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

Wheezy_2

silvercar wrote: »

Trying to keep calm here. With parent who is literally reading the daily mail headline, that foreign aid should be used to help every single flood risk property here, and can't see anything at all wrong with that.

That's silly. We all know the solution to the floods is repealing the gay marriage act.

silvercar wrote: »

Moving on to safer subjects like smoking in cars with kids.

What about smoking in cars with westies? :eek:

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Our neighbours over the road read the Mail, we know because they mentioned seeing us in it....but they are that sort of people. They have 4 cars (x5, s4 cabrio, treet ka and punto) and don't use their drive or garage and one day daughter parked hers half way across our drive making it pretty much impossible for us to get in and out then went out with her mates all day not leaving the key. I'm afraid I was so annoyed I rang the council and she got ticketed. Now they no longer talk to us.

I really miss the you magazine. My das used to read ALL the Sunday papers. Now we rarely get any papers. Sometimes I remember to get one free if I'm In waitrose but rarely, Shame because they are handy with the woodburner. I buy them on the basis of which is thickest.

lostinrates

Wheezy wrote: »

What about smoking in cars with westies? :eek:

Why is smoking in cars less bad than mobiles in cars? There is often an amount of distraction in rumaging for/ lighting up.

vivatifosi

Did anyone watch the Life of Rock with Brian Pern last night? Very silly but quite funny too.

Wheezy_2

vivatifosi wrote: »

Did anyone watch the Life of Rock with Brian Pern last night? Very silly but quite funny too.

Haven't watched it, but if you tell us it's un-missable, I'll catch it on iplayer.

vivatifosi

Wheezy wrote: »

Haven't watched it, but if you tell us it's un-missable, I'll catch it on iplayer.

I wouldn't call it unmissable. It is quite silly, yet clever at the same time. It depends on whether you like really silly humour and Peter Gabriel references. Parts of it I found really funny, parts a bit cringy.

neverdespairgirl

vivatifosi wrote: »

Now that's what confuses me about this country. Why aren't the Bedford levels in Bedford? Why isn't Leeds Castle in Yorkshire? Blooming use of place names twice.

Leeds Castle is in Leeds! Perfectly sensible, really (-:

michaels wrote: »

Well it has become a good meeedya story init, Govt scrabbling, blamestorming etc.

This morning it was let slip that all of 60 houses had been flooded on the levels which suddenly put into perspective the calls to spend £10m dredging compared to the number of homes that money could protect spent for example on the banks of the Thames or Severn.

Flood damage and risk isn't just about houses, though - also about businesses, roads, train lines, schools, other non-residential buildings, too.

Doozergirl wrote: »

Watching a news article this morning, around 60 houses are flooded on the levels - land which was wetland for thousands of years? If £10 million is being pumped (excuse the pun) into trying to keep them dry, wouldn't it just be better for the long term to allow the water to reclaim the land and buy the villagers out? If we are generally going to be getting wetter? They can't be getting all that much farming done.

It's been wetlands for a very long time - the medieval monks managed to keep bits dry, though, so it clearly isn't rocket science.

neverdespairgirl

zagubov wrote: »

My secret fear that this thread consists of just me and two or three people with multiple personality disorder grows stronger by the day.:eek:

I agree with me....


er...

I mean you, obviously.

PasturesNew wrote: »

As I understand it King Canute sat there to PROVE he couldn't get the sea to stop coming in... not the opposite as most retellings imply

Yes, I think he was trying to convince over worshipping aides and advisors that he wasn't immortal or godlike, he was just human.

neverdespairgirl

silvercar wrote: »

Moving on to safer subjects like smoking in cars with kids.

With you there, it's obviously a good idea. Like pickling the little sods in gin, or giving them whisky if they won't sleep.

vivatifosi wrote: »

Lir, I hadn't even heard of the Somerset Levels before this. It's a geography lesson for me as much as anything else. I'm guessing that they are naturally marshy and low lying.

Have you not? If you go to Glastonbury, there's a great view from the tor, including the levels. At the moment, obviously, it's more of a sea view or lake view, though!

vivatifosi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Have you not? If you go to Glastonbury, there's a great view from the tor, including the levels. At the moment, obviously, it's more of a sea view or lake view, though!

I've never been to Glastonbury either. At least I've heard of that though. I've been to Bath several times as the company that I used to work for had its HQ there, but really haven't been to Somerset much at all.