Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

PasturesNew

bugslet wrote: »

If I could work out how to get picture from phone to computer, I'd happily post it.

You post it to somebody who does these things... they do it then post it back... should only take a week

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

This is what we found - when somebody's needs are fast-changing/suddenly appearing, the system moves too slowly; so slowly that sometimes all the effort's wasted as you never get to that point before things changed again.

This is what I find too.....I think it would be useful to know for example what all my test results are on a good day v a bad day. These are so unpredictable. But because we are all still stabbing in the dusk if not dark after ten years it would make sense to me if I could call and say ' today is bad' and them take tests then, not in a few weeks when they have an appointment and I am well enough to get to it, then for me to say....today I am more like me....and see if there are differences that show what is 'me' and what is causing the differences. Obviously big organisations cannot respond like that, I get it, but the problem is our bodies don't get it!

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

Maybe you'll start to realise now that cycling's not the answer to everything and it actually exposes you to daft risks.

Perhaps we can reassess together.

How can a man with 2 kids and a 90 minute bus ride to work get 2 hours of exercise in 5 days a week?

lemonjelly

LydiaJ wrote: »

It depends how much it is, I think. I would happily borrow or lend a small amount to family or friends that I trusted without worrying about interest. Borrowing tens of thousands from my dad in order to buy a house, however, is different, and I am glad to be paying him interest at a rate that beats his savings accounts.

Valid points. I guess no-one has ever borrowed a substantial amount from me.
That said, parents didn't charge interest on my car loan.

LydiaJ wrote: »

We tried to teach Avatar-dog that he was not allowed on the furniture. What he learnt was that he was not allowed on the furniture when we were there. I remember coming downstairs to fetch a book or something when we'd fairly newly got him, and hearing him hurriedly getting back off the sofa as I came down the stairs. Later, he got bolder about it, and if one of us came down after we'd gone up to bed, he would be there on the sofa, with his head down on his paws, his ears flattened down and his tail thumping, looking up at us with a slightly guilty look as if to say "You're not going to turf me off, are you? Because I'm allowed on here once you've gone up to bed, aren't I?"

Our cats are the same. Every morning as I descend the stairs I can hear them jumping off furniture & making for the flap...

vivatifosi wrote: »

A question for our resident legal eagles. Given the seriousness of keeping three people as slaves for 30 years, one of whom was a child, why have those arrested for this been bailed?

I understand that being arrested is not the same as being charged, but this is so grave a case, and the couple are allegedly foreign, so surely a flight risk... I know if I was facing a lengthy jail sentence I would be plotting my escape from the clutches of the law asap. Unless I was innocent of course.

I suspect that they believe the chances of the arrested folks fleeing are minimal?

lemonjelly

Generali wrote: »

Perhaps we can reassess together.

How can a man with 2 kids and a 90 minute bus ride to work get 2 hours of exercise in 5 days a week?

Yeah. This "annoys" me, in that I don't get to do the amount of walking I used to do.
I used to walk 7-10 hours a week. I used to get so much from it too - thinking time, listening to music time, etc. Now I don't walk, I really miss it.

lemonjelly

I have no idea how much of the following is internet mythology...:

1. Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

2. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

3. The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. Both wives lost a child while living in the White House.

4. Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. Both Presidents were shot in the head.

5. Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy. Kennedy’s secretary was named Lincoln.

6. Both were assassinated by Southerners.

7. Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

8. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

9. John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

10. Both assassins were known by their three names. Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

11. Lincoln was shot at the theater named ‘Kennedy.’ Kennedy was shot in a car called ‘Lincoln.’

12. Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse. Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

13. Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

14. A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland. A week before Kennedy was shot, he was in Marilyn Monroe.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

Perhaps we can reassess together.

How can a man with 2 kids and a 90 minute bus ride to work get 2 hours of exercise in 5 days a week?

Oh gen, oh, gen, oh gen........

neverdespairgirl

vivatifosi wrote: »

A question for our resident legal eagles. Given the seriousness of keeping three people as slaves for 30 years, one of whom was a child, why have those arrested for this been bailed?

I understand that being arrested is not the same as being charged, but this is so grave a case, and the couple are allegedly foreign, so surely a flight risk... I know if I was facing a lengthy jail sentence I would be plotting my escape from the clutches of the law asap. Unless I was innocent of course.

You can't remand someone in custody unless and until they are charged. Police bail (which is what appears to have happened in this case) isn't the same thing as bail from a court.

neverdespairgirl

Hope you're feeling OK Gen - coming a cropper like that is a massive shock to the system, and can leave you feeling very wobbly, even if your bones are all intact. So take care of yourself for a bit!

lostinrates

Ok, so I have been thinking about my curtains, There is a google I age of 'my' fabric as a flat panel on a wall in a white room which I hate and panicked but thanks to looking at it with the white covered over its the harshness of the white I hate.

I do like the idea of them hung like a canvas out of the frame though, but also would miss the lux of of fabric overload. So think I might think about using one width per curtain and make a frame (no pelmet or anything, but outer edge to each just puckered not quite flat panel) of very plain but gathered silk. That way there is fabric to avoid meanness, the joy of the fabric, the joy of the pattern, the play of texture and lux yet with a simple unfussy header.

I think this stuff deserves better than the cheapy poles we've been putting up as stop gaps though, if we are going to see them.