Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

silvercar

I win an Ebay item and pay for it a few hours ago. I now have an email to say it is dispatched. How can anything being sent by Royal Mail be dispatched on a Sunday evening?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Nikkster wrote: »

You've probably still dropped a few pounds then

:rotfl:

I have indeed.

Fortunately it's only a 3 month tie in then cancel any time, so if this current bout of enthusiasm doesn't last the hit won't be too big.:)

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

I win an Ebay item and pay for it a few hours ago. I now have an email to say it is dispatched. How can anything being sent by Royal Mail be dispatched on a Sunday evening?

If it's not been sent by a trackable method, or with a certificate of posting, they could have had it already wrapped up and just printed an address label and put stamps on it and shoved it in the box outside their house.

PasturesNew

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

:rotfl:

I have indeed.

Fortunately it's only a 3 month tie in then cancel any time, so if this current bout of enthusiasm doesn't last the hit won't be too big.:)

Never been in a gym.... certainly don't expect to.

I did look into joining a local sports thingy (water related) - priced it up yesterday and you have to start by becoming a member then doing a training course, so about £110 all in. They say you have to provide your own clothes and mention a wetsuit.... think I might give that bit a miss as they're so pricey and the worst that'll happen to me will be I freeze my nuts off... and before anybody says "You can get one cheap/free".... not when you're my height/shape/build - plus, the actually finding one second hand would consume many hours and ££s to collect. I'll just freeze my butt off... wetsuits are for wusses.

Almo

SingleSue wrote: »

Our second cat Ti-ah would play fetch..not like any ordinary cat, we were sure she had spent time growing up with dogs (she was a rescue cat), as she would fetch whatever had been thrown, pick it up, bring it back to the thrower, drop it at their feet and wait for it to be thrown again.

Jaz (our current cat), will chase after it but then bat it about like a normal cat...but then gets confused when he can't find it (he is not the brightest spark)

Our first cat Yamzi, would rip the thing to shreds alongside the throwers arm :rotfl:

Our Siamese loved playing fetch with her snowman. He fell off one of those novelty Christmas socks and she loved him so much that we took the other snowman off the other sock AND bought another pair, so we had four snowmen doing the rounds. She adored fetch and would bring him back over and over.

Then, we got a kitten, and she stopped and has never done it since .

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

PasturesNew wrote: »

Never been in a gym....

Ah.

I'll explain them then.

You have a few dozen overweight middle age men all in a room together on mechanical contraptions which allow them to walk, jog, cycle or even run but never actually go anywhere.

It's a lot like a row of giant fat hamsters on giant hamster wheels.

And in the next room there's usually a super-hot female 25 year old fitness buff playing really loud music and shouting encouraging things about "feeling the burn" to the middle age fat hamster wives. Only they're dressed in inappropriate for their age lycra.... and will never again be as hot as the gym bunny leading the class, no matter how much of their husbands money they "burn" through trying.

Basically, it's a giant fat-rodent playground, designed with the sole purpose of separating middle age people from their money.

With the occasional hot chick or muscle bound ape thrown in to keep the biological diversity quotient up.

lostinrates

Our Siamese fetch too, one more than the other.

The hilarious thing is when they have had enough and look at you with utter contempt as you chuck their toy and they decide not to go, and they almost raise one eyebrow before tuning from you.

Re gyms, dh doesn't go to the work subsidised gym but rather a local authority one which he really likes. Where was seconded had a super gym though, I was amazed how quickly his body changed. Sadly, on leaving there he started mainly swimming......it's a,axing how quickly that gym muscle disappeared. He looks healthy now, but considerably less buff.

Nikkster

Hypothetical conundrum:
At the end of a very long and drunken night out, someone emails someone else (email address found from invite to night out) expressing regret that nothing had happened between them that night, giving their mobile number and saying if you're ever around/ want to keep in touch let me know...
The person doing the emailing is a) married b) father. The other person isn't interested for reasons a) and b) and wouldn't be even if a) and b) didn't apply.
What would Nice People do? Assume emailer can't remember emailing and ignore? Something else?

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Hypothetical conundrum:
At the end of a very long and drunken night out, someone emails someone else (email address found from invite to night out) expressing regret that nothing had happened between them that night, giving their mobile number and saying if you're ever around/ want to keep in touch let me know...
The person doing the emailing is a) married b) father. The other person isn't interested for reasons a) and b) and wouldn't be even if a) and b) didn't apply.
What would Nice People do? Assume emailer can't remember emailing and ignore? Something else?

I'd assume nothing, but ignore and not mention it again, unless something else happened for me to explain no interest existed.

Fwiw, I find the idea they are regretting nothing happened' a little presumptuous. What they mean surely, is they regretted they didn't proposition that something might happen.....it shouldn't be assumed their proven marriageability and virility makes them desirable to the emailee.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

I'd assume nothing, but ignore and not mention it again, unless something else happened for me to explain no interest existed.

Fwiw, I find the idea they are regretting nothing happened' a little presumptuous. What they mean surely, is they regretted they didn't proposition that something might happen.....it shouldn't be assumed their proven marriageability and virility makes them desirable to the emailee.

I'm guessing that the emailee might be quite concerned that they gave the emailer the wrong impression entirely. And would be very relieved that nothing happened.
Boy am I pleased that this is all hypothetical...