Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

John_Pierpoint

tomterm8 wrote: »

I suspect this is an example of bad science http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513781/moores-law-and-the-origin-of-life/ . It falls under the straight-line fallacy. (i.e, just because all the datapoints you have fall on a straight-line, it doesn't mean that the datapoints you don't have fall on the same straight-line)

Surely even if the hypothesis was correct, the so called "life" on some pre-earth body would be so primitive as to appear in an organic chemistry text book?

Coming next, the life force of a supermarket carrier bag?

John_Pierpoint

vivatifosi wrote: »

My brother showed me this game over Christmas. We both love geography. It is one of those games where you will go "huh, what's the point?" or it'll be the greatest thing since sliced bread. No middle ground. And if you do get addicted, you'll become an expert on the flora of Australia, road markings in South Africa and the key street signs in Brazil...

http://geoguessr.com/

7586 on first attempt, messed up seriously on the Brazilian .roadside - did not realise one could simply jump oceans.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

I guess Miriam has gone down in. The name stakes then.


Boys are nice. I like boys..

One of the two best options.

Besides, you know you do well with boys, you've got one nice one already

I like boys. I like girls, too. So I'd have been happy either way! OH said that with a younger brother, and no sisters, and a son, but no daughters, he felt that a girl would be outside his comfort zone. But he usually likes being outside his comfort zone, so perhaps it would have been a good thing?

silvercar wrote: »

Bless Isaac. How exciting! Did you ask to know the sex? We decided not to find out until they were born. Luckily as the hospital had a policy of not telling.

Thinking hat on for boys names.

She asked us at the beginning, and asked us again to make sure before she told us.

We did want to know - we didn't with Isaac, but we thought it would be a lot easier for him in particular to get used to a baby brother or baby sister, rather than a baby sibling. And my mother said she'd definitely want to find out if it were her, as she'd not been given the option with any of us.

My family suggested about 20 names between them over dinner. Every single one got the thumbs down from OH - I reckon it might be easier not to ask him, but to just tell him!

neverdespairgirl

silvercar wrote: »

I know a couple of men who have married images of their sisters - scary and one who has married a younger version of his mother - even more scary.

My siblings and I all look alike in that we have similar colouring (same hair colour, same eyes, all quite pale skinned) but OH doesn't look anything like my brother, and bruv's girlfriend is Korean, and looks absolutely nothing like any of us. Phew! Some suitable androgynous Greek name doesn't need to be applied.

chewmylegoff

[NP mode off] Tip the bin men? What? Seriously? Do people really tip the bin men? They refuse to take the rubbish away if it is shaped a bit funny (reminds me of a joke we had about the cleaners at school "I'm not cleaning that it's dirty!!) and they wake me up every Monday morning at 5am by intentionally knocking the bins over. I'd rather burn a ten pound note.

zagubov

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Surely even if the hypothesis was correct, the so called "life" on some pre-earth body would be so primitive as to appear in an organic chemistry text book?

Coming next, the life force of a supermarket carrier bag?

I don't buy this. There's a brilliant book on early life forms called "Seven Clues to the origin of Life" which suggests we arose as parasites on a form of life simple enough to generate spontaneously. Evolution speeds up and slows down as circumstances change

Spores don't last for millions of years, or at any rate they didn't manage to revive any from King Tut's tomb after only a few thousand years.

Tahlullah

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't have binmen.... I take all my stuff to the tip. It's complicated... there is a bin .... but I don't use it.

I have the same problem. My bins hve not been emptied for so long, I no longer know what day they come for which bin.

I accept that I pay my Council Tax which includes refuse collection, but it's more trouble than it's worth. Far easier to load the car and go to the recycling centre at a time that suits me, than have my boxes left because I mixed my green with brown glass.

tomterm8

chewmylegoff wrote: »

[NP mode off] Tip the bin men? What? Seriously? Do people really tip the bin men? They refuse to take the rubbish away if it is shaped a bit funny (reminds me of a joke we had about the cleaners at school "I'm not cleaning that it's dirty!!) and they wake me up every Monday morning at 5am by intentionally knocking the bins over. I'd rather burn a ten pound note.

Er, the reason that people "tip" the bin men is to stop the things you mention happening.

"Tip" = "Bribe"

vivatifosi

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

7586 on first attempt, messed up seriously on the Brazilian .roadside - did not realise one could simply jump oceans.

That's where I come unstuck playing one minute version, one rain forest looks much the same as another, a dirt road in Australia looks much the same as one in Botswana if there are no eucalyptus trees in shot. The thing I find hardest though is distinguishing a grit road in the Nordic countries from one in Canada, all of these are big point losers.

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

My brother showed me this game over Christmas. We both love geography. It is one of those games where you will go "huh, what's the point?" or it'll be the greatest thing since sliced bread. No middle ground. And if you do get addicted, you'll become an expert on the flora of Australia, road markings in South Africa and the key street signs in Brazil...

http://geoguessr.com/

Youngest loves all things like that....and in fact, has become addicted to that very thing!