Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

... striped jellies from the New World dim sum trolleys....

Never heard of them... anybody else?

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh, a big jelly. When you said dim sum trolleys I thought they'd be small (as you've told me in the past dim sum is little bits and pieces). I imagined you making jelly sweeties, so little sweetie sized

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Apologies to those of you with "normal" jobs, and those whose half term isn't for another week, but I am really loving the idea that it's Sunday evening and I haven't got to get up for school tomorrow morning.

grrrr........

The worst long run is August bank holiday to Xmas - 4 months.

I've got 5 days to use up in the next 6-7 weeks.... then the next holiday year starts. Can't use them though, until the last minute, unless I "need" them for unexpected essentials.

Spirit_2

zagubov wrote: »

GDB don't follow the link

You're better off not knowing!

(other substances are available)

I feel sick.

(((shudders)))

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

grrrr........

The worst long run is August bank holiday to Xmas - 4 months.

I've got 5 days to use up in the next 6-7 weeks.... then the next holiday year starts. Can't use them though, until the last minute, unless I "need" them for unexpected essentials.

Why can't you use them?

Almo

silvercar wrote: »

OH wants me to join him on his next business trip to Oz, I've said I will (only) consider it if we go business class. Probably try to use Avios and a 2-4-1 (Amex) voucher.

Have you done the flight in economy? I could never sleep on planes, even as a kid and used to get really bored/frustrated as everyone around me snoozed. I did Aus-UK-Aus a couple of times in economy and it really was miserable, apart from when we managed to get a couple of empty rows. I'm also a terrible fidget and find being made to sit like a proper grown up for so long quite unbearable.

Business made the whole thing so much more bearable, being able to stretch out, fidget without disturbing anyone, the increased sense of space (I think I have mild claustrophobia). Plus it's great to have a shower wherever you stop and make yourself a cup of tea in the lounge.

vivatifosi

Without wishing to sound like a tinfoil hatted nutter, regulars will know that I've long been concerned about the level of information given away by people on social networking sites such as facebook as I've wondered how the information can be used. Now it appears my fears are not without foundation:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/10/software-tracks-social-media-defence

A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites...

...Using Riot it is possible to gain an entire snapshot of a person's life – their friends, the places they visit charted on a map – in little more than a few clicks of a button.

In the video obtained by the Guardian, it is explained by Raytheon's "principal investigator" Brian Urch that photographs users post on social networks sometimes contain latitude and longitude details – automatically embedded by smartphones within so-called "exif header data."

Riot pulls out this information, showing not only the photographs posted onto social networks by individuals, but also the location at which the photographs were taken...

...explains, "now we want to try to predict where he may be in the future."
Riot can display on a spider diagram the associations and relationships between individuals online by looking at who they have communicated with over Twitter. It can also mine data from Facebook and sift GPS location information from Foursquare, a mobile phone app used by more than 25 million people to alert friends of their whereabouts. The Foursquare data can be used to display, in graph form, the top 10 places visited by tracked individuals and the times at which they visited them.

michaels

Hmm - apart from the fact that you should definitely not send me free offers I'm not sure what the Riot people would get from my rather eclectic facebook page.

Yesterday in Tesco I found myself trying to complete 3 discount/voucher offers simultaneously whilst also looking for hUKd bargains and misprices (the new self scanners are invaluable).

My not as nice as some other builders did a house round the corner bought for 355k about 2 years ago - add on about 65k of extension and it is now for sale for 575k.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-25873470.html?premiumA=true

SingleSue

LydiaJ wrote: »

Bummer. I can only suggest that you keep an ear out for any cases of a new vicar/minister arriving, and then try asking again. Methodists are usually the most accommodating about this, but there are clergy who are happy to do it in all denominations. Anyway, it's not a pressing concern just at the moment, is it? I've no idea (and don't wish to pry) how serious/permanent you and loverrrr feel your relationship is, but if your boys can't cope with him coming to your house for an evening in, then presumably they wouldn't cope with you getting remarried any time soon. Here's hoping that a vicar turns up in one of your local churches who's happy to help you by the time you need one.

No, not a pressing concern at all...we are nowhere near that sort of thing but I have to have something to worry about :rotfl:

Think this will be a longterm thing, we are certainly talking long term but who knows? I'm just enjoying it. We can still only see each other maybe once a week for a few hours but those few hours are very nice and the boys like him (even though he still can't come into the house), James even told him he is being more like their father than their father!

Mind you, it will be nice when the boys do accept him into the house...we could have romantic nights in with a DVD or something!

BertieUK

lostinrates wrote: »

Bertie, I am thinking about eBay. I have to admit its been a long think, I started thinking about t at least two and a half years ago. Every time I try I lose my resolve.

I found filling in the description forms on Ebay a little confusing at first until I got used to them, you have to give yourself time and have patience with Ebay.

I even got my daughter SB to put lots of her unwanted clothes etc onto Ebay before she went into Uni' and she was delighted because she managed to be able to purchase a new lap-top with the proceeds.

If I can help you decide on points that you may be interested in just ask and I would be only to willing to help.:)

misskool

sleet/snow here this morning and pondering how long to stay at work for.

lir: nice! i really missed chinese new year this year. i may attempt next year but it's 31 january and it seems silly to head back off when we have an extra long christmas/new year break