Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

...since google started acting like a berk.

I've had google acting like a berk a few times this week... it's annoying isn't it. I've found it's been randomly behaving badly for over a month .... just here and there else my life'd be at an end. I rely on google for everything...

vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

Theory is that pick-up only items don't get many bids, so you can get a bargain. In fact there is a table and floor lamp near me for only £1.04, but they are a bit kitsch.

I don't know what it says about where I live, but the first thing on my list was a stack of concrete blocks for 1p. No second hand Porsches or Hublots, or bottles of vintage Dom Perignon here.

vivatifosi

Chewy, saw you on the news today. Can I just say you look mighty fine in handcuffs.

Davesnave

vivatifosi wrote: »

I don't know what it says about where I live, but the first thing on my list was a stack of concrete blocks for 1p. No second hand Porsches or Hublots, or bottles of vintage Dom Perignon here.

I'd have those! Being where I am, my list begins with a plough!
....And it's £500.

Or I could have a hideous G Plan 60s sideboard for £107+ :eek:

The only 99p items are a wicker chair (got two) a horrible vintage glass dressing table tray (probably got one somewhere) and a dustbin.

The dustbin would be OK, but we have about 8 around the place already. (feed, bird food, daughter's storage)

lostinrates

I am always after dustbins for feed. I dream of decent metal storage bins which you put feed in the top and tak it out from the bottom. Oh, how nice it would be.....

In lieu of that...dustbins are great!

sss555s

Locally to me is...

A Sholley trolly

A Dyson vacuum cleaner

A 50" LG plasma TV


Reminds me of The generation game

Sorry lir, you will be too young


My view on the 60's...

I feel I missed out by not experiencing them as a teenager in some ways as they looked the best times (grass greener probably). It just seems everything has went down hill from then onwards in many ways.
If we didn't have the tech of these days what would we have!

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Judging by other bits we peeked at it will have had chip board put down in the sixties over the original but incredibly worm damaged to the point of unrestorable boards, in the little loft space in the victorian bit that had work down ion the sisties we found really ancient 1960s newspapers.......(lir runs from everyone boarn pre 197@s:D)

That's ok lir. I think of you youngsters as the ones that have to make up conspiracy theories about man not going to the moon because you're all in a hissy fit about not getting to see it first hand;).

sss555s

vivatifosi wrote: »

Chewy, saw you on the news today. Can I just say you look mighty fine in handcuffs.

I seen chewy in handcuffs today too.

Poor bugga wont be posting for a while

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

Nerdy alert.

Is it cheaper to spin clothes then tumble dry, or put them straight in the tumble dryer? My W/M has an extra spin option, 4 minutes at 900 rpm which uses about 1.2kWh, the dryer uses about 0.6kWh in a minute, so its a question of whether the extra spin reduces drying time and for how many times it is worth repeating the spin cycle.

Agree with Pastures. Heating is always more expensive than moving, so the spin should help a lot. But you could work out exactly how much you could save by timing how long you take to dry tumble two equivalent loads of washing, one that has had the extra spin and one that hasn't. (Sorry, can't help thinking that way. )

PasturesNew wrote: »

I bet some of you lot have had/used cooker hoods in the past. Do they actually work? Do they remove cooking smells? Or are they just an ugly and noisy annoyance?

Mine does.

PasturesNew wrote: »

That'll be me then

And me (although I didn't arrive in time for the moon landings, though).

sss555s

You must be 69 Lydia. I was 66. I'm thinking viva will be 64?

Were not that far apart.