Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

SingleSue

Had a wonderful day today...

We started with a small tea party for my niece who is 2 today (well yesterday now!) and then me and Josh went on to a beer festival which had live bands playing all day. Youngest stayed with family while we went as he just cannot cope with the noise or the crowds and although I tried for a few years to take him to events like this, I have finally given in and realised that some people just don't like them and he happens to be one of them.

It was nice to spend some quality time with Josh though, doing something we both love...and the music was good too!

ukmaggie45

lemonjelly wrote: »

Perhaps I'm just overly picky. In my last appraisal, I was criticised for having high standards!

Your employer wants low standards? :eek:

Generali

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Your employer wants low standards? :eek:

I can see that TBH. Often in business, good enough is good enough IYSWIM.

There has to be a balance between quantity and quality of output. Most of us are working for Toyota not Rolls Royce. By trying to make everything into a Rolls we're screwing with the business model.

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

I'd like to suggest that all NPs who are parents might find this interesting.
Not least because it links to my fave Professor Hertfordshire's top brainbox Richard Wiseman.


Wonder how many NPs remember 8-track cartridges, a kind of tape used in cars that only had one button, for changing between four sections of the tape. And an eject button of course. NO play/FF or RW buttons.

I remember freinds' dads having them, we never did.

We did have a reel-to-reel from when my dad worked in training. He also used to bring home a terminal for the mainframe now and again. You had to dial the number for the computer and when it answered you'd plug it in. It had a dot matrix printer rather than a screen. They had ASCII art on the mainframe (Google it if you don't know it, it's interesting) including pictures of ladies with few/no clothes.

Le plus ca change le plus c'est le meme chose.

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

I miss davesnave, his posts almost always made me laugh...)

Well, he still posts on the site, just not this board ..... so he obviously doesn't reciprocate this feeling

Generali

Amazing election results eh? Disappointing obviously but that's democracy. If you're going to win you have to have people vote for you.

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

& before Pn gets in there, it's the cheapest A0 size frame I can find.
The bigger pics, the online prices are all high. When postage is added, I think it'll be cheaper for me to shop local & get in my car.

Something to do tuesday methinks, the day before completion....

Yeah, they're not cheap are they .....

I'd go with the car option - getting something like that mailed could end up tricky ... and if you go local it's in your possession and there's no waiting, no disappointment when it comes/doesn't, no issues over materials/quality etc

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

Today was amazing.

That's good

I've never been to a christening..... not even my own (wasn't christened)

Generali

I've been to 2 christenings: The Boy's and The Girl's.

At The Girl's I asked if we could sing Jerusalem or Abide With Me, both songs are associated with English sport.

The vicar had us all sing Bread of Heaven instead. He was Welsh.

PasturesNew

Off for a quick drive by of the house - although not sure why really .... I guess to check out how badly people park in the car park, but realistically could I really see anything going on that would give me any sign that I shouldn't buy it? Tricky one that ... you're supposed to go at various times; I've been at various times, but can't access the car park (private/small/noticeable and don't want to be "spied" continually pulling in). Oh well .... back in 10 minutes anyway