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

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

vivatifosi wrote: »

Why do you want to wallop Hamish? .

I have that effect on people...:D

But thanks to LIR and Nikkster for the threads....:beer:

LydiaJ

Nikkster wrote: »

I had the slightly odd experience of getting a rather in depth description from him over the phone (I was at work too, just nipped out of the office). Should add - it wasn't a running commentary! Just what the consultant had said.

My dad showed me the "before and after" pics of his benign prostate exam taken with the fibre optic thingy.

Nikkster wrote: »

Not as interesting as my mum explaining to my dad what one would involve :eek:

Or my mum telling me that my dad's prostate treatment hadn't caused any side effects, while both of us studiously avoided any mention of what the side effects might have been.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Many people agree that storage heaters aren't much good if you're out all day as that's when they're giving out the cheap heat - but if you're at work all day you're missing it.

I like to turn heat on when I need it, not have to guess the day before and leave it on overnight to charge up. Some days I need none, some days I might want just one hour ... won't know until it happens, on the day, at the precise moment I think "bit nippy"

Agree entirely. We had them in our first married flat and decided not to bother with them. We just plugged convectors in.

tomterm8

purch wrote: »

Smoke Alarms.
..
Why do they need a battery anyway when they are mains powered ?, and how does the battery runout if they are mains powered ?

Smoke alarms need a battery in case the thing that caused the fire in the first place is electrical and shorts out the main fuse box.

All batteries discharge a little bit over time, and the alarm uses some just checking that the battery is working.

The intermittent beep happens at 1 am in the morning because it was designed by an engineer who worked nights and had a bad row with his wife the night before. His name is Bob. He likes fishing, archery, and being an evil !!!!!!!.

It's also worth vacuuming around the outside of the smoke alarm because electrical static can be a cause of the beep.

lostinrates

lostinrates wrote: »

Inks tear, I'll try and get my head rou d mortgages to or row.

I cannot even d
O my own middle name tonight. .

Taking a deep breath I'm trying this again. ( I am positive macputer helped me with that)

'Nikkster, I'll try and get my head mortgages tomorrow. I cannot even do my own middle name tonight'

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Or my mum telling me that my dad's prostate treatment hadn't caused any side effects, while both of us studiously avoided any mention of what the side effects might have been.

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Lucky, lucky you.

purch

tomterm8 wrote: »

It's also worth vacuuming around the outside of the smoke alarm because electrical static can be a cause of the beep.

Thanks for that, I will inform the "help"..... (she was kicking me last night "do something.....do something !!!!")

....and whilst we are on the Whys ?

Why does it only ever sound an alarm when somebody who lives 1/2 mile away is boiling an egg, yet you can guarantee if 5 blokes were stood underneath the bloody thing smoking huge cigars it wouldn't make a sound ???

chewmylegoff

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I don't think so - it would be about £60-£70 each way! So I'll just have to manage.

This strike isn't about pay, though. It's about cutting ticket office staff. Which seems pretty bloody inevitable, because so few people actually buy tickets - we all use pay-as-you-go oysters or travelcards now.

They never strike about pay. It's always 'elf n safety concerns which can strangely only be alleviated by a pay rise.

Last time there was a tube strike I got to work in record time and the jubilee line was running the best and most efficient service in memory. They should have them more often!

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

Just been on trying to sort out everything online and wondering if the internet's really that good for financial matters. By the time you've remembered the 3rd 5th and 6th letters of your third pet's middle name which you once thought you'd remember forever you end up worried if you'll be frozen out of your bank or email account forever and have to hire a hacker to get back into your account.

That's my experience.... and, if you are locked out (and you need it NOW), you phone up and if you still can't answer the questions on the automated system, nor make any human (if you can get one) understand you, all they can offer is they'll send you your password in two separate letters over the next 2-3 weeks.... so you go for that, then they arrive and it's all too late, so you chuck those in the pile ... and next time have the same problem

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

easy mistake, they both look the same.

That's annoying. All you can do is find some labeller and stick a label on the one you use least in public. Not everybody's got a good labelling machine though. I do, I label everything

PasturesNew

Well it's tax return day and I've started. What I do is gather up all the statements in a pile, but I also like to have a copy on my PC in case one goes missing over the year.

Luckily I'm ahead of the game on this one, so just printed to PDF all my statements from April 2013 to today...... because when you go back in the CoOp account to the statements page, it doesn't go back as far as April 1.5 years ago, so, if I hadn't done this last January I'd be missing a few.... luckily I did it last year when I did my tax return, for this reason.

You'd think they'd keep the statements online back to the full previous tax year, to help those people who suddenly find they are one short...

Remembered though, as I was going through my statements - I changed my bank account during this tax year and they transferred all my DDs to the new account; so I now need to gather statements from two banks. Doh.

I meant to keep all my internet expenses (hosting etc) in my Coop bank and keep that for my online income/expenditure... and my new account for "real life", but it's not worked out like that.

Looks like I won't owe any tax as I probably paid enough through PAYE already.... but I earnt more in 2012-2013 than I recalled. Turnover plus employment, looks like £13k