Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

Tracking seems quite good, when I have had to raise a query they have responded chased and credited.

I used greasypalm previously and their tracking was poor and querying a waste of time.

Drove to a small shopping centre today and walked from car to 2 stores i needed to visit and checked-in at 11 stores on route, netting £1.15

I should add that the novelty will wear off, that I wouldn't keep playing with the phone if I was shopping with a friend, taking your phone out in the street could make you feel vlunerable to mugging and that the iphone goes back to son when he returns from travelling, so game over.

Is the app automatic, or do you have to select each store separately?

chewmylegoff

lemonjelly wrote: »

Andy Murray is a top fella, & I can't stand the Murray knockers. He's a definite talent, a committed sportsman. He's thoughtful, & clever.
Yesterdays game was a very good match - a lot of excellent tennis by both players. Some of the passing shots were sublime.
Of course, I am slightly biased:

andy murray is a scottish sportsman, and i don't therefore support him. i also don't expect him to support england, which he clearly doesn't, but why would he. i don't really care whether or not he wins wimbledon, or any other major tennis tournament, but i doubt he ever will as i don't think he's really good enough to do so.

chewmylegoff

so, 20,000 soldiers to be cut. how big will our army be after that? 5 people?

GDB2222

chewmylegoff wrote: »

so, 20,000 soldiers to be cut. how big will our army be after that? 5 people?

They'll have more generals than soldiers soon

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

Is the app automatic, or do you have to select each store separately?

The app is on your phone. So you go into it (as in touch the app pic) and it opens as a map or list of the local area showing you where the shops are that you can check-in. So you choose one shop and click through, then click in again to get the payment. I think its 4 touches all together to be paid.

If the shops are close together, after clicking in at one it tells you that others are near, in a list you can work your way through. So it must realise that you won't stay long before going on to the next.

I haven't tried it in an indoor shopping centre yet, bet you could really max out at Brent Cross or Westfield etc

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

They'll have more generals than soldiers soon

the redundancies are a constant talk where i am, deep in mod country. Problem is, these are people whohave boasted about the innapropriate use of money in the past. I am a suporter of our armed services, but aware a lot needs to change, particularly for those who do not progress within the army. Higher up i am afraid i see a lot of Wastage.

lemonjelly

chewmylegoff wrote: »

andy murray is a scottish sportsman, and i don't therefore support him. i also don't expect him to support england, which he clearly doesn't, but why would he. i don't really care whether or not he wins wimbledon, or any other major tennis tournament, but i doubt he ever will as i don't think he's really good enough to do so.

Are you only english, or are you british?

In addition, are you referring to his comments regarding who he would be supporting england at football, & his response that he would support "anyone but england"? Clearly that was a tongue in cheek answer (Murray has a very dry sense of humour).

I really don't understand the situation where an english person does not wish to see a British person do well (& vice versa). Will you not want Dai Greene to win a gold medal at the olympics as he's welsh?

It is bizarre, in exactly the same way as scottish/irish/welsh hating the english ad infinitum.

lemonjelly

Looking at the cuts which has affected the courts service, look at this as an example of a badly thought out method of cuts, without consideration of the implications:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-18685192

lostinrates

For lydia, my normal pelargoniums ( i.e. not the scented ones, though some of these are scented nonethe less.) i have a cracking smelling red one not in this shot.



(please excuse messily rolled old carpet ..I cannot move it today!)

Nikkster

Its been quite an eventful day here...

The Sun is shining

I had boiled eggs for the first time in absolutely ages (probably since I was little)... with marmite soldiers. Thoroughly enjoyable.

Cleaned the house, as the traveller returns from holiday tomorrow and we need to look like we haven't been complete slobs :A. Knock at the door so I go to answer it - can see its a florists delivery, assume its for one of the neighbours. Just to set the scene, I'm dressed to impress in jogging bottoms and an ancient t-shirt with holes in the armpits etc, haven't brushed my hair. Turns out the flowers are for me :eek:
No name on the card, but I'm pretty sure I know who sent them. I know this is going to sound incredibly ungrateful, but I'm not very impressed. I'd so much rather the money was put towards other things (such as repaying debts), and the time for flowers has been and gone. A long time ago. And they were not forthcoming!
Vent over.