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Nice People 12: Nice in Nice
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »It's not really about "being right'.
For most No voters, it's more a visceral anger that total strangers wanted to inflict such damage on our country and it's people. For a vanity project.
It will take time for that anger to fade.
Yes and No.
We now have to deliver 12 months work in 4 months to try and catch up.
Frustrating, but yes, a good thing overall.
My feeling is that this vote has had a really positive outcome quite honestly. The Scottish people I know here felt really angry that being in favour of the union made them somehow unpatriotic. That the result was so overwhelmingly in the negative to independence has, I think, given Scottish people a real pride that they can be both Scottish and British.
I also suspect that it's given a fillip to the UK as a whole. The country tends to be pessimistic about itself but this result has given the UK a legitimacy that it sometimes feels it doesn't have.
It's fantastic that Nationalism, with all the inward looking negativity that goes with it, has been so comprehensively set back.0 -
Hamish, you may enjoy this, from the specials board at my auntie's local!0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Oh, no, I don't do that.
I do have home and NOK though.
I don't have ice but if I can find my phone I will put it on. What is NOK.?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Had a great day today despite only getting 3 hours sleep.
I am very grateful that things worked out the way they have.
Thought of you yesterday and knew you'd be pleased. "Grateful" is a good word.Thing is, the vote is over. A colective decision has been made.
Everyone has to get on with working together again (whether they voted yes or no, or didn't get a vote). I'm slightly concerned that the 'no' crew aren't going to let the 'yes' lot forget that 'they were right' etc etc. And we're not actually going to focus on working together.
Anyhow. Great news re your plans. I bet you're feeling a lot more relaxed tonight!
My brother (who voted No) speaks of a huge air of anticlimax yesterday, and expresses a hope that the inhabitants of Scotland can take many of the positives of the Yes campaign's vision for the kind of society they wanted to build if they had the autonomy to build it, and make them happen in a Scotland that's still within the UK. (I say "the inhabitants of Scotland" rather than "the Scots" because he uses the pronoun "we" having already said that he feels British rather than either Scottish or English. (He was born English, as I am, but has lived there for 17 years and has a wife and kids who identify as Scottish as well as British.)
Meanwhile DS is hugely relieved that his Scottish cousins are not going to become foreign, and that the union jack will remain unchanged, which were the two issues he was worried about.lostinrates wrote: »Not sure when that was. Crime has been about a long, long time. Poor behaviour has too.
Indeed. I gather almost all kinds of crime are significantly down on what they used to be a few decades ago.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »How do you get through my phone's PIN number in order to find my ICE contact?
Mine has an unlock pattern thing. However, I have two numbers for people to call if they find it written onto the inside of the flippy cover. At least I used to. They have worn off now. I should write them back on. (They are my landline and DS's mobile.)Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Next of Kin, I assume?
My phone has an over-ride for the PIN to make an emergency call. Assume that's 999, haven't tried it.
I think they all do. I actually used it which was quite exciting!
We went to the Better Homes and Gardens show which was quite fun although not as good as last year. Still it was only $22 to get in, we took a packed lunch (Bovril rolls, Bovril that a Nice Person brought to Aus for me!, Chickin in a Biskit and some apples) and the kids got to meet Fast Ed and Dr Harry.
BHG is a TV show over here which is basically the lifestyle pages from the Saturday newspapers so they do some DIY, some crafts, cooking and baking and gardening. They do an annual show in Sydney which has the stars of the program doing demos and then attach a large-ish retail exhibition to it selling food, plastic tat, financial services etc. I think there's also one in Melbourne and possibly in Brisbane too. Nobody cares about the other state/territory capitals.
We got the train there and back which the kids loved because they got to use their Opal (Oyster) cards for the first time.0 -
They have free bbqs in them over here so you can do steak sandwiches for the adults or even attempt something a bit flash.
They have some bookable free BBQs on a grassy square in Exmouth, Devon. You book one from the Council. In one job I had, in 1998, our bosses booked the BBQ and paid for all the booze/burgers and we went off, about 50 of us, straight after work and there was a game of rounders. They only did it once, but then the company were taken over shortly after. Brilliant company, best job I ever had....
The funds came from the Project Fund - and both bosses had a budget for each project that they could spend on "frivolity" - and the two bosses clubbed their funds together to pay for it. So the crowd was everybody from several IT departments that'd been involved in a big roll out.0 -
We overslept wickedly this morning. Thankfully dogs were clean and poultry was patient. What we wanted to do today was stain the new wood in the herb garden, but weather is against us. We had a friend coming for the weekend but that's fallen through ( theme of the week?
) and so we are considering TAKING A DAY OFF. Properly, together.
Edit....after he's finished this work call, lol.0 -
For the record, in case it helps, there's a squeezable bottle of Bovril, that might be easier to post to you from the UK (I presume it's an allowable import). Cost-wise it's no different to the jars per 100g.... Bovril that a Nice Person brought to Aus for me!...
200g bottles, about £3 full price, at all regular supermarkets.0
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