Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

zagubov

misskool wrote: »

I think it's pilates actually. I know it sounds weird but I've heard more people getting injured doing pilates than going to circuit training.

NHS wants me to keep moving but refuses to give me muscle relaxants, so I'm supposed to be stoically stretching in pain. The British and their stiff upper lip. I just want pain killers.

We're not that stiff-upper lip. I knew someone had to go gto the dentist for a filling in Norway. He was horriifed they didn't offer him an anaesthetic. the dentist was horrified he'd neeed one for such a brief period of pain. :eek:
Mind you all my fillings are fairly deep ones but I'd be out of that chair like a shot if a dentist started the drill without an injection. Seen "Marathon Man" too often!

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

LIR your comments were much appreciated to the extent I decided I would reply with a PM but haven't quite got round to it yet....Also been meaning to send one to Nikki for a couple of weeks - where does the time go?

Oh, i have not got any space. I will make some just incase!

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

We're not that stiff-upper lip. I knew someone had to go gto the dentist for a filling in Norway. He was horriifed they didn't offer him an anaesthetic. the dentist was horrified he'd neeed one for such a brief period of pain. :eek:
Mind you all my fillings are fairly deep ones but I'd be out of that chair like a shot if a dentist started the drill without an injection. Seen "Marathon Man" too often!

I think we brits moan rather than stiff upper lip really. I was talking to dh about thois yesterday, saying that while i think the new uniforms you see kids in....polo shirts, trousers, sweat shirts, look easier to care for and wear i think the preparation for life of ties, laced shoes, slightly restrictive blazers etc taught some to be a bit more stoic.

silvercar

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Yes, I agree that's best, but tricky to do from here.

It's a real PITA living this far north for things like this.



Paris is lovely but we've done it a fair bit. Likewise Amsterdam, thanks to them being the only direct flights from Aberdeen.

I'm looking at Edinburgh departures now as well, as it's only a 2 hour drive.

Or perhaps something with a tight connection time through Schipol or CDG.

If you are going for a tight connection, make sure you book through tickets, so at least the airline has a responsibility for getting you to your final destination if the first flight is delayed. Nothing worse than being stranded in an airport with a hotel waiting for you a flight away that the airline wants to charge you £££ for, just because your inbound flight was delayed.

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

I think we brits moan rather than stiff upper lip really. I was talking to dh about thois yesterday, saying that while i think the new uniforms you see kids in....polo shirts, trousers, sweat shirts, look easier to care for and wear i think the preparation for life of ties, laced shoes, slightly restrictive blazers etc taught some to be a bit more stoic.

DS's Blazer fits me. At £85 for something worn to mass and none in the second hand shop, I'm not reinvesting before he leaves this school.

I did buy it when he wasn't with me. First thing he did whrn I gave it to him eas rip the labels off, before even trying it on. It's vast. I am able to interpret blazer sizing now and realise I'd bought a women's size 12 for a kid that was 10 at the time. When they have photos taken, his teacher makes another child lend him theirs, it's that ridiculous

We'll call it character building!

Doozergirl

:eek: If it wasn't windy before, it is now! ( bit scared)

Davesnave

sss555s wrote: »

Fav things from 1972...

Marc Bolan, Led Zep and Jimi Hendrix.

I say from as I was too young to actually remember much if anything from then :A

.....And especially as Hendrix wasn't doing a lot by that time, having been dead since 1970.

Led Zep were good..... sometimes. Depended what they'd been on, pre-gig.

Marc Bolan I saw as Tyrannosaurus Rex...all acoustic guitar & bongo drums, pre-sparkle stuff. As I recall, that was instantly sleep-thru-able, (if you were a blokey bloke.;))

zagubov

GDB2222 wrote: »

It is like the Emperor's new clothes. Nobody dared to mention boot camp, although I am sure that everybody was thinking the same as you. (Well, I was.)

My GP is in favour of people taking exercise but dead against people going to the gym. He reckons that they cause themselves lots of damage, which in the long run limits how much exercise they can do.

Quite right. We teach our students that after the war, people ate more calories than now but were comparatively fit as a fiddle though nobody went to the gym, as they had no fridges (so a walk to the shop every dayto buy fresh food) or cheap mechanised transport (so cycled or walked everywhere).

lostinrates wrote: »

I think we brits moan rather than stiff upper lip really. I was talking to dh about thois yesterday, saying that while i think the new uniforms you see kids in....polo shirts, trousers, sweat shirts, look easier to care for and wear i think the preparation for life of ties, laced shoes, slightly restrictive blazers etc taught some to be a bit more stoic.

I seem to recall reading that (yet again,after the war) , librarians and primary teachers turned away from Enid Blyton's Noddy books not because of the crass imagery of anybody who looked different, but because he was spineless. His main response to every problem was to cry until Big-ears solved it, and they saw this as a pathetic role model.:rotfl:

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

i think the new uniforms you see kids in....polo shirts, trousers, sweat shirts, look easier to care for and wear i think the preparation for life of ties, laced shoes, slightly restrictive blazers etc taught some to be a bit more stoic.

No, it just meant we had more places to stash our illicit goods.

...And we had buttonholes to put our Remembrance poppies in once a year. Amazed the plonkers in charge of those haven't worked out that school clothing's moved on a bit since WW2!

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

No, it just meant we had more places to stash our illicit goods.

...And we had buttonholes to put our Remembrance poppies in once a year. Amazed the plonkers in charge of those haven't worked out that school clothing's moved on a bit since WW2!

We were not meant to put stuff in blazer pockets' we had one teeny pocket we were meant to use big enough for a locker key, and a bit of cash, but not much.