female. In fairness most of the men gave way to the women and jumped over the ditch to relieve themselves.
I stood in the lengthy queue awaiting my turn whilst talking to the other girls and we all agreed and cursed the person who had planned such a pollix of a set up.

_Brian wrote: »

One thing I love out and about is people watching - I'm sure we all do it.

I stopped for a cuppa tea from a service station. Sittig with my tea and apple wishing for something sweeter.

Guy in a delivery truck stopped for his mid morning snack or lunch or whatever. Tube of Pringles, 250ml bottle of coke and no less than two snickers. Do people not look after themselves at all any more - this guy was 35/40 YO and at a conservative guess maybe 22/23 stone, and very little of it muscle
I don't do calorie counting but this must have been a 1000 calorie snack wolfed down in ten minutes.

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Brian - don't get me started. The problem is that it's apparently no longer taboo, or socially unacceptable to be not just a bit overweight but obese. On holiday last week, i never saw as many men, women and children as young as 4 or 5 who should never have been allowed into a pair of togs or swim suit and god love them some even wore bikinis. :eek:

These people were from their early 20's right up to retired men and none of them appeared to give a fig about sitting about feeding their faces whilst the most exercise they did was get someone to roll them over on their sun lounger.

There really is going to be a diabetes/obesity disaster situation in the not too distant future and the governments couldn't give a fiddlers about trying to discourage folk from eating processed sh1te.

I'd love to know where all this research has been done on the public who say they will pay a bit more for local quality produce and that they're happy to pay a couple of pound more in their weekly shop if they know the animals have been treated to a higher welfare standard. I don't know of anyone in my family circle or among friends or work colleagues who have ever been asked to participate in any of these questionnaires/focus groups or any of that research. There is a small socio-economic group of people who will pay more for their food if it has been raised or produced to an organic/local/welfare standard, but the vast majority of folk haven't a notion about eating properly and I don't mean calorie counting etc., they couldn't tell you what foods are needed for fibre/proteins/energy etc and it's going to get worse. rant over.