Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Spirit_2

I posted a few weeks ago that I was very pleased that my car insurance had not increased and that the protected no claims clause was meaningful, when tested. So a quick call and I renewed.

Just went to online banking to repay some money to my daughter for grocery shopping and filling my car up today , and the car renewal payment with no card present has gone through four times. These are not pending transactions but confirmed. I think I need to ring them in the morning, but it is a busy day and I am not sure how I will find the time so it may have to be later in the week when I am off.

neverdespairgirl

zagubov wrote: »

That's a lovely baby. And he's got a great name!

SingleSue wrote: »

Gorgeous, gorgeous piccies....he is beautiful.

Generali wrote: »

Definitely going to be a master criminal, in a nice way.

I think he's lovely.

I appreciate in an abstract way that I'm being very dull at the moment. To the rest of you, he's a human infant - face, eyes, two arms, two legs, remarkably like all other human babies, really. Quite like other mammal babies, too.

But a baby who has woken his mother to be fed every 2 hours for nearly 3 weeks (he's now 2 weeks and 6 days old) has to have a certain winning charm as far as that mother's concerned, to avoid being chucked in the river. And his charm's working on me, so I'm afraid I'm likely to go on being boring for a bit!

PasturesNew wrote: »

Wondering what went wrong "on the other side" ... he's sure when he filled in the form selecting his parents it wasn't you

I think you are probably right, and he wanted to have incredibly rich, lazy parents who would give him a childhood of palaces and hired circuses for birthday parties.

Still, he'll forget the details soon, and settle for general existential angst, instead.

vivatifosi wrote: »

I thought he had that take it all in look, like he should have a career in law as he gets older, unlike his older brother, who will be a brilliant polymath, but choose a career as a paleontologist.

Stunning pics, gorgeous boy.

One will run away to sea, the other will join a travelling circus, just to escape from lawyers, I imagine!

GDB2222 wrote: »

Thanks for asking. We are absolutely dreadful! Both of us. We went to friends for supper on Monday, and they poisoned us. We have both had the most awful gastroenteritis since then. This is the first time I have sat at the computer since Monday, as it's the first time I have felt well enough to do so. I live in hope that we will get better fairly soon.

Sounds as if, in future, you should only ever drop in for a drink. Alcohol kills an awful lot of germs!

Hope you are both on the mend?

neverdespairgirl

Nikkster wrote: »

NDG, Danny is a little beaut. Please give him a cuddle on my behalf x

I will! If you are passing our neck of the woods (any other NP, too) please do drop in and give him your own cuddle - just email or PM me.

zagubov wrote: »

Have we all been watching to much Family Guy?:eek:

Sister #1 said of those same 3 photos that they made Danny look like Stewie - so it's obviously clear to a number of people....

OH, though, reckons Danny looks like the scientist from the Muppets.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have never watched that, so don't get the joke.

Both Family Guy and its cousin, American Dad, are well worth watching, very funny. One or the other tends to be on somewhere on freeview, I've discovered over the past couple of weeks since our TV's been plugged back in.

zagubov wrote: »

it's really funny and also potentially offensive. It's a sitcom about a family where the baby is shown as a criminal genius who believes he has escaped from being falsely imprisoned inside his mother. Instead of loving her he detests her and would happily see her die, and tries to conspire ways to do it.

He speaks like an adult but it is deliberately unclear and ambiguous in the show whether everyone hears and understands him.

And the baby, Stewie, speaks in a camp middle-aged English gentleman's voice, while the rest of the family (and the dog) are standard American.

michaels wrote: »

Question for NP. Boxing, I don't get it, grown people causing each other short term physical damage and long term brain damage and other people gettign really excited to watch this - is there something wrong with me?

I really don't like it, and never watch it. It just seems to be attacking people's brains. And they are rather delicate flowers.

tomterm8 wrote: »

Why do people like football? I don't get it, grown people kicking a ball around the field, heading the ball causing them long term brain damage even worse than boxing and other people getting really excited to watch this - is there something wrong with me?:D

Sarcasm not catching on here - because I don't really see the point of watching much sport! Playing, yes. Watching, generally not.

lostinrates wrote: »

He's just thinking. He's obviously going to be a thinker, look at the rest of his family. He has a thinking face, that's all.

Scrumptious. Bet there is a LOT of kissing going on on that little persons skin!

All set for a potentially difficult discussion with dh, but he said, first thing when off train' before you say anything, I need to say that I've been thinking and I'm not sure it's as great an idea as I first thought....'


So, the rates here are in accord. Easy. That's all I care about.

Lots of kisses and cuddles.

Fantastic - glad you adn FIR are in accord.

I imagine, though, you manage as a couple to deal with discord, too?

CKhalvashi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Both Family Guy and its cousin, American Dad, are well worth watching, very funny. One or the other tends to be on somewhere on freeview, I've discovered over the past couple of weeks since our TV's been plugged back in.

Seconded here. Just woken up to the tail end of AD, brilliant stuff!

I'm heading back to bed for few hours, and I'll catch up on everything in not too long

GDB2222

Thanks, all, for the good wishes. DW is on the mend, particularly as she is on a dose of antibiotics. They isolated the bug, and she's on the right antibiotic for that bug fortunately.

There was a big sign on the door of her room saying 'enteric isolation', and everyone entering was supposed to put on a pinny and gloves. This led to various people shouting to DW from just outside the room. "HAVE YOU HAD A BOWEL MOVEMENT?" "HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE SOLIDITY?" That sort of thing.

It was a good move going to pick her up yesterday, even though I felt grotty. The hospital would have shipped her home in a minicab, if I had not made it, but it would have gone down in the naughty book, ready to be brought up in 20 years time as a sign of lack of caring.

NDG, what a lovely baby! Does he have a name?

Nikkster

Hope you're both fully recovered soon GDB. Very sweet of you to go and pick Lady GDB up... It's not like you've been completely unaffected.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I read somewhere that what makes us human is that we know we're not immortal.... no other animal (apparently) knows this. We are the only ones that understand death and know it is inevitable ....

Animals might mourn their dead mates... but they don't understand the process etc.

I'm not buying that. We know that bees won't sting you, unless greatly upset, because they will die if they do; whereas wasps are more likely to sting you because it doesn't kill them.

At least that was what I was told as a child.

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

I'm not buying that. We know that bees won't sting you, unless greatly upset, because they will die if they do; whereas wasps are more likely to sting you because it doesn't kill them.

At least that was what I was told as a child.

We have stingless bees in Australia. They don't sting you because they can't!

I'm with you though. I reckon at some level, some animals will understand about the cessation of life. If they didn't why would they run from danger? Fight or flight must surely be based on the fragility of life.

Doozergirl

There's a program called Building Dream Homes starting on BBC2 at 6:30pm, I think it's on every week night for the next three weeks, if anyone's interested. Not entirely sure what to expect other than each one follows a self-build type journey, different types of people and budgets with their architects and builders.

michaels

Spirit wrote: »

I posted a few weeks ago that I was very pleased that my car insurance had not increased and that the protected no claims clause was meaningful, when tested. So a quick call and I renewed.

Just went to online banking to repay some money to my daughter for grocery shopping and filling my car up today , and the car renewal payment with no card present has gone through four times. These are not pending transactions but confirmed. I think I need to ring them in the morning, but it is a busy day and I am not sure how I will find the time so it may have to be later in the week when I am off.

How annoying. I booked my flights, just over 6k the transaction was blocked then I got a text asking me to confirm it which I did and then paid for the flight again which went through. Then 2 days later card is blocked completely, it appears as well as the live transaction they have also put a hold on the same amount, it is not showing as a transaction so Barclaycard can't do anything but I fear it will trigger an over limit charge and may also disqualify the 4% cashback due on the grounds the account is out of order.....