Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

Doozergirl

misskool wrote: »

lir: we only have one television in this household

there is no need for another one anywhere else.

There kind of is a need in this house. I would never get to watch any TV otherwise. As it stands, the stand of the spare TV is broken so I really haven't watched any for weeks.

Can you get wireless headphones for TVs? I wouldn't even need to speak to him at all then and I might get some sleep :rolleyes:

misskool

Doozergirl wrote: »

There kind of is a need in this house. I would never get to watch any TV otherwise. As it stands, the stand of the spare TV is broken so I really haven't watched any for weeks.

Can you get wireless headphones for TVs? I wouldn't even need to speak to him at all then and I might get some sleep :rolleyes:

Yes, I've seen them before. Like these?

Plenty more if you google.

silvercar

We all have TVs in the bedroom, having given in to the boys demands some years ago. They are hardly ever watched. Our TV is occasionally switched on (I won't go as far as to say "watched") when OH wants to watch the end of question time but is falling asleep.

purch

I usually fall asleep to radio four

That's why I always listen to Radio 1 when I'm driving :eek:

silvercar

So nice people, when would you use 999 and when 101?

Almost had a car crash on a roundabout (junction 5 M1/ A41). Triple lane roundabout, idiot ahead decides to sweep from innermost lane across other two lanes and disappears off. Car in front of me had to brake sharply to avoid hitting it. Car inside me is turning into my lane and crashes into side of braking car in front.

So I'm behind two cars that have hit into each other. Nowhere to stop and no-one looks injured ie they are all getting out of cars and walking round.

So I drive around them and carry on my way. I phone 101 (well son does) and we tell them where the accident is. Then I think should I have phoned 999?

purch

I put a book about bear markets on display to see how quickly it went out on loan

Are we talking Grizzly, Black or Polar ??

Or have I got the wrong end of the stick.........


...........you mean Teddy Bears :eek:

purch

Almost had a car crash on a roundabout (junction 5 M1/ A41)

Was that between the post at 9.37 and the next one at 9.43 :eek:

silvercar

purch wrote: »

Was that between the post at 9.37 and the next one at 9.43 :eek:

That's what happens when you post on the internet when negotiating a roundabout:rotfl:

vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

So nice people, when would you use 999 and when 101?

Almost had a car crash on a roundabout (junction 5 M1/ A41). Triple lane roundabout, idiot ahead decides to sweep from innermost lane across other two lanes and disappears off. Car in front of me had to brake sharply to avoid hitting it. Car inside me is turning into my lane and crashes into side of braking car in front.

Arrrghhh.... I would say I hate that roundabout, but more specifically I hate the boy racer users of that roundabout who routinely fly across 2-3 lanes of traffic to get to the outside. Was there myself on Sunday and nearly got run off the road by someone who cut across me to go to Watford when I was trying to turn right and following the lanes to take the A41 (towards Asda).

I haven't really got my head round when to use 101 yet, but that would be as good a time as any. I've called the wrong number before now - the local police desk - and if they think its a 999 call, they tell you to call back immediately on that number (I saw a crime in progress).

LydiaJ

vivatifosi wrote: »

In the name of science (well ..ish) I have been conducting an experiment for the past month. I put a book about bear markets on display to see how quickly it went out on loan. A month later and the books either side have gone off on holiday to peoples' houses but the book on bear markets is still sitting forlornly on the shelf. Before you laugh your socks off and talk about house prices Hamish, I'm not convinced a book on bull markets would have performed any better.

In the interest of science you absolutely have to do a control experiment and try again with a book on bull markets and see if the response is any different - although as misskool points out, it could be to do with the time of year so you might need to do repeat experiments to improve the reliability of the findings.

Doozergirl wrote: »

My H is afraid of the dark.

He wants TV in the bedroom. If we have a TV in the bedroom, he leaves it on all night. I have to wake up and turn it off when he is properly asleep. I am not allowed to change the channel even if he is snoring and he awakes for 4 seconds to tell me off and change it back. I also have to shout sometimes when I simply can't sleep through Family Guy or Match of the Day, nor do I like hearing shouty, shooting, killing type noises when I am trying to sleep.

The other option is that we have no TV in the bedroom and he never comes to bed. He sleeps downstairs in the living room under my expensive Designers Guild throws, if I'm lucky I get a decent nights sleep without my husband. If not, I end up thumping on the ceiling (usually in vain because he can't hear) or indeed have to go marching downstairs in the middle of the night to turn it off because he's got it on LOUD.

So we fluctuate between each of these scenarios endlessly and he wonders why I'm not naturally an early riser. :mad:

Wireless headphones are definitely the way to go, as suggested by missk. Hope you manage to get some.

lostinrates wrote: »

I really hope Lydia meant it about not being the sort of person people clean up for and wanting to feel better about her house. I can't bend over today, so anything below knee leve might as well be another country, and its not getting cleaned,

Relax. Trying to wrestle my house into a vaguely passable semblance of order is one of the big struggles of my life. I'm in no position to judge anybody's house for being a mess. And my kids are selectively blind and don't even see mess, let alone think any worse of anybody for having any.

lostinrates wrote: »

if they are REALLY good friends I might splash out on some really good bed linen for them....always nice to have. Or still the fondue!

Most non-drinkers have some kind of food and/or drink that they associate with special occasions and having a treat. Perhaps you could find out what it is for these too. Fondue would also be good - especially if you supply some strawberries and marshmallows and things to go with it.

lostinrates wrote: »

Anyone else already putting a second duvet on at night? I whisked the one of the spare bed last night and almost cried, what the dickens will it be like in winter ifsummer is requiring two duvets at night (and dh was home, and the cats. I would have had a hot water bottle too if I coyuld have been bothered to go back down stairs:o:o)

I have actually taken the three seasons duvet down to its thin version for a few weeks, but it will be going back up to the double version tonight. But then I'm dreadful for feeling the cold, and in winter I have the three seasons one on thick, plus another duvet on top. Late-nearly-ex was the opposite about bed temperature, so we used to sleep with a thin double duvet over both of us and an extra single duvet on my half.

Pastures, you and your olds are in my thoughts and prayers.