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

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

Get the bear, get the bear. Then trump her bringing the bear by wearing a bearsuit to dinner.

Btw, flowers? Wives don't get them very often. Your savings would start pretty quickly with the marriage on that basis.

ok, so i save £30 a year on overpriced internet order flowers, but i have to have children (lifetime cost £250,000 each) a puppy (more £££) and a house (££££££££££££££££££££££££).

this is a very bad deal, isn't it.

Spirit_2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

it is the 6th anniversary of me attacking her in a dodgy club somewhere i think. i can't remember whether she assigned that as the start point, or our official first date in strada (better than my previous relationship - i took her to burger king first up). she will remind me which one it is tomorrow no doubt.

better remember to spend 3 minutes ordering some overpriced flowers from interflora to be delivered to her office tomorrow. i really want to send her a ridiculous 5ft tall teddy bear or something really annoyingly embarassing - but i know what will happen, she'll bring the ruddy thing to dinner to get me back.

Helium balloons. Tacky. Cheap. Can be included and delivered with the flowers.

Especially if the balloon reads 'happy anniversary'. That will be enough to inspire all of her colleagues to enquire as to the nature of the anniversery. Should save you the trouble of toasting your 'bits' with your laptop.

Perfect.

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

ok, so i save £30 a year on overpriced internet order flowers, but i have to have children (lifetime cost £250,000 each) a puppy (more £££) and a house (££££££££££££££££££££££££).

this is a very bad deal, isn't it.

Chewie, your best MSE strategy should be to put your fingers in your ears and sing "Lalala I'm not listening"

Puppies are expensive longterm but you live equidistant from me and wheezy and we both have dogs that'll always look like puppies.

You can borrow them I'm sure but if you took them both and take them for a walk you'll look like you're advertising a well-known brand of whisky.

GDB2222

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i wasn't aware of that - i always presumed that it was because the people in payroll who operate the system cannot be trusted to do anything manually and that a system which just assumes whatever you earn this month you will also earn next month was the easiest to program.

Curiously, as hardly anybody knows about it, HMRC offer their own PAYE software. http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/paye/tools/basic-paye-tools.htm

zagubov

Anybody see the start of the paralympics?

Couple of questions hanging in the air. Did public transport keep running late enough to get everybody home and did half the world switch off the visual feed when the nude statue got wheeled in?

JonnyBravo

chewmylegoff wrote: »

it is the 6th anniversary of me attacking her in a dodgy club somewhere i think. i can't remember whether she assigned that as the start point, or our official first date in strada (better than my previous relationship - i took her to burger king first up). she will remind me which one it is tomorrow no doubt.

better remember to spend 3 minutes ordering some overpriced flowers from interflora to be delivered to her office tomorrow. i really want to send her a ridiculous 5ft tall teddy bear or something really annoyingly embarassing - but i know what will happen, she'll bring the ruddy thing to dinner to get me back.

:rotfl:

ha ha ha ha.

Boy oh boy. You've been set some early standards there. Celebrating an anniversary of when you met! :rotfl:

I've managed to wean Mrs JB off the whole anniversary thing (the marriage one - even she's not daft enough to expect something to mark when we met!!).
Couple of clips round the ear in the early years but no more tension for me about nearly forgetting, actually forgetting, getting the wrong thing, it needing to be more special than last time (oo-er). Explained it all away as it seemed unnecessary as my mum and dad never celebrate it.

It's the way to go.
Think about the rod you're creating here.
Long term vision man.
Time to let her know how it's going to be from now on.

lostinrates

JonnyBravo wrote: »

:rotfl:

ha ha ha ha.

Boy oh boy. You've been set some early standards there. Celebrating an anniversary of when you met! :rotfl:

I've managed to wean Mrs JB off the whole anniversary thing (the marriage one - even she's not daft enough to expect something to mark when we met!!).
Couple of clips round the ear in the early years but no more tension for me about nearly forgetting, actually forgetting, getting the wrong thing, it needing to be more special than last time (oo-er). Explained it all away as it seemed unnecessary as my mum and dad never celebrate it.

It's the way to go.
Think about the rod you're creating here.
Long term vision man.
Time to let her know how it's going to be from now on.

Dh kept it simple, he asked me to marry him on the anniversary of the day we met, and we got married a year after that, oh, the wedding was a few days out. Gives as a four day window or something. I rarely remember any way. He does though. In my defence i almost always remember his birthday.

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

Helium balloons. Tacky. Cheap. Can be included and delivered with the flowers.

Worldwide shortage of a precious resource (helium) - it's now prioritised for medical uses in a lot of instances.

PasturesNew

I'm on the move today .... had a rough night (can't sleep the night before changes) .... so "been up since 2:15" except I fell asleep again at about 7:30, so now feel even worse.... and ... it's bl00dy windy!!

mystic_trev

zagubov wrote: »

Anybody see the start of the paralympics?

Couple of questions hanging in the air. Did public transport keep running late enough to get everybody home and did half the world switch off the visual feed when the nude statue got wheeled in?

I assume Public transport was running until 01.30 as per the Olympic opening, but it must have been tight for a number of people. As for the Statue, I started falling asleep about then!