Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

Sorry I haven't been around for a bit. Am not very well at the moment, and don't have the energy to post much. Plus can't hover on here without logging in.

Have caught up with the thread. Crumbs! Turn my back for five minutes and it all kicks off. Poor Gen.

I did wonder why why such a nice contentious thread as this is hidden from public view, like DT.

I have inadvertently hit the spam button many times, when thanking a post and then being too quick to click on the next page number! Always go back and unspam it, though. Plus a trigger-happy stylus has sometimes pressed the report button without meaning to, including reporting my own post a few times! :rotfl: Again, I always unreport them! At least, to continue reporting, you have to fill in a form, so you can't actually report unintentionally. Horrifying thought.

Have pressed the spam button for a few very obvious spam posts, you know, a newbie starting a thread advertising something with a link to a website, type thing. You get a lot of that in the Arms.

Anyway, I should point out that the amount of resurrection that goes on in the Arms and DT is unbelievable. Just saying.



By the way, thanks Yorkie, for the interesting info on how the site is run. Useful to know. It is a difficult conundrum for a site as big as this, especially when we're talking about threads that are really just social, and nothing to do with the money-saving aspect. We shouldn't forget that we are quite lucky to be here, really.

Pyxis

vivatifosi wrote: »

This amused me. For each of the strange names, you need to identify whether it is an obscure Pokemon or a celebrity baby:

http://www.wow247.co.uk/2016/07/14/quiz-obscure-pokemon-name-or-celebrity-baby/

I didn't think that some of the real names were that weird, eg Sonora and Seraphina,.
I mean, Seraphina is a perfectly acceptable name in Italy.

Seargeoh looks like a Gaelic spelling of Sergio! (Another Italian name!)

oldandhappy

Hope you manage to feel better soon Pyxis. I have my daughter over here at the moment so have only focussed on her of course...lots of ups and downs she is having and will have I think. Off to her place now just 40mins away for the morning only....BW Dianne
Sorry to hear about Gen again...strange site this is aint it.....

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Band A? I thought only caravans were band A these days!
Blimey.

Agreed. DS2 grotty student flat above a shop in a dodgy area is a band B.

Pyxis wrote: »

Sorry I haven't been around for a bit. Am not very well at the moment, and don't have the energy to post much. Plus can't hover on here without logging in.

Wish you better!

oldandhappy wrote: »

Hope you manage to feel better soon Pyxis. I have my daughter over here at the moment so have only focussed on her of course...lots of ups and downs she is having and will have I think. Off to her place now just 40mins away for the morning only....BW Dianne
Sorry to hear about Gen again...strange site this is aint it.....

Sorry to hear this, not nice to watch someone suffer, hope she gets good news soon.

silvercar

Pyxis wrote: »

I didn't think that some of the real names were that weird, eg Sonora and Seraphina,.
I mean, Seraphina is a perfectly acceptable name in Italy.

Seargeoh looks like a Gaelic spelling of Sergio! (Another Italian name!)

My prediction for 2017. A new trend will emerge, naming kids after pokemon.

Gee175

This is lovely to read !

michaels

Thanks everyone for your thoughts on trips.

silvercar wrote: »

Agreed. DS2 grotty student flat above a shop in a dodgy area is a band B.

Weren't they worked out on a national basis so some parts of the country are all As and Bs and other parts all Gs?

SingleSue

Mine is a band A property despite being a 3 bed semi. Think it is because at the time of valuations these houses were worth less than the value of a 1 bed house due to being unmortgageable.

Still can't get a mortgage on these houses as they are of non standard construction (pre fab) and were only designed to be a temporary measure to ease the post war shortage. The only recent sale was about 10 or so years ago, cash purchase for a third of the normal price of a 3 bed semi, he was a builder so he painstakingly replaced the concrete slabs with bricks whilst living in it and was then able to sell it to someone who needed a mortgage.

chris_m

michaels wrote: »

Weren't they worked out on a national basis so some parts of the country are all As and Bs and other parts all Gs?

Nope, they were worked out on a simple scale of assumed capital values;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_Tax#Current_bands

That does mean that some areas will have a higher proportion of Band As and others a higher proportion of Band Gs, but that's purely down to the poshness, or lack of it, for each area.

michaels

chris_m wrote: »

Nope, they were worked out on a simple scale of assumed capital values;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_Tax#Current_bands

That does mean that some areas will have a higher proportion of Band As and others a higher proportion of Band Gs, but that's purely down to the poshness, or lack of it, for each area.

I think we are agreeing with each other. If they ever do a revaluation it will be even more extreme!