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Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie
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PasturesNew wrote: »Generali's in England .... dropping litter: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009705/Hedge-fund-manager-drops-ATM-receipt--showing-100-million-bank-balance.html
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
I can't imagine ever having that sort of sum just sitting in an account.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »at one point you had my address though.
Who needs surnames when you have an address? The hit man would probably find my address and forename useful enough 
If I wanted to have you killed, then yes I agree I have enough info for anyone with enough time to travel to where you live to track you down. However, your address isn't much help to me if all I want to do is google you to see what interesting facts it throws up.
ETA If that's really Generali's litter, then he's taking a short break in the USA on his way here!Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
I just had my 1st PM from a poster who popped into my pop up today
If we have a launch thingy whatsit (which is also a general public thingy whatsit) in 3 weeks time (which was what has been suggested) I will put a link to details in it for an evening ...I am quite into putting faces to names now 0 -
John_Pierpoint wrote: »Does one go on to "do" a Phd and that is the one where the would be "doctor" can finance his existence by teaching?
I wonder if the same storm worked up the East coast?
There is a God as 4 of us went for a 5 mile walk through the cool woods and huge drops started falling when we were 50 yards from the back door.
We were entertaining some relatives from "Down Under" and I had to confess that the UK only had feeble little thunderstorms - but I really ought to go to turn off and unplug the computer,.......................perhaps a good thing I had not got round to it...............blue flash and instant thunder - lights went off - then bounced back on automatically. All of us were wondering who would crack first and hide under the dining table.
As I write the red power light and the green surge protected light have both "blown". Perhaps these three-times-the-price extension panels are actually worth the money.
Will I get round to it and replace the panel before the next storm?
Quite possibly as I am east coast too....it melted a whole host of phone sockets around here.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Um, well, I'm not in a position to know. (but thanks for suggesting I am nice enough)
TBH, I know all of the nice people better than I know my s-m-i-l. We have never met in person. Not once.
Then how on earth does she know she doesn't like you? Silly cow.
I got on well with OH's parents - particularly his Dad. His mother and I were fine with each other, but didn't have that much in common - she was a classically out-of-planet-earth artist, but we were perfectly nice to each other.
OH gets on very well with my parents, sisters and brother....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'.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »DH's family have always celebrated Christmas...not perhaps in quite the same way as a family of Christian background, but with appropriate food and gifts. we still celebrate Christmas.
OH's family was different - they aggressively ignored Christmas. His Dad always worked on Christmas Eve, Day and Boxing Day, for example. Until he started spending it with me and my family, OH mostly went to Israel with his mother or to stay there with his grandparents.
He still hates it, and gets grumpier throughout December....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'.0 -
If you google me, I am an Italian insurance company or a C19th auctioneer that migrated from Ireland to Aus if you look up my RL name.
A mate of mine is a top chess grandmaster on google!0 -
Because my Dad has a weird name, he's just himself on Google. Isaac has it as his middle name, too, although he thinks Dad has it after him, I think........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'.0
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My sister has given her DD2 a middle name that gets only 2 hits on google - I don't think I have ever googled anything before and only returned two links...I think....0
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »Then how on earth does she know she doesn't like you? Silly cow.
I got on well with OH's parents - particularly his Dad. His mother and I were fine with each other, but didn't have that much in common - she was a classically out-of-planet-earth artist, but we were perfectly nice to each other.
OH gets on very well with my parents, sisters and brother.
Reasons against: I didn't at that time want to live in America. DH's dad was very keen DH should go to NYC eventually. illness.....now with the very best will in the world I don't think anyone wishes even the lovliest ill person for their child (or husband's child). It means they are hostage to a degree of being in a care role and have a high risk of sufferring premature grief, and the anticipation of grief. I haven't had a career since I was 23/24...I can't remember now!... and got ill. I've worked since, but in a pedestrian way....its not wiki page enhancing iyswim. I'm not a socialist, a feminist or a Jew. She was going through an anti marriage phase (she wrote a piece on being opposed to marriage afterwards IIRC and then got married again herself to f-i-l
). My siblings in law, and I think f-i-l, didn't want to lose dh. I think they resented his new priorities and honestly, he was stubbern and a little ''vocal'' about it. They didn't like that and saw it as my influence. (he stopped talking to them for a while and I nagged him to call them: they are important relationships and had been very, unusally close before dh's relationship with me). Dh's father still refers to us as ''the children''. He and my mother had long conversations where my mother also told him she called us ''the babes in the woods''. It was never expected dh would marry ''young'' (nor me). It was not expected he would marry outside their norm social parametres. Because of emails between us and conversations relayed between people, representations of incidents she's been able to draw an opinion and a conclusion, guided by other in laws, and that's ok. So have I.
These are lots of reasons to be resistant that aren't personal (along with others that are I guess), and in someways \are very wise and right. But they don't account for the fact that dh and I are necessary to each other's life: we love each other. 0
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