Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

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.

For sure but you can buy quite a lot of glow for the 7000 price difference...Plus of course their are the lounges and for the kids it doesn't seem to matter where they are if they have their tablets and if the flat beds maen the night is spent sleeping rather than awake and uncomfortable then the trip is going to feel much shorter. If there were day flights available then we wouldn't have bothered but it is night flights only on that route.

purch

vivatifosi wrote: »

Best flight ever... my case came off before Mick Jagger's.

I was standing next to Colin Montgomerie at the carousel in Bridgetown

I said "Bet you £ 50 my case is first"..............he said "It won't be.....mine has my name on it !!!"

He was right :mad:

Doozergirl

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

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

Bournville still doesn't have a normal licensed premises. There is the Cadbury Club which serves alcohol and a church hall which can, but there isn't a pub in Bournville and even the Tesco doesn't have a licence. Locally, people say it's the only Tesco in the country without an alcohol licence - not sure if that's true or not.

Did people see pictures of the house that fell down near there, this week?
http://metro.co.uk/2014/06/03/luxury-six-bedroom-home-caves-in-after-renovations-go-badly-wrong-4748371/

I had a look at the planning application for it. The plans involve reducing downstairs to about four rooms. Lots and lots of walls coming out. Looks like the builder forgot the minor detail of gravity! We've worked on two houses on that road and had a huge project of our own around the corner - the one we lived in before here. We saved that house.

Nikkster

I don't think the Lever brothers were quakers, but they were religious.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Did people see

Saw that - it's funny with builders.... there's no regulation in the UK around them. e.g. I can print cards tomorrow and call myself a builder and if I can convince somebody I can build them something they'll give me money.

I believe in Germany it's highly regulated, even rates of pay are fixed - so if you are booking a bricklayer you know exactly what you're getting; same with every trade. Each trade has specific skills and each trade knows what the skills are of the others. This means they can work together more easily/more assuredly and the customer knows what they're buying.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

Saw that - it's funny with builders.... there's no regulation in the UK around them. e.g. I can print cards tomorrow and call myself a builder and if I can convince somebody I can build them something they'll give me money.

I believe in Germany it's highly regulated, even rates of pay are fixed - so if you are booking a bricklayer you know exactly what you're getting; same with every trade. Each trade has specific skills and each trade knows what the skills are of the others. This means they can work together more easily/more assuredly and the customer knows what they're buying.

Same in Aus and France. Builders have to be licenced and you can't bodge up something because you fancy doing it. If I buy a second hand house I can be pretty sure that the plumbing was done by a plumber and the electrics by a sparkie.

It's annoying that you can't do simple stuff yourself but it beats having your neighbours drilling holes in the asbestos sheets that their house is made from.

tomterm8

Generali wrote: »

I've been banned from taking valium as it beggurs up the treatment apparently. Damn.

If you can't have valium, then bug them to give you something you can take - there ought to be something, even if it's hypnotherapy!

tomterm8

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.

15,000 people in a universe of a billion devices just isn't something to worry about. There's hundreds of threats that arise every day. That's something to worry about

But you can't do anything much about it except take sensible precautions.

tomterm8

LydiaJ wrote: »

The department all agree that the point about space expanding rather than stuff moving is the crucial bit. The astro expert added that nobody understands how or why the rapid expansion happened anyway.

Hm... (scratches head)... presumably you'd still be able to see it going on? Some objects would appear to be moving considerably faster than light speed... at least, since the universe is expanding.

I wondered if it's more to do with symmetry. Rather like how an object can be in freefall. If you image you're on a ball that is the universe, if the universe is identical in every direction then you're being pulled by the same amount of gravitational force in every direction. Gravity cancels itself out, and the universe doesn't collapse on itself.

Then you've just got to explain what breaks symmetry locally, which is a bit of a head scratcher.

Generali

I thought that during the great expansion, the matter hadn't cooled enough to make electrons etc so we couldn't see it...?

Also, if something is moving away at faster than the speed of light would we ever be able to see it? We see stuff because it reflects light. The light couldn't catch up with something moving faster than it to be reflected!

No idea if any of that is right BTW. This is the interwebs though so why let thay stop me!