Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

Yorkie1

Good point by the DH, LIR. It is the flights of fancy, indulgent, free jazz which I dislike most. Micky Bubble, Norah Jones, R&B I don't count as jazz per se (whether rightly or not!).

michaels

I did make it home although the trip did involve Finsbury Park, Hatfield and buses which are things I normally avoid. Bit of a rubbish day at work as I wasn't very up for it even before network rail did their best but I have now finished the last Harry Potter - I had never read or seen the last 2. Can't help wondering what happened to the magical stories that JK Rowling started with

Edit: For some reason i really don't listen to music any more but i couldn't really say why. I have never been a big fan of headphones and perhaps it is because there is never a quiet moment in the house that I don't ever want to add more sound?

PasturesNew

Yorkie1 wrote: »

One form of music I've never got along with is jazz.

I can't bear to see the word typed.... or written ....

And then the final nail in the coffin was all those Jazz Club sketches done by the Fast Show. Now when I see/hear the word jazz all I can think of is that man sitting in his chair, sometimes with the camera on his back, then turning in his chair and saying "nice"
Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdWJpHt1Xws

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

DH wants me to tell you not all of it doesn't have structure. E.g. Sme people consider Michael buble jazz. Or Norah jones, ray Charles ( ok...crossover) R and b is 'from' jazz.

I'm surpised how good crossover music can be even in types of music I don't rate much. Maybe the bad elements get cancelled out. I don't like rap or rock but this is great. Not too fond of RnB and country but there's nothing much wrong with this.

SingleSue

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

This is completely off the wall, but have you looked at Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome? Sprains can be one of the signals. Or possibly non sprains that feel like sprains?

We have partial and full dislocations rather than sprains...for us, sprains tend not to be as bad for as it is for others, the initial pain is there but recovery tends to be faster as less damage is done to the tendons and ligaments due to their stretchy nature...unfortunately, the more sprains we get, the stretchier the ligaments get and consequently, easier dislocations!

*Us meaning myself, eldest and middle son...eldest and myself confirmed EDS, middle son probable EDS.

Eldest dislocates more than me (daily) and far more severely, affecting every large joint and most small joints too. He has been told he will be in a wheelchair by his mid 20's due to the severity of his condition. Truth be told, there are people who have far less dislocations than him who already use wheelchairs but he is a stubborn begger and refuses to give in to the condition, in the process, making things worse!

I've been reliant on crutches for quite a few years now and 2 and a half years ago started to use a wheelchair for outside jaunts with the boys as it got to the point where we couldn't go anywhere as I couldn't do the walking and our lives were becoming ever more restricted. Took me a while to get over my silly pride and be seen around our local town in my wheelchair (we would go when shops were about to close and less chance of people we know seeing me :rotfl:) but the 'chair' has become a godsend and a way to freedom, not just for me but the boys too.

Unfortunately, the chair broke 2 days before Christmas (wheel sheared off), so we are back to not going anywhere at the moment!

SingleSue

michaels wrote: »

I did make it home although the trip did involve Finsbury Park, Hatfield and buses which are things I normally avoid. Bit of a rubbish day at work as I wasn't very up for it even before network rail did their best but I have now finished the last Harry Potter - I had never read or seen the last 2. Can't help wondering what happened to the magical stories that JK Rowling started with

Edit: For some reason i really don't listen to music any more but i couldn't really say why. I have never been a big fan of headphones and perhaps it is because there is never a quiet moment in the house that I don't ever want to add more sound?

This house is filled with music every day...suppose it helps if you have a musician in the family

Middle son is chuffed, he gets to play Baker Street at the next school chamber concert, he's wanted to do that one for a very long time.

zagubov

SingleSue wrote: »

This house is filled with music every day...suppose it helps if you have a musician in the family

Middle son is chuffed, he gets to play Baker Street at the next school chamber concert, he's wanted to do that one for a very long time.

That is one of the best songs ever!

You must be proud for him! :beer:

I grew up in a musical household and apart from rehearsals (it felt) I was the only one who listened to music for pleasure (and I'm the least talented, can hardly play a note on anything).:(

zagubov

Yorkie1 wrote: »

One form of music I've never got along with is jazz. It's the lack of direction to it. These people going off on one without any structure and you don't know where it's going or when it's going to end. I can physically feel myself tensing up when it's on. :eek:

One good friend really liked it and we had a standing joke going that he would put a mix of music on (pretty quietly) in the background and we'd see how long it would take me to realise there was a) music on at all, and b) it was jazz rather than something else. It did usually take me a while :rotfl:

That's like me. If I was a condemned man being dragged to my own hanging and we had to stop to listen to some jazz, it wouldn't be long before I'd be nudging my executioners and looking pointedly at my watch and the gallows.

CKhalvashi

zagubov wrote: »

That's like me. If I was a condemned man being dragged to my own hanging and we had to stop to listen to some jazz, it wouldn't be long before I'd be nudging my executioners and looking pointedly at my watch and the gallows.

Jazz is something that I've always got along with well, although I think to an extent it's been partly due to the fact I grew in the USSR.....

Generali

I like jazz myself, or at least the good stuff.

Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong are particular favourites.

Louis Armstrong would be feted as one of the greatest musicians in history if he was white IMHO.

Scorching day here today. Mid-30s and the sun is almost unbearable on your skin. My SiL is in a place called Hay, waaaay out west and it was 43C there at the maximum. No sign of it cooling off significantly until the middle of the week. Thank goodness for air con.

FiL has had a new knee dropped in so we went to see him. He's in very good spirits, helped no end by a spell of not having to run errands for my MiL and a goodly dose of morphine on top of that. He's also doing well on the proper diabetic diet he's being given in the rehab unit he's in (rehab is what they call a phisiotherapy hospital here). He eats a load of crap normally. They'll chop his legs off/he'll go blind/die if he carries on like this.

This f***ing anxiety is really starting to annoy me now, it's just not going away. It dials up and down but just won't stop.