Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

lemonjelly

Frank Skinner was ace. Good laugh. Strange support act who I don't think will go far.

Checked my courseera account. The courses I am following are:
Moralities of Everyday Life
https://www.coursera.org/course/moralities
On Strategy : What Managers Can Learn from Great Philosophers
https://www.coursera.org/course/businessandphilo
Practical Ethics
https://www.coursera.org/course/practicalethics

Doozergirl

lemonjelly wrote: »

Better sort my dapper clothes out to look my best then!


Please don't associate Wednesbury with Birmingham. It's 20 miles away.

A lot of midlanders get very annoyed with being linked to Birmingham.
Wednesbury is closer to Walsall and Wolverhampton. From Birmingham you have to travel through Sandwell to get there.

I remember working at a service station just after junction 11 of the m6. For a while it was renamed birmingham north !!!!!!.

Perhaps IKEA were trying to be nice by naming it Wednesbury but it's not really in Wednesbury either. There is no other IKEA around Birmingham so to me it make sense, especially when people travel a long way, to call it Birmingham.

I hate being told that I live in Birmingham. Even a friend who lives in London but is originally from London is insistent that even if I don't live in Birmingham, I live in the West Midlands, which I don't either!

Is it Hilton Park services now? That's my 'home stretch' marker when we come down from oop North.

I think it was the autism questionnaire that asked if I lived in Southern England or Northern England. That was a bit strange.

lemonjelly

Hilton it is. & Hilton it was before the temporary madness!

I will remain a Wulfrunian, even though I'm defecting to brum.

My friend who lived in scotland for a while uses the RAC building as their marker to be "back home".

Doozergirl

I really need to get the house ready to be trashed again.

lemonjelly

Doozergirl wrote: »

How's the house buying going, lemonjelly?

And PN?

And chewy?

lemonjelly wrote: »

Meeting the electrician there tomorrow afternoon for the electrics test...blah blah

Strangely, after posting this yesterday, the EA rang me for an update.
They'd rung my sol, no answer. They rang the sellers sol, no answer, so rang me. This makes me assume sellers may be away for the week?
Anyway, I pretty much repeated what I said in my post.
Luckily I was able to confirm electrician etc. EA implied that it might be after the mayday bank holiday.

I'm now mentally debating whether if that is the case, to look to arrange it for half term week at the end of may?

lemonjelly

In other news, I've found that birmingham have removed the exemption for council tax for unoccupied/unfurnished properties.

Generali

Doozergirl wrote: »

Perhaps IKEA were trying to be nice by naming it Wednesbury but it's not really in Wednesbury either. There is no other IKEA around Birmingham so to me it make sense, especially when people travel a long way, to call it Birmingham.

I hate being told that I live in Birmingham. Even a friend who lives in London but is originally from London is insistent that even if I don't live in Birmingham, I live in the West Midlands, which I don't either!

Is it Hilton Park services now? That's my 'home stretch' marker when we come down from oop North.

I think it was the autism questionnaire that asked if I lived in Southern England or Northern England. That was a bit strange.

I only go North of Islington to watch football. It's been the same since my mate moved out of Highgate.

Masomnia

I hate being told I'm a 'Manc'. I was born in Oldham hosptial, grew up in Saddleworth (which is in Yorkshire), and now live in 'Greater Manchester'. I do not and nor have I ever lived in Manchester.

There's an irony really because you meet people at parties and they say 'Oh yeah I'm from Manchester' and you ask whereabouts and they say 'Alderley Edge'. Right.

PasturesNew

Just checking out watersports clubs - it's a bit confusing and looks like a club 15 miles inland might be a better one for me to join, rather than the local one .... more reading to be done.

However - reading risks/dangers, there's a warning that you shouldn't go near moored boats on the quay as if you're nudged into one by the tide you'll go underwater and get tangled up in the propellor and die as rescuers can't get you there.

Regarding boats on the move, they just say "Don't get run down - it will hurt!"

There's also a note about being garrotted by fishing lines: " A line across the throat may panic and upset "

Might take up knitting ....

neverdespairgirl

Generali wrote: »

He's done active service so I suppose might have won them for fishing someone out of the North Sea or something like that. Perhaps they set the bar lower for Royals to get medals. You or I have to seize Paris in the face of thousands of enemy machine gunners.

If you had your choice, Gen, the MC / DSO or 100 against the Aussies?

Doozergirl wrote: »

It's great that it doesn't need any major refurbishment. Once you've spent your £1.25 million, you can close the door and relax :eek:

My mum had that fridge freezer from 1982-2003!

Did they salvage the sink in the loo from a MacDonalds?

The stamp duty and so forth would definitely represent another large chunk of cash......

vivatifosi wrote: »

Man I wish I'd bought that flat off Russell Sq for £39k when I had the chance.

Was that one of the studio flats in the big 1930s blocks just off Russell Square?