Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

vivatifosi

Ha, welcome back purch!

Good to see you hereabouts. I owe you a PM! I also owe zag numerous PMs. Apologies all, have been reapplying for my job, so other things on my mind. So far, so good.

kabayiri

ivyleaf wrote: »

Seconded

ETA I do remember reading that when writing the scripts they had to invent situations that couldn't possibly happen in real life or someone somewhere would have been offended and written angry letters

The idea that Catholic priests who 'offended' in some way were sent back to Ireland is absolutely true. The Church liked to deal with things internally if possible.

It happened to my priest, Father Jim : who, err, got caught discovering his sexual persuasions in a public place.

The relationship between Catholic priests and the kind of dominant nuns you find running a girls boarding school also rings true. Some priests I knew were frightened of the nuns!

lostinrates

kabayiri wrote: »

The relationship between Catholic priests and the kind of dominant nuns you find running a girls boarding school also rings true. Some priests I knew were frightened of the nuns!

lots are lovely. Two nuns I had were horrendous, one a sister, one a Mother. Both had taken the same name, but were in different communities continents apart, and both were nasty sadistic people. However, they were vastly outnumbered by many, lovely, women.

ivyleaf

lostinrates wrote: »

My huge spot looks like something normal now, I am not going to have to cut my head open ( or off) with a Stanley knife. Which is a relief . Maybe those antibiotics aren't so bad after all. I also used heal gel.

That's excellent news :-)

Is heal gel any good for scars? I'm using Bio-Oil on one on my arm where I had a mole removed a few months ago, but it doesn't seem to be helping much (though admittedly it might work better if I actually remembered to use it twice a day every day )

ETA The girls' grammar school in Gibraltar in the 1960s, when my parents and I spent 3 years there, was a convent school, so if you passed the 11+ and were Christian (or at least not actively a member of a different religion) you went there, regardless of your denomination (or lack thereof, come to think of it). Some of the teachers were lay people, some nuns. The nuns who taught us were lovely They were all called Mother in those days, but they are called Sisters now in that Order.

hjd

ivyleaf wrote: »

Is heal gel any good for scars? I'm using Bio-Oil on one on my arm where I had a mole removed a few months ago, but it doesn't seem to be helping much (though admittedly it might work better if I actually remembered to use it twice a day every day )

I have to say I have tried both healgel and bio oil and didn't find either made much difference. However, since I don't know what the scars would have looked like had I not used anything, it's difficult to tell!
Some people think that the act of massaging the scar, irrespective of what you put on it, makes more difference.

Nikkster

I just had to explain why everyone was talking about Back to the Future today to my mum (no, they're not releasing another sequel; just because it's not a Google doodle doesn't mean it's not a 'thing'). In 30 years time if I stick to the mortgage I signed up for, I'll be 23 months into being mortgage-free. Who knows, might have finished doing up the house by then too!

I hope hoverboards are a reality by then

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

.... Back to the Future....

I can't believe it was 30 years ago it came out! Mind you, I never saw it when it was new. I wait until films are free on the telly
I probably saw BTTF 2000-2005 or so. I did like them all.

What is gobsmacking though is - the old Doc .... he was aged under 50 when they filmed! I checked wikipedia this morning to see if he was still alive (he is).... and realised he's not as old as I thought.

vivatifosi

Doc Brown was on the news this morning Pastures. He still looks the same age!

He was sitting in a deLorean wearing a lab coat with mad hair and made a lovely speech, which I wanted to make a note of, then forgot, and then it didn't get played again. B*gger.

michaels

I think they shouldn't report things like the back to the future 'future' having been reached - all it does is remind me how old I am. at work today we were discussing it - my colleagues were too young to have seen it first time at the cinema (I decided not to ask them about Starwars at that point)

Generali

Heya purch. You back for a bit or is this a flying visit?

Grey, grey, grey and miserable in Sydney today and only 21C. This is isn't what I signed up for.:mad:

I've been getting the ferry to work for the last few weeks and it's a great way to get in. No traffic snarls or accidents, just a gentle pootle up the river to the harbour.