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

Jackmydad

PasturesNew wrote: »

They have an advantage.... they have Yuman Ritez.

We do not

Exactly!
As I am fond of saying.
"Too many rights given without any responsibilities"
Proper, decent, society needs both rights and responsibilities to work properly. Both properly enforced.
Especially the responsibilities!
That makes for "Nice people"

PasturesNew

The trouble when it rains is ... you can't go out - and - if there's anything you NEED then you;'re going to get wet going out

Bit nippier this morning...

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Parents often seem to want a quiet place for themselves.... and somewhere else to point their kids/footballs/bikes to go and play in to "give your dad and I a bit of peace and quiet".

Loving the pronoun. Took me a few seconds to recognise that it was deliberate. "Hang on," I thought, "PN gets those right ... Ah! But she knows the kind of people she's describing usually don't!"
:rotfl:

chris_m wrote: »

Which means that dishwasher still don't match the quantities - many nowadays being labelled as for 13 or even 15 place settings

Except that I don't want a dishwasher that will just wash all the plates etc from one meal. I want it to deal with the mugs from earlier in the day, the saucepans used in preparing the meal, and all that sort of thing too.

silvercar wrote: »

The week the landlords moved in

I remember that. It was an interesting watch.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Loving the pronoun. Took me a few seconds to recognise that it was deliberate. "Hang on," I thought, "PN gets those right ... Ah! But she knows the kind of people she's describing usually don't!"
:rotfl:

To be honest.... it'd take me a while to work out what you meant there - and where the pronoun is I'd have to Google to discover what a pronoun is as my starting point

I "get it right", not through education with named thingies.... it's just "luck"

Doozergirl

I know you don't like the kids, PN, but I genuinely hope that nothing untoward happens to her.

Friends of friends are currently distraught because there's a high likelihood that their son fell into the River Severn a few days ago All information is important.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

To be honest.... it'd take me a while to work out what you meant there - and where the pronoun is I'd have to Google to discover what a pronoun is as my starting point

I "get it right", not through education with named thingies.... it's just "luck"

PasturesNew wrote: »

Parents often seem to want a quiet place for themselves.... and somewhere else to point their kids/footballs/bikes to go and play in to "give your dad and I a bit of peace and quiet".

PN, you know that what the mother should tell the kids to do is "go and give your dad and *me* a bit of peace and quiet. I know you know how that bit of grammar works, because I remember you, some time ago, explaining the rule to somebody else on the NPT who asked for clarification. You told them (absolutely correctly) to think what they would say if there were no dad in the sentence ("give me..." rather than "give I...") and then add the dad in ("give your dad and me..." not "give your dad and I..."). So I thought you were getting it wrong on purpose, as a subtle dig about the parents in question. Sorry if I was overthinking things.

Oh, and it's not luck that you understand those things. You speak grammatically correctly because that's the way you were spoken to when you were growing up. Those who didn't have that advantage in childhood mostly don't know such things. Interestingly, it's been discovered that it's during dream sleep that the human brain sorts that kind of thing out - pulls together lots of experiences and produces an unconscious awareness of things that we know without being quite sure how we know them, and even without being able to articulate what it is that we know (or know that "I" and "me" are called "pronouns"). This is why we mostly speak the grammar of our mother tongue effortlessly (or most of it anyway), and have endless trouble learning the grammar of a foreign language when our brains are past the age when they're at their best for acquiring language.

SingleSue

That's me home alone again.....Josh dropped off today, A14 was being an a@@@ so we had to go the long way round on the way home.

Oh and it rained, a lot.

GDB2222

Ofo is a sort of plague of yellow bikes. We have two abandoned down the road. Not really obstructing anything, but not particularly attractive. And we are sufficiently far from their main area of operations that the bikes will hang around until Ofo drive a truck out here to pick them up. (Or somebody civic-minded cuts them up with an angle grinder and throws them in the bin.)

GDB2222

I've been looking on Dad Joke websites, because, after all, I am a dad and I like jokes. Anyway, I've filtered out the dross, and here are all the good ones:-

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

Ofo is a sort of plague of yellow bikes. We have two abandoned down the road. Not really obstructing anything, but not particularly attractive. And we are sufficiently far from their main area of operations that the bikes will hang around until Ofo drive a truck out here to pick them up. (Or somebody civic-minded cuts them up with an angle grinder and throws them in the bin.)

I've never heard of them. Why are people choosing them over Boris bikes (or Sadiq's cycles or whatever they are now called)?