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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    A local woman cycles along the pavements here with THINK BIKE emblazoned on her dayglow jacket.
    Think pedestrian might be more appropriate.

    I have been known to dodder and weave about the pavement when I'm aware that a pavement cyclist is behind me
     One even rang his bell!

    Don't get me started on hell' s grannies and granddads on their mobility scooters! Lethal if you've got a hearing problem.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I disagree about food fetishes.   If you can't cook and don't know where food comes from and don't understand about diet and nutrition you're far more likely to end up with kids who will expect food to come out of packets.   Every TV programme I've seen about improving the finances and/or diet of poorer families has found them living on ready meals and take-aways and often a different one for each member of the family cos they won't eat the same things.

    Perhaps a flag saying Think Pedestrian and put across the path would make her more considerate?





    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Elf and safety and SATS means that children are not taught basic nutrition and basic cooking.
    The DS classrooms went the way of the school grounds and playing fields.
    But at least they could teach children how to produce nutritious meals without involving dangerous activities like cooking
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • SussexsunSussexsun Posts: 1,444
    It is not just the poor who open packets rather than cook.
    who do you think buys the bags of mixed salad leaves, the pots of olives and sun dried tomatoes and the bags of microwave new potatoes and ready cooked chickens?

    might be healthier than a supermarket frozen diner or a kebab but it isn’t cooking a healthy meal either. It is just opening a different type of packet.
    To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Those salad bags aren't particularly healthy either. They're a breeding ground for all kinds of nasties.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Daisy33Daisy33 Posts: 1,031
    B3 said:
    Those salad bags aren't particularly healthy either. They're a breeding ground for all kinds of nasties.
    Really?!? :o
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