http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:07:16 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-13086 Tue, 18 May 2010 16:56:18 +0000 sauce 13086@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I see everyone's on form.</p> <p>Just back from work, knackered. Have to fetch daughter, cook dinner, water seedlings, hang washing and walk dog. Hope I don't confuse any of those. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-13075 Tue, 18 May 2010 14:23:23 +0000 PluckyMunky 13075@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Mr Bridge, I think you have conflated two parts of my message. I started by saying that 'we went to Gloucester...someone has to'. The 'it was all very pleasant' related to the meal with Master Munky and his wife. Nor were the words 'in the same sentence'.</p> <p>I do hope you are not being a miserable old bastard. Much love, Plucky. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-13070 Tue, 18 May 2010 13:37:01 +0000 Dickens or Shakespeare 13070@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>'Gloucester' and 'all very pleasant' in the same sentence</blockquote><br /> Is that what they call an Oxymoron? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-13069 Tue, 18 May 2010 13:33:20 +0000 andhrimnir 13069@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Everyone in the office has been chanting "loser" seems to be getting up his nose. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-13064 Tue, 18 May 2010 13:20:45 +0000 The All New Jeni B 13064@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You're a bundle of sunshine and light today Oxy. Did someone piss on your cornflakes? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-13063 Tue, 18 May 2010 13:16:58 +0000 Oxbridge 13063@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Can I just point out that I have never seen 'Gloucester' and 'all very pleasant' in the same sentence before? What a pisshole. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-13003 Mon, 17 May 2010 21:59:29 +0000 The All New Jeni B 13003@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It's terribly therapeutic don't you know. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-13000 Mon, 17 May 2010 21:50:59 +0000 deskpilot3 13000@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Have you considered humming at all....? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12993 Mon, 17 May 2010 20:59:10 +0000 PluckyMunky 12993@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There's posh, Shitsu! xxx </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12989 Mon, 17 May 2010 20:49:48 +0000 shitsu_tonka 12989@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I was attacked by a patient who said I was 'getting lawyers to watch them'. I tried telling her that as I was only being paid £5.20 an hour the chances of my being able to afford lawyers were vanishingly rare, but she chinned me anyway. </p> <p>I miss it too, Plucky. There's something wonderful about working with people who are living in a different reality. I miss the hospice more though because the biscuits were better <em>and</em> we had a coke machine. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12980 Mon, 17 May 2010 19:40:51 +0000 PluckyMunky 12980@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>When I was a charge nurse on the sensitively named 'security ward', I looked after a boy who came into my office and said: 'Plucky, I am having our baby!' I said, 'Christ, how did that happen?' He replied: 'It happened in space'. </p> <p>I don't believe that what he said was true, though, as I have never been into space. Also, thankfully, I never had a baby. I miss those days. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12978 Mon, 17 May 2010 19:32:26 +0000 PluckyMunky 12978@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Neither of us remember that bit, Stunts. I just asked Mrs Munky. xx </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12977 Mon, 17 May 2010 19:17:26 +0000 allmyownstunts 12977@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Which one? Liquorice Allsort, I mean.</p> <p>sorry to lower the tone of a truly lovely exchange</p> <p>x </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12974 Mon, 17 May 2010 18:48:29 +0000 The All New Jeni B 12974@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Me neither Plucky. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12973 Mon, 17 May 2010 18:47:27 +0000 PluckyMunky 12973@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I have to admit that I have yet to meet a man with a complex mind, Jeni. One's with egos, strong points of view and lots of confidence in their own ability, but not ones that are complex. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12972 Mon, 17 May 2010 18:37:09 +0000 PluckyMunky 12972@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>This reminds me of a sad case in which Mrs Munky looked after a woman at the mental hospital. She was convinced that her husband was turning into a Liquorice Allsort. No amount of reassurance would convince her that he wasn't (hence her being in a psychiatric hospital). The wonderous thing about human beings is that the more you study them, the odder they get. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12971 Mon, 17 May 2010 18:36:40 +0000 The All New Jeni B 12971@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>True, but if he does, he has a far more complex mind than I've ever seen evidence of! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12969 Mon, 17 May 2010 18:31:08 +0000 PluckyMunky 12969@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Then, almost by definition, you must dismiss the possibility! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12968 Mon, 17 May 2010 17:57:51 +0000 The All New Jeni B 12968@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It is possible that he does have an illicit secret life, which, by it's very nature, I am entirely unaware of. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12966 Mon, 17 May 2010 17:32:42 +0000 PluckyMunky 12966@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>An illicit secret life does sound attractive, though, Jeni. Otherwise, the other options sound great! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12952 Mon, 17 May 2010 15:26:34 +0000 The All New Jeni B 12952@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks Plucky, I do enjoy studying, and have always found the challenge exciting.</p> <p>I do plan to practice once qualified, and am in the very lucky position of having a friend who is a Senior Partner in a local firm who has already offered me a place for my two-years legal practice, and a husband who spends thousands a year on legal advice (through business, not an illicit secret life), who could offer me a position as Company Legal eagle. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12942 Mon, 17 May 2010 14:20:01 +0000 PluckyMunky 12942@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>That's brilliant, Jeni! I am sure your old Course Leader will remember you and write you a reference. As you will know, too, because of possible legal complications, it is virtually impossible for anyone to write anything other than a very positive (if non-commital) reference. You will soon find the neurons firing up again! I've never seen any lack of action by them, on here!</p> <p>Do you plan to practice law, afterwards? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12932 Mon, 17 May 2010 14:05:36 +0000 The All New Jeni B 12932@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well done Plucky, perhaps there is hope for me after all. I have managed to track down my old Course Leader from College, and have sent him an email requesting a reference for my Uni application. If he remembers me, and I think he will, I can begin crossing everything and hoping that come September, I will be a new Law under-grad. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12931 Mon, 17 May 2010 14:01:17 +0000 PluckyMunky 12931@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Phew! The tutorial with my student went really well, so I am hoping that the brain is beginning to convolute out of its mush. I managed to ask her one or two (marginally) sensible questions and nodded in the right places. There may be hope, yet. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12851 Mon, 17 May 2010 06:24:30 +0000 PluckyMunky 12851@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hello, Sauce. You have certainy been busy - that sounds like a lot of work. Glad it all went well and hope there were some beamy faces at the ceremony.</p> <p>I have two PhD theses staring at me, waiting to be read. One is about head lice (!) That will make a cosy read. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12848 Mon, 17 May 2010 06:10:38 +0000 sauce 12848@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good morning, Plucky, Jeni.</p> <p>I'm just having a look down the back of the sofa to see if my brain's down there.<br /> Nope. Just fluff, 5p and grandpa's teeth. </p> <p>Been extra chaos in the Sauce hovel over the last couple of weeks: local young writer awards (anthologies [edit, print, spiral bind], certificates, prizes, cups, critiques of ALL the entered work). Ceremony was on Friday, went swimmingly (phew!!!): I am a chuffed old bat. Makes being in chardge of the shop until new full time manager appointed a doddle in comparison. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12834 Sun, 16 May 2010 18:21:50 +0000 PluckyMunky 12834@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It does come back, Jeni. Honest. And all adult students who return to learning all have the same fears as you, in my experience. Also, I have found they generally make much better students than 18 year olds. Good luck with the course and don't forget to turn your mobile off. xxx </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12832 Sun, 16 May 2010 18:16:16 +0000 The All New Jeni B 12832@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Please let us know if your brain does reform Plucky, as since I'm hoping to return to study this year, I'm hoping that it does. It's been 16 yrs since I was last a student, and I'm afraid that what little brain I had appears to have dribbled out of my ear over the intervening years.</p> <p>Nice analogy by the way. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4570#post-12831 Sun, 16 May 2010 18:09:21 +0000 PluckyMunky 12831@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Me and Mrs Munky went to Gloucester, today, in a shower of rain. Someone has to, I suppose. We took Master Munky and his wife out for lunch and it was all very pleasant. </p> <p>I have to see a student, tomorrow and start doing some 'work' again. My brain has turned to puree in the last few weeks. I hope it starts to solidify again. It feels as though what knowledge I had has been drained off, like the oil out of a 1972 Vauxhall Viva. Bless us all. </p>