Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

misskool

silvercar wrote: »

I ventured on the pepipoo forum for help with a council parking ticket. Scary lot over there, have returned with tail between my legs.

Still think it most unfair that:

a. traffic wardens are out at 2am
b. if you don't see the PCN on the windscreen (or its removed) you have no opportunity to pay reduced rate

It's nicer on MSE than most other forums!

welcome back

I finished lecture one! :T Now 2 and 3 to go

LydiaJ

misskool wrote: »

I finished lecture one! :T Now 2 and 3 to go

Yay for finishing lecture one. You can do this missk. Keep going.

I am off to buy Christmas presents for my dad, who will be arriving tomorrow. Then I'm going to try to get the DKs to do a bit of tidying up.

zagubov

Welcome to the threrad, sparrer. Have lived in Beds many moons ago and used to live about 400 miles north of there. Now live about 60 miles south.

We will need to know your favourite five movies, and expect you to feign interest in our home improvements /pets/ kids/holidays and random taste in things. None of this is compulsory however.;):D


Just been to see the Hiobbit in a cinema allthess's might have been to. 10% dsicount for booking online - that's the way to do it! Plus it has special autism-friendly screenings every month, and is the tallest cinema in Europe. Shame that nearby parking costs an armn and a leg:(

Great film by the way, when's the second part coming out?:beer:

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

We can all add our own little quirks in 'how to do'.

To get rid o duplicates I would make a pivot table based on counting a primary field. Filter for the counts of 2 or more. Double click to expand the data in a table again.Then delete duplicates.

Or being realistic. Ask one of the analysts in my team to let me have it.

Or just get Excel 2010 as "remove duplicates" is a big fat icon on the toolbar. Just select the data, click the fat icon, choose which column to check for duplicates and bob's your uncle.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

It's nicer on MSE than most other forums!

welcome back

I finished lecture one! :T Now 2 and 3 to go

.... you know there's cash to be made from your lecture notes ... right?

misskool

PasturesNew wrote: »

.... you know there's cash to be made from your lecture notes ... right?

Really?

What am I missing out on?

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Still it is good to have PN back from her travels safely (I know know I am on a promise PN but life has been so hectic plus I knew you were away).

pfft .... *waits for promised life enhancing gadget*

michaels wrote: »

Does anyone else feel cheated over the length of the xmas break

For the first time ever since I started working in the school holidays as a temp aged 15, I'm working for a firm that shuts down over Xmas. Usually the Xmas break means just Xmas Day and Boxing Day - and has often involved driving 200-350 miles each way on Xmas Eve and Boxing Day Eve. It's bl00dy marvellous having so many long days off.... allbeit spoilt by not having [a] furniture broadband [c] proper telly signal

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

Really?

What am I missing out on?

Well, starting from scratch it's a bit of a faff .... and maybe the concept of "£0.50/month for each set of notes" doesn't light your eyes up with glee.... but in PN world it's worth a punt.

Don't throw out any of your notes..... and once I've got proper internet I can send you full details/what to do and where and stuff.... but if £0.50/month for each set of notes is peanuts to you then it's probably not worth the up front effort you'd need to put in.

On the other hand.... who is to say what might happen.... what if ... they were popular and made you £100 in the next 2 years? I guess that's still smallfry to most NPs though

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

Step away now whilst you still have a life.

Enter, only if you are prepared to care sincerely for pixels, other peoples boilers, their old people, careers, housing, dogs, passports,student offspring, ailments and cute children.

You have been warned. Welcome, but it is on your own head if you never have enough time for real life again..

This is true. Many of us have become rl friends and deeply, deeply fond of each other here a lone and/or rl.

But you sound like you will fit in.

lostinrates

Went to an antique shop, bought a hugely expensive but very rates morrocan light. Probably for just inside the front door.

Then went on to lunch when I realised how much it was really for second hand rather than antique and ate a creamy cake thing and got the terror tightwad spend giggles which on top of not enough sleep and last nights migrain sent me waddlelimping off to be sick. Dh offered to cook supper, but to the relief of my guts I have some frozen soup he and parent can have to night with the cheese, cold meats etc. We also went along the a303 earlier for the never bettered bread sold at queen camel. I miss Somerset.