Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

oldandhappy

this is a quote from a site called angloinfo and is about countrystyle driving in France...made me chuckle as with our narrow lanes here it is something you have to see to believe the speed with attitude in which the French whatever age drive is quite mind boggerling...
I'm not sure that it is legal in France for an unqualified person to give lessons, like in the uk.

Of course you must learn the 'correct' French way to drive. This includes but is not limited to:
When approaching a roundabout, signal right, so that other drivers think that you are leaving on the first exit. Then proceed to leave at the second ie you have gone straight over the roundabout and no signal was necessary until just before the exit you wanted.
If turning left, go all round the roundabout in the outside lane with no signal. Just to really !!!! people off.
Never stop at a zebra crossing for a pedestrian.
Never say thank you (merci) if another driver gives way to you. Just glare at them, or better still ignore them.
On a dual carriageway when overtaking a long line of slower moving traffic, leave your indicator on for the whole manoeuvre, just in case some one should actually think you might be in that lane for another reason.
Never signal when you return to the right hand lane.
Always have your mobile held to your ear.
Never move over on a narrow country road, it is the other driver who must give way and certainly never slow down.

Take your test in the uk. Many have. It's just easier just so long as you have an accommodation address.




the last part re accommodation address is really about people that actually live in France but pretend they live in England because they fear giving up things like the NHS and Dentistry as the choices are if you live 6months or more out of the UK you have to give up on these legally speaking. I personally believe the Health services in France are far superior to the uk from personal experiences in both of these services...of course you have to pay more/differently like most other countries of the world.regards Dianne

Pyxis

I don't think there was a lot more after that. Just a preview of what's coming next.

chris_m

oldandhappy wrote: »

I personally believe the Health services in France are far superior to the uk from personal experiences in both of these services...of course you have to pay more/differently like most other countries of the world

I can only comment on my perception of my mother's experience of French healthcare when they were living over there - it seemed to be first class.

She had excellent service from the local doctor (in Charroux IIRC), at one point she had the equivalent of a district nurse coming round regularly, equally good. When she had to switch to insulin jabs they had her up in Poitiers hospital for several days until they were confident that she was happy with the testing and dosing process - no, "Here you are dear, get on with it", they really made sure she was comfortable with it and wouldn't release her until then.

That apart her main comment about the hospital was "Coo isn't it clean, I reckon I could eat my dinner off the entrance hall floor, it's that clean."

As far as I can recall it was all done through the EHIC (or its predecessor), so they didn't have to pay anything themselves.

oldandhappy

hubby said when he saw it briefly by passing through to the outside world..scrapheap guy

Pyxis

Pastures!!!:j:j:j


You and he (James) are kindred spirits!

His food company is called, wait for it, wait for it,........
The Posh Pasty company!


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CKhalvashi

(Copied directly from my personal Facebook, only answers my personal question on behalf of a small group of friends, however will probably be of use to LiR and Hamish, plus any frequent Ryanair and BA travellers. I don't give permission for it to be posted anywhere except this thread without permission (PM me first))



To those that I went live for tonight (because I know that several people wanted to hear what I had to say at the debate), my question was (perhaps unsurprisingly) the question of what happens to Ryanair's UK bases and Easyjet's EU bases, plus the issues around BA and Aer Lingus's ownership should we leave the EU, especially in relation to the jobs of pilots, cabin crew and ground crew, plus those that work at airports (Ryanair makes up around 50% of passengers at Stansted alone, so everyone from cleaners and cafe workers to management will be affected) directly affected by this.


The remain campaigner has stated that nothing will happen regarding this overnight, however it is an issue that would need to be thrashed out in EU talks.


The leave campaigner delved off into a speech about people still wanting to travel to the UK, without actually directly answering the questions given about whether thousands of jobs will be safe.


The issue isn't as easy as 'Ryanair and Easyjet can swap bases', largely because Easyjet use the A320 family and Ryanair the 737 family (Both of which hold different type ratings before a pilot can fly them, and the open market value of a TR is around €15000), and neither could either answer the details of whether airlines (not pilots) would be forced to pay this should the need arose.


Sorry for the live feed cutting out twice, I was in a church on a low-speed signal.

vivatifosi

I don't know that airlines will be one of the most affected sectors. People will still need to fly places, even if we Brexit. Heathrow, Stansted etc May fall slightly in terms of numbers, but as bases for work life would still go on. Though there could be fewer Eastern Europe flights if people from there no longer work here.

One thing that I did hear could change is duty free. You'd get it back for going to Europe, but equally would be able to bring far less back. One unintended consequence could be that it is far harder to drive a white van to Spain, fill it with cigs for their "own use" and drive back and flog them, as the limit would go back to 200. So anyone reliant on black market tobacco should vote remain apparently.

This amused me greatly as it smacked of bringing a freakonomics aspect to the debate.

GDB2222

Surgeons in Colombia have removed a live grenade from a soldier's face.
It got stuck there after another soldier accidentally activated a grenade launcher.

I guess it's an easy mistake to make?

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

I don't know that airlines will be one of the most affected sectors.

The most affected sector will almost certainly be finance as 'passporting' (where if you hold a particular financial services licence in one EU country then you can do business in all of them) will no longer be possible between the UK and the rest of Europe.

Happy to discuss the consequences of the possibility of losing 15% of UK exports to the EU in about the UK's most productive sector but this is probably the wrong thread to do it on.

It's been a great day again today, clear and coolish (20C max but more like mid-teens for most of the day). Mrs Generali took The Girl up to Newcastle (an industrial city pop 1,000,000 about 2 hours north of Sydney) for the netball today leaving me and The Boy behind (and before anyone shakes their head it isn't 'The Boy and I').

What to do? He played soccer this morning so I went to watch that; it ended up 1-1 which probably flattered his side a little. Then home for a shower and a change of clothes and off for sushi for lunch followed by the two of us playing laser-tag (paintballing with laser guns). I've never done it before and it was great fun!

Now The Boy has decided that he needs to learn how to cook so we're systematically going to go through a bunch of dishes and meals that he can practice over the next couple of years apparently. We're starting with my ragu (spag bol) sauce that is also the base of a chilli con carne and cottage pie.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

.... decided that he needs to learn how to cook ....

Well, you know that if you get out of your depth, you can always ask me for some top tips

Being an expert .... always available to NPs for the true insider info on all foody informational items.