Classic from the Mrs!
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Our niece was telling us about how her friend met her at the train station before school, just so she could go to the station. The missus proceeded to attempt an impression of niece's friend with hand clapping and excitedly saying "Ooh look a train!" in a slightly "spastic" voice.
That was until her sister (niece's mother) then pointed out that the friend actually had Down's Syndrome.
That was until her sister (niece's mother) then pointed out that the friend actually had Down's Syndrome.
MacW said:
Tycho said:
My wife was talking to one of his female cub leaders about the pack travelling to London on Sunday for the Remembrance Service:
Wife: "So are you going to be attending the Remembrance Service with the pack on sunday?"
Cub leader (In broad German accent: "No, I'll be going back to Germany to spend the weekend with my family."
Wife: :-|
I take it you have spent time in Thailand? Wife: "So are you going to be attending the Remembrance Service with the pack on sunday?"
Cub leader (In broad German accent: "No, I'll be going back to Germany to spend the weekend with my family."
Wife: :-|
Landlord said:
MacW said:
Tycho said:
My wife was talking to one of his female cub leaders about the pack travelling to London on Sunday for the Remembrance Service:
Wife: "So are you going to be attending the Remembrance Service with the pack on sunday?"
Cub leader (In broad German accent: "No, I'll be going back to Germany to spend the weekend with my family."
Wife: :-|
I take it you have spent time in Thailand? Wife: "So are you going to be attending the Remembrance Service with the pack on sunday?"
Cub leader (In broad German accent: "No, I'll be going back to Germany to spend the weekend with my family."
Wife: :-|
blueg33 said:
We are not allowed to watch Brian Cox, son thinks he is a condescending git
Anyway from the daughter not the Mrs last night
I dont want to do the school trip to see Macbeth in Birmingham, I hate Macbeth, Birmingham is too far and its in the evening so I will get home too late
I asked her to give me the note from school
It's Romeo and Juliet in Bristol (much closer to us) and is in the afternoon.
I pointed the actual facts out, and her response was "thats just what I said it was"
Clearly the 14 years of training by her mother is paying off........
Anyway from the daughter not the Mrs last night
I dont want to do the school trip to see Macbeth in Birmingham, I hate Macbeth, Birmingham is too far and its in the evening so I will get home too late
I asked her to give me the note from school
It's Romeo and Juliet in Bristol (much closer to us) and is in the afternoon.
I pointed the actual facts out, and her response was "thats just what I said it was"
Clearly the 14 years of training by her mother is paying off........
i have three of those in the house. it does get tiring.
doogz said:
uncle tez said:
Watching something on TV the other night when it shown somebody being cup open and blood coming out. The Mrs then says "Isn't it amazing that blood is blue when its inside your body but then turns red when it come out" She then tried to explain to me that this is why our veins are blue.
When I was in school, they told us this. Blood is blue when it's inside you, as it's de-oxygenated. It's red when it comes out, as there's oxygen in the air.Quick google search came up with this
The myth is that... that blood is red when it is filled with oxygen and blue when it does not have any oxygen in it. This myth is completely false, and don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise. I've known well educated adults to be fooled by this one and it simply is not true. The truth is this... as we all know, blood is what carries oxygen to your various parts of your body. It receives oxygen from the lungs, flows through the body and then delivers this oxygen where it is needed before making the round trip back to the heart where it is passed again to the lungs. The oxygen dissolves in your blood, binding to the red blood cells. Human blood is always red. The only difference is that when it is oxygenated, it is a bright red, and when it is depleted of oxygen, it is a darker red. The myth of blue blood may have several origins, 1) veins, which carry the blood once it is low on oxygen, look blueish green, but that's because of the tissue that makes up the veins and is not due to the blood itself. 2) there is a term "blue blooded" which, especially in previous eras, used to refer to someone who was of royal or noble class. So, if your family was rich or notable, people may have said that you had "blue blood". Despite these things, nobody's blood has ever been blue. You can double check this the next time you are at a doctor's office and need to have a blood sample taken. If you are brave enough to look at the blood being drawn, it is notable dark red, it is the blood from your veins that is low in oxygen.
The myth is that... that blood is red when it is filled with oxygen and blue when it does not have any oxygen in it. This myth is completely false, and don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise. I've known well educated adults to be fooled by this one and it simply is not true. The truth is this... as we all know, blood is what carries oxygen to your various parts of your body. It receives oxygen from the lungs, flows through the body and then delivers this oxygen where it is needed before making the round trip back to the heart where it is passed again to the lungs. The oxygen dissolves in your blood, binding to the red blood cells. Human blood is always red. The only difference is that when it is oxygenated, it is a bright red, and when it is depleted of oxygen, it is a darker red. The myth of blue blood may have several origins, 1) veins, which carry the blood once it is low on oxygen, look blueish green, but that's because of the tissue that makes up the veins and is not due to the blood itself. 2) there is a term "blue blooded" which, especially in previous eras, used to refer to someone who was of royal or noble class. So, if your family was rich or notable, people may have said that you had "blue blood". Despite these things, nobody's blood has ever been blue. You can double check this the next time you are at a doctor's office and need to have a blood sample taken. If you are brave enough to look at the blood being drawn, it is notable dark red, it is the blood from your veins that is low in oxygen.
doogz said:
When I was in school, they told us this. Blood is blue when it's inside you, as it's de-oxygenated. It's red when it comes out, as there's oxygen in the air.
I'm pretty sure it's always red because of the haemoglobin, whether it's oxyhaemoglobin or not. Blood in veins is very dark red, which looks bluey through all our tissue and st (however that works!?)DannyScene said:
doogz said:
uncle tez said:
Watching something on TV the other night when it shown somebody being cup open and blood coming out. The Mrs then says "Isn't it amazing that blood is blue when its inside your body but then turns red when it come out" She then tried to explain to me that this is why our veins are blue.
When I was in school, they told us this. Blood is blue when it's inside you, as it's de-oxygenated. It's red when it comes out, as there's oxygen in the air.Pesty said:
blueg33 said:
We are not allowed to watch Brian Cox, son thinks he is a condescending git
Anyway from the daughter not the Mrs last night
I dont want to do the school trip to see Macbeth in Birmingham, I hate Macbeth, Birmingham is too far and its in the evening so I will get home too late
I asked her to give me the note from school
It's Romeo and Juliet in Bristol (much closer to us) and is in the afternoon.
I pointed the actual facts out, and her response was "thats just what I said it was"
Clearly the 14 years of training by her mother is paying off........
Anyway from the daughter not the Mrs last night
I dont want to do the school trip to see Macbeth in Birmingham, I hate Macbeth, Birmingham is too far and its in the evening so I will get home too late
I asked her to give me the note from school
It's Romeo and Juliet in Bristol (much closer to us) and is in the afternoon.
I pointed the actual facts out, and her response was "thats just what I said it was"
Clearly the 14 years of training by her mother is paying off........
i have three of those in the house. it does get tiring.
At dinner me and son sit on one side of the table Mrs and daughetr on the other. Very few same things are said from the female side of the table. Son and I spend half the meal with our mouths hanging open at the nonsense that is coming forth.
(Mrs is well educated and reasonably clever, daughter does well at school, but the stuff they say......, god only knows how their brains work!)
three five five said:
Whilst walking to the local curry house last night we were talking about when we were younger and the fireworks you got in a box from the newsagents to use at home. I said some of them were a bit crap but they were still fun for the whole family.
Alison then proclaimed how she liked the Catherine wheel and Golden Showers...
...I suggested she might mean Golden Fountain.
Perhaps she's more adventurous than you realise Alison then proclaimed how she liked the Catherine wheel and Golden Showers...
...I suggested she might mean Golden Fountain.
Edited by three five five on Thursday 6th November 23:22
blueg33 said:
Three! Rather you than me.
At dinner me and son sit on one side of the table Mrs and daughetr on the other. Very few same things are said from the female side of the table. Son and I spend half the meal with our mouths hanging open at the nonsense that is coming forth.
(Mrs is well educated and reasonably clever, daughter does well at school, but the stuff they say......, god only knows how their brains work!)
been some good ones recently like being convinced for the next 6 months that she would have to spend 1 hour longer at work each day because the clocks went back.At dinner me and son sit on one side of the table Mrs and daughetr on the other. Very few same things are said from the female side of the table. Son and I spend half the meal with our mouths hanging open at the nonsense that is coming forth.
(Mrs is well educated and reasonably clever, daughter does well at school, but the stuff they say......, god only knows how their brains work!)
watching the tv adverts came on and asking what the significance of a dog was. as in why be more dog not be more horse completely missing the point. and constantly repeating but why dog, its a cat. she doesn't get jokes either or sarcasm.
i can deal with that until she gets so flustered she starts kicking off because why cant i see shes working longer. its the i'll change reality in my head to justify what I want to or don't want to happen that amuses most, and never ever ever being wrong.
simoid said:
doogz said:
When I was in school, they told us this. Blood is blue when it's inside you, as it's de-oxygenated. It's red when it comes out, as there's oxygen in the air.
I'm pretty sure it's always red because of the haemoglobin, whether it's oxyhaemoglobin or not. Blood in veins is very dark red, which looks bluey through all our tissue and st (however that works!?)sparkyhx said:
Saddle bum said:
Deeply engrossed, watching Brian Cox asking profound questions about what happened before time began and was there ever a day when there was no yesterday.
She pipes up, "Can you watch that later, Emmerdale is coming on".
Sigh................
sounds like my house - "do we have to watch this rubbish" whenever there is anything remotely factual on.She pipes up, "Can you watch that later, Emmerdale is coming on".
Sigh................
"Corries about to come on and whatshisface is gonna get sentenced"
uncle tez said:
Quick google search came up with this
The myth is that... that blood is red when it is filled with oxygen and blue when it does not have any oxygen in it. This myth is completely false, and don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise. I've known well educated adults to be fooled by this one and it simply is not true. The truth is this... as we all know, blood is what carries oxygen to your various parts of your body. It receives oxygen from the lungs, flows through the body and then delivers this oxygen where it is needed before making the round trip back to the heart where it is passed again to the lungs. The oxygen dissolves in your blood, binding to the red blood cells. Human blood is always red. The only difference is that when it is oxygenated, it is a bright red, and when it is depleted of oxygen, it is a darker red. The myth of blue blood may have several origins, 1) veins, which carry the blood once it is low on oxygen, look blueish green, but that's because of the tissue that makes up the veins and is not due to the blood itself. 2) there is a term "blue blooded" which, especially in previous eras, used to refer to someone who was of royal or noble class. So, if your family was rich or notable, people may have said that you had "blue blood". Despite these things, nobody's blood has ever been blue. You can double check this the next time you are at a doctor's office and need to have a blood sample taken. If you are brave enough to look at the blood being drawn, it is notable dark red, it is the blood from your veins that is low in oxygen.
horseshoe crabs have blue blood, and apparently they are currently being researched as a source for some kind of disease wonder cure or something.The myth is that... that blood is red when it is filled with oxygen and blue when it does not have any oxygen in it. This myth is completely false, and don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise. I've known well educated adults to be fooled by this one and it simply is not true. The truth is this... as we all know, blood is what carries oxygen to your various parts of your body. It receives oxygen from the lungs, flows through the body and then delivers this oxygen where it is needed before making the round trip back to the heart where it is passed again to the lungs. The oxygen dissolves in your blood, binding to the red blood cells. Human blood is always red. The only difference is that when it is oxygenated, it is a bright red, and when it is depleted of oxygen, it is a darker red. The myth of blue blood may have several origins, 1) veins, which carry the blood once it is low on oxygen, look blueish green, but that's because of the tissue that makes up the veins and is not due to the blood itself. 2) there is a term "blue blooded" which, especially in previous eras, used to refer to someone who was of royal or noble class. So, if your family was rich or notable, people may have said that you had "blue blood". Despite these things, nobody's blood has ever been blue. You can double check this the next time you are at a doctor's office and need to have a blood sample taken. If you are brave enough to look at the blood being drawn, it is notable dark red, it is the blood from your veins that is low in oxygen.
Mrs: My brakes are grinding and sometimes they squeek!
Me: Do they do it all the time?
Mrs: Not all the time, no.
I think the pads must be worn or a stone has got lodged or something. I take it for a test drive, check the discs and pads, everything looks, feels and sounds fine but I take them apart to clean and re-copperslip anyway. Mrs takes the car and it's all great - thanks very much.
A few weeks later;
Mrs: I had this dhead lorry driver pull out on me on my way home! I had to really slam the brakes on to avoid hitting him! Oh yeah and my brakes are grinding again!!
Me: Does it only happen when you brake hard?
Mrs: Yeah especially if it's raining.
Me: That'll be the ABS then!!
Me: Do they do it all the time?
Mrs: Not all the time, no.
I think the pads must be worn or a stone has got lodged or something. I take it for a test drive, check the discs and pads, everything looks, feels and sounds fine but I take them apart to clean and re-copperslip anyway. Mrs takes the car and it's all great - thanks very much.
A few weeks later;
Mrs: I had this dhead lorry driver pull out on me on my way home! I had to really slam the brakes on to avoid hitting him! Oh yeah and my brakes are grinding again!!
Me: Does it only happen when you brake hard?
Mrs: Yeah especially if it's raining.
Me: That'll be the ABS then!!
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