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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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Big Love, Generali. Don't be scared. I'm not sure what the worst that could happen is, but it can't be that bad in the grand scheme.
What is important is that you take easy from here for a good while. I read a story on here about a poorly person and spoons, don't know if anyone else ever did. Your number of spoons available might be small for a while, so use them wisely.
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Edit: that may have been the wrong kissing smily, but it's there, so take it. I hear radiotherapy adds to super-powers and makes you even more irresistable
Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Generali, is there such a thing as a website/forum that describes/shares how people feel each day through treatment? It sounds silly, but there is one for tonsilectomy (the best thing I can aliken it to is tripadvisor for being poorly) and it kept me sane when things really hurt, it helped to read what day 8 was like for other people and understand that they felt worse on that day too. It didn't stop me from feeling shocking bu it assured me to know I wasn't special, iyswim.
That op has made such a difference to my existance, by the way. I was warned, it was just as horrid as the warnings but it was worth it. It must seem strange to do something like this to yourself if you don't already feel particularly poorly.Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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I know we shouldn't laugh at the misfortune of others, but this thread got me giggling: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/49856110
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I mean, in the short term. The universe MAY collapse into a big singularity but for the moment it somehow turned from a point source into an expanding universe.
It shouldn't in theory be possible to escape a black hole (er, although black holes do emit hawking radiation) because anything inside the black hole would need to accelerate to faster than the speed of light to escape the black hole. Relativity shows that to reach the speed of light you'd need an infinite amount of kinetic energy.
So, unless the energy source involved in the big bang is infinite it shouldn't be possible for the universe to exist.
And note: our best belief is that the universe is not infinite, and so energy also can't be infinite.
I see what you mean. I have to admit I've never thought about it in that kind of detail. Astrophysics is not my forte really. I will ask the department's astronomy expert and get back to you.
I wonder if it has something to do with the distinction between stuff moving through pre-existing space, and stuff getting further apart without moving because the space in between is expanding???Doozergirl wrote: »Speaking of black holes, we've just done another 2 hours of DDs room. :eek:
Big acheivement. Well done both of you. :T:T:T:Tneverdespairgirl wrote: »Very best of luck tomorrow Gen - we're all metaphorically holding your hand.
Indeed. Do let us know how it goes, if you feel up to it.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 -
Well here I am, waiting for the first bought of radiotherapy. I'm scared.
On a positive note, if you're lucky you may get bitten by a spider just before they pull the trigger and end up with superpowers...:)
Seriously though, good luck old bean and I rather hope you'll look back on it and think it was 'much ado about nothing'.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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Just watching a documentary on cats / kittens on ITV +1.
Apparently, the more you socialise a cat between weeks 2 - 7 after birth, the more sociable they will be as adults.
When I was a kid we used to go on holidays to stay with a friend of my parents' who had a holiday home in a farmhouse in Cumbria. He didn't farm the land, but let out the fields and the barn to neighbouring farmers.
One year when we went there, a cat from a neighbouring farm had recently had kittens in an upper room of my parents' friend's barn, only accessible by ladder (which wasn't there) or by climbing up the struts on the back of a door and getting in through the unglazed window-hole (easy enough for an active kind of kid). I didn't have anyone my own age to play with, and spent the entire week of the holiday in that upper room. I began by just sitting at the opposite end of the room, and over a couple of days progressed very gradually to sitting closer and closer, to stroking the kittens and eventually to picking them up with the acquiescence of the mother cat. Their eyes opened during the week I was there so it must have been about their second week of life.
Later, my parents' friend told us that those three kittens became the friendliest and most sociable farm cats that anybody in the area had ever come across - quite unlike the usual farm cats who had no socialisation when little and were antisocial as adults, like the mother who had chosen to have her kittens such a long way away from the farm where her humans lived.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 -
Well here I am, waiting for the first bought of radiotherapy. I'm scared.
Good luck with the day Gen. Hope it goes as smoothly as possiblePasturesNew wrote: »I know we shouldn't laugh at the misfortune of others, but this thread got me giggling: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4985611
I shouldn't but I agree. It remidns me of the story of the bloke who goes to a bank and asks for a temporary loan for a month. The bank manager says he can't as he doesn't know him, unless he can offer some collateral. The man suggests he leaves his flashy car as security and he'll let them keep it locked up on the premises until he returns and pays off the loan with interest.
When he does, the bank manager remarks that it was a very ihgh value item to leave with the bank, and the man confesses he didn't need the loan but it was the cheapest way he could park his car absolutely securely near the airport for a month.
NDG, Seth McFarlane's on a repeat of the Graham Norton show and sys that Stewie's voice is based on Rex Harrison.I see what you mean. I have to admit I've never thought about it in that kind of detail. Astrophysics is not my forte really. I will ask the department's astronomy expert and get back to you.
I wonder if it has something to do with the distinction between stuff moving through pre-existing space, and stuff getting further apart without moving because the space in between is expanding???
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I've always found it baffling that every time you hear about singularities it's about everything disappearing inside of one but the only they're convinced ever happened ceased to exist as the universe poured out of it.
This inflation business where the universe enlarged much faster than the speed of light may have helped the universe avoid collapse into a black hole at creation, but I always thought inflation sounded like a sneaky way of legitimising FTL travel which I'd assumed was a major no-no.:oThere is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
When they fall any distance, they make themselves into a sort of parachute to make them land safely (don't try this at home, the commentator remarks!).
Yossie fell out of a window in our second floor flat when I was 8 months pregnant with Isaac, and scared the living daylights out of me. I squeaked until OH got out of bed, put some clothes on, and went to find him.
He was fine. Bruised leg and chin, otherwise completely OK. He'd wandered in to a nearby doorway and waited for OH to come and collect him.Well here I am, waiting for the first bought of radiotherapy. I'm scared.
:grouphug:Thanks, all, for the good wishes. DW is on the mend, particularly as she is on a dose of antibiotics. They isolated the bug, and she's on the right antibiotic for that bug fortunately.
NDG, what a lovely baby! Does he have a name?
He does. He's Daniel Mark <surname>.
Are you on the same anti-biotics as Lady GDB? Are you both feeling on the mend?...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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