Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

If you are estranged from the parent not the child and the child is now an adult and you are happy to talk to the child then why not?

On the other hand the child may be doing it in part as a rebellion against their parent in which case do you want to be involved in that sort of game?

Because parent most emphatically wishes not and could cause difficulties. sure 19 year old does not know full details , don't want to be asked....or to answer untruthfully. . Or truthfully. That's sort of game does not appeal, as you say. Miss them ....nearest I will ever have to children!

I don't think 19 year old is game playing, But do think its telling they have only contacted for help. Also think that the level of help they have asked for is inappropriate and that if that's said any way of saying it after no contact sounds ( in various different drafts) unloving, smug, superior, bloody nasty. If one was in regular contact you could just say....come on....whose work is this?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

....nearest I will ever have to children!

There's always me. I'm practically an orphan these days!

lostinrates

Grrr...was meant to go out in the morning but there is going to be fog and minus three in the towns (which means about minus four or five here) so I am cancelling.

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

Grrr...was meant to go out in the morning but there is going to be fog and minus three in the towns (which means about minus four or five here) so I am cancelling.

But -5 for you is about 20 degrees colder than inside, so just like 3 degrees for (some of) the rest of us

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

But -5 for you is about 20 degrees colder than inside, so just like 3 degrees for (some of) the rest of us

No, its just I get on with it, after moaning here :D


Thinking about more important things now.

I've given up trying to find a crewel with monkeys we both like and can afford. DH likes this. I'm not keen on the bright pink, but agree it works in the room.

I hadn't thought of black, but it works with the modern still life paintings we have bought...all have dark backgrounds. Just not sure about using it on all the windows........


Poor picture quality because its dark....

GDB2222

Am I wrong to be perplexed by the following, in Javascript?

y="5"*5 -> 25 as the answer, ie the string gets converted into a number
y="5"+5 -> 55 as the answer, rather than 10, ie the + gets used as a string operator rather than an arithmetical one.

It could have been implemented either way, and this seems inconsistent.

(Just learning Javascript, as I want to try out an internet project.)

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Grrr...was meant to go out in the morning but there is going to be fog and minus three in the towns (which means about minus four or five here) so I am cancelling.

8 degrees here tomorrow,

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I've given up trying to find a crewel with monkeys

Yeah, happens to all of us all the time .... d4mn those crewels with monkeys, so hard to find

*opens google*

Spirit_2

zagubov wrote: »

Well done (and welcome back). Soon you'll be at your cognitive peak!

I'm there already. QUOTE]

Oh no. This is as good as it gets. I am also at my peak.

Apart form verbal reasoning it is all downhill from here.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

the + gets used as a string operator rather than an arithmetical one.

Seems reasonable as it's not in speech marks.

Never did javascript though ....