Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

vivatifosi

Nikkster wrote: »

We share a birthday too, George

A fellow Taurean;).

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

I'm with you on beauty treatments, I'm not religious but I do think our bodies are 'designed' to be attractive to us and they should not be 'adorned' with tattoos, piercings or cosmetic enhancements.

Over the last lots of millions of years, we have been naturally selected to be attracted to those who are healthy and fertile. For men, this merely means looking as though you've got a decent chance of staying alive for the next 20 years or so, to increase the odds you'll provide for the kid until it's grown up. For us women, this means attempting to look as though we are somewhere in the age range 16-30, which gets increasingly difficult as the years go by.

silvercar

Our cherry blossom has lost nearly all it's blossom. I love the shape of this tree; it is under threat from OH who doesn't like the way one of its roots grows horizontally above grass level, spoiling the look of the lawn. DS2 claimed it got in the way of some goals.

neverdespairgirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I have been on the receiving end of two very aggressive cross examinations. The first one was pretty ineffectual and the second one backfired in a spectacular way. Firstly the barrister, who was a very experienced QC, rather strangely told the tribunal exactly what he was going to ask me in his opening. Secondly, he either didn't bother reading all of his bundle or didn't realise it was double sided, because after he spent 5 minutes grandstanding and calling me an incompetent liar, I said that he should turn to the second page of the document he was cross examining me on which proved everything he was saying was completely flawed and his entire argument fell to pieces. It is pretty much the most enjoyable moment of my career to date. The only way it could have been better is if his junior had facepalmed...

Keeping a poker face is required, no matter what goes wrong. You need to keep the, "it's all as I expected" faintly world-weary look going.

My style of cross-examination is usually perfectly friendly. A lot of witnesses in an awful lot of cases are certainly not lying, and might not even be mistaken at all. But nevertheless, there might be information which needs to be elicted to help my case which isn't in the statement and wasn't given in evidence in chief.

For example, in my recent 3 month trial, I cross-examined 14 witnessses, and 12 of them were from universities or qualification awarding bodies. Not one of them was lying, or had any reason to lie. But in several cases, their records did not hold information which made it possible to say whether or not certain things had happened or not happened. So if a statement says, "we have no record of X" it's perfectly reasonable and sensible to ask what the records are, so as to show that their data doesn't help one way or another.

And the best way to do that is, by far, to be polite and thorough.

The other two witnesses were from various Home Office departments, and I wanted to put to them that Home Office records go astray / missing / get ignored / left alone, so it was a similar situation.

silvercar

Spirit wrote: »

We were debating at yesterday if the red bumps on my leg and elbow and on OHs arm are...flea bites.

It may be time to treat the cat. Dog already frontlined as ticks are already making their presence known.

OH calls me his insect repellent! I always get bitten and quite often require antibiotics for bites that turn nasty.

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

This interests me.


Any cosmetic enhancement at all?

Bra wearing?
[COLOR="rgb(65, 105, 225)"]For comfort[/COLOR]

Clothes wearing?
[COLOR="rgb(65, 105, 225)"]For warmth and decency[/COLOR]

Hairy feet...or unshaven women's armpits?
[COLOR="rgb(65, 105, 225)"]Both fine by me[/COLOR]

Hairy noses or ears?
[COLOR="rgb(65, 105, 225)"]Better trimmed[/COLOR]

Antiperspirant/ deodorant?
Of course but makeup and perfume definitely not required

Answers above -Clean naked bodies of all shapes and sizes are beautiful

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

OH calls me his insect repellent! I always get bitten and quite often require antibiotics for bites that turn nasty.

Weirdly, every single time I have been through golders green, even on the bus without getting off. I get a really nasty bite or a less bad series of them. I think it's some racist anti mixed marriage bug.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Answers above -Clean naked bodies of all shapes and sizes are beautiful

That's really fascinating. I like it. I wonder what the nice person mushroom poll would be on this?

For me my answers are not all the same as yours but I like yours a lot.

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

A fellow Taurean;).

Have we/ I missed something? Or is it still to come?

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

I know the answer to this one - about 150k - less if you are a builder.

Our builders did a house in High Wycombe which will be on Homes Under The Hammer on Wednesday.

The 3 bed semi they did on our road which cost 355 and then about 70 to extend sold for 560, also 'our' builders. I am fairly convinced people will pay 100k more for a house done 'to move into' than for a house which would cost 50k to get to the same state.
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Really? Only £150k?

The house that sold recently for £1.2m was bought for 440k a few years ago. Then it was a dilapidated 3 bed detached on a good plot. Now it is 5 bed, 3 bathrooms, done to high standard, trendy bi folding doors etc and sold at 1.2m. The people lived in it for about 18 months to avoid CGT.

If it cost double your estimate, that is still a lot of profit in there.