Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

Interesting that we unfriend people because we don't like their views on one or two particular matters, but we don't dump them for being hard of thinking. In other areas we ignore or pleasantly tease people who have differing views to ours, but we don't dump them.

I support that in a democracy you have the right to hold and disseminate any views you may choose to hold, even if I happen to disagree with them. However I do not feel the need to have them inflicted on me.

It's not even that I'm really a friend of this woman, she's someone I went to school with that I barely remember.

PasturesNew

Tahlullah wrote: »

All as mad as each other I think.

That'll be the inbreeding ... it'd be interesting to see how far one'd have to go back for 90% of them to be related... probably not many generations.

Generali

tomterm8 wrote: »

Russia doesn't care what the UK thinks of its policies. Let alone what charles thinks.

China is the biggest problem the world faces today. A regime than needs to grow at 8% or face revolution... and which can't continue to grow like that forever. At some point economic reality will force them to go to war.

FWIW, my opinion is that China won't and doesn't need to grow at 8% pa. Adding more capacity in manufacturing is likely to be pointless and probably counterproductive anyway as Chinese companies are at a serious risk of chasing each other into a deflationary spiral.

If home building comes off by 10%, according to UBS, GDP growth will slow to ~5%. What China seems to need and seems to be getting is a rebalancing away from adding more metal bashing which neither China nor the world needs towadds mire service industries. I know of a few companies that have moved part of their operations from India to China over the last couple of years. UBS is one of those.

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

My extensive medical research (a quick google) suggests that all is not well in there but it looks like it could be worse than it is, I think it will be surgery though. I've had a lot of injuries on the same knee and this just feels like it is completely gone.

Re: Britain - Euro elections are always silly season. Last time around nearly 1,000,000 people voted for the BNP with a turnout of something pathetic like 25% and UKIP came second.

Personally I find the idea of shipping off a load of loons to the European Parliament to be rather funny and a quintessentially British thing to do.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well.... it's not policies, it's what Charlie said about the little guy.... who has now gone running/crying to China for backup.

Whole bunch of little men might not be happy....

I voted tonight and as reported above there were a dozen "people's front for leaving the EU" type parties. Not totally sure about how good the EU is for us (more of a fan of the EEA or EFTA).

Not worried about Putin, as you've seen from that vid I showed you, he's not a little man when he's looking down on at us from his mountainous arsenal of nukes.

Doing my utmost to encourage students to vote, whatever their choice may be. Can't let voting, elections or democracy die out from apathy.

East Sheen was my end of Putney when I first moved to London. Full of TV slebs, but very few shops to buy anything. Has it improved?

ukmaggie45

I'm not caught up on posts yet, but because we were talking about Flanders and Swan recently I thought you might like to know about a program I just watched about polio that was made by Flanders' daughter.

tomterm8

Generali wrote: »

FWIW, my opinion is that China won't and doesn't need to grow at 8% pa. Adding more capacity in manufacturing is likely to be pointless and probably counterproductive anyway as Chinese companies are at a serious risk of chasing each other into a deflationary spiral.

If home building comes off by 10%, according to UBS, GDP growth will slow to ~5%. What China seems to need and seems to be getting is a rebalancing away from adding more metal bashing which neither China nor the world needs towadds mire service industries. I know of a few companies that have moved part of their operations from India to China over the last couple of years. UBS is one of those.

The thing is there are absolutely huge numbers of people in china that have not only not been helped by their industrial revolution but who have been actively hurt (because China has focused away from agriculture and peasant businesses to industrial businesses). China can sustain that while there is promise of better times ahead...

Their industrial revolution has brought an awareness of the fact things can be different.

I agree the current rates of growth can't be sustained. There needs to be a rebalancing towards internal consumption... it's hard to see how china will achieve this.

Spirit_2

Generali wrote: »

I blame Ed Milliband. There's no good reason for that, I simply don't like the bloke.

:rotfl:

I may find myself using that.

Social media and people posting/liking inappropriate stuff and being friends with colleagues who complain to employers about it.....

Aah that will be the power and benefits of technology. Creating new opportunities for people to do things that may have disciplinary consequences whilst they are not even at work.

Spirit_2

Lydia..go to bed.

I will go too. I needed to come on here to unwind. I have been off today but have worked for 11.5 hours all told. Finished my last report at 01.30 and emailed it in to my PA.

Not an especially happy bunny as I am working far more than I want to, or am contracted to.

Doing more than full time at present which does not make sense as I am only paid to work 3 days week.

Still it is less than when I worked full time. Hoping this is just a patch of madness.

CKhalvashi

Spirit wrote: »

Lydia..go to bed.

I will go too. I needed to come on here to unwind. I have been off today but have worked for 11.5 hours all told. Finished my last report at 01.30 and emailed it in to my PA.

Not an especially happy bunny as I am working far more than I want to, or am contracted to.

Just finished the second document this morning, which is great fun......

Doing more than full time at present which does not make sense as I am only paid to work 3 days week.

Still it is less than when I worked full time. Hoping this is just a patch of madness.

I tend to find that my workload fluctuates throughout the year. We're in the process of buying minority stake in a Georgian company at the moment (which is what I couldn't tell you earlier this week, but can now as the deal is definitely going ahead), so I've been working stupid hours this week.

I am leaving the office at 3.30 this afternoon (going in shortly), and won't be returning until June 2nd, so there is that side, too.

CKhalvashi

SingleSue wrote: »

Unfortunately, my parents have been reading the Daily Mail too much...it has led to many discussions between grandparents and grandchildren, some quite heated!

The boys are not supporters of UKIP.

I'm not a great fan, either.

The whole thing of blaming migrant workers for the problems isn't the way to go IMO.

Neither is pulling out of the EU, although I do understand that things possibly need to be renegotiated a little.

In a weird role reversal, I had James ringing me to make sure I had voted, I thought ringing him to check was how it was meant to be. James voted the same way as me...and it wasn't for UKIP or the BNP.

OH had to remind me (twice) yesterday to vote, as it was the last thing on my mind.......I was still in the office at 9pm, and only just made it.

I've not voted for UKIP or BNP either, although I'm sure everyone here knows my political stance