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Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait
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lostinrates wrote: »I Mind you , despite a firmly open attitude to sex I have to say I have asked my mother to stop asking me what somethings mean/are.
I generally fail to hear the first time I'm asked anything like that (e.g. if something is mentioned on tv, a new word has been learnt at work - its just as bad as a child in a playground for learning new words). If the word/ question is repeated, there is a blank look/ shrug/ 'I dunno'. I am happy to pretend I a) have slight hearing impairment b) have had a very sheltered life in such circumstances!0 -
Interestingly they are busy vaccinating in Swansea schools this week - but only those who haven't had the vaccine before, the London catch up programme in 2005 vaccinated everyone to act as a booster to those who had had it previously.
They're quite rightly trying to get Swansea to catch up with the rest of us. In the last twenty years there were at least three years when the Uk had absolutely zero measles deaths (out of a global annual rate of about 120,000) In some parts of the world they say never count your kids till afte the measles.
We've only been able to distinguish it from smallpox for the last few centuries.
It would be a scandal if we let that mass hysteria undo all the good. I'd be getting re-vaccinated if I needed to as the booster isn't likely to have any harmful effect.
This strip cartoon sums it up well.:Tchewmylegoff wrote: »Am going to Scoland in May for a week or so. Will be staying with family near Skye - stopping overnight in Edinburgh on the way there and back.
Does anyone have any recommendations about what I should do.
NB I've already got "drink a bit too much single malt and argue about Aberdeen house prices" on the list.
Chewie. Pandas, pakora, hologram museum, Museum of Scotland (with Dolly the Sheep) walikng around the City centre. Schiehallion(the lager).There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »Am going to Scoland in May for a week or so. Will be staying with family near Skye - stopping overnight in Edinburgh on the way there and back.
Does anyone have any recommendations about what I should do.
NB I've already got "drink a bit too much single malt and argue about Aberdeen house prices" on the list.
Hill walking. Read Muriel Grays "The First Fifty" to give you a taste for Munro's if you are fitter and have a bit more experience and like scrambling. Glen Coe is just beautiful absolutely worth driving through even if you haven't got time to walk in the hills. Look for the wildlife...red deer, seals, starfish, eagle. Go to sites of the clearances. To the beach on Ardnamurchan Peninsula, to Plocton or Eilean Donan castle sight seeing.
We had many holidays in the highlands when we were in our 30's including renting a cottage at Kyle of Loch Alsh which is near Skye.
You may be too early for the midges too so it should be wonderful. Expect rain and dress accordingly. Pack walking boots. Take bikes or borrow/rent them if you can.
The light, the lochs and the mountains must make the highlands one of the most beautiful places in the British Isles.0 -
I've had measles. I remember it well, I felt appallingly horribly unwell.
My mother remembers it too - I was 7, and my next sister, aged 5, caught it too. My 1 year old sister was still being partially-fed by my mother, so got immunity from her, and my mother was also pregant with my brother. So it was a whole load of fun for her!...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
They're quite rightly trying to get Swansea to catch up with the rest of us. In the last twenty years there were at least three years when the Uk had absolutely zero measles deaths (out of a global annual rate of about 120,000) In some parts of the world they say never count your kids till afte the measles.
We've only been able to distinguish it from smallpox for the last few centuries.
It would be a scandal if we let that mass hysteria undo all the good. I'd be getting re-vaccinated if I needed to as the booster isn't likely to have any harmful effect.
This strip cartoon sums it up well.:T
Thanks for that, zag.
Maybe MMR would be a good topic to put into my Yr7 "science skills" lessons - we've been discussing all sorts of ideas around the theme of quality of experiments and their conclusions - they're supposed to learn the meanings of accuracy, precision, reliability and validity.Yup. I may be the only prude left on this thread now I think.:o
I agree with lir - it's not necessary to use a pejorative word like "prude" to describe your restraint. And I don't think you're alone, either.I also assumed that (LIR and PN are no doubt thinking how boring), it was the fact that you identified only those 2 things as being perverted which therefore implied that anything else goes....
That was how silvercar's post struck me, too.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
I remember having measles. I'd had the jabs but got it anyway and quite badly.
I got one spot inside my eyelid and another in my eyelashes. It was really nasty. It was during Wimbledon so I spent 2 weeks lying on the sofa watching that.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »One of my sister's horses is an escape artist - whenever she gets bored, she goes over or through whatever barriers she fancies.
She managed to jump a hedge and fence combo when 10 months' pregnant, which was something of an acheivement.
Your sister did that, or perhaps I'm not paying proper attention?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
lostinrates wrote: »We don't know whether dh has had a measles jab (or anything else for that matter). Obviously his mother isn't around to ask, and the gp here said records don't go back that far, in Italy there is no record of him having any vacs. He remembers having some, so that was probably in uk.
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It's never seemed a real issue till this measles outbreak....not sure what he should do...
Deda, (who is GMC registered) text me back after midnight, saying to speak to the GP regarding a booster/jab.
Please bear in mind she's not a GP, and is a Consultant in something completely unrelated, however.neverdespairgirl wrote: »I've had measles. I remember it well, I felt appallingly horribly unwell.
Me too!
I'm more concerned about the fact I've never had Chutqvavila (quick Google says it's Chickenpox in the UK), and neither has DD1. As you know, I've got no immune system whatsoever, so that could potentially be nasty!
Measles, I was immunised for in the USSR in the mid 80s, so hopefully I'll be ok on this one!
CK
ETA: Deda is Georgian for mother, so if I use it again (as I keep typing, then deleting), you know.💙💛 💔0 -
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PasturesNew wrote: »No. I've met you and you shared your sordid past with me on our woodland walk. You're no angel
I am so innocent, I had never even heard the euphemism until now. Did you take your pets on the walk? Is it similar to dogging?I think....0
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