Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

silvercar

misskool wrote: »

does anyone here have a tablet and a laptop? just wondering if OH would like a tablet for a chrimbo present but we spend time on our respective laptops. not sure if a tablet would just be extraneous junk lying around

OH uses his laptop for serious stuff. He uses the tablet for reading the newspaper in tablet form (particularly when abroad) and playing silly games. Also puts presentations on tablet for 1:1 meetings. Tablets are brill for when you want a quick lookie at something and haven't got time to switch on the laptop eg national rail app to check train times from local station.

Generali wrote: »

We have a separate laundry here which is normal in Aus. There's a huge cupboard to store sheets, towels etc, space for ironing, a washing machine and dryer and there's also a sink that's about 2'x18"x2' for hand washing.

It's well away from the bedrooms.

I always thought is would make sense to have the washing machine in the bathroom next to the laundry basket. What is the point of bringing dirties downstairs?

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

From the Generalissimos' school newsletter:



To unable is apparently now a verb. I unable, you unable, he unables etc. Remember English is 100% about usage: if enough people get it wrong, wrong becomes right.

At this stage, though, it's just righter.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

I always thought is would make sense to have the washing machine in the bathroom next to the laundry basket. What is the point of bringing dirties downstairs?

From the world of poor people, some suggested answers would include:
- not everybody has a bathroom, 1-bed places mostly have a tIIIny shower room squeezed in.
- once washed, you have to go outside to hang clothes out.... and in most cases outside is downstairs.

I wouldn't relish the extra trouble of working out how to get a washing machine upstairs either....

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Facebook has become a verb, as has frape.

This must be a posh alert word .... on the balance of probabilities and statistical likelihood ... and elimination techniques.

a] Silvercar posted it.
b] I've never heard of the word/don't know how to say it or what it means.

Sooo.... what's frape??

Anyway - posh alert.


It's posh to be familiar enough with it to use it.....

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Buts it's not the same without Pastures.

Post of the year

PasturesNew

Openly admitting my 100% ignorance.... everybody on page 208 or so are saying "Happy Chanukah"

Now.... I obviously missed saying it at the time, so here goes: Happy Chanukah everybody ... er, belatedly.

I don't really know what it is, etc. I just know it's a Jewish festival ... and can't even pronounce it

But happy hard to say thing

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

From page 211: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4212159

Not replying to any particular post, but in general on heating and systems.

Some months back I read some news report of how people were unable to afford to heat their houses. These were new council houses and the people on the estate had all had to turn it off as they couldn't afford to run it - although they were told it'd be cheap as it was new-tech.

I think the bottom line turned out to be that the people in the houses were using the heating the wrong way. The designers had designed the systems for a different country, for bigger houses, for wealthier people. So I think it was along the lines of "Wealthy people have heating on more, so the system's left running on tick over most of the time - whereas poor people turn on heating when required and the system was always firing up from stone cold". Although I wasn't really paying attention, but that seemed to be the garbled gist of it.

That doesn't help LIR, or anybody else's situation - it was just a standard PN "off with the fairies/irrelevant" and vaguely informational posting... and I've not even got the Internet power to provide a link

I used to live near a housing estate that looked very modern (they used part of it in the movie Fahrenheit 451). It had tall flats on pillars and I remember walking through the base in the winter and the wind was so bitter it was like getting your face slapped.

Later found out it ws based on leCorbusier'sbuildings that were designed for Algeria and the aim was to channel the wind under the building to generate a cooling breeze which would be very welcome in a desert country. Completely useless in a temperate country like ours.

Sometimes I'm just aghast at the impracticalities of architects. Having said that I love the look of the Sydney Opera House but have heard it's acoustics are rubbish. Dunno if that's a myth though spread by other cities with totally naff buildings!

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

I don't think you would have dared to post that if PN was around....and no we haven't forgotten the yachting anecdote either....

... and now I am barrelling backwards through the threads... and will come across that one.

Cheers for the heads up re yachts, I'll watch out for that one too.

sss555s

PasturesNew wrote: »

This must be a posh alert word .... on the balance of probabilities and statistical likelihood ... and elimination techniques.

a] Silvercar posted it.
b] I've never heard of the word/don't know how to say it or what it means.

Sooo.... what's frape??

Anyway - posh alert.


It's posh to be familiar enough with it to use it.....

If you use Chrome then install Google Dictionary then you just double click on any word and a definition appears like magic


Doesn't work too well on that word though :rotfl:

GDB2222

SingleSue wrote: »

I remember watching a TV programme on it and the upshot of it was it was completely the wrong kind of system to have installled in the type/size of house and in our climate...alongside the wrong bit being installed to make it work with our kind of heating.

That is spot on, Sue. It was an air source heat pump system, that works like a refrigerator in reverse, in that it cools the outside air and uses the extracted heat to warm the house. It also had an electric heating element built-in that topped up the heat from the heat pump. The heat pump is very efficient, and it multiplies the heat from the electricity used by a factor of about 3. The top up heating element did not gain any efficiency from the outside air, so it was just a giant electric heater being used to heat the house, and of course we all know that that is very expensive to run.

Unfortunately, the designers completely under-sized the heat pump, so it could not provide nearly enough heat for this particular size of property. Consequently, the electric heating element was running at high power nearly all of the time, which was costing a fortune.

There seems to be nothing wrong with the principle, but it was just executed extremely badly.