Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Damn... It's a bank holiday and I've just broken my tooth. The side has clean broken off. Trying to work out best course of action until my dentist opens. I thought that cornflake was more crunchy than the others.

I'd go by: if it doesn't hurt, ignore it until Tuesday. If you saved the tooth and if it didn't hurt and if you've a steady hand and some superglue .....

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

Oh no! Why does that sort of thing always happen during a Bank Hol weekend?

Ooh - just reminded me... I wonder what is going to break here this weekend? (Easter was the garage door cable, May Day was the cooker)

When studies are done into this type of thing, they discover that no more things break on any significant day than any other, it's just that we remember it more because it occurred on a significant day. If something broke on the 18th Tuesday of the year, you'd not remember the "when", just that it broke.

sss555s

LydiaJ wrote: »

I also need to replace my vacuum cleaner ... Any suggestions from the NP?

Miele or Henry commercial<

I have a Miele and it does a pretty decent job. I'd say it best point is it's build quality/ longevity.

GDB2222

Nikkster wrote: »

Ooh - just reminded me... I wonder what is going to break here this weekend? (Easter was the garage door cable, May Day was the cooker)

****** POSH ALERT! ******

Thought you'd squeeze that past us and we wouldn't notice, eh, Nikki?

vivatifosi

LydiaJ wrote: »

I also need to replace my vacuum cleaner and DVD player, both of which have been on their last legs for quite some time and have now finally completely died. Any suggestions from the NP?

Upright or cylinder? Bagless or bagged?

I am really pleased with my new Miele which is a bagged vaccum cleaner. It is well made and cleans very well. I don't like the concept of emptying a cloud of dust into a bin, do it indoors and it risks billowing up onto clean surfaces, do it outside and you risk the wind picking up and getting covered in it. I much prefer bags. But that's just me and my weird foibles.

My old cleaner was a panasonic and it is still going, but was woefully underpowered compared to newer models (I'd had it over 20 years).

I like the reassuring Germanic clunk of putting together the Miele hose. It's a bit like closing an Audi or BMW door compared to a Fiat one.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

I don't like the concept of emptying a cloud of dust into a bin, do it indoors and it risks billowing up onto clean surfaces, do it outside and you risk the wind picking up and getting covered in it. I much prefer bags.

I can understand that, but I find it a pain in the butt trying to find/buy bags and get the right one/faff about trying to fit it.

I plan on putting my bagless one inside a supermarket carrier, while outside in the garden, then shaking it...... see what happens. Won't know until I've done it the first time.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd go by: if it doesn't hurt, ignore it until Tuesday. If you saved the tooth and if it didn't hurt and if you've a steady hand and some superglue .....

No tooth... I thought it was a crunchy cornflake and swallowed it:o.

TMI alert...

I'm definitely not going to wait for it to pass through, wash it in boiling water and then superglue it:rotfl:.

It doesn't hurt at the moment, but I'm worried about cleaning it in case my just recharged and very powerful toothbrush takes the rest of the middle out and leaves me with exposed nerve. I may do that bit with the brush switched off.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

It's a bit like closing an Audi or BMW door compared to a Fiat one.

That has to be a posh alert..... I didn't know car doors were any different....

Nikkster

GDB2222 wrote: »

****** POSH ALERT! ******

Thought you'd squeeze that past us and we wouldn't notice, eh, Nikki?

Well I do feel posher than I was aiming for by having a garage at all (this was the only house I looked at that had off-street parking let alone a garage).

Are you under the impression it's an elec cable? It's definitely not an electric garage door! It struggles enough to be a manual door (was installed 2nd hand by previous owners)

Edit: more importantly, really nice to 'see' you GDB. How are you and Lady GDB?

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

When studies are done into this type of thing, they discover that no more things break on any significant day than any other, it's just that we remember it more because it occurred on a significant day. If something broke on the 18th Tuesday of the year, you'd not remember the "when", just that it broke.

I'm sure that is very true indeed. Other than the boiler (playing up regularly over most of the time I've known it until the part was replaced) only 2 things have properly 'broken' here - the cooker and the garage door. There are other things that are dodgy, but not 'broken'.

On that note, I have decided that today is the day to silicone-up the bathroom. I've had the sealant for a while then realised I needed a special tool to go with it. Have had that for about a month now but I think today is the day.