Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

lostinrates

Wheezy wrote: »

It is! A modern day madonna with child.

I thought it looked like a modern vision of something pre raphaelite. Or like a Klimt stripped of the glitz. Some thing in the composition.

Real, pure, lovely though.

SingleSue

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Sorry to be on topic - but imagine the debt they will run up between them. A poisoned chalice in some ways- I wish people who have done that well could get the education they deserve and not come out the other side saddled with debt - not necessarily free, but it was manageable at £1,500 a year. Have been talking to our interns and grads this evening - they are doing better than most and it still isn't a pretty picture...

If I left school into today's environment, I'm not sure I would want to go to uni unless I had financial backing.

James thought long and hard before finally deciding to go for uni, especially as the fees had just increased. In the end, he decided he had to go due to his career choice, without a degree, it just would not be possible....between a rock and a hard place for a lot of youngsters nowadays.

Josh is still undecided about uni but again, his choice of career almost certainly needs a degree to enter (he could do it without but it would make it extremely difficult). Of course, his going to uni depends on what support he can obtain as he cannot independent live and would need supported living whilst at uni.

Youngest is dead set on going to uni and once again, his career choice is not possible without a degree, even with a degree, the market is so competitive there are no guarantees. He can independent live....as long as he can order stuff online and doesn't have to do the whole social thing :rotfl:

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

I thought it looked like a modern vision of something pre raphaelite. Or like a Klimt stripped of the glitz. Some thing in the composition.

Real, pure, lovely though.

I'm not cultured enough to have thought of it myself but I agree. The plain, dark background really sets the picture off.

Definitely a picture to keep. IMO infinitely better and more special than any of those cheesy family photo shoots (apologies if anyone loves them!).

SingleSue

silvercar wrote: »

DS2 was like that. Fed and changed, not too hot, not too cold, nothing wrong but could cry all evening for no reason. Even when held he would try to be grumpy. There were times when he tried our patience too much and he was left to it.:o (by left to it, I mean put safely in his pram in a different room, not left on the street corner.)

Youngest did nothing but scream for the first 5 years of his life, then we had screaming interjected with random words for the next 2...now I just get non stop lecturing on various gaming/history/tech things.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

I have never been to Status Quo concert, real or fake.

Somebody here did ... and is. So I assumed it was you as I know you are/were just in the area.

LydiaJ

lemonjelly wrote: »

Agreed. Some of the stuff I've seen/read is worrying though. & the list is full of many dubious characters.

Very worrying indeed. All the more reason to let the police get on with the investigation without press interference.

silvercar wrote: »

Cliff Richard - I find it disquieting that the press were hovering as the police entered his house.

Well indeed. They appear to have learnt nothing from the Yeates/Jefferies debacle at all.

LydiaJ

On a completely different note...

I have just paid off my "mortgage", posted on the mortgage free roll of honour, and then remembered to cancel the standing order to my dad.

Doozergirl

I'e just met with a lovely man from Hereford & Worcester Chamber of Commerce. For the record, he does look like Simon Bird of Inbetweeners fame but a little more handsome.

I don't think FIR looks like Simon Bird, he reminds me very much of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - it may be the voice, which is almost indistinguishable to me, but he has similar hair.

I have a thing about voices, I think. My good friend sounds just like Claudia Winkleman. If you close your eyes, you're in the room with her.

Who do the other Nice People get told they look/sound like? I've been told twice recently that I look like Rebecca Adlington. On both occasions by drunken chav types. I'm not sure if I look like her to only drunken chav types, or whether drunken chav types are the only people that feel the need to voice it to a stranger.

There was a thing on facebook a few years ago where you had to post your profile pic as the famous person people say you look like. At the time, I posted Miyam Bialik from when she was Blossom. My friend who sounds like Claudia Winkleman posted a picture of Jimmy Saville (pre-Yew Tree) as her husband says she had the same haircut.

LydiaJ

I don't get told I look/sound like anyone famous.

Between when I was about 10 and when my mum got very old, she and I had telephone voices that were indistinguishable to everyone in the world except my dad and brothers. It caused some confusion and embarrassment when I used to answer the phone as a kid and the person would launch into a whole load of information that wasn't meant for me and I wouldn't be able to get a word in edgeways to explain that I was me and not here.

Masomnia

LydiaJ wrote: »

On a completely different note...

I have just paid off my "mortgage", posted on the mortgage free roll of honour, and then remembered to cancel the standing order to my dad.

Ah congratulations!

I haven't been told I look like anyone other than Federer for a while. Maybe it's as I'm getting older the 'one of those faces' thing is fading.