Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

LydiaJ

zagubov wrote: »

Lydia do you want to put in an answer in the physics thread?;)

I've just had a look at it, but I think you and Fifer have already said what needs to be said. Well done.

Spirit wrote: »

I think I am about 24. I also think I am brunette. I am neither of those things any more and some days recently I have felt every one of my years and some extra.

I think I am about 28, I think. I also still think of myself as an ex-blonde (haven't been blonde since I was about 12), and definitely don't feel brunette.

Nikkster wrote: »

I'm not sure what I said in my interview that convinced them that I was the right person for the job, I was largely making it up/ rambling about things I learnt ages ago (not using correct jargon etc). And this isn't even a just playing-in-the-lab kind of a job, its 'informing future practice' type stuff. Yikes.

Sounds interesting though

They saw something in you that made them think you could do it. They will not expect you to know everything immediately. It is better to ask than to mess everything up because you were pretending to know something that you actually don't. You will be fine, but it will take a while to settle in.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

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I'm not sure what I said in my interview that convinced them that I was the right person for the job, I was largely making it up/ rambling about things I learnt ages ago (not using correct jargon etc). And this isn't even a just playing-in-the-lab kind of a job, its 'informing future practice' type stuff. Yikes.

Just remember: Nobody else feels they are an adult yet ... and everybody there was hoping you'd not catch them out .... they were blagging it and probably stayed up half the night remembering some long words just so they wouldn't be caught out today

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

If you want him to barter for things, he will happily do that for the simple price of seeing you happy.

You can tell him I'm after a second hand, smallish fridge/freezer in about 4 weeks' time then If he can barter me one down to about £60 delivered

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

...at the moment don't feel I need a tooth right at the back of my mouth that badly.

Top left and bottom left, at the back, I've got gaps. Also I've a tooth at the back top right, then a gap next to it.... bottom right's got no gaps. I've also got a crown somewhere or other .... can't remember where.

Teeth... so long as you've got enough in a row for a smile, nobody sees the rest

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chewmylegoff wrote: »

christ on a bike, $5,000 excess for a baby tooth? if it was me i'd just tell them to pull it out and wait a few years for adult teeth to grow!

Yeah, do what our parents would have done: Rip it out, then tell 'em off for whining.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Top left and bottom left, at the back, I've got gaps. Also I've a tooth at the back top right, then a gap next to it.... bottom right's got no gaps. I've also got a crown somewhere or other .... can't remember where.

Teeth... so long as you've got enough in a row for a smile, nobody sees the rest

If mine were a back one I would probably leave it. It's right in the front of my mouth though. Very front. Its died and is going darker that the rest. The difference has been marginal until recently but I can see it more and more now.

I don't want it moved though. My teeth are not perfectly straight, but not too bad. I have an almost unnoticeable lisp ....more like a soft ssss that a th, and I sometimes pronounces r as w slightly. These 'faults' leand themselves to the way I use my voice, or used to, and I don't want them changed. The w/ r is from further back, but I think it developed from both dodgy Spanish accented French speaking and the lisp. Because I had to be very concious as a you g person about my voice and how I used it I have probably thought way too much about it.

PasturesNew

kabayiri wrote: »

The crunch is that it's always expensive, its just how you choose to fund it.

It's cheaper to rip a tooth out than get it fixed, which is why most people have gaps

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Spirit wrote: »

He is a nervous patient and has to be sedated. He had two back teeth out a few years ago and has refused to go back for the implants..until now...and he now also needs crowns replaced. As he has plucked up the courage to go I do not want to put him off.

I could thoroughly recommend my (wholly private) dentist, who is where I used to live .... you don't even notice he's doing the work.... and I spent years avoiding dentists. I know my crown was affordable - because I've got one. Price list says £430-580.... maybe he gave me a Pity Discount

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

...and a lady who probably was ok if she had not been desperate for a fag at the start and unable to stop talking by the end...

That'd have been me .....

There was a woman in the past year or so, who got chopped in half as she decided to try to get out of a stuck lift, just as it started again.

Can't find that story immediately, but this woman got stuck trying to get into the lift when it took off http://www.mackssolicitors.co.uk/compensation-claims/woman-trapped-and-killed-by-lift.html

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lostinrates wrote: »

Its died and is going darker that the rest. The difference has been marginal until recently but I can see it more and more now.

You'd have thought somebody'd have invented a type of nail varnish people could paint on themselves

lostinrates wrote: »

...I have an almost unnoticeable lisp ....and ... pronounces r as w slightly.

I have those - and once it becomes noticeable/having a bad sentence it rapidly degenerates so I can't say a thing as it all becomes more and more pronounced. And, unfortunately, in trying to say "Sowwy, can't pwonownce Rs wight now" .... it gets a LOT worse.