The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

CKhalvashi

Pyxis wrote: »

Smallest mole! I just love that! :T

I didn't know it was Georgian!

I thought I'd stumbled onto one of those odd sites where everything is written in dog Latin or dog something else!

So, what has a small mole got to do with[STRIKE]exterminating children[/STRIKE]persuading them gently to go elsewhere?




Edit... now you've pushed my language button. What languages is Georgian related to? Is it a language in its own right, or a dialect of something else? I am a complete ignoramus on all things Georgian, and would like to be enlightened!

It’s a Kartvelian language, unrelated to anything. I speak Russian but the two are completely different.

Pyxis

CKhalvashi wrote: »

It’s a Kartvelian language, unrelated to anything. I speak Russian but the two are completely different.

I feel a google coming on............

SingleSue

chris_m wrote: »

The best busker I ever saw (and heard) was a West Indian lad with a set of steel drums in the London Underground.
Can't remember which station but it was a long escalator down and the acoustics made it sound like an entire band down below. I was somewhat surprised when I got to the bottom to find that it was just the one lad - and he was damned good, too. Unfortunately I had to carry on to make a train connection else I'd have hung around for a while.

One of the best we had was Ed Sheeran (Ipswich town centre pretty much every Saturday before he hit the big time).

SingleSue

I'm doing ok, still coughing away, still needing inhalers and feel completely wiped out. However, I was ok to go into work to cover for just over an hour today, my mindset was it's only an hour and I need the pennies.

Compared to trying to do my care role whilst not well, it was a doddle.

Pyxis

SingleSue wrote: »

One of the best we had was Ed Sheeran (Ipswich town centre pretty much every Saturday before he hit the big time).

How are you feeling, Sue?


Please don't say you're soldiering on.
I hope you're in bed with a spot of something hot on your bedside table.



Edit.. oops! Crossed posts with you!




Pastures! Great news!

I just hope the new houses haven't replaced one problem with another.

I loved your expression "an assortment of fathers!"


(Bit like a murmuration of starlings!).

Pyxis

I love your nicknames! :rotfl: :rotfl:

And "Sticky, screaming children"..........:rotfl::rotfl:




Talking of sticky, does anyone remember Gloy?

Had it in primary school. It had a very distinctive smell. If I ever smell anything similar, it takes me straight back to being under 10.

Mind you, I think we had it in secondary school too.

And I think it might still be going!




This is the bottle I remember. ........

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Talking of sticky, does anyone remember Gloy?
Had it in primary school. It had a very distinctive smell. If I ever smell anything similar, it takes me straight back to being under 10.
Mind you, I think we had it in secondary school too.
And I think it might still be going!

All I've found in a quick Google is Gloy Sticks - similar to Pritt Sticks and, probably, far more practical in a primary school environment.

Oh and also a great description of it;

Gloy was a revolting essence of rendered cow in a bottle with a red angled tip with a slit through which the glue was supposed to be evenly distributed.
Once you'd overcome the dried-up nozzle applying an inordinate amount of unyielding presssure, Gloy would suddenly be delivered by the gallon.

:rotfl:

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

All I've found in a quick Google is Gloy Sticks - similar to Pritt Sticks and, probably, far more practical in a primary school environment.

Oh and also a great description of it;

Gloy was a revolting essence of rendered cow in a bottle with a red angled tip with a slit through which the glue was supposed to be evenly distributed.
Once you'd overcome the dried-up nozzle applying an inordinate amount of unyielding presssure, Gloy would suddenly be delivered by the gallon.

:rotfl:

Yes, that description was funny!

Yes. I think you can get it in spray cans too.

That conical bottle was available for years though, and was the iconic (sorry!) shape that figures in memories, plus the not unpleasant and very evocative smell.

PasturesNew

I remember Gloy - yes, the description of how the slit would jam up and then there'd be a flood of glue once it suddenly gave way is correct.

It was a school thing. At home, if you wanted glue, you made your own with flour and water

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

It was a school thing. At home, if you wanted glue, you made your own with flour and water

Or pinched some of Dad's wood glue and watered it down a bit - or was that just me?
:rotfl: