Nice People 13: Nice Save

PasturesNew

It's nice to see Spirit was reading/thanking earlier - even if we were too dull to speak with

CKhalvashi

vivatifosi wrote: »

Happy birthday CK! Looks like you're having fun!

Thanks Viva, it's been great! Just want to bring on tomorrow night!

For any NP that are interested, we can be found at 6pm here

I'm determined that (a not very well) Krisia is taking the trophy home, but we'll see :cool::D

Yorkie1

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's nice, but I might try the MSE route - there are LOADS of holly bushes etc round these parts. I've been clocking them for the last couple of years... and I wonder how you take cuttings.

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I suppose it's partly a question of how slowly it grows..... I'm prepared to wait 1-2 years, not 10.

I suspect for it to form a proper hedge / windproof barrier would take nearer the latter than the former (though it does self-seed easily, I can testify :mad: )

GDB2222 wrote: »

I recently had my motor insurance renewal premium notification ...

I can only suggest that it is worth double-checking your insurance premiums.

Mine's just come through so that's a job for this weekend or next.

silvercar wrote: »

Renewed mine yesterday. Had renewal from directline and noticed that M&S are promising to undercut renewal quotes by £50. Did an online quote with M&S and it came in at £40 below the directline one. Phoned up directline and inquired whether they would like to price match. They said no, which did surprise me. So phoned M&S and they dropped a further £10, so I've saved £60.

Worth knowing - I'm with DL and usually get them to reduce the quote to about what I paid last year, but they're not as keen as they used to be to drop the quote to a new customer's level.

I do have house insurance with them too, and therefore get extra discounts for having both - so it would need to be a decently lower quote to compensate. £50 is worth looking into definitely :T

zagubov

Wheezy wrote: »

I hear parts of the M25 near Leatherhead have collapsed.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-30049739
No need to be homesick.

That's the nearest bit of the M25 to me. :eek:

It was raining stair-rods earlier today!

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Mate of mine died yesterday, relatively fit, didn't smoke, played sports, had a sudden and fatal heart attack in his late 40's.

The first of my friend group to die of 'natural' causes.

Been a few passed away in car/bike/plane incidents, in dodgy parts of the world from work related issues, or from various other misadventures of the recreational variety, but that's the first from just getting older.

Bit of a shocker really. I'd have laid good odds he'd have outlived me, despite being a good few years older.

A reminder of our mortality.

Masomnia

Sorry to hear that Hamish it seems to happen, middle-aged blokes just dropping dead like that; look at Rik Mayall recently. No warning. Very sad. Were you close?

GDB2222

I'm sorry, Hamish. Friends of ours lost their son, in his 20s. He just dropped dead, and they never discovered the cause. Whilst feeling gloomy I will mention that a friend has just been diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease, which seems to be progressing quite fast.

Masomnia

It's morbid, but we had a uni re-union last weekend, and in the run up to that I was listening to stuff quite randomly and Morrissey - First of the Gang to Die came on, and it did make me think One of us will be the first...

Generali

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Mate of mine died yesterday, relatively fit, didn't smoke, played sports, had a sudden and fatal heart attack in his late 40's.

The first of my friend group to die of 'natural' causes.

Been a few passed away in car/bike/plane incidents, in dodgy parts of the world from work related issues, or from various other misadventures of the recreational variety, but that's the first from just getting older.

Bit of a shocker really. I'd have laid good odds he'd have outlived me, despite being a good few years older.

A reminder of our mortality.

Really sorry to hear that mate.

The first of mine to go was when I was 19: she died of a brain hemorrhage. I suspect quite a lot of people were quite shocked when I got cancer as I live a pretty healthy life: 2 hours cycling a day, eat well, don't smoke. The media seems to promote the idea that we can live in a certain way and live forever* but it just ain't so. People were clearly taken aback when I said that my cancer came from getting an infection rather than from being some kind of immoral reprobate that smokes/drinks to excess/eats carbohydrates.

We can shade the odds in our favour by living well but ultimately we will all die at some point and we can't delay in the inevitable forever. All we can do is live in the best way you feel able to and hope for a pain-free ending.

Dr Karl, an Aussie MD and Physicist who also has a broadcast on BBC R5, is very interesting on pain. He makes the point often that there is no valour in suffering pain needlessly.


*Led by the Daily Mail's attempt to split all foods into 2 groups: those that cause and cure cancer. Admittedly there does seem to be some overlap between the 2.

Generali

I came across this today whilst looking for stuff online about that comet probe thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4hPnZUMBwA

(yes he is passed out before the roadies carry him to the mike for the encore, IIRC in the film he sings the prior song lying down on the stage as he can no longer stand)

Whilst I don't condone getting utterly off your chops on, I would guess, a mixture of an opiate and speed/cocaine this surely has to be the most rock 'n' roll performance caught on film except perhaps Hendrix at Woodstock when he shags his guitar and sets fire to it.

They don't make 'em like they used to!