Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

If that is a Finnish characteristic, then I suspect your father was also a Finn in a previous existence!

I rememebr a TV add a few years back in Europe to promote Berlitz Englsih courses.

A guy walks into a shop with the headphones on listening to an Englsih lesson and repeating the question:

" I would like one ornage juice please". The uy in the shop kept on putting out OJs on the table and eventually asked

"Are you Finnished" to which the chap said

"No I'm Danish".....classic

Bit like that other ad with the British boat sending out the Mayday call and saying we are sinking to whic the German
coatsguard asks "what are you thingking about?"

CHAZ wrote: Bit like that other ad with the British boat sending out the Mayday call and saying we are sinking to whic the German
coatsguard asks "what are you thingking about?"

We had a visit from a French guy last week: installed a new piece of equipment for us.

At one point I heard him ask 'Do you 'ave a can of 'air spray?', to which I laughingly replied that I didn't, but that one of the boys might, while wondering why on earth you would use hair spray to clean a delicate piece of optical equipment. Surely it would leave a sticky reside I mused, as one of 'the boys' produced a can of compressed air.

CHAZ wrote:"Are you Finnished" to which the chap said

oh, ha ha!

I like the idea of "Suffering from dislaxative " !

Returning to the "Revolt"

Have you noticed the expression "Yeah --Right !"--- which means exactly the opposite !
You are lying in your teeth !

The Blessed Anne and I met while reading Psychology--- yet another story --and it appears that we all have idiosyncratic signals when we lie.

I am told that I raise my eyebrows --- higher according to the untruth !

These signals may be confirmed by Posts from Wives ----- Husbands would'n't dare

mvgrogan wrote:This is not just an english problem... yesterday at the supermarket I gave my best glare at a group of "youths" (now I know I'm getting old) who pulled into a family parking space with obviously no children of any description in the car! There was an empty space opposite - not wide enough to unload a newborn in a car seat but wide enough for 5 ignorant so-and-sos (why can't I use an apostrophe there? - it looks odd! ) to get out. Had my finnish been better I would have rolled down the window and said something!

You are correct in that it is not an english problem.
Some friends of ours own a house in the village and David has his disability sticker, which can be used throughout Europe (something I didn't know). Although they rent a car, I tend to pick them up and drop them off at Alicante airport. The last time I drove up and found a car with no sticker in the disability space. We were in the middle of unloading, David needs a wheelchair, when the lady owner of the car came back with a small child in tow. I had parked behind her as it was a near as I could get to the airport doors.
When she remonstrated, I pointed out that she didn't appear to have a disability, to which she said "I'm pregnant".
Not a disability I had come across before, and she didn't have a sticker, so she had to wait.
Not a happy lady.
BTW, I was told that you know you're getting old when all the policemen look young.

........you know you are getting old ................ it's not just policeman that start to look young. The first time it hit me was when I went to parents' evening at a secondary school (not CH) and wondered if the class teacher was old enough to be qualified. And the same with doctors - do I really want to be pouring out my problems to a 'child'?!

This is a terrible confession.

When I write an envelope or make up a package, I like it to look.... immaculate! Pleasingly presented, sticking side to the right (as instructed by Miss Morrison for School Report Envelopes), address, open punctuation accurately positioned! Then I place the stamp beautifully - just so.

But in the case of a letter or package which has to be weighed and evaluated, I pass it over the counter to the Post Office Person and they say "hmm, that'll be 78 pee (or whatever); leave it with me - ".

Then they stick on the stamps carelessly; any old how! I can't bear it.

I have taken to seizing the package back and (nonchalantly) asking to stick on my own stamps. I need them to be in the top right corner with the serrated edges exactly equidistant from the edge of the envelope. The Post Office Person usually relinquishes her prey, but sniffs in disapproval. However, I don't care!

I know that Miss Morrison would understand.

I (Of course) never knew Miss Morrison --- However I subscribe to the correct placing of Postage Stamps !

I don't know where it comes from (From where it comes ! Bad Boy !) but I always tend to write my addresses thus :
Line 1****************
Line 2**************
Line 3************

And yet, when I type them --- they are aligned from the left *********
*********
********
This may be due to the influence of Microsoft Word or Ignorance

Comments ?

jhopgood wrote: I pointed out that she didn't appear to have a disability, to which she said "I'm pregnant".
Not a disability I had come across before, and she didn't have a sticker, so she had to wait.

Pregnancy may not be an illness but it can be disabling... in the later stages, when you are much larger than your normal size, with additional pressure on hip joints and spine, getting in & out of a car does require additional space, same as anyone else with mobility problems.

I'm not agreeing that she should have taken an accessible space but she probably would have appreciated a little understanding. I certainly appreciated my husband's efforts to find an "end" space where the door could open an little wider without scratching a neighbouring car!

I'm sure I remember someone (mum, maybe) mentioning somewhere (tesco?) where they have "wide" spaces as well have family & accessible spaces. These are great for people with mobility problems (pregnancy, broken legs, age!) who do not qualify for a sticker.

Back to topic... The spaces are not disabled - they were never able in the first place, they are accessible! Same applies to accessible toilets! Surely a disabled toilet should be labelled "out of order"

mvgrogan wrote:

jhopgood wrote: I pointed out that she didn't appear to have a disability, to which she said "I'm pregnant".
Not a disability I had come across before, and she didn't have a sticker, so she had to wait.

Pregnancy may not be an illness but it can be disabling... in the later stages, when you are much larger than your normal size, with additional pressure on hip joints and spine, getting in & out of a car does require additional space, same as anyone else with mobility problems.

I'm not agreeing that she should have taken an accessible space but she probably would have appreciated a little understanding.

I entirely agree except that she wasn't appreciably pregnant, was moving at the speed of light compared to David, and she should have put her hands over her daughter's ears when she berated me.

hormones!

mvgrogan wrote:hormones!

When it comes to moving at the speed of light -

In the early nauseated exhausted stages one needs to be as near to the Ladies as possible. "Sorry, but can we pull in here, now? Blerrgh!"

In the later pressure-on-the-bladder exhausted stages, one needs to be as near to the Ladies as possible. "Sorry, can we pull in here - desperate!"

jhopgood wrote:
BTW, I was told that you know you're getting old when all the policemen look young.

I knew I was getting old when policemen stopped acting like policeman.

Never mind - We've got a new Home Sec., as of today.

Tra-la-la-la-la !

One does not have to be Pregnant, to have "Pressure on the Bladder"

Men over 80 do not suffer from the former , but ---------