Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

chris_m

zagubov wrote: »

I'm reliably informed that Amazon Prime's quite easy to sign up for totally by accident.:D

Generali wrote: »

I've read many an online complaint along those lines, for example:

http://boards.fool.co.uk/amazon-prime-trial-scam-13298389.aspx

It doesn't help (the customer) that the "invitation" appears in different places and styles on different pages.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

No visitor parking, no spare slots.

I never had a problem parking at my old place becuase there were more spaces than flat and quite a few of the owners were retired and carless - however, I much prefer having my own driveway at the new one.
Have had to have a quiet word with the neighbours about parking right up to my driveway edge though. The road layout makes it fairly hard to see if anything's coming up the road - and impossible to see when one of their 4x4s is right up to my driveway.

CKhalvashi

vivatifosi wrote: »

I will start talking about something else next week, honest.

I'm not convinced that Russia is going to win. On the Eurovision forums, most of the people who like it are Russian and therefore can't vote for it. It's also not in the iTunes charts of many countries. Finland is a rare exception. In the Baltics, it's the Baltic entries that are charting. Even Sweden not doing that well in Scandinavia either.

The ones that are charting elsewhere are Australia, Netherlands, Belgium, France (in Israel it is higher placed than the Israeli song) and Austria.

On chart traffic and fan forum favourites, Australia looks in the lead.

Strangely the two songs that are all over Europe at the moment are Justin Timberlake... lucky he's the interval act, plus former Swedish winner Loreen.

And I'm posting here for fun. Please don't take anything I say too seriously or lose money on something I've said. I'll be gutted if you do.

It depends largely on the jury vote (where I believe Russia will do rather well), and how many of the ex-Soviet states end up giving 12 points.

I'm of the impression that Belarus, Azerbaijan and Armenia will definitely give 12 to Russia, with Georgia and Ukraine possibly giving 10. This then leaves it to the Baltics (who in fairness, could go either way) and Finland (where I believe the song has done rather well).

If they can get 95+ points from that core of 9 countries, then possibly even with a load of mid-range votes (4, 5, 6) from everyone else, they've probably won it.

michaels

chris_m wrote: »

I never had a problem parking at my old place becuase there were more spaces than flat and quite a few of the owners were retired and carless - however, I much prefer having my own driveway at the new one.
Have had to have a quiet word with the neighbours about parking right up to my driveway edge though. The road layout makes it fairly hard to see if anything's coming up the road - and impossible to see when one of their 4x4s is right up to my driveway.

One reason we keep the uneconomic second car is that we park it in the on the road space ouside our house a sensible distance from the dropped curb to get onto our drive as random parkers will often park right up to / slightly over the dropped curb making it extremely difficult to get on and off the drive (according to the DW and my parents there is a telegraoh pole that comes into play and our car still has the scars to prove it :eek:)

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

One reason we keep the uneconomic second car is that we park it in the on the road space ouside our house a sensible distance from the dropped curb to get onto our drive as random parkers will often park right up to / slightly over the dropped curb making it extremely difficult to get on and off the drive (according to the DW and my parents there is a telegraoh pole that comes into play and our car still has the scars to prove it :eek:)

Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to buy some road cones.

chris_m

michaels wrote: »

One reason we keep the uneconomic second car is that we park it in the on the road space ouside our house a sensible distance from the dropped curb to get onto our drive as random parkers will often park right up to / slightly over the dropped curb making it extremely difficult to get on and off the drive (according to the DW and my parents there is a telegraoh pole that comes into play and our car still has the scars to prove it :eek:)

Sounds a bit of an expensive way of doing it - a car used solely to "protect" your driveway, which has to be taxed, MOTd and insured?

chris_m

silvercar wrote: »

Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to buy some road cones.

Buy? Buy?
What's wrong with a decent night out followed by the traditional pub crawl, (optional) kebab and cone scavenging trip?

silvercar

We now have two fox cubs frolicking on the decking. Parent is watching from afar. Not sure if this is good news or bad.

chris_m

silvercar wrote: »

We now have two fox cubs frolicking on the decking. Parent is watching from afar. Not sure if this is good news or bad.

Depends on whether or not you keep chickens - or, to the contrary, whether or not a neighbour keeps a noisy cockerel

silvercar

chris_m wrote: »

Depends on whether or not you keep chickens - or, to the contrary, whether or not a neighbour keeps a noisy cockerel

No. Big question is whether foxes chew cables or whether they eat rats/ field mice who do chew cables?