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

Nikkster

LydiaJ wrote: »

I don't think it's cheating to count Narnia as two - it's one for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and the other for all six of the rest of the series.



You don't have to wait for your money to be available before exchanging. You can exchange as soon as you're sure you're ready, setting a completion date of 6 May or whatever.

I think you will find that moving the boxes takes longer than you think it will, in just the same way that you are currently finding that packing them does.

I made sure that 10% of Tue sale price was with the solicitor prior to exchange, the rest of my deposit for completion.

May 6th would be a particularly auspicious day

zagubov

vivatifosi wrote: »

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



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.

Couldn't have fillings without an anaesthetic ( but most of my fillings are deep). Once had the misfortune to go to the cinema to distract myself from the dental appointment I was facing the next morning. The movie I saw was "the Marathon Man"!

vivatifosi

zagubov wrote: »

Couldn't have fillings without an anaesthetic ( but most of my fillings are deep). Once had the misfortune to go to the cinema to distract myself from the dental appointment I was facing the next morning. The movie I saw was "the Marathon Man"!

I was at secondary school when Marathon Man came out and I can remember how it made my whole form paranoid about having fillings in their teeth.

In terms of cinema, I went to see American Werewolf in London at a cinema near Tottenham Court Road tube, then had to go stand down on a completely empty TCR tube platform to get the train home. It was terrifying. Thankfully no zombies in the cinema.

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

I was at secondary school when Marathon Man came out and I can remember how it made my whole form paranoid about having fillings in their teeth.

In terms of cinema, I went to see American Werewolf in London at a cinema near Tottenham Court Road tube, then had to go stand down on a completely empty TCR tube platform to get the train home. It was terrifying. Thankfully no zombies in the cinema.

...and the American said, "Remember the Alamo!" and pushed the Mexican out of the plane.

If nothing else, An American Werewolf in London wins the award for "Best Racist Joke in a Horror Movie".

Leon still bloody throbs where they were poking at it.

SingleSue

Spirit wrote: »

I know of people who had seen a GP but then could not afford to have the prescription dispensed if one was written.:(

One such person found it was their good fortune when they became diabetic and so exempt prescription charges.

although you can buy 'season tickets' and you can plan this if you have ongoing conditions, it is the poor who are suddenly in need of prescription medicine that can struggle. It gets worse if (for example) the anti bugs bought are ineffective and a second different lot prescribed. That could be £15 in a week.

That was us at one point, we were fighting hard to keep hold of the house, there was no spare money at all, even buying enough food was a struggle, let alone extras like prescriptions, everything was going into saving our home.

All came to a head when I needed an urgent prescription to stop heavy bleeding, pneumonia and a kidney infection (yep, I was pretty ill at the time) and we just didn't have the pennies for all of it.

Stupid things was is if the CAB had not misadvised us, we would have been claiming family credit and receiving free prescriptions but they had told us we had too much money coming in so we didn't even put a claim in. We finally did over a year later when more money was coming in and lo and behold, we certainly was not earning too much.

LydiaJ

Doozergirl wrote: »

Unpacking boxes is infinitely more fun than the packing :-)

I'm glad somebody likes it. I find both the packing and the unpacking arduous and not fun at all. (Well, unless there are lots of friendly people to unpack with, and preferably it's not my stuff! ) But even if people enjoy the unpacking, surely nobody enjoys the unloading - carrying all the boxes from the van into the house???

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

...and the American said, "Remember the Alamo!" and pushed the Mexican out of the plane.

I read something interesting the other day about how complicated ethnic and racial politics must have been in America. I was looking up about Native American blood types (they have an unusual ABO blood type distribution) and came across articles about the descendants of the slaves of various native tribes and the problems they faced.

Many of them had been ethnically cleansed with their owners along the Trail of Tears as settlers moved them West to take over their lands. There were incidents where they would revolt and try to flee across neighbouring states and get over the border to Mexico but they'd be caught by Cherokee militia and taken back (Mexico had abolished slavery thirty years before the USA).

The northern Native Americans freed their slaves to avoid drawing the attention of the white union forces during the Civil War. Most of the southern tribes sided with the Confederates.

And that's before the successful Union army recruited freedmen to help them fight the Indian wars. :mad:

For a country that has an aparently sophisticated arrangement of soveriegnties between the federal government, states and tribes, it sounds like they still haven't really got the rights of the ethnic groups sorted out even now.

SingleSue

LydiaJ wrote: »

I'm glad somebody likes it. I find both the packing and the unpacking arduous and not fun at all. (Well, unless there are lots of friendly people to unpack with, and preferably it's not my stuff! ) But even if people enjoy the unpacking, surely nobody enjoys the unloading - carrying all the boxes from the van into the house???

The last time we moved, I had an excellent excuse not to help with the unloading......youngest was about 10 weeks old and wanting to be almost constantly breastfed!

Oh and he was a screamer, so it was a good excuse for others to get out of looking after him.

Doozergirl

If there are no objections, I will take three nominations and the impending implosion of this thread as a sign that I should start another one

CKhalvashi

Doozergirl wrote: »

If there are no objections, I will take three nominations and the impending implosion of this thread as a sign that I should start another one

I'd like to do one at some point, but as you asked first, I think it's your turn, Doozer

CK