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

lostinrates

After being open in the rain on and off every day since Tuesday the door the various people working here have been using is now so swollen no one can close it.

I'm going to have to tape my self in with tarp later.


We might be switched over to our new supply later today. I don't think it will actually make any difference but will feel fun!

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

We might be switched over to our new supply later today. I don't think it will actually make any difference but will feel fun!

Are you near a supermarket? Can you buy a bag of ice cubes for the fridge?

That, and a few thermoses of hot water.

Yeah, it should be quick but.... electricity companies

silvercar

SingleSue wrote: »

Youngest has managed to pick up another horrible cold, so no school today. He is completely wiped out with it and went downhill amazingly fast. 5pm yesterday, no sign, 10 last night, absolutely full of it and feeling very poorly.

He is sleeping right now but when he got up briefly this morning for the toilet, he was barely able to stand..why is it always youngest getting these things? His body just cannot deal with colds like other children.

*Before anyone answers, I know it is because his immune system is not as strong as others, hence the picking up everything going and not being able to fight it off as easily, I was just ranting.

I have a non-scientific theory that the youngest kids came from the oldest eggs, which may have been past their prime.

Or maybe they caught germs off their siblings as well as their friends when little so had a harder job to build resistance.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

Are you near a supermarket? Can you buy a bag of ice cubes for the fridge?

That, and a few thermoses of hot water.

Yeah, it should be quick but.... electricity companies

Hehehe.

Makes no difference today, I'm drinking evian today, no kettle. If I'm out of cooking resource tonight I'll have to eat something odd. I think DH has giant marshmallows in his drawer.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

I have a non-scientific theory that the youngest kids came from the oldest eggs, which may have been past their prime..

I think that's probably one of the problems with me. I was quite literally from a bad old egg.

michaels

zagubov wrote: »

That may be so. It's quite a tricky area as we've got privileged access to our own mental states and we can know what we're experiencing.

I think one of the core ideas was that the human brain and mind shows enormous plasticity and can adapt to any circumstances. There may be some limits to what we can think about but I'm not sure we're there yet, and maybe there's a range of potential emotional states we don't always experience but potentially could. Schadenfreude and so on.

It was actually one of the snooziest bits of that course I'm afraid and didn't come alive for me.

It always amazes me the people can arrive in the UK from completely different cultures, languages, levels of technology etc and yet still assimilate. It just seems like for humans everything is learned not 'instinct / hard wired' and the learning pathways remain flexible even in adulthood whereas my understanding for animals is that much more behaviour is hard wired?

silvercar wrote: »

I have a non-scientific theory that the youngest kids came from the oldest eggs, which may have been past their prime.

Or maybe they caught germs off their siblings as well as their friends when little so had a harder job to build resistance.

Hmm - I think youngest was probably the most sickly when younger as he was exposed to all the germs the older 2 brought back from school but now at school he has had the fewest days off as he has had all the bugs already....

Nikkster

tomterm8 wrote: »

Part of it is trust.

As in, when you are in a stonking bad mood (happens to us all) you're more likely to take it out on someone who won't, i.e, hold it against you for the rest of your life.

Definitely that too.

And perhaps that when you know someone very well it is easier to shoot arrows at their Achilles heel (whether you are intentionally aiming at or not).

Nikkster

michaels wrote: »

Hmm - I think youngest was probably the most sickly when younger as he was exposed to all the germs the older 2 brought back from school but now at school he has had the fewest days off as he has had all the bugs already....

I've never had so many colds as since working in an office with lots of parents. Not even when I was spending over 2 hours a day on the tube!

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

It always amazes me the people can arrive in the UK from completely different cultures, languages, levels of technology etc and yet still assimilate. It just seems like for humans everything is learned not 'instinct / hard wired' and the learning pathways remain flexible even in adulthood whereas my understanding for animals is that much more behaviour is hard wired?


we introduce animals here reasonably often. Its not something I like doing tbh. I dislike playing god with other's social structures, but needs must. Animals have no 'language' like ours. But they still have to learn group things on a domestic situation, cultural things......like...how to line up for buckets in the way we do here....an alien concept for many. Refer to feral children for the hard wired /flexibility point. Nurture, nurture, nurture. Lots of responsibility!

Hmm - I think youngest was probably the most sickly when younger as he was exposed to all the germs the older 2 brought back from school but now at school he has had the fewest days off as he has had all the bugs already....

Your youngest did seem to get lots of bugs. But he was also super cute.

tomterm8

michaels wrote: »

It always amazes me the people can arrive in the UK from completely different cultures, languages, levels of technology etc and yet still assimilate. It just seems like for humans everything is learned not 'instinct / hard wired' and the learning pathways remain flexible even in adulthood whereas my understanding for animals is that much more behaviour is hard wired?

Well, I think it might be that those things that are hardwired for humans are hardwired in all humans. So, it's really only those things that humans can learn / adapt to that are different.

It's interesting that I found that when you get a new sheep in the herd in most respects they assimilate quickly so very soon they are indistinguishable. But it's not the case with chickens; if you introduce new chickens into the flock they pretty much always keep on flocking with their old chums and don't assimilate well.