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

Pyxis

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

The spirit who's into house renovations? If so, that thread keeps updating randomly from time to time.

Randomly? :eek:

Must be a poltergeist! :eek:

spirit

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

The spirit who's into house renovations? If so, that thread keeps updating randomly from time to time.

Yes that's me maggie. Moved house twice more since that thread. Had to do a fair bit of renovating here when I bought it 6 months ago.

Never. Moving. Again.

Pyxis

spirit wrote: »

Yes that's me maggie. Moved house twice more since that thread. Had to do a fair bit of renovating here when I bought it 6 months ago.

Never. Moving. Again.

Famous. Last. Words.



I do agree, though.
In this country, buying a house and moving is sooooo stressful.

rachlikeswinter

Soooo I forgot to subscribe to the thread when I replied and now I just look rude. Sorry.

Pyxis wrote: »

Hallo! :hello:

Don't be scared. People vary a lot in how they react to anaesthetics. Follow any instructions about food and water to the letter, though.


Do you like mushrooms?

Hi! Yes good advice. I do like mushrooms!

Unfortunately the hospital called me with an appointment for surgery... 1 week after I fly =/ Which is super annoying. So 5 months without access to a dentist (well, they have dentists in France obvs but they charge a fortune) so I just have to hope no more infections!

LydiaJ wrote: »

Ooo! A new NP! How lovely. Welcome. :hello:

So far all we know about you is
a) you are 30
and
b) you have an impacted wisdom tooth that keeps getting infected.

Would you like to tell us more about yourself? I imagine that (b), however topical to the discussion, isn't really a core part of what you consider your identity??? But of course, no need to tell us anything if you don't want to. That's one of the rules of the NPT - people can reveal as much or as little about themselves as they like, both here and/or in PMs, and if different people reveal different amounts of information, that's fine, and nobody's allowed to take offence.

Actually, we also know
c) you are going to go to France for a month for the winter - I hope that's fun - I imagine it is, because of your username.

My experience of GAs is that waking up from them used to be vile, but is are now pretty harmless. I've had 3 of them...
1987 - Horrible experience waking up, sort of semi-awake but very confused, uncontrollably shaking and appallingly nauseous for what felt like hours, although I've no idea how long it really was.
1995 - GA accompanied by drug to prevent nausea - no actual unpleasantness at all, but quite a while when I couldn't form new memories, so I had a very disconcerting feeling that although I knew I hadn't only just woken up, I hadn't the faintest idea what had been happening since I did.
2002 - Don't know if it was a new kind of GA, or a GA with more and better side-effect-suppressing accompaniments - woke up pretty much like one does after sleeping normally. No symptoms at all.

Doctors have to tell you that a GA carries various tiny risks of dreadful things happening. This sounds very scary when you are sitting there being told about it and asked to sign a consent form. However, you have to try to be logical and put it in context. There are lots of things we do every day that carry minute risks of something dreadful happening - like driving about in cars, for example, or eating food that we might choke on, or spending time in crowded spaces with strangers who just might have ebola or turn out to be terrorists, or in tall buildings that just might collapse, or on holiday in countries where they have earthquakes. The risks of serious complications of a GA are like that. They're there, but they're not worth worrying about, because we all have lives to get on with.

PS rachlikeswinter is a great name - both intriguing and pronounceable - but you liable to get abbreviated, particularly by people trying to type on their phones. Would you prefer to be rach, or RLW, or what?

PPS How long have you been lurking? Do we need to tell you a bit about who we are, or do you already know all that?

Ha! Detectives indeed. So yes you are mostly correct - I'm actually going to France for 5 months until April. Doing another snowboard season. I'm a graphic designer so I have the luxury of being able to pick up contracts and freelance work - while I'm out there I'll be working hosting in a chalet though.

Aside from that, I lived in London for 7 years until moving back to Bedfordshire last year, to live with my parents to save money for a house deposit, and be one of those millennials that everyone complains about who eats avocados and such. Saving is going well* considering I keep ditching my career to go snowboarding ha. Surprisingly you spend a very very small amount when all you do is clean and snowboard and drink the occasional half empty bottle of chalet wine. I recommend to all.

*when I say going well, I obviously need a deposit of several [STRIKE]thousand[/STRIKE] million pounds, because South East/London and I am single. Sooo. Quite well. Ish.

Also thanks for your GA advice. Your early ones sound awful!

Pyxis wrote: »

Rach, Lydia isn't really a detective!

Is Rach short for Rachmaninov?

Or are you Rachli Keswinter?

Bedford is quite close to Inner Herts. So is part of London.
France isn't.
That's an intriguing triple.

Now I've forgotten what I was going to post.

You can call me what you like - perhaps Rach, or RLW is easiest. I actually hadn't really thought it through because on some browsers it cuts my username off as 'rachlikeswi...' and there's something else that starts with 'wi' that is rude that definitely came into my head :eek: Awks.

How is everyone today? I have a cold so couldn't go to yoga, now trying to pysch myself up to cook dinner. Woe.

Pyxis

Rach Have you got the dreaded lurgy?

I'm just getting over it. 10 days, so far.


Plus, I'm nowhere near being a millennial, but I eat avocados too! I ate two yesterday, and have two ripening on my windowsill as we speak.

Why are avocados a millennial thing? They've been around for yonks. I think I first came across them in the early-ish 70s. You know, when you had to eat them filled with prawn cocktail. Urgh.
These days I just eat them. Naked. The avocados, that is, not me.

vivatifosi

I still have the odd hankering for avocado vinaigrette. However I draw the line at cheese and pineapple hedgehogs.

chris_m

Hedgehogs are best plastered in mud and baked on the embers of an open fire. That way the spines come away when you break off the mud.

So I've been told

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Hedgehogs are best plastered in mud and baked on the embers of an open fire. That way the spines come away when you break off the mud.

So I've been told

That's the Gypsy way!

chris_m

Then there's the Baldrick way of cooking a rat;

Rat Saut!e;
Take the freshly shaved rat and marinade it in a puddle for a while.
How long for? Until it's drowned.
Then stretch it out under a hot lightbulb, get within dashing distance of a latrine and scoff it right down!

Rat fricass!e;
As above, but a slightly bigger rat.

silvercar

Pyxis wrote: »

Rach Have you got the dreaded lurgy?

I'm just getting over it. 10 days, so far.


Plus, I'm nowhere near being a millennial, but I eat avocados too! I ate two yesterday, and have two ripening on my windowsill as we speak.

Why are avocados a millennial thing? They've been around for yonks. I think I first came across them in the early-ish 70s. You know, when you had to eat them filled with prawn cocktail. Urgh.
These days I just eat them. Naked. The avocados, that is, not me.

It's all avocado on toast these days. No vinagrette or prawns in sight.