Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

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misskool wrote: »

it's an acoustic set of 3 people Don't quote, I will need remove link to band tonight.

I actually managed to open the link and listened to a few of their numbers. They are very good. Very cool MissK.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

don't expect anything to happen immediately.

misskool wrote: »

as we are

Very exciting and loving time in life. Lovely, lovely, lovely.

zagubov

BertieUK wrote: »

Just received an email from my daughter SB, which is always very welcome, but we are disturbed to hear that the lift in the Halls where she lives has been out of order for a week now, SB is on ninth floor of the Halls and has to walk the stairs a few times a day.

Surely in the interest of safety this should be attended to, this lift has broken down quite a few times since she has been there.

Sounds horrible.

One of the unis in Glasgow used to use the top 10 floors of some towerblocks -you'll know the ones I mean in northeast Glasgow. They were big comfrotable flats but the blocks were 40 stories high (the tallest blocks of flat in Europe at one point). God knows how anyone would cope with that if the lift failed.

The attitude then was that students would put up with anything. Maybe nothing's changed.:(

misskool wrote: »

it's ok, it didn't need one. thanks to speedy finger twirling, car started, radio turned on.

You or your OH aren't related to Arthur Fonzerelli by any chance?:beer:

BertieUK

zagubov wrote: »

Sounds horrible.

One of the unis in Glasgow used to use the top 10 floors of some towerblocks -you'll know the ones I mean in northeast Glasgow. They were big comfrotable flats but the blocks were 40 stories high (the tallest blocks of flat in Europe at one point). God knows how anyone would cope with that if the lift failed.

The attitude then was that students would put up with anything. Maybe nothing's changed.:(

They were called the Red Road flats I think they have recently been taken down completely just a short time ago.

The Halls of Residence where SB lives are quite expensive, to our family that is, so I wonder whether I should call somebody tomorrow and make a complaint. Mmm:(

lostinrates

All this talk of nice people having babies is quite exciting!

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's obscene... no matter how you try to justify it, that's a full-time annual wage for somebody without a job!

Hahahahaha, you know what this was for

For the new NP we have, OH owns a bar in London

Back to the rat race tomorrow; What have the NP with kids done for half-term?

CK

ETA: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html?id=136171946637734722781

I'm quicker than 99% of the UK, or something :eek:

PasturesNew

BertieUK wrote: »

Just received an email from my daughter SB, which is always very welcome, but we are disturbed to hear that the lift in the Halls where she lives has been out of order for a week now, SB is on ninth floor of the Halls and has to walk the stairs a few times a day.

Surely in the interest of safety this should be attended to, this lift has broken down quite a few times since she has been there.

9 floors at her age is nothing. In a fire you can't use them anyway, so it's only really an issue if you've been bulk buying cans/spuds or are as p1ssed as a f4rt.

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

9 floors at her age is nothing. In a fire you can't use them anyway, so it's only really an issue if you've been bulk buying cans/spuds or are as p1ssed as a f4rt.

I ended up walking 22 floors with a wheelchair when a lift on holiday many moons ago wouldn't let OH and the said wheelchair on the lift. She'd had her boot run over by a bus on the way from the airport to the hotel :eek:

PasturesNew wrote: »

I didn't know that.

Sorry Pastures, I assumed you were aware, from a posting the other week.

BertieUK

PasturesNew wrote: »

9 floors at her age is nothing. In a fire you can't use them anyway, so it's only really an issue if you've been bulk buying cans/spuds or are as p1ssed as a f4rt.

I undertand what you are saying but... this has been happeng far too often since she started at Uni plus the fact that the refuse has not been collected because of the failure of the lift, tomorrow I will be giving the Halls a call and find out what is going on.

misskool

BertieUK wrote: »

I undertand what you are saying but... this has been happeng far too often since she started at Uni plus the fact that the refuse has not been collected because of the failure of the lift, tomorrow I will be giving the Halls a call and find out what is going on.

it would be better if SB called and don't turn it into an issue of not having lifts, rather than health and safety from refuse not being collected.

BertieUK

We did our Good Samaraton today, opposite our house there is a public bench and there was a young man sitting there for quite some time in this bitter cold, he had with him a couple of bags including a haversack but what caught our attention was the fact that he had a crutch with him.

After about an hour we asked him if he would like a cup of tea of which he accepted, we let him into the house and sat him down with his cup of tea and found out that he had come all the way down from Accrington to be with his girlfriend whose stepfather would not let him into the house for whatever reason.

The poor soul said that he has slept behind some bushes close to his girlfriends house and that she brought some food out to give him last night, my OH made him some scrambled eggs on toast along with the compulsory beans, which he devoured with relish.

The reason for his crutch was the fact that he had broken bones in his foot due to having a tustle with one of his friends in Accrington, and had received hospital treatment about a week ago and that his foot had been pinned.

After about forty minutes his girlfriend, who he said suffered from Autism sent a taxi to our house to collect the young man.

There are certainly some poor souls out there trying to get their love lives together.

Was it a wise move to ask this poor soul in for some food? We just felt as though we had to help.