Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

silvercar

misskool wrote: »

Just scanning through but I thought most people think by association. I have random series of things that attach to each other, which is why sometimes I have quite random conversations or I say something really random in the middle of a conversation. It takes a lot for me to stay "on track".

I like pictures which is why I take a lot of notes, I remember the context of taking of notes (I hardly ever look back at them) and remember what I need to remember from taking the notes.

I'm normal apparently. :rotfl:

I do the opposite. Make notes and then recall the writing on the note.

treliac

PasturesNew wrote: »

You have no say-so, nothing. No space, no rights. More like an enslaved role of the worst kind.

I'm more hiding in my room, eating chocolate bars and having no TV. Can't make/receive phone calls without some huge explanation as I have to explain who is calling me, why and everything that's said. Certainly could never have anybody round. Even going out is a test of endurance, cross-questioning and annoyances, so it becomes easier not to do anything.

You chose to have children, I didn't choose to have parents.

None of us did. How would we be here otherwise though?

However, PN, you have made choices and decisions which led to you returning to live with your parents. Surely some negotiation can be reached to make your lives together more tolerable..... respecting their home and the way they like it run whilst you, at your age, shouldn't have to account for your movements etc. provided you aren't disturbing your parents peace and quiet.

treliac

lemonjelly wrote: »

I can't believe I've missed fc123 again!

I've now finished the frankie boyle book. Moving onto this:

Should be a happy start to 2011 eh?

I'm sure when this one is done there'll be a jack the ripper fest for a couple of months.

How the devil is everyone? I have the delight of being at work...

This is one of my favourites! Goleman has written some others but this one is the best imo.

EI should be mandatory teaching in school.

treliac

tomterm8 wrote: »

Yeah, didn't like that book. Basically, it said nothing you could actually use. Just touchy feely american pop psychology.

That's funny, completely different perspective to mine. I found it (Emotional Intelligence) immensely useful.

treliac

vivatifosi wrote: »

I also find Howard Gardener more interesting, though there is much argument against his multiple intelligence theories too. Basically it says different people are clever in different ways. This is one of his books:

This sounds to be about intellectual intelligence rather than emotional intelligence.

I once had a lecturer who insisted that if someone was intelligent it followed that they would be capable in all academic areas.

Total codswallop as is sooooo obvious.

treliac

sss555s wrote: »

Think i'd rather be here with my bottle than standing out in the cold with another million watching some sparklers going off.

Is that sad?

Yeah, we had a brilliant time at the Eye, despite getting some firework debris in my own eye!

treliac

Davesnave wrote: »

I kissed more women in the first hour of 2011 than I did in the whole of 2010, which isn't quite as good as it sounds, but never mind.:)

You have a 'reputation' with us ladies to maintain now Davesnave.

silvercar

treliac wrote: »

Yeah, we had a brilliant time at the Eye, despite getting some firework debris in my own eye!

Were you in a pod? I thought the eye was closed on NYE for H&S.

treliac

silvercar wrote: »

Were you in a pod? I thought the eye was closed on NYE for H&S.

No, you can't be on the Eye.... fireworks are attached to it! We were behind it, on the same side of the river.

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

Your nan sounds quite the girl! My nan drummed into me that I should always check that my knicker elastic hasn't frayed or given, after hers fell down while using a zebra crossing. Apparently under such circumstances a lady should carry on walking, kick the offending item out of the way, or discreetly pick up if nobody had seen and act as though nothing had happened.

Oh she was, a typical east end girl.

She out danced everyone at my wedding and she was 86 years old, getting her legs higher than anyone else during the can can. She took me to Spain when she was 80 and was dragging me down the aisle of the coach whilst my button up skirt was falling off as she wanted to be the first at the wine tasting.

On the same holiday, she would line the drinks up on our table in the hotel bar to take advantage of the happy hour.

At age 79, she got so drunk (again on holiday in Spain), she laid down in the middle of the road, forcing the traffic to go either side of her.

All my friends got asked if they were still virgins, all my friends got told to keep their hands on their ha'pennies.

She swore like an absolute trooper...at age 90 and by now a little old lady on a zimmer frame, she shocked all my friends at an Ann Summers party, who seeing this little old lady were all behaving themselves and minding their language, by f ing and blinding and calling them boring sods, before proceeding to buy 2 large vibrators (whilst telling all the young uns how to use them) and several pairs of frilly knickers.

Or the time she decided to cook a Fray Bentos pie for my brother and his friend who had travelled to see her...forgetting to remove the lid first and leaving the oven door across the kitchen and Fray Bentos all around the walls.

She was an awesome woman and everyone loved her, one of those salt of the earth kind of people, a brilliant sense of humour and a love for life which was infectious.

She has been gone for 17 years today and we still miss her fun.