Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

tomterm8

Hm... the dental visit on Friday is getting closer and closer.

Got to admit the fear is kicking in now quite a lot. Since I've not been since I was a child (20 years ago ish, I can't even remember when the last visit was) it's definitely not my favorite place to go.

Not really concentrating today.

lemonjelly

LydiaJ wrote: »

Here's hoping what's happening inside your mouth is stuff he's seen thousands of times before and knows exactly how to help.

I have nearly finished my reports. They are not going to defeat me. I have box of chocolate fingers and am allowing myself one each time I finish a report.

Edit: Finished them. 1:46am.

Did you finish the reports, or the chocolate fingers?;)

Generali wrote: »

No, I'm just about over it and I've very specifically been told not to take antibiotics.

Your immune system gets shot with the radiotherapy, so you get a bit more susceptible to infections etc. Dunno whether you were advised, but friend had to use plastic forks etc & sterilize everything they used for eating and drinking.

Generali wrote: »

All is well really. I just wish I wasn't so tired.

That will pass. My friend complained about that a fair bit too. A week or so after the last session you should start noticing a slight increase in energy levels. Be careful not to try overdoing it straight away though! Walk before you can run etc...

lemonjelly

tomterm8 wrote: »

Hm... the dental visit on Friday is getting closer and closer.

Got to admit the fear is kicking in now quite a lot. Since I've not been since I was a child (20 years ago ish, I can't even remember when the last visit was) it's definitely not my favorite place to go.

Not really concentrating today.

Dentists bother me too. Had an accident as a child that resulted in a fair bit of work. My dentist died after all the treatment, & the replacement didn't last as he had a nasty car accident. I used that as an excuse not to go, & very like yourself have come to avoid dentists for 20 years.

I dread anything ever causing me to need to go...:(

neverdespairgirl

It was Isaac's 9th birthday yesterday - Tuesdays are always busy for him, as he has swimming at school and judo afterwards, but he managed to find enough energy to open his presents from us, and from my Mama and sisters, which arrived in the post. We made a couple of cakes on Monday evening, which he took into school and were duly scoffed.

PasturesNew wrote: »

For NDG - new website, just heard about it on the morning news:
http://jurassiccoast.org/fossilfinder
New fossil database from the Jurassic Coast.

Thanks - that looks very interesting! I'll go through it with Isaac when he gets home this evening.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think we could say that everybody born since the second world war was born because of the war. If you went back and killed Hitler none of us would be here

Instead of going back and killing him, perhaps we could go back and give him a job after the First World War, or buy his paintings?

GDB2222 wrote: »

Would a blackbird not be a wild bird, so not anybody's property? So, how could you poach one, even if you caught it on somebody else's land?

Poaching's often about wild animals; it's about the land on which the animal / bird / fish is caught, not about ownership of the prey. Thus poaching the King's venison could be a capital crime in medieval England, and poaching salmon or trout is still illegal now.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Had knee OP this evening, came round about an hour ago. Bored! Good news though as I only needed cartilage trim - ligaments are damaged but not badly enough to warrant reconstruction so 6 weeks of rehab rather than 9 months.

Is this the stag weekend injury?

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Instead of going back and killing him, perhaps we could go back and give him a job after the First World War, or buy his paintings?

We'd still not be here.

Because of the war, every family, every village, every town was changed as people went off fighting. This means that everybody was in a different place to where they'd have been if nobody had gone to fight.

Everything everybody did from when the war started was as a direct result of the war.

Even something as simple as going to the shop to buy eggs could be the difference between an ancestor bumping into their future husband, or not. Their "original planned future husband" might not have been there as usual as he was off fighting - and, instead, there might've been a passing salesman in buying eggs who caught their eye.

Everybody was doing different tasks, moving areas, crossing the paths of others who were also in different places to where they'd have been ..... not to mention all those that never returned, so were then out of the dating/marriage pool entirely.

Even if you lived half way up a mountain with your aged mother you'd be effected by who you'd meet in the local town/street and the knock on effect of any interaction would have changed somebody's life.

tomterm8

I agree with pasturesnew... but with the proviso that just because you went back in time and got Hitler a job it doesn't mean that something similar to world war I wouldn't have happened anyway.

I think europe was primed for a big war...

Pretty much like the middle east is now.

lostinrates

GDb,

I'd love to meet doglett sometime. I'm NOT qualified to advise you in anything other than how I have done ( I'll explain in a pm sometime) but I think she sounds fab.

Mine aren my interested in chew toys either really ( with a few exceptions, kiwi more interested than the girls and much to my horror the dog dog has eaten a three piece suite that we were gifted to them as hog beds. ( I think she fancies her self a sniffer dog as the only thing she has destroyed ever are those...she is currently working her way through the armchair and I think they smell 'interesting') ho hum.


I'm waiting at the hospital and metaphorically licking my foot.

Maybe I should get a chew toy or some raw bones? Actually, come to think of it , I do have that raw meat craving creeping in again.

This consultant, while very throrough and nice is a bit timid ( and a weak handshake). If I tell him I crave raw meat and blood I think he'd probably get a bit upset.

GDB2222

Sadly, I am no longer flexible enough to lick my feet.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Sadly, I am no longer flexible enough to lick my feet.

Sadly ... reading that made me check .... and, I think I can reach .... just ... at a stretch... while laying down on the sofa.

So then I started wondering about other positions.... and found that if I sit sideways on the sofa with one foot on the floor and the other leg bent, it's easy to reach.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

while very throrough and nice is a bit timid ( and a weak handshake). If I tell him I crave raw meat and blood I think he'd probably get a bit upset.

Like when registering with Gp he asked if I had any regular 'partners' to which I replied 'no', hastily followed up by telling him I didn't have any irregular ones either. He deffo looked more embarrased than I did