Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Although changing the battery in a smoke alarm sounds easy ..... they put them on the ceiling where you can't reach them

I was round at someone's flat the other day and noticed that one of the door handles was really loose. It took a minute to tighten it.

The alternative would have been that it fell off, she lost the special screws, and perhaps got locked in - making the whole thing into quite a big job. If you live in a house, there's no real alternative but to have some basic tools, so you can do trivial repairs like that yourself.

Likewise, you need a ladder, so you can (get a neighbour to) change light bulbs and smoke alarm batteries.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

Although changing the battery in a smoke alarm sounds easy ..... they put them on the ceiling where you can't reach them

Strictly speaking they put them on the ceiling where you can't reach them:D

I invested in a ladder so I can reach mine!

I like the idea of changing the batteries when you change the clocks. They also advertise the idea outside every fire station in Sydney for a couple of weeks before.

As a fellow short person, I wonder if smoke detectors would still work if positioned half way down the wall...? When I've seen film of fires the fire/smoke seems to go up the middle of the room and back down along the wall (presumably the wall is cooler as it only has fire on one side). Probably better to have a working smoke alarm on the wall than a non-working one on the ceiling.

The lump in my mouth started hurting BTW so I assume it's an ulcer. I have a few ulcers at the moment which isn't that pleasant. Oh well, could be worse. I am currently going through the crapping myself because I have my appointment in less than a fortnight phase. I really don't enjoy all this. Other illnesses are so much nicer in that you can just put them behind you. Cancer is rubbish.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think Simon Binner would disagree. He had motor neurone disease, diagnosed early last year, terminal.
He ended it in October last year in Switzerland.
His progress etc was all filmed and shown on the telly last night. Right up to the bit where he slid the plastic bit on the tube that released his killing drugs. This was followed by footage of a coffin being moved.... they withdrew his lifeless body shots just prior to it being screened due to complaints about what people might see.

I heard a part of that on Radio Five on t'interwebs today, the bit where he told his wife how much he loved her.

I'm not sure if I could have watched the whole thing.

You are right to call me out for being flippant. Degenerative diseases are awful to live with either as a patient or as a carer.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

The bit where he told his wife .... wasn't him. By then he'd lost the ability to speak and the programme showed him online picking a "voiceover artist" that he felt sounded most like him/how he'd like to sound. He then typed up a script and the voiceover artist recorded that for him to be able to play.

I'm not saying you're flippant. You have every right to be angry, isolated, feeling picked on etc .... but don't feel that you've got the only bad thing that can happen to you. There are others too, feeling the same, with things with other names.

Everybody with something wrong with them has a right to be angry; it's only normal.

I hope I didn't come across as angry as I'm not (promise!).

michaels

Generali wrote: »

The lump in my mouth started hurting BTW so I assume it's an ulcer. I have a few ulcers at the moment which isn't that pleasant. Oh well, could be worse. I am currently going through the crapping myself because I have my appointment in less than a fortnight phase. I really don't enjoy all this. Other illnesses are so much nicer in that you can just put them behind you. Cancer is rubbish.

I find eating raw onion (like they put in burgers) always gives me mouth ulcers

kabayiri

Channel 5 has a program on telly : Celebs on Benefits.

It features one "Les Battersby", once of Coronation Street fame.

He seems to be from the Revisitionist school of thinking when it comes to historical events in his short career.

He has simply fallen on hard times, he says.

I remember the "Les" who didn't turn up for Kid's panto rehearsals because he hadn't recovered from a night+ on the lash.

I think he is struggling to accept his alcoholic past. Alcoholics can have some pretty self destructive traits.

purch

kabayiri wrote: »

Alcoholics can have some pretty self destructive traits.

Speak for yourself :eek:

CKhalvashi

silvercar wrote: »

My comment was going to be that she needs to pull her trousers up, but that makes me sound old.

The late Terry Wogan said that

CKhalvashi

GDB2222 wrote: »

I really didn't understand what CK meant when he said his current mood has something to do with the 2007 Moldova Eurovision entry. Did he mean that he felt like doing some karaoke, maybe?

Not today

Listening to the lyrics may be of use for working out that one, and as the office are aware, I'm not in a brilliant mood today either.

ukmaggie45

Well, for the scientists here, I'm amazed by this!!! :j

http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/a-pirate-bay-for-science

Off to see what I can find... Or I would be if I could remember all of the papersI wanted to read once upon a time. Maybe tomorrow.