Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

I need that same service Lydia asked for - someone to give me a kick up the a**e if I am still green light after 10.30PM.

Can I have that again too, please? 11:30pm for me this time.

Pyxis wrote: »

It's very pictorial and the first book is set in Pompeii, around an ordinary Pompeian family: Caecilius the banker, Metella his wife, and Quintus the son. Same one as yours, Lydia?

That's the one.

I am enjoying PN's stories about her forebears. Now I am wondering what some PN-type person in a few hundred years' time will have to say about digging up my story, on whatever the future's equivalent of an internet forum will be.

Pyxis

LydiaJ wrote: »

Can I have that again too, please? 11:30pm for me this time.



That's the one.

I am enjoying PN's stories about her forebears. Now I am wondering what some PN-type person in a few hundred years' time will have to say about digging up my story, on whatever the future's equivalent of an internet forum will be.

One of my descendants would have a field day!

(Oops!)





Actually, my descendants would find me the very model of decorum.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Yes, but most beer is 3-5%; this is 8.5%!

You think that's strong? THESE are strong;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrewDog#History
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

One of my descendants would have a field day!
(Oops!)
Actually, my descendants would find me the very model of decorum.

Judging by an earlier utterance, are you sure they'd find you at all?

Pyxis wrote: »

You can't see the floor.:(
Or the sofa.:(
Or the chairs.
Or the tabletop.

:p:p:p:p

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Judging by an earlier utterance, are you sure they'd find you at all?




:p:p:p:p

Well, I do manage not to get totally buried under the carp!





Re. the beer, put it this way.........the degree of reduction in reflex time/mental acuity etc. may be relatively small, but I would not get into a car being driven by someone who had had a bottle of Fuller's Golden Pride, however together they might appear.

If it can prevent me from dividing £92 by 480, who knows what the driver of a car might 'not see' until it's too late!

LydiaJ

Anyone read "Inside the Nudge Unit"? (link)
I've just finished it, and would recommend it to NP who are into that kind of thing. For instance, NP who are interested in Dan Ariely's work would almost certainly enjoy it, although I'd recommend reading "Nudge" first, if you haven't already. (link)

Pyxis

LydiaJ wrote: »

Anyone read "Inside the Nudge Unit"? (link)
I've just finished it, and would recommend it to NP who are into that kind of thing. For instance, NP who are interested in Dan Ariely's work would almost certainly enjoy it, although I'd recommend reading "Nudge" first, if you haven't already. (link)

That reminds me of a novel I read in the 70s ...."The Dice Man", although I think the book must have been an edited edition.
You make all your decisions , and I mean all your decisions, based on the throw of dice, so it absolves you of all responsibility for the outcome!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man

Doozergirl

My trainers betrayed me. They're so comfy and I wore them almost the whole 3 weeks in Canada with me.

Tonight at Couch to 5k they both ripped into the backs of my heels. I have open, weeping blisters, can't walk in the shoes now and I have another 7 weeks of running to go.

My friend says I have to go and get properly analysed for running shoes.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Bottom line is, 1882, a halfpenny's pretty much as small as you get (just a farthing is smaller) ... and a bit of watercress is cheap.

A Sov, on the other hand, is probably a week's wages.

And then some, I should think, for many people. I know of a gardener who was being paid 6 shillings a week as late as 1939, Admittedly, he also got free use of a cottage that could accommodate himself, his wife, and their children (of an unspecified number), and free vegetables from the vegetable garden, as long as he also grew vegetables to be eaten by the family that owned the place. So a sovereign would have been 3 and a bit weeks wages for him, although the accommodation and vegetables count for a lot, of course. I understand the couple lived reasonably comfortably under these circumstances, and remained with that job, with its cottage and vegetables, for many years while bringing up their family.

zagubov

Playing catch-up here. All my life as a parent I've lived in boroughs that have grammar schools. One child went to one and the other ended up at the local comp. Both were perfectly fine. Didn't get any impression that the grammar was any better-run or better-staffed than the comp. In fact Ofsted rated the comp a grade higher than the grammar.