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

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

GDb, will she drink?

Any chance of getting something like complan into her? I doubt it. Or juice? Even...,sugar?

My mum had something called Fortisip that was supposed to help her put weight back on.

zagubov wrote: »

Thanks to all for the positive thoughts.
I'm afraid the op's been postponed though till next week.:mad:

Grrrrrrr. So sorry for her and all of you.

lostinrates wrote: »

I've just realised I'm not dizzy any more.

:j:beer::beer::j:beer::j

Phew! Caught up with a couple of days of the thread. Sorry for the excessive number of posts in a row from me, but you're all saying such interesting things that I want to reply to them (three at a time).

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

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.

I think the Spanish used to call it Popish powder so the Brits wouldn't take it.
Malaria used to occur the in the UK but not so much in the last few centutires, if at all.

Aspirin wasn't really produced properly till the 1930s I think. Hoffman at Bayer who also priduced the first stable /usable version of heroin too.

LydiaJ wrote: »

I think doctors started to get less bad for you from Semmelweiss onwards. I think it took quite a while after him for them to tip the balance and start being good for you, though, so 1915 may well be right.

I don't know whether surgery improved faster than drug-based medicine. The biggest problem doctors had was using herbs which were parts of non-standardisable variable plants to treat patients who were non-standardisable and variable too.

Treatments might work for one person , not in the next and be poisonous to the third.

LydiaJ wrote: »

But perhaps the point originally being made was that we have a lot less hardwired behaviour than other species do, which is why we are so adaptable and have produced such varying cultures etc (and take the best part of two decades to grow up).
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That's my take on it.

I'd like to make it to Oxford, but not sure how practical it would be for me.l

hjd

LydiaJ wrote: »

I've heard of them too. Wasn't there a particularly well known one called Simeon or Simon or something like that?

Simeon Stylites was the name that popped into my mind - and my mind got it right for once!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites

Generali

Ahh weekend. Going to be lovely weather too.

Sorry to hear about the floods. Without wishing to sound insensitive, I'm bloody glad to be over here.

I've a visit planned at Xmas. I must be mad, leaving an Aussie summer for an English winter.

neverdespairgirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

It wasn't actually painful at all, just a long slide without any cartwheeling- luckily three different people helped out by picking up one bit of equipment each and bringing them down to me which saved me having to walk up and then attempt to ski down again. My friend helped out by filming the whole thing and not picking up any skis!

Yeah, there's always one.....

Is your OH ski-ing as well, or is it a boys' trip?

LydiaJ wrote: »

I'm pretty certain I wouldn't be in the state I'm in now if I lived in a village with all my extended family within a few minute's walk.


My mother was like that too. She's not around any more, but I think I'd quite like to live within nipping distance of your mother, NDG.

Do you feel socially isolated, Lydia? Or not socially in general, but extended family in particular?

It's not just me who feels that way about my mother, after all, my brother's living in their Kent house, sister #1 lives less than a mile away and pops in every morning and evening (also to see her horses, mind you) and sister #2 has, in the last couple of months, at the age of 29, moved out of the main house in Kent - all the way to the newly-converted oasthouse, 100 yards away.

LydiaJ wrote: »

I'll concur with that if you change the pronoun to "he" in my case. In the same category I would put somebody who prevents you from doing something and then blames you for not doing it.

I wasn't meaning to imply that it's only women who behave that way - and yes, your instance is extremely irritating, too.

zagubov wrote: »

I think the Spanish used to call it Popish powder so the Brits wouldn't take it.
Malaria used to occur the in the UK but not so much in the last few centutires, if at all.

Aspirin wasn't really produced properly till the 1930s I think. Hoffman at Bayer who also priduced the first stable /usable version of heroin too.


I don't know whether surgery improved faster than drug-based medicine. The biggest problem doctors had was using herbs which were parts of non-standardisable variable plants to treat patients who were non-standardisable and variable too.

Quinine was a major factor in the ability of people to visit or live in West Africa, I think? It helped stop it be seen as the "White Man's Graveyard". And they fairly chugged the stuff down in British India, too, IIRC.

mystic_trev

LydiaJ wrote: »

I've heard of them too. Wasn't there a particularly well known one called Simeon or Simon or something like that?

You mean Simeon the Stylite. I'm not sure if it was religious fervour, or the bloke was just a bit of a nutter. I went to the site when I was in Syria a few years ago. Lovely location, although there's not a lot left of the Pillar, about a couple of feet from memory!

He's the bloke that started all, then others decided to copy him!

Here's a piccy I took of what's left of the pillar.

purch

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Boycotted the Olympics (with most of Georgia). So if it's mentioned, I won't know what you're on about.

Dunno why Georgia would be upset by the Olympics. Every country turned up to Atlanta 1996 :cool:

Of course they did hold the Athletics in a stadium built for baseball, so the spectators at one end were miles from the action, but overall it was a good games.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

But perhaps the point originally being made was that we have a lot less hardwired behaviour than other species do, which is why we are so adaptable and have produced such varying cultures etc (and take the best part of two decades to grow up).



we are an amazing species. Our period of immense adaptability is really not that great apart from in the fluff of how its done.....of course the fluff of how its done is what makes us o amazing! But to me its a bit like saying a garden of clashing reds and blues is more expressive than a garden of subtle grasses. When I used to, for example, walk my sight hounds with my friends gun dogs the differences were incredible. It wasn't really something I'd fully taken on board till I walked them off lead together. Sight hounds run off in a group, tigh together, my friends gun dogs scattered. I'm sure is breeding for type of hard wire work . Is some nurture? Both had only been brought up with others of their ilk. It would be interesting. At the time there was a pup of gun dogs and dog dog learned to point, and the young gun dog started to play more like a sight hound.....but far too coincidental to tell. Incidentally it occurred to me that for years we had dogs who expressed a curious hatred of westies. Only ever westies. No idea what that was about.

Yes, animals are more hard wired and instinctual, for their lives. Domestic animals less so. I think the difference isn't just wiring of us, its the environment we've created and level of engagement we take in it. For example, people who live outside our mainstream society often have less 'delicate habits'. This doesn't mean they are 'wired wrong' though this too can have impact.'

I'll concur with that if you change the pronoun to "he" in my case. In the same category I would put somebody who prevents you from doing something and then blames you for not doing it.

Yesterday I really wanted for to come home. In fact tbh I was a bit cheesed off he didn't see if he could work from home today. I don't know how people who don't talk would cope with minor issues like that. I now know why he didn't and understand entirely and am grateful for the reminder of the rest of what goes on and how i can support him better and he knows I'm not here sulking and is apologetic (needlessly).. What good is there festering over such silly things? Communicating and loving are pretty powerful things. Tonight we'll work thorough the selfish and apologetic bits left over and the thing will be done and dusted, not just 'understood' like now is. Workignthroughnthings in person is much more fun!

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

Looks like I DO have a red button... I always thought that one was something to do with teletext!

The red button is basically the digital equivalent of teletext. You can sometimes get alternative TV as well through it. Looks like you've found the red button

tomterm8

So, the mattock I ordered arrived, and it's a cutting mattock and not a grubbing mattock. The manufacturer decided to call it a grubbing mattock on the label, so I'm not angry at the seller. But the manufacturer doesn't know what they are talking about.

Luckily, a cutting mattock is better for me than a grubbing mattock, and as a rule it's more expensive.

Just funny the manufacturer doesn't even know what they are making.

( The difference between a grubbing mattock and a cutting mattock is that you have the adze head, and on the other side you either have a pick head - to grub out stones on a grubbing mattock, or an small axe that's designed to cut roots.)

Also waiting for a small billhook, which is basically the British equivalent of a machete. This is a single sided billhook, I'm going to try using for hedge laying.