Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

michaels

Doozergirl wrote: »

I know what michaels is concerned with and I would be too.

But I also know what I am concerned with. The last time time I checked, this was the nice people thread. It was very clearly there in square brackets, it is not now. The man's behaviour is not okay but it is because he is thoughtless, not because of a stereotype of the type of job he has or the car he drives.

Michaels thinks it is okay, I do not. For people now to be questioning a conversation about what is not even there now is frustrating but I don't come on this thread to read snidy generalisations about groups of people.

Enough already. I clearly need a break from this thread.

Soz DG, I guess this is an issue like Grammar schools and racism that presses my buttons. Please don't feel unwelcome due to my poor behaviour

Pyxis

I must admit, I think that personalised number plates are great fun! They always liven up a boring journey!
In fact, I often look at cars in front to see what words, if any, can be made from them!

In actual fact, I have one, :eek:, based on my first name! The thing is, it was really, really cheap, in the cheapest category on the DVLA website 12 years ago!
It was dirt cheap ecause my name is unusual and it isn't obvious that the reg. forms a name! :rotfl: I found it quite by accident.
Only people who know me realise that it is a personal plate! Otherwise it makes my car look a awful lot older than it really is! Hahahahahaha!

I tell people I'm sad! And that it's my little bit of mid-life-crisis whimsy! :rotfl:

bugslet

I had a flashy-ish car VX220 turbo for a while ( got it out of my system, now happy with the second hand dog van), with a sort of personalised plate - VX ** XXX.

Being a mere girl, it meant kiss, kiss, kiss to me. Nope to others it meant !!!!!! star. Get out of the car and it means ageing !!!!!! star:p

SingleSue

I had a car with a personalised plate once, unfortunately the personalised plate was for the boss's wife who we had bought the car from.

My reg plate reads naked if you look at it quick now or use text ish speak....

CKhalvashi

vivatifosi wrote: »

Happy birthday CK!

Not yet

I don't know the answer to your it cake question but my instinct is that you will be ok. Perhaps buy a nice box of biscuits as a back up as they are definitely ok. If travel us EU to EU it should be blue channel anyway, so you shouldn't be stopped. It sounds more about the flight.

I sent Wizzair a fb message, and Wizz say I can :cool:

The non drink food items I've seen people stopped with are things like jars of salsa. I regularly take big packs of moist wipes in my hand luggage in my hand luggage and am never stopped with those as they are mostly solids even though v damp if that helps.

My mother lost the limoncello coming back from Italy on Friday as she forgot about the 50ml rule. I've heard a story that a man lost a pork pie as it was too juicy. This hasn't been confirmed.

The one thing that has caused me a problem is shortbread fingers which apparently look like cannabis on a scan. Somehow the pack was less appealing when it had been gone over with a drug scanning wipe. That was on Eurostar.

I remember seeing a post on a friends feed (Pilot for Easyjet) where a guy asked if he could take his weed through security.........

The drug scanning wipes (never seen one except on TV) are simply bits of cloth though, are they not? A bit like the kitchen cloth things you buy in Tescos for about £1 for 50. Can't see how if it's just the pack it'd do any harm

ivyleaf

michaels wrote: »

DS is in an under 8 football team. I think at that age what matters is that they all enjoy playing and get to take part. The coach thinks winning is most important and that only the best players should get a match

Yes, that sounds all too familiar

Can you find another team for DS? That's what DGS's parents had to resort to in the end.

PasturesNew

With a name being 2 initials then a surname, my name exists on a regular car number plate.

The car would have a number plate of the form:
XXX 999X
Where X are letters and 9 are numbers.

The numbers are those which could be read as numbers or letters, e.g. 1, 5, 8, 0

I've no idea if it's out there somewhere.... it'd be on a very old reg if it were, as it was registered almost 40 years ago.

Pyxis

bugslet wrote: »

I had a flashy-ish car VX220 turbo for a while ( got it out of my system, now happy with the second hand dog van), with a sort of personalised plate - VX ** XXX.

Being a mere girl, it meant kiss, kiss, kiss to me. Nope to others it meant !!!!!! star. Get out of the car and it means ageing !!!!!! star:p

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
I thought you were a guy! :eek::o:eek::o:eek::o
I have succumbed to the dreaded stereotyping disease, of assuming a haulage person is male. Shame on me. I can't believe it!
Grovel grovel.

But then, I'm always getting people's genders wrong. Thought Michaels was a woman (probably the avatar), then a man, then a woman, then a man! :eek: :eek: (I still might be wrong! Just 'cos someone has a wife, doesn't mean they're a man! :eek:)

And there have been several others on random threads that I got wrong.

Mind you, more than one person has thought I was a man. Initially. Until I blew my cover! :rotfl:

PasturesNew wrote: »

With a name being 2 initials then a surname, my name exists on a regular car number plate.

The car would have a number plate of the form:
XXX 999X
Where X are letters and 9 are numbers.

The numbers are those which could be read as numbers or letters, e.g. 1, 5, 8, 0

I've no idea if it's out there somewhere.... it'd be on a very old reg if it were, as it was registered almost 40 years ago.

It probably is out there.
And probably costs a four-figure sum!
At least!

You can see if it is available, out of interest, by going to the DVLA website.

bugslet

I definitely had you down as a woman Pyxis. I think it's the truck thing, everyone thinks I'm a bloke. My pic ( I am wider now:( ) is on torbrex's gallery thread.

I ought to mention the bellydancing more often - though in fairness there are a few male bellydancers about.

Pyxis

bugslet wrote: »

I definitely had you down as a woman Pyxis. I think it's the truck thing, everyone thinks I'm a bloke. My pic ( I am wider now:( ) is on torbrex's gallery thread.

I ought to mention the bellydancing more often - though in fairness there are a few male bellydancers about.

I suppose to be fair, that unless one's username indicates a particular gender, (but even that isn't foolproof, viz Donnajunkie et al), one has to rely on a person's posts giving an indication, otherwise there's no real way of knowing. In fact, that's one of the nice things about this sort of Forum; you can be chatting to people of all genders, all walks of life, all professions, all ages, without those things, or even their appearance, letting you pre-judge, which let's face it, we can all do subconsciously to some extent, even without realising.

MSE, the Great Leveller! :rotfl: