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

CKhalvashi

lostinrates wrote: »

I used to live about twenty mins from portello, but did not ho out much in portello area. Bar the iper and that sort of retail bit over a bit its a bit.....grotty, isn't it?

That's what I thought, funnily enough!

Any news on what Heathrow's like for Tuesday?

lemonjelly

zagubov wrote: »

I'd second that, and also push The Wasp Factory.

I don't read much in the way of books unless it's the hols. When I'm at work I don't get to see the telly, and I intend to watch several TV programmes from end to end.

Dexter and MadMen I know I like and many people are recommending Breaking Bad. Anything else the NPs find unmissable?

Already read the wasp factory.

Dexter is awesome.

I struggle to miss QI whenever it is on. I also love family guy. Loved series 1 and series 3 of whitechapel. Found them gripping & amazing tv. Series 2 was ok.
Loved 24 when it was on.
A blast from the past - loved twin peaks.
I am finding that I watch less tv nowadays...

lemonjelly

Saw hardly any of the opening ceremony - planning on watching it in full next week. Loved the little bits I caught. The music is being packaged on to a 2cd set, & I will be buying it though...

zagubov

lemonjelly wrote: »

Already read the wasp factory.

Dexter is awesome.

I struggle to miss QI whenever it is on. I also love family guy. Loved series 1 and series 3 of whitechapel. Found them gripping & amazing tv. Series 2 was ok.
Loved 24 when it was on.
A blast from the past - loved twin peaks.
I am finding that I watch less tv nowadays...

Could watch QI endlessly.
Family Guy's one of the cleverest comedies in recent years. Spend ages trying to work out who can hear Brian and Stewie. Agree on 24.
Got a few box sets to watch in the hols -
House.
battlestar Galactica.
"24" season 6.

For those NPs with kids (CK/michaels/not sure who else), best thing we ever did was get those DVD screens for the backs of car seats so kids can watch videos on while we're travelling across the country.

Just sitting down to watch the pilot episode of Breaking Bad. Let's see how good it is! Edit: it's pretty good!

And just found out the women's road race is tomorrow so after that the roads round our way will be back to normal.

One for the scientist NPs (I'm looking at you Nikkster). What's the only compound whose formula is a palindrome?

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

One for the scientist NPs (I'm looking at you Nikkster). What's the only compound whose formula is a palindrome?

The world has been spoilt.... my friend Mr G just whispered the answer in my ear

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

The world has been spoilt.... my friend Mr G just whispered the answer in my ear

Dh and i were in a silly mood last night and discorvered that it is very hard to say dame judy dench ten times quickly, whereas maryelizabet masterantonio just trips of the tongue. You would think it would be the other way round would you not?

silvercar

I'm home and back.

Feeling a little weird. There is a certain detachment, because all the events of the last 2 weeks were in Cardiff and now I'm home and the house is exactly the same (except for the piles of washing ).

The short story is that Dad went into hospital for some tests to identify what the immediate problem was, he deteriorated each day and passed away 6 days later. Then we had the funeral and an official mourning period and now I'm home.

How am I feeling? Sometimes I'm fine and sometimes I'm not. I have a circle of supportive friends in RL and that certainly helps.

Nikkster

I don't have anything useful to say silvercar, but I've been thinking of you and your family. Glad you've got a good circle of friends to support you x

Nikkster

zagubov wrote: »

One for the scientist NPs (I'm looking at you Nikkster). What's the only compound whose formula is a palindrome?

My first thought was H-O-H, but that is more commonly written as H2O and if you used that method, there would be more answers.

I have dusted off my periodic table and come up with RbBr...

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

I'm home and back.

Feeling a little weird. There is a certain detachment, because all the events of the last 2 weeks were in Cardiff and now I'm home and the house is exactly the same (except for the piles of washing ).

The short story is that Dad went into hospital for some tests to identify what the immediate problem was, he deteriorated each day and passed away 6 days later. Then we had the funeral and an official mourning period and now I'm home.

How am I feeling? Sometimes I'm fine and sometimes I'm not. I have a circle of supportive friends in RL and that certainly helps.

I'm so sorry for you and your family. It's absolutely normal not to be feeling fine for months afterwards, and you never really get over the loss entirely - nor would you want to.