Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

michaels

Oh no - we have loads of satnavs but she gets cross with them...and generally I have to be on google earth looking out for landmarks that she may be able to see as she doesn't always actually know where she is...

silvercar wrote: »

So you sit at home with the map, she tells you where she is and you give her directions....

and then they invented sat-nav.

PasturesNew

I've never seen/used a sat nav. I've got a directional nose, I can always find where I want to be. I get stuck on the small details.... like finding the door, opening the door correctly, finding a room.

I can look at a map of a town 200 miles away and just drive there and end up within 200 yards of where I set out to go to usually. It goes wrong after that, when things aren't labelled. At one point last night, I was standing outside 4 doors, main college entrance, looking for labels and reading labels (push, pull) and trying to work out which door would open and how it would open. There are four ways to open a double door: left, right, push, pull. It's always the 4th one! Automatics are the worst... hate those. And revolving doors.... time it and leap!!

SingleSue

misskool wrote: »

I'm not speshsul (well, I don't think I am) but I can't find places and get panicky when it involves anything with maps and directions. I always leave half an hour (up to 45 minutes) to get lost. That's how bad I am. I also don't like asking people so quite often I'm struggling, getting angry at myself and getting all worked up.

I also don't like driving to new places without working out the whole route in my head.

I am exactly the same...the kids have got used to arriving everywhere early because I have built in getting lost time.

Google maps street view has been brilliant as I can now see the route in pictures and remember the landmarks to look out for.

If I am late or even just nearing the time we are supposed to be there, I burst into tears and get very very stressed.

tomterm8

I wouldn't like to be running an internet business in Egypt right now... some !!!!!! in government picks up the telephone and all your income goes to /dev/null.

On the door front, we got a professional to put in the gate to our field (to keep the sheep in) a few years back, and the dozy plonker put the lock in totally the wrong place. It is funny watching people who are new to the field always going to the wrong side of the gate and spending ten minutes trying to work out how to get into the field. Nothing ever works quite the way it should here, even when we get the professionals in... we have some special aura that says DIY/DIP will always somehow go wrong.

vivatifosi

tomterm8 wrote: »

I wouldn't like to be running an internet business in Egypt right now... some !!!!!! in government picks up the telephone and all your income goes to /dev/null.

On the door front, we got a professional to put in the gate to our field (to keep the sheep in) a few years back, and the dozy plonker put the lock in totally the wrong place. It is funny watching people who are new to the field always going to the wrong side of the gate and spending ten minutes trying to work out how to get into the field. Nothing ever works quite the way it should here, even when we get the professionals in... we have some special aura that says DIY/DIP will always somehow go wrong.

Morning all, I'm still watching the news like crazy. The hated security police appear to have disappeared and the army looks like it won't fight the people, which is great. The commentators this morning are saying it is like the fall of the Ceaucescu regime, where he appeared on the balcony and was totally oblivious to how despised he was. That said, I hope Mubarak isn't shot against a wall like the Ceaucescus were. It is also clear that the internet is going to be used as a tool in all revolutions going forward, so any internet business is going to /dev/null in the final days of a regime (except N Korea of course). Which reminds me, I think Vodafone has a call centre there, I was going to phone them for a phone upgrade and this weekend may not be the best time to do it.

With the gate tomterm, that sounds like a technique the great owners of land in this country could do with to restrict the right to roam. "Well you can come and roam my land, but only if you pass the Mensa membership test and get through the gate first".

LydiaJ

If (when) Mubarak's regime is toppled, then the big question is what will replace it? Egypt has been becoming more Islamist in recent years, and conditions for Copts and other non-Muslims have been deteriorating. :think:

PS Am off to the house soon to meet with the builder and talk about details. :j

tomterm8

LydiaJ wrote: »

If (when) Mubarak's regime is toppled, then the big question is what will replace it?

The military are going to stage a coup within the next two or three days to a week, there will be a lot of bloodshed, and at the end of this there will be an Islamic fundamentalist regime that is harder to deal with than the Egyptian regime has been.

Those are just my predictions.

This is NOT good news, in my opinion.

lostinrates

Re sat navs etc..Micahels I have to do hat for DH sometimes....when he is on foot. He never panics but he has a terrible sense of direction. Really bad. ATM the road he lives off in London is closed for repair...and he has to take a different route....every now and then he calls me and I check and he's walked into the next postcode..:)

Like misskool I leave time to get lost. I don't mind being lost if I don't have to get back and I'm not keeping people waiting. I HATE to be late, I find it rude. I also like to be early enough to anywhere where their is stuff like...choosing a table or seats.

vivatifosi

tomterm8 wrote: »

The military are going to stage a coup within the next two or three days to a week, there will be a lot of bloodshed, and at the end of this there will be an Islamic fundamentalist regime that is harder to deal with than the Egyptian regime has been.

Those are just my predictions.

This is NOT good news, in my opinion.

I started a thread on this purely because nobody else had and its something interesting socio-economic to talk about that doesn't involve houses.

However I've been following the tweet feeds and not only are they reporting that the Gaza Crossing has been abandoned, but there are checkpoints on some roads because the army's weapons have gone missing. There's nothing to suggest that the two incidents are related, but I would bet Israel is not happy at such a turn of events.

I want it to be good news, but I know that there's a good chance it won't be.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I started a thread on this purely because nobody else had and its something interesting socio-economic to talk about that doesn't involve houses.

However I've been following the tweet feeds and not only are they reporting that the Gaza Crossing has been abandoned, but there are checkpoints on some roads because the army's weapons have gone missing. There's nothing to suggest that the two incidents are related, but I would bet Israel is not happy at such a turn of events.

I want it to be good news, but I know that there's a good chance it won't be.

There's a thread? I'll read that. I've only been to Egypt as a tourist and very briefly, and many years ago now. My fears are much the same as tomterms.

Here's the thing. I like libralism....many aspects of it. I generally want less restriction and more responsibility. I'm happy for people to do what they want if it causes no harm...or no more harm than the alternative. But the more and more ''extremist permissive liberal'' our somciety becomes the more and more people less liberal and permissive feel...uncomfortable and the further the other way people will swing. I think. Sometimes moderation is called for not to limit freedoms, but to limit restrictions. Does that make sense to anyone other than me?