Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

chewmylegoff

vivatifosi wrote: »

Don't like:
"Get your coat love, you've pulled" or any other chat-up cliche.
Drinks being sent over from the other side of the bar by a bloke you think is your Dad, then comes the slow horror when you realise it isn't.
Significantly older guys looking over, smiling and thinking that they are in with a chance. All the time you look back, thinking 'wow that's expensive dental work/hair weave, he must be loaded' but ultimately its still a no-no.
Men who get on the dance floor and then suddenly come over and start simulating sex with your thigh, or worse still, your butt.
Men conversing with our chests.
Men whose fingers show tell-tale signs of hastily removed wedding rings.

lostinrates wrote:

Don't like...

Men who speak unclearlyor grope
Bad teeth or breath.
Fat fingers, dirty or long nails. (shudder)
Weird facial hair doodles.
Bling
Any form of aggression, verbal, physical or just latent
Poor losers
Trainers or white shoes.
Any form of check being worn

goddammit.

chewmylegoff

Likes: psychos. foreigners.

Dislikes: girls taller than 5ft 3.

I think you lot are being too picky to be honest.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Likes: psychos. foreigners.

Dislikes: girls taller than 5ft 3.

I think you lot are being too picky to be honest.

Those of us who have successfully married are too picky?:D. The pool gets smaller every year, and you risk getting left with a tall, sane, brit ......:p:p

LydiaJ

Once I got chatting to a bloke at somebody's wedding, and he bought me a drink at the bar.

Can't think of any other occasions. Obviously I do not look super up for it.

silvercar wrote: »

Broadly FITs were at 43p sell back, now down to 21p, but the cost of installation should drop from 10k to 7k. Add cheap electricity to that..and we use more than the average.

When I got mine I did a lot of research into which company was best to go with. They vary a lot. If you want info, PM me. (And if you decide to go ahead, and you happen to like the company I got mine from, who did a great job for me, can I have the referral reward???)

vivatifosi wrote: »

Do you mind if I ask how solar would work here? The house is all electric. We live near a reservoir to the pressure of the water mains means that run by the house (it is the main supply to the town) on a 12 inch pipe means we aren't allowed to have gas as the services would have to run alongside each other and it is considered too dangerous.

Average electric use (ie all fuel use) for small 3 bed semi is c£1400pa. However we are on Economy 10 and there are no circumstances under which we would change tariff as we get a 3 hour boost in the afternoon, so if there are FIT only tariffs we wouldn't be able to change.

What do the experts think?

Won't make any difference to your tariff for buying electricity. That's separate. You pay for the electricity you import in the usual way, from whoever you want to buy it from, and you get the FiTs from whoever you want to get them from - doesn't even need to be the same supplier, and even if it is the same supplier it's handled by a different department. The only thing that changes is that if you have an old-style analogue electricity meter then your supplier will exchange it for a digital one that won't go backwards. Your panel supplier will fit a generation meter when they instal your panels, and you send in quarterly readings to get your FiTs.

lemonjelly wrote: »

BTW I should mention, we have had snow through the night & all morning. It isn't sticking, but I am glad I brought my plants in yesterday!

It is very windy too - my greenhouse blew down the garden this morning!

Raining here. Forecast says it's going to rain all day.

vivatifosi

Thanks lydia. We have a good south-facing roof but the pitch is quite steep, I don't know if that makes a big difference too. Also there are trees at bottom of neighbours garden. Although they are nowhere near tall enough to make a difference, I worry that they will be in the future.

Other than that we have no problem with obstructions as we live absolutely at the top of a hill and everything else is below the level of where we are. These are the things we need to consider. DH is quite keen but thinks technology cost will come down. Realistically we are looking a couple of years into the future when my endowment pays out and we can look at home improvements.

Wheezy_2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

goddammit.

Yeah, a picky bunch on here.

My list:

-must like food
-must like sex
-sense of humour
-must be able to converse
-hygiene
-no fake tans
-don't try to squeeze in a size 12 when you're size 18

Spirit_2

lemonjelly wrote: »

Does that help PN?

That put me out of my misery. Very grateful.

LydiaJ

vivatifosi wrote: »

Thanks lydia. We have a good south-facing roof but the pitch is quite steep, I don't know if that makes a big difference too. Also there are trees at bottom of neighbours garden. Although they are nowhere near tall enough to make a difference, I worry that they will be in the future.

Other than that we have no problem with obstructions as we live absolutely at the top of a hill and everything else is below the level of where we are. These are the things we need to consider. DH is quite keen but thinks technology cost will come down. Realistically we are looking a couple of years into the future when my endowment pays out and we can look at home improvements.

Steep pitch makes the panels give a slightly higher output in the winter and spring/autumn when the sun is lower in the sky, but you get a bit less output in the summer when the sun is higher. Since you get more sunshine in the summer, this means slightly less output over the year as a whole. 35 degrees is optimal, but anything between 10 and 55 degrees gives 95% or better, and 70 degree pitch gives you about 90% of what you'd get at 35 degrees.

Shading, on the other hand, is a big problem. A bit of shade on one panel can bring down the output of the whole string unless you wire them through different inverters, which adds to the installation expense.

lostinrates

Wheezy wrote: »

Yeah, a picky bunch on here.

My list:

-must like food
-must like sex
-sense of humour
-must be able to converse
-hygiene
-no fake tans
-don't try to squeeze in a size 12 when you're size 18

Surely that s more of a must have list rather than a likes dislikes one? Women are notoriously more obviously fussy..... In many cases we are more consciously think not about 'tonight' but about our tenth wedding anniversary and genes.

chewmylegoff

men think about genes too, i want my children to have good teeth, not be too tall, and to be a bit mental.