Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

PasturesNew

SCART leads don't "fit" - they don't clunk into position.... it's all a bit flakey. Just gave it a good old shove, then removed it, turned the light on and inserted the lead again. TV's now going through some magical 5 minutes of working ... ah, no, cancel that, it's breaking up again. The leads are just wobbly.... not satisfactory at all.

zagubov

Found this on another thread thanks to xMessedUpx
Online quizzes.

Good luck!:beer:

zagubov

Just seen Cancer Research UK's new TV ad. Simple but inspired. Uses Brian Eno's Ending: Ascent as used in the Olympics!:beer:

Shame it was followed by an ad for cutprice booze ( a known carcinogen) at a supermarket.:o

PasturesNew

Here's a quiz for you: What's wrong with this soddin' telly??

LydiaJ

I like almonds, hazelnuts, pistachios, cashews, peanuts, but especially almonds. Bakewell tart is yum, as long as not covered in icing, which makes it too sweet IMO.

Question for lir or anybody else familiar with the Swindon area. In a few weeks' time I want to go to Worthing for a funeral. Other members of my family will also be going, and the best plan is for me to drive to somewhere very close to J15 on the M4, and then for them to pick me up so we can go the rest of the way together in the morning, and then the reverse arrangement on the way home in the evening. So I am looking for suggestions of a nice place where whoever gets there first can wait and have a drink or something, and where I can park for many hours for free with no particular risk that my car will get stolen/vandalised. Any suggestions, nice peeps?

Googling suggests this place: http://www.arkells.com/pubs_more2.php?id=637
Anybody know if it's any good, and what the parking arrangements are?

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

Andover? What's so dreadful about Andover? It's not great, but crap might be pushing it.....

Ducking auto correct is shirt.

lostinrates wrote: »

Not red down the thread yet, but ...

Whose saying anyone feels or would have felt 'sorry for you'. Love perhaps, for others fondness, friendship, my, oops, their own selfish desire to help. Compassion for your kids,hope one day you would be able to pay us all back tenfold......:D

Gen, get a grip man! It's not about pity, it's about friendship and humanity.

I posted a little on here about the problems Mrs Generali was having at the time and one poster who was local to us in Kent offered to babysit to help her out which was incredibly kind.

It was very strange with hindsight, the whole thing seemed completely normal.

- Dad spends 10 years dying of Alzheimers
- Too busy to grieve so carry on as normal working 12 hour days
- Get life changing job at hedge fund that could make me a multi millionaire. Work 16 hour days.
- Entire industry falls apart leading to my impoverishment and emigration
- Wife has v. bad post natal depression
- Everything hits me at once.

That happens to everyone, right?

On a different note, we've got a huge number of clerid beetles outside the front door. They are mimics as a family and the particular variety we have outside mimics wasps:



When they fly, they hang that yellow bit at the bottom out and they really look like the horridest wasps ever. It took me days to work out that the beetles on the ground and the wasps in the air were the same creatures.

Apparently they swarm together to make that sweet, sweet beetle music.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

I posted a little on here about the problems ,,,.

That's a deep story, gen. Not quoting it, so you've the option of deleting it.

Lots of NPs have had to face the onslaught of dementia in a parent. My p and m still seem to be free of it, touch wood.

I was surprised when I had to teach health risks (which was how I stumbled on this thread) that Alzheimers was the fourth biggest cause of death in the UK.

And the amount of research into it is risible. A few years back, for everybody that died of AIDS in the UK £1500 got spent on research and for CHD it was £150 per death. For Alzheimers it was £11. What a travesty. No wonder it's such a mystery.:(

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

That's a deep story, gen. Not quoting it, so you've the option of deleting it.

Lots of NPs have had to face the onslaught of dementia in a parent. My p and m still seem to be free of it, touch wood.

I was surprised when I had to teach health risks (which was how I stumbled on this thread) that Alzheimers was the fourth biggest cause of death in the UK.

And the amount of research into it is risible. A few years back, for everybody that died of AIDS in the UK £1500 got spent on research and for CHD it was £150 per death. For Alzheimers it was £11. What a travesty. No wonder it's such a mystery.:(

I don't know about now but there was a ton of research being done by biotechs into Alzheimers. Alzheimers and obesity are the 2 very obvious candidates for blockbuster drugs as the treatments for both are risible.

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

It was very strange with hindsight, the whole thing seemed completely normal.

[- List of stuff that happened to Generali that he might want to delete later]

That happens to everyone, right?

Sounds awful. Cyber-hugs coming your way. You've done amazingly to get through all that and come out on top as you have done. :T Oh, and I agree with whoever it was (sorry too lazy to go back and look who ) said that it's hugely impressive that your marriage survived all that. Congratulations to both of you - you have something very special there. :A

Does it happen to everyone? Maybe. I've typed out my own list like yours, and then deleted it again - it felt as though I was either complaining or else trying to compete with you, neither of which is my intention. But it involved some things that were remarkably similar to yours and other ways in which I escaped stuff that you went through but got clobbered by different things instead. Suffice to say it was enough to make me recognise the feeling you describe of "everything hits me at once".

I'm sure some people do get an easier ride through life than others, but most people don't have it smooth sailing all the way. And I am certain that the people who have strong connections to others who care about them are in a much better position to weather the storms than those who face them in isolation. I've been blessed with a great family of origin, and fantastic friends, for which I cannot express how grateful I am. Also, I am always aware that merely by being born in this country and this century (well, the last one actually) I have almost everything massively easier than most humans who've lived on this planet.

chewmylegoff

Generali wrote: »

I don't know about now but there was a ton of research being done by biotechs into Alzheimers. Alzheimers and obesity are the 2 very obvious candidates for blockbuster drugs as the treatments for both are risible.

the only thing i'm really afraid of in life are diseases of the brain. i hope by the time i get old enough to be at risk there is a magical cure for alzheimers/dementia, but it seems to me that it is the inevitable consequence of ever improving healthcare which means there is a mismatch between the length of time that bits of you which are non-essential for life support function properly and the length of time that doctors can keep your heart beating. i think it's probably too complicated for a single 'silver bullet' cure to be identified - i expect there are a wide range of genetic and environmental causes.

as far as obesity goes, i suspect that the vast majority of cases are not caused by a genetic predisposition to gaining weight and that psychological help is likely to be a better channel for resources than trying to find some way of stopping people who eat 10 big macs a day putting on weight. i suppose someone might identified a drug which just stops people from wanting to eat.