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

LydiaJ

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I got 73%.

I did it for my parents, too, and they got 83% - that's, I think, the house-having-a-name and more-than-one-car (which seems to me something much more easily explained by where you live than how you live).

Similarly, I'm not sure that I'm unposh for only having one car, since I'm the only driver. We had two cars when we were a couple.

lostinrates wrote: »

Is she not still here? ]

I'll re post.

Do you mean the one with the cat's face peeking out from under some kind white fabric thing that made her look like a nun-cat wearing a wimple? I didn't immediately think of that when you said "hat". Sorry.

[X-posted with the pic - for which thanks ]

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Try having your back to the wall, shoulder to the wheel, and nose to the grindstone, that'll give an interesting mental image?

A mate of mine from school once had to sit through some torture involving a company "motivational speaker", where he said several times, "there's no "I" in "TEAM"!" as if he was being really, really clever. Mate could only come up with a list of other words which have no "I" in them, such as "fool", "half-baked", and "ego", for the rest of the speech.
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I remember reading about a team-building exercise some company did where they got their employees to learn how to walk across hot coals.

Completely run by gormless oxygen-thieves.

They all burnt their feet because the line of coals was too long. It only works if the path has a maximum length, which they exceeded. If you walk over a short path there isn't time for the heat to penetrate deep enough to do harm.

They were being told it was all about mind over matter or some mystical tosh when it was really all about the specific heat capacity and conduction rate of heat through skin. :eek:

michaels

zagubov wrote: »

I'm going to keep my eyes open for the new Danny Dorling book about London property this time.

I finished another book today so was reading the standard on the way home and saw that piece. Pretty disappointed by his conclusions and recommendations, very socialist - basically we should ration the exisiting housing stock by need rather than by ability to pay rather than building the houses people actually would choose to spend their money on.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Similarly, I'm not sure that I'm unposh for only having one car, since I'm the only driver. We had two cars when we were a couple.



Do you mean the one with the cat's face peeking out from under some kind white fabric thing that made her look like a nun-cat wearing a wimple? I didn't immediately think of that when you said "hat". Sorry.

[X-posted with the pic - for which thanks ]

Lol, that's ok. Its still funny. To me anyway:o

LydiaJ

zagubov wrote: »

I remember reading about a team-building exercise some company did where they got their employees to learn how to walk across hot coals.

Completely run by gormless oxygen-thieves.

They all burnt their feet because the line of coals was too long. It only wokrs if the path has a maximum length, which they exceeded. If you walk over a short path there isn't time for the heat to pnetrate deep enough to do harm.

They were being told it was all about mind over matter or some mystical tosh when it was really all about the specific heat capacity and conduction rate of heat through skin. :eek:

I remember hearing somebody going on about how miraculous it was that some toddler who'd got hot candle wax all over itself hadn't had any burns, and I was sitting there thinking "Well, of course not - the melting point of candle wax is only high enough to be uncomfortable, not high enough to do any actual damage."

vivatifosi

I have started hanging out on Old Style recently. They seem a nice bunch. I have too much time on my hands at the moment - not at work. Still not brave enough to go to Relationships.

ETA: sorry, in my mind that was in response to an earlier post by lir.

lostinrates

Btw, I have got my sitting room so warm with the wood burner today I have had to open the doors into the rest of the house its actually a little uncomfortably warm in my house :rotfl:

Why cannot it do that on colder days?

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

I remember hearing somebody going on about how miraculous it was that some toddler who'd got hot candle wax all over itself hadn't had any burns, and I was sitting there thinking "Well, of course not - the melting point of candle wax is only high enough to be uncomfortable, not high enough to do any actual damage."

Uncomfortable? Where's michaels?

neverdespairgirl

zagubov wrote: »

I remember reading about a team-building exercise some company did where they got their employees to learn how to walk across hot coals.

Completely run by gormless oxygen-thieves.

They all burnt their feet because the line of coals was too long. It only wokrs if the path has a maximum length, which they exceeded. If you walk over a short path there isn't time for the heat to pnetrate deep enough to do harm.

They were being told it was all about mind over matter or some mystical tosh when it was really all about the specific heat capacity and conduction rate of heat through skin. :eek:

My journalist sister's employer tried to get her to go on a vegan diet for a month so she could write about it.


(Edited to add, don't quote, will delete later because of details)

Made sense to me!

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

Posh leader board:
83% NDG parents
73% neverdespairgirl
73% GDB2222 Well, "about the same as you" to NDG
70% Doozergirl
63% silvercar
53% CKhalvashi
47% zagubov
47% hjd
40% LydiaJ
33% Nikkster
33% chewmylegoff Not sure if he's 33% too or just agreeing with Nikkster about shoes inside
27% vivatifosi
27% tomterm8
17% michaels
17% lemonjelly
10% me

37%

Think it was because I had riding lessons, don't read tabloids, keep carrier bags and have paid for first class travel on a train.