Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

chris_m

GDB2222 wrote: »

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.

TBH, the number of incidents does sound rather high to me - considering they are only doing 2-6 900 mile round trips per year. a run of the mill haulage firm would, I suspect, be extremely disappointed if their fleet was that bad.
I do wonder how many of the incidents (apart from the idiot with superglue) were engineered, shall we say, by protestors?

However, the bottom line is that, no matter how shambolic the transport arrangements seem to have been at times, the loads themselves don't appear to have been compromised at all - so all that report really is is a pressure group getting themselves in the press - well, the Grauniad (*) at any rate.

(*) rather surprisingly, unless it's coz I'm tired, I didn't spot any spooling mistales in that article, has the Grauniad finally invested in a spool chucker?

chris_m

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Well done Pastures! :beer:

Indeed - apart from calling the wrong number

A crime in progress definitely warrants a triple-nine call, not the non-emergency number.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Tough call for me... it was "in progress" and I know that's a 9er... but it was "a known quantity" to me and I just wanted "somebody to turn up sometime soonish to scare the living daylights out of them" rather than a fast response unit with guns cocked, so to speak.

I think the fast response unit would have scared the bejaysus out of them even more, and deservedly so.

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

I think the fast response unit would have scared the bejaysus out of them even more, and deservedly so.

But I didn't want to delay "proper serious issues".... but they triaged my poor choice when they transferred me

I did use the correct words, clearly, from the start .... I didn't waffle or talk erratically. I worded precisely the situation, coherently and clearly.... and just used the proper words "in progress" .... their choice then to transfer the call.

I avoided a decision
I don't do decisions.

silvercar

I phoned 101 to report a car accident on the J5 M1 roundabout above the motorway. They asked me if I was directing traffic! I told them that was why I had phoned them to deal with it.

Also (before the 101 days) I phoned 999 to report a teeny fire on some wasteland. Kept telling them it was a teeny weeny little fire, but near some wooden fencing, so the risk of spreading. They sent 2 fire engines all blues and twos.

Doozergirl

michaels wrote: »

I hate convertibles, they allow you to simultaneously:

1. Get sun burn /sun stroke
2. Be much too hot when you are stopped in traffic
3. Get really sore ears caused by the cold wind all the time
4. (Look a bit like you are desperate to recapture your lost youth)

1) Sun cream and hats exist, even in cars.
2) It isn't usually that hot. But air con exists and works well pointed at feet and hands. You can also put windows down to feel breeze. Or, shock horror, put the roof up and be refridgerated, just like a normal car. So it has more options to feel the summer than a normal car. (is it too hot or too cold? I don't understand.)
3) You leave the windows up and it all deflects over the windows until you hit 80mph. Which no one ever drives at, obviously.
4) I don't care what anyone thinks when I'm having a ball, but (depsite still being under 40) I don't see many youngsters driving convertibles and I don't see as many people driving having as much fun as me, so I must be getting something right

Doozergirl

oldandhappy wrote: »

We had a storm here last week which was the first rain for over 3 months....enough rain in that storm though to start the yellow grass turn green....loving the green:D

one good thing about old houses here is they are cool so when it does roast there is somewhere to go...apart from the pool ok dip pool:)

Sounds perfect. :beer:

Doozergirl

vivatifosi wrote: »

I started watching 24 hour news when the Buncefield explosion happened. My house at the time (I have moved since) was a mile away. The 24 hour news really helped me stay on top of things and know what was going on. Sky was ahead by a good two hours. I think that they deserve their "best for breaking news" moniker. I find the BBC better for in depth analysis though.

Twitter beats everything these days. If you suspect something is happening, start searching and you'll quickly find the answer.

Big fire near here on Monday evening. Looked like a dodgy cloud then quickly realised it was something bigger. Twitter gave location, photos, videos.

Midlands News reported the next morning that it could be seen 'as far away as the M5'. Not entirely exiting when the M5 is all of a mile away. I could see it without problem from 5 miles away half an hour after the fire brigade received first calls.

Doozergirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

Thanks for the hugs michaels.

I'm fine. I was stationary and he was going at "reversing into a parking space speed" so it was incredibly low impact and not scary at all. Direct Line have promised me a free hire car for the duration of the repairs to mine, so there's almost no inconvenience, and my NCB is unaffected. In fact, given that it has made me find a way to get photos off my phone and onto my computer, it's probably resulting in more good results than bad. If he disputes what happened, I'll let it go without difficulty. One of the big benefits of all the rubbish that's happened in my life over the last 14 years is a much improved ability to resist "sweating the small stuff".

Well done, Lydia. What an amazing outcome to find a pearl from something that many people would rage about. :kisses3:

SingleSue

bugslet wrote: »

I do miss the days in summer in the VX. I suspect michaels wouldn't go for the scarf round the head ( more Audrey Hepburn thant the Queen) look, whereas for women it can look cool and keep the sun off the top of your head.



Don't ever join instagram - unless it's for the dog pages, where you realise that you dog is the best in the world. As everyone else does there dog.

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.......

Goodness knows what I would be, I would start off with the intention of being a satisficer, then switch to a maximiser and then decide that the item was not needed at all and that I can't justify the cost and go home empty handed but feeling good because I didn't spend out on something that really and truly, I didn't need.

People go for retail therapy to make them feel better, I would need therapy to get over spending the money, it is more likely to make me feel down than up!