Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

zagubov

I gather that in Japan there's a tradition of adult adoptions.

Can I please join the queue behind michaels and misskool.;)

PasturesNew

I used to get 50p/week pocket money, which was enough to get a bus into town, or buy a cheap pair of tights from the market but nothing else. Mum would pay for a Jackie magazine. Clothes were 2nd hand, so I used to do babysitting locally and school holiday jobs etc to make money. Pre minimum wage and in a small village, I remember earnings typically being 20p-30p/hour. Aged 17-18 a 9-6pm Saturday job in town paid £7/day.

When I went to a 2-year college course aged 16-18 it was Mon-Fri 9-5 with a half day Wednesday; mum'd give me 4 days' lunch money. I had a Saturday job to buy my clothes and pay for my course materials and exam fees.

My pocket money of 50p stopped when I was 17.

Obviously no help with buying a house.... and stress/grief instead of an inheritance

neverdespairgirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

My mum's intention was to give me a credit card as well but the bank refused to issue one. A wise decision given how profligate I was when I was 18.

My mother got additional cards issued on her account, so it was still her credit account and her risk, so the company was perfectly happy with that.

lostinrates wrote: »

People can be funny about daughters. Fir's dad has been the same with his daughter.

My Dad's not - 3 daughters, 1 son, and all treated the same.

LydiaJ

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My Dad's not - 3 daughters, 1 son, and all treated the same.

My parents had three sons and a daughter. We've been treated very very similarly. My movements were slightly more checked up on when we were living at home - whereas my brothers just had to say where they were going and when they were going to come back, I had to say where I was going, when I was coming back and who was going to drive/walk me home safely afterwards, but then I also got picked up if there wasn't anybody to see me home, where my brothers would have been expected to walk alone. I think my brothers got a bit more washing done from them in uni holidays whereas I was expected to do my own. But all in all nothing that was significant, or that any of us minded.

But then my dad has always believed in treating children as people - people who don't know as much as adults, shouldn't be burdened with as much responsibility as adults, and are interested in different things, but basically just people and worthy of respect. DS commented on it recently. DS and DD were complaining about various adults that they feel talk down to them as though they're younger than they are. I pointed out that my dad doesn't. DS replied "But he always talks to everyone as though they're older than they really are."

hjd

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My mother got additional cards issued on her account, so it was still her credit account and her risk, so the company was perfectly happy with that.

My daughter has an additional card on my husband's account (chose that one as it had the highest credit limit, aka target).
It has been very useful when she has had transport problems abroad. She won't fly, and travels a lot to Sweden/Finland. When there are train problems she may have to buy a new ticket as she has missed her original connection. Best one of those was a time when she needed a new Eurostar ticket and was in Belgium; only one counter open and practically a whole train's worth of passengers lined up. She rang us, we bought a ticket online using that CC and then she could go straight to the machine on the station and pick up the ticket.
She would never abuse the privilege of having this card.
Son, on the other hand, definitely would, so he doesn't get a card on the account! In fairness, he doesn't travel in the way she does so it's not needed.

Generali

This is amazing (to me).

http://m.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/how-australias-big-wet-befuddled-scientists-20130820-2s8k5.html

It rained so much in Aus in 2010 & 2011 that sea levels fell!

I don't think I will spend the rest of my life in Aus but it certainly is an amazing place.

bugslet

Belated Happy Birthday Lydia.

I did mean to say so yesterday, but kept having to deal with a particularly exasperating customer. This morning I got to say, though in politer words, I told you so.:cool:

I'm up for adoption as well, not had parents since my 20s, and given that I had to buy their house following a bankruptcy, it's fair to presume that I wasn't in receipt of any money:(.

misskool wrote: »

is it bad that I feel sorry for the villagers in Balcombe? Not anything about fracking but the fact is they have been descended on by thousands of campaigners and they've been squatting in fields and blocking roads, causing lots of disruption.

They'd be irritting the life out of me. I'd probably be displaying I Cuadrilla signs, just to annoy them.

michaels

Generali wrote: »

This is amazing (to me).

http://m.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/how-australias-big-wet-befuddled-scientists-20130820-2s8k5.html

It rained so much in Aus in 2010 & 2011 that sea levels fell!

I don't think I will spend the rest of my life in Aus but it certainly is an amazing place.

I did the maths as this sounded unlikely but it seems that Aus is 1/46 of the size of the worlds oceans so would need to be 'covered with'/holding water to an average depth of 32cm to lower the seas by 7mm (assuming that the weight of water did not cause the land to sink at all)

Generali

michaels wrote: »

I did the maths as this sounded unlikely but it seems that Aus is 1/46 of the size of the worlds oceans so would need to be 'covered with'/holding water to an average depth of 32cm to lower the seas by 7mm (assuming that the weight of water did not cause the land to sink at all)

Interesting.

So it's fair to say that the article is what us Economists call 'rubbish' eh?

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

Interesting.

So it's fair to say that the article is what us Economists call 'rubbish' eh?

I dunno- a lot of it may be stored in porous rocks. I remember once being puzzled when I visited Majorca at the lack of lakes and reservoirs and water storage facilities. All the riverbeds were dry and we never saw rain but tapwater and irrigation was plentiful.

I know there's also meant to be loads of water in places under the sahara. There's a channel called the Great Underground River (or similar) in Libya IIRC.