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Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

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  • silvercar
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    edited 8 September 2016 at 8:05AM
    Pyxis wrote: »
    Yes, it was a long shot posting that on here, but you're all such a wealth of eclectic knowledge, I thought it was worth a try!

    People seem to know much stranger things than a bit of Montenegrin! :D


    I might try and find a language forum somewhere. I know there is one for Latin; maybe there is one for lesser Eastern European languages?

    Why don't you try the flyertalk forum? A regular flyer may well have a smattering of the local language enough to help you.

    There is the search of all mentions of montenegro.
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  • PasturesNew
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    zagubov wrote: »
    This chap was born to a 40-year old mother who was the daughter of a 80-year-old father.

    That's what the paperwork said .... in real life the old fella had money and needed looking after - the younger woman married him for the security/to look after him, but they all understood she could retain her young lover who worked as a blacksmith along the road :)

    Everybody was happy.

    It'd be interesting to check how soon after the death of the father the mother remarried ... and who to ...
  • ivyleaf
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    That's very good news Pastures :)
  • Doozergirl
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    What happened to the people that came, PN?
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • Pyxis
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    LydiaJ wrote: »


    In other news, I met my new Y12 class today. They seem nice, although a little reserved. That was to be expected, though - they all come from the parts of the world where school children are expected to sit silently writing down what the teacher says. I use chocolate to bribe my GCSE and younger classes to shut up when they are getting a bit too chatty instead of listening - with this class, I'm using the same technique to make them say something when they all go quiet after I've asked a question. :rotfl:
    Sounds like Heaven! Make the most of it until they become anglicised and start throwing bits of chewing-gum at you! :rotfl:

    Re. your sig. I do so agree. I decided years ago that I would never economise on tyres or brakes.


    Pastures, I never thought of using solar lights inside!

    It's not as if you'd need to read by them, after all! Not in the bathroom in the middle of the night!
    Well, the bulbs are changed, now!

    I'm afraid the light over the stairwell was down to moi! :o
    When I had the house rewired about 16 years ago, I particularly wanted this large globe shade, on a brass pole, you know the sort of thing, with matching smaller ones in the hall downstairs. The original landing fitting was centred over the banisters, not over the stairs themselves, but the light fitting would have come down too low, and you'd bash into it when walking along the landing. So I asked the electrician to move the ceiling point to over the stairs.
    To be fair, the bulbs do last for ages. I can only remember changing them 3 times since.
    (I just lurve spiders!)
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  • PasturesNew
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    Doozergirl wrote: »
    What happened to the people that came, PN?

    He was late, I didn't really take to him.
    He said he'd email me - he didn't.
    I might've chased that by phone, can't remember, but still heard nothing.

    Time passed.
  • PasturesNew
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    edited 8 September 2016 at 2:11PM
    Pyxis wrote: »


    Pastures, I never thought of using solar lights inside!

    It's not as if you'd need to read by them, after all! Not in the bathroom in the middle of the night!
    .
    I keep them indoors, in a spot in the room that'll get the most sun, windowsill of Bedroom2. Then I know if I ever need one, it's there and charged up :)
  • Pyxis
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    He was late, I didn't really take to him.
    He said he'd email me - he didn't.
    I might've chased that by phone, can't remember, but still heard nothing.

    Time passed.

    You're better off without him to be honest.

    I take the view that if they can't be bothered to phone or text me to say they'll be late, (even in the days of mobile phones), then there's already a big doubt in my mind. If they compound that by not bothering to send me a quote, then there's no way they'll be working for me, so I wouldn't waste my time chasing them up.
    (I just lurve spiders!)
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  • PasturesNew
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    edited 8 September 2016 at 2:17PM
    I am tree-annoyed.

    So many people state that X exists and X is my upline. But I can find nobody (yet) that actually has proof of that.

    Indeed, from some sources it's as though somebody's just made him up and shoved him in there.

    I am dealing with a serious case of "that sounds great, I'll assume it's true" and nobody's checked where the source came from and what reasoning was behind a decision that X definitely belonged in that tree.

    There's a Will of the father - that'd nail it ... except I can't find anybody that's transcribed it and put it online... which is a nuisance. To do that oneself would mean driving several hundred miles to sit and transcribe the (possibly Latin) will of somebody 360 years ago ... that might then simply fail to even mention X existed.

    So ... not worth my time/trouble to do that. But I know SOMEBODY at some time must have done it... I just need to locate them.

    There are trees on ANC - that I can't get to as I'm not a paid member.
    One of those has uploaded a document of where X did some work.... trouble is, X died in 1702 and the document is CLEARLY labelled 1725.... I doubt he dragged himself from his grave to fix somebody's building.
  • PasturesNew
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    You're better off without him to be honest.

    I take the view that if they can't be bothered to phone or text me to say they'll be late, (even in the days of mobile phones), then there's already a big doubt in my mind. If they compound that by not bothering to send me a quote, then there's no way they'll be working for me, so I wouldn't waste my time chasing them up.

    I have troubles with personal decision-making, so it was really, really tough even deciding I should call that one. So starting from scratch is daunting. I had hoped the first fella I called would simply quote, be nice, do the job.
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