Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

kabayiri

vivatifosi wrote: »

I agree with all of what lir has written and would add...
1. She's a great singer live. I was at last year's Eurovision and that voice filled the hall.
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For me it's all about the performance. I don't feel I need to identify with Conchita any more than Robbie Williams or Adele or whoever.

How the artist presents is their choice. I enjoyed the Thai transgender performance I linked to on the other page, because they demonstrated a great vocal range .

I find it interesting how people feel uncomfortable with talking about Jimmy Saville, or Gary Glitter. Especially who remember these personalities from their childhood.

I will say it now. I wasn't a regular viewer of Jim'll fix it, but I would enjoy the show now and then, and even the Christmas hospital shows. It doesn't mean to say I buy in to any of Jimmy's lifestyle. I was just responding to a television performance.

purch

Generali wrote: »

Mixed fuels required for the next few rides I think. I'll take some pasta and have a halfway stop perhaps.

Beer is full of Carbs...........just like drinking liquid bread, shame that you can't use that as fuel.

If I was going to ride a bike 100 kilometres I'd need to be completely !!!!!! first :eek:

kabayiri

purch wrote: »

To some posters on this forum that would cause major frothing as a huge "subsidy" being offered to the Social Housing tenant, even though there should be no need for a social landlord to make a profit, and that particular property would have been bought and paid for long ago.

How anyone can argue that there is not a huge need for more social housing in this country completely baffles me.

In my birth town I remember the council reroofing a whole set of council property.

A couple of years later, they demolished all the properties to build new.

Moral of the story? Oh, I dunno, perhaps it is the need for a long term housing plan which can ride out short term political fads - like a political power play in the borough council.

Speaking of long term planning, did you know we have a bricks shortage? I guess keeping brick manufacturers going during the recession times didn't occur to anyone as a long term plan.

purch

My high school was on the west edge of the St Helier Estate, which was meant to be the largest council estate in the UK (although one in Manchester also had that claim).

Virtually all the kids there came from that estate, and it didn't seem to me at all unusual for ordinary working people to live in council houses (the term social housing was years away) even though my parents had always owned their house.

I drive throught he area frequently and it breaks my heart to see all the To Let and Let Agreed signs in front of these houses.

I voted Conservative in 83 and 87, but the policy of selling off council housing was a disaster, although I doubt Maggs imagained what would happen 30 years later.

zagubov

kabayiri wrote: »

In my birth town I remember the council reroofing a whole set of council property.

A couple of years later, they demolished all the properties to build new.

Moral of the story? Oh, I dunno, perhaps it is the need for a long term housing plan which can ride out short term political fads - like a political power play in the borough council.

I'm baffled with the regularity with which schools have to be demolished and replaced. How fast do they deteriorate? Why were they allowed to build flat roofs to save a few bob?

lemonjelly

Doozergirl wrote: »

Have you seen the alternative way to put a duvet on? It works! I've just tried it on a double but I'm really looking forward to trying it on the superking

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c1IzS2oBBN0

I think I may be winning the fight with the Ikea products. Still no idea how to get the doors on the wardrobe, however. I want it done before Doozer returns so I can show what a clever (read utterly mindless) girl I am. I think I may also have trapped a non-matching chest of drawers at the far end of DD's room.

I'll try that!

Re IKEA, tbh I haven't seen anything in there for a while that interests me. Haven't been since I moved though. Perhaps I should visit on a rainy day?

hjd wrote: »

Am I the only person who doesn't use a duvet?
Sheets and blankets all the way.

Duvet here. Though tbh I am thinking that in the summer sheets may be an idea. New jelly gets the sun first thing, so might be a plan.

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't think bedding has to match the bedroom. In fact, I think often it looks better if it doesn't. You can redecorate a room, and a good bedspread or quilt will long outlast decoration. If you love something and its really good quality, then....nest Nikkster.

Agree very much with this. Bedding should have its own personality imo. Plus, as lir says, if you re-decorate are you going to change all your bedding?

One of my favourite duvet sets is this:
http://direct.asda.com/George-Home-London-Tube-Map-Duvet-Set/LondonTubeMapPrintDuvetSetMASTER,default,pd.html

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

Agree very much with this. Bedding should have its own personality imo.

They will, after a year, if you don't wash them

lemonjelly wrote: »

One of my favourite duvet sets is this:
http://direct.asda.com/George-Home-London-Tube-Map-Duvet-Set/LondonTubeMapPrintDuvetSetMASTER,default,pd.html

I prefer the B-side.

kabayiri

PasturesNew wrote: »

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The problem seems to be that you build a school .... and people then over-populate the country, so it's not long before you need a bigger one. Then you have to choose whether you can extend what you've got, or if it's cheaper to demolish and build new.

DD is going through GCSEs at the moment. Actually, correct that. The whole family is going through the GCSE process

Anyway, I had this idea that for me to help I would have to refresh my academic skills.

In short, I have to say I am *so* impressed by the quality of tuition you can find online.

Don't understand refraction in Physics? You can sit through a number of videos online and step through it until it sinks in.

I feel we need nothing short of a revolution in education. Our young are being left behind my students in other countries with what seems greater drive and determination.

I'm not sure just building schools solves the problem.

lemonjelly

LydiaJ wrote: »

I have a friend at work who says, when asked, that her reason for preferring Miss to Ms is because she wants single men to be easily able to identify her as available.



I used Miss until I got married, and then Mrs. Once I became Dr, I only used it professionally, and continued with Mrs where I felt Dr wasn't relevant. After LNE left, I switched to using Dr all the time - as lir says, I've never felt Ms, and now I don't feel Mrs either.

I find that many people are very lazy about getting people's titles right. I've always regarded it as basic courtesy to get people's names, including their preferred title, right if you possibly can. Your name and title are part of your identity. I find it interesting that people have such varied feelings about what they're comfortable with (including the related question of which surname(s) to use for married or formerly married women), and happily make a point of going along with whatever anybody else wants to call themselves. So I find it surprising how often I get, for example, a reply to an email that I've signed "Lydia J (Dr)" that begins "Dear Mrs J". I try quite hard not to let it irritate me, but I don't always succeed.

An area that males don't have to worry about. Biggest issue for us no longer happens now - when master turns to mister.

I worry about getting this right. Horribly, every time you try to get it right, as a male you get it wrong. Occasionally you get a very stern "It's MS, ACTUALLY!" back.

Not exactly the same, but I do remember interviewing a lady during the school holidays once. She had 2 youngish kids with her. The kids were bored, & we had a big interview room, so they were playing while she was explaining her problems to me. I blanked them out tbh, but you could see she was getting stressed. After she'd vented, she grabbed them & announced loudly that they needed to be quiet and behave because "this man is trying to help us!"

I didn't know who "this man" was, & actually looked around for him before realising she meant me. Think it was the first time I'd been called a man as opposed to a boy or youth/similar.