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

Nikkster

zagubov wrote: »

Do not be alarmed. It is a requirement that all Nice People must either like or dislike mushrooms and must either live inside Hertfordshire or outside it. We've set the entry requirements deliberately low as you'll have noticed.

There is an outside to Hertfordshire? I thought there was inner and outer (and the newly discovered -on-Sea)?

michaels

pfpf wrote: »

I very very rarely visit this board but I thought i'd post here simply because of the title of the thread so as to try and clean some of the dirt off me that I picked up from reading most of the other threads.

HNY.

Hey Monkey Man - it is amazing the flotsam and jetsum that ends up washing up here. A fellow MBer (MB goddess?) MsKool is also one of our number.

Welcome

michaels

Nikkster wrote: »

There is an outside to Hertfordshire? I thought there was inner and outer (and the newly discovered -on-Sea)?

So are you properly online now niks?

When are NP taking down their decorations, I know LIR has been doing it in bits for a week, we are going to do it tomorrow.

zagubov

Nikkster wrote: »

There is an outside to Hertfordshire? I thought there was inner and outer (and the newly discovered -on-Sea)?

Yes. Herfordshire scientists have discovered that Hertfordshire is not actually outsideless despite the obvious lack of any need for an outside world.

This outer area contains Flatland, Narnia, Brigadoon (where I live), Hogwarts (where lydia works), and Oz (where generali lives).
Oh and a stack of weird things calling themselves countries.:eek:

Nikkster

michaels wrote: »

So are you properly online now niks?

When are NP taking down their decorations, I know LIR has been doing it in bits for a week, we are going to do it tomorrow.

Not yet. Did the signing up today, engineer due round in a couple of weeks. Feel relieved that I can stop pondering and calculating and keeping an eye on offers for 18 months though

Decs coming down tomorrow here as well.

michaels

zagubov wrote: »

This outer area contains Flatland, Narnia, Brigadoon (where I live), Hogwarts (where lydia works), and Oz (where generali lives).

Or 'The Badlands' as we in Inner Herts call them

Tahlullah

pfpf wrote: »

I very very rarely visit this board but I thought i'd post here simply because of the title of the thread so as to try and clean some of the dirt off me that I picked up from reading most of the other threads.

HNY.

Hello and welcome. I too come here because of the bad taste that is left in the mouth after reading other threads. Probably not the place to say it because we are expected to be respectful of each other here and leave our garbage at the door, but if not here, then where?

I have come close to leaving this site on several occasions. We are shocked and saddened when we hear of children who are bullied to the extreme when at scool and express disbelief that it can happen without someone, a parent or teacher noticing. But it does happen and the bully goes unchallenged and becomes an adult. And that adult comes onto these forums and perpetuates the learned behaviour. And it goes unchallenged. Or if challenged, they bully to such an extent that the person who dares say anything retreats because there is no support, no backup, no redress.

I can't even begin to express my dismay at the way others are treated. As if they are stupid, or undeserving. They are even told so and labelled as such.
Yes, I have stuck my head above the parapet before and have on more than one occasion received it full barrel. Why? Because the bully doesn't even realise they are a bully and possibly teaching their children that this is acceptable behaviour, the way to communicate with others who do not support your point of view. And so it continues, never to end. The cycle of repression.

This is the only place on this site where you can feel safe. I am glad I found it.

zagubov

Welcome!

Spirit's descrption of this thread in Post #1 is a good summary of what this is all about.
Everyone may
- discuss things others may regard as trivial
- ask for advice and information
- discuss problems and off-thread and off-forum disputes (without naming names).
- canvass others on their views.

And so on.

This forum area is one of the three areas in the forum not available to search engines. You cannot read it unless logged in.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

When are NP taking down their decorations, I know LIR has been doing it in bits for a week, we are going to do it tomorrow.

I am intending to do ours tomorrow. (I mean later today, technically - that is, after I've been to sleep and woken up again.) Whether or not I actually get round to it is another matter.

pfpf wrote: »

no I don't. is that a "Debate house prices & the economy" initial chat up line?

No, just a Nice People Thread one. There are others. A long time ago we found that NPT regulars included what we suspected might be a higher than usual proportion of mushroom-o-philes, Herts residents, scientists, and Jews (or partners of Jews). So we often ask newcomers where they stand on these things. Not that any of it makes any difference to how welcome people are.

So, it's nice to have you. Do stick around. :hello: Which forums do you usually hang out on?

Tahlullah wrote: »

Hello and welcome. I too come here because of the bad taste that is left in the mouth after reading other threads. .... This is the only place on this site where you can feel safe. I am glad I found it.

Hello again Tahlullah. Glad you feel safe in here.

We have discussed bullying several times on the NPT. Mostly not forum bullying, I have to say, but definitely school bullying - mostly from the PoV of "This has happened to my child at school, so what do the rest of you think I should do about it?"

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

So are you properly online now niks?

When are NP taking down their decorations, I know LIR has been doing it in bits for a week, we are going to do it tomorrow.

Well, a couplee of days anyway. .

I didn't start pulling them down on Boxing Day



Strictly speaking I like them up longer but its such a sad business that I just didn't think it would be nice to pack away lone this year, doing it on Monday alone after the nice break DH and I have had, wondering if it will ever happen again! . .