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Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

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  • STing
    STing Posts: 96 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    And Aberdeen managed to be a good 11 degrees colder than London today.....

    It's actually quite amazing how often that happens.

    Pollution can account for a couple of degrees. Gulf stream position, how high the sun is in the sky, probably accounts for the remainder.
  • STing
    STing Posts: 96 Forumite
    misskool wrote: »
    rewatching coldplay @ Glastonbury. And Beyonce on later tonight

    I've been watching Glastonbury too, it's great. I really miss going to festivals.

    Friends are there. They cheated and took a caravan. Apparently have running water and everything.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    STing wrote: »
    Why do legal types wear horsehair wigs, is it a failure to keep up with the times, to differentiate themselves from 'ordinary folk' or something else?

    When the legal system should be approachable to all, the wig thing seems odd.

    I think they should change it.

    I wear one because I get in trouble if I don't. It's in the dress code.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    It's boiling today, the first really hot day this summer. I'm wearing only a sarong, and still hot!

    Sounds lovely!

    I'm leaving (on a jet plane, natch) for a couple of weeks in The Land of the Pom on Saturday. Looking forward to seeing the old place.
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    STing wrote: »
    I've been watching Glastonbury too, it's great. I really miss going to festivals.

    Friends are there. They cheated and took a caravan. Apparently have running water and everything.

    My BIL's at Glastonbury. He's nearly 50 and now self-building after carelessly losing his former home. My 20 year old niece declined to join him, however, as she's saving hard for a deposit.

    I find that both admirable & sad. :):(
  • GDB2222
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    My BIL's at Glastonbury. He's nearly 50 and now self-building after carelessly losing his former home. (

    These things happen. Get him to turn out his pockets, just to be sure.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    STing wrote: »
    Pollution can account for a couple of degrees. Gulf stream position, how high the sun is in the sky, probably accounts for the remainder.

    Indeed.

    I just always find it amazing how just a few hundred miles can make such a big difference.

    Far more so than many other places I've lived in the world.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    Sounds lovely!

    I'm leaving (on a jet plane, natch) for a couple of weeks in The Land of the Pom on Saturday. Looking forward to seeing the old place.

    Very wise. it would take a while on a boat.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    These things happen. Get him to turn out his pockets, just to be sure.

    Too late, his former wife already did that! :(
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    STing wrote: »
    Why do legal types wear horsehair wigs, is it a failure to keep up with the times, to differentiate themselves from 'ordinary folk' or something else?

    When the legal system should be approachable to all, the wig thing seems odd.

    I think they should change it.
    I don't. Its funny how many clients don't recognise ''their'' barrister with out a wig on. Besides anything else, its a minor security measure, this considered.

    But if it matters to you if you need representation get a solicitor advocate :)
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