Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

Masomnia wrote: »

....frequented by older, fatter blokes....

With nothing better to do than smirk/snigger, make innuendos ... if you're pretty there's one line of banter, if you're not it's another. All harrassment of some sort.... and then there's the endless comments and silliness every time you bend over to take a shot.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Chess is pretty much free. Once you've bought a board and pieces, you don't need to spend a single penny on it thereafter. Debating at school is free, too. Sailing, riding and so forth are a bit more expensive, admittedly.

I had nobody to play chess with and never learnt. I'd have liked to have learnt; there was a chess club, which cost money - and they expected you to already be a player. There was no such thing as debating at school.... and, to be frank, I can't debate. I can think of a response 2-3 weeks later, which isn't much use

Masomnia

PasturesNew wrote: »

With nothing better to do than smirk/snigger, make innuendos ... if you're pretty there's one line of banter, if you're not it's another. All harrassment of some sort.... and then there's the endless comments and silliness every time you bend over to take a shot.

You sound like you're speaking from experience :eek:

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

I am now the proud, new owner of a lawnmower.

I didn't go in for a lawnmower,

POSH ALERT. Impulse buying.

What with the hoover purchase of recent days I can see your neck of the woods featuring in the news as having a "boom in consumer spending".

PasturesNew

Masomnia wrote: »

You sound like you're speaking from experience :eek:

I'm old enough to have seen a lot of grubby pubs and grubby men over the years, in a variety of grubby settings, hearing their endless grubby banter

bugslet

Spirit wrote: »

Ent out with a group of women friends for dinner this evening. Checked levels, ate carefully.

Checked levels before driving home:o

A friend has driven me home miles out of her way and the (courtesy) car is parked 30 miles away. OH and I will be out very early tomorrow to go an pick it up.

Aargh

And seeing your subsequent posts, I hope you get to your GP pronto and get it sorted.

GDB2222 wrote: »

I am pleased to report that my minor scare has turned out not to be an issue. And we are off to Norfolk for the weekend soon. That's my news.

Norfolk sounds a good antidote to stress for you and Lady GDB. I had an Aunt live not far out of Norwich and have some very happy memories of the area.

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's probably an incompatible lifestyle. Statistically there are fewer women who want to spend a lot of their time in dim snooker halls, with foul-mouthed members ... while travelling around to other dimly lit snooker halls, with equally foul-mouthed members ..... and having to be on the road, away from home comforts, spending too much time in dimly lit snooker halls among foul-mouthed members.

No quality of life, no comfort, no real joy ......

Also, culturally, while men (on the whole) are indulged by their OHs to swan off to aforementioned dimly lit hell-holes and then at away matches/overnight, with the majority of people seeing womenfolk as being the ones with child responsibilities, there are probably less men willing to take up that role for a variety of reasons.

Which if substitute the word truckstop for snooker hall, is why women on the whole don't want to be truck drivers;)

This weekend I am going to have to have some serious thought about my kitchen. It was knocked through many years ago, but is single skinned brick at the back half and very cold in winter. At the very back of the kichen are two brick 'rooms', one of which once housed the old outside loo. I'd like to knock through completely and then add a large window or glazed area at the back. Just haven't quite reconciled myself to the expenditure yet:eek:

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

POSH ALERT. Impulse buying.

Well, you snipped it

The lawnmower was on the cards as it was always (for nearly 2 years) a kind of "wish I could have, but it's too much hassle" item.... then, the new house has a lawn area that will need one. And they cropped up in this week's Lidl leaflet, so at £45 I figured I could bite the bullet and get it and use it here to cut the grass as part of my checking out thing and I'd immediately have one in the new house. So it was a planned/strategic purchase.... I just didn't know they were in stock today... thought it might have been Monday or something.

Lidl stock is something you have to grab when you see it because they run out fast and there's no more coming. it was there, I was there - I'd have kicked myself if I'd let it go and tried to get one in 2-3 days' time and found none.

Spirit wrote: »

What with the hoover purchase of recent days I can see your neck of the woods featuring in the news as having a "boom in consumer spending".

Yes, hoover .... last one broke over a year ago ... been "careful" and grubbing about picking up bits with my fingers for the last year

Yes, I'm a one person economic boom

I've put £90 through Lidl's tills this week with those two! The manager will be unfurling his tent with glee and looking at pitch prices

Spirit_2

Masomnia wrote: »

I am currently watching the snooker. Will end up doing nothing with the day, but I'm feeling a bit mopey, so I'm not beating myself up about that.

I think it's the lifestyle of snooker that doesn't appeal to women, snooker halls do tend to be frequented by older, fatter blokes. .

Mopey for a special reason? Can we 'listen'? Hope it passes quickly.

When DD was at prep school two sisters joined as full boarders. They lived about 10 miles form the school but their mum ran a snooker hall business and worked a lot of nights.

No idea where the dad was as we never saw him, the mum however was very attractive in a Patsy from Ab Fab kind of way. I think she may have been the first woman I ever saw who was wearing sequinned day clothes .

I have a sequined winter skirt myself now..the glamour must have rubbed off on me;)

PasturesNew

Max Clifford's been jailed for 8 years.
Didn't expect that.... thought he was the King of PR and getting people out of things.....

Judge said "Your victims thought you were untouchable - and you did too ..."

Ha PWNED.

8 years does seem out of kilter with others who do serious random violent crimes, even murder, and get a lot less though.

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Chess is pretty much free. Once you've bought a board and pieces, you don't need to spend a single penny on it thereafter. Debating at school is free, too. Sailing, riding and so forth are a bit more expensive, admittedly.

DD is going to HK and Eastern Aus for a month later in the year. This week she has said she may book a couple of days sailing around the Whitsundays .

She has had masses of opportunities to sail or learn to sail, declined an internship working for the National Sailing Org of a Med country, declined sailing offers from a neighbour, from her friend for Tortola and St Tropez, declined Tall Ships, declined sailing lessons...she hates sailing.

I am keeping shtum but I want to say all of the above.

The physio has strapped her knee up with a criss cross of black and white tape covered in product branding as her hypermobility seems to be getting worse. I think the idea being it will improve tracking up and down and restrain side to side moves.

Why it has to be such an obvious product I have no idea. What was wrong with the colour of elastoplast? Her leg is like a mobile advert, so today she has black tights on and boots.