Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

chewmylegoff

lemonjelly wrote: »

Struggling to decide where to put this picture:

Back of the toilet door?

vivatifosi

lemonjelly wrote: »

Furniture adverts do my nut in. Does anyone have a sitting room as big as these people on the furniture ads?

The ad that's doing my head in at the moment is the new Colgate one. It's an advert for toothpaste, yet there's no toothpaste on their brushes and their brushes don't appear to make contact with their teeth. Very odd.

Nuclear bomb belongs in music room imo.

chewmylegoff

lemonjelly wrote: »

Oh yes, & I need to buy an ice cream scoop. Perhaps that'll distract me from the car thingy...

An ice cream scoop is something I've never been particularly interested in - I don't see what it offers that a spoon doesn't.

Besides, ice cream is best eaten straight from the tub using a spork. The only exceptions to this rule are mars ice creams and mint magnums.

neverdespairgirl

silvercar wrote: »

Lydia, when you talked about clearing the mortgage from the compensation I assumed the inquest had happened. Doesn't the blamed party have to give you compensation, so the inquest decides who is the blamed party?

Inquests don't seek to establish blame, precisely. That isn't their function.

The system of inquests and coroners hasn't changed substantially since the system was set up in the reign of King Richard I, by his Justiciar, Hubert Walter. They were local officials who had to custos placitorum coronae (keep the pleas of the Crown) hence the name "Coroner". (There were Saxon coroners, too, but our present system has run without pause since the 1190s).

Coroners were set up partly to combat the wide-spread corruption of the county sheriff system, and partly to make money for the Crown, to pay off the extraordinary debts accumulated by Richard and pay for his on-going wars.

As well as inquests into deaths, medieval coroners had to investigate rapes and fires, gather the King's and Queen's fish (whales etc), decide whether stuff was Treasure Trove, and so forth. They still do most of this stuff now.

Currently under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 s.5 the purpose of a normal inquest is to:

(1)The purpose of an investigation under this Part into a person's death is to ascertain—

(a)who the deceased was;

(b)how, when and where the deceased came by his or her death;

(c)the particulars (if any) required by the 1953 Act to be registered concerning the death.

Very approximately, AIUI, about 5 - 7% of deaths in England & Wales lead to an inquest. Many are short, though.

Generali

chewmylegoff wrote: »

An ice cream scoop is something I've never been particularly interested in - I don't see what it offers that a spoon doesn't.

Less bend if you're eating home made ice cream.

zagubov

vivatifosi wrote: »

DH has gone to see Monty Python at O2 tonight. He called me in the interval and I asked how it was so far "a bit weird but fun" came the reply. Which sums up MP nicely I think.

Apparently it's being shown on TV this weekend if anyone is interested.

Dunno about TV but we're going to see it simulcasted at our local cinema. DS likes MP, and we do too.

Generali

I went back to the hematologist today and I'm now officially In Remission with a 20-30% chance of a recurrence. Those odds aren't that bad considering my age and how common lymphomas are anyway.

Doozergirl

Generali wrote: »

I went back to the hematologist today and I'm now officially In Remission with a 20-30% chance of a recurrence. Those odds aren't that bad considering my age and how common lymphomas are anyway.

This is good.

How are you feeling now?

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

I went back to the hematologist today and I'm now officially In Remission with a 20-30% chance of a recurrence. Those odds aren't that bad considering my age and how common lymphomas are anyway.

Great news Gen.

Generali

Doozergirl wrote: »

This is good.

How are you feeling now?

Good and getting better wvery day too.