Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

Spirit_2

michaels wrote: »

On a cold night like tonight after the week I have had the thought of just snuggling up with someone soft and cuddly is extremely attractive

Good job you have DW.

Just think of Generali and all the snuggling up that is coming his way, he posted that his bed is going have the benefit of at least one of his children climbing in to be kept safe from the storm they were expecting.

What was it about the week you have had?

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

On a cold night like tonight after the week I have had the thought of just snuggling up with someone soft and cuddly is extremely attractive

It's definitely more fat. . I wore cashmere tights under my trousers today and everything felt a bit snug, I have my glow In the dark knickers on now, and they are snugger than their first scary outing when they scared me ,(I dind't know they were low in the dark till they glowed in the dark) .


Just snuggling up would be nice but not nice enough.:D If DH pulled that on me for no good reason I'd be a bit miffed. There are good reasons to just snuggle up and those nights are lovely. .

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

With the Owl, don't you have to have access to the wires/panel?
Mine are next door. When the electricity trips here (usually when I turn on the lights at 1-4am), I have to write a note in the dark and post it through next door's door - then they'll check the panel and flick the switch.

That happened the other night while I was already sitting here without a phone or Internet. Couldn't even make a cup of coffee at 4am safely/

Is that legal? Should you not have access to the switch in case you need to turn it off?

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I don't know much about gold and silver but I do know that the Indians love regulatory intervention in their markets. They still have exchange controls on currency, quite strange stock market rules and significant import tariffs on precious metals and they are relatively aggressive about using these sort of tools to try to control consumer behaviour. Look at the share price movements in Gitanjali Gems, driven by its dealings in the gold markets. On the flip side India are actively cutting their import duties at the moment but the rationale for that is because the market is weak.

Personally I would be very wary about buying into a market on the basis of domestic demand in a country which likes to intervene directly in its markets. There is a lot of chat on the internet about pms but most based on historic success which we all know is not a great indicator of future performance. Also, there's a lot more to the precious metals market than domestic demand in Asia.

I am massively risk adverse though!

You're talking about India which IIRC has Five year Plans, has regions and cities that have been communist since during the Cold War, buys military hardware from Russia and (used to) fill the Eastern Bloc's cinemas with Bollywood movies.

I think they just use market economics where and when it suits them and, if otherwise, don't.

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

It's not just us NP. It's been mentioned in Huff Post:




That final paragraph seems wrong to me. If it's illegal to appoint somebody because they're a particular type, then it is just as illegal to appoint somebody because they're a type that reflects your local population as to appoint somebody because they're the same type as you or the type you find attractive.

I'd be much happier if that company was shown to have or was working towards a more heterogenous hiring pollicy, not merely on grounds of fairness (admirable though that is), but more for the sanity of anyone who was accidentaly hired who would pretty quickly at work assume they were in
(a) a prank show, perhaps of Truman Show dimensions.
(b) an eerie forgotten Twilight zone episode
(c) that movie where the kid ends up inside a movie and only becomes convinced by the narrow range of phone codes and the fact that everybody female looks like a model. :eek:

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Is that legal? Should you not have access to the switch in case you need to turn it off?

No idea if it's legal or not. It's how it is. When you rent small spaces, you come to expect the unusual. I'd bet there's a lot illegal here.... the LL told me "we did the work ourselves" .... and next door has no end of problems themselves with dodgy practices and annoyances.

If I have to turn it off I'll have to knock on their door - and if they're out, phone the EA and if it's the weekend, listen for the emergency callout number and phone that, then wait until that person listens to the message, finds their keys and drives over.

michaels

Spirit wrote: »

I'd be trying to move you to places where NP could be reassured that you were safe and well, the foibles would be important but I think I read that 'compromise' was your new middle name. I would even have an ASDA in the criteria along with a beach. It would be in Greater Herts, possibly IoW or Margate. I went into an ASDA on Saturday to collect a toy I had ordered on line.

It was horrible.

St Albans doesn't have an Asda but sometimes we go to the one in Hatfield and I get to see how the 40% of my income that the govt takes off me is spent.....

Doozergirl

Weeping at Children in Need. This was not the plan for this evening.

Our Asda is just a normal supermarket. The staff are *always* really friendly, I think they have a good recruitment policy. In London, Asda stores (I went in one once) were horrid.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

Edit...DH came home and said ...omg you look well. I even LOOK different

[big clap smiley]

lostinrates

DH wants me to edit and take out omg. He's right he didn't say omg, I can't remember his actual exclamation but he doesn't 'omg'.