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

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

the door looked exactly like that of Number Ten, except that there was a letterbox in the door, and I thought that Number Ten doesn't have a letterbox.

That's what Google's for.

It has got a letterbox

PasturesNew

Re tax discs.... many people had them. Many have kept them. They believe they'll one day "be worth something".

But when?

There were over 35million cars on the road at the time.

If 0.1% of people kept some, that's 35,000 people who have some.

Some people have got some going back 1950-2010, say, because they've always kept them.

People who have kept some probably kept, say, 5, so that'd be 175,000 tax discs.

The only ones that'll be "worth something", if anything, will be those where the cars are rare, or were previously/since owned by somebody famous.

Keep them because they're quirky ... but not because they "might be worth something one day".

Pyxis

Cakeguts wrote: »

That kind of thing seems to be getting worse along with the people who will argue with you about anything and everything.

Yesterday I deleted a community group where one member called another member "that horrible man" and was extremely nasty just because they shared different opinions on a subject.

Where have all these people come from who "have to be right" about everything.

vivatifosi wrote: »

In general, calling someone names just shows they've lost the argument as they can't articulate anything else that a valid response.

I was listening to something on the radio yesterday and they were talking about this sort of online thing, and this quotation came up:

Proverbs 18:2.... "A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing their opinion".

I thought it was very pertinent.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's what Google's for.

It has got a letterbox

What door am I thinking of, then? I'm sure that there is a famous door that doesn't have a letterbox?

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

What door am I thinking of, then? I'm sure that there is a famous door that doesn't have a letterbox?

I don't bl00dy know.... God only knows what goes on in your head. I've enough trouble remembering where I got ideas from... I'm not responsible for your wandering mind too!

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't bl00dy know.... God only knows what goes on in your head. I've enough trouble remembering where I got ideas from... I'm not responsible for your wandering mind too!

Cheeky monkey!
It's not a wandering mind, it's an enquiring mind!

(Ok, it does wander about all over the place, I suppose! )

Anyway...... I've discovered this.....

"After the IRA mortar attack in 1991, the original black oak door was replaced by a blast-proof steel one. Regularly removed for refurbishment and replaced with a replica, it is so heavy that it takes eight men to lift it. The brass letterbox still bears the legend "First Lord of the Treasury". The original door was put on display in the Churchill Museum at the Cabinet War Rooms."

So maybe the original one before 1991 didn't have a letterbox, and that's what I'm remembering?

In any event, I very much doubt that the present letterbox actually works. It's probably sealed up and just for show, otherwise it would be a vulnerable point.

zagubov

Pyxis wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl:

I must admit, she's very resilient!
Am not surprised she lost her voice.
I wonder what her blood pressure has been like?

I'd imagine that's a very closely monitored thing.

I read once that at the end of WWII Roosevelts' BP was over 300/190 and that all three leaders at the Yalta conference all died of strokes.

President Obama's medical records are in the public domain. This bbc website has links to some info about the bodies of famous people (and you can also find out some things about yourself!).

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's what Google's for.
It has got a letterbox

Indeed - it's a doorhandle/knob and outside keyhole that it doesn't have.

Another thing many don't know is that the black bricks of the walls are painted black. When the place was rebuilt they found that the black bricks were actually yellow, covered with muck from 2 centuries of pollution. Therefore, since it was best-known with a black facade, the new bricks are painted.

PasturesNew

Just had one of those "small giggle moments" - in a local history FB group there's a man who worked for decades on the local papers. He used to compile the sort of "down your street" columns. Now he's retired he's got a house full of notes and clippings and he's been compiling them all into massive index books and putting them online in archive.org. They're indexes for individual villages and compilations around subjects such as "housing".

He's just posted one that talked about Council housing and the problems of getting one in 1938 (to get one you needed to have a family. You were discouraged from starting a family until you had a home). To illustrate his post he chucked in a wedding photo... and I looked at that and thought "Blimey, now THERE's one very manly looking bride" .... and suddenly spotted her name! Heck, she's in my tree (not my bloodline) .... so I've just managed to d/l a copy of that photo. But, by heck she's a grim looking woman; think Les Dawson in a wedding dress and you'd be about there.

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Indeed - it's a doorhandle/knob and outside keyhole that it doesn't have.

Yes, that is right, I knew that.

The PM has to use the tradesmen's entrance if there's no-one in.

It's the letterbox conundrum that is blitzing my brain cells! :rotfl:



Apparently Number Ten has 100 rooms. There's a mansion built onto the back! :rotfl: