Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Give our love to LIR, and get-well-soon wishes to both patients, Dog-Dog and computer.

The bigger health issue will be LIR's week away from the Nice People! Her mental health will deteriorate without our babbliings to bob along through the day to!

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

I need to de-PC my house - when my laptop wouldn't boot I had another PC in the bedroom (drives the TV), a netbook, an old nokia tablet or a couple of smart-phones, and if all those failed I could go and use one of the PCs in the kids room or even have to go downstairs to use the main file server PC...

I run my entire, expanding, empire from a cheap PC bought in 2006, with 1GB memory and a 40GB HD and slow processor, with a 15" monitor. And a cheapo laptop bought in 2008, which is my "just in case" backup.



An empire I tell ya! Run from a pile 'o cr4p

John_Pierpoint

GDB2222 wrote: »

Update on MIL:-

1. She has a broken arm and a dislocated shoulder, and they want to operate.
2. They have her on morphine, so DW thinks that even if MIL survives the operation, she'll be a hard drug addict. She'll be shooting up in the lavatories of the old folks home, I can just see it now.
3. MIL says that she has medical insurance, so she wants to be seen privately. Gah, I think I'll just do my bit and take her dog for a walk.

Such fun!

What is it about old people, that makes then start being snobby about private medicine.
I would just be thankful to be in hospital, with an organisation that appears to have my treatment diagnosed.
Does MIL not realise that any insurance policy provider does not want customers who make claims? Is this the time to blow her "no claims" bonus and risk being dumped back on the NHS next time.
Anyway I enjoyed the "gallows humour".

tomterm8 wrote: »

There are some hospitals where they signed PPI deals where there isn't free parking... maybe you are just one of the unlucky ones? Which would suck.

Perhaps NDG will pick up on this one too - I seem to remember NDG waxing lyrical about the hidden future deficit involved in PFI deals for whole new hospitals, not just exploiting the parking charges.
The BBC has been publicising an analysis of 154 of the 622 trades in the after market PFI contracts, where the commercially confidential figures could be decoded.

Over 6 years the average PFI contract could be sold on at a profit of 50.6% and those in health care scored highest with a profit of 66.7%.

In fairness there has been an engineered slump in interest rates in the last three years, so the capital value of an income stream guaranteed by us the tax payers, should be showing an increase it its capital value. Still it suggests that we the tax payers have been taken for suckers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/fileon4

BBC Radio 4 / 14 Jun 2011 £200bn of taxpayers' money has been committed to the companies managing these projects.



John

PS On the subject of us being big brained apes, so we can be good at lying - this has just been on the radio:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011zm18

"Book of the Week"

SingleSue

Just a quick one before the school run.....got the results for the two courses I had been doing over the winter and into the spring for OU and I passed both of them!

So so chuffed, thought I had completely messed them up.

Davesnave

Great news, Sue! A real boost for you, eh? Well done. :beer:

What's the next one.....Washing Machine Maintenance Part 1?

Wheezy_2

SingleSue wrote: »

Just a quick one before the school run.....got the results for the two courses I had been doing over the winter and into the spring for OU and I passed both of them!

So so chuffed, thought I had completely messed them up.

Well done, Sue!!

Doozergirl

Wheezy wrote: »

Well done, Sue!!

I can't really beat that :rotfl:

Well done, Sue!

PasturesNew

Well done Sue.

michaels

It's the cloud init - all you need is a browser and you can run the world.

I hope your new idea works - PM us a link once you have it all set up so it is too late for us to nick it.

How do you get 35k people to opt in to receiving spam?!

PasturesNew wrote: »

I run my entire, expanding, empire from a cheap PC bought in 2006, with 1GB memory and a 40GB HD and slow processor, with a 15" monitor. And a cheapo laptop bought in 2008, which is my "just in case" backup.



An empire I tell ya! Run from a pile 'o cr4p

Davesnave

Doozergirl wrote: »

I can't really beat that :rotfl:

Well done, Sue!

Oh, I don't know....;)