Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Three hours I'll never get back... running every conceivable virus and malware scan to ensure my computer won't go into meltdown in two weeks time. Apparently it won't.

It's not affected many people, "only" 15,000 PCs are potentially infected... and "they" apparently targetted solicitors, banks,etc ... and if your browsers are up to date and your anti-vir and if you never click links in emails then you're very very very very low risk.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

An infinite series of big bangs and big crunches is one of the current possible theories. !

Well, for somebody who didn't even study science at O level 30 years ago - and has no knowledge/understanding of it .... it's pretty appalling that "the great minds" only have as a current theory something I literally invented in a split second from nowhere.

I should get an honorary degree in something astro-ey

Dr PN, MA(d as a box of frogs).

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

An infinite series of big bangs and big crunches is one of the current possible theories. Although the crunch wouldn't be stuff going into a black hole surrounded by empty space, but the space itself crunching down to nothingness.



The Cadbury, Rowntree and Fry families (and others, I expect) were all Quakers. Caring for their staff was part of their faith-based ethics.

Yep chocolate was their beverage / booze subsitute. Know some Quakers, found them to be one of the most interesting religions.

A friend introduced me to another Quaker who was giving a science lecture and we actually discussed whether the universe was infinite and I suggested that it couldn't be if it had started off as a point as presumably it would have to go through a range of finite sizes as it expanded and the leap from massive to infinite wasn't do-able.

She humoured me by agreeing she couldn't see how it could happen either (she was an astronomer and had discovered pulsars, so she knew better than me anyway).:o

Generali

Waiting for #2. Lots of waiting with this cancer lark.

Generali

2 down, 13 to go.

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

An infinite series of big bangs and big crunches is one of the current possible theories. Although the crunch wouldn't be stuff going into a black hole surrounded by empty space, but the space itself crunching down to nothingness.

I used to think that but as they think this universe doesn't look like it's going to collapse, would that mean we're in the last ever universe in the so-called oscillating chain.

Generali wrote: »

Waiting for #2. Lots of waiting with this cancer lark.

Hopefully is it any better to have done it once IYSWIM, now you know what it's like?

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

I used to think that but as they think this universe doesn't look like it's going to collapse, would that mean we're in the last ever universe in the so-called oscillating chain.



Hopefully is it any better to have done it once IYSWIM, now you know what it's like?

Yup. The first one involves loads of fiddling about too whereas today they just got on with it. Much quicker = much better.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

At the new huse I'll be within walking distance ... well, 300 yards, of a 24 hour garage .... so 24/7 access to sweeties if I ever get the desire to go out, alone, in the dark, at 3am, to walk to a garage, alone, in the dark... for chocolate.

We're about 50 yards from an open-6am-to-1am newsagents, and 300 odd yards from a 24 hour shop. But I'm not a massive chocolate fan, and don't smoke any more, so don't need their services.

PasturesNew wrote: »

You could take the overnight sleeper train to Penzance, then the boat to the Scillies

That feels like "somewhere else" .... and is a "generally a bit of a posh destination"

There are flights, but if you've already suffered the overnight sleeper train you might as well go the whole hog of discomfort and get the 3 hour journey boat.

http://www.seat61.com/Cornwall-sleeper.htm
http://www.islesofscilly-travel.co.uk/special-offers/

And a bit of posh .... http://star-castle.co.uk/

I've been on the sleeper a couple of times to Penzance, but never the boat - the helicopter from Penzance (which I think doesn't run any more) and the plane from Newquay and Land's End.

The Scillies are great fun.

Tahlullah wrote: »

Nowadays, I tend not to thinkdof chocolate, but of employers who used to care about their workers and provided homes and communities. Specifically Rowntrees in York, Saltaire in Bradford and Bournville in Birmingham. All very beautiful sought after areas to live.

Such a shame this level of caring has been lost. Instead, we get flat pack houses that can be erected easily with no consideration of the services and infrastructure that need to be in place for a community to grow and thrive.

There were others too, that weren't chocolate related - such as Port Sunlight, on the Wirral, which was Lever brothers (soap) and Vickerstown, in Cumbria.

Didn't a lot of the model villages tend to be short on pubs and other licensed premises?

Spirit_2

Generali wrote: »

2 down, 13 to go.

Glad the treatment time was shorter. From your posting times it looks quick, although when you are in it, or anticipating it, it must feel like an age.

Is this 13 consecutive treatments or does it stop over the weekends? Do you have company whilst attending or are you going alone?

The reason I ask, is that if you are alone, can we "accompany you" if we know what time you are there?

I am not sure it has been mentioned before, but I was wondering how is your mum coping with your diagnosis/treatment/being so far away whilst ill? Don't say if I am asking the wrong things.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

Cape Town in the winter, being MSE we are flying BA via Amsterdam to Heathrow which is cheaper than direct in economy....other holiday is a week at my parents in Devon this summer but that does feature a private pool.....

It would take the glow of business class off, to leave London and then arrive back hours later to restart your journey. I suppose the little ones think it is all part of the adventure and don't realise the madness of it.

I've only flown business or first when using Avios, so not actually spent real money on it.