Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

zagubov

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Ted.com is great.....

Some really, really interesting stuff on there.

I've had to limit my visits to the site, even more addictive than MSE, and you can get sucked in for hours.

I was going to suggest to Lydia that they can be useful in form classes as stimulus for science and/ or morality discussions. In fact they can even fit in science classes alongside the one minute physics vids.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

So many areas that it is hardly news, really.

Well, they'd not lie to all that lot. To you maybe .... but not to that many people

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

That is what I meant. Two of my dad's eight brothers died of TB. All squeezed in a three- bed council flat. My mum remembers when cockroaches were common in people's houses. Nobody talks about them now.

never had cockroaches in uk, and where we lived where they were more prevalent it never reflected well on people who had them, like lice...you kind of know that kids who get them include clean kids...but noone wants to admit to it being theirs. We had roaches in condos and their were vile little bugs. Its what I want to come back as.
DW used to live abroad and it was quite common for people to hang or stick a layer of plastic film over the inside of their windows as a makeshift double-glazing. I found a store near where Wheezy lives called Transatlantic Plastics that supplied the same stuff and I bought some for my own flat. Dunno if it's still around.

You get that stuff still, and people on Old style board recommend cling film or bubble wrap. I think its all a bit middle class round the herts homeland these days. It should be a posh alert that these are considered things of the past perhaps?!

I rmember the bad old days when some people had to share a phone line, and also getting an extension handset was really difficult. The voltage on the line was so low it could barely activate the bell on multiple phones so they were really wary about letting you rent them.

I remember shared phone lines too, just not in UK! And places we had to wait six months to get phones, but were not there long enough. One place my dad (and sometimes mother) were for six months was one of those places. I got to speak to him (sometimes them) once a week for fifteen minutes if there was no bad storm. :rotfl:

PasturesNew

Several birds, one stone..... had some baking spuds to use up (I'd bought them 3 weeks ago so they were starting to sprout) .... and I am hungry .... and it's cold .....

So I nuked two of the spuds for 12 minutes then popped them into the oven, which has the dual purpose of heating up the room.

I'll soon have a belly full of hot jacket spuds/cheese/beans

It's luxury night Chez PN.

LydiaJ

I rather suspect that the cockroaches in our Aussie flat had something to do with our being able to afford to rent it. It was my dad's sabbatical from his UK university. We went for a year August to August. Up until Christmas we lived in a very nice bungalow that we rented from an Aussie academic who was on sabbatical somewhere else, while an Italian academic on sabbatical in England rented our house. When the Aussie family came home at the end of the calendar year, we had to move out of their house into a "normal" rented flat. That was where the cockroaches were. Money was very tight, and the flat with the roaches was the best my parents could afford that would accommodate all 6 of us.

PasturesNew

We had single glazed windows - with a roll of plastic sheeting, cut it to size, then used drawing pins to stick it to the window frames.

michaels

zagubov wrote: »

That is what I meant. Two of my dad's eight brothers died of TB. All squeezed in a three- bed council flat. My mum remembers when cockroaches were common in people's houses. Nobody talks about them now.


DW used to live abroad and it was quite common for people to hang or stick a layer of plastic film over the inside of their windows as a makeshift double-glazing. I found a store near where Wheezy lives called Transatlantic Plastics that supplied the same stuff and I bought some for my own flat. Dunno if it's still around.

Confession Time.

When DW moved in with me we rented out her maisonette in New Cross leaving everything to be sorted by the agent as we lived to far to do anything. When we eventually decided to sell we found that the renters had about 10 people living in the 3 bed and had managed to acquire !!!!-roaches. No doubt a pleasant surprise for the purchasers. However we then brought home the cooker and washing machine as they were pretty new...and then had cockroaches in our old house in St A :eek: The council environmental health got rid of them fairly quick but the embarrassment of having the van pull up outside was pretty high

It was a Victorian house and we used the secondary glazing film in winter which I think was a better option than some of the out of character double glazing other people in the road had put in.

My then GF spent a lot of time as project control officer for an IT supplier at First Direct writing their dial in banking app...which of course was scrapped almost as soon as it went live when it was realised that the internet rather than individual private networks was the way forward. I think I first got internet/email at work in the second half of the 90s. I have pretty much always used webmail for my personal email.

silvercar

It seems only recently ( last 2-3 yrs) that the hand signal for a phone went from moving your index finger in a circular motion to out-stretching your thumb and baby finger.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

Confession Time.

When DW moved in with me ...

It was a Victorian house and we used the secondary glazing film in winter which I think was a better option than some of the out of character double glazing other people in the road had put in.

My then GF spent a lot of time ...

I'm hoping the "then" in "my then GF" refers to a different time from "when DW moved in with me". :eek:

silvercar

Until 2008 this house still had single glazed windows.