Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

silvercar

Never thought I would say this, but I'm impressed with easyjet!

Booked DS1 a trip yesterday and spelt his first name wrong - two letters transposed. Phoned them up this morning and they changed it free of charge.

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

Never thought I would say this, but I'm impressed with easyjet!

Booked DS1 a trip yesterday and spelt his first name wrong - two letters transposed. Phoned them up this morning and they changed it free of charge.

I guess it shows how abysmal Sleazy Jet is that that counts as good service.

Fog, fog, foggitty fog. Fog off fog. It's been foggy in the mornings for the last few days which has been a pain. Last morning of it tomorrow.

Hoping for clear skies at the weekend for an unusual planetary event: you can see 3 of the planets visible with the naked eye at once. If it's cloudy then it'll be off to Sydney for the Vivid Festival (Google it, it's a great idea).

This thread moves too fast for a Southern Hemisphere Boy. I can't read 60-80 posts each morning. Hope LIR is ok, sorry to anyone else that posted bad news I didn't read and hoorah! for anyone with good news. Too trite? Probably.

I had a beautiful journey home on the ferry, sailing into the last of the twilight. It was just dark as I got to my stop. Lovely.

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

Mmmmmmm, I just got a book in the post and am enjoying new book smell.

Lemon jelly...it's. a hard back with a horrible fly cover thingy.....you know that thing is going to be removed from the book any minute now......;)

Removing a dust cover is fine IMO. Reading in the bath is the

LydiaJ wrote: »

Likewise, I assume pretty much everyone is waaaaaay east of me.

How does somewhere in the vicinity of Oxford strike you, jelly? Is that accessible from where you are, and from Herts, and maybe for a few of the Londoners if they're feeling keen? Or is that further south than you'd want to venture?

Oxford is acheiveable, as I can get onto a motorway for the majority of the journey, & would usually be a day out (though I have travelled there for concerts in the past & returned the same night...)

Spirit wrote: »

From what I remember the fly swatter comes with a free naked man. Or did I get that wrong?

Can you buy a male version with associated free gift?:)

lemonjelly

GDB2222 wrote: »

Thanks so much, MissK. I will scrape the food debris off your very helpful suggestion and pass it on.

To everyone saying it's not all right, I entirely agree, as does DD. She was really just trying to get me to say it's okay, but I'm pleased that you've stiffened my resolve not to.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

When I was at uni, I'd have emailed my parents with one of two desirable outcomes in mind. (1) "Yes, that's fine" (so I could do it guilt-free) or (2) "Don't worry, darling, I'll pay for it."

Either would've been good!

Reminds me very much of this book which was recommended to me by Viva:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Honest-Truth-About-Dishonesty/dp/0007477317

Many discussions on how we justify certain actions to ourselves...

tomterm8

GDB2222 wrote: »

Moral maze for the NPs. I received this email from my DD:

"Would it be really immoral to buy a book off amazon, quote a few
pages, then return it? I could have got it from my library and can go
to IOE library to read it otherwise, and it's not a book I would
otherwise have bought. Your thoughts?"

She knows perfectly well what the answer is, but in mitigation the book is £25, she's a trainee teacher, and she needs it just for one assignment.

What would you advise?

It's immoral to do that to a paper book. Reason being, when you return a paper book it is usually destroyed. IMHO, it is immoral to do it with a book where you pay for it by credit card, because it costs the company a credit card transaction fee.

If you buy it via a kindle e-book using a gift card, it is not immoral.

The reason is that amazon offers a 7-day any reason return on ebooks, and arguably once she buys it and reads it, she might decide to keep it. If not, it really hasn't cost anyone anything.

tomterm8

zagubov wrote: »

I'd very much like to get my hands on a copy of Steinbeck's "The Short Reign of Pippin IV" the only political satire he wrote. I'd only like to re-read the brief list of sensible rules he thought the country should follow. They were just throwaway lines but they seem deep indeed to to the shallow politics of Britain in the noughties and later.

Not sure I want to buy the book but no library seems to have it any more. Philistines!:mad:

It's on overdrive, so it may be available as a library e-book.

zagubov

tomterm8 wrote: »

It's on overdrive, so it may be available as a library e-book.

Thanks:T

I'd never heard of overdrive. Just checking- yes my library subscribes to it. yes it'll run on my ancient stone age pre-Intel mac. Needsa PIN though. Will over to the livbrary and speak to somebody about it.

zagubov

tomterm8 wrote: »

It's immoral to do that to a paper book. Reason being, when you return a paper book it is usually destroyed.

I wish I hadn't read that though. It's like when I hear about cars getting scrapped or TV shows being wiped.:(

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

Hope LIR is ok, sorry to anyone else that posted bad news I didn't read and hoorah! for anyone with good news. Too trite? Probably.

I had a beautiful journey home on the ferry, sailing into the last of the twilight. It was just dark as I got to my stop. Lovely.

Sounds beautiful, and I like fog too.


Lir is just fine. In fact having a pleasant morning. Had to visit the phlebotomist again, and that went well, and this time she was more charming, and mentioned she loved my top. I smiled and we chatted about the colour yellow (my top is mustard coloured) while she took her vampiric draw. Then I went I to grotsville town locally and got chatted up. That, even in grotsville is a tremendous mood booster, (like easy jet service, huh, depressing to be pleased by?:D)

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Was he fit???

And younger than me,:D.( I think anyway, looked in mid twenties to me...though I am not great at aging people) He was rather lovely looking actually....but then he ruined it all by 'speaking'. :rotfl: