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

chris_m

zagubov wrote: »

Having said that I was out in Putney mid-evening in the mid-80s and I thought I saw a terrorist incident. It looked like a plane was coming down in flames (and there were attempts by terrorists to actually do that). This wasn't one though; there was nothing on the news and nobody else saw it. This was almost ten years before the internet, but I did much more recently came across a group of people online who saw the exact same thing, all concluding it was a meteor.

One assumes that you don't mean a Meteor made by Gloster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Meteor

:rotfl:

GDB2222

I was going to watch the Perseids as it's not as built up here in Norfolk, this part anyway, and we are on the edge of town. But there was almost 100% cloud cover, so went to sleep early.

PasturesNew

One of the new lot's got kids... toddlers by the sound of it.

Why are mums so loud? She's about 4 doors down and inside and I can hear everything she's saying to her kid who is also inside.....

It's the sort of thing that you KNOW one day you'll be hearing something about wanting a biscuit ... and not being allowed to have a biscuit ... and you KNOW it'll go on ... and on ... and eventually you'll just snap and, from your own sofa, will shout out "Just give him a f*cking biscuit, so we can all relax G0dd4mit!"

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

One of the new lot's got kids... toddlers by the sound of it.

Why are mums so loud? She's about 4 doors down and inside and I can hear everything she's saying to her kid who is also inside.....

It's the sort of thing that you KNOW one day you'll be hearing something about wanting a biscuit ... and not being allowed to have a biscuit ... and you KNOW it'll go on ... and on ... and eventually you'll just snap and, from your own sofa, will shout out "Just give him a f*cking biscuit, so we can all relax G0dd4mit!"

:rotfl:

The trouble is, Pastures, that I really hope she doesn't give in re. the biscuit, 'cos all that teaches the kid is that if they holler loudly enough and for long enough, they'll get what they want, and then when they are doofing age, you'll have an entitled brat on the other side of that fence! :eek:

Holding out for with that sort of battle is really, really hard, and tiring, which is probably why a lot of parents do give in, but it's making a rod for your back, and for society's back in general.


I remember when mine reached 18, I breathed a long sigh of relief, that I was no longer responsible for them, ifswim. (Not that parenting stops at 18, but the responsibility sort of does).
It had been an exhausting 18 years! I was ready for a rest!

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

:rotfl:

The trouble is, Pastures, that I really hope she doesn't give in re. the biscuit, 'cos all that teaches the kid is that if they holler loudly enough and for long enough, they'll get what they want, and then when they are doofing age, you'll have an entitled brat on the other side of that fence! :eek:

With good parenting, she could say No all week ... without me hearing a thing.

Sound travels.... and with one wailing and one saying "No" loudly... it can get right on your t1ts.

Proper parenting would do something about the noise, distract them, engage with them.... or just spank their 4rse and send them to bed until teatime

Simply "ignoring" them and the fact they're annoying to upwards of 25 other local households is just !!!!!!!' rude.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

With good parenting, she could say No all week ... without me hearing a thing.

Sound travels.... and with one wailing and one saying "No" loudly... it can get right on your t1ts.

Proper parenting would do something about the noise, distract them, engage with them.... or just spank their 4rse and send them to bed until teatime

Simply "ignoring" them and the fact they're annoying to upwards of 25 other local households is just !!!!!!!' rude.

The trouble is, that even trying to distract them means that they've got control of you by hollering. It is better to ignore them and teach them that hollering for a 'want' is fruitless. They do eventually get bored with hollering to an 'empty' audience, and will be better for the neighbours in the long run, believe me.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

The trouble is, that even trying to distract them means that they've got control of you by hollering. It is better to ignore them and teach them that hollering for a 'want' is fruitless. They do eventually get bored with hollering to an 'empty' audience, and will be better for the neighbours in the long run, believe me.

But then they move ... and you get a fresh lot!

That's the thing with unsettled people... they keep moving, so irritants are replaced by different irritants.

Maybe the answer is to buy a 3-bed house, as the people living in them are more likely to be settled and not keep moving.... so you do get to the bit where the kids have got out of that stage, and the next stage .... in fact there's about 20 years of stages, even if they stay!

chris_m

It's hot and sunny up here today with barely a breath of wind, annoyingly.

I've been making the first of my part-raised, part-sunken beds for the veggie patch today. The plan is for them to be be raised by about 6" but also sunken by about 18" and lined with a weed barrier membrane to try and keep the horsetail weeds out - which entails digging them out by around 2 feet before refilling partly with what came out and partly with some decent topsoil mixed with farmyard manure.

I did the surround boards yesterday and today I've dug the bed out, fitted the membrane and partly refilled it before deciding that a good rest and a long drink of water was in order. Out of curiosity whilst having this rest I calculated how much of my sandy soil I've shifted (not just sideways but up by between 3 and 5 feet) and was rather shocked.

Depending on the moisture content I think I've shifted somewhere between 2 and 3 tons out, around a ton back and I've still got the rest of it to go back !!!!!!

No wonder I felt like having a rest, I haven't shifted that much weight of anything in half a day for at least twenty years

ivyleaf

chris_m wrote: »

It's hot and sunny up here today with barely a breath of wind, annoyingly.

I've been making the first of my part-raised, part-sunken beds for the veggie patch today. The plan is for them to be be raised by about 6" but also sunken by about 18" and lined with a weed barrier membrane to try and keep the horsetail weeds out - which entails digging them out by around 2 feet before refilling partly with what came out and partly with some decent topsoil mixed with farmyard manure.

I did the surround boards yesterday and today I've dug the bed out, fitted the membrane and partly refilled it before deciding that a good rest and a long drink of water was in order. Out of curiosity whilst having this rest I calculated how much of my sandy soil I've shifted (not just sideways but up by between 3 and 5 feet) and was rather shocked.

Depending on the moisture content I think I've shifted somewhere between 2 and 3 tons out, around a ton back and I've still got the rest of it to go back !!!!!!

No wonder I felt like having a rest, I haven't shifted that much weight of anything in half a day for at least twenty years

:eek: Be careful of your back, won't you?

Pyxis

ivyleaf wrote: »

:eek: Be careful of your back, won't you?

Yes, be very careful ... you might not feel like you've overdone it at the time.

Rest of today and tomorrow, be very careful not to bend over .... (bend your knees always), and don't lift anything, and at the first hint of an ache or twinge, start using ice packs on your lower back.

In fact, it wouldn't hurt to use them prophylactically anyway, just in case.