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

lostinrates

http://www.first4magnets.com/self-adhesive-magnets-c88

Lydia, which magnets should I get for your magnet trick? I want to do one by each exit.

Wheezy_2

Nikkster wrote: »

On the other hand, I've recently experienced travelling on the Metro in the Belgian capital. The only staff I have ever seen are sat in the ticket booths and the drivers. Even the ticket barriers are very different - if you have a paper ticket, you validate it at a machine vaguely close to the barrier, but the barriers open when you walk up to them (i.e. not when you present a ticket). After living in London (and seeing so much fare-dodging on the bendy buses), it all seems very trusting!

That's because we Belgians are very very trustworthy.

lostinrates wrote: »

I found the metro there really confusing. I was there so very briefly I didn't really get to make head nor tail of it tbh, or really explore the place.:(

Brussels metro confusing? There's only a handful of lines.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

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

OH had to pay £0.60 in tax... I got a rebate, woo hoo!

purch

Wheezy wrote: »

Brussels metro confusing? There's only a handful of lines.

Can anyone lend me a magnifying glass ?? :eek:

lostinrates

Wheezy wrote: »

That's because we Belgians are very very trustworthy.



Brussels metro confusing? There's only a handful of lines.

Yes,....but all the gates were open! It felt......odd.

When I'm in a new city I like to explore different stops on lines, and walk the lines etc. because I was there such a short time we didn't really have time for me to do that so I couldn't really relate the lines to the city.....

I just didn't get a great feel for it.

Generali

purch wrote: »

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 ???

Apropos of nothing, I heard something recently which stated that nobody has died in a house fire in NSW for the last 10 years or something which had a working smoke detector. Maybe worth a little inconvenience for (and perhaps keeping a 9V battery next to the bed).

Another scorcher here today, a bit under 30C I reckon with 32C forecast for tomorrow.

I've got an ultrasound tomorrow on the lump on my neck to see if I have some hideous cancer or a cyst. My money is on cyst. If it's the former then expect a large increase in the whinge factor in my posts.

I found out yesterday that there is a law in NSW that if you are drunk, a copper can tell you to go home. If you refuse then you can be fined quite a lot of money.

Speaking of whinging, I had a $rs1n9 poo day at work today. I spent it copying emails from one place to another from 7.30am to 5pm. I'm still not finished. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarsenal.

Masomnia

I was turned down for a date tonight on the basis that she 'had to do her tax return', which is a new one on me

Seeing her tomorrow though!

Wheezy_2

purch wrote: »

Can anyone lend me a magnifying glass ?? :eek:

Are you still using your Osborne 1 portable computer, purch? :eek:

Wheezy_2

Masomnia wrote: »

I was turned down for a date tonight on the basis that she 'had to do her tax return', which is a new one on me

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well it's tax return day and I've started.

Giggity...

purch

Wheezy wrote: »

Giggity...

I think we need to start thread #11 ASAP :eek: