Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

CKhalvashi

vivatifosi wrote: »

Zag, sorry to be thick, I don't understand your point about planned economies, can you please explain? Thanks.

I was thinking that, but thought possibly it's due to the lack of lights in parts of Russia.

It's important to remember that those parts of Russia are uninhabited for a reason, and whilst I've been no further north than Arkhangelsk, even that can get extremely cold.

CKhalvashi

Just spent 15 minutes trying to find an old Facebook conversation (it had a phone number in it), found it, and now can't remember why I needed the phone number.....

What an amazing start to the week :cool:

SingleSue

Everyone is up early for youngest going back to college (I refuse to pee about going backwards and forwards in the car to suit their times)....to say youngest is reluctant is an understatement,

CKhalvashi

Good luck Sue!

zagubov

In the earlier map, you could see that the western countries had grown or industrialised in an organic way with no obvious pattern.

On the eastern side, the lights were few and far between but were all arranged like spokes in a wheel radiating out from Moscow which looked like a muliti-pointed star.

Not so obvious now, but easier to notice back in the day. And yes, younger readers and lurkers, we did have satellite photos before the internet era!

CKhalvashi

Just been into cafe I usually go into, had a bill presented for £20.

I drank a coffee and a coke, wasn't offered food and expected to pay a bill for the 2 people I was sat with (who were paying for their own)

They explained this, and I'm still asked £20. Apparently 2 free meals the last 2 Christmas is enough to justify why I shouldn't be annoyed.

I am apparently unwelcome as 'scamming scum', and don't really want to go back anyway.

Sorry, not nice, but just needed a vent

Wheezy_2

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I'm trying to assemble a group of 8 small teams in UK, Spain and Germany with Italy to come in the next few months for my next project, and this is proving to be more of a logistical nightmare than I'd anticipated.

If this involves jetting around Europe to go watch Eurovision and Junior Eurovision, you can count me in.

Wheezy_2

Nikkster wrote: »

The railings are rather distinctive

Very nice fence. What are your plans for the front garden?

PS: Ignore me, I see it's been answered already.

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

It's bit like those predictions that one day every major city in America would have a telephone. Or that one day there would be a computer in several countries.

If you're on the Sydney side of the country, have you encountered The Preatures yet.?;)

I think it was the Chairman of the company that owned the first computer available for hire in the UK that thought that demand for computers could rise as high as one computer per year in the UK.

Basically everyone lives on the Sydney side of Australia! I think I heard them interviewed on my breakfast show of choice on the ABC (our BBC) and heard that song while ironing a shirt.

CKhalvashi

Wheezy wrote: »

If this involves jetting around Europe to go watch Eurovision and Junior Eurovision, you can count me in.

It's for organising airport transfers for travel agencies, from a range of different countries.

Something I know a lot about, and hopefully have the contacts to be able to pull off solo