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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »I think Isaac's school must be the only one in the entire country to have half-term the week after the bank holiday. Parents with children at other schools (and teachers, ditto) are spitting blood.
They did that last year too, didn't they? It can't be a mistake. Anybody who's anything to do with schools knows that while the autumn and spring half terms may vary, the summer half term is always the week with the bank holiday for every secondary school in England/Wales (because that's when the exam boards have half term) and therefore every state primary school too (because LEAs set them to be the same as the secondaries) and just about every private primary too (for the benefit of parents and teachers with kids at other schools).
Who is it at Isaac's school who makes the decision? Somebody with no connections to any other schools who fancies a cheaper deal on a week away?lostinrates wrote: »I actually like them.
Three things would make me think twice.
1. Obvious glass cleaning, but I'd get over that
2. Going up stairs in skirts, I'd get over that too
3. That join in the side panels of glass. I think it would have looked better , oddly, had they used three panels rather than two. That 'seam' right in the middle upsets my sensibilities. Its the problem of perfection when it cannot be seamless. Sometimes its better to have an extra seam than one disrupting one in a sea of glass I think.
I do quite like them aesthetically. But I wouldn't feel safe on them. I have always had a bit of a "thing" about not liking to stand on anything that's cantilevered rather than supported at both ends. The lack of visible "fixing" at the wall end just makes it even worse.I like them too, but I can't see how the dogs would cope. They are so used to coming upstairs that if they couldn't manage under their own steam, they would just howl and whine till I gave up and carried them! Are your not upstairs dogs, lir?
Yep, I also thought as soon as I saw them that dogs would hate them.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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To me, this looks like a cheap version of something flash.
Don't want to spend the money on supporting the weight of a single, large piece of glass? Check. Just bung in 2 crap ones instead. She'll be 'right.
Crap Wickes uplighters? Check.
Under floor lighting to make it look like a 1992 BMW that's been modded? Check (shoulda gone for purple for the proper cheapo mod look).
Glass steps looking just a bit too flimsy and not solid enough? Check.
Done right I reckon that might look good albeit not to my taste. Done on the cheap it looks not so good.0 -
Done right I reckon that might look good albeit not to my taste. Done on the cheap it looks not so good.
And, let's not forget ... if you've got stairs, then the understairs cupboard is probably the biggest/best "shove it all in" storage cupboard in the whole house, where 99% of people shove the vacuum
So you lose all that storage for essential/ugly things. It'd only work for a "proper big house" that had a spacious utility room for that stuff.0 -
For those interested in such almost on topic things Barr, the makers of Irn Bru, had an Annual General Meeting (AGM) recently. One of the things you do at an AGM as a shareholder is to vote on whether to pay out the agreed final dividend. That's one of the real biggies for the meeting. That, voting for the board and accepting the accounts.
So last time around, Barr forgot to vote on whether to accept the final dividend so couldn't pay it!
http://www.investegate.co.uk/barr-a-g---plc--bag-/rns/agm--ims-and-and-directorate/201405270700280109I/
The money will still be paid as a second interim dividend. It's pretty dumb though.0 -
To me, this looks like a cheap version of something flash.
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I am thinking that women won't like the idea of their undergarments being uplit by those wickes lights as they ascend the stairs.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
One business plan finished, winging its ways to People With Money(tm) .
Weather outside is pretty bad...“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
I love it, but would never have it as it would be easy to be obsessed with fingerprints.
Especially as I just looking at those stairs makes me feel like I'd be clinging onto either the glass wall or the white one whilst ascending or descending. And that's even before dealing with the fact that I'd be dubious the stairs would hold my weigh so I'd probably start getting obsessed with looking for cracks in the glass/ perspex.
That aside - would definitely have looked better with no or 3 joins.0 -
Doozergirl wrote: »One has to drive there and get back. If I do it all tomorrow, it will be six hours of solid driving. I can't imagine my passengers fancying a jolly down the pier after their journey.
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See work head on, you need to add 'round trip', then I get it:p:o.0 -
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Especially as I just looking at those stairs makes me feel like I'd be clinging onto either the glass wall or the white one whilst ascending or descending. And that's even before dealing with the fact that I'd be dubious the stairs would hold my weigh so I'd probably start getting obsessed with looking for cracks in the glass/ perspex.
That aside - would definitely have looked better with no or 3 joins.
'No' would probably have made too expensive.
My architect reminds me often that almost nothing is impossible but somethings aren't worth the expense of making them possible. That's why I thought three panes.
Incidentally, those links a few pages back to 'narroroest houses' the tv bit pictured ( sitting room):D) reminded me of my favourite of the apartments we stayed in when in Milan. A glass stair case there ( the whole apartment had one window , over the stairs) would have added tremendous light.
Ultimately, its not my favourite, but , I like lots of things, and that's definitely something I can like.0
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