Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Wheezy_2

Spirit wrote: »

I was their first female trainee he was a year ahead of me and thought of as a rising star.I was described by the graduate training lead as pneumatic.

I had to consult the dictionary for that one, got it now.

pneumatic
(njʊˈmætɪk)
adj
7. (of a woman) well rounded, esp with a large bosom

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pneumatic

purch

Generali wrote: »

I met Mrs Generali at kicking out time outside the pub. Very unromantic.

HID used to sit the other side of the glass partition between the trading floor and back office. I always thought she was well out of my league.

When I was bored (i.e 100% of the time) I would put silly comments on the bottom of trades in the additional comments section...........I thought only she could see them, or at least she would delete them..................one Friday I put "what are you doing at the weekend ?" not realising anyone else could see and in an instant it was the talk of the Bank and I had to ask her out properly................and the rest is history.

Still can't work out why she ever said yes.

It w about 24 years and 2 months ago..........not that I'm counting :eek:

Generali

LydiaJ wrote: »

The NP are all behind you, Gen. Sending thoughts and hugs and prayers.

Have you looked into getting some other kind of pain relief yet?

I have NSAIDs which are:

1. More effective than OTC codeine
2. Not addictive or narcotic in any way

So they are much better than the codeine based drugs in terms of pain relief.

The codeine based drugs however are quite nice and quite addictive. They are rather like the narcotic equivalent of being wrapped up in a nice warm duvet. Pop a couple (max recommended dose); wait for your body to convert the codeine into morphine (takes about an hour) and just lie about on the sofa in a nice chilled out state. Trouble is you end up craving them.

Like I say, I really am not in a Trainspotting state. These are OTC drugs so quite mild. I have an addiction, possibly more a habit but we'll see, that I can break.

GDB2222

If this is working from home, there may be some saving in travel time and cost. However, £7 an hour in London is not a living wage.

Doozergirl

I have purchased champagne and various cheeses for a spread for the returning boy.

The ultimate weapons of seduction, however are the pork pie and scotch eggs.

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

I have NSAIDs which are:

1. More effective than OTC codeine
2. Not addictive or narcotic in any way

So they are much better than the codeine based drugs in terms of pain relief.

Excellent news.

Generali wrote: »

The codeine based drugs however are quite nice and quite addictive. They are rather like the narcotic equivalent of being wrapped up in a nice warm duvet. Pop a couple (max recommended dose); wait for your body to convert the codeine into morphine (takes about an hour) and just lie about on the sofa in a nice chilled out state. Trouble is you end up craving them.

Like I say, I really am not in a Trainspotting state. These are OTC drugs so quite mild. I have an addiction, possibly more a habit but we'll see, that I can break.

I know exactly what you mean about the nice warm duvet. I have had codeine (prescription strength) for (a) post-partum pain, (b) migraines and lesser migraine-type headaches, and (c) neck pain. For (b) and (c), though, I had other non-opiate painkillers for the daytime, and was told only to use the codeine at bedtime (and only if the pain was bad enough to keep me awake otherwise), so I have only felt that codeine-warm-duvet feeling while also actually wrapped up in a real warm duvet and about to drift off to sleep. So far, none of those types of pain have resulted in me taking codeine often enough to get dependent on it, but I can easily see how I could have done if the pain had needed me to take more of it and more often, so I'm particularly feeling for you now.

PasturesNew wrote: »

They say they have a "busy home office", sounding to me like it's THEIR home office. Another part infers you travel to them. So you probably also have to struggle to find on street parking, before going round the side passage to some shed in their garden

Or catching a bus/tube and then walking to their shed from the stop/station.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

I have purchased champagne and various cheeses for a spread for the returning boy.

The ultimate weapons of seduction, however are the pork pie and scotch eggs.

He'll sniff at the champagne and look behind it for beer. He'll paw at the cheeses, while snarling, and wish there were a pizza under it

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

He'll sniff at the champagne and look behind it for beer. He'll paw at the cheeses, while snarling, and wish there were a pizza under it

I can hide the pork pie under the cheese. He'll be delighted.

Doozergirl

The above post needs michaels. Oh dear.

Doozergirl

SSE have kindly estimated our Gas usage at £445 for two months. Conveniently, this is £3 more than I have paid them. They are pretty blatant about keeping every penny.