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

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

In weather news, it may be a bit nippy over there but it's going to be 50C in the Pilbara in WA tomorrow:eek:. That's properly hot. Hotter weather than I've ever been in I think. It might have been that warm in the Middle East I suppose.

The hottest I've ever been out in was 47 degrees in Arizona. It felt like walking in a hairdryer. Horrid. My Aussie cousin collapsed from heatstroke in the high 40s and managed to get to the nearest house and turn the hose on himself. That was in Melbourne when it was really hot a couple of years back. My QLD uncle on the other hand, wears a coat when it is below 25 as it is too cold.

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

The hottest I've ever been out in was 47 degrees in Arizona. It felt like walking in a hairdryer. Horrid. My Aussie cousin collapsed from heatstroke in the high 40s and managed to get to the nearest house and turn the hose on himself. That was in Melbourne when it was really hot a couple of years back. My QLD uncle on the other hand, wears a coat when it is below 25 as it is too cold.

I don't think I've been in 47C. Probably 44C or something when I've been out West or in Canberra or something. It was really hot when I was gardening in Canberra once to help a mate out.

I've certainly done ~40-50km on the bicycle in 40+C. It's fine as long as you keep drinking water and remember to eat. I think you're ok if it's 38C or less. It's unpleasant when the weather is hotter than you are.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

They first came out costing $2.99 in 1960 which is a little under $25 today.

Which would have been the peak of their cost. My sister got hers about 10 years later than that.

The inventor died in 2013.

lemonjelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

I need a new windscreen. At some point over the break I recall a car going fast in the other direction and a WHACK on the screen - I couldn't see anything at the time, but yesterday when I got in the car I realised a creeping line on the passenger side. The whack hit in the black border area at the base of the screen on the far passenger side (about 3' from where I drive/look as I'm so small) .... and, since then, a crack has been creeping up.

I need to dig out my insurance documents to see if I'm covered for that and what the excess is. Such a pain in the butt.... never had a new windscreen in over 30 years of driving.

If you're fully comp, you can usually take it to autoglass & they do it for you & recover the money from the insurer. No excess payable!:)

lemonjelly

Spirit wrote: »

I like the armagedon threads where folk prepare and from the tone of it , look forward to, cold snaps, floods, gale force winds and the ruin that faces those of us without wind up torches.

PasturesNew wrote: »

... and they'd be RIGHT.... I used mine the other night to go out and find my stick to fix my fence Without that I'd have had to lie here all night listening to it flapping about....

I was given a wind up torch for a birthday a few years ago.

This christmas, I was given a solar power & wind up radio, that also has a torch built in.

Brilliantly, that means that I can now say I am the owner of a solar powered torch!:p

lemonjelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

If I remember rightly, when my sister was 8 her main present was an Etch a Sketch.

I got an etch-a-sketch a couple of years ago!:p

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

If you're fully comp, you can usually take it to autoglass & they do it for you & recover the money from the insurer. No excess payable!:)

I am fully comp... need to find out if I changed insurance companies though.

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

Brilliantly, that means that I can now say I am the owner of a solar powered torch!:p

Ah, but that might be handy if you're on holiday in Cornwall, on a sunny day, and want to go exploring the caves

lemonjelly

purch wrote: »

My youngest sons "best" mate received a Samsung 64 inch HD 3D Smart Telly, along with an XBox 1 for Xmas. Of course this kid (and most of his other friends) also had i-phone 5's the day they were released etc etc.

My son wonders why I don't always buy him the latest gadgets, especially as "you are loads richer than his dad", and I always answer....."that's why I am !!"

He has an XBox 360, HTC One phone, i-plod touch and a decent 32 inch TV all of which are perfectly adequate...........I am such a !!!!! father !!!

I remember growing up, & a family friend had a commodore 64, then an amiga the day they came out, then various sega's/playstations the days those came out.

We had a commodore vic 20, an atari, & eventually a mega drive. Although we were a little envious at the time (my brother more than me, I was less fussed) looking back, we weren't deprived.

About 10 years ago, whilst dealing with debt work as an adviser somewhere, there was this serial client who would regularly bring in new debts that he'd "just found out about". He was on incapacity (I was convinced he was also working, but couldn't prove it). He had repeat warnings that taking on additional debts would result in his case being closed, but he'd continue. One january, he brought in another new debt. It turned out to be a loan to buy his 12yo a quad bike.

This was the final straw for me, & I advised him that it wasn't justified. His response - "my child is not going to be deprived because I'm on incapacity!".

I pointed out hundreds of kids didn't have quad bikes & are not classed as deprived. Accordingly, I shut his file & wrote to all creditors.

lemonjelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah, but that might be handy if you're on holiday in Cornwall, on a sunny day, and want to go exploring the caves

I'm spending evenings the next 2 weeks working out where to holiday this summer. Looking for 3 destinations, & wondering whether to do cornwall again or not. Really loved newquay 2 years ago!:)