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

Filo25

michaels wrote: »

Android:
1) Waze will use a small amount of data to get live traffic info if you switch this on but much less data than google maps as with waze you download the maps onto your phone first when you are at home on wifi whereas google will only download them as you travel.


2) If you can find the icon for Waze you can hold your finger down on it and a bin icon will appear on the screen which you can drag it into but this will only delete the 'shortcut' not the app. If you don't see an icon for an app there may not be one or it may be on another of your home screens which are accessed by swiping left or right from your main homescreen



3) To get to settings to remove apps you either need to get into the 'app drawer' which is normally accessed via an icon that looks like a couple of rows of square dots, possibly in a circle. Here you can see all your installed apps and should be able to uninstall them by the method SC described, hold your finger down on the ap icon until a dustbin appears and then drag the app into the bin. From here you should also be able to access your settings menu from an icon that looks lie a grey cogwheel. Once in the settings menu there is an option call apps.


You can also get to your settings menu by swiping your finger down from the top of the screen, probably twice which will then show the same grey cog wheel (or a smaller white version looks a bit like a fat snowflake) at the top on the screen, press on this and you are again into the settings menu.


Did any of that make sense? I frequently have to talk DW through this sort of thing, if I don't do it quickly and patiently enough she has a tendency to throw away her 'broken' phone in what is a bit of a self-fulling prophecy. Give me a call if you need me to talk you through it.

Just a quick comment on this, you can download maps for Google Maps as well (I think they stay on your device for a month or so before you they go and need to be downloaded again), only saying as I ended up using it when I was in the US earlier in the summer.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Pastures, have you worked out where you'll move to?

Not really ... but 8-15 miles to the West of where I am now is where I'll be looking.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Did any of that make sense?

I think it made enough sense that when I sit with my phone and read through the above again I'll achieve something.

There are some actions there that are entirely new to me. e.g. holding your finger down on something to obtain options.... never done/knew that before.... so even if I'd been staring at "what I was after" without knowing that action was a possibility I'd have never guessed it

It's all currently on my Round Tuit list as I gave it 1 hour of my valuable time earlier in the week.

PasturesNew

All you fitness fanatics out there... who might have rolled your eyes at my perpetual inertia as you leave the house for your statutory 2 hour gym session, followed by your gruelling 20 mile hike before returning home to your bowl of "pure grains"....

Laziness is the way forward:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6084253/EXTINCTION-beaten-lazy-lowered-metabolic-rates.html

I am helping to avoid extinction .... if you ignore the bit where I'm not over-populating the planet by over-breeding, thereby invalidating the point of extinction or not

At any rate - my laziness is assisting me in not becoming extinct.

I am a "Super Evolutionary Example"

the sloths among us may represent the next stage in human evolution..... natural selection based on 'survival of the slacker'.

That's probably what exacerbates me about the throwbacks I am forced to live among locally and read about in the DM.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

All you fitness fanatics out there... who might have rolled your eyes at my perpetual inertia as you leave the house for your statutory 2 hour gym session, followed by your gruelling 20 mile hike before returning home to your bowl of "pure grains"....

Laziness is the way forward:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6084253/EXTINCTION-beaten-lazy-lowered-metabolic-rates.html

I am helping to avoid extinction .... if you ignore the bit where I'm not over-populating the planet by over-breeding, thereby invalidating the point of extinction or not

At any rate - my laziness is assisting me in not becoming extinct.

I am a "Super Evolutionary Example"



That's probably what exacerbates me about the throwbacks I am forced to live among locally and read about in the DM.

:rotfl::rotfl: :rotfl:

Well done, Pastures! :T

:think: Now, what about committed sloths who intersperse their time with, very, very intermittently, morphing into a rabid Yorkshire Terrier?
(Not for very long, though!)

Pyxis

Edit, re. the sluggishness/survival thing.......

I read the article, and the study was done on molluscs.

Now, I know I do sometimes retreat into my shell, in certain circumstances, and clam up, but I whelky don't think we can apply those findings to humans, unfortunately.

Plus, although I did have a very large gallstone removed from my innards, I doubt one could compare it to a pearl.

PasturesNew

Just done a bit of "useful pottering" ... I'd left an 8" strip in front of the picket that I'd finished putting in place yesterday - where I planned to put a bit of weed membrane and the 40mm plum slate I'd bought last week. Went out this morning, pulled up the weeds there (which I'd sprayed with weed killer 3-4 days ago), cut/lay the membrane and poured the slate over. Looks really good. It looks how I'd imagined it/wanted it to look (always a surprising bonus as you don't know until something's done if it'll look pants or not).

Did a bit of bramble snipping ... not a lot though as I remembered the slate and was more keen to do that, so abandoned bramble snipping for now.

I've got a lot of brambles, thistles and bindweed that needs stripping back, some to a height of over 3' and it's about 1m deep too... so going slowly on that so I don't have a nasty little accident.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

When I was a child "Cough up the Phlegm and Spit it Out, Then Look At It" was pretty commonplace. The reason was that so many people smoked, and a very high proportion developed bronchitis.

Hopefully not 7 year olds with bronchitis.

PasturesNew

I am now mid-tackling one of the "nasty jobs I really didn't fancy", more membrane and some bark and that slate.... cleaning up the area around the entrance door. It used to be a nasty lurky corner where the bins and all manner of weeds and long grassy bits sat on a pile of murky mud.

I'd cleared/barked a lot of it earlier this year ... but I'm now extending that area by another 3'.

Probably done about 1/3rd of the work now .... having a rest.... because I'm worth it

I think I'll store the bins in the shed.... couldn't work out where to "hide" them - I don't really use them often... the shed will do... once I've got the table/chairs out of there! Nobody looks in a shed at a viewing... especially as it's just a "regular shed" and looks tidy.... and the agent won't know where the keys are....

vivatifosi

All this talk of smoking... mum and I were talking about people who smoke yesterday. In the 1970s and 80s people who smoked 20 cigarettes a day were considered moderate smokers. We thought that now this would be considered a heavy smoker.


My nan smoked 60 to 80a day... a very heavy smoker, but I doubt anyone could afford the best part of £20-40 per day.


So my question is, for those of you who smoke, or live with smokers, what is now the average intake? Is the amount of smoke reduced not only as a result of people not smoking, but also by people smoking less?