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

SingleSue

Pyxis wrote: »

That's great news, Sue!

We'll have to call you Tycoon Sue!

Hehe I wish....it's still well below what people would call a bargain basement or liveable salary.

Still, it is progress and it makes the weeks where I was getting paid just under £50 a week (every other week) easier, I've broken the £100 barrier on those weeks now and almost at the £150 barrier on the other weeks.

No idea if it is going to last as it all depends on if the one on long term sick comes back, so I am going to try to continue to live as if I was still on the old wages and squirrel away as much as possible.

More up to date management skills will look good on the old CV though...

Pyxis

SingleSue wrote: »

Hehe I wish....it's still well below what people would call a bargain basement or liveable salary.

Still, it is progress and it makes the weeks where I was getting paid just under £50 a week (every other week) easier, I've broken the £100 barrier on those weeks now and almost at the £150 barrier on the other weeks.

No idea if it is going to last as it all depends on if the one on long term sick comes back, so I am going to try to continue to live as if I was still on the old wages and squirrel away as much as possible.

More up to date management skills will look good on the old CV though...

Good ideas all round.

If I still had my business and it was near you, I wouldn't hesitate to give you a job....... thorough, dedicated, intelligent, using initiative, hard-working.....what's not to like! You would have been perfick! :T

phillw

Pyxis wrote: »

In the same number of years, how many people have died in RTAs?
I rest my case.

Yeah, cognitive bias are fun.

But everyone dies of something, all you can do is decrease your chances of dying of each individual thing and a car is more useful than a chimney. So I happily live without one, but if you have one then you should look after it. All chimneys stay standing for years, until they don't.

ivyleaf

zagubov wrote: »

What an amazing link! I was a child when that storm hit Scotland. We'd never known anything like it. The biggest trees in the park were knocked down and it took years to chop up and clear them away. Their root systems were all exposed vertically and raised up in the air; they towered above us kids.

It was quite surreal; I later learned there were earthquakes/tremors further north now and then but never really felt them down south but we'd never experienced anything as close to a natural disaster as that storm/gale/hurricane. It felt like we'd been hit by something that only affected faraway countries we'd only read about.

We were living in Fife then! I remember my mother coming in during the night to check that I was all right and not scared - I was astonished to see that she had got dressed again, and asked why on earth?, and she was trying to tell me that it was because of the storm, in case we needed to leave the house, while at the same time trying not to alarm me! I was 15. Luckily our houses had stone walls about a foot thick, and we just lost a few roof slates. Next-door's garden shed had been blown away; it turned out to be in a garden further along the road, balanced on its ridgepole.

Until reading that BBC article I'd had no idea how much damage had been done or that 21 people had died!

ETA: Brilliant news Sue, about both you and Joe!

And thank you PN for the tip about Ancestry!

Pyxis

Pastures, I am sending you a PM about something you might be interested in.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Pastures, I am sending you a PM about something you might be interested in.

Tis interesting. £40.... thinking about that
I just wonder how much one could do "from nothing" in one day though ....

It's nice to know though, about that - and that place. Thanks.

Masomnia

Going to be an Inner Herts resident as of Monday! I think it was September that I had the offer accepted so it has taken a while, but finally there

silvercar

Shame ‘funny girl’ and mates don’t have parents that monitor phone usage. Why do 8 to 10 year olds need phones? Phones that can download apps that attract peedos! That they think is a game???

Good luck with the move, Masomnia and welcome (back?) to inner Herts. Are you going to be commuting?

Pyxis

Masomnia wrote: »

Going to be an Inner Herts resident as of Monday! I think it was September that I had the offer accepted so it has taken a while, but finally there

Good luck with the move! And I hope you get good weather!

It did take a long time, didn't it?

You want to watch out for those NPs, you know! :rotfl:

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Why do 8 to 10 year olds need phones?

I asked that... apparently ... it's so they're "safe" - being me, I pointed out to them that they're not "safe" as their phones make them a target by robbers.... and they agreed, funny girl had been in a fight before when somebody'd taken her phone from her she told her friend.

They said "it's to call an ambulance" - and I pointed out to them that millions of people have lived their lives, their whole lives, without ever having to call an ambulance .... and there's usually a phone around somewhere.

I pointed out to them that they were there "spoiling for a fight" because of the phones, their phones were causing them all this trouble in life .... and if they didn't have them then they wouldn't know/care what anybody was saying about them - and they could be off doing fun things instead. They kind of half listened and thought it through and agreed that they did seem to be spending their lives being picked on by phone, or chasing after people who'd said something about them over a phone.

They'll never give them up of course... but at least they heard a different viewpoint.