Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

Reading in Sunday Times that everyone should learn coding. Am I too old?

There's only one way to find out...

Try starting with Scratch. It's a free programming language from MIT. It gets you going with logic and sprites and things.

Generali

Nikkster wrote: »

Is Game of Thrones the series which is particularly nude and violent?

Yes it is. Also, slightly strangely, we are to believe that almost nobody in Medieval Europe grew hair from anywhere below their neck.

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

Reading in Sunday Times that everyone should learn coding. Am I too old?

Nobody's too old to learn. If I'm correct about your age, you've not yet reached your cognitive peak.;)

On another matter, Gen, does Aussie TV show Game of Thrones, and all the big US TV series like The Americans, 24, MadMen etc.?

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

Yes it is. Also, slightly strangely, we are to believe that almost nobody in Medieval Europe grew hair from anywhere below their neck.

Never mind giants and dwarves, judging by the body count, including stillbirths, I'm amazed that there's anybody in that era who's managed to reach old age.:eek:

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

Nobody's too old to learn. If I'm correct about your age, you've not yet reached your cognitive peak.;)

On another matter, Gen, does Aussie TV show Game of Thrones, and all the big US TV series like The Americans, 24, MadMen etc.?

Yup, mostly on Foxtel (Sky).

Annoyingly, those big shows are usually first shown on a channel which requires an extra fee, over and above the Foxtel fee. If you're happy to wait a few months, which I am, you get them on one of the channels covered by your basic Foxtel fee.

We started watching Game of Thrones a couple of months ago as a channel had a GoT weekend, showing all the episodes of the first 2 series in a couple of days.

I recorded House of Cards in a similar way: a tiny channel showed all of the episodes one Saturday and I just happened to notice.

TBH I'm not much of a TV watcher. I'd rather be cooking. I do watch sports and the odd series like this. Usually I watch them mostly to spend time with Mrs Generali. She loves a bit of TV does Mrs Generali.

Elementary is the other thing we watch quite a bit of. I enjoy that because, unlike most of those US shows, it's not just exactly the same program every week only with different supporting characters. They seem to try to mix it up a bit.

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

Never mind giants and dwarves, judging by the body count, including stillbirths, I'm amazed that there's anybody in that era who's managed to reach old age.:eek:

Either razor technology was far better than previously believed or nobody in the show has hit puberty! The latter would make sense given the death rate.

vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

Do the Russians notice? Do they care?

In Russian government eyes, did Conchita Wurst, drag queen win Eurovision or some guy named Tom with a dodgy beard?

It's interesting... being a bit of a Eurovision nerd I've been looking at the breakdown of the popular vote.

In the UK, the phone voting went 1) Polish women with big boobs, 2) Netherlands, 3) Conchita. Because the Polish women were scored about last by the jury, Poland scored no points from the UK, even though more people voted for it than any other song.

In Russia, the phone voting went 1) Armenia, 2) Belarus, 3) Austria. This proves that bearded women have the same popularity in Russia as they do in the UK, but Polish boobs are less popular. Be afraid Putin, very afraid. Your people are far more tolerant and open minded than you and your friends would have us believe.

Polish boobs also won the popular vote in Ireland and Norway and one other country (can't remember which). The most popular votes were won by Netherlands, not Austria. It's also surprising how little neighbour voting happened this year.

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

Elementary is the other thing we watch quite a bit of. I enjoy that because, unlike most of those US shows, it's not just exactly the same program every week only with different supporting characters. They seem to try to mix it up a bit.

I love Elementary! Great show. Doesn't get the figures that it deserves over here due to the huge following for Sherlock. I think he plays Sherlock Holmes well, the characters are interesting and you generally can't guess the ending.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

A saw some cute, beach inspired things in Matalan yesterday, PN. Stripey cushions and so forth. Matalan is inexpensive.

Cheers, just checking them out online.... £6-10 for one cushion.... so they go on the "Nice to know they exist" list, awaiting a "70% off" sale before they come into madam's price bracket

http://www.matalan.co.uk/homeware/living/cushions-and-throws/cushions?page=1&size=120&cols=3&sort=price.asc&id=/homeware/living/cushions-and-throws/cushions&priceRange[min]=6&priceRange[max]=18

I need to be richer really ..... Big list of stuff, ideas - but without the budget to [a] afford them think they're worth the price.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Reading in Sunday Times that everyone should learn coding. Am I too old?

That was a "story" some time back. The question becomes "how useful will what you learn actually be?"