Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

ivyleaf

So glad you're okay, Lydiaj x

Spirit_2

bugslet wrote: »

Apparently the world is made up of Maximisers and Satisficers. Maximisers want everything to be better. I'm a Satisficer, so I go shopping for a pair of boots and go, 'Oo they are nice' and buy them. Go out with a Maximiser and it's 'Oo, they are nice, but we'll try that shop across the square....5 hours later and back to the first shop which has then sold the pair of size 6s.....


May I enquire is Lady GDB younger, even by a day and then that will count. Otherwise it's down to michaels thoughts and how fast you can run.......[/QUOTE

This is our daughters ritual for choosing the christmas tree.
It takes OH and DD all morning to buy the tree, and they usually go back and buy one from the first place they visit- a garden centre at the end of the road.

A "gentleman" I know if asked how he is, will oft respond "I feel like a brand new woman".

Spirit_2

O&H I have just caught up on the trying times your daughter is enduring. All best wishes to you all.

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

Does Mrs GDB have anything to say about that?

We've been an item for the best part of 40 years. I had an MGB when she first knew me, so she's got used to it. On nice days, she even likes the roof down for long journeys.

Bugs, she is 18 months younger than me. Does that explain it?

LydiaJ

GDB2222 wrote: »

Bugs, she is 18 months younger than me. Does that explain it?

She is also a delightful person with a beautiful smile. That might have something to do with it too.

GDB2222

Bugslet, have you seen this article in the Guardian?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/21/uk-nuclear-weapons-convoys-have-had-180-mishaps-in-16-years

A pressure group are trying to prove that nuclear convoys are unsafe. The convoys connect the nuclear sub bases with the AWRE, where the missile warheads get re-fettled and then transferred back to the subs.

A FOI request shows that there have been an average of 10 recorded mishaps a year with these convoys. Shocking! Until you find that simply everything is recorded as a mishap.

So, the mishaps include a truck breaking down on the motorway. Convoys caught in traffic jams. A parked car got scraped. One of the trucks had some paint scraped off its bumper. A protester superglued himself to one of the trucks.

In fact, in 16 years of convoys, with lots of vehicles per convoy, and thousands of miles covered per year, there's apparently not been a single significant incident. Scarcely believable, actually.

I have to say that the fantastic safety record of these convoys is not quite the spin the Guardian put on it.

Pyxis

Here you are, Pastures.......your very own Good Neighbour Award! .........:T..........

PasturesNew

Anxiety levels off the wall. Although I remained calm on the phone and was methodically giving an account .... all 'cool and collected' and coherent... the guy picked up on it and asked if I was OK....

*exhale, exhale*.

I was shaking like somebody with bad Parkinsons.

My levels will be up for 1-2 days now. All that 'excitement'.

bugslet

18 months younger, then yes that answers it

GDB2222 wrote: »

Bugslet, have you seen this article in the Guardian?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/21/uk-nuclear-weapons-convoys-have-had-180-mishaps-in-16-years

A pressure group are trying to prove that nuclear convoys are unsafe. The convoys connect the nuclear sub bases with the AWRE, where the missile warheads get re-fettled and then transferred back to the subs.

A FOI request shows that there have been an average of 10 recorded mishaps a year with these convoys. Shocking! Until you find that simply everything is recorded as a mishap.

So, the mishaps include a truck breaking down on the motorway. Convoys caught in traffic jams. A parked car got scraped. One of the trucks had some paint scraped off its bumper. A protester superglued himself to one of the trucks.

In fact, in 16 years of convoys, with lots of vehicles per convoy, and thousands of miles covered per year, there's apparently not been a single significant incident. Scarcely believable, actually.

I have to say that the fantastic safety record of these convoys is not quite the spin the Guardian put on it.

Much like any truck reporting in papers. It's changed a bit now it's digital tachos, but when it was analogue, you'd get inflated reports of a firm having a 100 tacho offences. Failing to mention that at least 90 would be heinous crimes of five minutes over or writing the name as Fred Bloggs instead of Bloggs Fred, which is technically an offence.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Don't quote, will delete.

Nailed it!
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Well done, and breathe!

CKhalvashi

Well done Pastures! :beer: