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

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I hope so or we've both got it wrong.

Today I've had: 4 packets of crisps, 6 cheese-topped rolls, a whole pot of sandwich filler, a whole packet of gummy sweets and 2 treat sized marathon bars.

But NO chocolate biccies! Why not? Are you anorexic?

YoungBusinessman

PasturesNew wrote: »

No sympathy - you're obviously loaded

£28k of business debt yet im saving for house deposit.....far from loaded

michaels

Did he have a 2-4-1 voucher? Had he checked whether they would take the cashback credit card and had an alternative to hand just in case...I think not, what an amateur...

vivatifosi wrote: »

What I'd really like to know is whether michaels is part of Tom Cruise's entourage:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/9495090/Tom-Cruise-forced-to-borrow-from-friend-to-pay-for-St-Albans-curry.html

Welcome to our thread YB

YoungBusinessman wrote: »

I would love a few pints myself to be honest, 10 sounds about right. Tough day, finger joints are aching!!

I was going to offer to come round and massage you head and neck whilst you read and sipped in the bath but then you let on that DH and parent were around so I guess another time

May be you and DH should come for a visit to Sunny Herts for a few days, you might like the walk in rain shower and big tub despite the utilitarian appearance of the bathroom.

lostinrates wrote: »

God i want a scented, warm bath and a glass of something fizzy and alcoholic and to get into bed with a good book.

I tried an online maths test (numerical reasoning) recruitment exercise that a friend has been asked to do. Made me realise how much my brain has deteriorated since I was a teenager, was not expecting to get 69% on a multiple choice maths quiz

http://www.shldirect.com/practice_tests.html

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

But NO chocolate biccies! Why not? Are you anorexic?

No, skipped that aisle.... need to watch what I eat, don't want to be the size of a planet .... just one of its moons.... and I've still got 3-4 biscuits left from the big 20 pack I bought last week

PasturesNew

YoungBusinessman wrote: »

£28k of business debt yet im saving for house deposit.....far from loaded

D4mn.... *crosses name off potential millionaires to schmooze list*

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

I tried an online maths test (numerical reasoning) recruitment exercise that a friend has been asked to do. Made me realise how much my brain has deteriorated since I was a teenager, was not expecting to get 69% on a multiple choice maths quiz

http://www.shldirect.com/practice_tests.html

I presume they're harder in the full test, did the example 4 questions, obviously got 100% .... but they want your name/email to do the full one, so I closed the window...... not doing that then.

zagubov

Wow- discovered something rather weird after stumbling across the online book website the other day.

I'd liked the www.litrix.com reading room website but it was full of dead links; I didn't think to run the wayback machine and look up an older version of the site backwhen the links were better.

There's loads of good classic literature there including the topical Sherlock Holmes stories. Enjoy!


(btw there's still some dead links but you can change the dates and revive them if you want!)

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

D4mn.... *crosses name off potential millionaires to schmooze list*

Too soon to write him off the list!

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

No, skipped that aisle.... need to watch what I eat, don't want to be the size of a planet .... just one of its moons.... and I've still got 3-4 biscuits left from the big 20 pack I bought last week

Supermarkets are way huger than i ever realise. I don't buy much frozen, which is silly because its often very mse, but i am alaays amazed at the isle with SO many frozen meals. I rarely go down the bread isle, just look for a whoopsy loaf flr the freezer on the end. The packed lunch multibag of crisp isle.....i didn't even think since jamie oliver and the turkey twizzlers crisps were allowed in packed lunches!, the jar isle is a twice a year wander.....mayo i buy about once a year ( i make mayo if its for a salad or something, but the jared stuff is easier if its one sarnie for dh in otherwise mayo not needed weeks and months. Jarred mayo is one of those foods i think might survive the atom bomb it never actually seems to go off, its just that i cannot stand keeping it after a while. The long life juice isle, once a year. I love juice, but its just too sugary and too tempting.

Anyway, i use few isles!

michaels

Each question was OK but the sheer amont of data processing required for some of the questions without being able to copy and paste the data into excel meant I only got less than three quarters of the way through the main test in the allowed time and that was with full concentration...as I say I have slowed down a lot with age though.

If I had used the last minute to random guess the remaining questions it would of course have have pushed my mark up to 75%.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I presume they're harder in the full test, did the example 4 questions, obviously got 100% .... but they want your name/email to do the full one, so I closed the window...... not doing that then.