Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

misskool

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Please do - Isaac adores the programme, and watches it as often as he can. I hoped it wasn't filling his head with rubbish, and I'm glad to hear it's not.

You can do this with a swill from your cheek but it's more difficult to see. We use strawberries/kiwis (these fruit have tons of chromosomes so it's easier for them to visualise)

1) place vodka in fridge (you want good quality) or if not feeling so flush, rubbing alcohol (try not to use isopropyl alcohol, the stuff you clean computer screens with or methylated spirits but they should work if that is all you have).

2) mix 1 tsp salt, 1 tbsp washing up liquid into a small cupful of water (150ml-ish, which is a small teacup)

3) mash fruit with the salt/washing up liquid mix

4) dollop mash fruit onto j-cloth, pick it up and strain through into a clear glass

5) pour alcohol down the side of the glass. DO NOT MIX, you'll see the DNA appear into the top alcohol layer. If you're very careful, you can pick up the strings with a small bamboo skewer

A very very fun experiment with a colloidal suspension is with cornflour. Buy a big tub, tip the cornflour into a washing up bowl, mix with water until runny. then stir it with your hand, keep stirring and then slam the cornflour mixture. amazes everyone all the time. also good to ask him when he eats jelly (if he does ) if it's a solid or a liquid, gets them every time

i can think of loads of different and cheap science experiments to do if he wants more but presuming his school would have much more advanced equipment that he could do with a science club.

misskool

anyone think this will be comfortable?
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/6179296.htm

CKhalvashi

misskool wrote: »

1) place vodka in fridge (you want good quality) or if not feeling so flush, rubbing alcohol (try not to use isopropyl alcohol, the stuff you clean computer screens with or methylated spirits but they should work if that is all you have).

That's anything Russian, then.

Our local shop is refusing to stock Smirnoff/Russian Standard, so all they really sell is Absolut !!!!!

In other news, Stoptober is back on the DFW (I'm running it again), if anyone's interested, and I'm off to bed shortly after the most boring day I've ever had

CK

Masomnia

CKhalvashi wrote: »

That's anything Russian, then.

Our local shop is refusing to stock Smirnoff/Russian Standard, so all they really sell is Absolut !!!!!

In other news, Stoptober is back on the DFW (I'm running it again), if anyone's interested, and I'm off to bed shortly after the most boring day I've ever had

CK

Is that because of the gay rights thing?

I'm not a big vodka drinker, but I like Zubrowka.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

anyone think this will be comfortable?
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/6179296.htm

Comfortable if you plan on sitting in the Secretary Position and typing at a keyboard on a desk.

I got one quite cheap from Tesco a few years back for about half that price, more Executive Chair style.

I think this is what I got, but it was £20 or so when I bought it http://www.tesco.com/direct/hamburg-high-back-office-chair-black/206-1266.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=206-1266 (also got £20 for it when I sold it 2 years later!)

CKhalvashi

Masomnia wrote: »

Is that because of the gay rights thing?

I'm not a big vodka drinker, but I like Zubrowka.

We were in Serbia a few years back, and brought home 1l of homemade Silvovoza each back, and it could get me hooked!

The only EU country it seems to be available in is Croatia, and that's somewhere I'm probably not going to be going through soon.

CK

GDB2222

misskool wrote: »

anyone think this will be comfortable?
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/6179296.htm

The better desk chairs let you adjust the angle of the seat, but the Argos one looks like it might be comfortable.

Spirit_2

michaels wrote: »

There is some theory that you can get from any person on earth to any other using 7 'links' of people who know each other.

I was thinking that there 4 nice people who I am within 2 links of (ie we have an aquaintance in common) or 3 links (me - aquaintance - aquaintance - nice person). I suspect this probably proves that NP are not randomly selected from the population of the UK.

Any other NPs think they are only a few degrees from other NP?

My 4 are Lydia, NDG (and NDB), Viva and Spirit.

Edit: If anyone thinks this is too close to being personaly identifying please let me know and I can remove the names of the innocent.

More than happy to be related in some way to you micheals. Well to your well heeled mum and dad anyway.:)

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

We didn't have career choices. Close to school leaving date we had 2 minutes to sit down and be asked "what do you want to do?" There was no planning/forethought. As a girl, I was offered: Nursing, Secretary, Work in the local factory or in a shop?

Boys were offered: Get an apprenticeship, join the army, work in the local factory?

That was what we had too.....I had decided on my career as a very small child and did my own research on what qualifications were needed with no help from the school.

Our advisor appeared to want everyone to go on the new fangled YTS scheme, pretty much everyone who went to see him was told it was the best thing since sliced bread...don't think he liked me much when I told him that you would have to be pretty brain dead to think it was a good deal and that you would actually get the training they promised.

Silliest thing he said to me was that my already arranged full time job was inferior to a YTS scheme....yep, so inferior I was going to be paid double the amount of a YTS bod and STILL receive training and of a higher quality.

Nikkster

Zag, hope your DD is safely back.

I have reacquainted myself with the wonders of modern life including a hot shower, clean clothes, sitting on a chair rather than on the floor and travelling by means other than by foot. I am just about to try sleeping-not-in-a-sleeping-bag:)
I can definitely confirm that I won't be abandoning house-dwelling to live in a tent anytime soon.

What's been going on with the NP in the past few days?