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

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm not good at where most people are .... I'm not a stalker .... too lazy/don't care. Not making notes.

I know:
1] Where LIR lives
2] Where FC123 lives
3] The town (probably) where SSue lives
4] The rough location (within 30 miles) of Davesnave's place
5] Probably the village (unless he moved) of Pobby
6] The rough location (within 50 miles) of Doozer's place
7] That most others are either in London, in Herts, near Herts
8] That Generali is in "Here Be Dragons" land.... south west of the big city (maybe).

I'm 90% sure I could guess at whether people are M/F, but could get some wrong.

What happened to that NP map???

I believe that I am closest, in distance order, to: Pobby, Davesnave, LIR. Rest of you are probably 300+ miles away.

The internet speed test results from a few pages back tell you how far we are from each server. Not that that tells you much.

My vague memories of school geography seem to be that about 70-80% of the whole British mainland's population's concentrated in or around;
The London sprawl
Birmingham/Black Country
The Hull-to-Liverpool belt (which likes to think it's all separate bits)
Central Scotland
Bristol/Cardiff.
And not much else.
Good luck to any stalkers!;)

It follows by the way that the best place to hold conferences would be the midlands as it's only two hours drive from most parts of England/Wales.

Lj, Dara comments on this and many other bits about England in his last book -well worth a read.

CKhalvashi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

t'was a black cab, so i expect it will be handed in to a police station or posted to me eventually (driver's licence is in there) but there's no point waiting around on the off chance that i might get it back!

We’re the equivalent of a black cab (light on top, can ply for hire). I happen to run about in an ’04’ plate Mondeo, but as long as it’s big enough and tide enough (I bought it with 76000 miles and its immaculate) then there’s not a problem. It had belonged to a driver in his 80s, and sits down the back of the office for the most part of the time. Average driver mileage is up to about 1500/week now, that’s lucky to do 300 a week, which is why I’ve bought old. I don’t want to use my own car for that sort of thing.

PasturesNew

No black cabs here.... I'm guessing there might be "available for hire" cars, as opposed to private hire - never thought about it. I never use cabs. Cabs of all sorts are for posh people. I've probably been in less than 6 in my entire life. It's cheaper to not drink and drive myself home. Only ever once used one to get to a station as I was staying away for 2 nights and couldn't park at/near the station, so seemed best (only 2 miles from the station too, so it was about £10 or so)

Nikkster

zagubov wrote: »

The internet speed test results from a few pages back tell you how far we are from each server. Not that that tells you much.

My vague memories of school geography seem to be that about 70-80% of the whole British mainland's population's concentrated in or around;
The London sprawl
Birmingham/Black Country
The Hull-to-Liverpool belt (which likes to think it's all separate bits)
Central Scotland
Bristol/Cardiff.
And not much else.
Good luck to any stalkers!;)

It follows by the way that the best place to hold conferences would be the midlands as it's only two hours drive from most parts of England/Wales.

Lj, Dara comments on this and many other bits about England in his last book -well worth a read.

I did get a bit confused by some of the distances on the speed tests... at least one was not where I thought it would be (not a stalker, honest).

Re conferences, I think Glasgow was, and Liverpool current seem to be locations of choice. Have a feeling this is down to finances rather than optimum location!

Nikkster

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Don't worry, you'd be well aware already if it was someone else's fault.

Apparently what happened was this:

I was waiting to get in the taxi with oh and three of her friends. I refused to get in the taxi with them for ages on the grounds that I didn't believe they would pay for it.

OH then wanted to know how much money I had in my wallet so she knew whether we could afford the taxi, which was likely to be about £40, or not. I refused to give it to her on the grounds that I apparently believed that her friends would "steal it", but assured her I had plenty of money.

Then when we eventually arrived (having dropped said friends off, who had all paid), I finally handed my wallet over which turned out to have £5 in it. She then gave it back and I obviously dropped it on the floor.

I of course remember not one iota of all of this, including the fact that there was a taxi journey.

If anyone's to blame it's the queen for having a jubilee.

Something has definitely changed (on holiday?)... to me this sounds as much your fault as passport-gate. And therefore seem to have been a change in the way you refer to oh/ the Mrs too...

chewmylegoff

Nikkster wrote: »

Something has definitely changed (on holiday?)... to me this sounds as much your fault as passport-gate. And therefore seem to have been a change in the way you refer to oh/ the Mrs too...

Is this a roundabout way of saying that you think it was all her fault, just like passport gate 1 and passport gate 2?

For the avoidance of doubt, we are not engaged or married! It's just easier to type 'mrs' than the technically correct 'missus' (which is a stupid looking word in any event).

michaels

As our Cilla would say 'I think we'd all better buy an 'at'

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

As our Cilla would say 'I think we'd all better buy an 'at'

It would be fun to have another np wedding.


I think the wind has stopped. The fox was grateful for the storm at least....the doors all blew off, that is off, not open, on our chicken housing overnight. Think we only lost two, but they are all pretty traumatised.

Nikkster

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Is this a roundabout way of saying that you think it was all her fault, just like passport gate 1 and passport gate 2?

For the avoidance of doubt, we are not engaged or married! It's just easier to type 'mrs' than the technically correct 'missus' (which is a stupid looking word in any event).

I didn't think they were all her fault, sorry! Just thought they were the same level of involvement.

I agree, 'missus' is a ridiculous word, it reminds me of the Andy Capp cartoons. I just thought that the way you referred to her had softened somewhat. Not necessarily that you were now engaged or married, but just a change. My mistake

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

I think the wind has stopped. The fox was grateful for the storm at least....the doors all blew off, that is off, not open, on our chicken housing overnight. Think we only lost two, but they are all pretty traumatised.

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