Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

chewmylegoff

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Speaking of newborns, how is Mrs Chewie?

Well, she hasn't given birth yet!

She goes to bed at 8.30 these days so I'm guessing "tired".

She has told all her friends now. We are getting floods of offers of baby stuff. Thank god. This will scupper her plans to spend all of my future earnings on baby tat.

Nikkster

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I looked it up, and was wrong in two respects - it was in 1979, and was about devolution rather than independence.

I was going to suggest that I'm pretty sure that AM isn't 34

Yorkie1

Just switched over to see what the ITV coverage was like, and got a Gambling advert! :rotfl:

neverdespairgirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Well, she hasn't given birth yet!

She goes to bed at 8.30 these days so I'm guessing "tired".

She has told all her friends now. We are getting floods of offers of baby stuff. Thank god. This will scupper her plans to spend all of my future earnings on baby tat.

That will so totally not scupper her plans, I fear. Those of my acquaintance determined to spend £££ on baby tat will do so no matter what.....

lostinrates

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Ah right - still pretty important, though, and laid the foundations for where we are today, I guess.

I read that as foundinrates, not foundations and somehow thought....well, he's good, but worldchangingly so?

Yorkie1

lostinrates wrote: »

I read that as foundinrates, not foundations and somehow thought....well, he's good, but worldchangingly so?

Earthshatteringly so, I'd have thought

chewmylegoff

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

That will so totally not scupper her plans, I fear. Those of my acquaintance determined to spend £££ on baby tat will do so no matter what.....

There won't be room for it, I will fill the house from top to bottom with free second hand tat.

lostinrates

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Earthshatteringly so, I'd have thought

Well, bedshatteringly at least.

Yorkie1

They're awarding the Ig Noble prizes this evening too - "Honouring achievements that make people laugh and then think".

According to twitter:

PHYSICS: For measuring the friction between a shoe, a banana skin, and a floor.

NEUROSCIENCE goes to a team from China for working out what happens in brains of people who see Jesus in a piece of toast.

PSYCHOLOGY goes to a team who showed that people who stay up late are more likely to be psychopaths. [A tough one for those Ig Noble fans in Europe who have stayed up late to follow the awards ceremony in USA ... ]

PUBLIC HEALTH goes to two teams for studying whether or not it is dangerous to live with a cat.

Generali

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Wasn't there a referendum in about 1980, though?

I like Huw Edwards - don't like Andrew Marr, though, he's far too much of an appalling hypocrite for my taste.

I feel a bit sorry for them, having to blether non-stop about nothing for hours!

I think the (rather wonderful) Scottish word is 'haver' for blather. I used to know a Scottish girl who used to accuse me of havering quite frequently.