Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

With your joints and you having 3 strapping lads I can't help.thinking there is a better solution...

Me too.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I'm looking forward to them finding this establishment figure with no establishment connections, should be interesting.

It's also very, very clear that only women are being considered for this job.

I agree, in that the impartial observer needs to think the chairman is disinterested.

But I reckon finding someone accepted universally as impartial is going to be fun!

You're right, of course, that it'll be next to impossible to find somebody that nobody objects to. I still think the person in the street is more likely to believe in the impartiality of somebody with friends who may or may not have been complicit in something unspecified than in somebody with family ditto.

tomterm8 wrote: »

I think I'm on a post-goal slump... So, on Monday in my official weighing I was 100lb down on my "maximum weight". That's not to say I've lost 100lb on the current diet (since I've been on a few diets since maximum weight), but it means that I've reached a major goal that I set myself years ago but never really thought I'd get to.

And that's left me feeling down and scratchy.

Maybe I'm odd that way? But I tend to find it often how it is.

Firstly, woohoo and congratulations. :T:T:T:j:j:j:beer::beer::beer:

Secondly, you're not odd at all. I think it's a nearly universal response to the days immediately after reaching a huge milestone, and all the more so if it isn't the eventual destination.

Hang on in there and carry on with the downward progress!

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Crikey that's a lot. I always think of dieting in terms of packs of butter. 100 packs of butter lost is a hell of a lot!

I hope you don't work with maths. A pack of butter is 8oz, so it's closer to 200 packs of butter.

LydiaJ

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Re: trains I think our trains are much maligned and it's part of the national psyche to complain about them, but certainly the routes I regularly use are pretty good - although these are mainly in and around London I use the lines to Reading, Oxford, Leeds and Birmingham a few times a year as well and generally I think they stand up pretty well. I have certainly experienced worse in France and Belgium. Further, the trains here are a gazillion times better than they were 10 years ago and the tube is simply unrecognisable in terms of reliability from when I first started to use it in 1997.

I expect regional services not on main lines are godawful but then I doubt that is much different in many other countries really.

I've hardly ever travelled on trains for years. Living over this side of the country, there's nowhere I want to go that it isn't easier (and cheaper) to get to by driving (door to door, with luggage) than on a train with three people, even if two of them do qualify for child fares.

I did get a train up to Chesterfield and back a year or so ago, though, and it was no problem at all. I only did it because I was going to Chesterfield with my solicitor, who was coming all the way from Plymouth. She came on the train, so I got on it when it went past here, and we had the journey time to discuss things. It was quite nice to sit idly not having to drive, but I didn't like having to rely on other people to collect us from the station and drive us out to the place we were going, which was in the middle of nowhere, and I didn't like having to wait an hour on the way back because we got to the station just too late to get on one train so had to wait for the next one.

I will probably be catching lots more trains in Aug/Sept, if things pan out OK for my plan to stay in Nottingham with my bro&sil during the inquest, which will now be West of the Pennines instead of East as originally expected. There just aren't any decent roads from one side of the country to the other at that latitude.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

I hope you don't work with maths. A pack of butter is 8oz, so it's closer to 200 packs of butter.

You can get big ones that are 500g instead of 250g, so nearly a pound.

vivatifosi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Re: trains I think our trains are much maligned and it's part of the national psyche to complain about them, but certainly the routes I regularly use are pretty good - although these are mainly in and around London I use the lines to Reading, Oxford, Leeds and Birmingham a few times a year as well and generally I think they stand up pretty well. I have certainly experienced worse in France and Belgium. Further, the trains here are a gazillion times better than they were 10 years ago and the tube is simply unrecognisable in terms of reliability from when I first started to use it in 1997.

I expect regional services not on main lines are godawful but then I doubt that is much different in many other countries really.

I don't have a downer on trains here particularly, I didn't mention our end of the Esbjerg-Harwich line because I'd drive, therefore haven't used it for about 30 years and have no idea what it's like now.

Having said that I agree that by and large trains are way better now than they used to be. I can remember when I first starting commuting that there were carriages on the tube that dated from not long after WW2. I love the new Met Line with its air conditioned gorgeousness. The only line I don't hear good stuff about is FCC, but I think that was voted the worst, so hopefully the new contract will improve that.

It's more the cost of travel now that is expensive... not so much in London which is still well priced IMO, more so into the capital from outside. There's a real ramping up of prices once you get outside of the tube map area.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

I hope you don't work with maths. A pack of butter is 8oz, so it's closer to 200 packs of butter.

This is true, although I eat clover which comes in 500g tubs and for some reason I call that butter... So it works in my head.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

You can get big ones that are 500g instead of 250g, so nearly a pound.

I've seen big marg tubs, but never butter.... not that I look though

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Surely if you are MSE you buy the bigger ones which weigh 1lb?

No, if you're MSE you buy marg.

I used to get through one 250g tub of marg/year, but since I've been eating more toast I'll now go through one tub in 4-6 weeks.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

PasturesNew wrote: »

I hope you don't work with maths. A pack of butter is 8oz, so it's closer to 200 packs of butter.

???

The packs we buy are 500g, so 17.6 oz?

chewmylegoff

LydiaJ wrote: »

You can get big ones that are 500g instead of 250g, so nearly a pound.

More than surely? A pound is 454g innit?

PasturesNew

I just looked on mysupermarket.... they really DO make 1lb blocks of butter ... I thought it might be an obscure size, but there are quite a few.