Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd like to know whose life was saved as I have in my hand one of those official award certificates.... I've got the newspaper cuttings too, but they didn't give details, so I looked it up and they don't really like to tell you. You have to write to them to find out the details, but they still might keep them secret as it might be information of a sensitive nature. e.g. there's a chance my old saved a drowning suicidee.

You should be able to find out from the awarding body. It can be really fascinating researching something like that and give you a new angle on the old that you weren't aware of. Say for example they saved someone from drowning, they wouldn't probably be able to tell you who but they should be able to tell you what the act was.

I've been doing some research into my great uncle over the last month. It has taken me down all sorts of interesting routes and given me a totally new respect for him (we always got on like a house on fire anyway). It's good to be able to celebrate the heroes in our families. Even if you don't have kids, you can tell your siblings so that the story goes down the line then, that they'll have something of nan or granddad to tell the future generations.

sss555s

I switched my cash ISA's to Nationwide recently too. 3.1% for the first year if I remember rightly.

It's annoying how you have to keep changing to get a "good" rate. The banks must make millions out of this scam grrr.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

...Say for example they saved someone from drowning...

The old did a lot of that randomly .... always around water, the old often found themselves saving people trapped by tides - and did at least two of these random suicides too.... although only one ever got to the Humane Society as most of the time when people do stuff that's the end of it.

There is actually a little story about this one, I'll PM it to you.... just so your ratio of good-v-bad PMs is improved.

silvercar

I've never had any suggestive, smutty or email requests via PM. I'm clearly giving off the wrong (or right) vibes.

I tried to move my savings yesterday by phone but they need to send a form for me to sign - on an account that is managed online or by telephone - once the form is signed and return the rate jumps from 1.7% to 3.6%. Its a cash ISA so no tax to pay.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I wonder what'd happen if somebody chose a salacious new name, got a slutty avatar and posted in the main board area inviting PMs

We could run a book on how many seconds from that posting was made to when the 50 PM limit is reached. With another book on how many would attach photos of themselves or parts thereof.

a friend of a friend (possibly of another friend) befriended me on facebook, I thought she looked amazing. Then I met her IRL, not good.

vivatifosi

Thanks for the PM Pastures. I was just about to put a note saying I'd cleared one space when I got it. I'm off to work now, but will answer later. If anyone now feels like sending me a smutty pm (I'm clearly giving off the same signals as you silvercar). Tough, because it is now full again and you won't get through...

PasturesNew

Being well connected, my old's sister covers almost an entire page in this book http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41AXZaaaLGL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Thanks for the PM Pastures. I was just about to put a note saying I'd cleared one space when I got it. I'm off to work now, but will answer later. If anyone now feels like sending me a smutty pm (I'm clearly giving off the same signals as you silvercar). Tough, because it is now full again and you won't get through...

No need to answer.
Somebody has to stop the chain of PMs

PasturesNew

sss555s wrote: »

The banks must make millions out of this scam grrr.

But I wonder if they've ever done the maths on the cost of continually creating new accounts, with new paperwork, new cheque books, etc etc.

It used to annoy me on one account I had that I'd receive a statement 1-2x a year, with a 25p stamp (or so) on it, saying I'd earnt 2p in interest. I used to wish you could opt to receive the 25p and not have the statement in the post

The world never used to be like this....

PasturesNew

Just been exploring moving options/costs. I have planned on moving all my stuff myself and, while theoretically, everything I own will fit in one journey it occurred to me that it's really not very practical for a variety of reasons, like: [a] the car's parked on a slope, making packing tricky until I actually do it I won't be 100% sure it'd all fit [c] I'd then have to clean the place top to bottom [d] then drive for 4 hours before then having to unpack the whole lot (whether I fancied it or not - and I won't). This plan would have worked perfectly if I had a garage and it were all on the flat as I could park the car, laden, in there the night before.... getting up on the morning of my move just to clean and chuck in my overnight bag and get an early start.

Instead, I've kind of decided to take anything I won't need in 2012 to a storage depot about 100 miles away and put it in there.... leaving me with just the essentials to take on my final day. Ultimately this would leave me in my new home with my stuff still 100 miles away with storage fees.

So I looked at man/van, it looks like I could get man/van for £250.... and then I realised another couple of logistical problems: [a] man/van will be wanting to rush off, but I'll be having to do the cleaning that couldn't be done until this place is emptied even if man/van and I leave at the same time he's likely to be a bit of a law breaker and would arrive ahead of me, and I am not sure if I'd even have a key to the new place as that probably involves collecting it from somewhere.

The other variable is, I've no idea what sort of place I might be in. I might not want everything I own there if it's a hotel room, or a shared house for a month, or even a holiday caravan.

When it's just you you have to be in three places at once: behind yourself, with yourself and ahead of yourself, to achieve the things you want.

I think there is one storage place that does a "transfer between depots" service, which would work if there were depots close to everywhere I might want to be.... so then I could confidently put everything in one depot and, once moved in, could phone them up and ask them to do a transfer of stuff to my then nearest depot.

Decisions, decisions.

Sometimes it'd just be nice to have somebody doing all this for/with me