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

neverdespairgirl

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."

You'd have to be pretty thick in the first place to leave toddler and candle in a position to interact, anyway, surely?

Although toddler might have shown greater powers of levitation or climbing than anyone could reasonably expect. Isaac scared the living daylights out of me when he was 18 months old by reaching a calpol bottle that should have been well out of his reach, and taking off the childproof cap and swigging some, all when I was in the loo for no time at all. Childproof my ar4e.....

LydiaJ

vivatifosi wrote: »

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.

I recognised it immediately as responding to lir's post.

After our recent discussion on the NPT about the MFW forum, I've started dropping in there a bit. They are also a nice bunch, and reading some of their stuff does help to remind me to be a bit more MSE. All the same, I'm only planning to post a bit on some of their diaries, not start one of my own, or make a sig with lots of stats about my money.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

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.

Its a bit of cross over people sometimes. (Though not enough, as I found out today, to use the term 'whoopsies' on relationships board. :rotfl: ) old style has similar scrums at times,

But there are very lovely people on the boards.

I mean peeps. Remember OUR board's reputation, and look at how lovely you lot are? :T

LydiaJ

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My journalist sister's employer ...

:doh:

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

You'd have to be pretty thick in the first place to leave toddler and candle in a position to interact, anyway, surely?

Although toddler might have shown greater powers of levitation or climbing than anyone could reasonably expect. Isaac scared the living daylights out of me when he was 18 months old by reaching a calpol bottle that should have been well out of his reach, and taking off the childproof cap and swigging some, all when I was in the loo for no time at all. Childproof my ar4e.....

I can't remember the details of the incident, but I imagine it was something similar. I remember discovering that DS had worked out how to open the front door and gone out through it when I had no idea he could reach or would know what to do. :eek:

Nikkster

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 once helped a friend of a friend who was setting up a similar company, using broken glass instead of hot coals. I walked across it no problem. Then pointed out it was probably less risky than walking home from a night out with no shoes on, which I did fairly often in those days.

SingleSue

Re toilets....I have one which is seperate to the room where the bath is. We do have a shower over the bath but it doesn't work.

Growing up, we had a seperate bath and toilet upstairs and a downstairs loo off the conservatory downstairs.

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

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.

I think he's saying the prices have uncoupled so much from the value of the products that the market no longer works. I'm easy-going about what methods fix it. I reckon we could build far more but the price needs to be right for the people who need it. The current wave of immigration seems to be more evenly dispersed around the UK compared with previous ones. We need more new towns and cities and disperse some of the work from London

The current system's bonkers.

There was a radio 4 comedy show that suggests our current floodplain building is like building cottages on a volcano and acting surprised at what happens next.

zagubov

Nikkster wrote: »

I once helped a friend of a friend who was setting up a similar company, using broken glass instead of hot coals. I walked across it no problem. Then pointed out it was probably less risky than walking home from a night out with no shoes on, which I did fairly often in those days.

You mean that's a business idea?:eek:

Nikkster! Tell me you made that up!:D

michaels

zagubov wrote: »

I think he's saying the prices have uncoupled so much from the value of the products that the market no longer works. I'm easy-going about what methods fix it. I reckon we could build far more but the price needs to be right for the people who need it. The current wave of immigration seems to be more evenly dispersed around the UK compared with previous ones. We need more new towns and cities and disperse some of the work from London

The current system's bonkers.

<on topic>Value is a tricky word though isn't it - what is the value of a loaf of bread if your family is starving?

I am very against the appreciation of land values as a result of rising population going to individuals rather than the country as a whole and often suggest that there should be no tax relief on ppr beyond inflation as a starting point but I do think the solution is to allow building to go ahead much more freely - generally if something sells for much more than it costs to produce competitors will turn up and the extra profit will disappear. If for some reason there is something preventing supply from increasing (such as a monopoly) then the govt gets involved but for housing it is the govt and their restrictions that are preventing supply from responding. Put these two ideas together and you allow builders to build but make sure than the majority of the gain to landowners goes to all tax payers not only those lucky enough by reason of birthright to own the land. </on topic>

I need to start buying jewellery and throwing away the carrier bags rather than using them as free bin bags to challenge PNs 10%

LydiaJ

vivatifosi wrote: »

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.

Meant to add...

I've hung out on Old Style in the past - quite a long time ago, IIRC. Nowadays, my style of housekeeping is too random and un-MSE for me to cope with Old Style, delightful as many of the posters are. I am just about managing to make sure that the three of us in this house have enough clean clothes to wear and food to eat (although often rather random food, and definitely at unpredictable and unconventional times of day, especially during weekends, half terms & school holidays). The idea of meal planning, cooking things from scratch every day rather than occasionally, following FlyLady or cleaning my bathroom with white vinegar is more than my poor depleted brain can deal with ATM. I imagine I may well return there when my mental health improves, which I'm sure it will do eventually. In the meantime, I consider the people I know who suffer with depression, and feel grateful that all I have is burnout.