The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

silvercar

This is at the larger end of the scale of what I deal with as an individual contract, so while not strictly professional, a bottle of wine and a takeaway at home could be the better option.

Sends out the wrong signals, particularly if your male and she is female.

I've noticed that recruiters use coffee shops instead of hiring meeting rooms.

IMHO if you want peace and quiet then go to an appropriate venue, coffee shops are designed for people to sit and talk and are perfectly entitled to bring in noisy children.

chris_m

vivatifosi wrote: »

I moved jobs earlier this year. I so don't miss the busker, who I then saw in St Albans on the front page of the Herts Ad and it was the same one, albeit in a different town to where I worked.

The best busker I ever saw (and heard) was a West Indian lad with a set of steel drums in the London Underground.
Can't remember which station but it was a long escalator down and the acoustics made it sound like an entire band down below. I was somewhat surprised when I got to the bottom to find that it was just the one lad - and he was damned good, too. Unfortunately I had to carry on to make a train connection else I'd have hung around for a while.

Pyxis

CKhalvashi wrote: »

You can quote now

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I didn't understand that link!
Trying to work out what was advertising and what was what I was supposed to be looking at!
Even the usernames were unintelligible! :rotfl:

silvercar wrote: »

IMHO if you want peace and quiet then go to an appropriate venue, coffee shops are designed for people to sit and talk and are perfectly entitled to bring in noisy children.

I agree up to a point. Of course people are entitled to bring in their children. I would take issue with the word 'noisy', though.
My feeling is that behaviour should be appropriate for the venue, and that applies to adults as well as children!

If children want to run around, shriek and shout and do cartwheels, then a playground or similar is the place to be, not a hotel lounge or a normal cafe.
Whilst I don't expect children to sit still in silence, there does come a Point when their activity or decibel level encroaches on other people's enjoyment of the venue.

The Point at which that line is crossed can vary, depending on the venue, but I think the argument here is that for a lot of families, there doesn't seem to be a Point, and so playground behaviour is allowed anywhere, no matter what the venue is.

LydiaJ

Late start for me today. My brother has the day off work today, so he is at my dad's house, helping the removals people take the study door off its hinges to get the huge bookcase out. This is more his thing than mine.
The removals guys think the bookcase will fit in the lift at the flats after all. I hope they are right. I'll go along in a while.

GDB2222

LydiaJ wrote: »

Late start for me today. My brother has the day off work today, so he is at my dad's house, helping the removals people take the study door off its hinges to get the huge bookcase out. This is more his thing than mine.
The removals guys think the bookcase will fit in the lift at the flats after all. I hope they are right. I'll go along in a while.

On the whole, I’d expect removers to be right about bookcases and lifts.

The problem comes in hopefully many years time, when you want to remove the bookcase, only to discover that the lift has been replaced with a fractionally smaller one.

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

On the whole, I’d expect removers to be right about bookcases and lifts.

The problem comes in hopefully many years time, when you want to remove the bookcase, only to discover that the lift has been replaced with a fractionally smaller one.

On the bright side, though, you might also have a wood-burning stove!

ivyleaf

Now that's what I call a result, Pastures :T

Sue Thinking of you and I hope you're feeling a little better today x

GDB2222

ivyleaf wrote: »

Now that's what I call a result, Pastures :T

Sue Thinking of you and I hope you're feeling a little better today x

Ditto. Pneumonia can be really, really nasty.

CKhalvashi

Pyxis wrote: »

I didn't understand that link!
Trying to work out what was advertising and what was what I was supposed to be looking at!
Even the usernames were unintelligible! :rotfl:

Just the part with the chainsaw....I mean shotgun :rotfl:

Please leave my beautiful language alone, it did nothing wrong to you

Mzeoblebis patara literally means 'The smallest mole' and doesn't actually translate properly into English at all. I do understand what it means however get why someone who doesn't may be a little confused.

Oh, and banner ads everywhere....welcome to Georgia :cool:

Pyxis

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Just the part with the chainsaw....I mean shotgun :rotfl:

Please leave my beautiful language alone, it did nothing wrong to you

Mzeoblebis patara literally means 'The smallest mole' and doesn't actually translate properly into English at all. I do understand what it means however get why someone who doesn't may be a little confused.

Oh, and banner ads everywhere....welcome to Georgia :cool:

Smallest mole! I just love that! :T

I didn't know it was Georgian!

I thought I'd stumbled onto one of those odd sites where everything is written in dog Latin or dog something else!

So, what has a small mole got to do with[STRIKE]exterminating children[/STRIKE]persuading them gently to go elsewhere?




Edit... now you've pushed my language button. What languages is Georgian related to? Is it a language in its own right, or a dialect of something else? I am a complete ignoramus on all things Georgian, and would like to be enlightened!