Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

My eyes are extremely screwy, both very different, both astigmatic and one lazy. I don't like big frames as then the edges get very thick (but will have to have bigger ones when I get varifocals. The problem is that below 18 inches (and increasing) they will no longer refocus that close so I have to hold my phone further than that when small stuff gets extremely small. Because they are so screwy I am nervous about the 10x cheaper on line option, not because I don't think they are just as good but because I think with my prescription they need to be fitted pretty carefully. If my eyes had been suitable for lasering I would have jumped at it. Contact lenses have never seemed worth the hassle (or especially the cost). Even if a £150 pair of glasses only lasts 3 years it is still an order of magnitude cheaper than £40 per month for contact lenses.

Sorry to quote a post from a few days ago. Have been away so now playing catch up.

I too have astigmatism, but not lazy eye. I wait until there is a cheap or free eye test promotion at Boots as they have my records. I then get my prescription for glasses done at the Asda opticians at the big branch in Watford. They are significantly cheaper and do premium lenses for a bit of an upcharge. As you are not too far away, it may be worth at least speaking to them.

Spirit_2

michaels wrote: »

Whereas the way I see it is you are billing 2k a day you are doing ok -not that I have ever billed more than 1500 a day and often only 500 for govt long term work...and of course it doesn't matter what I bill my take home remains a fraction of it.

In 2002 I was invited to advise Government on a change to terms and conditions for a large national workforce. I was to do this as a secondment, it involved working away from home, uk travel and atthat ime my daughter was young and OH frequently in the US, I was flattered but it would make my life hard. In the spirit of competetive tendering My employer was then told we would need to bid for this work ( that I did not want) , so put in a bid for £1800/day plus expenses thinking it would kill it stone dead without me peeing anyone off by saying no.


I was accepted. I gained zero from it personally( bar commuting by plane rather than rail) but my team had avery good training budget for that year and we switched from desk tops to laptops for all.

Nikkster

Blimey, Spirit! You're not a cheap date, are you?!

ukmaggie45

Anyone else hooked on Gogglebox? I discovered it a couple of months ago when I couldn't sleep, and caught repeats on More 4 (I think). It's good fun, I have my faves of the folks who do it, imagine others will have different faves.

OK I@m just a TV maniac...

PasturesNew

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Anyone else hooked on Gogglebox? I discovered it a couple of months ago when I couldn't sleep, and caught repeats on More 4 (I think). It's good fun, I have my faves of the folks who do it, imagine others will have different faves.

OK I@m just a TV maniac...

I like it, when I randomly discover it ... but I've no idea when it's on, or which channel.

elona

Channel 4 on Friday at 9p.m.

silvercar

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Anyone else hooked on Gogglebox? I discovered it a couple of months ago when I couldn't sleep, and caught repeats on More 4 (I think). It's good fun, I have my faves of the folks who do it, imagine others will have different faves.

OK I@m just a TV maniac...

My kids introduced me to it. I'm getting hooked.

PasturesNew

elona wrote: »

Channel 4 on Friday at 9p.m.

Cheers, I missed it then

I also like 24 hours in A&E, except the end bit where the elderly people they showed have usually died.

chewmylegoff

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Anyone else hooked on Gogglebox? I discovered it a couple of months ago when I couldn't sleep, and caught repeats on More 4 (I think). It's good fun, I have my faves of the folks who do it, imagine others will have different faves.

OK I@m just a TV maniac...

I am trying to get channel 4 to commission a series called postmodern gogglebox, in which they film me watching gogglebox (in an ironic manner of course) and voicing my opinion of the commentators' lives.

still waiting to hear back from them.

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I am trying to get channel 4 to commission a series called postmodern gogglebox, in which they film me watching gogglebox (in an ironic manner of course) and voicing my opinion of the commentators' lives.

still waiting to hear back from them.

TV's already too postmodern for my liking. Remember this is all being broadcast into space

Big Brother's a series watching people killing time.

Then a big chunk of the country kills time by watching these z-listers killing time.

When we do a goggle box series where people kill time by watching people killing time who're watching people killing time.

That's when the aliens will invade. :eek: