Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

chewmylegoff

You and me PN, let's buy all his turbines and sell the power back to the govt. We'll make billions of watt hour day miles per joule and be rich! Rich!

Generali

If you guys can't work this turbine stuff out, how are not nice people supposed to do it?

Generali

It's a glorious winters morning today. Cool (for Sydney) and sunny. Not a cloud in the sky.

I love this time of year but Aussies are such wusses about cold and wet weather. They are in Sydney anyway.

We've a long weekend to look forward to too, it's the Queen's birthday.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

when I was 18, an American bloke bought me a bottle of Chanel No. 5. then completely ruined it by saying he'd bought it because his Mum used it....
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It smells rank on me. It used to on my sister, but something changed after she'd had a child and it suited her. I think (very unscientifically) is reacts to some untold measures of maturity (landmark life events or something) to suit one or not.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

How is a riding arena different from a riding school? My sisters have the latter, at my parents' house.

Most terms are used somewhat interchangably.

I tend to use ''arena'' (whch technically is an enclosed sports space, and most ''schools'' have a fence, but not always!) for speaking to non horsey people because I think its more identifiable and less confusing. Its not necessarily accurate though. Somewhat cattily I'd say most people exercise their horses rather than school them, (even when they think they are schooling) so somewhat subconsciously I avoid the word.

''correct'' word is rarely used because the majority of horse riders ..(.not by any means the same division as ones who could school rather than exercise) couldn't get the word right:

manege: indoor or outdoor riding area
menage: if not something to do with animals more varied in species then something fun but not to do with horses.

I could probably live with all three, circumstances being right. The collection of animals has long been a feature of life, an indoor menage would be very, very useful and DH didn't take kindly when I suggested extending our ''situation'' to include another chap to help around the place by day.

edit: the other funny thing in a manege is the lettering. We have an area I marked out here, and dh could understand why I was walking around with a tape measure and chanting ''A fat brown mare can hardly ever kick''. (the other one is All king edward's horses can make big fences...ways of remembering the letters as you lay out a short arena with markers). A long arena for me goes: a fat pretty brown riding mare can hardly seem ever very kicky.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

If you guys can't work this turbine stuff out, how are not nice people supposed to do it?

that's rather the point. The architect's firm (? Company? School? Manege? Menage?) who deal with this on almost every build/refurb they do say it seems as if the stuff, the literature and figures are designed to baffle and sound eco-good and finance sensible...not always correctly.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Well, I have to teach it, so I ought to understand it...

If only all teachers had that attitude! I so wish I'd had a physics teacher like you!

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

If only all teachers had that attitude! I so wish I'd had a physics teacher like you!

Aww thanks.

Whenever you happen to think of any physics questions to which you wish to know the answer, try me.

"The Nice People Thread" - where you can get to "know" total strangers and they will advise you about almost anything.

Generali

You might want to hold off buying your solar panels:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/05a4354a-91fe-11e0-b8c1-00144feab49a.html#axzz1OlBprfcj

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

''correct'' word is rarely used because the majority of horse riders couldn't get the word right:

manege: indoor or outdoor riding area
menage: if not something to do with animals more varied in species then something fun but not to do with horses .

EAs rarely get it right either.

Another favourite of mine is where EAs write about streams 'dissecting the land.' Rural Scene have been getting that one wrong for years.