Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

PasturesNew

Which sport is best for you quiz: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28062001

It chose lawn bowls for me
Followed by shooting and table tennis.

bugslet

badminton or table tennis.; I'm ignoring the bit where it says I'm a discus or javelin thrower, no disrespect, but none of them look that feminine.....:eek:

lostinrates

For a few months, maybe five, I got stuck doing a long commute in my series three. . Slow, cold, noisy. I was also working hard and not getting very much sleep as doing something else where I was commuting too. A lot of my drive was often through fog /mist.


I can remember thinking in absolute exhaustion....'maybe if I just rested one eye....' Often, before putting a very rousing cd on and opening the window wide.


We often expect too much of ourselves. It wasn't safe. Was burning the candle at both ends one of the potential things that contributed to my health problems? I dunno. But I certainly risked people's lives during that period and I'm not proud of it.

PasturesNew

With hard flooring, you really need to keep an eye out for one of those cordless mini vacuums.... so you can hoover up the little bits/pieces when you spot them. Having the big patio doors open wide a lot of the day and with a whirlwind occurring on the patio a few times a day and dumping stuff in .... it's something that's now on my list

bugslet

5 dogs, hard floors....imagine those abandoned American towns in the mid west with tumbleweed blowing along; now you have my daily battle!

PasturesNew

bugslet wrote: »

5 dogs, hard floors....imagine those abandoned American towns in the mid west with tumbleweed blowing along; now you have my daily battle!

I do like hard floors... while it shows every bit of dust/whatever, it means you can easily keep it clean.... with a carpet it's out of sight, out of mind, gathering and accumulating endlessly for years.

PasturesNew

Just popped out to the car, it's not as hot as it was yesterday .... yesterday I couldn't move or do anything. Flicked on the ignition to read the dashboard temp gauge and it said it's 34 degrees outside. It's overcast.

PasturesNew

World's Most Dangerous Roads is in Georgia. Hugh somebody and Jessica (?).
They're up in some mountains now at some place that's about to get a road for the first time. (Dave, freeview channel 12)

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

If you were my clarisonic face brush you would be FOUND!

Fir found it!!!!

It was behind the collapsing but propped into sort of place panel behind the loo in old bathroom.

Now its been cleaned with dettol ( hand set) having a new brush head on it!

:j:j:j:j:j

How could it have got behind there????

Generali wrote: »

Heard an interesting piece of behavioural economics: why David Lee Roth insisted on having no brown M&Ms backstage.

The band had a very complex, heavy and potentially dangerous stage set which needed to be constructed correctly or it could damage the set or even kill someone. Of course if you ask someone if they put the set up correctly they say, "Yes, of course", regardless.

So what to do? You put a dumb clause in the contract asking for a bowl of M&Ms backstage with the brown ones removed. Any brown M&Ms mean that you can cancel on the spot. If you see a brown M&M in the bowl what you are really seeing is a contract that hasn't been read properly. You then do a full check of every part of the set to see what else they missed. The set apparently weighed "the same as a 747", according to DLR.

It was once set up on a rubberised basketball court with predictable results (the court was trashed). There were brown M&Ms in the bowl.

Like it. Thanks for explaining. Very interesting.

hjd wrote: »

No, definitely not a mis-type. Yes, pretty extreme. Even my mother says that when you are told your son/daughter is going to have a baby, you are delighted. Same for number 2 and 3, then you get slightly less enthusiastic (I paraphrase) with each subsequent announcement, to the point of suggesting he ties a knot in it or something..

My dad's dad didn't really like large families. He and my paternal granny had two girls and decided to stop. Then, according to family legend, he read an article about how to improve your chances of getting a boy, they gave it a whirl, and produced my dad. His dad was happy, but felt that 3 kids was quite a large family.

My dad's eldest sister had 6 kids. His next sister had 5. My dad married much later so his 3rd child was his parents' 14th grandchild. My grandfather told my mum "He's very nice, but I do hope you won't have any more." She was furious, but too polite to say so.

He was dead by the time I came along. I hope he would have loved me regardless!

PasturesNew

My UK grandparents had 13+ grandchildren: 3, 5, 3, 2. There are some in the US too, but I don't know how many, maybe 2-3 from a daughter that went there.

My non-UK grandparents had 4 grandchildren: 0, 2, 2, 0. My paternal grandfather didn't live long enough to see any of them, he died aged 69 when his own children were about 15-21. It was his second marriage, my grandmother was 11 years younger than him; from his first marriage (2 daughters) one remained a spinster and the other might have produced him 2 grandchildren, not really sure.... but that child was about 44 when he died so he'd have known them.

Lots of spinsters and childless women in my dad's side of the family. Dad had 3 sisters, all 3 married, only one had (2) kids. Dad also grew up with a raft of "maiden aunts" close by too.