Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

CKhalvashi

vivatifosi wrote: »

Sorry CK, it is my turn to play catch up. Depends on the plane and whether it has been upgraded as much as anything. I have heard that on some older fleet that they have yet to upgrade first, so first is being sold as club.. Nice if you can get it.

Cheap tickets are only on BA at the moment, soon to be only OneWorld for us.

The plane was G-BYGG, which (I think, taking into account the registration and that the older ones were -BN) was one of the ones delivered in the late 1990s, hence refurbished and probably staying in BA's fleet for some time to come.

One Chinese airliner runs their entire a380 as economy!

I didn't realise that, although I know that Air Austral were thinking about it.

Also, to those who said about going to the theatre.. There is a website, I think called something like theatre monkey that tells you what seats are like.

Yup, the theatre equivalent of SeatGuru.

LydiaJ wrote: »

And sometimes established businesses too.

Besides, knowing when to give up and what to give up on is an important life skill.

The trick in business is to remain mainstream enough to do something well (and be able to employ people, get customers, etc), but niche enough that it's virtually impossible to copy what you're doing without severe cost and fuss.

It's something that takes time to develop, but will always get there in the end.

SingleSue

Someone has given me a horrible cold....and we take James back to uni tomorrow morning.

Thankfully I am not driving, so I can do my impression of a dying swan without being a danger to anybody else on the road.

CKhalvashi

Sounds horrible, Sue.

I'm going back to work tomorrow and starting to feel a bit rough, maybe because my sleeping pattern still isn't right (although is surprisingly spot on) and maybe because I'm about to get something.

We'll see which one it is soon.

Still jealous of OH (who has 4 days off still; we didn't come back tomorrow due to the FTLs), although I'm sure I'll get over it.

Doozergirl

CKhalvashi wrote: »

The trick in business is to remain mainstream enough to do something well (and be able to employ people, get customers, etc), but niche enough that it's virtually impossible to copy what you're doing without severe cost and fuss.

It's something that takes time to develop, but will always get there in the end.

The trick in business is to do what you do well enough to get and retain customers.

It doesn't matter if you do exactly the same as other people. Your marketing should niche you (although you can have as many different niches as you want, it's just about targetting people precisely). It doesn't need to be expensive to copy, per say. There's enough business out there for many to sit alongside each other in the same marketplace. When the going gets tough, it's those that do their job best and market their wares well enough to their target market that survive.

Generali

$/@#ing !&&#. We employed a new au pair who is meant to be coming over tonight to start tomorrow and the complete Corbyn has ghosted us. It's 9pm and I have to leave for work in about 10 hours.

Shirts ironed for next week - check
Clean suit - check
Wallet, pass, phone and keys to hand - check
Quick squizz at the week's schedule - check
Childcare - damn

The in-laws steppedin at the last minute which is really good of them but they are really horrible to the Generalissimos and undermine ourthoughts on parenting whenever they get the opportunity. I'm going to write a letter to the little $%#!s mum. I have her address.

Generali

PS. To the Nice People that enjoy cricket, I hope you're watching Messers Bairstow and Stokes putting the Saffas to the sword. Oh boy.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

I'm going to write a letter to the little $%#!s mum. I have her address.

Don't. She'll only end up whining on mse.au about how whiney the rich boi is .... and will gather around her a group of people who agree with her.... and then you'll hate her more.

Soon you'll be sharpening knives and creeping out to slash tyres/superglue wipers to windscreens ....

Then you'll be in the local papers.

Let it drop. The cheap waste of space trollop isn't worth the effort it takes.

hjd

Generali wrote: »

PS. To the Nice People that enjoy cricket, I hope you're watching Messers Bairstow and Stokes putting the Saffas to the sword. Oh boy.

Certainly am!!

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Don't. She'll only end up whining on mse.au about how whiney the rich boi is .... and will gather around her a group of people who agree with her.... and then you'll hate her more.

Soon you'll be sharpening knives and creeping out to slash tyres/superglue wipers to windscreens ....

Then you'll be in the local papers.

Let it drop. The cheap waste of space trollop isn't worth the effort it takes.

I agree with Pastures. It has the potential to go horribly wrong and with you being the blamed party.

Besides, if she was that unreliable you could be lucky. How much worse could it have been if she decided to get up and go and just left the kids at home?

silvercar

Doozergirl wrote: »

Must have been Property Ladder where they managed it. North London/Herts even, 1930s type house? In the kitchen.

Double your house for half the money.

Series 2 episode 10

Now finished.