Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

Loanranger wrote: »

What is the opposite of a posh alert?
It's knowing what having a monk on means without resorting to google.
I knew what it meant immediately I saw hjd's post. Is it perhaps a West Midland expression?

It also begs the question, what sort of monk?
A contemplatory cleric? :eek:
A type of fish? :eek:
A shoe? :eek:
An abbreviated simian? :eek:
Something else?

PasturesNew

For the record, the episode was for Jimmy & Sharday.
I didn't really "like them" so didn't really watch it. Not sure what they chose in the end... probably "No" as I doubt she'd have gone for anything.

No monk in this shot:
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480x270/p04lx4df.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08823jn/wanted-down-under-series-11-4-hedworthromaine-family
No sound required if you just want to see her face - see 11 minutes in. And 11 minutes 45 seconds. 12 minutes 45 seconds just before they turn over the card that has the house price on it..

Just picking a couple at random .... I'm sure there were better "monk on" faces she pulled during the programme.

Doozergirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

Frosty here too. I had to clear frost from my windscreen before driving to work - not unusual - but I had to clear more frost my windscreen in the work car park at 5pm before driving home. I don't remember having to do that before, although I'm sure there have been plenty of occasions when it's been below freezing all day while I've been at work. I wonder what caused it?



Ouch! Hope it feels better soon. I agree with Pyxis it would be best to get it checked out if it's not better in a few days.

It's happened a few times to me this week and I wondered the same. It's quite unusual.

You have a doctorate; you're supposed to know the answer!

I bought de-icer. It doesn't work.

It's going to be tepid water on the windscreen tomorrow and DS in the driving seat to operate the wipers before that freezes on the screen as well. Getting in the car before 7am to defrost it just cannot happen.

LydiaJ

Pyxis wrote: »

I think there was a 'Season' of set balls, meets, shoots etc. etc,,including things like Henley and Ascot as well.
Everybody did all the rounds of these social events, hoping to be engaged by the end of the season.

I suppose it was a bit like having arranged marriages. Ie, you could pick a partner from that particular pool of young men and women, but not from outside it.

I don't know much about what the season became in the 20th century, but if you go back a bit further, to, say, the early 19th century, I know a bit more about it. Many of the gentry (ie those whose income derived from owning land) spent the summer months in the country, and the winter in London. The part of the year when they were all in London was called the season. Everybody gave balls etc and went to each other's, at various levels of society, from the very proper, sedate and exclusive events for those who'd been presented to the king and queen, to the more boisterous events for the middle classes. Debutantes were upper class girls doing this for the first time, but if they didn't get engaged by the end of their first season, they could go back and try again next year, just without the debutante label. Less well off people might scrape together enough money to go to London for one season to try to get their daughter married off, but might not be able to afford to do it more than once per daughter, so those girls would be subject to the deadline of "this is your only chance to bag a rich husband". The really rich would go every year whether they had any marriageable daughters or not - it was the usual social calendar for them.

Yorkie1

zagubov wrote: »

Some chap on the radio was going to make his new year resolution to start going to the gym in February, so he wouldn't be surrounded by the January fly-by nights and looked askance at by the all-year-round regulars.

It also means it gives him longer to finish off all the Christmas goodies (who, me, surely not?!?!)

Pyxis wrote: »

The Radio Times often confuses me, because it makes references to very early a.m. programmes as belonging to the previous day.

For example, a programme I'd recorded on Friday evening failed halfway through, so on Saturday afternoon I looked it up to see if there was a repeat, and there was, referenced at "01.30 Saturday"

So my first thought was aaaargh! I've missed the repeat! Then I remembered that when they say eg Saturday, the TV day runs from 06.00 Saturday through to 06.00 Sunday, so I hadn't missed the repeat after all! ( 06.00 Sat to 06.00 Sun is all classed as Saturday).

I never knew that. Luckily I usually try to record using the EPG on the Freeview box, but it's worth knowing just in case.

SingleSue wrote: »

I'm relieved he can finally remember Christmas ...


There may well be further tests ...

So sorry to hear this Sue, hope his head is fine now and they get to the bottom of the other tests really quickly.

michaels

Doozergirl wrote: »

It's happened a few times to me this week and I wondered the same. It's quite unusual.

You have a doctorate; you're supposed to know the answer!

I bought de-icer. It doesn't work.

It's going to be tepid water on the windscreen tomorrow and DS in the driving seat to operate the wipers before that freezes on the screen as well. Getting in the car before 7am to defrost it just cannot happen.

Frost stayed here all day.

Can't you just use the app on your phone to preheat the car? Or keep it in the garage?

Yorkie1

Masomnia wrote: »

So, hoping for good things from 2017, I'm feeling optimistic, which is half the battle!

All the best for 2017, Mas.

Pyxis wrote: »

I have been watching the new series of "An Island Parish" which this time is in Anguilla, in the Caribbean.

Has anyone ever been there? It's still a British Overseas Territory, like the Falklands, but I've scarcely heard of it.

Never been there, but I do remember it from my Stanley Gibbons World stamp album as a child, I think!

ivyleaf wrote: »

... I just can't seem to get warm. I expect I need to jog round the block a few times to warm me up, but can't manage that

I was absolutely frozen this evening after getting in from work and getting tea. Couldn't stop shivering at all. So I decided to have a bath with really quite hot water. It eventually did the trick, but it's no fun when even a hot water bottle doesn't thaw you out.

Yorkie1

michaels wrote: »

Christmas House or crack house

We put some blue lights on the tree at the front this year for xmas. Itis really nice to be welcomed home and makes it easy to spot the house from a distance.

How naff would it be to leave them up all year?

Might look a little odd in the height of summer, but as I'm considering keeping my white lights out all year, I can hardly comment!

Pyxis wrote: »

How humerus!

How on earth do you manage to think up puns at that time of the morning?! Well impressed.

Doozergirl

michaels wrote: »

Frost stayed here all day.

Can't you just use the app on your phone to preheat the car? Or keep it in the garage?

The opportunity for preheating the car was lost when Doozer discovered that the Nissan distance range is not much when doing 50 on a motorway. It took him all day to get to lostinrates' house as he kept falling asleep at the ecotricity points. :T

I'll have to post a picture of my garage when it's light outside tomorrow.

Pyxis

Yorkie1 wrote: »

I was absolutely frozen this evening after getting in from work and getting tea. Couldn't stop shivering at all. So I decided to have a bath with really quite hot water. It eventually did the trick, but it's no fun when even a hot water bottle doesn't thaw you out.

When I rode a motorbike, in winter I would arrive home frozen. Never been so cold.
Even hoovering didn't help.
My hands were so cold despite all the right gloves that I could barely put the key in the lock or turn it.

As you say, hot water bottle didn't work, sitting in front of a fan heater didn't work.

The only way was to get into a hot bath and just lie there until thawed.

Yorkie1 wrote: »

How on earth do you manage to think up puns at that time of the morning?! Well impressed.

I'm a lark!

Well, these days I'm a pre-lark!

I seize up in the early evening, though!