Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

£68 .... I couldn't believe it. I only went out for a £15 "dry cut" .... ended up having highlights done and a cut ... and no blow dry/finish. £68 .... staggered..... that was a "cheap place" as I'd done my research before I booked the cheap cut!!

Got the "newly qualified/junior" and the "colours at 10% off".... £68.... I won't be recovering this week..... or next.

Umm, that seems quite a bit. I go to Mohamed locally, and he cuts mine for £11. Mind you, I probably have a good deal less hair than you, and I don't have mine coloured.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

The clunkier phrases like that and the bathmat one have disappeared. There are plenty of Aussie words and phrases still however.

I love 'rort' (rip-off) which is used as a noun ("Credit card fees are such a rort") and a verb ("His back is fine, he's just rorting the system"). TBH I dispute that 'fair dinkum' is disappearing although you most often hear it as a question meaning, 'Are you telling me the truth?'.

The Aussie tradition for playing with words is still often seen in business names, much more than in the UK. There is a rather crude play on the word 'Liquor' in the name of a bottle shop in the gay strip on Oxford St which appeals to my puerile sense of humour.

Private Eye's cartoon books of Barry MacKenzie were hilarious and had me in stiches when I read them back in the 70s.

bugslet wrote: »

I have silvercar's sink - well not literally, but the same make.

Somewhat oddly, hjd, every football match I have ever seen, about 5 in all, was Wimbledon playing. Back in the days when they were at Crystal palaces ground.

Football is not my forte, despite sharing an office with a rabid Man U fan and being a stone's throw from their ground.

The only footie match I've seen in England was Wimbledon vs Grimsby at Crystal Palace ground (DD was starting to play football back then). Been to see Celtic a few times when living North of the Wall, and like most people played five--a-side as a youngster but never got the full thrill of watching it.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Umm, that seems quite a bit. I go to Mohamed locally, and he cuts mine for £11. Mind you, I probably have a good deal less hair than you, and I don't have mine coloured.

I just checked the website of where I went. Men's cut £9, men's cut and blow dry £11.

PasturesNew

(Mostly bugslet). I can't believe I've just seen a TV advert for an "Eddie Stobart Trucking Songs" music CD/mp3

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

(Mostly bugslet). I can't believe I've just seen a TV advert for an "Eddie Stobart Trucking Songs" music CD/mp3

Oh, the fleet manager's birthday is coming up

She's an ex-Mercedes Commercial mechanic

Just ended up paying £2.19 an ice cream in a local shop (they were 99p last week)

Proving outright that communism is better

Yorkie1

GDB2222 wrote: »

Great opportunity to get round ikea quickly tonight then. But not as good as the final night will be.

In the days when I still drove places, I remember driving from the north to Birmingham for Gardeners' World Live at about 8am on a Friday morning. The motorway was completely, absolutely, deserted.

I'm sure the fact that England were playing someone in the World Cup had nothing to do with it at all

PasturesNew wrote: »

if it ain't broke, don't fix it ..... should have remembered that.

Is it sorted out now?

My sink is a standard single stainless steel one with a draining board. No idea if it's posh or not!

PasturesNew

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Is it sorted out now?

Yes and no.

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

I just checked the website of where I went. Men's cut £9, men's cut and blow dry £11.

Haircuts are much better and easier for men than women. My approach is to basically ask the nice man to shear me with number 4, leave it a little longer on the top, and not use that extra sharp cutthroat razor please even if it does produce a better results.

That's the only thing that's bad about being a man - the barbers expect you to let them close to you with a torture weapon from reservoir dogs without complaint then look at you like you're a wimp when you refuse.

Talking about refusal - next Friday is my first dental appointment in ten years... and I am refusing to think about it!

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes and no. What I did was turned off System Restore and ran CCleaner (again) and did a reboot, then installed Avira.

Have you run chkdsk to make sure your drive isn't going the way of the dodo? and/or a defrag?

Some of your symptoms are a little... weird.

As in, if you had enough space to install it once you should probably still be able to install it a second time.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

Have you run chkdsk to make sure your drive isn't going the way of the dodo? Some of your symptoms are a little... weird.

As in, if you had enough space to install it once you should probably still be able to install it a second time.

I must admit I've not run chkdsk for a couple of years, I'll give it a go.

Edit: Ran chkdsk from (XP Home) Start, run, chkdsk. The DOS box opened and it was running, and I am watching the telly and suddenly I saw the box had closed.... so I can only assume it was happy/found nothing, so terminated naturally.