Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

Just did MSE Martin's water meter calculator. If we switched to a meter our bill would go from 350 to over 800. I reckon you would need to have fewer than 2 people in a house or be very smelly to justify swithing to a meter.

Is that using the formula of people fewer than bedrooms? 'Cos that usually works out cheaper on a meter.

If so, do you do a lot of car-washing, patio-karchering, lawn-sprinkling, that sort of thing?



When I became the sole occupant of my house, I went on a meter and saved loads! The trouble was, a few years later, the bills went up, and the water company said it was because so many people were changing over to a meter and saving money, that they had to put the prices up!
Didn't know whether to laugh or cry!
Still better off on a meter, though!

PasturesNew

When you start family history you think: "I'll look them up, then go visit the grave". Fact is, there's a shortage of graves and shortage of information about them. Over the years various people/groups have gone round and created transcriptions, but you have to buy those individually.

I've only just found my first grave that actually exists and I have seen a photo of it!

My GGGGG grandfather's .... brother's ... son's grave (+ his wife/child). Buried 1835 and the 1860s. And, to be honest, it doesn't look much and is mostly illegible. It's about 15" square.



When I join the FHS I hope to gain access (when I visit their building) to the full lists of transcriptions and stand a better chance of tracking more 'relevant' ones down, if they exist.

Fact is, not everybody had a stone - it tended to be the richer people. And, the richer people were more likely to then maintain those graves over time .... so very few exist from, say, 1700-1890.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

... or be very smelly to justify switching to a meter.

From what you've said in the past, I think you're over-cleansing yourselves. It's a modern phenomenon. People didn't wash that much years ago - and not washing doesn't mean people are smelly.

Your bill would be high because, compared to "the norm" you use a lot of the stuff. You could switch to a meter and sell off the dirtiest two children to reduce your consumption.

Pyxis

Or get the dog to lick them clean.


Like it does with the plates.

:rotfl:

PasturesNew

Just found a rare old grave...

Fella dies, 1816, aged 61.
Next one's his wife, she died in 1865 - so 49 years later.... aged 77.
She was 28 when he died! Makes you wonder what saw him off

EDIT: I checked that, you can't trust anything. It was a mistranscription; he died in 1846, not 1816!



You have to watch these "transcriptionists" .... useless I tell ya!

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just found a rare old grave...
Fella dies, 1816, aged 61.
Next one's his wife, she died in 1865 - so 49 years later.... aged 77.
She was 28 when he died! Makes you wonder what saw him off
EDIT: I checked that, you can't trust anything. It was a mistranscription; he died in 1846, not 1816!

It's not always an error - May to December marriages and all that.

For example, in 2014 the USA was still paying one dependant's pension from the Civil War - which ended in 1865.

Each month, Wilkesboro's Irene Triplett collects $73.13 from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as a pension payment for her father's military service -- in the Civil War.
Triplett, 84, is the last living person collecting a pension payment for service in the Civil War.
Pvt. Mose Triplett was born in 1846 and lived to the age of 92. After his first wife's death, he married Elida Hall, nearly 50 years his junior, in 1924.
In 1930, Irene Triplett was born when her father was 84 and her mother was 34.

The last Civil War veteran's widow died in 2003, having married in 1927 when she was 18 and her husband was 81. He died in 1937 and she received $70 every 2 months until she died.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

From what you've said in the past, I think you're over-cleansing yourselves. It's a modern phenomenon. People didn't wash that much years ago - and not washing doesn't mean people are smelly.

Your bill would be high because, compared to "the norm" you use a lot of the stuff. You could switch to a meter and sell off the dirtiest two children to reduce your consumption.

Pyxis wrote: »

Or get the dog to lick them clean.


Like it does with the plates.

:rotfl:

I am sitting here cringing as I read

I think our comparison is skewed because they did not revalue our house for rates after the extension so we are in a lower group than the current size would dictate.

We do use about 20,000l a year filling the kids 'pool' which probably doesn't help (and I hardly dare mention that that is 20,000l of softened, heated water....)

Loanranger

We are just two in a 3 bedroomed house, includes a dishwasher and washing machine. We don't go out to work. Showers for two people every day and occasional pond top ups and watering garden with a sprinkler so average consumption. We saved about half by switching to a water meter.

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

I am sitting here cringing as I read

Whyssat then?

michaels wrote: »

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I think our comparison is skewed because they did not revalue our house for rates after the extension so we are in a lower group than the current size would dictate.

We do use about 20,000l a year filling the kids 'pool' which probably doesn't help (and I hardly dare mention that that is 20,000l of softened, heated water....)

:eek::eek::eek:
No wonder you're better off with rates!

Pyxis

Does anyone know any Montenegrin?




I need to know how to say a phrase in Montenegrin, and the language isn't listed in google translate.

(Just a dictionary isn't any good, because I need to know the verb construction, etc.)