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

GDB2222

I remember things were ominously quiet one morning when the kids were small. There was a bang, and the whole house went quiet. It turned out that the two older boys had decided to wire up a plug. Not having any idea at all how to do it, they stripped 3 or 4 inches of insulation off each of the wires and wrapped them round all three plug terminals. Fortunately, they jammed the top on without leaving any strands of wire outside the plug, so no children were harmed in this experiment.

Possibly, this was my fault for not showing them exactly how to do it, but they were only 4 or 5 at the time.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

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I blame the parents.

If the kids are making a noise, they're up to something they shouldn't be.

If the kids go quiet, they're up to something REALLY naughty!

Jackmydad

chris_m wrote: »

Anyone remember the awful bayonet adapters that used to be available to allow one to plug, say, an electric iron into a light socket?

Quite how one was supposed to see what one was doing with the lightbulb removed to plug it in, I don't know.

There's this thing called daylight. . .

I've still got some of those things somewhere. I kept them as a curio. Some sort of "two way" things with one way switched so you could have a lightbulb as well. The bayonet cap "plugs" for connecting things to light sockets, as well as a selection of plugs and plug adaptors. :eek:

TBH they come from a time when a lot of places would have just been wired for light, (and incidentally would often have a DC supply rather than the modern AC). So you wanted a way to plug your iron in.

I wonder how many people were actually electrocuted.

michaels

What does a cracked rib feel like? Went to the theme park and discovered you need stronger abdominals than I have to make it down the toboggan ride with no braking and fell off. I am an old man

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

What does a cracked rib feel like? Went to the theme park and discovered you need stronger abdominals than I have to make it down the toboggan ride with no braking and fell off. I am an old man

It hurts when you breathe in and it hurts when you breathe out, over a specific spot.
But then so does a strained muscle.

If you are thin enough, there may be some redness and/or swelling over a cracked rib.

If you can breathe ok, there probably wouldn't be any treatment other than rest and no lifting etc., but if your breathing changes in any way, seek help straight away.

In any event, if you are at all worried, ring that NHS number.....can never remember what it is.....and ask their opinion on whether to go to A&E or not.


Edit....by the way, a jar to the ribs can affect the spine, even without a crack, so you may get some back or breastbone pain (where the rib attaches front and back).

michaels

I'm sure it is just a sprain or bruising, just hurts when I breathe in deep or do stuff. I guess I had better just put my feet up....

silvercar

I've not got much in the way of "prickly cuttings" carriers, so have been using just one small flexibucket and 1-2 sacks, but as the sacks are black rubbish sacks, they rip quite easily with thorns... so I'm not really optimised with regard to time management ....

IKEA (free) bags are ideal. The ones they dish out as you start on your marathon journey around the store.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

What does a cracked rib feel like? Went to the theme park and discovered you need stronger abdominals than I have to make it down the toboggan ride with no braking and fell off. I am an old man

Oh dear! At least you had some fun. Cracked ribs are meant to be painful.

LydiaJ

chris_m wrote: »

Anyone remember the awful bayonet adapters that used to be available to allow one to plug, say, an electric iron into a light socket?

There is one of those in Aged P's loft. You go up the ladder in the bathroom, remove the lightbulb in the bathroom ceiling pendant, open the hatch into the loft, and reach in for the adaptor thing. You plug the bayonet adaptor thing into the bathroom pendant and go back down the ladder to turn the switch on and then you get light in the loft (but not in the bathroom at the same time).

Pyxis wrote: »

I've only ever seen that in old films of the 1940s and earlier.

I don't remember them myself, although I do remember the round pin power sockets. I had taught myself how to rewire the round pin plugs as a child, and then our house was rewired with square pins and the wire colours changed, so I had to re-teach myself the new colours. (My mother didn't have a clue!)

Aged P's house has a mix of square pin, 13A 3-round-pins, and 5A 2-round-pins sockets.

michaels wrote: »

I'm sure it is just a sprain or bruising, just hurts when I breathe in deep or do stuff. I guess I had better just put my feet up....

Hope you feel better soon.

LydiaJ wrote: »

There's still a lot of clutter that needs sorting out and severely pruning, but I find it very hard to get motivated.

I am committing to decluttering my conservatory tomorrow. NP please feel free to ask me tomorrow evening if I've done it. That might motivate me to follow through on my good intentions.

chris_m

silvercar wrote: »

Cracked ribs are meant to be painful.

By this, do you mean that they are intended to be painful or that you understand that they are painful?

Doncha just love things that can have more than one meaning :rotfl: