Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Generali

15 down, none to go! Just need to see the doctor and I'm free of this bloody place.

If you want my advice it's don't get cancer. I've said goodbye to the really brave little girl with the brain tumour and wished the bloke with the same name as me well. He has @r $ e cancer so the radiotherapy makes him sit funny.

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

Opticians fail.

The kids never complained that they couldn't see stuff, so I never got their eyes tested til one of them asked why their friends had eye tests - even the ones that didn't where glasses. I sort of assumed that between health checks at the doctors/ school eye tests/ no complaints of head aches or not being able to see it just didn't happen.

So eventually they had eye tests. Their vision was fine but they are both colour blind. Who would have thought? Specially as DS2 had won art prizes.

DS is as well.

On this website Walter Bodmer gives a Xmas lecture that shows what colourblind people see. You need to register for free.

Sea mammals see one primary colour, land mammals can tell blue from yellow except us fruit-eating vitamin C requiring primates that are trichromats and can tell red from green. dichromats find camouflaged animals more easily. Birds have four types of cones except those pigeons we've just seen on Trev's post who see five so goodness knows what they're all seeing.

In the US they give you a red contact lens for one eye if you're colour blind. I've met several woman (it's 4 in every thousand) who are colour blind. A very few are colour blind in one eye which is why we know what colours they see.

Generali wrote: »

15 down, none to go! Just need to see the doctor and I'm free of this bloody place.

Well done, gen! :beer:

lostinrates

Hurrah hurrah hurrah


Bottom cancer( which my friend had) comes with dietary restrictions like no yoghurt or honey and stuff too.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

15 down, none to go! Just need to see the doctor and I'm free of this bloody place.

If you want my advice it's don't get cancer. I've said goodbye to the really brave little girl with the brain tumour and wished the bloke with the same name as me well. He has @r $ e cancer so the radiotherapy makes him sit funny.

That seemed quicker than the last lot! Hurrah, that's it.
Awww/@r $ e Not a good one to have .... or to tell people about.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

they are both colour blind. .

I remember being tested a few times for colour blindness in the school tests. Just flashing 4-6 of those cards with the coloured dots on and "what number/letter do you see?"

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I remember being tested a few times for colour blindness in the school tests. Just flashing 4-6 of those cards with the coloured dots on and "what number/letter do you see?"

Was in a class at uni where we were given the cards but the wrong answer sheet. Got us all a bit bemused until we realised it was most of us and we weren't giving the wrong answers!

Nikkster

Fabulous news Gen. Hope your mouth feels better asap.

Masomnia

Congrats Gen!! Glad it's all done.

Debussy had !!!! cancer, and died of it during the first world war. I always think it must be bad enough now, but even worse then before all the medical advances that have taken place since. I suppose there's always someone worse off... That's what I tell myself anyway!

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Its also been the first nice baby birth thread.

Nikkster wrote: »

Oh yes, how could we forget little Kermit!

Kermie's growing fast, and changing - showing interest in things other than his tummy and lightbulbs (not often, but sometimes):




And sleeping on his Abba (-:



Will delete the one showing OH's face shortly, so don't quote that one.

Masomnia

Lovely photos NDG!!!