Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

I think you can also get medals for long service and being good at stuff like shooting and flying, so it may be something like that.

He's a Knight of the Garter and of the Thistle according to Wikipedia. Don't know if that's what he's wearing.

I once met a bloke who had a Queen's Medal. You only get it for having done a favour for the Queen. He was a diplomatic consultant at the local hotel in St James.

lostinrates

Masomnia wrote: »

She isn't money-orientated though! That puzzles me I think.

She recently had a lunch with the managing partner and some other colleagues from the firm she currently paralegals for (one of these informal staff engagement things). I asked her if she mentioned she had applied to do a training contract with them and was having an interview the next week, and she hadn't! 'Oh it didn't come up...' She's also had two quarterly reviews now where she hasn't mentioned that wants to be a solicitor. She's just in no way pushy or assertive, so I really can't see her doing corporate law, and it looks like the people who have been interviewing her can see that too.

Hang on. Fir is not pushy either. .

Depending the type of firm she currently works for some have a principle of not hiring paralegals into TCs. Depressing, because what better way to prove yourself?

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

... taught a cleaning Higher Ed course. ...

Never heard of such a thing!! How bizarre....

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

It's Anzac Day today. I took the kids to the dawn service at the local war memorial.

Should have been Biscuit Baking Day too then :P

PasturesNew

purch wrote: »

....why has he got 2 medals ?

Old School stuff:

1] Drinking the most beer at the end of year party
2] Punching above his weight woman-wise.

Doozergirl

purch wrote: »

Did you see Willie & Katie ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27152882

....why has he got 2 medals ?

One is the Golden Jubilee Medal. It took me ages to work out the second. It's the Diamond Jubilee Medal . Sometimes I am really thick.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

The sad thing with that is that's probably what his dad called him, just before he slapped him hard, every day when he went home from school.

You're probably right . He used to wear a t-shirt that said 'Kid for Sale' and bite holes in the neckline. He looked neglected compared to the rest of us and walked to school alone (we were 7, in South London). I think he left our school that year.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I doubt there's much that can be done to embarrass me in public in an Ikea .... I'm often the most embarrassing one around, so it'll be nice to see other loons operating.

In deference to not putting you off further socialising I am graciously not taking that as a challenge.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

No, definitely meatballs .... but made by a hefty wife for a towering and hungry manual working 6'5" husband.

Proper grub.

Oooh I could eat one now .... with shredded cabbage/greens, carrots, dollops of mash and lashings of onion gravy ....

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Actually, you're making me want it. I think it was the shredded cabbage that got my attention. I LOVE cabbage.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

When I linked to doors, they were "regular/normal people doors" and cost about £700 each. I thought doors were doors .... but then you've linked to some that look lovely (or is it just that it's posh paint?) .... and yours don't have prices. I bet they're top end.

I'm getting quotes for back doors ATM. . I feel quite like buying one off the peg.

I think think it is reflective of other stuff going on in my life right now though.