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

chris_m

antrobus wrote: »

I believe that something like half of all owner-occupiers are 'guilty' of 'under occupation'. In the sense that they have more bedrooms than people. Various measures have been suggested to encourage people to downsize in order to free up this space.
The problem with 'organising' it, is that people have their own ideas of where they should live. Like me. I like my house. I ain't flippin moving just because I have a spare bedroom or two.:)

Definitely s*d that for a lark, I bought my house last year specifically so I would have a couple of spare bedrooms - one for a junk/work room (so it ain't a "spare bedroom") and one to stay tidy for guests.

Loanranger

The part 2 of the Channel Four programme mixing older folk with young children was enlightening and inspirational.
I think this experiment was a great success and I hope when I'm old and possibly in a retirement village that pre schoolers in a nursery are on site on very nearby.

zagubov

Our kids are too young for us to lose our extra bedrooms. I can't speak for the rest of the country but I've no idea how London can remain a low-rise city if we're going to provide enough floorspace for the people that want to live here. Plus having so much space turning into the empty absentee owner properties doing nobody here any good at all. The borough I used to work in (Kensington and Chelsea) is especially bad for that.

GDB2222

Neighbours about 100 yards are having a celebration of some sort in their garden. With a disco. Goodness knows what it's doing to their hearing, because it's loud in our bedroom with the window closed. We normally sleep with the window open, but not tonight. Sleep, that is.

Hopefully, they'll shut up soonish. It's pretty awful music to inflict on people, too. Why can't they just play something good, at least?

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's a fact of life that ANYBODY who likes to play music loudly .... ALWAYS has really CR4P taste in music!

Fact.

The world is becoming increasingly noisy - and I think that, in part, is to blame for a lot of anxiety and tension as there's no peace for people. Houses are closer together, gardens smaller - and people getting louder/gobbier.

We're a cold country needing well-insulated houses and double-glazing, not ready for the brash new world of electrically amplified music. If I won the lottery, I'd invest in the Dolby company's noise reduction technology and research how to suppress modern bad music so it's all as silent as the C in CR4P. :mad:

Pyxis

I sometimes have trouble logging out from MSE.

It happened again last night.

When it kept happening, and it started some time ago, I worked out that I have to firstly log out from the green format I'm on, as normal. Then I click onto MSE again, (I have the link to MSE in my Favourites bar), and the blue format comes up, which suggests I'm logged out. But wait.
What I then have to do is click on any old thread, still on the blue format. Then I can leave the site, and I am usually logged out, as far as I am aware.

Last night I forgot to do the 'click on any old thread' step, so it would seem that I wasn't properly logged out all night.............

........This morning, when I went to log in, (the log-in box being on the blue format as I was supposedly logged out), I get a pop up saying 'something has gone wrong'. I've learned from experience that that means that I've tried to log in when I was already logged in.

Anyway, what I do then is just click on MSE, and sure enough, up comes the green format with me logged in.

It's all very weird, and I can't explain why that happens, but it must be something to do with being on the green format.



If none of that makes sense, sorry!

I'll have to make sure I go through the ritual more meticulously in future!

chris_m

My logging out ritual is dead simple - close the browser

That has the advantage of logging me out of about 30 sites and clearing the cache ready for the next day when, upon launch, it logs me back into them all ready to browse.

michaels

I walk away from the pc/tablet/put the phone in my pocket - does that count?

SingleSue

I just shut down the laptop....logging in all the time is such a pain (obviously there are some sites where I do log out, banking being one of them!)

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

My logging out ritual is dead simple - close the browser

That has the advantage of logging me out of about 30 sites and clearing the cache ready for the next day when, upon launch, it logs me back into them all ready to browse.

Closing the browser doesn't log me out, nor does closing the browser and switching off the iPad!

It's not a major problem, it's just strange, and it's only been happening since I upgraded the iPad, 4 or 5 months ago.

It's a mystery, and I like trying to solve mysteries!



On some sites, even if I click on 'keep me logged in', as soon as I leave the site, or the browser, I'm logged out, which is a pain sometimes.