Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

tomterm8

Also, there are practical considerations... if you make a fuss, there might be a comeback. Some people are not nice. Better not make a fuss, and just moan about it behind closed doors.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Do you have pavements where you are, with people walking to the shops/bus/tube, pushing prams to school (to collect their older kids, silly!)?

Yes, pavements and people walking to the shops/bus ... no tubes of course. Does anybody have a pram these days? The world seems littered with buggies.... lol/older.

I guess living in the countryside means that there's always a field within 1/4 of a mile - and so I'm used to being out in roads without pavements/kerbs/lights/drains - where there's a field there's always mud, a tractor, animals being moved.... so mud.

I'm not familiar with cities really.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

This is the nice people thread so no answers here - I haven't checked but I suspect the Urban dictionary will be your friend.

I checked. Oh dear, it's quite rude

mostlycheerful

PasturesNew wrote: »

You see, I see these crazy ideas that work out and I think "I'd never have the front to do that". There must be a reason, some twist, why he got it.

There are loads of us, daily, requesting a million.

*** PLEASE GIVE ME A MILLION POUNDS SO I CAN HAVE A LOVELY, NICE PEOPLE LIFE. PLZ THX ****

And usually it doesn't happen. So, where am I going wrong?

Maybe I'm too lovely and everybody assumes somebody else must be sending the cash to me. Top tip: No, they're not, so feel free to send me a million.

Thanking you in anticipation.

Regards

Lovely person who just needs a spot of a cash security blanket.

I'd look after cats and bake cakes and everything!!

Did you see that one about swapping a paperclip for a pencil or something similar, then swapping the pencil for whatever it was, a pen or something similar, then the pen for a walkman (or something, can't remember now, it was on the net if you want to look it up), the walkman for a printer, the printer for a bicycle, the bicycle for a motor bike, the motor bike for a car and then the car for a house a few years ago? Well, a few more stages than that and not actually those items, but starting with a paper clip all the way up to a house? And supposedly true and not just made up. And the bloke was going on telly and radio and in newspapers being interviewed about it.

I started one with my mate and swapped him, what was it, gawd, can't remember now, but something tiny and he gave me back something a tad bigger. Then, sadly, as with so many great ideas, I didn't get round to doing anything more about it. And this is the first time I've even remembered it since.

Yes, we could start a swap chain here on MSE, if it took off it could go round like lightning. Ok, I'll swap one of my very lovely crystals for, what have you??? And it's supposed to be something a bit bigger and better and the aim is to get all the way up to a whole house, and a proper house, not just a derelict wreck on top of a mine or a cliff and only worth a quid.

Ok, here we go. Fun fun fun.

Oh, and if we actually get up to a whole house then I'll start a charity based on it and you're all invited round for cups of tea and I suggest that homeless people should get to live in it, either for free or getting housing benefit, depending on what our board of charity overseers, which I will recruit, decide is appropriate. Or perhaps a bit of both. Yes, it'll need a bit of funding and to be managed, won't it, and I wouldn't really want to shoulder the whole burden myself as that could probably turn into quite a serious thing needing some professional attention and help from time to time. And it could turn into a right nuisance if it went wrong, couldn't it. So, yes, this isn't about me trying to blag a house for myself, it'd be an opportunity to do some good for people and the world. And have a laugh and do something useful with and for MSE. And I've said that here and now, so there it is set in stone for all to see forever. Ok?

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes, pavements and people walking to the shops/bus ... no tubes of course. Does anybody have a pram these days? The world seems littered with buggies.... lol/older.

I guess living in the countryside means that there's always a field within 1/4 of a mile - and so I'm used to being out in roads without pavements/kerbs/lights/drains - where there's a field there's always mud, a tractor, animals being moved.... so mud.

I'm not familiar with cities really.

One of the things about cities is that you're expected to turn up at places looking reasonably clean and presentable. Anyway, you're better off in the country IMHO.

GDB2222

mostlycheerful wrote: »

Yes, we could start a swap chain here on MSE, if it took off it could go round like lightning. Ok, I'll swap one of my very lovely crystals for, what have you???

Actually, couldn't we just shorten this whole process? I'll swap my paperclip for your house.

mostlycheerful

GDB2222 wrote: »

Actually, couldn't we just shorten this whole process? I'll swap my paperclip for your house.

Um, thank you for your kind offer.:rotfl:Er, is it a magic paper clip? Is it one that Doctor Who dropped on his way out? No? Oh. Well, I'll have to think about it. Is God telling me to make a gesture like that and if I give over all my worldly goods enlightenment will follow shortly, as the hippies joked in the 1960s as they gave their last quid to the guru. Hmm.

So how worthy a person are you? Are you poor and in need of a house? Or have you got loads already. Etc. Right, here's a ten page questionnaire and if God reckons you're worthy then you might just be in luck. But don't hold your breath. And it may take some time to wade through the other five hundred thousand applicants who've heard the rumour that there might be a house going begging on MSE if you ask nicely.

Right, God has spoken to me, and, sorry, for now the answer is no. Sorry about that. Nice try though, keep the ideas coming, I think we're onto something here, I feel a stirring in my waters. Oh, sorry, actually that's just me needing to go the bog, false alarm everyone, carm down, carm down...

vivatifosi

Wheezy wrote: »

bumbaclart

I never heard it before...you really learn something new every day

Oh God! You know how you put things from your past to the back of your mind and hope they never emerge again? Well having laughed greatly at how the "yoof of today" wander around speaking with Jafaikan accents, I just remembered how - for a brief time in my teens - it was cool to use Jamaican words as part of every day parlance. So wandering around Hertfordshire, phrases such as ras clart and mash it up would emerge from our silly white mouths. We thought we were so cool. I was such a prat back then. I doubt I even knew what they really meant.

mostlycheerful

vivatifosi wrote: »

Oh God! You know how you put things from your past to the back of your mind and hope they never emerge again? Well having laughed greatly at how the "yoof of today" wander around speaking with Jafaikan accents, I just remembered how - for a brief time in my teens - it was cool to use Jamaican words as part of every day parlance. So wandering around Hertfordshire, phrases such as ras clart and mash it up would emerge from our silly white mouths. We thought we were so cool. I was such a prat back then. I doubt I even knew what they really meant.

bigboutcha's another fave of mine. Took me quite a while to find out what it meant. Apparently, according to my source, I found out that it means big all about you which, er, also needs decoding, doesn't it, um, I think he said that that means you're a big person and your bigness is evident all around you...but, gawd, what does THAT mean...what, you're such a big person, and big in accomplishment and status, not just big as in fat, that, what, everyone knows that you're big and so pays you respect. Phew, that strained the old brain cells a bit and I didn't even have to resort to google, wikipedia or urbandictionary or such like

michaels

DW says it means 'popular' - she did have a bit of trouble with your 'accent' tho!