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Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People
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In the Victorian era the only three medicines that were suposed to reliably treat anything were rhubarb for constipation, morphine for diarrhoea and chlorodyne as a general pick-me-up, containing chloroform and extracts of opium and cannabis.
I'm sceptical - there are other drugs which were used which were useful, surely? Aspirin? Quinine for malaria? Even now, quinine is used for forms of malaria which are resistant to other anti-malarial drugs....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 -
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Nobody wants to go there... or Menspants as I call it.neverdespairgirl wrote: »...even if you don't particularly want to go to Penzance.
The place is the end of the line, so popular with a lot of druggies and losers heading for the coast to live on the dole. My own parents were shouted at/abused by a random group of scruffies.
When sailing to the Scillies, one local sport is to wait until the boat's returned - and cars left in the car park are deemed to belong to people who aren't coming back tonight, so they wreck and steal them.
Lots of social issues in the town.0 -
I don't have a red button. It's very annoying when telly tells you to press the red button and your remote's got red buttons and you press them, to try/see, but nothing happens.I love the red button on BBC. .
I've never seen what happens when people who have a red button press it.
On my remote, a red button turns off the freeview box - and the other red button ... hang on, what's all this? I just pressed it and something's happened.
Looks like I DO have a red button... I always thought that one was something to do with teletext!
So, now not sure if I have a red button or not, or what's happening on my telly, but I have the Olympics ... old ones being rerun0 -
That's always handy!lostinrates wrote: »I've just realised I'm not dizzy any more.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »That's always handy!
It is, especially coming upstairs. Downstairs On a bottom is not that slow. Upstairs really can be. Sometimes I crawl, but right knee doesn't like that, so backwards on bum it has been today. Takes a while at the top especially
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It does keep me laughing at myself.0 -
I've heard of a certain male appendage being referred to as the "Pirate of Menspants".
Didn't the Spanish land there a year or two after the Armada, and set fire to the town before pushing off again? And I think there were Barbary Coast pirates who raided that whole coast line for slaves, too, over several centuries. They captured something like 1.4 million Europeans and sold them into slavery, mostly in north Africa, over time, IIRC....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 -
If you lived all on one level, you could have a nice git strollerlostinrates wrote: »It is, especially coming upstairs. Downstairs On a bottom is not that slow. Upstairs really can be. Sometimes I crawl, but right knee doesn't like that, so backwards on bum it has been today. Takes a while at the top especially:D
It does keep me laughing at myself.
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Yes, there and Mousehole. I saw some footage earlier of big waves coming over the Mousehole seawall and swamping the public toilet block on the quayside.neverdespairgirl wrote: »I've heard of a certain male appendage being referred to as the "Pirate of Menspants".
Didn't the Spanish land there a year or two after the Armada, and set fire to the town before pushing off again? And I think there were Barbary Coast pirates who raided that whole coast line for slaves, too, over several centuries. They captured something like 1.4 million Europeans and sold them into slavery, mostly in north Africa, over time, IIRC.0 -
I think it's a mental health issue, and the hospital has doled out some happy pills. Unfortunately, Mirtazapine has a sedating effect in the short term, which is really the last thing we need right now. It ought to start having some positive effects in a week or two. Or three, or four...
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