31st?
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PY July15
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Seems fair if they are open? They had a holiday once for a fortnight when the students weren't around? Might have been Xmas time tho?
No mention of summer break on their lovely looking if useless website, had to go trip advisor for their opening times. I guess the info is available somewhere on their site but mostly it is about their philosophy. Which is basically doing something you like makes you happy. discuss?
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"discuss?"
'We' go for the location (convenient for some) and the looong table.
Perhaps there's a philosophy behind that rather than having 'normal' tables for 4/6(?).
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There's a nice soup café in Bruges with an even longer and wider rough-hewn-looking table in a premise with half the floor space of the front half of PY.
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Sorry for being obtuse unless you are both being deliberately obtuse back in which case I am not sorry, but amused.
The question (first year philosophy) is Does doing something you like make you happy?
For instance the soderberg people like to make very expensive loaves and are suggesting on their website this makes them happy.
I like cycling and this makes me happy but occasionally I am pissed off by drivers.
Some people like taking drugs or drinking beer but surely the happiness this creates is illusory?
note NO marks for discussion of table sizes
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What if large tables make you happy?
I think doing something you like DOES make you happy, but there are external factors (such as certain drivers etc) that can temporarily remove that happiness, but that doesn't affect the fundamental underlying principle that the activity in itself, in isolation, leads to happiness.
Posted 8 years ago # -
"note NO marks for discussion of table sizes"
I think you should have set the parameters more clearly.
"What if large tables make you happy?"
Quite.
Plus I'm suggesting that it's (maybe) part of the PY philosophy to provide a large table for 'conviviality' and so facilitating (possible) happiness.
I'll leave obtuse to yourself.
(Perhaps you didn't mean to put . between happy and discuss thus rendering the latter word to appear as though it related to the whole post rather than merely the previous sentence you intended it to be part of(?) )
Posted 8 years ago # -
I agree with all of the points above. I am happy, just bought a Harrington rain jacket from vulpine which should have been £195 but due to sale on there just now, a friend giving me a very generous gift voucher due to my half century and a further discount because my friend and I did their recommend a friend option it has cost me £9.10. Further I took the sister in laws sit up and beg bike through the mean streets of Bedford to the bike shop to get them to swap the cheese saddle for one that had two bolts connecting it to the springs. (Cheese springs). That was a total laugh.
Also holiday relaxing.
With large tables, they do make me happy but I notice the reserve of the edinburghers means that the communal aspect of large tables (rather than the largeness itself) often impacts on others' happiness. Many years ago on the street that is continuation of Frederick St heading north to Stockbridge a fantastic cafe opened with only one table. We loved it. It went bust immediately. Gardners cottage has lasted with communal tables. But if you are exactly 10 in number you can get the smaller room to yourself. Dear now. When opened it was twenty quid for five courses think thirty now. Price fixee so no choice unless you are a vegetarian.
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Mosque kitchen has communal tables.
Does insisting on not using boiling water to make coffee still make the people it makes happy happy when they are vending such products to people who think it doesn't particularly really do much for the (niceness of) the taste of their coffee?
Posted 8 years ago # -
Next Friday
31st (Morning)
Statutory reminder -
For newcomers (ALL welcome) -
How to get there - http://tinyurl.com/PY-Fri
"Normally from 7.30 to 8.30 for most folk."
Some people hang on past nine.
Posted 8 years ago # -
I am going as I want to go to Lupe Pintos and it will give me an excuse not to have to get there via Lothian Road.
Oh, and for the great craic too! ;-)
Posted 8 years ago # -
Not been in ages, not sure I even remember where PY is, nor how to be particularly sociable anymore. And not sure I'll make tomorrow due to various plans, but might be possible in the future with the location of new office.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Plootering with your iphone is close enough. ;-)
Posted 8 years ago # -
Don't have an iPhone any more :P
(wish I still had an iPhone).
Posted 8 years ago # -
Should make an 0740ish-0830ish shift.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Have bike, have mudguards. Going to try and get there. Probably miss the early shift though - unless it's one of these rare sparkling summer mornings!
Posted 8 years ago # -
Have had first breakfast, but need to iron a shirt and make my piece. So just after 8 is my ETA
Posted 8 years ago # -
Think you made that ETA. Bike commuting is so reliable. More material for the 'start on friday' site.
PY chat also covered JC, 'Norwester' and CalMac, Trucks on the bike lane counter, Raphawear and more.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Yes I think I hammered it to save Allan park road then spun along the canal, I like to not go too fast on the towpath. No hold ups of note, there was one temp traffic light despite the embargo. Official deadline was Friday last but unofficial deadline was yesterday. I noticed the mad 4 way at lady Lawson still going last night. Seems to be taking a while to do whatever they are doing?
Good turn out, good chat. Nice new website. If I google I want to start cycling will it pop up I wonder?
Not yet but only one of the dated websites on the first page is 2015 so the market is still there.
Posted 8 years ago # -
"If I google I want to start cycling will it pop up I wonder?"
Early days yet, it also depends what people 'ask'.
If you type in things like 'thinking of cycling to work' it's probably best to add Edinburgh.
This came up quite high -
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