Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

The new ones might be nice kids, such things do exist so I'm told

They might be ...but there's the fear now that they might not be.

In the right place they're fine - e.g. not kicking balls against my fence, not bashing balls onto my bonnet, not blocking my gate with random assortments of bikes/scooters, not leaning those against my gate so when I open it they fall on me, not playing "hide and seek" and thinking under my car's a good place to hide.... etc etc ....3 hours/night every night the weather's OK. And even when there are none out there you live with the fear of them starting any minute.

You can't park properly most of the time as you're navigating reversing round them playing and their assorted sports equipment they've dragged out there too! Say, if they get bought mini goalposts - I bet they'd be dragged out there.... and if you drove up to park and managed to dodge 6-8 of them running/screaming away from you/around you... you'd then have to wait while they guess where you are likely to wish to be and drag the goalposts out of the way ... even though they've no idea about parking/space and where you're likely to manoevre.

I've seriously thought about locking/abandoning my car at the entrance and preventing anybody from arriving/leaving, just to "make a point" that I can't go any further forward as there are too many kids/toys lying around and running around for it to be safe to proceed.

And the screaming from some. If the mother knocked on my door and said "A paed0 just grabbed my child ...." I'd probably say "Ah, thank goodness, I thought it'd gone lovely and quiet."

ivyleaf

Doozergirl wrote: »

Congratulations to DGS, ivyleaf! It's always a relief!

Thank you It specialises (as much as the national Curriculum allows) in Sports and Science, his two favourite things It's a single-sex school, which i think will suit him.

And him having a place there will mean that when it's DGD's turn in a couple of years' time she will have high priority for a place at the equivalent girls' school. That's handy, as she's very bright but seems to be dyslexic (her teacher thinks so, but official test not done yet, unless of course she has had it done and her mother forgot to tell us) and atm she's adamant she doesn't want to take the 11+ when the time comes.

silvercar

LydiaJ wrote: »

It makes sense not to let you lock it from the outside if the key is inside. However, I'd want to know if you can lock it from the inside (for security) while the key is on the inside with you?

Tried this. You can lock from inside with the fob with you. You can't lock from outside and the car beeps like mad if you try to do so.

Pyxis

silvercar wrote: »

You definitely can lock it if the engine is on. I'll try to lock it with the engine off and report back.




That makes sense for my grandmother who was born in the noughties, but the 19 noughties not the 20 noughties.

Testing was also suspended during the war and during the Suez crisis 1956.

I'd be concerned about locked doors that you couldn't open manually from the inside.

Suppose the electrics fail after an accident and a fire starts?

Even if the electrics haven't failed, you might be a passenger in the back and not know where the button is, and the driver might be unconscious.

michaels

The good news is that they have set a deadline for ppi claims.

The bad news is we have two and a half more you of increasingly frenzied ppi ads before we reach that date.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

I'd be concerned about locked doors that you couldn't open manually from the inside.
Suppose the electrics fail after an accident and a fire starts?
Even if the electrics haven't failed, you might be a passenger in the back and not know where the button is, and the driver might be unconscious.

They usually include inertia switches to unlock the doors in the event of an accident - or just link them up to the SRS system so that if an airbag goes off the doors are unlocked.

chris_m

michaels wrote: »

The good news is that they have set a deadline for ppi claims.
The bad news is we have two and a half more you of increasingly frenzied ppi ads before we reach that date.

Ads can be ignored, fast-forwarded through, etc. - or avoided by not watching commercial channels

Cold calls are a little harder to avoid, although BT customers may find that BT automatically blocks them - those that do get through to me will get the usual terse reply that I reserve for such scum

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LydiaJ

ivyleaf wrote: »

Oh, in other news, DGS has got the school he wanted

Excellent news. Is that just a confirmation of something you were all pretty confident about, or was it a complete unknown whether he'd get a place or not?

I hadn't even realised it was that time of year. Shows how much my life has moved on. DS is going to stay at the same school after GCSEs, and filled in a form a few weeks ago about subject choices etc. He's just had a letter inviting him to a "course consultation interview" where they will talk to him about what he's picked and why. Apparently his school do this for all 6th form applicants, both internal and external, to try to limit the number of kids who end up regretting making the wrong choices because they didn't understand all the implications career-wise and so on. The school try to make quite formal so it's a mini practice for uni interviews, I gather.

chris_m wrote: »

They usually include inertia switches to unlock the doors in the event of an accident - or just link them up to the SRS system so that if an airbag goes off the doors are unlocked.

Although in a serious accident, the doors may be too deformed to open. Passers-by tried to get DS and DD out of LNE's car, but the doors were too bent to open. When the fire brigade got there, they broke the windows and helped them to climb out through them. Once the children were out of the way, they cut the roof off so the paramedics could get at LNE.

GDB2222

Wish me luck, please! I have signed up for Dechox, which means no chocolate at all for March. I may need a lot of encouragement.

LydiaJ

GDB2222 wrote: »

Wish me luck, please! I have signed up for Dechox, which means no chocolate at all for March. I may need a lot of encouragement.

We'll be here to encourage you, GDB.

What are your reasons for doing it?