Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

Generali

Doozergirl wrote: »

DS put an app on my phone that allows me to locate my husband, as long as he is with his phone. It took me two hours since his disappearance to remember I have it; thankfully he doesn't disappear all that often but I can get some sleep knowing that he's made it to a friend's sofa and isn't dead. Technology is amazing.

Now I wait for all the caffeine to wear off. I don't have an app for that!

C21st is a great place to live. I love it. Loads of what is completely normal for people to have would have been thought of as magical by someone in the 1930s.

A telephone that you can use in almost any place in the world that gives you access to almost every facet of human knowledge in a few seconds? Check.

Heart worn out? No worries, drop a new one in.

Want to shoot someone? Send a remote controlled plane to do it for you.

Just imagine what it'll be like by the time our Grandkids have grown up. Unless the Mayans were right of course.

Oh, and is it just me that thinks it's brilliant that the BBC's volume control goes all the way up to 11?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=AU&hl=en-GB&v=EbVKWCpNFhY

Oh and just in case any of you were worried about the weather here, don't be. It's 32C and gloriously sunny. Perfect weekend weather. We've got the cool change coming through tonight too so it won't be too sweaty in the suit. Chook with lemon and thyme and veggies for dinner tonight I reckon with a bottle of something white and cold. The tomatoes are really coming through now from the back yard so we might have a few of them too. Yum!

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

C21st is a great place to live. I love it. Loads of what is completely normal for people to have would have been thought of as magical by someone in the 1930s.

A telephone that you can use in almost any place in the world that gives you access to almost every facet of human knowledge in a few seconds? Check.

Heart worn out? No worries, drop a new one in.

Want to shoot someone? Send a remote controlled plane to do it for you.

Just imagine what it'll be like by the time our Grandkids have grown up. Unless the Mayans were right of course.

Oh, and is it just me that thinks it's brilliant that the BBC's volume control goes all the way up to 11?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=AU&hl=en-GB&v=EbVKWCpNFhY
!

And yet I just want a proper bath and some central heating and that won't work :rotfl:.

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

And yet I just want a proper bath and some central heating and that won't work :rotfl:.

Call your local US air base and see if they can airlift you a few area heaters using one of their drones.

JonnyBravo

zagubov wrote: »

Saw Madness once years ago before the kids came along. It was Wembley Arena . Doubt I'd bother going there again; it was like looking through a telescope the wrong way.

Brilliant band though!:T

Saw them at the LG arena (NEC for those still in old money) on Thursday. Fab show but admittedly I did prefer the shows of the last few years at the tiny O2 academy. Could almost touch them there.
Must have seen them 6 or 7x by now and it's become part of Christmas for me. December = Madness

chewmylegoff

After the recent discussion about wooden escalators on the tube, I can confirm that wynyard station in Sydney still has them, or at least part wooden anyway.

Sydney has become rubbish for drinking, large Pacific Islanders in yellow jackets walk around city pubs and just kick you out after you've had about three beers. Rubbish.

Wheezy_2

lostinrates wrote: »

My dh is very easy to buy for. He gets excited about everything. This year there is not much ( besides half the puppy). We went to the Christmas market and he liked a salad dressing bottle by a potter there, so I nipped back and got that and an olive bowl. Also, I bought him a tiny, tiny, roman bowl ( well, they said it was roman). It was not expensive but it's tiny:D. In any case, he will love it.

Pajamas for Mrs. Wheezy



And a talking babble ball for westie

PasturesNew

So, washing machine eventually arrived.... shock horror.... they don't connect it. So there it was, in the middle of the kitchen floor (well, that's 1/3rd of the kitchen floor space). So I stared at it and walked off. A bit later I read the instruction manual - shouldn't have done that, it raised more fears and worry than I'd started with. 24 hours on and I've worked out how to connect it, how I can achieve that (it's tricky reaching).... pulled out the fridge, connected it, shoved it back, replaced the fridge. Then couldn't reach the water inlet switch to turn it on. So I stared at it and walked away. I've now worked it out. I have to pull the fridge out again, pull the machine out again, get behind it again, turn that switch, then leave the machine out and give it a first wash (so I can see if anything leaks). Then, eventually, I'll have to put the fridge back and the machine. Trouble is ... I can never ever reach the blue water switch off 'in emergency'. Am I likely to ever need to? I've never connected a washing machine before ..... whoever delivered it did it before. Might leave it for now - but I can only do this in daylight so after tomorrow it's another week before there's daylight, which means I should do it today - but I am petrified of connecting this thing and everything going wrong somehow..... And, in another twist.... one of the piggin' spotlights on the ceiling has blown. I can't reach it, so now I need to (at some point) buy a ladder, get up there to get it out, then go off shopping for the right sort of light. It could be a couple of weeks before this happens. Might be able to borrow a ladder, but that's a long shot. Pretty pee'd off really...... Still no internet, I've typed this in Notepad, hoping that the page will load so I can copy/paste this in. MSE's one of the slowest loading pages on the whole Internet..... I can usually achieve a Google page within an hour of trying. MSE takes days of trying. (Update: after 3 page loads.... I lost the whole connection and had to start again) (Update 2: As I struggled to get back online .... I addressed the w/m problem again.... and got it working. It's now doing it's first cycle, so I am checking for sparks, smoke, leaks) Internet arriving 2nd week of January, along with phoneline. Allegedly. This posting has taken 40 minutes to achieve from start of first page load to pressing "post quick reply".... I'd hate to be posting a non-quick reply!

PasturesNew

... and it didn't retain my carriage returns!

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

C21st is a great place to live. I love it. Loads of what is completely normal for people to have would have been thought of as magical by someone in the 1930s.

Generali wrote: »

A telephone that you can use in almost any place in the world that gives you access to almost every facet of human knowledge in a few seconds? Check.

Heart worn out? No worries, drop a new one in.

Want to shoot someone? Send a remote controlled plane to do it for you.

Just imagine what it'll be like by the time our Grandkids have grown up. Unless the Mayans were right of course.

........The tomatoes are really coming through now from the back yard so we might have a few of them too. Yum!

I remember in the dim and distant past of August 2011 there was a very enjoyable thread on whether we lived better than a medieval monarch. I didn’t recognise that most of the people in it were the NPs!

I hadn’t even heard of the NP thread back then ( I think it was NP 3 ). When I did first read it I thought it was about gardening as everybody was talking abougt tomatoes then too!


Welcome back, PN! You've been missed.

PasturesNew

So, as I still seem to be connected... time for an update:

Still got job, not been sacked, company didn't close.

No furniture, but do have a (borrowed) fridge and a working (?) washing machine.

Not dared unpack/plug in the microwave yet (part of my 'petrified of anything electrical' series of phobias).

1 Xmas card - from lettings agency. Not expecting more.

Going away for Xmas, not sure of when, but 3-4 days - I don't expect Internet there either.

So .... looks like machine works, so today I'll be catching up on 3 weeks' washing Nearly run out of panties and only have 2 pairs of socks left.

Pizza for tea.