Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

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Originally Posted by PasturesNew
How many "2nd" homes do you have?

Nit-Picker Alert!


(Did I ever [STRIKE]warn[/STRIKE] tell you that I'm a dreadful nit-picker?
I could nit-pick for England in the Nit-Picker Olympics and win gold!)


Can you have more than one second home?
Would it not, strictly speaking, be a third home, then a fourth home, etc?




Ok, ok, I'm going......................

hjd

Pyxis wrote: »

Nit-Picker Alert!

Can you have more than one second home?
Would it not, strictly speaking, be a third home, then a fourth home, etc?

Second equal??

michaels

My parents spend half the year in each of two homes - does this mean they don't have a first home?

Pyxis

hjd wrote: »

Second equal??

Well, you have either:

2nd, 3rd, 4th homes, in order of date purchase, so unless you bought two on exactly the same day, they couldn't be equal second.


Or:

2nd, 3rd, 4th homes in order of the amount of time you spend in each. Again, unless you were to spend an equal amount of time in two of them, you wouldn't have two joint second homes.

ivyleaf

michaels My OH suggests that your parents' first home would be whichever of the two they bought earlier

Pastures New I was going to say that nothing in our house matches either, but then realised that of course each of the Ikea bookcases matches each of the others

Pyxis

Non-matching stuff is the new west-end cool!


Pastures! You're turning posh! :eek:

chris_m

ivyleaf wrote: »

I was going to say that nothing in our house matches either, but then realised that of course each of the Ikea bookcases matches each of the others

Reminds me of a couple of over-excited commentator's gaffes from the legendary Murray Walker;

The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

and;

And the first five places are filled by five different cars.

I really miss his motor racing commentary. All his successors have been pretty good but none of them have quite been in Murray's class

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

My parents spend half the year in each of two homes - does this mean they don't have a first home?

Nothing better than England between April and September, even though we are having the wettest June on record, then fly south for the winter.

Isn't it confusing having two homes? Everything you want is always in the other one?

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

My parents spend half the year in each of two homes - does this mean they don't have a first home?

Hmmm.
Ok. Which one do they consider to be their home?

Otherwise, we'd have to say that they are binhomial.



Otherwise, the problem (?problem?) of multiple homes could be solved by calling all but the main one secondary homes, rather than second homes! :T

SingleSue

Generali wrote: »

I'm guessing your neighbours are a male couple from the music (nothing at all wrong with that obviously).

In Zombie Robot Apocalypse News:

It Begins

Erm nope, a family with grown up children.