Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

chewmylegoff

Brallaqueen wrote: »

I'd really like to, it seems a really good way of helping people but not just in a there, there way, in a practical and substantial way.

I guess any volunteering experience is useful both for personal satisfaction and for expanding skillsets - and at least I will have tried.


LIR I've also had to look up pearly kings and queens - what an odd tradition but the costumes are really arresting.

SS I hope everything is ok now and no damage has been done.

I know several coppers personally and have worked with dozens, and they all seem to really like it. I thought this whole volunteering / special constable thing was new and was just a way of getting cheap labour, but some of the older officers I've talked to said that they all did it when they were younger and thought it was a really good thing to do not least because you find out if it's not for you without having committed yourself to it.

chewmylegoff

Flippin eck, the VW polo advert made me well up. What is wrong with me.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Man near Barford, Avon's recently bought a house that backs onto the river .... and he bought a boat. Decided to take three kids out in the boat, in a swollen river, and it headed towards the weir..... and tipped over. So 2 missing kids and a man in the Avon now.

I think they are saying it's an auction business owner - they are naming him on the news, but I won't yet.

Oh god, dreadful. The water has gone down a lot here, but still swollen.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Flippin eck, the VW polo advert made me well up. What is wrong with me.

Overtired? Ypu have been a bit more open last day or so, i have wondered if you are ok.

zagubov

Brallaqueen wrote: »

I'd really like to, it seems a really good way of helping people but not just in a there, there way, in a practical and substantial way.

I guess any volunteering experience is useful both for personal satisfaction and for expanding skillsets - and at least I will have tried.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I know several coppers personally and have worked with dozens, and they all seem to really like it. I thought this whole volunteering / special constable thing was new and was just a way of getting cheap labour, but some of the older officers I've talked to said that they all did it when they were younger and thought it was a really good thing to do not least because you find out if it's not for you without having committed yourself to it.

When I moved to London I shared a flat with a trainee cop. He loved the course and the job. He could write a book about it I'll bet!

Interestingly, he joined late and now retired - but he's the same age as me!

Lives in a nice hot country where the cost of living's as cheap as chips.

Good job I'm not the jealous type!

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Flippin eck, the VW polo advert made me well up. What is wrong with me.

Crikey! that'll maybe be us saying bye to DD in a few months. No car though. Maybe finances might stretch to a rusty skateboard.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Not only is it not high fat, it is technically low fat going on the definition that supermarkets seem to use (<5% fat).

I heart full fat milk, especially on cocopops. Yum.

Skimming the fat off removes a lot of the vitamins from milk as they are fat soluble (esp. B vitamins if I recall correctly). Skimmed milk is basically water with a bit of protein floating around in it. Rubbish.

I want to try unpasteurised milk, does it taste better?

Well, we like it. It tastes different.

Skimmed milk is my main source of food really, i need water witha bit of protein floating about in it. . Luckily i like it. I take b vits (along with a whole load of other pills, to replace the amunt i cannot eat of a normal quota of mins and buts on a daily basis. I could of course never eat or drink any empty calories ever again, but ....really, i like them and when you cannot do loads of other stuff, having a piece of cake now and then is pretty mood lifting!

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

Overtired? Ypu have been a bit more open last day or so, i have wondered if you are ok.

I was just p1ssed last night

I have always been susceptible to crying during films, and once at the end of a book about cricket, but adverts is new territory for me.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I know several coppers personally and have worked with dozens, and they all seem to really like it. I thought this whole volunteering / special constable thing was new and was just a way of getting cheap labour, but some of the older officers I've talked to said that they all did it when they were younger and thought it was a really good thing to do not least because you find out if it's not for you without having committed yourself to it.

There used to be police cadets. I don't think that still exists does it?

michaels

Oops -my millennium bug stock may be a bit passed date by now then :eek:

silvercar wrote: »

UHT milk lasts for 6-9 months, unopened, no real excuse not to have some in stock.

Funnily most of the coppers I have worked with have been on secondment to 'projects' to avoid (either on their initiative or that of their forces) normal policing and the shifts and have generally been looking for consultancy gigs with suppliers.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I know several coppers personally and have worked with dozens, and they all seem to really like it. I thought this whole volunteering / special constable thing was new and was just a way of getting cheap labour, but some of the older officers I've talked to said that they all did it when they were younger and thought it was a really good thing to do not least because you find out if it's not for you without having committed yourself to it.