Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

500mb is enough if you use wifi at home.

50 minutes aren't really enough for a month, less than 2 minutes a day!

I don't use wifi at home; as I am 'of no fixed abode' I take my bandwidth where I can get/steal it ... else it's the dongle... so mostly it's the dongle.

50 minutes is plenty long enough to be speaking with people on a telephone. Plenty.

PasturesNew

All this petrol malarky will probably kill tourism in Cornwall this Easter. Nobody wants to get stuck and run out of fuel hundreds of miles from home.

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

...more importantly, shifting a couple of billion of petrol purchases from April (Q2) to March (Q1) is likely to result in positive growth for q1 and thus no technical recession (and Q2 is almost certain to be a negative Q with the extra bank holiday)

With Q4 2011 being revised down to show negative growth, this is really crucial. Did they do the sums and realise that the extra cost of the petrol cans was needed too, despite the inevitable outcry?

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

All this petrol malarky will probably kill tourism in Cornwall this Easter. Nobody wants to get stuck and run out of fuel hundreds of miles from home.

Can all the stuck nice people come and stay with you, please?

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Where I went to school, there were a lot of kids from the next village that walked the 3 miles home on a completely unlit, winding, country road, without any pavement at all. One of them was my mate and she also had two younger brothers that she walked with... but I know half her village got free transport and half didn't, based on where their home was, even though they used the same bus-stop. These were Fenland villages/village roads, and it was completely dark and kind of spooky... I remember at one point they had to walk past the goat of another school person, which was tethered on the grass verge outside their farm. I'd not fancy walking past a tethered goat in the pitch dark.

They needed: a) bicycles, and b) lights on the bicycles. I used to cycle 2 miles to school on very busy London roads.

misskool

i haven't bought any fuel yet, I'm wondering if it's going to run out around here

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Can all the stuck nice people come and stay with you, please?

They can
I think they'd prefer to pay and get what they'd consider "basic human rights quality of accommodation" though.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

They needed: a) bicycles, and b) lights on the bicycles. I used to cycle 2 miles to school on very busy London roads.

Well, they did ... but as they were already living in a caravan with their parents and wearing shabby 2nd/3rd hand clothes, that were then hand-me-downs to each other ... they couldn't actually afford bikes or lights. This was back in the days pre-WTC where parents had to EARN any cash above Family Allowance. There was more than the 3 kids; not sure how many were in the caravan (lots), but probably up to 6-7. And it wasn't a nice mobile home, it was a long shabby caravan.

zagubov

Was anyone else as impressed as I was by the face transplant in America in the news today? Kudos to the surgical team and the donor and his family. :beer:

michaels

Watching newsnight and thinking about seeing people coming in and out of Greggs and thinking if VAT on pasties and sausage rolls reduces sales at all then it can only be a good thing.