Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

Soft 'g' I'd believed.

Mind you I've got a biology degree and don't know if fungi is pronounced fungeye or fungee or funjeye or funjee. Well I think it's the last but I'll bet I'm wrong.:D

I would say fung eye. ( yum yum, presuming it's a mushroom not some toenail infection)

michaels

As well as yuck yuck I would say fun ghee (fungii?)

<Not nice, sorry>I hope people campaigned equally hard for Babar Ahmad...or could it be just like the Home Secretary that personal/political calculations were the first and only deciding factor. There are many hundreds of UK prisoners who are at huge risk of suicide - perhaps we should never have locked up Ian Huntley?<\Not nice, sorry>

SingleSue

Middle son's 16th birthday today...where has the time gone?

Re Aspergers, the soft g, so not rhyming with burgers but more like the use of g in faberge or the start of German.

SingleSue

silvercar wrote: »

OH works late to avoid driving home in traffic. An extra hour in the office when most people have gone is productive and his journey home is 30-40 minutes rather than 50-80.

The traffic was one of the reasons I used to go in early, that way I missed both the school run traffic and the work run traffic.

The extra money was handy too......

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's not that... their sites are white on black, the screens are super lit up (I've dimmed them right down), direct overhead strip lighting, tiny/high window, strong reflected sunlight blinding from building opposite for 2 hours. All created conditions that meant I couldn't really see anything and everything was unreadable and swimming.

Have you tried coloured lenses or overlays? Just that those sort of symptoms seem to be apparent with those with Irlens....and Irlens is more prevalent with those who have an ASD.

mystic_trev

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i am always very suspicious of any claim that a person shouldn't be tried because they are too ill to stand trial. this is because that in almost every investigation that i have been involved in, the target has put far more effort into proving that they are too ill to be held to account than in proving that they are innocent.

The famous one was the Guinness Case, featuring Ernest Saunders, the only person ever to recover from Alzheimer's disease!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Saunders

I believe the right decision has been made in the McKinnon case.Common sense has prevailed!

silvercar

An internship you have to pay to do!

Hmm, level playing fields being heavily tilted.

So to take this opportunity you have to have somewhere to live rent free near London, be able to sacrifice claiming unemployment benefit, subsidise yourself while you work (decent clothes/ transport/ laptop & mobile required) as well as day to day living costs. On top of all that you have to pay towards the internship.

If it was marketed as a course,with lots of work experience, where you meet contacts in the area you want to work in and you got a piece of paper at the end of it and support in finding work afterwards, it would sound more acceptable.

If he wanted to work in a field where we knew people, he/ we would network and getting through the door would be easier.

and we paid for his masters and supported him in this last year, so what is another few months?

I'm delighted he got the internship!

michaels

And there I was foolishly thinking kids might get a bit cheaper after they turn 21...

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

An internship you have to pay to do!

Hmm, level playing fields being heavily tilted.

So to take this opportunity you have to have somewhere to live rent free near London, be able to sacrifice claiming unemployment benefit, subsidise yourself while you work (decent clothes/ transport/ laptop & mobile required) as well as day to day living costs. On top of all that you have to pay towards the internship.

If it was marketed as a course,with lots of work experience, where you meet contacts in the area you want to work in and you got a piece of paper at the end of it and support in finding work afterwards, it would sound more acceptable.

If he wanted to work in a field where we knew people, he/ we would network and getting through the door would be easier.

and we paid for his masters and supported him in this last year, so what is another few months?

I'm delighted he got the internship!

Haven't begun to think yet how people pay for Master's dgrees now they're becoming more and more routine.

michaels wrote: »

And there I was foolishly thinking kids might get a bit cheaper after they turn 21...

Seem to recall there was an area in Spain where you had to buy shares in a company to buy a job with them. Horizon did a documentary about them once.

zagubov wrote: »

Soft 'g' I'd believed.

Mind you I've got a biology degree and don't know if fungi is pronounced fungeye or fungee or funjeye or funjee. Well I think it's the last but I'll bet I'm wrong.:D

I'll confess I'm not consistent on this!

silvercar

zagubov wrote: »

Haven't begun to think yet how people pay for Master's degrees now they're becoming more and more routine.

No student loans, no tuition fee loans. Once you start a full time education course you can't claim benefits, unless you have dependents (and we all know how expensive kids are).

Some masters degrees to have some places with bursaries.