Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

LydiaJ

ivyleaf wrote: »

ETA Lydia DGS didn't pass 11+ (Maths was fine, English not so) but they found a good school to put as first choice. It's their nearest one into the bargain, but uses "fair banding", so fingers crossed. They have to wait until March to find out.

Sounds like a good place for him. Hope he gets it.

silvercar wrote: »

New foodie question (from an article in yesterday's paper): avocado or aubergine?

I love avocado (new favourite panini avocado/onion/cheese) but hat aubergine.

I'm with silvercar. Love avocado (favourite bagel ham/avocado) but hate aubergine.

Pyxis wrote: »

Well, unless you went out without a handbag, purse etc, there' would be something on you. Credit card, store card, reward card, bus pass?

Do your keys have an insurance tag on them, for if they get lost?
Failing all that, dental records, I suppose.

I prefer not to carry my address around, 'cos if someone stole my bag, they'd know where the keys fitted!

Dental records are only any use for confirming identity if you think you know who it might be. I don't think you can use them to do a blanket search for people who match those records.

Most people's bags do have their address on, because it's always on their driving licence.

LydiaJ

Pyxis wrote: »

Wasn't there also another one for "Jesus saves"? Someone had added "with the Woolwich" underneath. (Or another Building Society).

I'll have to go and google graffitied signs now!

Long ago, when my brothers were little and before I was born, there was a sign at the boundary of Bristol reading "Bristol welcomes careful drivers". If you carried on into Bristol along that road, you arrived at a large notice reading "Bristol Crematorium" to which somebody had added "welcomes careless drivers". I think it was painted over pretty quickly.

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

I am now the proud owner of a mouth guard to stop me clenching my jaw when I am asleep so I have been practising wearing it today. Longest so far is 2 minutes before I have to whip it out because having something in my mouth makes me retch...am wondering how I will manage to lie down or sleep with it in?

Some years ago, I briefly tried one, but could not get used to the build up of saliva, which made me retch. I have a slight phobia of saliva. Blood, gore, I'm fine with, but saliva..........puke!

LydiaJ wrote: »

Most people's bags do have their address on, because it's always on their driving licence.

That's why I leave mine at home!
I still have the paper licence, though. Do the cards also have your address on them?

LydiaJ wrote: »

Long ago, when my brothers were little and before I was born, there was a sign at the boundary of Bristol reading "Bristol welcomes careful drivers". If you carried on into Bristol along that road, you arrived at a large notice reading "Bristol Crematorium" to which somebody had added "welcomes careless drivers". I think it was painted over pretty quickly.

Shame that was removed; I think it's a really powerful message!

LydiaJ

Pyxis wrote: »

That's why I leave mine at home!
I still have the paper licence, though. Do the cards also have your address on them?

Yes

Pyxis wrote: »

Shame that was removed; I think it's a really powerful message!

To the population in general, and irresponsible drivers in particular, yes.
To a family arriving at the crem for the funeral of a loved one killed on the roads, not so much.

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

Long ago, when my brothers were little and before I was born, there was a sign at the boundary of Bristol reading "Bristol welcomes careful drivers". If you carried on into Bristol along that road, you arrived at a large notice reading "Bristol Crematorium" to which somebody had added "welcomes careless drivers". I think it was painted over pretty quickly.

Famously, the Burma-Shave company in America used to have separated sequences of posters along roadways for drivers to read the adverts in five instalments, usually a four-line poem. One sequence went:
When passing schools
Drive real slow
Let the little
Shavers grow!
BURMA-SHAVE!

CKhalvashi

Pyxis wrote: »

I still have the paper licence, though. Do the cards also have your address on them?

Yes, I've got one of the photocard ones (issued in 2009) and it contains name, address, d.o.b, I think all the info on the paper ones (although I'm too young to have ever had a paper one so can't confirm)

I've also got a (now obsolete) paper counterpart in the safe, which contains information the cards don't.

PasturesNew

I locked the gate and went out. When I returned it was pitch black ...and I couldn't find the key. Checked the gate was locked, yes. Back in the car groping all round the inside ... it wasn't anywhere. Went over it all inch by inch wondering what to do/where to go where I'd have bright lights and be able to search in light .... and then, I saw it ... a tiny sliver of silver ... underneath the handbrake, inside the fixed console ... "aaah...."

Now ... I know that the key's down there and there'll be the carpet with a slit in it where the handbrake mechanism pokes through - and if one could feel round the carpet it'd follow the round of the handbrake casing area until it narrowed to touch the console.

Right ... so .... the key's in there and if it moves it could suddenly disappear under the carpet/into the handbrake mechanism, or, disappear within the fixed console area.

So I took a deep breath and wondered "can I reach it with the ends of two boney fingers?". I had nothing to use to hook it out ... and the slit in the console isn't large at all. I thought it through "if you're going to go for it you have ONE chance to get it right".... there's no fumbling and feeling around in there, no chance to get another go, or a better grip.

So I steadied my breathing and very carefully fitted two boney little fingers into the slit in the console; I wasn't even sure if my tiny little hands would reach far enough - and fearful that the very act of touching the key would dislodge it and send it plummeting one way or the other to an inaccessible and invisible spot .... I touched the key, it hadn't moved.... I gripped. I counted to 3, without breathing, then lifted the key out.

Phew! That'd have been a right b4st4rd if I'd had to disassemble the car on the nearest garage forecourt without a clue about where the fittings/screws/nuts were

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Phew! That'd have been a right b4st4rd if I'd had to disassemble the car on the nearest garage forecourt without a clue about where the fittings/screws/nuts were

That was lucky!

I've got 2 sets of keys; one with a car key, house key and Tesco Clubcard, other with everything else. The second bunch lives in the centre console.

CKhalvashi

Big duvet on = too hot, big duvet off = too cold

Cover under off = too draughty

I will get comfortable soon, I swear :mad:

vivatifosi

I have bought myself a good old fashion blanket for such days CK. Works a treat, and if I'm still cold, then I can put a duvet on top of that. Max duvet I ever use is 7 tog. 1-3 tog or just a flat sheet in Summer.