Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

vivatifosi

Typing this from my phone so having problems posting links. GCF Learn Free has good free intro tutorials for different OS. For something more indepth, MOOC list has a list of W10 tutorials.

I would not go for a taster at the local library as the focus as to what we can do tends to focus on getting inexperienced people online, which is not where you are coming from.

I wouldn't get a W7 pc either. Support only runs for a couple more years then you are back to square one.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Although I do need another drill ... and some different drill bits. I want some 1mm and 2mm drill bits and some diamond tipped ones.

A screwdriver could come in handy too

vivatifosi

I have for best soap. I love the smell, but the price is prohibitive to use all the time. So I put it out when we have guests, when it's a special occasion, or when I'm feeling in need of a treat. Posh soap is L'Occitane, generally I use Carex.

I went to buy some new posh soap and she offered me a multi buy deal. When I said I couldn't possibly get through that much soap, she looked at me as though I was a right dirty mare.

GDB2222

Pastures, W10 is just like XP to use. The start button is a different shape and colour. A few extra features that you don't have to use. MS made a mistake with Win8, but they've corrected it for W10.

You can extract your Office 2003 product key quite easily. Or just try Open Office.

https://www.howtogeek.com/206329/how-to-find-your-lost-windows-or-office-product-keys/

Pyxis

Pastures, I've done some jewellery making too! :j Well, silversmithing. Only at workshop classes, though, not at home, although I have got a fair few silversmithing tools.
Haven't done any for about 3years now, but the very first ring I made, I wear everyday. The other rings are more dress-rings, and I've made a couple of pairs of earrings too, one silver pair with an amethyst stone, and one gold pair, with boulder opals.
It took me ages and ages to make each thing, as I only did it at classes, and I wasn't very quick. Plus I seemed to choose to do quite complicated things,...... trust me!

I wasn't very good at annealing and soldering as I'm a bit scared of hot, flamey things! So needed my hand held!

Pyxis

vivatifosi wrote: »

I went to buy some new posh soap and she offered me a multi buy deal. When I said I couldn't possibly get through that much soap, she looked at me as though I was a right dirty mare.

That made me laugh!!


Pastures, I bet that Fine Art chap didn't have a clue what he was letting himself in for! :rotfl:
The place with the nuclear-powered soldering station....... it wasn't West Dean, by any chance, was it? Or Earnley Concourse?
The acid bath, it is only weak acid, isn't it, and I seem to remember there was a good reason for it, but I can't remember what it was.

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

I thought the rule was the pollster could only speak to you after you had voted, to avoid any accusation of vote swaying.

Outside my polling station was a guy filling in some forms so I offered him a view of my polling card and he said he was just surveying numbers. Maybe they are seeing the distribution of when people vote.

When they go round knocking on doors canvassing in the run-up to the election, they make lists of the people who say they will vote for them. If these people do not show up to vote, according to the little list collected by the people outside the door, they will go and knock on the doors of the people whose votes they have been promised and offer them a lift to the polling station, or something like that.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Maybe his house is blacklisted "Here lives an argumentative chap .... avoid, avoid, avoid ... he'll engage you in pointless conversation about politics and end up winning the argument, whichever side you're on ... too smart ... don't leaflet/don't knock"

That wouldn't stop him getting a polling card!! Or Mrs S either.

Where I live, the two candidates with any chance of getting in for the county council were both sitting borough councillors - the ward for county council elections is composed of two borough council wards. One of them won. Does he now serve on both councils, or will they have to have a by-election for his borough council seat?

ivyleaf wrote: »

Lydia Well done on the cycling! :T

Thank you ivyleaf.

Next step is to do it again next Thursday.

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

When they go round knocking on doors canvassing in the run-up to the election, they make lists of the people who say they will vote for them. If these people do not show up to vote, according to the little list collected by the people outside the door, they will go and knock on the doors of the people whose votes they have been promised and offer them a lift to the polling station, or something like that.
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We found this annoying the last couple of elections so we accepted an offer from the local incumbent (it being a safe seat) to put a sticker on our window. This said, "Vote for B'Stard" or whoever, and his party never came back to bother us and the other parties gave us the body-swerve as well.

LydiaJ

zagubov wrote: »

We found this annoying the last couple of elections so we accepted an offer from the local incumbent (it being a safe seat) to put a sticker on our window. This said, "Vote for B'Stard" or whoever, and his party never came back to bother us and the other parties gave us the body-swerve as well.

What I don't understand is why I never get any doorstep canvassers. I mean, I'm happy not having them - I would refuse to tell them how I intended to vote, but I would feel uncomfortable doing so, so I'm glad they don't come. But I'm a voter whose intentions they don't know, in a marginal location - the borough council seat, the county council seat, the parliamentary constituency are ALL marginal here. I'm in most evenings, and sometimes during the day because of working part-time and getting school holidays. They post through dozens of leaflets every time there's an election, but I can't remember ever having an actual human being ring the bell and want to talk to me.

Hmmm.... actually, I have an idea why they maybe don't come. Sometimes they (both locally viable parties IIRC) deliver questionnaires asking which local issues are priorities for me, which I sometimes fill in if I'm not too busy, because asking their constituents what they think seems like a good democratic thing for them to do, and worthy of encouragement. These ask my name and address at the beginning, then all the "are you concerned about X?" and "which 5 of these 14 issues should we prioritise?" etc stuff, and then at the end they ask who I voted for in the last election or some such question. I usually write on that bit that it's a secret ballot so I'm not going to tell them. Perhaps that gets me blacklisted for doorstep canvassing. If so, I'm glad I sent the things back to them!

vivatifosi

LydiaJ wrote: »

Where I live, the two candidates with any chance of getting in for the county council were both sitting borough councillors - the ward for county council elections is composed of two borough council wards. One of them won. Does he now serve on both councils, or will they have to have a by-election for his borough council.

It is allowed. If they serve on borough and county they are called double hatters. You can even get triple hatters.