Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

HS2's the answer to a question that people should be asking.


As long as the question is how can the cities of the UK connect to each other and European markets directly.

And by that I don't mean via London.:D

And, (and this may seem like a minor point) shouldn't a country that invented railways have a good system? If not the best system?

I've always wondered, re the Heathrow discussions, how many people are just passing through and don't care it's at Heathrow .... and if it'd be better to put another airport elsewhere.

Generali

I only research a company properly if I've got an interview. Even then, you can do it in about 30-45 mins.

1. Go to the main website and click on anything newsy and skim
2. Read the 'about us' page
3. Quick Google and hit news.

If you do that you can go into an interview knowing more about corporate strategy than a lot of interviewers.

zagubov

vivatifosi wrote: »

Similar here. I worked just the other side of the M25 from the end of the runway. By the time it stopped flying, even our customers knew not to phone us at about 11am. We all stood in the car park to watch the last scheduled flight leave. It's a great shame that there isn't a modern equivalent.

It's filed away in my mind as another feature of the 20th century Space Age (AKA the age of technical competence / before bridges started to wobble).
Still seems strange how we developed a high tech way of zooming over to the states while we were still clambering onto rusty old boats to visit the other countries we're in an actual trading bloc with.

chewmylegoff

vivatifosi wrote: »

It said on their website that they pay adjudicators £22k pa. Sod that for a London job! Even M15 pay more than that and you'd arguably get to do something interesting.

Every time I have dealt with them they refer me onwards to a law firm which is handling the case so sounds like the have in house "adjudicators" who probably log everything on a spreadsheet and then send it all off to whoever they're paying to sort it out. A bit like a complaint handler at a bank I suppose.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've always wondered, re the Heathrow discussions, how many people are just passing through and don't care it's at Heathrow .... and if it'd be better to put another airport elsewhere.

Lots of them I expect. Brother in law works in something to do with air traffic control and says that the issue isn't where the extra runway is built around London but the fact that the skies over the SE are already pretty full - he said that is the limiting factor rather than the amount of Tarmac. That said he spends his weekends plane spotting so I don't trust anything he says.

neverdespairgirl

Ready to go to get judgment in my case against the immigration officers I was doing a couple of weeks ago - all togged up in black, with my extra warm clothes in my robes bag!

bugslet

Try not to catch a chill NDG! I imagine a couple of fans clipped to your underwear, whirring away under those robes:o

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

... the skies over the SE are already pretty full - he said that is the limiting factor rather than the amount of Tarmac.

Put it nowhere near the SE, and use the HS2 money to build a new fast underground link to London

People and businesses need to be moved away from London as it's going to catastrophically flood at some future point, bite the bullet now and start placing the capital in the middle, and not where it is just because some Romans found it handy to cross the river in a field 2000 years ago

Generali

By definition, if you're in a plane that makes a sonic boom you won't hear it as you are moving faster than sound so the boom can't catch you up. However, if you're one of the first people to travel faster than sound that's likely to be disappointing.

The solution? Well if you were in the USAF apparently (in Pasadena???) you'd take a radio up and tune it to a radio station that had notoriously poor sound proofing and go into a dive directly above it. As radio waves travel at the speed of light you'd hear your own sonic boom!

lostinrates

I think the bathroom ceiling has finished being plastered.

It's the same plasterer who did my beautiful soft curves in the cheese room last year and this year he's doing 'normal' plastering but with no horrid beading, so its straight lines, but soft straight lines. Also, rather than a straight ceiling, the new ceiling folllows the original joist line, so its a bit up and down. Nice builder just smiles and nods in a slightly exasperated manner but I think the plasterer thinks its quite excited to do it my way. They are covering my beautiful wall of dilapidation next week. I'm so tempted to get them to leave it. Of it didn't need bonding at the top and bottom I would.


All my grass is going too. I wanted the farmer to make hay but he's going to sell me hay from another field which is even better. One pays no VAT on hay bought as animal feed, but VAT is payable on the service of cutting, turning and baling.....and costs are probably the same......


Edit: been up.....ceiling is finished and he's almost done one of the walls. . He also bonded out a very damaged wall this morning. He's super fast.