Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

I'd like that. I'd show the picture to my garden and tell it to stop messing about.

The wife and the dog don't take notice of you ... what makes you think the garden will?

Generali

michaels wrote: »

I think it is strange that although Aus is so similar to the uk you could look at that photo andediately think it was probably not two British students.

Funny isn't it? I walk around a sub-tropical City based around (king) George St and has 2 States of 5 named after Queen Victoria. 2 of the rest are named after points on the Compass and the last from a British region!

My FiL was raised in rural Queensland. As a child he did Matriculation followed by A Levels. He spent LSD. He learned French as a second language (with an English phonetic accent) and his history was English-European for the most part (e.g. Napoleon boo, Henry V yeah!). His local source of milk was (he claims) feral goats which they would track, catch, milk and release

michaels

A little bit annoyed. Someone has crushed their mobile in a car door. Apparently it is all my fault and also my fault that none of the old phones at home are charged and that I don't know all their frequently dialed numbers of their relatives of the top of my head.

Given recent ongoing car expenditures I don't want to buy an expensive new handset now so said once I get home this person can have my phone and I will use one of the old ones but apparently that is neither quick enough or good enough.

Rant over dqwd.

Masomnia

michaels wrote: »

Interesting that on the ground you were expecting a close result as the polls had suggested an easy labour win, I wonder if the extra swing from Tories to ukip was tactical or reflects more Tory weakness than expected?

The thing is, a depressingly high number of people you meet are in the 'Now I'm not racist, but...' category, and while the only high profile party that catered for those people was the BNP it wasn't an issue as most people would not vote for them. UKIP have made all that acceptable, and you wouldn't be ashamed to say to your friends who are similarly minded that you voted UKIP. So it was no surprise to me that they polled so well.

Ed Miliband going on about how the Tories are out of touch always makes me despair at him, because to people in Middleton and Heywood there's no difference whatsoever between his background and Cameron's; both are a world away from the estates round here. No surprise Labour voters didn't turn out.

When the pollster rings up and asks who you're going to vote for it's easy to say 'Labour'. but when it comes down to actually going out and doing it (especially since it was raining most of the day!) when you're not too keen on Miliband it's quite a different thing.

As for the Tory vote collapsing, it's obvious they will never win here; and I think with the rise of UKIP a lot of Tories saw a genuine chance to unseat Labour. If 310 more Tories had gone over to UKIP then UKIP would have won. What will be really interesting in the GE is if that trend continues.

tom9980

PasturesNew wrote: »

PN doesn't host threads... seriously out of comfort zone.

That and the next thread is #13 perhaps?

michaels

tom9980 wrote: »

That and the next thread is #13 perhaps?

Would you like to do the honours, Tom?

lostinrates

Kiwi went in a lift for the first time today. He didn't like the idea of going in but didn't seem to mind when we were in there. It was a very short one small storey journey.

I now think I should go and practice that more.

I know you have to carry dogs on escalators on the tube etc, but are you meant to carry them in lifts? When he didn't want to go in I picked him up. Not ideal training but was not ideal scenario either.

I've never, ever taken a dog in a escalator, lift or transport like that.

Generali

Masomnia wrote: »

As for the Tory vote collapsing, it's obvious they will never win here; and I think with the rise of UKIP a lot of Tories saw a genuine chance to unseat Labour. If 310 more Tories had gone ovaren't goneP then UKIP would have won. What will be really interesting in the GE is if that trend continues.

It's always been very obvious that UKIP isn't just taking votes off the Tories to me just as the whole idea that Lab=plebs and Tories=Toffs is obviously bunkum if you think about it for more than a nanosecond. (There aren't nearly enough Toffs to win an election).

It'll be interesting to see how Labour fight this as they are the onea who have moved away from their core with all this PC stuff. The PC Left is going to get squeezed hard I suspect.

lostinrates

When for comes home I'd quite like to take the dogs out to test their new collars somewhere specific away from home, but their are groups of quite intimidating youths there. ( how embarrassing is it to be put off by kids in cars). On Monday's this walking spot gets cleaned up after the weekend and I once went and its really not nice .....

Reminds me how not rural idyll we are since our move east

But, I'm wondering whether I might gird my loins to test the collars. ( or mr blue as I have told them the new collars are called).

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Kiwi went in a lift for the first time today. He didn't like the idea of going in but didn't seem to mind when we were in there. It was a very short one small storey journey.

I now think I should go and practice that more.

I know you have to carry dogs on escalators on the tube etc, but are you meant to carry them in lifts? When he didn't want to go in I picked him up. Not ideal training but was not ideal scenario either.

I've never, ever taken a dog in a escalator, lift or transport like that.

Oops! I took Doglet on the tube and forgot to carry her on the escalator.

I wouldn't think twice about taking her in a lift. Just walk in, and the dog follows. It's just a small room.

She likes going on buses.