Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

bugslet

lemonjelly wrote: »

In fairness/the interests of balance, the instructions is always the first thing I grab & read, before even taking stuff out of packaging!

I always thought those instruction leaflet thingeys were more decorative than anything else, and they don't go with my sofa so therefore completely pointless.

lostinrates

Really have had enough of outlook/ hotmail now. Think I need to change. Might be time to sort out our IT for business email too (embarrassingly still doing this via my personal account).

PasturesNew

I've used gmail for years because I am not confined to a PC programme and it keeps everything I send/receive and is very quickly sortable/searchable.

I hated the way Outlook was eating up my HD on my PC and confining me to relying on the PC to continually work.

There are also "clever" things you can do to use one gmail address, but give it out differently to different groups of people, so you can see the source.

You register ONE email address, say: LostinratesFarm and then you can give that out in various formats. e.g. Lostinrates.farm lost.inratesfarm l.ostinratesfarm
You can even add a random + so lostinratesfarm+gymkhana2013

And ALL addresses will come back to you.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've used gmail for years because I am not confined to a PC programme and it keeps everything I send/receive and is very quickly sortable/searchable.

I hated the way Outlook was eating up my HD on my PC and confining me to relying on the PC to continually work.

I have a historical problem with gmail and yahoo because I signed in and lost all details. Now when I try and sign in requesting new password etc it won't send me any forgotten password info yet I have tried to sign in from scratch scratch and it says I cannot as I already exist with my hotmail email address. It also means I can no longer respond on a yahoo group I am a member of.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

The payment for summer vacation schemes to US law students always astounds me, Lucky, lucky things I think.

When I was at university doing my law degree, the city firms offered 2 week holiday placements, some of them ITRO £300 a week, which seemed an awful lot at the time.

Itismehonest wrote: »

Gap yahs are a relatively recent invention. They certainly never happened back in my day.

I sometimes wonder how people can afford a year abroad 'volunteering' but then think of a stint as an intern in the UK as unpaid labour. Must be the sunshine factor

How old are you?

My Dad had a gap year - he did his A levels just after he turned 17, and went and worked for a year in a youth hostel in Bavaria. That must have been <thinks> 1967 - 8.

Anyone less "yah"-ish than my Dad at 17 is hard to imagine - he was born and brought up in a working class family in Wallasey (across the river from Liverpool) and went to a grammar school.

neverdespairgirl

I've just had a lovely morning in sunny Feltham - at the First Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber). There are two big Immigration Tribunals in London, one, Taylor House, in in Rosebery Avenue, a gentle stroll from here. The other, York House, is a less gentle trip to Waterloo (bus or bike, weather dependent), then a train to Feltham, then another bus.

I prefer the former, and spend more time at the latter.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I have a historical problem with gmail and yahoo because I signed in and lost all details. Now when I try and sign in requesting new password etc it won't send me any forgotten password info yet I have tried to sign in from scratch scratch and it says I cannot as I already exist with my hotmail email address. It also means I can no longer respond on a yahoo group I am a member of.

If you go to gmail.com and click on "I can't access my account" under the login boxes, you get taken to a page offering you:
- I don't know my password
- I don't know my username
- I'm having other problems logging in.

If you choose "I don't know my username" then you get to type in your recovery email address, which should be the one you signed up with.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

... some of them ITRO £300 a week, which seemed an awful lot at the time.

It still IS a lot. That's about 25-30% higher than minimum wage. I looked up the median wage for a woman, working full-time, in Cornwall a couple of years ago and that was about £300 or so.

I know somebody who was doing Articles in about 1985 and they were getting £150/week.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

If you go to gmail.com and click on "I can't access my account" under the login boxes, you get taken to a page offering you:
- I don't know my password
- I don't know my username
- I'm having other problems logging in.

If you choose "I don't know my username" then you get to type in your recovery email address, which should be the one you signed up with.

Yes, I have done all that. It doesn't work for me. I have slipped through some strange gap where I both do and do not exist!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes, I have done all that. It doesn't work for me. I have slipped through some strange gap where I both do and do not exist!

I thought that might be the case. I often get caught. Sometimes I sign up with a slightly fake name, or am unsure which email I used to sign up, or which birthdate I gave them..... and get stuck when they ask such questions