Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

If I ever wanted a stalker, I'd pick you. I don't know how you do it.

Just nosiness

Generali

Doozergirl wrote: »

They managed to vote in a UKIP councillor who was a complete racist in the Locals in Redditch. As soon as he was voted in, someone looked at his facebook page. What a shame UKIP didn't bother with a bit of due diligence. They should hire PN.

They held a new election and Labour made it in quite easily. I'm not surprised, but how and why did it all happen.

In the past I've voted Labour to keep the BNP out and would do the same to keep out any other racist party/candidate.

I really hate Socialists (if you hadn't noticed) but I hate racists even more. I'd be embarrassed to be represented in Parliament by a racist. When I lived in a place that I thought had a vague chance of returning a BNP MP I decided I'd move if they did.

The whole SNP/separatist movement really bothers me too for the same reason. Nationalist movements are invariable racist at the core.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

The thing is that our IT department isn't really answerable to anyone.

In a way, you're lucky ... in many organisations they come under the Finance Dept. Maybe that's historical as computers were initially used for accounting purposes.

GDB2222

Pelmets with metal rails are the real McCoy. Shame they have gone out of fashion.

Nikkster

lemonjelly wrote: »

How about:

Or how about one of those electric fly swatters?

LydiaJ wrote: »

Are the rails metal rather than plastic? If so, your house is like the house where I grew up. Every room (except the attic bedroom) had metal curtain rails (with overlap as per my recent diagram) and a wooden pelmet when my parents bought the place in 1959, and I think they only "did" the curtains in one room, so all the rest are still like that IIRC. The metal curtain rails were a bit squeaky, but there was no problem getting the curtains to overlap in the middle.

Yes, metal rails. The ones in my bedroom overlap. The ones in the living room don't. Not checked the rest.

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'm repainting the back wall. The colour I picked was a brilliant shade of WRONG. It was a whim. I must not have paint whims. All paint choices must be pondered for weeks.

What colour was wrong and what are you repainting it with?

Nikkster

GDB2222 wrote: »

Pelmets with metal rails are the real McCoy. Shame they have gone out of fashion.

Not in my house that time partially forgot!

Next you'll be telling me that floral sofas aren't in fashion :eek:

PasturesNew

One of my secrets is: I like to bulk buy 'bargains', but feel a sense of shame when I do it.... so, I rarely get to do it .... but, I've been out to Lidl this morning and bought 10 packs of rice pouches..... I'll go out again 2-3 more times over the weekend and get more..... I guess I should do some "proper shopping" too ... so might get a loaf and some sugar too (for my weetabix).

24p/pouch - and better tasting than that Batchelor's cr4p. So many pouch rices are just vile.

Nikkster

SingleSue wrote: »

One holiday

I don't really have any family holiday stories. We did go away, but not very often. Last family holiday was in 1997. I've been away a couple of times in the UK with my mum in recent years.

Next family holiday is... 2014 :eek:
We'll be staying in my brother's one-bed flat (he is abroad for a couple of years). I expect there will be tales of arguments aplenty

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

One of my secrets is: I like to bulk buy 'bargains', but feel a sense of shame when I do it.... so, I rarely get to do it .... but, I've been out to Lidl this morning and bought 10 packs of rice pouches..... I'll go out again 2-3 more times over the weekend and get more..... I guess I should do some "proper shopping" too ... so might get a loaf and some sugar too (for my weetabix).

24p/pouch - and better tasting than that Batchelor's cr4p. So many pouch rices are just vile.

When (yes, when) you visit here - I'll show you my stash. Unless I've actually used any of it by then :rotfl:

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

The thing is that our IT department isn't really answerable to anyone.

No idea who our IT department are answerable to, but they're brilliant. If something goes wrong you can either log it on the intranet helpdesk app, or if it's just your laptop you can take it over there and queue behind one or two people (usually students) to get dealt with. If you log it on the helpdesk you have to say how urgent it is and how many people are affected, but even non-urgent things are usually fixed the same day unless they require a new part or an outside contractor (eg major problem with one of the big printer/photocopiers).

I had a problem a while ago. Some VBA code I had written was working just fine for me but behaving oddly for a friend of mine. It would only run once for him on any particular machine, and after that it would crash every time he tried to run it until he moved to a different computer. If I logged on as me it ran OK on his machine. So I went to IT support and said "Excel is behaving weirdly. There is nothing wrong with my code but it won't run for Angus." The person to whom I spoke said that he would get their Excel specialist and went behind a screen to where the guy's desk was and told him about it. I heard the Excel guy say, with a weary and disbelieving sigh, "It'll be a problem in the code." Then he came round the corner of the screen, and said "Oh, it's Lydia. The code won't be the problem then."

The problem was eventually solved by a different member of the team who discovered an obscure box deep in the Options menu that needed to be ticked or unticked or something. I've written a line about "If it crashes check this" into the instructions on "How to use Lydia's code".