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

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  • ivyleaf
    ivyleaf Posts: 6,431 Forumite
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    So glad you're back, PN :j

    Pyxis Are you feeling better yet? I hope you're not still in bed coughing? x

    ETA Lydia Did your wallet turn up?
  • Pyxis
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Maybe the correct response is to gather your belongings, stand up, stare them in the face and say "I am making like a tree ... and leaving. Nobody wants to work with the sort of people that think this is an acceptable way to conduct interviews for responsible jobs."

    Then go.

    Monkey puzzle tree - that's another one :)

    Actually, maybe I am a monkey puzzle tree ... as I can't be worked out, or understood - and yet I'm there, "awkwardly".
    Monkey puzzle trees are seriously spiky and thereby seriously lethal.

    Is that you?

    I say noth-ing!
    :D:D:D

    ivyleaf wrote: »
    So glad you're back, PN :j

    Pyxis Are you feeling better yet? I hope you're not still in bed coughing? x
    I'm afraid so, :(, although it is slowly getting better.
    I reckon it'll have been a full three weeks, though, from start to finish. :(:(:(

    I wouldn't mind, but it seems to have been the only thing I brought back from that disastrous and expensive Xmas holiday. :(


    I tell a lie..... I did bring back what I thought was a Madeira cake, but it turned out to be a local fruit cake thing. Apparently, the Madeira cake we know is a Victorian English invention, and not from Madeira at all! Oh well, that bit of knowledge might come in useful in a prize quiz one day!
    (I just lurve spiders!)
    INFJ(Turbulent).
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  • PasturesNew
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    Monkey puzzle trees are seriously spiky and thereby seriously lethal.

    I've never actually been close to one; just seen 3-4 over the years in people's gardens. There used to be one where my bus passed on the route to town, so I used to see one often, but not close up.
  • Pyxis
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    edited 16 January 2019 at 9:51PM
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    I've never actually been close to one; just seen 3-4 over the years in people's gardens. There used to be one where my bus passed on the route to town, so I used to see one often, but not close up.

    Well, don't try climbing one! :eek:

    I think they are supposed to be a very, very old species of tree.
    Maybe they had to defend themselves against marauding Brontosauruseseses.





    Edit..... yup.....
    QUOTE
    The tree was alive 200 million years ago and rubbed shoulders with the dinosaurs. Its spine-like needles acted as protection from ancient grazing animals now long extinct.
    It can live for 1,000 years and grows to 50m high with a trunk diameter of over 3m. Its large seeds, pinones, take two years to mature.
    It grows on the slopes of rocky volcanoes and its bark is fire resistant, so ‘islands’ of trees can even survive lava flows!
    UNQUOTE

    It's been dubbed a living fossil, and is apparently on the endangered list.
    Not sure why, as it is no longer under threat from dinosaurs.
    (I just lurve spiders!)
    INFJ(Turbulent).
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    I love :eek:



  • Pyxis
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    Actually, :think: if you planted some around your boundary, that would stop the ferals climbing over your fence.







    You might have to wait a thousand years for the full effect, though.


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    (I just lurve spiders!)
    INFJ(Turbulent).
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    I love :eek:



  • LydiaJ
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    ivyleaf wrote: »
    ETA Lydia Did your wallet turn up?

    Nope. Cancelled everything. Bought new wallet. Gradually filling it up as the replacement cards arrive.
    Pyxis wrote: »
    It's been dubbed a living fossil, and is apparently on the endangered list.
    Not sure why, as it is no longer under threat from dinosaurs.

    It can survive wildfire and volcanoes, but not extensive logging (in Chile and Argentina, where it comes from), or aggressive harvesting of its seeds. It also doesn't do well with pollution.

    Humans - so much more dangerous than dinosaurs. :(
    Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
    Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
    Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.     :)
  • chris_m
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    ivyleaf wrote: »
    Lydia Did your wallet turn up?
    LydiaJ wrote: »
    Nope. Cancelled everything. Bought new wallet. Gradually filling it up as the replacement cards arrive.

    That's guaranteed to make the original turn up now :rotfl:
  • PasturesNew
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    It can live for 1,000 years

    Blimey - you'd think they'd be everywhere then!
  • Pyxis
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Blimey - you'd think they'd be everywhere then!

    Go to your very local garden centre and you'll find a few! :D
    Ouch! :D
    (I just lurve spiders!)
    INFJ(Turbulent).
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    I love :eek:



  • GDB2222
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    We bought one of those little Poinsettias from Morrisons 2 years ago. It was about 20-30 cms when we bought it. I just measured it, and it's now 1.2 metres tall. Time to re-pot it, but it's doing so well as it is!
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
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