Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Spirit_2

vivatifosi wrote: »

I've never used a smilie at work .

Snap.

Nor have I ever received a work email with a smilie in it.

PasturesNew

hjd wrote: »

I always type out texts properly with capital letters and punctuation.
Maybe that makes me a grumpy old(ish) woman!

Me too - takes an AGE. For that reason I rarely reply to texts.

Generali

I took the Generalissimos to see the Lego movie today. I thought it was going to be dreadful but actually it was pretty good.

Altogether now, "Everything is awesome, ev'rything is cool when you're part of a team.....".

It was The Boy's birthday a couple of weeks ago so I took 8 of his mates too. They had a blast. Very MSE too: I get cheap cinema tickets through work, everyone got a little Lego to take home ($5.75 each) and we took snacks. Plenty of change out of $200. A bbq in the park costs more once you account for the extra kids.

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

I've never used a smilie at work and have only used them on the rest since coming here.

My pet hate though us getting a work email from someone I barely know, who signs their name and then add an x. I have no problem with that in a social setting, but at work it is a bit weird.

My texts are somewhat like hjd' s too.

I text in full sentences, with punctuation. Similie faces as appropriate

No kisses in work-related communications.

The vast majority of work emails I send don't have smilies in them. I do work in a fairly informal organisation though.
Someone I have reason to correspond with from another organisation seems to include them in their emails to me rather a lot. I'm not sure whether it is just them being friendly, or whether it is a seniority thing (leading them to think this helps them relate to me better as their junior in rank and age).

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

What a t0sser. From the minute I heard his voice for the first time I have found him the most pointless, annoying, talentless and irritating of 'comedians'.
He comes across like the sad t0sser at the pub that nobody likes, that'll tell 'jokes' and laugh at them, even though nobody else gets them.
His subjects are often obscure, but it's his voice that irritates me the most - and his facial expressions. He seems to say his line, then stand/pose and look/wait for the "laughs he knows will be coming" .... and it's irritating as he's never said anything funny.

I know what you mean. I did find a lot of the jokes last night quite funny though. A few really weren't, but I find it the same with all comedians.
He was also quite good at joking with hecklers, and not afraid to turn the jokes back on himself.
Definitely not the worst tv comedian I've been to see (that was Al Murrry as the Pub Landlord - that was mostly bad because the audience he'd attracted didn't seem to realise that he was mainly laughing at them).

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

$200.

Glad you had a good time.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

Al Murrry as the Pub Landlord

Good initially, but his character then presents him with a limited available repertoire, so then he has to get desperate and write quite low level stuff.

Generali

Nikkster wrote: »

I know what you mean. I did find a lot of the jokes last night quite funny though. A few really weren't, but I find it the same with all comedians.
He was also quite good at joking with hecklers, and not afraid to turn the jokes back on himself.
Definitely not the worst tv comedian I've been to see (that was Al Murrry as the Pub Landlord - that was mostly bad because the audience he'd attracted didn't seem to realise that he was mainly laughing at them).

Roy 'Chubby' Brown is the worst I saw. Racist, misogynistic and, worst of all, simply unfunny. Even he had one funny joke.

I saw Bill Hicks at Uni amazingly. In my 1st year we had an amazing Ents Officer when it came to acts. He was hopeless when it came to music but comedy was something else. We also had Jo Brand (unfunny) & Jack Dee (brilliant) and that TV hypnotism bloke. I lost a bet so got hypnotised.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

Good initially, but his character then presents him with a limited available repertoire, so then he has to get desperate and write quite low level stuff.

That was the problem with Jo Brand.

She was quite funny for 2 minutes but it then begins to dawn that she only has 3 jokes: men are all bstds, periods huh and I'm fat and ugly me.

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

I thought the Israeli word for that was Occupied West Bank...

Nah. That's towns built over olive groves.

A tel is like Tel Megiddo (Armageddon). It was once just part of a plain, then 25-odd towns got built on it, each destroyed in turn and a new one built on top. So now it's a hill! I think it was first a town / village about 9-10,000 years ago.

It's definitely very weird seeing a sign pointing to Armageddon, and then arriving there.

I remember reading once that Gaza is the place on earth most often destroyed and rebuilt over the past few thousand years - don't know if it's true, though.

Generali wrote: »

I took the Generalissimos to see the Lego movie today. I thought it was going to be dreadful but actually it was pretty good.

Altogether now, "Everything is awesome, ev'rything is cool when you're part of a team.....".

It was The Boy's birthday a couple of weeks ago so I took 8 of his mates too. They had a blast. Very MSE too: I get cheap cinema tickets through work, everyone got a little Lego to take home ($5.75 each) and we took snacks. Plenty of change out of $200. A bbq in the park costs more once you account for the extra kids.

Wow, 10 over-excited primary school children! Did you have company to help corral the multitudes?

Generali wrote: »

We also had Jo Brand (unfunny) & Jack Dee (brilliant) and that TV hypnotism bloke. I lost a bet so got hypnotised.

My feminist self dislikes saying this, but on the whole, women comedians are often just less funny than male ones, in my experience. Jo Brand is particularly unamusing.

Spirit wrote: »

That improvement will coincide with your OH being off the scene. Proof positive he did it.

Poor darling OH. I honestly can imagine few people less likely to thump anyone at all, let alone partners. It's a tough old world!