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

tomterm8

I am a bit sad that Tony Benn has died. I listened to a couple of speaches of his yearsago, even met the man in passing and I liked what I saw of him although I didn't agree with most of what he said. A bit like John Major in that regard.

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'm thinking more of the potential collapse of the nice people thread than whether lir can cope without internet!

Oh, don't be silly. You guys continued with out me when I moved house and had no access. .

The nice people people are FAR far more than the gobbiest member. :rotfl:

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

I am solely on 3G after ditching BT. The speed issue is fine tethering to my phone (upgraded contract to unlimited internet which I'm sure lir or fir could do for £3 or something temporarily). I can stream standard definition movies and tv programs. HD movies take a while, but that was an accident when I did that!

I would have absolutely no idea how to go about this or how it would compare financially. We have plusnet for Internet and um, cannot remember phone service ATM .

I still haven't been able to get the tv working off the ariel
in the services loft that doozer finished for us, (Its in bunny ears bugging me when people move it and leave it in weird places when it picks up all but boring channels where I leave it :rotfl:;))

zagubov

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'm thinking more of the potential collapse of the nice people thread than whether lir can cope without internet!

I agree! :eek: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=4840999

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

I agree! :eek: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=4840999

And pn's away, and michaels work have locked him out.

Still, I have no doubt you can do it. Be easier. Less posts of twaddle.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

And pn's away, and michaels work have locked him out.

Still, I have no doubt you can do it. Be easier. Less posts of twaddle.

Note to self: must post less!

vivatifosi

Just been reading through the day's postings... A couple of catch up points.

bugslet wrote: »

two word phrase:D, entirely understandable under the circumstances.

Now I am dead 'ard when it comes to dentists, but no anaesthetic:eek:.
I'm happy with just the gums being numbed, even had my jaw bone ground down with just a numbing injection. They told me it would hurt in the evening. It didn't. I had cancelled my Friday night out and felt very short changed!

I have had fillings without anaesthetic on a couple of occasions. It is fine if they are not deep, better than having an injection. I have also fallen asleep having root canal though.

bugslet wrote: »

I've read 50 - more than I would have guessed, or 50.5, as I got part way through Captain Corelli's Mandolin and then zzzzzzzzzzz

Did include Germina by Zola, I have read most of his works and I rate him as one of the best authors EVER!

The worrying thing, considering I'm the one who works in a library, is that my score was the lowest - just 18. I read a lot but prefer non-fiction. A lot of the 18 I'd read while at school. I also excluded two - who has read the entire works of Shakespeare? The other was Catcher in the Rye which I started, decided that the character was awful and that it wasn't worth my time. Most of my score will be down to children's books and my liking for 20th century novellas.

Nikkster wrote: »

Note to self: must post less!

Same here, or in my case post less, read more fiction:o.

chewmylegoff

Solicitor instructed on reputation. What can I expect from a survey? £1,000 for a report so caveated that it's irrelevant? My builder mate's wife had a baby yesterday so that rules out a trusted opinion.

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

Why does it have to be free? $5 is the price of a beer or a hot chocolate. I understand that British people fetishise fred because of the NHS. Other systems work better because they charge.

Because to the people at the bottom of the financial pile, $5 for the doctor would have to come out of the budget for something else. Find the forums on here where people are talking about, for example, not being able to afford to fill the car up with petrol, and having to budget to put £10 worth in when their weekly benefit money arrives, and make sure they don't drive further than that petrol will take them before the next week's money arrives.

I repeat, there are people (like you and me) to whom $5 or £5 or whatever makes very little difference - if these people want to go and clog up appointments for time-wasting matter, then a $5 charge won't stop them. There are people on very low incomes to whom $5 matters - if these people had to pay to see the doctor, they would put off going about things that were important and necessary. Do you have any evidence of the existence of a significant number of people to whom a $5 charge would deter time-wasting appointments without deterring them from making appointments for important concerns? Because I don't think there are very many people in that category.

Generali wrote: »

Cost, for those that are interested, was $191 of which I can reclaim 85%. They submit the claim for me. I'll be about $150 out of pocket by the time I see the specialist again. Enough to put me off unnecessary treatment but not enough to put me off being treated at all.

For you, that's clearly good value. But you do realise, don't you, that there are NP on this thread for whom the sums you mention would be prohibitively expensive, such that if Leon was on their necks, he simply wouldn't be able to be treated unless they were able to get treatment that was either free or massively less expensive than you are paying? (And no, I don't mean me. According to various questionnaires we've had links to on this thread, I'm on about median income for my household composition, and consider myself comfortably off. Paying $150 would be significant for me, but not impossible.)

lemonjelly wrote: »

It amazes me how little people realise their time is one of the most valuable things they have. I had a friend who was leaving his home at 6, to arrive at work for 8, to then leave at 4.30, to get home at 7.30. He'd wash, eat, sleep, and repeat. 2 years he did that. Mental.

I'm tarnished by my experience with my last employer, but I work to afford the things that matter. The time outside work is where the important things happen, friends, family, hobbies, things we love. I want to make the most of that time.

To do that for the money would indeed be mental, and if that was why he was doing it, then I agree with you. But I also think it's a lot better to find a job you can actually enjoy than to suffer through one you hate and live only for the time you have away from work.

zagubov wrote: »

Saw this on another thread.
http://www.listchallenges.com/kaunismina-bbc-6-books-challenge
Got 29 of them read. Seems we're only expected to have read 6 of them. I think it looks like a great list!

32 - although I have to admit that 4 of those I wouldn't have read by choice but had to "do" at school.

LydiaJ

GDB2222 wrote: »

Thanks very much. I have bought that for DW. I hope she finds it helpful.

Generali wrote: »

It was one of the things that helped Mum get through some very dark days, understanding that the hatred and the love were all part of the same thing.

Thanks Gen. I think I'll buy it for a friend who's caring for her mum (mild dementia) and visiting her dad (worse dementia) with no partner or siblings or anyone really, to share the load.

lostinrates wrote: »

Is this a national thing, bike to school week? It would seem sensible in some parts of the country to say, look....this isn't the week for us, as traffic increases significantly on roads near here and people on near by roads get silly, lets do this after Easter, or just......next week.

Don't know. From my PoV the "extra traffic" week is an excellent time for it because I'd be travelling by bike at that time anyway so as to get through all the traffic in reasonable time rather than being stuck in jams for ages.